#drawing down the moon

[secretcatholicwitch]

Christopagan Spell List Masterpost: 11/17/23

💫Casting circle ritual:

Call and Releasing the Elements/Quarters

Call and Releasing God and Mary

🌒🌕🌘Esbats ritual:

🐺Wolf Moon

❄️Snow Moon

🐛🐦‍⬛Worm/Crow Moon

🌷Pink/Seed moon

Blessing places:

🖼️House Blessing sigil

🏡House Blessing

Alter Blessing (Coming Soon)

Blessing objects:

📒Spell Book Blessing

🪄Wand/Staff Blessing

🌌Tarot Card Blessing

⚖️Pendulum Blessing

💧Celestial Water

🪴Harvesting Plants And Enchantment

✝️Protective Enchantment: from evil 

Spells:

👨🏻‍💻Lord, I need a job

💤St. Dymphna sachet for sleep (NEW)

[thethroneislost]

Beherit Finland Band photos and their 1994 debut LP, "Drawing Down the Moon"

Unique, enjoyable album with quite a bit of dark Finnish ambience.

[looktothenorth]

boris has always been a literary kitty. today he is exploring his spirituality.

[leyswitchblr]

“where existing organizations or ideas do not offer exactly the right blend of life-affirming philosophy and mythos to assuage one’s soul, then people are free to forge one that does.”

—Michael Lloyd, in Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

[traegorn]

I have wanted for years to become a witch/wiccan but I haven’t really had any clue how to start. Do you have any recommendations for texts/videos/whatever?

Okay. So you're getting the three books. These are the three books I always recommend for someone interested in Witchcraft and Wicca to start with.

Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler This is a history of the Modern Witchcraft Movement from the beginning. It's an important book to start with since so many witchcraft books are poorly researched, you can use this to help set up a baseline as to whether or not other sources did the work. Pick up the 2006 revision (which was the last update before Adler died)

Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham This is still kind of our best guide for starting off with Wicca, even if it's very dated (Cunningham died a few years after this was published). There are a lot of things that need to be read critically here, but I've yet to find a better book for starting out with Wicca specifically. This shouldn't be the last book you read on the subject, but it's a good first.

Grovedaughter Witchery by Bree NicGarran Not all witchcraft is Wiccan, and @breelandwalker (a secular witch) put together a phenomenal book for folks looking to get started in witchcraft. This is definitely one you should read too.

Good luck!

[howlsofbloodhounds]

Tell one random thing about yourself then go on anon and asks your 5 most favorite moots this!

I am currently looking into Paganism although almost everyone on my page probably already knows that rn. 💀 its been very fun so far, never knew there was a word for my beliefs.

Currently I am reading Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler. And then maybe I’ll do research into certain deities, such as Lady Hecate and Lady Aphrodite. Hecate is actually the reason I was drawn to Paganism at all.

[rastronomicals]

11:43 AM EDT October 13, 2024:

Beherit - "Unholy Pagan Fire" From the album Drawing Down the Moon (November 13, 1993)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Brutal Lo-Fi Black Metal

[triste-guillotine]

“Drawing Down The Moon - Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers & Other Pagans In America Today” by Margot Adler

[tomoleary]

Cover Art for Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess

[dark-academia-alcoholic]

As a practicing witch and general occultist for well over two decades, I see these kinds of correspondences and wonder at their source. Sometime ago I began to wonder where exactly the ideas, associations, and correspondences between various herbs and their effects came from. I'd accepted the general consensus from any number of texts, but never once read where they came from. Thus began my journey as a true occultist, in my humble opinion.

I began to read any and every text of old on the subjects of magic, witchcraft, paganism, shamanism, religion, spirituality, etc etc. It was a fascinating journey, and one that I would suggest to any practicing witch or just someone who was interested in such stuff. I will provide a list of interesting texts below. You never know what little bit of lore you may find and add to your own practice! I can confidently say that my own practice is hardly recognizable when compared to what it was before.

All of this to say, I see this post about the different types and uses of water, and I wonder where the author got their ideas from. (Let me be clear, I'm not throwing any judgement at them, nor do I question the authenticity of it. In fact, I actually love this idea, and plan on using it myself.) Did they come up with this on their own? Who knows. Is it from some text of old? Could be. Does it really matter, as long as it works for whomever uses it? Not at all.

I've lost my way with my train of thought on what I was leading up to. Or perhaps, there was no point, and I was simply vomiting words onto the page. Such is life.

Anyway, some really good books of old that I suggest:

Greek Magical Papyri

The Picatrix

The Keys of Solomon

Natural Magick by John Baptista Porta

By no means an exhaustive list, but there's some quite interesting ideas to be found withing. Also, on the subject of books, Drawing Down The Moon is a fantastic anthropological study on the resurgence of Paganism. I cannot recommend it enough.

I will remove myself from the soap box now. <3

~ Abadon

Different types of water and their magickal uses:

Sea water: good for curse/hex breaking, cleansing, healing, banishing and protection spells.

Dew water: beauty, love and fertility spells, as well as delicate magick. Also Good for Fae work.

Storm water: is great for spells and rituals that has to do with emotional strength, confidence, charge, motivation and force. It’s known for strengthening spells. Also good for curses.

Snow water: Spells and rituals that focus on purity, endings and change, as well as slow working spells.

River water: Good for creating changes, moving on and letting go of negativity, warding and focusing energy.

Rain water: Very multi-purpose, but specifically great for growth and rebirth spells. Great for spells that you want to keep gaining power over time.

Spring water: Growth, holy water, cleansing, protection, prosperity

Moon water: Depending on the moon phase it was created in, it can have different properties.

Sun Water: protection, healing, clairvoyance, courage, strength, prosperity, luck, self-love, cleansing and creativity.

Swamp Water: Used for banishing and binding.

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[runes-and-bones]

the hyper-focus has really kicked in lately so i've been making some noticeable progress on my witchy tbr. i've been creeping slowly through drawing down the moon by margot adler for several months now. my problem is that i keep going down random rabbit holes when she mentions things that i want to know more about. (prominent figures, terms i don't know, other works, etc.) and it. is a. Problem.

i've now put the book down temporarily (again) while i read witchcraft and magic in 16th and 17th century europe by geoffrey scarre. i also put witches, midwives, and nurses on hold at the library because i've seen discourse online about it and got curious. i'm just all over the place, y'all.

i'm not a religious witch/wiccan/neopagan, but drawing down the moon has been such a great resource. i love deep diving into topics that interest me so it's been a ton of fun learning the history of modern witchcraft alongside my dabbling. i already have a list as long as my arm of other works i want to track down based solely on what adler has cited so far. i am delighted.

[leyswitchblr]

“I make no claims as a witch to ‘supernatural powers,’ but I totally believe in the super powers that reside in the natural.”

—Leo Martello, in Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

[traegorn]

hello! you recommended specifically the 2006 version of drawing down the moon, and im curious about the differences between it and earlier versions? what was added/changed? thank you! love your blog!

It's just the most updated version. Margot Adler released several revisions of the book, and mostly it was just updates to new things that happened. Like the state of the modern witchcraft movement was very different in 2006 than it was when she first published in 1979. The 2006 edition includes major events and community changes that happened in those twenty-seven years, including the early online witchcraft communities of the 1990s and early 2000s.

[looktothenorth]