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Mickie Mueller
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Art of Fantasy, Fairie, and Myth:
TWPT Talks to Mickie Mueller
“I decided to make my dreams reality, drawing upon the magic that I grew up with, singing to inchworms with my mother and watching nature create miracles in the sun and under the moon. I love researching the legends of fairies, Goddesses, nature spirits, folklore and history. I feel these themes are a part of us all on a deeper level, so when I have an opportunity to reach into that realm and bring something back, it’s an honor and I feel that I have a certain responsibility to do it with respect to these powerful entities. When I work on a piece, these beings speak with me, and when someone else sees it, and loves it, they get to be a part of that fantastic realm where anything and everything is possible too, and bring that energy into their lives.” -Mickie Mueller
Today Mickie has a growing business with her magical fantasy art. Her work has been seen in magazines and books internationally, including a school textbook in Norway. Her prints are sold in catalogues and on the Internet all over the world. She has two critically acclaimed divination decks published by Llewellyn, The Well Worn Path and The Hidden Path. Mickie’s third deck comes out in 2011 and is her first deck that she created on her own, concept, writing, and art. The Voice of the Trees, A Celtic Ogham Oracle is based on the rich and fantastic Celtic history, myths and legends and the Ogham system of letters used in 4th-6th century.
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Deborah Blake
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Everyday Witch A to Z Spellbook
TWPT talks to Deborah Blake
Deborah Blake is a Wiccan High Priestess who has been leading her current group, Blue Moon Circle, since 2004. When not writing, Deborah runs The Artisans' Guild, a cooperative shop she founded with a friend, and works as a jewelry maker, tarot reader, an ordained minister and an Intuitive Energy Healer. She lives in a 100-year-old farmhouse in rural upstate New York with five cats who supervise all her activities, both magickal and mundane. She is the author of Circle, Coven and Grove: A Year of Magickal Practice, Everyday Witch A to Z, Everyday Witch A to Z Spellbook and the forthcoming Witchcraft on a Shoestring (September 2010 Llewellyn). She has written many articles for Pagan publications, and her award-winning short story, "Dead and (Mostly) Gone" is included in the Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction.
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Imajicka's blog
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Imajicka
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Lammas is amost here.....
Amidst the sweltering heat (hottest month on record) that we have been subjected to on the east coast as of late it is easy to not be in a harvest state of mind when Lammas roles around on the 1st of August. We tend to associate harvest with the fall, cooler temperatures, colorful trees, corn crops being taken in by farmers and if you live in the city perhaps you associate it with full to overflowing fruit and vegetable stands at the local farmer's markets or wherever it is that you head to when you want the freshest food you can get. And yet Lammas is a celebration of the first harvest festival that will eventually lead to Samhain come October 31st as the end of the harvest with Mabon in between here and there.
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Deanna Anderson
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Magick for the Kitchen Witch
TWPT talks to Deanna Anderson
Deanna Anderson, her husband and two daughters live and work in South Carolina. She has been initiated into the Gaia's Wisdom Coven and School of Pagan Thought. She is currently a 3rd Degree Pagan and she also holds a seat of Family Council. Deanna is currently working towards a Priesthood/Ministry degree within the council.
Deanna is a published author with her latest book Magick for the Kitchen Witch released in May of 2009. She has another book due out later in 2010 called Magick for the Elemental Witch.
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Community Focus
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M. Macha Nightmare
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M. Macha Nightmare
Cherry Hill Seminary Interview
Our Mission: Cherry Hill Seminary provides quality higher education and practical training in Pagan ministry.
- Our Vision: Cherry Hill Seminary supports Pagans and their communities by —
Providing an extensive education in diverse aspects of Pagan philosophy, practice, and skilled ministry;
Supplementing existing ritual and magical skills with training for professional ministry and counseling;
Serving as an ongoing resource for individual continuing education; and
Providing a forum for scholarship and community
- Our Values: Cherry Hill Seminary —
Honors the sacredness of the Earth
Values scholarship
Respects diversity
Encourages individual and spiritual autonomy
Values community
Promotes service
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Cherry Hill Seminary TWPT Column
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Selina Rifkin
MS LMT
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Nourishing the Body Sacred
by Selina Rifkin©
As Pagans, we do not shun our bodies. We do not assume that any physical pleasure is bad, and our bodies are often the paths we use to interact with the God/dess, via drumming or dancing. We hold that all acts of love and pleasure are sacred and that we will harm none. So why is it that we so often harm ourselves and reduce our capacity for pleasure by giving our bodies toxins and foods with no nutritional or spiritual value?
While we seek to model our spiritual practice after those of the ancients, we ourselves are the products of Western culture, and the Western world is very mental. We seek constant stimulation for our minds, but the attention we give our bodies can be superficial. More often than not, this attention is based on how our bodies look rather than how well they function. As a modern religion that reclaims the good things that were lost and creates a new vision, Paganism is well suited to re-create, revitalize and restore positive functional ideas about the body.
