What’s Energy Supposed to Feel Like? How Do I Know I’m Doing It Right?
Wiccans and Pagans often use the word “energy” to mean the power that emanates from living things, deity, the earth, or all three. Geek that I am, I have likened it more than once to the Force from Star Wars, “It’s an energy field created…
What Should I Do (or Not Do) at My First Public Ritual?
What Should I Wear? Unless there are guidelines about what to wear on the website or flyer where you found out about the ritual, chances are you can wear almost anything. I have seen people wear street clothes, ritual robes, sarongs, great kilts,…
Why Do Wiccans Do Rituals in Circles?
Although we’ve all seen the popular horror movie trope of occultists drawing magical circles on the floor to protect themselves from demons and other nasties—a great example is the movie The Devil Rides Out, if you’re interested—the circle in Wiccan rituals demarcates sacred space…
Fire in the Belly
Sergeant Howie: But they are…are naked! Lord Summerisle: Naturally! It’s much too dangerous to jump through fire with your clothes on! —The Wicker Man I’ve come to think of Imbolc not as a fire festival so much as the festival where we set…
