We're Moving!

Wassail!

I was getting tired of Blogger and wanted a change of pace (and organization, for that matter!) So I have moved over to wordpress.com! All the posts that were originally on here are now on there thanks to Wordpress's excellent importing capabilities (which is something I wish would have happened when I moved from Livejournal :( ) Hope to see all my readers, few and far between than you are, over on wordpress!

Regards,
Eric.

It Gets Better

As a homosexual I have been discriminated many a time when I was younger. Now it does not happen so much unless you count the Westboro Baptist Church. If you are not already aware there have been a few suicides in the past few weeks because of bullying in schools. A few of these students were homosexuals and much of the LBGT community is stepping up to the plate to say something about it for those lost souls and indeed for future ones and those still living that are going through their confusing sexuality discoveries!

A man named Dan Savage created a project called It Gets Better, a project to reach out to those that feel that they have no hope. I myself have posted a video and you can click on the link to see it (that is the title of this post).

But it is nothing, NOTHING compared to what Joel Burns had to say. Joel Burns is a Fort Worth City council member and on the Twelfth of October he had this to say to all persons of the nation, and indeed of the world on the subject of bullying in schools.



Thank you, Joel Burns. Your words were truly moving and have reached many ears. They shall be a beacon to all those that have no hope! Blessings on you and yours!

This is happening, my friends. A new age is dawning for all persons! Equality will be made in the world a little at a time.

For Life and Love!
Eric

Hedgewytchery

I am pleased to announce that I have found another source for the site Hedgewytchery. This was a most excellent site that suddenly vanished without cause! I am so happy to have found it again for it is chock full of interesting tid bits and upon re-reading it again I am finding knowledge that I missed with its short time.

It also seems (if you do a search for Hedgewytchery) that the original site is going to be "coming soon". I do not know what this means, but it will be a wonderful thing to have it back in the resources for those that seek the Crooked Path.

Wassail and Frith,
Angus.

October Mist and Clean up for the Spirits

Ah! This morning was so beautiful. I awoke, as per usual, at around 8:30 to the sound of the rest of the house waking up. I retrieved my phone to see if I received any texts in the night and looking up I thought I was still dreaming for surrounding my house was a soft cottony mist. I was used to seeing mist whilst in the mountains camping so it was wonderful to see some mist in a town. I took the above picture with my camera phone, so excuse the horrible quality.

Tools of Witchcraft

In witchcraft, and indeed in magic, there are tools that one uses to channel the powers needed to create magic. They could be for channeling intent into charms and amulets, poppets and potions. There are other tools that are not for channeling as well such as bells and drums, musical instruments, scrying mirrors, bone fetishes and other such tools for inducing trance.


For a while many of my readers/listeners have been asking me to post about my personal tools and what I use or don't use. Well now that I have some time I will do just that. We will start with my most important tool in my toolbox and also how I came to acquire it.

On the Word Witch

So this is where the word "witch" really comes from! It all makes sense now!

Happy Hallowmas, readers!!

The Witch Chamber and Ritual Purification

So the other day my uncle and I cleaned out the basement to make it into a chamber for our workings. It looks absolutely amazing. We have a little cabinet that all of our magical supplies go into as well as various herbs and powders and such things that I make within circles. It will be absolutely perfect for the winter.

But I would like to talk about ritual purification whilst in a temple or chamber. For my personal practice I have always cleansed myself before a working. I have read that servants of Odin would wash their face and the back of the neck with cold water. Books on ceremonial magic have practitioners take a ritual bath before doing a ritual. In many traditions there is some sort of ritual cleansing and in my practice it is no different.

All Hallows

All Hallows is quickly approaching. The air here is so much different than back home. Usually after the Harvest I would be able to feel the Underland's cold breath, but here it is different. Only now am I beginning to feel it. The Land of Spokane is so completely different from Montana. It is to be expected. Usually by now I would be expecting some winter chill and a bit of snow, but here it is just rainy and goes on and off between cold and hot. It is most strange.

