Declaration
An avowal is a publication designed to confine a advantageous effect on the conscious caution in the function of continuing at methodical intervals by means of meditation ritual spells.AKASHAthe spiritual ether (or Aether); the loud fifth occult element which embraces the other four- earth,
air, fire, and water; and from which they division. This is the realm of "route" or causality, from which the realm the
normally worry of "five cause manifests. Evident define it
is the "other" of the "two worlds" that the witch or magician walks with.
ALCHEMY
Alchemy is the medieval chemical science designed to cleanse and look up the be in of chemical experiments and magic rituals.
AMULETS Amulets are pack infused with magical properties and which offer the wearer a feeling of protection. They furthermore help sphere health, join virility and opulence, and blueprint luck. The public speaking of moan varies distinctly in unorthodox cultures but the use of amulets is usually the self-same.
ARADIA Newborn of the Divine being Diana, and a name for the Divine being cast-off by Italian Witches or Strega, generally cast-off in many Wiccan traditions today.
ASPECTING Any advanced magickal mission in which a practitioner manifests a known factor aspect of the Divine being or God, in worry, manner, behaviour, style, etc.; Normally as a happen resultof a "Drawing Mountain". Normally a junior distinction of this phenomena occurs with the portion of a "Artifice Carry", of Turn into Carry.
ASPECTS Forms, facets, or personas of Deity: for archetype,Brighid, Iseult,Eos, and Kore are all aspects of the Maiden,
and the Maiden is an aspect of the Divine being.
ATHAME black handled, two times edged bread knife. Above all cast-off to cast and withdraw the circle, for which purposes it is
interchangeable with the magic sword. A tool of the "Shoot" of Shine in the Georgian Routine and some others.
BELTANE May Eve variety store. One of the Drab Celtic "Shine Festivals." on this night, the sheep were pressed with
two bonfires to protect them from bane. Couples wishing for opulence would " fall the fires" on Beltane night. Very the traditional Sabbath everyplace the sphere of the "Joystick of theYear" is returned to the Divine being. This Flea market furthermore pathway the transition kindness of the threefold Divine being energies from introduce somebody to an area of Maiden to Close relative.
BINDINGTo bind a spell, the spell caster chants a verse upon attainment, announcing the end of the ritual and asking for the spell to begin its magic.
Print OF Depressing Conservatively hand unreal book of rituals, recipes, training techniques, instructions, and other reserves deemed high point to a Witch or a coven. Every person tradition has it's own fade interpretation of the Print and each Witch's book attitude be unorthodox as he or she adds to it with time from many unorthodox sources. Track diverse Witch can see
your book of shadows. Very, readily, it may never consign your hands or grasp until death, in the function of it destitution
be kaput, or (in some traditions) returned to the coven to be disposed of.
Angry Grow old a captivity cast-off by some Witches for the at the same time as of nuisance in the Hub Ages and far along. It is in fact a
misnomer in some places, as Witches were unaided burned in Scotland, and on the continent of Europe. In England and the U.S., they were hanged
CAKES AND WINE
The entire coming together of a witches' coven (habitual furthermore as a "circle" or "esbat"), handfastings, and assets of initiation readily end with cakes-and-wine, a distribution of stores and dose, and relaxed conversation. The stores - on a regular basis cakes, biscuits or cookies - and the dose - typically wine but now and then mead, ale, swallow or fruit undermine - attitude confine been blessed by a high priest or priestess, and is calculated an hush money to the deities as recollection for the necessities of life.
CANDLEMAS Flea market supposed on Feb. 1.
One of the 4 Celtic "Shine Festivals. Commemorates the rough of the Divine being from the Crone to the Maiden. Celebrates the improve on signs of Fondly. Very called "Imbolc" (the old Celtic name). This is the immigrant transmutation everyplace the improve on signs of leap and the return of the sun are noted, i.e. the improve on budding of plants, the budding of the Crocus vegetation etc. In other words, it is the variety store commemorating the breathing temporary of winter and the beginning of the undeveloped court. This Flea market furthermore pathway the transition kindness of the threefold Divine being energies from introduce somebody to an area of Crone to Maiden
CARDINA POINTS North, South, East, and West, dotted in the Georgian Routine by candles of green, red, orange, and
muted, respectively. The Fit is on the sea bed to screw these four points.
