Category: Our History
Fire Elemental Herbs (Printable Spell Page)
Water Elemental Herbs (Printable Spell Page)
Earth Elemental Herbs (Printable Spell Page)
The Element Fire’s Correspondences (Printable Spell Pages)
The Element Air’s Correspondences (Printable Spell Page)
The Element Water’s Correspondences (Printable Spell Page)
The Element Earth’s Correspondences (Printable Spell Page)
THE COROLLARIES (The Revised Edition)
THE COROLLARIES
a. As above so below. You can extrapolate the universe from one atom.
b. Rhythm serves as a counterbalancing pendulum.
c. “Chance” is a Law which tends to be ignored.
d. “Time” is a function of perspective, subject to the aggregate psychological outlook of your society.
e. Matter is a function of energy, energy can be converted but not destroyed.
f. The combination of any two energy forms will result in a third energy form more complex that the combination of the original two.
g. Even though there are always three choices available, you can always think of another one.
h. There is no such thing as a wrong emotion, just an incorrect interpretation and manifestation.
i. Don’t take yourself too seriously, you are a physical function of a very young race. And Life is lowlife clever practical joker, that loves to piss on your plans – keep your sense of humor.
j. It may not matter 10,000 years from now, but if it affects you it matters. Understand it and react accordingly.
k. Don’t pee in the beer.
The Laws of Magick
The Laws of Magick
1. Law of Knowledge: to effect/affect a thing you must know the thing. The more you know about yours the more you can know something else.
2. Law of Identification: with your will you can become anything- be one with anything.
3. Law of Contagion: anything that has been in contact with something else maintains contact with things through the ether.
4. Law of Names knowing the True Name of something defines the action you take to focus a function on that thing.
5. Law of Cause and Effect: under exactly the same conditions using the same actions you will always obtain the same results.
6. Law of Infinite Data: there is more in the universe than we can sense or know. Learning never stops.
7. Law of Association: if a thing reminds you of something else it can be used as a substitution for the original purpose you had in mind.
8. Law of Infinite Universes: change your perspective in one area and you change your universe. There always three choices available.
9. Law of Invocation and Evocation: there are forces outside and inside of you that you can tap and act through your brain.
10. Law of Pragmatism: if it works, it is true.
11. Law of Predestination and Free Will: events are predestined, each person chooses whether or not to participate.
12. Law of Polarity: everything contains and implies its opposite.
Rede of the Wiccae or The Wiccan Credo
Rede of the Wiccae or The Wiccan Credo
By Lady Gwen Thompson / Adriana Porter
Despite the insistence of some that the Rede is taken from this piece, the Rede of the Wiccae was not published until the 1970s by one Lady Gwen Thompson, although some attest to its existence at least a few years earlier within Thompson’s own tradition. Thompson claims it was taught to her by her grandmother, Adriana Porter. The fact that it includes the word “Wiccan,” however, makes it highly unlikely that this could be the case, especially when one considers that in Wicca’s early years just about everyone was claiming a witchy or Wiccan grandmother.
Doreen Valiente is sometimes mistakenly credited with authoring this piece. Valiente published The Witches Creed in 1978 in her book “Witchcraft for Tomorrow”, which is a completely separate document.
This is NOT the Wiccan Rede. It includes the Rede (in the last line), but it is not the Rede. It is, according to all available evidence, a document newer than the Rede. It also mentions the Witches’ Rune, which is credited to Valiente and Gardner.
Bide the Wiccan Laws we must
In Perfect Love and Perfect Trust.
Live and let live,
Fairly take and fairly give.
Cast the Circle thrice about
To keep the evil spirits out.
To bind the spell every time
Let the spell be spake in rhyme.
Soft of eye and light of touch,
Speak but little, listen much.
Deosil go by waxing moon,
Chanting out the Witches’ Rune.
Widdershins go by waning moon,
Chanting out the baneful rune.
When the Lady’s moon is new,
Kiss thy hand to Her, times two.
When the moon rides at her peak,
Then your heart’s desire seek.
Heed the North wind’s mighty gale,
Lock the door and drop the sail.