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Boudica
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Reading Tarot for Friends
by Boudica
Sooner or later you are going to find yourself reading for a friend. Be it a best friend or a new friend, somewhere along the line they find out that you read cards and they will ask if you would be kind enough to read for them.
For me, many of the friends I read for know what the tarot is about; there is no need to explain. Either they are not good at reading cards, or they prefer another style of divination or they just are not familiar enough with the cards and feel they need some kind of validation for the reading they may have done for themselves. Most of the friends I read for know I am a very direct person who does not usually sugar coat my reading for the benefit of the faint of heart.
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Next Holiday Northern Hemisphere:
Mabon/Fall Equinox
September 23, 2010
Despite the bad publicity generated by Thomas Tryon’s novel,
Harvest Home is the pleasantest of holidays. Admittedly, it does involve the concept
of sacrifice, but one that is symbolic only. The sacrifice is that of the
spirit of vegetation, John Barleycorn. Occurring one quarter of the year after
Midsummer, Harvest Home represents midautumn, autumn’s height. It is also the
autumnal equinox, one of the quarter days of the year, a Lesser Sabbat and a
Low Holiday in modern Witchcraft. Recently, some Pagan groups have begun
calling the holiday by the Welsh name ‘Mabon’, although there seems little
historical justification for doing so.
For the rest of Mike Nichols' article on Mabon click here.
Next Holiday Southern Hemisphere:
Ostara/Spring Equinox
September 22, 2010
For an article on Ostara by Mike Nichols click here.
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Link's Lesson Book
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Your Own Celebrations of Summer
There’s a
village one year’s journey from here.
And in that village lives a woman with four children. Like any family, all four children are
kindred and similar -- yet very, very unique.
One is a feisty child, with brilliant golden hair, and a natural glow
warmer than any other. This child’s name
is Summer.
In an entire
year, perhaps the 91 days (and nights) of Summer seem to fly by the
quickest… When you think of summer, what
comes to mind?
Summer is the
peak, the pinnacle, the realization of what took root during the Spring. One lesson the seasons teach is that many
things in nature grow, mature, and then fade.
Imagine yourself old and gray and wise.
Look back upon your own life as if it were a single turn of the
year. What part of your life was your
high point, your “Summer,” your peak?
Where did you shine your brightest, glow your hottest?.
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Jesse Wolf
Hardin
Updated 10-09-2008
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TWPT's Earth
Magic
This month Jesse's new article is entitled
Pitfalls on the Magical or Spiritual Path.
Otherwise benign New Spiritual practices can suffer from some of the same pitfalls as conventional organized religion. Fortunately, once we’re aware of these diversions we can make the informed choices that reunite us with the inspirited world, rather than contribute to our estrangement.
In my life of pilgrimage the voices of the earthen Anima have repeatedly contradicted what I’ve read, was taught, once thought, and so badly wanted to believe... Thus as I became a teacher myself, I deferred again and again— not to presumed authorities or established traditions, but to the actual Source of every real truth they contain. Our realization of wholeness/holiness begins not in contemplation or conclusion but in a great listening. It begins in a vulnerable condition of openness, with fierce focus, gentle humility, and the overwhelming gratitude that makes us worthy of such gifts.
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Boudica
Updated 01-25-2009
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TWPT's Bookviews
Crafting Wiccan Traditions by
Raven Grimassi
I enjoyed this book because of the concept. I was surprised at the amount of material that Grimassi covers for this process. The contents of this book puts it all together to show you how it's done.
Tradition is the foundation of our spiritual system. Each person sees the Wiccan path as a personal path. Gardner did it, Buckland did it, even Grimassi did it; establishing a system of spirituality that worked for them, and enabling it to work for others.
Raven Grimassi presents a “system” here to establish your own Tradition. In it he also includes all the trappings and tools and beliefs and reasons to do so. It is a complex method, with all the basics, all the elements and all the workings that we may want to include.
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Boudica's review of Crafting Wiccan Traditions by Raven Grimassi
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Sybil Leek:
Out of the Shadows
by Christine Jones
Everyday Witch A to Z
by Deborah Blake
What Thou Wilt: Traditional and Innovative trends in Post-Gardnerian Witchcraft
by Jon Hanna
Kitchen Witch:
A Memoir
by Cora Anderson
Magical Housekeeping
by Tess Whitehurst
Real Witches Garden
by Kate West
reissue by Llewellyn
A Grimoire for Modern Cunningfolk
by Peter Paddon
The Book of the Holy Strega
by Raven Grimassi
The Spellcaster's Reference
by Eileen Holland
Magick for the Kitchen Witch
by Deanna Anderson
Crafting With Nana
by Millie Knox
Grimoires: A History of
Magic Books
By Owen Davies
Kissing the Limitless
by T. Thorn Coyle
Mabon:
Pagan Thanksgiving
by Kristin Madden
The Tree of Enchantment
by Orion Foxwood
The Good Cat Spell Book
by Gillian Kemp
Magic Words
by Craig Conley
The Goddess Pages
by Laurie Sue Brockway
Tarot for Hip Witches
The Sacred Path of Reiki
by Katalin Koda
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