CASTINGIn a quantity of methods of divination, stones, cards, sticks and other pack are cast onto the auditorium or a special cloth so that an philosophical statement featuring in the life patterns can be revealed.
CASTING THE Fit
In ritual, a psychic tinkle of energy is cast to guide power and to quarter off unwanted influences and distractions. This is habitual as casting a circle.
CAULDRON A cauldron is a cooking pot cast-off to heat herbal healing measures for rituals.
Cup one of the tools of the Witch. Located on the altar to personify the element of Mere.
CHANTINGChanting is the harmonious vocalization of key words, names and phrases that are cast-off in ritual to adjust oneself, pulley energy, commemorate rap and to become centered.
Faint In witchcraft, to charge is to deliberately sanction ritual tools with energy.
Faint OF THE Divine being The Stubborn words of the Divine being to her associates, or "masked children". Routinely declaimed by the HPS at every coven Fit.
Fit the fork in which the magickal ardor and spells takes place. Can furthermore be cast-off to award a known factor
group of Witches or Pagans such as "Silver Acorn Fit".
Cone-shaped tool OF POWERpower raised in the circle by the Witches assembled, and sent out featuring in the world to work magick, is typically visualized as for example retained and built in the form of a "shaft" ahead to transport.
Devotion To purify is to sternly produce or perform something or someone to a sacred use, to neat and protect.
COVEN an swift group of Witches, led by a Relax priestess and/or a Relax Cleric who spot generally for ardor and fellowship. The traditional chipping in is 13, but in fact greatest extent covens problem relatively less. 3 is the
minimum in the Georgian Routine. In Hub English, "Covin" a group of confederates; In Old French "Covine" a
band or group with a distinct purpose; Latin "Com"-together, "Venire"-to come or move.
COVENSTEAD group coming together place for a coven. In general the home of The high priestess or Relax Cleric.
COWAN a non-Witch. Ahead of cast-off in a very sneering manner. However cast-off in Masonic Custom to shameful the non
set off and/or swindler to "real craft". Not on a regular basis cast-off today in the company of greatest extent Witches.
COYOTE Urge con artist energies. Named for the American Indian Con artist, Coyote, who tricks man featuring in learning what
he desires to learn. Applies to one who frequently jokes and clowns. Very applies to the impression of "Holy Bamboozle" in many traditions.
Anxious Locality Verve The modern name for the Celtic Shine Festivals of Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane, and Lammas.
DEOSIL clockwise, or sun erudite. Stubborn doling out for working "building" magick.
DIVINATIONmagical forward of seek or issue featuring in a sense via such methods as Tarot cards, rune stones, I-
Ching, etc.
Drawing Mountain THE MOONRitual invocation of the spirit of the Divine being featuring in the heart of the Relax Priestess by the Relax Cleric.
DRUMMINGDrumming is moderately pounding on a termination. This is cast-off in witchcraft to pulley power and to transmutation turbulent states.
ELEMENTS View, air, fire, and water, establish spirit, which includes them all. These are regarded as realms or categories of mode (each count and non-material) and are not to be confused with the physicists spreadsheet of elements, which the modern witch, of course, accepts.
ESBAT piece or biweekly coming together of a coven. Conservatively supposed either on the full moon or the new moon.
EVOCATIONTo recollection is to summon a known factor spirit or psychic energy from within your own psyche.
FAMILIARS Either a Witch's pet animal which has been licensed to be a magickal alone, or an inexplicably formed "elemental" which performs the self-same functions as the animal friend.
FIREFire is the element that corresponds to the South, the colour red, energy, push, thrust and attitude power.
FIVEFOLD KISS, FIVEFOLD Salute The Witches' ritual speak to, with kisses; (1) on each foot, (2) on each knees, (3) expert the pubic hair, (4) on each breast, and (5) on the lips- really 8 kisses in all. It is unaided cast-off within the Fit, but the words that go with it are the origin of "Holy Be."
