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[ccthegoddessblog]

Rituals vs. Spell work: Understanding the Difference

When delving into the mystical realms of magick, it’s essential to grasp the distinctions between rituals and spell work. Let me illuminate these concepts:

Magical Practices (Spell work):

Definition: These are simple workings—everyday magics that don’t necessarily involve elaborate rituals.

Duration: They can take seconds to a couple of hours.

Intent: They have an intention, an end goal, and a magical act.

Examples: Taking a magical bath, divination (like tarot), reciting a spell, meditating, or lighting a candle.

Ritualistic Level: Not very ritualistic; no casting of circles or complex spells.

Rituals:

Definition: More elaborate magical works with structure and specific components.

Duration: Longer than practices due to their complexity.

Purpose: Assist in walking between worlds, raising significant energy.

Components: Often involve casting a circle, calling quarters/elements, and invoking spirits or deities.

Examples: Full moon rituals, spell bottles, transformative magics, protection spells.

Spells:

Definition: Spells consist of words or phrases with a specific intention.

Components: Usually involve words (or emojis) and focus on a desired outcome.

Purpose: To signify, relate, or talk—directing energy toward a goal.

[creature-wizard]

Important things to know about Wicca

Wicca is a 20th century religion influenced by the witch cult hypothesis, which is now discredited.

Not all witches are Wiccan, much less subscribe to models of divinity and magic popular within the Wiccan movement.

Even among witches who are Wiccans, beliefs are highly diverse.

Historical paganism and folk magic practices were very different from Wicca, which is very much a product of the 20th century culture it developed in.

Dr. Angela Puca has a short video explaining Wicca's origins here:

[natthehorsewitch]

So my very artistic sister is helping me create a filming corner. I wanted to wait until I reached 100 subscribers on youtube but she was like NO, MANIFEST THAT SHIT. And fuck if she isn't turning my own advice back on me... so she is coming at the end of the month and we are creating the corner. I have STUFF to fill the corner behind me, but I am curating a few items and theres this one lady in the UK that makes these beautiful felted witches. The Woolly Witch (if you follow her) She only posts 2-4 witches per day and they sell out in like 2-3 MINUTES tops. And she’s in the UK so she posts when I’m sleeping usually. Today, I snagged one! I need to give her a name but isn’t she STUNNING?!

[nariarts]

Hey! Could you help my favourite band win an award?

This is North Atlas, and they're nominated for a Scottish Alternative Music Award. If you like them, please vote! If you don't like them, please vote anyway, I'm not above begging!

Voting closes on Wednesday evening so I'm praying this Blaze goes through fast!!

If you like alternative, metal, industrial, you might enjoy them. They're influenced by Nine Inch Nails, Biffy Clyro, and Bring Me The Horizon. Their music is focused on mental health, particularly anxiety and neurodivergence.

They're very pagan, and their imagery in videos, photos, and live shows is phenomenal.

Please vote!! And if you see this after voting is closed, please listen anyway! I love them and want more people to listen to them!

[svetzzi]

My little movie has been published. O_O reblogs greatly appreciated. enjoy xx

[junipersplace]

Hello Everyone,

I found an interview about the modern Temple in Arcadia. It was an interesting watch. I do suggest watching with English subtitles unless you are fluent in Greek.

~ Juniper 🪻

[thespectralwitch]

This years goal is getting over my posting anxiety ✨🦇

My "biggest" (still very small) platform for my witchcraft/business was tik tok and even there I barely posted out of self consciousness and insecurity. I have an immense anxiety about making videos and posting in general. It mainly comes from being a plus size woman who is very insecure. At least posting photos feels more conformable because i can pose to look "better" but videos are a whole beast of their own. I've been trying to get over this hurdle for years at this point. My goal this year is to really try and post more on social media and finally get over this anxiety. Both for myself and for my business.