When the wind comes from the South,
Love will kiss thee on the mouth.
When the wind blows from the West,
Departed souls will have no rest.
When the wind blows from the East,
Expect the new and set the feast.
Nine woods in the cauldron go,
Burn them fast and burn them slow.
Elder be the Lady’s tree,
Burn it not or cursed you’ll be.
When the Wheel begins to turn,
Let the Beltane fires burn.
When the Wheel has turned to Yule,
Light the log, the Horned One rules.
Heed ye Flower, Bush and Tree,
By the Lady, Blessed Be.
Where the rippling waters go,
Cast a stone and truth you’ll know.
When ye have a true need,
Hearken not to others’ greed.
With a fool no season spend,
Lest ye be counted as his friend.
Merry Meet and Merry Part,
Bright the cheeks and warm the heart.
Mind the Threefold Law you should,
Three times bad and three times good.
When misfortune is enow,
Wear the blue star on thy brow.
True in Love ever be,
Lest thy lover’s false to thee.
Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill:
As Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will
Source
Wicca, The Practitioner’s Introductory Guide
Riley Star
The Witches Rede of Chivalry
The Witches Rede of Chivalry
Insofar as the Craft of the Wise is the most ancient and most honorable creed of humankind, it behooves all who are Witches to act in ways that give respect to the Old Gods, to their sisters and brothers of the Craft, and to themselves.
Therefore, be it noted that:
Chivalry is a high code of honour which is of most ancient Celtic Pagan origin, and must be lived by all who follow the Old ways.
It must be kenned that thoughts and intent put forth on this Middle-Earth will wax strong in other worlds beyond, and return… bringing into creation, on this world, that which had been sent forth. Thus one should exercise discipline, for “as ye sow, so shall ye reap.”
It is only by preparing our minds to be as Gods that we can ultimately attain godhead.
“This above all…to thine own self be true.”
A Witch’s word must have the validity of a signed and witnessed oath. Thus, give thy word sparingly, but adhere to it like iron.
Refrain from speaking ill of others, for not all truths of the matter may be known.
Pass not unverified words about another, for hearsay is, in large part, a thing of falsehoods.
Be thou honest with others, and have them known that honesty is likewise expected of them.
The fury of the moment plays folly with the truth; to keep one’s head is a virtue.
Contemplate always the consequences of thine acts upon others. Strive not to harm another.
Though there may be differences between those of the Old Ways, diverse covens and circles may well have diverse views. These views, even if they are different than yours, should always be given respect. When a coven, circle, clan, or grove is visited or joined, one should discern quietly their practices, and abide thereby.
Dignity, a gracious manner, and a good humour are much to be admired.
As a Witch, thou hast power, and thy powers wax strongly as wisdom increases. Therefore exercise discretion in the use thereof.
Courage and honour endure forever. Their echoes remain when the mountains have crumbled to dust.
Pledge friendship and fealty to those who so warrant. Strengthen others of the Brethren and they shall strengthen thee.
Thou shalt not reveal the secrets of another Witch or another Coven. Others have laboured long and hard for them, and cherish them as treasures.
Those who follow the mysteries should be above reproach in the eyes of the world, and should always seek to make this so.
The laws of the land should be obeyed whenever possible and within reason, for in the main they have been chosen with wisdom for the well-being of all.
Have pride in thyself, and seek perfection in body and in mind. For the Lady hath said, “How canst thou honour another unless thou give honour to thyself firstly?”
Those who seek the Mysteries should consider themselves as select of the Gods, for it is they who lead the race of humankind to the highest of thrones and beyond to the very stars.
—Author Unknown
PRACTICE WITH ENERGY
PRACTICE WITH ENERGY
After a few attempt at drawing and grounding energy, we have a better idea of the similarities and differences, as well as how we interact with each type of energy. Now, we need to practice shaping and moving it.
Start by pulling personal energy into your dominant hand. Then hold your hands palms facing each other, about three inches apart. Send the energy from the dominant hand and receiving it with the non-dominant hand. Allow it to flow back into your center creating a loop of energy. Trying varying the distance between your hands. Try to decrease the energy to a trickle. Try to dial it up a little more than you have before if you feel confident controlling it.