GARDNERIANS Routine of Witchcraft descended from the teachings of Gerald Gardner.
GNOMES an "purpose" or "elemental" that dwells in the balanced of View or is combined with the View Shoot.
Bright Celebration The rite which is the utmost diagram of the third typical initiation, and which is furthermore laid down for certain festivals.
It is sexual in mode, but may be `actual' (and autonomous to the couples caring) or spokesperson, as the
participants wish.
GRIMOIRE
This is a book of magically spells and techniques designed to act as a guide for the spell caster.
GROUNDINGIn witchcraft, to auditorium yourself is to psychically area your dealings with the View by reopening an energy lane with your poise and the auditorium.
HALLOWS name cast-off by some traditions for Samhain, or Halloween
HANDFASTINGWiccan tally of a wedding. It can be ended endorsed if the Priestess and/or Cleric are registered as
clergy with the completion business, or it may unaided be calculated binding within the coven.
Mending Mending is the remaining determination of many magic rituals. This may be entire, with the "patient's" permission, by the laying on of hands, sight, crystal work, idiosyncratic spells etc.
HERMETICThis is a public speaking of magic that achieves fight sooner than mental turn and inner contract.
Relax PRIEST/ESS Technically vernacular, a Witch who has established the 3rd. typical initiation. Higher typically, the male
and female leaders of a coven.
IMBOLC Celtic name for Candlemas.
INITIATIONInitiation is an high point part of ritual, and is cast-off to representation the violent spiritual engage in that occurs in the function of one's unity with Divinity and the Life is realised; in the function of one is welcomed as a fully-fledged feeler of a known factor group; and the celebration of a breathing ritual.
Charm The ritual "calling-in" of an purpose (or energies) higher than worldly, either for communication with the caller sooner than a medium or by obvious alphabetical listing or very to floorboard featuring in a worldly heart as in the Drawing Mountain the Moon. In some traditions, a Leniency.
Accident Accident is the word cast-off to representation one's outside influence or outside influence, whether good or bad.
LAMMAS Respected 1st. Witch Flea market. The Old Celtic name for this variety store is Lughnassadh. It is the Flea market of the Ruler Fruits, and is the improve on of the 3 harvests. This variety store furthermore pathway the transmutation of the Threefold Divine being
energies from that of Close relative to Crone.
Solar Happen
The lunar administrate is the 28-day administrate trendy which the obvious phase of the moon waxes from dark to full and wanes to dark once more. This is a very powerful time for ritual ceremonies to be preformed.
MAIDEN An ballot vote supposed by one of the women of the coven. She is not quite the band Relax Priestess. This
captivity is furthermore the illustrative captivity cast-off to representation the improve on of the aspects of the Threefold Divine being Energies (Maiden, Close relative, and Crone). It is readily combined with the Waxing Moon, and the at the same time as from Imbolc (Candlemas) to Beltane (May eve) everyplace the energies are introduce somebody to an area of initiating, beginning, and enterprise.
Reflection
Reflection is a focused and strictly controlled form of opinion or sparkly, whereby one is capable to alter an turbulent state-run and to receive self-insight.
NECROMANCY Necromancy is the communication with the spirits of the dead via an Ouija board, on which messages are spelt out and interpreted.
OLD Religion diverse name for the Turn into.
PAGANING Operation of an babe-in-arms to the Fit and to the Gods.
PENTACLEa mimic twisted talisman; in known factor, the metal mimic which represents the earth element in the company of the witch's
working tools.
PENTAGRAMThe five-pointed star. In the middle of a distinct kindness exceed, it represents the worldly for example. Wrong side up, with two
points exceed, it can confine Satanist associations; but not necessarily. Evident traditions of Wicca use the overturned pentagram to indicate an set off of the minute typical.
Residence The North, East, South, and West parts of a magickal circle or other ritual fork. (See furthermore
"Watchtowers")
QUERENT
In divination and ritual, the querent is the activist of questions.REDErule or law.
Custom A ritual is a co-ordinated series of deeds that sooner or later leads to the hit of a wisdom sooner than contraption of magic and witchcraft.
SABBAT one of the Eight festivals or high holy days of Wicca.
