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Is Drumming Good For Your Brain?
The Brain-Boosting Benefits of Drumming: How This Simple Activity Improves Your Focus, Creativity, Healing, Happiness Plus Relieves Stress and so much more!
The Lunar Cycle and Your Spiritual Practice (1 of 3)
Our relationship to nature has existed for as long as we have been in existence. The changing weather affects our mood. The moon cycle is perhaps one of the most impactful cycles. The moon's changing phases welcome wisdom, intuition, feminine energy, nurturing, and spiritual connections.
Shamanic Journey How to — the Trance Journey
The shamanic/trance journey is a age-old process as a way to communicate with your spirit-self to intuitively access and retrieve information—your own inner guidance and teaching and so much more…
Sustainable Green Magick for Yule
Yule is a great time to practice sustainable green magick. You can forge a more meaningful spiritual relationship with this season by attuning to its energy in plant life and nature.
Basil as a Witching Herb for the Kitchen Witch
Basil is a versatile herb for any kitchen witch. It can be used in your magick as well as for practical culinary or cosmetic purposes. Picking versatile, functional herbs can be beneficial for getting the most out of your witch's garden and magick.
What is the Celtic Month of Hazel?
The hazel tree is legendary in Celtic spirituality. It is no surprise that a Celtic tree month would be assigned to this tree that was purported to grant mystical inspiration and wisdom.
What is the Celtic Month of Ivy?
The Celtic Month of Ivy occurs at the end of the harvest season. This resilient plant reflects the endless cycle of life and death. There are many myths, superstitions, and magical qualities attributed to ivy.
How to Get Out of Your Head and Drum From Your Heart
How to drum from your heart pulse—including a short meditation to connect deeply to our drum and our blessed earth Mother…
How to Wake Up Your Drum Ceremony
A suggested "Wake Up Your Drum" Enlivening Ceremony—when your drum is fully dry or when you receive a new spirit drum…
Working Magick When the Moon is in Scorpio
The Scorpio moon is one of the most fertile to spellcraft under. As a fixed sign it has the commitment and focuses to bring our intentions to fruition. The watery nature of this sign offers nurturance to bring about growth.
How to Create a Sigil
It's easy to create a sigil for any aspect of your life. This article will get you started on that path to creating your own luck.
Connecting with the Fae
Fairies are intriguing. In pop culture, they are portrayed as whimsical and fun creatures of great beauty. Folklore tells a darker tale when it comes to these mischievous creatures. Are you ready to connect with the Fae? There are many ways to forge a relationship if you are brave enough to.
Drum Care and Feeding for Your New Shamanic Drum
Your rawhide drum was created and birthed with care + sacred space… Rawhide and Wood are living breathing sensitive beings that require special care + feeding…
Pythia: The Oracle of Delphi
Pythia was the oracle of Delphi, much revered even by those as great as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. The oracle of Delphi was a sisterhood of women who commanded awe and respect from an otherwise misogynistic society.
The History of Pagan Symbols and the Meanings Behind Them
The history of Paganism is fascinating, along with their association of symbols regarding nature and spirituality.
Holidays in Shamanism
Many modern holidays happen to overlap with early celebrations of various shamanic cultures around the world. Shamans save certain dates in the year for special rituals that help them achieve their goals in the world.
Are Witches "In League" with the Devil?
Historically, the terms "witch" and "witchcraft" have had frightening connotations. Witchcraft is often erroneously associated with "Devil worship" and Satanism; Could this dark association be by design?
Renaissance Witchcraft
A witch hunt is currently defined as a campaign against a person or group holding unorthodox or unpopular views. Yet, what was the definition of a witch hunt during the Renaissance?
Essence of Witchcraft and Human Desire
Witchcraft is one of the oldest rituals in this world and it has not died away and nobody has been able to disprove it as well.
Connecting With the Element of Fire
Fire is the element to go to if you wish to initiate change, find motivation, or pursue your passions. Explore some different ways to connect this bold element. Bring it into your magick and your personality.
Where Did the Wild Hunt Come From?
A farmer on his way home asks the Wild Hunt’s leader if they had had good hunting. The farmer opened the bundle the leader threw at him to find the corpses of his wife and child.