I started posting every once and awhile on tumblr last year (mainly on my business page @thespectralcottage ). But, with the tik tok ban happening i really felt the push to start a youtube. I created the channel back in june, but just now started posting witchy "shorts" on it. I do plan on also making long form content. But i feel like im jumping into the deep end. I really dont want to feel like im screaming in a void where no one even glances. If youre interested in witchcraft content you can subscribe to me here. no pressure. Even if you dont-If theres any witchcraft content you'd like to see more of on youtube, maybe drop it in the comments? i'd love some ideas of what other people actually want to see.

[cavorta]

"Witchy stuff I SUCK at! // #FailTales"

The Norse Witch has made a video on YouTube "Witchy stuff I SUCK at! // #FailTales" – link below - and invites witchy content creators or practitioners to talk about the witchcraft or pagan things they struggle with, on their social media. So here are the witchy things I struggle with, never have tried or have given up entirely: 🔴 I do not continuously celebrate the Wheel of the Year festivals. I have written a blog about this (link in the comment)

🔴 I cannot keep up with the Moon phases and I do not do anything special with them.

🔴 I suck at being a good plant parent. Never have been. Plants have come and gone, several have died in my care and recently I have given up on buying new ones. I am not much of a green witch.

🔴 I do not have the discipline, the motivation or the spoons to sit down daily (or even weekly) to do astral travels or meditation, getting into a trance or something similar.

🔴 I do not do Tarot spreads or Oracle card spreads often and I by far do not know all the meanings of the Tarot cards. Instead, I look them up.

🔴 I do not do all the exercises in all the witchcraft/pagan books that I own.

🔴 I do not work with astrology and crystals at all.

🟢All of that being said, I do have a daily practice, but it is very simple and quick to do - lighting three tea lights for three different causes, saying three prayers. When I am not at home, I do it in my mind, without the tea lights.

Links: The Norse Witch’s video:

My blog „Adapting the Wheel of the Year“ https://cavorta.substack.com/p/adapting-the-wheel-of-the-year

[coinandcandle]

CrashCourse on YouTube is doing a series on religion! This weeks episode is “what’s the difference between magic and religion?” I think if you’re looking for a basic understanding of religion and whatnot, this series will be helpful!

[tadpoles-and-daydreams]

Tarot: "feel the fear and do it anyway!"

Me, eye twitching: "I'm gonna bite these cards."

[themuseumofwitchcraftandpaganism]

Witchcraft in music - Kiki Rockwell

Kiki Rockwell (they/she) is a folk and rock singer. Even though she was born in the USA, she grew up in Germany and New Zealand. Their music is heavily inspired by history and myths. She has two songs about witchcraft, a song about pirates, a song about sirens, gay knights, Hades and Persephone, and much more.

[xboobayaga]

Vígundr - Loki

[elegantshapeshifter]

Steven Dillon's conversion to Christianity: what does it mean to Hellenism and Pagan Community?

Steven Dillon, the author of "The Case for Polytheism" and "Pagan Portals - Polytheism: A Platonic Approach", recently returned to Christianity.

This event made me think a lot. I think this event can teach us that the more you are concerned with "the One" and you think it can respond, the more likely you will go towards monotheism.

The point is that "the One" is us, and is "a thing", not "somebody".

The One is not a person. This is the reason why we worship the Gods, they are persons.

The One, the All, is so big that the idea that it can listen is nonsense.

Monotheism emerges when you think the entire universe can listen to you. Polytheism is the humbleness to understand that only certain parts of the Universe can listen to you.

And when you think you are talking to the One you are always actually talking to a part of it.

This is the reason why Christ, Yahweh, Allah, etc. are parts of the One and not the One.

Even attempts to interact with the entirety of the One are just interactions with parts of the One, ie one of the many Gods.

This is confirmed by Aleister Crowley's experience, we can read from the Liber Astarte Vel Berylli that he considered Allah, Christ and Yahweh as Parts or Aspects of the One, exactly as other Polytheistic Deities, and not as the All/the One in its entirety:

"Let the devotee consider well that […] Christ and Osiris be one […]".

"As for Deities with whose nature no Image is compatible, let them be worshipped in an empty shrine. Such are Brahma, and Allah. Also some postcaptivity conceptions of Jehovah".

