Category: Miscellaneous Pagan
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
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Garden Witch
From moonlitpriestess.com
Term generally used in reference to a practitioner focused on herbal and plant magick as well as other natural and earth magick; applies magickal practice and thinking to their gardening.
Shrine discovered in Egyptian temple with evidence of previously unknown rituals
The Sikait Project research team, directed by Professor Joan Oller Guzmán from the Department of Antiquity and Middle Age Studies at the UAB, recently published in the American Journal of Archaeology the results obtained from the January 2019 excavation season at the ancient seaport of Berenike, located in Egypt’s Eastern desert.
The paper describes the archaeological dig of a religious complex from the Late Roman Period (4th to 6th centuries CE) named the Falcon Shrine by researchers, and located within the Northern Complex, one of the most important buildings of the city of Berenike at that time.
The site, which was excavated by the Polish Center of Mediterranean Archaeology and the University of Delaware, was a Red Sea harbor founded by Ptolomy II Philadelphus (3rd century BCE) and continued to operate into the Roman and Byzantine periods, when it was turned into the main point of entrance for commerce coming from Cape Horn, Arabia and India.
Within this chronological period, one of the phases yielding the most new discoveries was the one corresponding to the Late Roman Period, from the fourth to sixth centuries CE, a period in which the city seemed to be partially occupied and controlled by …
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Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
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Dabbler
From moonlitpriestess.com
Refers to a person who, without proper training and/or education, decides to practice any form of magick; generally considered as harmless in most cases, but can cause ill effects (typically in the dabbler’s own life) due to the lack of required knowledge, awareness, and/or skill depending upon the specifics dabbled in.
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
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Neo-Pagan
From moonlitpriestess.com
“New Pagan”; Pagan religions or practices which are modern but modeled from ancient Pagan systems or traditions; some Pagans today dislike the term. First coined by Oberon Zell to differentiate from other uses of the term “Pagan.”
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
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Journey
From moonlitpriestess.com
A shamanic practice of traveling between the worlds to seek aide from guides, animal spirits, and other entities for answers, advice, and guidance. Sometimes used by Witches to perform magick in or through the otherworld or to enhance magick performed outside of journey or meditation.
Category : Types of Spells – Part 3 of Spell Casting
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
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Cleansing
From moonlitpriestess.com
The act of removing or neutralizing energy in a space, object, or person.
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
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Handfasting
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Handparting
From moonlitpriestess.com
A Pagan wedding; many follow the year-and-a-day tradition and renew it every year and a day if so desired.
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The breaking up or divorce of a handfasted couple. Generally performed at the end of the year-and-a-day period excepting dire circumstances.
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
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Law of Return
From moonlitpriestess.com
Wiccan concept that what we send out comes back to us; related to the Three-Fold Law with the exception that the consequences of our actions are not magnified.
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
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Journey
From moonlitpriestess.com
A shamanic practice of traveling between the worlds to seek aide from guides, animal spirits, and other entities for answers, advice, and guidance. Sometimes used by Witches to perform magick in or through the otherworld or to enhance magick performed outside of journey or meditation.
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
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Genius Loci:
From moonlitpriestess.com
Also known as the spirits of place; known to guard the land on which they reside.
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Folk Magick
From moonlitpriestess.com
Practice of magick utilizing personal power in conjunction with natural tools and objects, most often in a non-religious framework. May refer specifically to old folk traditions and customs. Sometimes used to refer to a style of Witchcraft and/or spellcasting that does not follow formal and ceremonial approaches to spells and rituals; more loose in form, though still containing the necessary aspects required for effective magick. May be referred to as “low magick” which was a classist term used to differentiate the folk magick of peasants from the ceremonial magick of the elite classes.
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
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Chaplet
From moonlitpriestess.com
A crown or wreath made of flowers and herbs to be worn upon the head; in Christianity, also refers to the 55-beaded prayer beads for purposes similar to the more well-known rosary.
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Daily Devotions
From moonlitpriestess.com
The practice of acknowledging the deity in one’s life at least once a day. Method of devotions may differ based on tradition or individual preferences.
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
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Kerfan
From moonlitpriestess.com
Another term for the white-handled knife as opposed to boline. More likely to be used in traditions where the boline is for garden-use only.
Happy Saturday my WOTC Family
How are you all doing today? As for me I feel exhausted even after a good night’s sleep. I have read and been told this is normal when recovering from the covid virus. I sure hope this and the bad cough with shortness of breathe goes away sooner than later. So the birthday horoscope and current Moon phase will go up for today at some point I am just not sure of when.
Besides not getting posts done I have watched way to much television. I first finished my binge of Chicago Med which led to a binge of Chicago Fire which led to the show I am binge watching now Chicago PD. Yes all three shows are interconnected. They are very interesting to me as I have lived all but about five years of my life either in the suburbs of or in Chicago, Illinois so with many outside scenes I can say, “I know where that is!”
I also have been sporadically reading “News Breaks” about the Rusdian – Ukraine War, earthquakes, wildfires, and drought that is happening worldwide. With all these horrible disasters I ask that all of us join together at 11:00 AM CDT tomorrow, Sunday for the northern hemisphere and Monday for the southern hemisphere, to light a white candle for complete cease fighting to occur in all wars everywhere, a red candle to bring strength and a blue candle for comfort for all people and animals effect by the wars and natural disasters.
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