Featuring all the great interviews that TWPT has conducted over the last decade and the Book Spotlight interviews as well.
Currently Featuring:
Owen Davies
Grimoires: A History of Magic Books TWPT talks to Owen Davies
Owen Davies is Reader in Social
History at the University of Hertfordshire. He has written extensively
on the history of popular magic, witchcraft, and ghosts. The history of grimoires is more than just the history of magic - it illuminates many of the most important developments in European history, from the spread of Christianity to the settlement of the New World. Davies traces the history of this remarkably resilient and adaptable genre, from the ancient Middle East to modern America, offering a new perspective on the fundamental developments of western civilization over the past two thousand years. Grimoires shows the influence magic and magical writing has had on the cultures of the world, richly demonstrating the role they have played in the spread of Christianity, the growth of literacy, and the influence of western traditions from colonial times to the present.
Staten Island native Mark Eadicicco is a witch, psychic and business man - proprotier of "Practical Magick" a witch shoppe on Staten Island. Mark has been reading tarot cards for over twenty years and has always been drawn to the paranormal since he was a young child. Mark has worked his way up the ropes working in various "New Age" shoppes in New York City and has been successfully running his own witch shop since 2005.
Mark Eadicicco, a hereditary and Cabot witch, is also proud to be the only certified witch teaching classes and running a business on Staten Island. Mark Eadicicco is a Third Degree High Priest in the Cabot tradition of Witchcraft - personally taught and trained by Laurie Cabot, "The Official Witch of Salem".
This past week the headlines have been filled with the news of the devastation in Haiti after the 7.0 earthquake struck on Tuesday January 12, 2010. Sometimes it is easier to visualize a tragedy when it falls within what we are able to comprehend such as when a family loses a single loved one or even when a family is tragically killed in some sort of accident. We can grieve with the victims because it is something that most of us have some experience with during our lifetimes as we have lost family members to natural causes or tragic circumstances. I have heard that the death toll in Haiti might reach into the hundreds of thousands and that is when many of us start to lose the ability to even comprehend what has happened there. The city where I live has a population of around 60,000 people and that really helps me put things into a perspective that I can understand. It is like having every man woman and child in my city all killed by a natural disaster at once.
For more albums to tantalize your senses click the link in the name above.
From the Goddess by Robert Gass & On Wings of Song
Maybe you have heard of Lala.com and maybe not. If you love music you should know about it. You can listen to all the songs on lala.com for free one time through before you have to buy them. After that you can buy the tunes to listen on the web for .10 and as mp3's for .79. I am going to be bringing you some of Boudica and Imajicka's favorites. Enjoy!!
Featuring the articles written for TWPT by a variety of authors and contributors.
Currently Featuring:
Sitara Haye
Power of Polarity, Rose of Mystery by Sitara Haye
Welcome to one of my SEX ARTICLES! Congratulations —
you will now be inundated with science porn! Seriously, though… sex is
central to Wicca and we’ll be discussing it regularly but hold off on lighting
up that cigarette for just a moment. Sex, as I’m referring to it, does
not equal kink or titillating nuance. While we might be one of the
species on this earth that has sex for pleasure, never forget that the act of
sex is geared for one function and one function alone — reproduction. In
the animal kingdom, this takes two (with few exceptions). However, I’m
getting a little ahead of myself…
Featuring the celebrations page which offers information about each of the 8 sabbats celebrated each year and it offers articles about specific holidays and seasons from Link and other writers who contribute to TWPT. This section is now home to the rituals page which offers readers some ideas as to how to begin a celebration of the holidays.
Next Celebration:
Next Holiday: Ostara or Spring Equinox March 20, 2010
Now comes the vernal equinox, and the season of spring
reaches its apex, halfway through its journey from Candlemas to Beltane. Once
again, night and day stand in perfect balance, with the powers of light on the
ascendancy. The God of Light now wins a victory over his twin, the God of
Darkness. In The Mabinogion myth reconstruction that I have proposed, this is
the day on which the restored Llew takes his vengeance on Goronwy by piercing
him with the sunlight spear. For Llew was restored/reborn at the winter
solstice and is now well/old enough to vanquish his rival/twin and mate with
his lover/ mother. And the Great Mother Goddess, who has returned to her Virgin
aspect at Candlemas, welcomes the young Sun God’s embraces and conceives a
child. The child will be born nine months from now, at the next winter
solstice. And so the cycle closes at last.
For the rest of Mike Nichols' article on Ostara click here.
When we look at the myths of old,
remember that old tales were once quite new. People, not much different than
you or I, created stories about animals to explain their surroundings. They
dreamt of great birds that rose up from the ashes, or fire-breathing beasts who
tested our courage. They lulled children off to sleep on the wings of great
white horses who flew like clouds in the sky.
Today we can bring to life our
own private menagerie of mythic animals. We can create our own nature tales
colored with animal images -- whether a modern-day dragon, or a simple fire-fly
glowing in a glass jar.
News and Announcements for the Wiccan/Pagan community
Posted January 20, 2010
Winter 2009
Witches & Pagans is the new 96-page pan-Pagan magazine lovechild of our titles newWitch and PanGaia. The zine (a complete relaunch and redesign of newWitch) will debut August 1 with the "Faerie" issue; combining the fire and passion of newWitch with the gravitas and depth of PanGaia. Look for interviews of Pagan artists, thinkers, writers, musicians and celebrities, plus practical magick (beginning, intermediary and advanced), AstroSpell, Pagan muses and mentors including R.J. Stewart, Isaac Bonewits, Galina Krasskova, Kenaz Filan, Judy Harrow, Good Witch/Bad Witch and much, much more. Click the cover or here to visit W&P's website for more information.
Thorn is a new quarterly print magazine about paganism and
modern culture. Through a combination of news articles and
investigative research, photographic spreads and academic essays, comic
strips, original illustration and historical analysis, we hope to
illuminate the joys and complications of living ancient paths in the
wired era. Click the cover or here to visit Thorn's website for more information.
Featuring the interviews with artists whose work is inspiring to the Wiccan/Pagan community.
Sabrina the Ink Witch
Sabrina the Ink Witch: TWPT Talks to Sabrina
Sabrina, better known as The Ink Witch
has been crafting Old Style Pen & Ink for over 30 years. Her
beautiful artwork has been published in many magazines all over the
world. Her artwork also appears in several published books and most
recently she has been included as the illustration artist for a Pagan
Based Traditional Publishing House; Spiral Publishing, Inc.
Featuring regular columns such as Jesse Wolf Hardin's Earth Magic, Owl's perch, Taylor Ellwood's page of magic and the popular Lessonbook written by Link .
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.
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.