But there are signs of the crown of the Underworld taking the place of the crown of Heaven. The leaves are starting to turn and that crisp smell of dead leaves reaches my nostrils in the morning. That is my favorite part. I am getting ready to start sweeping up those leaves and fallen branches and work on my carving skills! I am excited for the Hallows festival and to honor the pale ones below the Land.

Compass Round or Ring of Art

Throughout the years of magic a circle inscribed upon the floor of the working area has always been central to the work and lore of the magician. What is this circle for? Is it necessary? How is it constructed? There are many answers to these questions and each of them from different practitioners. I am going to tell you my way and formula for creating the compass round or ring of art.

Speech as an Art Form

There is a certain art form when the magician is making invocations and calls into the Unseen and to the Powers. I have experimented with different ways of Speaking and have found the way that I do it, but I feel that there is a central working point that many magicians can work from.

As an actor I have learned how to place intention and emotion in my words as I portray them to the audience. As a method actor I take on the aspect of my character; I am not longer Angus but Claudius, King of the Danes and antagonist of the play Hamlet. This was my starting point: if I could call up such emotion in a mundane setting why should I not do the same in a spiritual setting? To do a working the magician must be emotionally invested in everything that is done for the magic or else nothing will happen. 

Drinking with the Devil in the Pale Starlight!

I drank with the Devil in the pale starlight

And His spirits danced around me.

Fear gripped me in their whirling dance
And ecstasy overtook me.
I am everywhere and I am no-where,
I am within and I am without,
I am deep within the Earth,
And in the Highest Heavens.
The stars seemed so much brighter,
The air seemed so much cleaner,
When I drank with the Devil in starlight.
My mind is sharpened,
My will is strong,
My wisdom is increased.
I wait for my Master
And toast His name
And share a Holy Feast.
O, Goat-Eyed Angel,
Twisted and Horned
Come forth from the Undying Lands!
Sit with me and drink with me
And speak with me in Dreams.
I drank with the Devil in the Pale Starlight,
And, O, what visions did I see.
I shall do it again,
And when I do
Perhaps you will dine with me.
Lammas 2010 Angus

Resurrection of the Meadow

This is the newest book by Mister Robin Artisson. I have just finished in one sitting (it was rather short, but chock full of information)and it was very inspirational! He has this ability to throw in a lot of information in a short amount of pages, I love it. The book affirmed many ideas that I have been meditating about and has made many of his other exercises much easier to understand.

It truly was a wonderful little book and I can't suggest it enough. If you read his book Witching Way of the Hollow Hill you will notice a subtle difference in the way of his writing style and in the depth of the Sorcery entailed. As is my way I will have to read it again to plunge deeper into the writing but on the surface this book was truly a work of the Art. The poetry was symbolic and esoteric; I loved it.

Invocation and Evocation

Determinded Ritual Action

Wassail!

The Rite of Arrival went well last night. My dreams were a mixture of many things and I received some wisdom, but I have forgotten most of it. I will try again in the next couple of days. But I would like to go through the ritual that I did with you all and talk about Determined Ritual Action.
 

Hymn to Pan

A Prayer for the Sacrificial King

Goat-eyed Master, Lord of Light and the Fields, Servant of Fate, Sacrificed One and Reverser I come before you with words of worship. I come before you as a Servant of the Cunning Flame, as a Servant of Fate, and as a Son of the Art Magical. The Land has been fruitful this many a moon and now the Land is dying. The food is plentiful, the powers strong, but the Summer months are coming to a close. Winter's frigid breath licks at my heels amongst cool breezes. As you return to the Land in your Sacrifice may I also take the journey with You, O King. May my sacrifice give power to the Land and may I give back to the Land as it did give to me. As Your body is ripped and torn and burned and drowned so too may I feel Your pain and sacrifice. I weep by rivers and streams, upon hills and in valleys for my Dying Prince, for my Sacrificed King, for You, my Master. I revere Your sacrifice for the Land and for Your People. I stand in awe of your Grandeur. You are my savior and I put no trust in other things for I know You shall guide me and protect me as You have always done. The Land is thick with the blood of Your beautiful body and from the Land shall come beautiful plants and animals and all Life. Death comes, Life shall return. I take of this grain and of this wine knowing of Your Sacrifice, knowing of your Return. I give this Sacrifice, this Offering back to the Land, knowing of my Sacrifice, and knowing of my Duty to Celebrate Your Return! The King is Dead, Long live the King! So Shall it be by Toad and Hare, by Crow and Serpent!