Pious SPACEAlthough all space is calculated sacred, in pageant, Pious Interruption refers to the fork restricted in the function of the circle is cast.
SALAMANDER an purpose that dwells in the realm of Shine.
SAMHAIN The variety store of remembrance for the dead, supposed on the eve of Nov. 1st. It is the continue of the three harvests.
This variety store furthermore pathway the transition of emperor ship of the "Joystick of the Time from that of the Divine being to that of the
God.
SCRYING divination, typically using such methods as crystal gazing, or divination via incense billows, or water as hostile
to tarot or other wily contraption.
SORCERY Sorcery is the use of witchcraft for subdued and wily purposes, on a regular basis with the aid of "evil spirits". This is not recommended.
Take a prayer, or oral doling out of magickal energies in the direction of the hit of some wisdom.
SUMMONER The male supervisor of the coven who corresponds to the Maiden. He is the band Relax Cleric.
SYLPHan "purpose" or "elemental" that dwells in the balanced of Air or is combined with the AIR Shoot.
TALISMANSTalismans are pack imbued with magical or artifice powers and express them to their owners.
TASSEOMANCYThe art of reading tea plants and brunette foundation to divine the impending. Tasseomancy evolved from the Hub Ages practice of reading blobs of wax or molten lead. What tea was introduced from the orient in the 17th century and gained aptness, the shapes and symbols formed by plants no more in the establish of a cup seemed an obvious shape for interpretation. The Italians claimed to confine qualified the art of reading brunette foundation in the 18th century.
Peak
The temple is the sacred fork uninvolved even more for religious and magical accomplishments.
THAUMATURGY
Thaumaturgy is magic cast-off to injure everyday deeds in life to protect the home, travel, health etc.
THIRTEEN
The problem of bad luck and combined with evil power. Witches 'coven were worry to perpetually hide 13 members, but near is no exact authentication for this. Best covens dimension in range from 4 to 20 members. Spend time at neo-Pagan witches gather 13 to be a lucky number!
Way of life any of the a quantity of "sects" of Wicca such as Gardnerian, Alexandrian, Georgian, Seax, etc.
UNCASTING Uncasting is opening a circle at the end of a ritual.
UNDINE an "purpose" or "elemental" that dwells in the balanced of Mere or is combined with the Mere Shoot. WAND- A rod or staff that is arrangement so that it may be cast-off for magickal or psychic purposes, typically to be obvious some form of power.
VISULISATION It is high point in ritual to be capable to visualise or image a wisdom or determination or else working magic. This gives the wisdom power in your caution and helps to charge the spell.
WARLOCK a captivity coined in the Angry Grow old. It was cast-off to mean a traitor to the Turn into, or one who had betrayed the
associates of the Old Religion. It's origin is Scottish. In the function of of the subdued connotations, it is not cast-off by greatest extent
Wiccans today.
Outlook TOWERS Foremost from the Enochian affix of Holy Magick, now incorporated featuring in many "Way of life"
of Wicca, these are the four elemental "information" or "apartment" (analogy to the escort points on the
compass) called to protect the Fit trendy its construction. Every person of them confine a inscription with
the compass kindness, an element, and (changeable together with unorthodox traditions) colour combined with them.
WICCA the name greatest extent modern day Witches use for the Turn into. It comes from the Anglo-Saxon word Wicce, meaning to bend or to strategy. This is the root word from which we get wicker.
WIDDERSHINSThe counterclockwise globular tread cast-off in casting and banishing spells and curses. The opposite upshot is called deosil. In neo-Pagan witchcraft, magic circles are typically cast deosil, but in Australia they are normally cast widdershins to synchronize the southern hemisphere counterclockwise tread of the sun sooner than the sky.
Sickly HANDLED Sense the working wound of a Witch. It is cast-off to write candles, and for fashioning the other tools. Conservatively, it can unaided be cast-off in a Fit.
YANTRA A yantra is a word, idiom or verse cast-off as a sacred establish in meditation and witchcraft.
Peak The superior is the outdo kindness or state-run reached and is a captivity cast-off in witchcraft to representation the pride perceptive once upon a time a breathing ritual has been cast.
