The shorter, popular Rede carries its teaching like a charm—brief enough to remember and recite beside the altar. The Full Wiccan Rede takes a longer road. It pauses among the nine woods of the cauldron. It follows the Wheel through eight Sabbats, listens to the winds and watches the changing moon. Only after passing through...
Some teachings are written as laws. Others are passed from voice to voice, their meaning held in rhythm so that the words remain in memory. The Popular Wiccan Rede is such a teaching. It moves through the magic circle, the phases of the moon, the turning seasons and the four winds before arriving at its...
Not every meditation must enter darkness to find stillness. Some arrive smiling, impossibly pink and floating through the air. The Pink Elephant Meditation is a playful visualization for moments when the mind feels heavy, the mood has darkened or negative emotions have begun to repeat themselves. It uses breath, color and imagination to change the...
A magic circle is not merely drawn around the witch. It is raised. At first there is only an ordinary room, a clearing beneath the trees or a quiet piece of ground. Then the practitioner walks its boundary, directs energy through the hand and speaks the words that separate the ritual space from everything beyond...
Some rituals leave a silver hush behind them. The candle has gone dark and the last thread of incense has disappeared, yet part of the mind still seems to linger inside the circle. Thoughts move strangely. The body feels distant, as though the spirit has not entirely returned from wherever the spell carried it. Grounding...
A witch’s broom does not need to touch the floor. Before ritual, it moves through the room just above the ground, sweeping what cannot be seen. Old words, restless thoughts and traces of former workings gather before its twigs and are carried beyond the edge of the circle. Only afterward is the altar prepared. The...