Angelica: The Herb of Angels by Solstice Moon

Angelica, from seed your beauty weaves,
Strong stems and healing leaves.
I ask your blessings to bestow,
As I nurse and watch you grow.
From morning’s dew through afternoon,
To ray of stars and midnight’s moon.
Michael comes upon this day,
To watch you grow and watch you play.
We call on you for health and hex,
For protection so complex.
Heal thy stomach and thy liver,
Angelica, your gifts deliver.
To break a hex and give protection,
Also used for introspection.
Mother Earth, watch over thee,
As I will, So Mote it Be.
-M.L. Benton Copyright © 2001

The Need for Love of Friends Part 2

by the Kabbalist Rabbi Baruch Shalom Halevi Ashlag
(Steps of the ladder, 1984, 2nd essay)

 

“And a stranger found him blundering about in the fields. ‘What are you looking for?’ asked the stranger. ‘ I’m looking for my brothers, replied (Joseph). Perhaps you can tell me where they are tending the sheep?’” (Vayeshev Ex. 37:16-17)

13 – Death

by Anja Heij

 
The skeleton with the scythe symbolizes the cutting through of old structures in our life, for instance relationships or patterns. By doing so we can move forward, so that death in one form becomes birth in a new form.

THE ETHIOPIAN DRAGON

It has been reputed that several dragons have lived on the coast of Ethiopia from time to time. These huge monsters were reported to be twenty cubits in length (over 30 ft. long!) and had two or sometimes four wings. These dragons were both feared and held in awe for their skill at killing elephants.

A Bit of Weather Magick

Sprinkle rice clockwise while another person or a musical tape plays slowly increasing drumbeats. This sympathetic magic can work to bring rain or snow; for rain, I suggest dyeing the rice blue. This type of rain magic was common in the ancient Far East.

Shamanic Symbols

by Amber Wolfe

 
Functioning as a priest(ess), healer and channel between the worlds, the shaman calls on a very unique abilities—that of divination. Divination is the ability to use perception and attunement to interpret signs and symbols. Shamanic divination is most closely related to the modern processes of diagnosis as used by doctors and analysis as used by psychologists. Just as doctors use physical symptoms to identify an illness and psychologists use behaviors to identify a disordered state of mind, the shaman uses signs from all aspects of Body/Mind/Spirit and Nature to identify surrounding conditions for people. The healing process of modern medicine and psychology involves a period of diagnosis before treatment. In much the same way, the work of the shaman requires the process of divination in order to deal with the energies of Nature and the realms of Spirit.

Color Therapy – Magic or Medicine?

by Amanita
Reproduced from _The Bard_, Vol. 1, No. 2 – Imbolc 1980

 

Although occult tradition tells us that color was used therapeutically in ancient times for a wide variety of mental and physical afflictions, today there is scant remaining information on the subject. We find from what is left however, that the healing priesthood of ancient Egypt utilized “color halls” where they researched the science of light and color therapy. The Greeks as well, experimented with it, and believed that color was absorbed by the body through the eye. The seven hues of the visible spectrum were considered representative of the seven fold nature of mankind, and corresponded to the seven chakras in Ayurvedic (Hindu) medicine also.

Mistress of Wild Animals

by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee, Ph.D.

 
Mistress of the Wild Animals (Potnia theron) or Queen of the Wild Bees, appears under many names. Her Minoan name was Britomartis or Sweet Virgin and she was related to Diktynna. The name Potnia is known from the Linear script B tablets and was being used for the main Mycenaean female deity. For the iconographical type goddess surrounded by the animals, who was applied into Archaic Greek art, was used usually the name Potnia theron, but sometimes Artemis too.

Hellhounds, Werewolves and the Germanic Underworld

Alby Stone

 
There is a curious connection between dogs and travel to the realm of the dead. It can be found particularly in Indo-European mythologies, although it also occurs in Egypt, Siberia, and north America. According to the Vedic mythology of ancient India, for instance, the deceased must pass by the four-eyed dogs of Yama, king of the dead; and Greek mythology tells of the dog Kerberos, popularly endowed with three heads, who watches the entrance to Hades. Mention must also be made of the white, red-eared hounds of Celtic myth. But the idea of the underworld watchdog appears to have reached its fullest, and most complex expression among the Germanic peoples.

A Druid

A Druid came upon a place, they say, were magic lived
He looked in awe and reverence upon this site he’d found
And called upon all brethren
To come and gather round

Come see the magic, feel the air
It tingles in the dew
Its here we build our temple friends
The rocks and stones we’ll hue

And so it was with hands and backs
The Druids set to labor
For years they toiled and sweated much
To build for Gods they favour

The others looked in disbelief and said these men are mad
But Druids knew their cause was just and must always be defended
So on they toiled and toiled both day and night
Until their task was ended

They died a long long time ago
But their legacy remains
Although its now in ruins
We know it as Stonehenge

Aecoll 08-10-2007