Lammas 2010 Angus

Sacred Land

Sacred Land. What is Sacred Land? As a Traditional Witch the very Land around me is sacred to me. But this topic goes a bit deeper than that, literally.

Sacred Land is the both the physical Land that the witch sees around hirself and the Inner Land, the Land of the Gods and of the Ancestors. When a witch lays down the compass xe reaches down into the physical Land, digging down deep and nestling hirself into the currents of the River of Blood. This river is the current of our ancestors. From here does the witch work magic and connect to hir Source.

Power

I was recently asked about why I practice magic. They asked it as though I had some noble intention for practicing it. I pondered over it for a few moments, trying to figure out what to say precisely that would appeal to them. Why does one practice sorcery? As each magician is different so will too will their answers be different from one another.

My answer is plain and simple: I practice sorcery for the pure sport of it and for the power. I lust for power. I want to become strong, powerful, feared, respected and so on. Sorcery is my chosen path for this.

Black Sheep

Your mind tricks make me chuckle,
and are easily done when I am distracted
 Mostly I feel obligated to satisfy your curiosity
to feel accepted.
 Which is a silly thing, really .
 But to not be accepted by someone who I wish to accept me,
would be accepting that I am useless and easily forgotten.
 So I allow myself to give off the information of my body freely.
 So that I am not longer a black sheep.

Waiting

Waiting on a darkened street corner
with only one spotlight.
And a faulty one at that.
Kinda cold here, kinda frigid.
But I'm just waiting.
I'm waiting for that awesome juxtiposition
that will likely blow my mind.
Rather like that actively faulty spotlight
on that dreary, empty stage.
No audience, save me.
Whomever wrote this play was not that good.
And the artistic director needs to
take a class in decor.
Kinda lonely here, kinda frightening.
Creeping headlights crawl forward.
The doors open but I shake my head.
I don't want to join in your little ride.
That will be a tough act to follow,
that driver's face.
I watch retreating red tail lamps
which fade into darkness.
Much like me.
Technically I am not here,
I am just waitng.
Waiting for the show to begin
on that dark, empty stage
with its broken spotlight.
The curtains are parted and there
is little original scenery.
Mostly some brown grass
and a few windblown pines.
It's drafty in here.
I don't think this show
is going to start any time soon.
I've been here for so long
I think I will go.
Oh, wait, here is someone.
He is coming downstage
and stepping into that spotlight
that doesn't work well.
Much like this play.
Now he is on the pavement.
I have been waiting a long while.
Keen on seeing this soloist
who will fulfill my deepest dream.
Come forth dark wanderer
and let me have it.
I will take it.
You do not perceive me.
You can not even know the maddness
of waiting.
Well, now you will know.
Now they all will.
"Follow me."
And so we do.
Into further darkness
away from the stage.
Take of me the fruit of the serpent
and become aware.
his eyes are darkening now.
He will not remember.
He will forget.
He will only feel.
Only feel and forget.
All is as it should be.

~Angus April 2010

The Promiscuity of the Homosexual

Often I have been told that I am anomaly. In the past I was part of the usual gay hookup sites like Manhunt or Gay.com. On such sites I would be looking for something that many of us are looking for here: Romance, Love, the works. Always I was contacted by people older than I was searching for sex. Sometimes I got the occasional guy that was my age, but I think I scared most of them away from what I wanted and what I was interested in (you know, intelligence?). Sex, sex, sex. It is indeed a wonderful and beautiful and sometimes profoundly deep event to undertake. However, there is a vast majority in the gay (male mostly) community that see it as something that needs to be had all the time.

