How To Be A Wizard

    What does magickal living look like? How can you develop an increased connection to the power of life and the expression of more of your potentials? We’ll begin exploring that here… The explosion of the internet and the flowering of increased communication, combined with social changes of the last few decades and an [...]

  When we’re writing a post with a title like how to become a wizard, or witch, it leads to a whole host of personal matters. We’ll get into the nitty gritty practices and techniques in later articles, but first we’ll want to discuss personal spiritual alchemy. Meaning, the whole-person transformation that is to take [...]

   In the previous two posts we outlined eight of the most common tools that are used in the magickal practices. Today on How To Be A Wizard, we are going to discuss a compelling topic: The Book of Shadows. Not Just a Static Document In yet another example of what makes the pagan/wiccan traditions [...]

~Dylan Greenley In our previous post on How To Be A Wizard, we discussed some basics about the cauldron, wand, pentacle, and athame. Now, we will continue with candles, bells, the censer, and the infamous broom. Remember, it’s most important to familiarize yourself with the reasons and energies behind why these tools are used before [...]

~Dylan Greenley Bearing in mind that there is much room for personalization in your practice, we’ll now begin to explore more details. It is useful to expose yourself to different tools, practices, holidays, etc. as you learn how to be a wizard or witch. Armed with this information, you’ll better be able to weave a [...]

Many Different Names If you search around the internet or peruse books that discuss hing like witchcraft, magick, and how to be a wizard, you may well end up confronting conflicting lists of definitions and labels. Some people like to get very technical and list differences between words like witch, priestess, sorcerer, wizard, mage, druid, [...]

In our universe, male and female join together to create new life. Likewise, particles of positive and negative electrical charge are necessary to form matter. And just like electricity, magnetism, that other fundamental conduit of energy and enabler of life, is reliant on the interplay of apparently opposite forces. The power and alchemy inherent in [...]

  Samhain is the point on the Wheel of the Year when we honor the dead. It is the witch’s new year. In the Northern Hemisphere it is celebrated on October 31/November 1 (the sabbats begin their celebrations on sundown of the night before–of course, this is especially the case for Samhain!). In the Southern [...]

Also known as Harvest Home, Mabon takes place on the autumnal equinox, and is the second of the three harvest festivals, the first being Lammas, and the third being Samhain. It falls  somewhere between September 21 and 23 in the Northern Hemisphere, and on one of the corresponding days in March in the Southern Hemisphere. [...]

  ~Dylan Greenley   Lammas, also known as Lughnasadh (loo-NA-sah), is that time in the Wheel of the Year when we’re experiencing deepest, hottest summer. Traditionally, it’s actually the end of summer, which began at Beltane and peaked at Midsummer. In the Northern Hemisphere it’s celebrated on August 1, while in the Southern it’s February [...]