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Shadow work continues to become increasingly popular in a multitude of spiritual spheres, metaphysical approaches, and psychotherapeutic work. And for good reasons! Acknowledging and coming to terms with the shadow, in its all of its countless forms, allow us to develop a more complete picture of ourselves and the world around us. When it comes to metaphysics and magickal practice, what do you think of when hearing the term "shadow?" Perhaps the most obvious association, and undoubtedly the most important, is that of the inner shadow. In a Jungian sense, the shadow self is the unconscious aspect of the mind, where traumas, pain, and unresolved challenges are compartmentalized for the ...
In the old Highland folkcraft ways, magickal protection arose from deep knowing and ancestral remembrance, from standing as one with the land as kith and kin, held in right relationship with the genius loci. Imagine you are standing on the highest mountain top in the Highlands of Scotland. You feel the caress of the wind speaking to you in its own language. You feel anchored and grounded in the ancient, weathered soil beneath your feet, alive with ancient memory. There are no borders here, no straight lines, nor edges imposed by human hand, only the presence of power and place within the Highlands. You lift your arm with respect, extending the power finger, the index, just before the ...
One of the most adaptable materials and practices in magic is the use of magical powders. Magical powders can be used by themselves in a spell by being sprinkled or dusted around an area, rubbed onto or around a candle, and used as a filling in container magic. When it comes to magical powders, there are two main types. The first type you have is working with individual materials as magical powders. This is where you find materials like pollen, dirt, termite remains, ground shells, etc. The second type of magical powders are those of blended formulas. Blended magical powders, like witches' salts, hot foot powder, and sweetening powders, are the most common and well-known types of blended ...
As I explain in my book Slava! Slavic Paganism and Dual-Faith Folk Ways, a fundamental concept of holism exists in the Slavic mythic consciousness. This worldview is essentially animistic and shamanistic in nature, regarding as it does the intrinsic at-one-ness of humanity with a spirit-saturated natural world, as well as with the deities and other sacred beings that populate every level of the tripartite mythic construct of Ultimate Reality. This Reality is envisioned as a sacred oak tree (Drvo Svijeta in Croatian) at the center of the Universe. The Tree's middle realm is the domain of living people and the creatures with which we share this earth.1 One of the most revered creatures among ...