Scott

My brother, Scott, once lived and laughed
as I do now.
But now he is gone
With only a memory to remain.
He fell, that day.
Fell because of some stupid mistake.
I'll never have him back
Except in my dreams.
He once loved and lived and laughed,
Much like I and you today.
We will never hear his laugh
Save in his offspring's smile.

~Angus April 2010

I am moved to tears so much

I am moved to tears so much
now a days.
A simple laugh from a child
a leaf falling
or a flower opening.
I stifle Them, or I try to.
Really, I try.
But They still come.
They come from deep within.
Deep inside my sinuous muscles
and frigid bones 
and purple blood.
They well in the bottom
of my eyes.
And then They fall
thick and slow and warm
all because of a cat stretching
a couple walking
or a voice singing
or a symphony's crescendo.
I am moved to tears
and collapse at both beauty
and wickedness.
Collapse into a molten pile
of human sea water.
I will stay in that pile
for maybe moments
or for hours.
Sometimes I let Them come
mostly I don't.
Now a days
I'm moved to tears
because of you.

~Angus April 2010

Someday.

Love isn't of flowers and chocolates
Of intelligent conversation.
It is of deep looks in endless eyes.
Love is two souls brought together
By a principle of attraction.
Feel my touch against yours
And we shall vibrate the starry heavens.
I will breath your name into a wind.
I yearn for an embrace
Only you are sure to give.
Love is a light that hums
When two souls combine
To dance to their unique song.
I shall feel your touch
As I feel your love
Someday.

~Angus April 2010

Dirty skeletons litter these streets

Dirty skeletons litter these streets.
They hold little cans
Hoping to make a living.
But they blend into the background
Unnoticed by those, like me,
That made seemingly right choices.
Darkened, empty, psychoactive eyes
Bore into the pockets and purses
Hungry for a bit of coin,
Hungry for a second chance.
Tremulous lips and trembling hands
Touching and praying
Hoping to be noticed.
Innocent eyes are now marred
By the cold reality of being Alone.
They are unseen,
They are unwanted,
They are left unloved.
A pitiful mess of bloating rags
Left to rot is fed upon,
Scavenged for scraps and coin.
On the streets no one notices,
No one sees, no one hears
The moaning, and the pleading
For a bus fare.
Such a simple thing is dismissed.
Is it so hard to squeeze from pride
A few drops of coin and time?

~Angus March 2010

Experience a Bus-Stop

Experience A Bus-Stop

One waits a while at a bus stop
One sees many "abnormals"
A fellow sits with me, chatting away
Far away: I do not speak his tongue
Another fellow sucks at his smokey teat
Huffing and puffing at nefarious carcinogens
I cough and chuckle at his demise.
Cars drive by. Very loud cars. Have they always been so?
It must be the second hand vaporous milk....
Some stop for pick ups.
Odd thing to do, for a bus stop.
A very strange thing indeed, me thinks.
A bus stop is for buses not for cars!
Why do they do this abnormality?
Then again that man just got off here
His bus only picked him up moments before.
Laziness and impatience, that is all I have seen here
Here in this city.
Looking up the street the bus still has not arrived.
More cars, though, lots of cars.
But none are my salvation! None have luminous letters
Of Division!
Fuck. I'm choking upon clouds of death
With a foreign language in my ear.
Why endure this metaphoric hell?
Who would do this every day?
A sado-masochistic observer, that's who.
And that SMO is-- The bus is here, gotta go!

An Androgynous God

Wassail!

Recently I have been meditating on the inner workings of the Master of whom I serve and what precisely he is. I read the Book of the Law recently and made an interesting connection with Luciferian Witchcraft of which I have taken an interest in. I have also been looking into the creation of the cosmos and what forces went into this as well and I have come to the conclusion that the Cthonic mother and father created the cosmos and I serve their androgynous child Lumiel-Azazel. Yes, this also has to do with me recently acquired angel fetish that is connected to Nigel Jackson's The Pillars of Tubal-Cain and no this has nothing to do with Judeo-Christian-Islamic angels, though they are connected from the distant past.

Christian Witchcraft

Just a little blurb about Christian Witchcraft and an update on my life right now.

