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Join me now in reciting an invocation to Gerald Gardner's hair.

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A degree in magic being offered in 2024 will be one of the first in the UK, the University of Exeter has said.

The "innovative" MA in Magic and Occult Science has been created following a "recent surge in interest in magic", the course leader said.

It would offering an opportunity to study the history and impact of witchcraft and magic around the world on society and science, bosses said.

The one-year programme starts in September 2024.

Academics with expertise in history, literature, philosophy, archaeology, sociology, psychology, drama, and religion will show the role of magic on the West and the East.

The university said it was one of the only postgraduate courses of its kind in the UK to combine the study of the history of magic with such a wide range of other subjects.

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Spooktober Celebrationⵈ🎃ⵈSpiritualism Movement

Spiritualism became a social and religious movement toward the end of the 19th century. In which, followers believed in a static afterlife, the ability to contact spirits, and that these spirits had moral and ethical insights. Scholars claim Emanuel Swedenborg as the father of Spiritualism.

By 1897, it is believed that spiritualism had 8 million followers across the United States and Europe. Most of these followers: came from upper and middle classes, were women, and supported abolitionism and suffrage.

The movement would weaken from accusations of fraud, but spiritualism is still prevalent today regardless.

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Ode to Hekate

O Hekate, wonderous, wise;

Queen of Night,

Welcome in Shadows, bringer of light,

Your Moon and Torch Illuminate my paths.

You guide me at the crossroads, Holy Keeper of the keys

O’ Chthonic Goddess! Veiled in Darkness,

You wear a mask of gold in company of the gods.

At night you take my hand in true countenance and wisdom

And I worship you, Holy One, as you appear in all knowledge and age

In all humility and purest soul,

I humbly ask your guidance remain through the dark.

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✧ ʜᴇᴄᴀᴛᴇ • ɢᴏᴅᴅᴇss ᴏғ ᴍᴀɢɪᴄ, ᴅᴏɢs, ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴏɴ, ᴛʜᴇ ɴɪɢʜᴛ, ᴄʀᴏssʀᴏᴀᴅs, & ɢʜᴏsᴛs ✧

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Hellenism Books I have compiled

ahhh so public library for beginners and closet pagans

Also anyone who wants to find an epub file or send one here and DM me :D

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Online Diary | November 8, 2024

It's been a long time since I did one of these. I mostly just wanted to share my thoughts somewhere online and show off my altar. Just recently, I was moaning to myself about the lack of Wiccan content in the tumblr tag that isn't just an aesthetic photograph of the moon over a field or a crow or whatever generalized witchy aesthetic thing you can think of. I love those as much as the next aesthetic obsessed libra, but it's not enough. Anyways, the lesson I gleaned from that was "Be the change you want to see in the world," so here I am.

I've been reading the book "All Acts of Love and Pleasure: Inclusive Wicca," recently. It's been a great and wonderfully validating experience. The author confirmed a lot of thoughts I'd already had-- most of my self study on Wicca specifically has come from older sources, the classics of Wicca if you will, and while I have a lot of affection for Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft and the Witches Bible, neither are exactly up-to-date. I really liked that in All Acts of Love and Pleasure, Abburow, the author, addresses a lot of my major issues. I'm not super about the masculine-feminine, male-female dynamic, for instance. I'm very queer and it just doesn't work for me and I did a lot of improvising, especially in ritual, lots of changing around the wording in invocations and rites and such. To my delight, Abburow recommends this.

It's nice to see a Wiccan author take the bull by the horns and come up with something that feels right and works! This book was also on the recommended reading list for a coven I'm interested in joining, so I feel better about getting to know them.

I think I'm going to start collecting my favorite poetry/hymns/invocations/etc. about the God and the Goddess. I know for many, it's their practice, not their beliefs that seem to define Wicca for them-- at least, that's what I hear a lot in online spaces. I think it's because in pagan and occult spaces, belief can seem like such a fluid and even confusing thing to nail down. I don't know, really, I'm just throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. I've found belief to be important to me lately though and I've been exploring my beliefs in a higher power through the frankly moving poetry that people have created about the God and the Goddess. I think that's what makes Wicca special to me specifically! My favorite one about the God is by Raymond Buckland. It goes like this:

How evocative! How beautiful! And, at the risk of sounding extremely religious, how strangely true it feels when I think of my experiences with this part of divinity, whatever it may be. I really can't wait to use this in ritual somehow, I think it'd be very moving.

Anyways, this post is getting rather long so I'm going to cut things short here. Cheers!

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but having doubts about your practice is totally normal and actually beneficial.

Questioning everything is intelligence.

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just to update nobody in particular I was scammed out of 80 dollars! sad! but ebay refunded me! yay! but!! I didn't get any cool occult books for my collection :( sad!!

I ordered some old books on wicca from a seller off of ebay and I'm wondering where my order is because I ordered on the 4th, was given an est date of arrival for the package between the 10th and the 14th and the seller never updated the shipping information

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𝔞 𝔴𝔥𝔦𝔪𝔰𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔩 𝔒𝔠𝔱𝔬𝔟𝔢𝔯 🦇🌙

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Prepping for Samhain🎃🧶🍁

hello yes hi!!! me personally this is my favorite sabbath! so i’ll be sharing what i usually do and how i prepare for it!!

Samhain lasts from Oct.31 till Nov.1, but please do not rush yourself to complete such activities, you can do it throughout the month :)

1.) Prep your altar! .•+*

- i clean up my altar with my homemade florida water and smoke cleanse it! then putting up pictures of my passed loved ones. I use white candles and white candles only just to be safe. I make a grocery list to buy ingredients so i can make food they loved. (Also, if ur putting up items of your loved ones, please avoid putting them next to ur candles!! tnx!!)

2.) Prep your Divination tools .•*+

- i used to do Tarot, i still do, but now my preferred method is bone-throwing. Doing divination during Samhain is the best time to do it, the line between the living and the souls of the passed living is thin, so use the time wisely and ask guidance from an ancestor or a spirit guide !!

3.) Have fun! .•*+

- cook some family meals, prank somebody, just genuinely have fun! this is a celebration, and your passed loved ones will be celebrating it with you! bring them food they used to love, converese with them by just talking to their pictures. Just know that you are loved, and they are still loved.

Bonus: Make a besom!

- i haven’t tried making a besom yet😭😭 but i’m planning to make one this year, and i’m so excited !!!!!

p.s pics above are mine, i took them, so if ur gonna use them pls credit me, ty :)

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November 2019

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Books are expensive, Hermes thinks learning about your religion should be free.

They're just the basics and only a few, but feel free to ask me to add anything and I'll try my best!

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DERRY GIRLS (2018-2022) 2.01 Across the Barricade