Center and stabilize the energy.
Try the same exercises sending the energy with your non-dominant hand and receiving it with you dominant one.
After a few sessions of sending and receiving, it’s time to try shaping and molding the energy.
Pull personal energy into your dominant hand, holding it palm facing non-dominant hand. Instead of receiving it this time, use your hands to shape the energy into a ball. Expand it or contract it. Spin it. Toss it from hand to hand. When you’re done, allow the energy to be absorbed, centered and stabilized. Next time, try creating a square or other simple shape with the energy. Then try it with the other two types of energy.
Once you feel confident, try various combinations of energies. Pull earth energy and allow it to pool with your personal energy before sending it into your hand. When done with the exercises, do the same but with divine energy. Pull both earth and divine energy and have them both flow into your hand to work, bypassing your personal energy as much as possible. Finally, pull both divine and earth energy and let it mingle with your personal energy before practicing.
Ashlyn Hawthorne, Wiccan Basics: Solitary Suburban Pagan Guide
DIVINE ENERGY
DIVINE ENERGY
We connect to divine energy in a very similar way to how we call on earth energy. Begin with centering and anchoring to the earth. Once stable, focus on the top of your head and feel the energy there, sort of like sunlight shining down on your head. Open yourself to it. Often, you will feel it flow down your neck and spine. Repeat the exercises with your dominant and non-dominant hand.
After you’ve finished, you’ll need to ground the energy the same way you did with the earth energy.
As before, note how it feels in comparison to the energies you’ve already worked with.
Ashlyn Hawthorne, Wiccan Basics: Solitary Suburban Pagan Guide
EARTH ENERGY
EARTH ENERGY
Start by centering and grounding, the same way as with personal energy. (We won’t be calling on personal energy directly in this exercise, but we will use it to ground, and we’ll also call on slightly to help direct the earth energy.)
Once you feel strongly anchored in the earth, see the connection thicken and strengthen a bit more. Feel the energy of the earth. Invite it to move up your anchor and into your body. Feel its movement as you draw it into your dominant hand and repeat the same exercise as you performed with personal energy. Then move the earth power to your non-dominant hand.
Note how the earth energy feels. How it’s the same and how it’s different from the personal energy in order to add it to your journal later.
When you’re done, send the energy back down through your body, along your anchor and ground it into the earth.
Don’t try to hold on to the earth energy. It can make you feel light-headed, ill or out of sorts.
Return your attention to your center, calming your own energy. Then release your anchor and allow your consciousness to return to normal.
Ashlyn Hawthorne, Wiccan Basics: Solitary Suburban Pagan Guide
PERSONAL ENERGY
PERSONAL ENERGY
When connecting with personal energy, we have to understand where, exactly, our own power comes from. We have to start by asking ourselves where we feel energy and emotion in times of intensity. Most feel it somewhere in the center of our body. The chest, the solar plexus, or the stomach.
Once we locate our personal energy center, we have to center ourselves. Start by concentrating on that spot and focus on keeping your awareness there. Breathe in and out, practicing extending the time when we can hold our concentration.
Next, we have to ground ourselves, anchoring our mental and emotional ‘bodies’ in place. Some people imagine tree roots connecting them to the earth beneath them, others see a line of energy. Choose whatever image feels sturdy and substantial to you. Once feeling anchored and secure, go back to your energy center and make sure your focus there is still strong.
Now, see that energy seeping/flowing/stretching/weaving itself out from the center and making its way to your dominant arm. Feel the warmth/tingle/movement as it expands. Allow it to pool in your dominant hand. Stretch out your fingers to expand it. Curl them back to condense. After getting comfortable with it for a few minutes, focus again on your center and pull the energy back until it has all returned to your energy center.
Repeat the same steps, but let the energy move into your non-dominant side. This may or may not be more difficult. It may feel different. Make a mental note of it while you’re experiencing it and write it in your journal later. Pull the energy back.