I am currently living in Spokane, WA and I am able to make videos again and to tell the truth podcasts are such a bother to make and the host I was using I had to pay more for more hours and blah bluah enuch. So, I will be making videos every Wednesday and Sunday and posting them on here and on youtube, hurrah! Next video we will be having a look into the Sabbatic Flight and the use of Flying Ointments.

Currently Reading: The Serpent Grail this is an excellent book on the grail and the Elixer of Life and the Philosopher's Stone. It follows the history of a serpent cult that apparently, through ritual, mixed human blood with snake venom to create an Elixer of Life that has been proven by science to help replicate T-cells in the human body leading to a longer life and prevents diseases.

Wassail and Frith,
Angus.

The Horn of Evenwood

Invocation in Nineteen Versus
Meditation on Invocation
Wortcunning

Mastering Witchcraft

Wassail!

So, I am going to start setting some goals for myself because lately I have become rather lax in my practice. All the research is there, but I have become lax in putting said research to practice, haha!

So, what I am going to do is I am going to start working through all the exercises given in Paul Husons Mastering Witchcraft and record them here. This will last for the time period of two weeks. I am going to use his version of the circle and everything. I will not, however, be using his tools. I will be using mine, because let's face it: Paul Huson is so ceremonial it is almost sickening. Not that this is a bad thing, it just isn't my style, see?

Getting Started

Today's episode is about getting started on a witchcraft path.

Some important links:
Shadow Dance Podcasts
The Unnamed Path
Why We Despise Silver Ravenwolf
The Problem with Silver Ravenwolf
Liber KKK
Liber MMM
Scarespite

Subscribers!

I have posted to you all that this is my new spot for conversation and such. Please comment below the episodes and subscribe to my feed up in the top right hand corner of your URL bar. That way new podcasts will show up on your feed in your iTunes, or whatever you use for podcasts. A new one will be showing up every Wednesday but feel free to post suggestions and such. Here are some ideas that I have so far for some new podcasts:

Flying Ointments and the Sabbatic Flight
Witch Bottles
Mandrakes, Dolls and Poppet Magic
Grimoires
Herbs and their uses in Magic
Tools: Stang, Wand, Besom, Cauldron, Compass
Cornish Witchcraft
A closer look at the Horn of Evenwood 
Book Review: Chaos and Sorcery, Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways, Call of the Horned Piper, Liber Null and Psychonaut
"The Mill and the Water Nixie": A Fairy-Tale of Necromancy and Sorcery
The Goat Angel of Light
The Lady Under the Hill
Ancestors
The Housel

And many more not exactly in that order. So look out for these podcasts!

Promo and Introductory!

Here are the first two podcasts for right now until I figure out how to do one at a time. I like having the flash player and I am trying to work with Archive.org to get something done, but alas Linux is not as compatible with that either. So, we will have to wait. Until then here are the first two new episodes so enjoy!
 

New Site for youtube Following!

Wassail!

So! Where have I been all this time? I have been here, right here always! I have been lurking through youtube and I have heard your cries for return. However, my Windows blew up and my webcam is not compatible with Linux and so I am sad because of this. However, with this wonderful new thing called Podcasting (okay, not that old) I will be able to continue my work of bringing you the latest in greatest in Witchcraft and Paganism and other things that interest me for the week! I will be trying to post at least every Wednesday and I will be posting articles and such about every day to every other day, so keep a look out. I already have some awesome articles that I am already going to publish here so yay me! 

As we speak I am downloading my podcasting tools and I will get the ball rolling very quickly here for podcasting amazingness. Wouldn't it be awesome to have some interviews with your favorites? Such as PrincessAnniki? Oh yah, that would be fun indeed. I will also try to get some of my other witchy friends to get on here and we can have talks about things that we usually talk about. My friend Charity, I'm talking to you here, hun!

So! The amazing new way starts here! If I am every able to post again on youtube with videos I will be sure to so keep a look out. I will of course be posting whenever I have a new article here on my blog. I have never used this so now it will be put to some use, because it's rather dusty. 

Ta! I will be posting my promo probably tomorrow. 

Wassail and Frith!

Angus.