"[…] the particular Deity be himself savage and relentless; as Jehovah or Kali."

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Moreover, Dillon was (is?) Platonic, and the problem is even worse, because sadly the reaction to the problem of evil is very similar between Platonism and Christianity.

However, the Stoic (and maybe the Hindu and Buddhist) worldview completely destroys the problem of evil, because if the Divine is good and we simply don't perceive the goodness and that is what evil is, ie ignorance or misperception, then the problem of evil is solved.

If we, instead, perceive the evil as something real and the Gods as totally good not evil, the problem of evil remains.

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Finally, a Pagan that comes back to Christianity usually doesn't know history very well, and is unaware of Natib Qadish, ie Modern Canaanite Religion or Neopaganism.

If you listen to Natib Qadish (ie Canaanite and Israelite Polytheistic Neopaganism) and Wathanism (Arabian pre-Islamic Polytheistic Neopaganism) practitioners' voices, you cannot come back to Christianity.

In fact, Christianity doesn't make any sense: Yahweh is a Storm God that comes from Edom to Israel through the Kenites or Shasu, which were nomads. His name meant "to blow", and so he was a variation of Baal Hadad.

In the origin, El was the father of Baal/Yahweh, and his sister was Anat and his mother Asherah. Later, El ie the Sky God and Yahweh ie the Storm God, merged and so Yahweh was seen as the husband of the Goddess Asherah.

In fact in Kuntillet Arjud it's possible to see blessings by "Yahweh and his Asherah". Moreover, even the Bible (read The Book of Judges) witness that people worshipped Asherah/Astarte and Baal together with YHWH.

In Elephantine in Egypt there was a Jewish temple for Yahu-Anat, ie both Anat and YHWH.

So how can Jesus be the son of the only God Yahweh if Yahweh was never a monotheistic God before the Josiah's reform that made Judaism monotheistic?

If Judaism is originally polytheistic then Christianity makes no sense.

By reading the "Cycle of Baal" we'll discover the origin of the Biblical Deity (or Deities?).

I end my dissertation with some interesting quotes from the Bible:

Jeremiah 7:

"17 Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven."

Jeremiah 44:

"17 We will certainly do everything we said we would: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and were well off and suffered no harm. 18 But ever since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have had nothing and have been perishing by sword and famine.”

"19 The women added, “When we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did not our husbands know that we were making cakes impressed with her image and pouring out drink offerings to her?”"

"25 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You and your wives have done what you said you would do when you promised, ‘We will certainly carry out the vows we made to burn incense and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven.’"

[objectspod]

Surprise! We're on hiatus while Greg and Dana are on tour, but to give you some Haunted Objects Podcast in the meantime and to celebrate some news about "The Unbinding", our live special on The Curse of the Catskills Crone just dropped!

While hiking off the beaten path in New York's Catskill Mountains, two hikers stumbled upon a disturbing statue hidden inside a cave. Then, all hell broke loose.

To celebrate Tubi's free-to-watch debut of our scary-as-hell documentary "The Unbinding", join us for this special LIVE episode of The Haunted Objects Podcast! Featuring previously unreleased footage, interviews with the cast and crew, and more surprises, this episode is stuffed with exclusive insight into the making of Planet Weird's first feature-length film... and our most frightening paranormal investigation yet. Plus, the Brotherhood of Magicians returns with a limited edition merch drop set to disappear faster than you can say "abracadabra".

Time to lace up your hiking boots and prepare to suffer a witch, because we're heading into the mountains to break the curse of the Catskills Crone!

Watch "The Unbinding" for free on Tubi:

[samwisethewitch]

I don't talk about it here very often, but I have a YouTube channel I use for side projects! I'm currently doing a series where I talk about class and labor politics in Samantha's series from American Girl.

[ninevehsage]

New music from Finnish band NOIDUIN 💜💜💜

"Noiduin is a Finnish Dark Folk act hailing from Pori, located on the Western coast of Finland. Noiduin draws its inspiration from Finnish mythology and folklore, and the songs are often based on ancient Finnish spell poems."