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Mickie Mueller

 

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

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

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

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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M. Macha Nightmare

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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Selina Rifkin
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Nourishing the Body Sacred
by Selina Rifkin
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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

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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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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News for the Wiccan/Pagan community

  • Posted August 11, 2010

News Bite: Isaac Bonewits Nearing the End
A Neo-Pagan leader Isaac Bonewits
Where Are the Pagan Role Models?
A Pagan site to visit in the SF Bay Area
Reclaiming a San Francisco Pagan Tradition
Pagan Group Listings Now Available

  • Posted August 6, 2010

An Argentine Gem Hidden No More
Past Lives and Reincarnation
Fertility Statues May Work, Believe it or Not
The Wigglian Way Pagan Podcast Episode 72

  • Posted August 5, 2010

LA area Pagans celebrate Lammas/Lughnasadh
Los Angeles area Pagans cope with economic slump

  • Posted August 4, 2010

Bonewits Papers to be Donated

  • Posted August 2, 2010

Psychics stir up conversation, provide perspective

  • Posted August 1, 2010

Witch School International Names First Board of Directors, Faces Major Challenges
Sunday conversation: Byron Ballard loves her Earth religion, and her community
Wicca
A Brief History of Nakedness
Smith: Lammas celebrates first harvest of fall season
Pagan Travel Examiner Musician of the Month: July 2010: Caera: Part 1 of 2
New Book on Convicted Highland Witch

  • Posted July 31, 2010

Witch at a Catholic Celebration
Jesus the new Pagan God
Ancient Spirituality and Commerce Clash in Mari El
Five stunning stone circles (besides Stonehenge)
Confluence of harvest celebrations on August 1st
Anne Rice 'quits being a Christian'
Bread God-figure for Lammas: a recipe

  • Posted July 30, 2010

Science and religion clash in 'Agora"
Sybil Leek: Brevard author writes biography of famous ‘white witch’
Woman 'who dragged cop' shuns witch tag
Do Pagans Worry About Blasphemy?

  • Posted July 28, 2010

Pagan Leadership Skills Conference
Lammas Countdown: Ritual Honoring Lugh
Pagans celebrate the full moon with a ceremony on the beach in Atlantic Beach
Images of New Henge at Nat. Geo.
History of Religion and Paganism Connection
Witch Eilish De Avalon drags cop 200m at high speed after claiming Earth laws don't apply

  • Posted July 25, 2010

Save Triple Goddess Bookstore Rally
Shedding light on ways of pagans
All the young Druids
Native Americans Setting Environmental Example
Rachel Weisz challenges herself
'Agora': Rachel Weisz shines as a heroine caught in an orbit of hate
LA area Pagan calendar of events and classes from July 23 - August 1

  • Posted July 21, 2010

New Goddess & Spiritual Feminism Organization launched
15th Glastonbury Goddess Conference

  • Posted July 18, 2010

School official says on-campus religious-ed program likely to end
Pagan summer traditions kept alive in Pirogovo
Publisher cancels book series with Wiccan themes
America's paranoid religious right

  • Posted July 17, 2010

Pagan Music Festival Coming to Unity
How Pop Went Pagan
Scene and Heard: Pagan Metal

  • Posted June 24, 2010

Barbara Ardinger talks to Pat Lynch of Speak Up!
Where the Wild Place is, Part 1 by Barbara Ardinger a revisionist fairy tale
The Fate of the Internet -- Decided in a Back Room
The oil spill and the soul of nature


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Jesse Wolf Hardin

Updated 10-09-2008

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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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.

Read 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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