Once with this exercise, your energy center may feel larger or more active. Focus on calming it back to the way it felt when you first connected with it. You may need to ground some of the energy along roots, releasing it into the earth. Once you feel centered and stable, disconnect from the earth, allow your consciousness to release its focus on your energy center and return to normal awareness.
Ashlyn Hawthorne, Wiccan Basics: Solitary Suburban Pagan Guide
Energy Is All Around Us
Energy Is All Around Us
We have to have strong focus in order to work with the energies around us. We need strong mental skills to sense, draw, shape, and direct energy. There are multiple types of energy around us all the time, but it’s easiest to look at the ones we use the most as falling into three categories:
Personal energy-energy that comes from within us.
Divine energy—energy that comes from the deities or other parts of the spirit world.
Earth energy-energy that we can draw from the aspects of nature around us, both in the ground beneath our feet and in objects drawn from nature like flowers, stones or wood.
Ashlyn Hawthorne, Wiccan Basics: Solitary Suburban Pagan Guide
12 Truths about Paganism
12 Truths about Paganism
Pagans teach that knowledge and wisdom is an inherent part of all humans and must simply be accessed by lowering our barriers through spiritual practice including meditation.
Pagans are pantheistic, regarding the entire universe as a manifestation of deity.
Pagans are polytheistic, worshiping more than one god.
Pagans venerate and work to conserve nature.
Pagans are inclusive of both the male and female spirit.
Pagans emphasize individual and social responsibility.
Pagans are community (clan / tribe) minded.
Pagans are accepting of private, sole spiritual practice.
Pagans emphasize harmony and balance.
Pagans believe that no quality when displayed in excess is a positive.
Pagans are tolerant and do not judge.
Pagans have no concept of sin, but they do recognize wrong that arises from bad choices and poor actions.
Riley Star, Paganism: Pagan holidays, beliefs, gods and goddesses, symbols, rituals, practices, and much more! An Introductory Guide
4 Myths About Paganism
4 Myths About Paganism
Pagans want to amass material wealth. – False. Pagans regard the emphasis on consumerism in the modern world to be evidence of spiritual poverty.
Pagans engage in sexual debauchery. – False. The Pagan moral code is often stricter than that practiced in secular society.
Pagans worship Satan. – False. The deities worshipped by pagans predate Christianity and the Christian Satan by thousands of years.
Pagans practice black magic. – False. Pagans do not believe in the use of magic for ill intent, nor are they in favor of animal sacrifice.
Riley Star, Paganism: Pagan holidays, beliefs, gods and goddesses, symbols, rituals, practices, and much more! An Introductory Guide
Whispering Woods coven Faery Lore course: Final Exam
Whispering Woods coven Faery Lore course
Final Exam
1. “Red cap” may well be a symbol for the ____ ______ mushroom.
2. Ohdows are small North American faeries who live __________.
3. “Coiste-Bodhar” is a large black coach with a _______ on it.
4. Deduska is a Russian house faery that is often ________.
5. The meaning of the word “Barguest” stems from the description, _____ _____.
6. The king of Alaka, the magickal kingdom of the Himalayan faeries, is _______.
7. A horseshoe hung upright so that its ______doesn’t pour out, serves as a charm against faeries.
8. Jenny Greenteeth is a well known water faery living in the River ______ in Lancashire.
9. It is thought that Murraue can be either female or male and is generally someone who is born on a _____.
10. The Scottish word “eldritch” means _______.
11. A Catez has the head of a man but the body of a _____.
12. A Mine Monk is a _______ mine faery.
13. The children from a union of Nixen are called _________.
14. In general, Faery Godmothers appear _______ days after a child’s birth to determine its fate.
15. ________ is the faery horse of the knight known as Lanval.
