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Written by Elizabeth Hazel
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 Worried about Long Count-ageddon in 2012? Why wait? That pesky galactic alignment doesn’t come close to doing what our own solar system dishes out during the summer of 2010. Four outer planets in cardinal signs – Saturn, Pluto, Uranus and Jupiter - form a long-term T-square that some astrologers are calling the Cardinal Cross. It’s repeatedly activated by the inner planets and the moon through the summer. This line-up isn’t favorable for love and abundance spells, but everyone will get plenty of practice with protection spells, psychic shields, and domestic peace spells.
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The month starts with Mars and Jupiter flinging spitwads at Pluto from both sides of the zodiac. Pluto in Capricorn, representing vested pillars of power (corporations, banks, government) are attacked from multiple directions. Venus enters Libra on the 6th. Although ordinarily a peacenik and love bunny in her own sign, she’s immediately caught up in the Cardinal Cross slug-fest. Powerful women enact the war goddess aspect of Venus as she ascends in the evening sky.
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Written by Elizabeth Hazel
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Worried about Long Count-ageddon in 2012? Why wait? That pesky galactic alignment doesn’t come close to doing what our own solar system dishes out during the summer of 2010. Four outer planets in cardinal signs – Saturn, Pluto, Uranus and Jupiter - form a long-term T-square that some astrologers are calling the Cardinal Cross. It’s repeatedly activated by the inner planets and the moon through the summer. This line-up isn’t favorable for love and abundance spells, but everyone will get plenty of practice with protection spells, psychic shields, and domestic peace spells.
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While planetary shagnasties are on the loose all summer, a few bright rays of hope poke through the tempest. The Moon contacts Jupiter/Uranus on the 3rd just as Uranus prepares to retrograde. Intuition gives flashes of inventiveness and brilliant ideas about how to do things differently. The status quo crumbles as mounting pressures surmounts resistance to change. Mercury enters Leo on the 9th and bounces empowering trines off of Jupiter/Uranus. Venus enters Virgo and gets swept up in a compulsion to fix and clean up messy situations. Keep those brooms handy.
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New features at our web store include PDF-eZines of Witches & Pagans #19 and #20 available for instant download when paid thru PayPal. PDF-eZine versions of newWitch #18 and PanGaia #50 as well as several versions of SageWoman and Crone are also available.
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We've been experimenting with the PDF-eZine format for several months with our Crone title and these new versions are big upgrade in resolution and usabilty. They work with most pads, tablets, readers, laptops and desktop computers using any free PDF reader like Adobe Acrobat. These DRM-free versions have the advantage of additional color art and photo content that had to be rendered in grey scale for the print magazines. Typical file size is between 6MB and 15MB which download in just a few minutes via a broadband connection.
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Written by Diane Morrison
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 It has been my experience that many people get involved in Wicca because they like the lack of rules. We don’t have a lot of “Thou shalt nots.” All we have is the Witch’s1 Rede, they say. But there are many unspoken rules of ethics that we think of as being essentially “Wiccan.” Why? Where do they come from?
The answer should be self-evident but often isn’t. What is the one piece of liturgy that Wiccans really have? The answer is the Charge of the Goddess.
Most modern Wiccans treat this prose as a lovely way to invoke the Goddess. It does work well that way. But consider the original meaning of the word “charge”. It is a command, a responsibility laid upon someone, an exhortation, a duty, an injunction, or being entrusted with someone’s care. It is a series of rules!
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Written by Treesong
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 Many Witches and Pagans are enchanted by the beauty and power of magic. Those of us who are new to our Craft often get caught up in the promise of making our dreams manifest in the world. We may do spells to draw money or love into our lives, rituals to send protection and healing, or divination to understand a confusing situation.
But what happens when the change we're looking for is internal? What do we do when our mood and other psychological challenges are the main barrier to making our dreams a reality?
Dion Fortune defined magic as “the art of causing changes in consciousness at will.” This classic approach to magic is especially powerful when facing inner challenges such as anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and mood disorders.
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Written by Craig Conley
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 Wordsmith Craig Conley muses on a magical word that’s also a proper name.
Delving through dusty old tomes in search of ancient expressions of enchantment, I noticed that one command in particular seemed to trace directly back to Faery. I was searching for subtle, mysterious, transformative words, whose vibrations seemed to transcend the laws of physics. One such mystical word proved time and time again to be the name of a great lady Faery. Small wonder that her name has endured as the best-known and best-loved magic word in recorded history.
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Written by Isaac Bonewits
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 Dualism is nonsense — and incompatible with magic.
As I mentioned in the last column, the idea that magic and the “real” (physical) world are incompatible is rooted in Western Dualism. The belief that spiritual/ magical/ artistic matters and physical/ fleshly/ worldly ones are so distinct from one another as to have nothing in common is nonsense, but has nonetheless been the dominant paradigm for over 2,500 years. Zoroaster started it, Gnosticism (which was essentially the pre- and early-Christian “new age” movement), Christianity, and Islam continued it; and it then infected Judaism, and the modern philosophy of Scientistic Materialism is perhaps its ultimate triumph. Through the lens of dualism, the “debunking” of all things paradigm-challenging continues to this very day.
Western occultists, being themselves products of a dualistic culture, adopted this worldview pretty completely. This is why they invented separate ethical laws for magic (a whole other discussion) and often made their distinctions between so-called “high” magic and “low” based on how physical the goals and/or methods being employed were.
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