Working Magick on a Waxing Moon
The Waxing Moon is a time of increase. This lunar phase is a good time to work magick with constructive aims. Work on anything you wish to bring more of into your life like Love, affection, prosperity, or self-confidence.
The Strange Influences in the Birth of Christianity
What are Christianity's true origins? it seems it wasn't really a new trajectory away from the pagan days of old.
The Benefits of Using Both Basic Protection and Wards
Exploring the helpful aid of having both basic protection and wards in your home. As well as the importance of having basic protection.
Fire Ceremony on a Super Pink Moon
The pink moon is linked to optimism for the future and expecting big dreams to come true. This month, the northern hemisphere saw a Super Pink Moon.
Love Magic and Spells
Having trouble finding true love or the ideal partner in your life? Try some simple love spells and add a little magic to your life.
5 Beneficial Herbs for Dreamwork
Combining herbalism and dreamwork can be an enjoyable way of working with earth based spirituality. Certain herbs are frequently used for the purpose of improving our sleep and dream experience. Mugwort, Chamomile, Yarrow, Clary Sage, and Hops are 5 herbs you will want to consider trying out.
Tree of Immortality True Meaning
Several well-known presenters were invited to the Earthkeepers Virtual Summit that happened at the end of December 2020. Here is the talk of three of them.
Magick, Black Magick, and 'Centering Justice' for Baneful Rites
It's commonly believed that black magick is evil; which is off base—because dark magick can be and often is, used to assist people. This piece discusses magick and black magick, observes how society encourages distaste for magicians and magick; and also, offers insight into justice in magick.
Group Samhain Activities During the Pandemic
With this pandemic raging, many covens and Pagan groups are having to cancel their annual Samhain activities for safety reasons. Just because you can't do the usual doesn't mean you can't do anything at all. Here are some fun, festive, and—most importantly—safe ways to celebrate the sabbat together.
England's Last Witch Killing
Seventy-four-year-old Charles Walton was found dead, a cross slashed into his chest. Was this England's last witch killing?
10 Tips For a Successful Witch’s Garden
10 useful and easy tips for successfully growing a witch's garden.
Use this Psychic Method to Change Your World
A method to cause coincidences to happen. We define our need, focus on it, and create a pattern. We create the pattern in our imagination first then bring it into our reality.
3 Laws of Magic
The real magic is in transforming our love. Magic is nothing more than the expression of a love that yearns to be satisfied, the kind of love that is really at the origin of all forms of magic.
Lavender Herb of the Month for February 2020
This month, we have chosen the herb lavender. This article explains its many benefits.
Magick
This artificial attempts to bring a objective look at what Magick truly is.
10 Tips for Closet Witches
Witchcraft and paganism have grown in visability and popularity but there are still many people for whom practicing or sharing their beliefs openly are difficult or potentionally dangerous.
What Do Wiccans Wear?
Wiccans are a mystery to many, others call them friends and family. But the burning issue many people want answered about Wicca isn't to do with the Wiccan religion's beliefs and practices. It's the simple question, "What do Wiccans Wear?" Here's the answer!
Should Witches Be Killed Today?
It is estimated that thousands of people are killed in witchcraft-related violence around the world each year. How can we tackle this problem ...
How to Tell If You've Been Cursed
How to tell if you've been cursed. Signs, symptoms and what to do if you think someone has put a curse on you.
There's Something Strange in the Neighborhood: Is Your Neighbor a Witch?
According to numerous studies, there are as many as 1.6 million people in the U.S. that claim to practice "Wicca," also known as witchcraft. Are you one of those; is your neighbor one the Americans who identify themselves as a witch or pagan of some other group?
Vardlokkur: Theory and Application
Varðlokkur (or Vardlokkur / Varthlokkur) is a way of singing the weave of the Web of Wyrd into alignment with your mind and desires.
What Is The Web Of Wyrd?
So in simplest terms, what is the Web of Wyrd? It is the fabric of the universe. It is the threads, the cosmic strings, the links that connect us all to everything, and yet it was also so much more to our ancient ancestors.
Land Spirit Basics (Landvaettir Studies)
The world around us is alive. The Web of Wyrd spreads out within, beyond and beneath everything, and in places, it knots up to create complex structures that are both part of and separate from the weave of the Web. These knots are land spirits, or Landvaettir in Norse Tradition Paganism.