16. Within the Christian faith it is thought that faeries are actually ________ ______.
17. Aerico is Albanian Dryads which can be found in old and barren _______ ______.
18. The Welsh counterpart of the Cyhyraeth, is the _________.
19. Hinzelmann is a unique German house faery that lived in ________ castle.
20. On the island of Baltrum the male mare is called ________.
21. It is thought that a horseshoe nailed to the bottom of the churn prevents butter from being meddled with by _______.
22. Gorska Makva is a Hag Faery from _______.
23. Peak District miners follow a ball of flame called a _____ _____.
24. Njuzu is a Zimbabwe water faery who appears as a ______ with a human head.
25. In Scotland the owl is known as ________.
26. It is said that wearing an ankle of Blue Bells at ______ will attract the attention of faeries to you.
27. After twelve years the _____ transforms from a dragon into a hag called a Kulshedra.
28. The Cauchemar is the ______ version of a nightmare faery
29. Ekimmu is an ancient ________ banshee
30. A ______ appears when a mushroom is fried in tar, salt, and sulphur and then is beaten with a rod.
31. Uldra is the _______ faeries that live underground.
32. The Rodjenice are ________ Faery Godmothers.
33. To keep a human child from being stolen by faeries it is customary to hang a pair of iron ______ above the crib.
34. Elves have _______ blood to distinguish them from humans.
35. The Schwarzbraunen Madelein is now known as St. __________.
36. The Teine Sith is the Scots Gaelic version of the ____ – _ – __ – ___.
37. When Gyre-Carlin rides the storms, she is known as ______.
38. On the Cabbyl Ushty, the _______ are turned backwards.
39. Neck is a Scandinavian water faery who is often seen playing a _______.
40. ___ ____ – ______ enters and escapes through a keyhole in the bedroom.
41. During the Battle of Culloden (1746 CE) the _________ was seen shrieking over the heads of the Scottish and English armies that were engaged in combat.
42. When a child is born the _______ induces the mother into a deep slumber.
43. Musail is the Russian King of the ______ faeries.
44. Landalfar, the Icelandic elves are considered to be _________ elves.
45. To invite the fairy folk to visit your home, hang a spray of _______ on your door.
46. Glaisein is strange ______ house faeries.
47. Barstukken is a German or Prussian Dryad that lives in the ______ of trees.
48. In Indonesia, the will-o-the-wisp is known as _________.
49. _____ – ______ are Iranian vampire faeries which in appearance are half man and half goat.
50. According to Gypsy lore, clumps of Nettle mark the entrances to the subterranean tunnels of the _____.
51. The ____ ______ is a Scottish sea cow.
52. Weles are _______ faeries who guard animals.
53. The only two words ever uttered by the ________ are, Mi phrein and Tu phrein
54. Lars Familiaris are the oldest known form of _______ house faeries.
55. The Doyla is said to live behind ones ______.
56. the Hmin range freely through the forest, and are said to _______ ____ those unfortunate humans they encounter, thus causing them to come down with malaria.
57. The little flecks on Foxglove are said to be the faeries __________.
58. It is said that cutting down an Elder will antagonize the ______ residing within.
59. The Cyoerraeth carry ______-______ when an impending shipwreck is about to take place.
60. Gyre-Carlin is the Queen of the fairies in the Fyfe area of ________.
61. It is said that if one sprinkles their clothes with ________ or carries it in their pocket, that no faery will approach them.
62. Wives of Rica, is the name for the Albanian _____ ________.
63. The Old Hag is the nightmare faery found in __________.
64. Boruta is a Polish Dryad that prefers to inhabit ___ trees.
65. Billy Wittwisp is a Will-o-the-wisp found in ____ ________.
66. Muireartach is the mother to the king of the mythical underwater realm of _______.
67. The Kikimora are reputed to be tiny women with ________ feet.
68. Haus-Schmiedlein are said to announce the impending death of a miner by knocking ______ times.
69. The ________ is considered to be the deadliest banshee in Malaysian folklore.
70. Gimle in Norse mythology is the home of the _____ _____.
71. Vihans are Gallic faeries who stand guard over ________ ______.
72. Befind means _____ _____.
73. Queen Summer rules the Native American faeries known as the _____ __ _____.
74. The ______ ______ were used to haul the “Afranc” from its lair in the River Conway.
75. Lunantishee guards the ________ bushes
The End
Whispering Woods Faery Lore course
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