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Herbcraft

An Alternative to White Ceremonial Sage

For those of you who are aware of movements and shifts in energy, have you ever noticed that when you use White Ceremonial Sage to cleanse and purify a space, it has the added effect of nuking any shields and wards you’ve placed on your home?! I absolutely love sage, but this side effect is […]

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Astrology

Mercury Retrograde: April 18th to May 28th

Mercury is a planet (and a god ;-D) like no other! When the planet Mercury goes retrograde I can always feel it in my bones before things get really crazy. Within one week of the retrograde cycle’s beginning, I can see communications and transportation starting to breakdown. Emails (my most common mode of communication) are […]

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Divine Encounters Ritual & Magical Energetics

Drawing Down the Moon: Hekate

The following is drawn from my personal journal entry about a drawing down the moon ritual that four of my friends and I performed on March 6th in my living room (within a cast circle complete with quarters). We all felt the need to commune with the goddess as we each entered important transitions in […]

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Deity Information

Mercury vs. Hermes

Roman religion changed drastically following contact with Greek religious beliefs and practices. Prior to contact, the Romans did not have a developed anthropomorphic view of the gods but instead believed in the numina, or spirits (of which there were hundreds if not thousands). These numina did were not human-like but they were the beings in […]

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Labyrinth

Greetings!

I am a practicing eclectic Pagan and Witch in Champaign-Urbana, IL. I have been studying the Craft since February 1998 and have learned a great deal on my journey. I have also been blessed to meet a number of dynamic and devoted Pagans from many different paths. Everyone I have met on this road has […]