Psychometry

 

Psychometry is a psychic ability in which a person can sense or “read” the history of an object by touching it. A person takes an object and holds it within their hands. Impressions can appear or be perceived, such as images, sounds, smells, tastes and even emotions. Psychometry is a form of “scrying” — a psychic way of “seeing” something that is not visible to the ordinary eye. These visions start to appear with a person who is holding the object. The object may be anything — a picture, key chain, ring — because energy is stored in everything, living or not. With psychometry, this extraordinary vision is available through touch.

 

A psychometrist — a person who has psychometric abilities — can hold any object and tell you the history behind the object and the person who owned the object, and the experiences the person had while the object was his or hers. A psychic may be able to sense what the person was like, what he did for a living or how she passed. Even though this might not be your profession, everyone has the ability to feel and sense energy. It takes practice. That old saying that everything takes practice is so true when you are trying to build your psychic abilities, and psychometry is one of them.

 

So let’s practice, using the following steps.

1. Choose a quiet location free of noises and distractions. I suggest doing a light meditation first and setting your mind free of the clutter that blocks us from receiving information from the spirit world.

 

2. Sit back with your eyes closed and ask a person to place an object into your hands without saying anything to you. It’s most helpful if you can do this in a group and you don’t know who is giving you the object. The object should be something the person has had in his possession for a long time.

 

3. Quiet the mind once more — be still and let images and feeling come into your mind. Don’t force them; let them seemingly appear. Say whatever you see, hear or feel when holding the object.

 

4. Don’t judge the information you are getting; just be open to receive. The impressions you are getting might be meaningless to you but have great significance to the owner of the object.

 

5. Don’t edit yourself or try to make your statement mean something. Blurt out what information you are receiving; it’s not yours to hang onto. Some information might seem vague, and others very detailed.

 

6. The more you practice and use this ability, the stronger it will become. Your guides need to know how to work best with your psychic ability. You might easily see into the spirit world or hear; sensing feelings easily might be your thing. Don’t give up.

 

When going into an antique shop or an estate sale, make sure to ground your energy so you feel centered. Psychometry is a great way to practice with the spirit world and to realize we all have our own distinct energy and that energy and ourselves never die, we all live on, sometimes in the things that meant the most to us — certainly, our families but also in the objects that we held close to us.

 

The Golden Dawn

 

 

 

 The Golden Dawn

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn has earned a place in the history of Western esoteric thought. The Golden Dawn reshaped preset conceptions of magic. While the practice of other occult arts was a matter for the history books, the practice of ritual magick had typically remained obscure and individualized. A link between masonry and theurgy had existed, but 19th-century occultists were apt to view the practice as a private undertaking.

The Golden Dawn discussed in their educational essays, a move toward creating new social and institutional sites for magick by using an esoteric order as a vehicle for teaching.  Being a major source of such esoteric philosophy sources and magickal concepts, the Golden Dawn exerted a a great deal of influence on 20th-century esoteric trends.

From 1888 to 1903, the “classical” Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a major player in  Britain, where the occult was concerned. Despite its later failures, it managed to create a social platform for the study and practice of ritual magic, operating four different temples in England and one in Paris. Some of the better known members were William Butler Yeats, Florence Farr, Maud Gonne, and, of course, Aleister Crowley.

The Order was founded by a group of Freemasons and Theosophists. The key founders were William Wynn Westcott, Samuel Liddell “MacGregor” Mathers, and William Robert Woodman. The Golden Dawn attracted many of its earliest members from Rosicrucian- and Hermetic-oriented parts of  occult society.

 

Source  

Asprem, E. (2016). The Golden Dawn and the O.T.O. In G. A. Magee (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism (pp. 272–283). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139027649.024

Wicca

What is Wicca?

What discussion about paganism would not be complete without the uttering of the word WICCA? This is usually what is pictured by society when the term pagan is brought up. Wicca is a new pagan religious movement that was developed in England during the first half of the 20th century. It was publicly introduced in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, a retired British civil servant. Wicca draws upon a diverse set of ancient pagan and 20th-century Hermeticism for its theological structure and ritual practices.


Wicca has no central authority figure. Its traditional core beliefs, principles and practices were originally outlined in the 1940s and 1950s by Gardner and Doreen Valiente, both in published books and in secret written and oral teachings passed along to their initiates. There are many variations on the core structure, and the religion grows and evolves over time. It is divided into a number of diverse lineages, sects and denominations, referred to as Traditions. Each Tradition follows its own organizational structure. Due to its decentralized nature, there is some disagreement over what actually constitutes Wicca. Some traditions, collectively referred to as British Traditional Wicca, strictly follow the initiatory lineage of Gardner and consider the term Wicca to apply only to similar traditions, but not to newer, eclectic traditions.

Wicca is typically duotheistic, worshipping both a Goddess and a God. These are traditionally viewed as the Moon Goddess and the Horned God, respectively. These deities may be regarded in a henotheistic way, as having many different divine aspects which can, in turn, be identified with many diverse pagan deities from different historical pantheons. For this reason, they are sometimes referred to as the “Great Goddess” and the “Great Horned God”, with the adjective “great” connoting a deity that contains many other deities within their own nature. These two deities are sometimes viewed as facets of a greater divinity, which is regarded as an impersonal force or process rather than a personal deity. While duotheism is traditional in Wicca, broader Wiccan beliefs range from polytheism to pantheism or monism, even to Goddess monotheism.

Wiccan celebrations encompass both the cycles of the Moon, known as Esbats and commonly associated with the Goddess and the cycles of the Sun, seasonally based festivals known as Sabbats and commonly associated with the Horned God. An unattributed statement known as the Wiccan Rede is a popular expression of Wiccan morality, although it is not universally accepted by Wiccans. Wicca often involves the ritual practice of magic, though it is not always necessary.

The Faery Tradition

The Faery Tradition

Faery is a modern form of American Traditional Witchcraft derived from the teachings of Victor and Cora Anderson. These were passed down through their other initiates, still thriving even today. A rich and diverse spiritual art, Feri seeks to transform the individual through practices of ritual magic, meditation, and energy work. Faery draws power from various cultures and their magical systems including Huna; Conjure; Voodoo; Tantra; Celtic Folklore; Christian Mysticism; Yezidi Mythology; Greek Gnosis; and others, and continues to integrate the magic and mysteries of ancient and evolving cultures into its rich spiritual tapestry. Image result for faery tradition Faerie is understood and integrated through direct experience; adherents include dedicated practitioners and persons initiated ritually into its mysteries. The diversity of the Tradition can be seen in the various spellings of the name, which include Faery, Faerie, Fairy, and Feri.

Celtic Paganism

Ancient Celtic religion comprised the beliefs and practices of peoples of Western Europe now known as the Celts. The time mostly associated with Celtic society was roughly between 500 BC and 500 AD, spanning the many different periods in ancient times: the Roman, British, and Irish Iron Age societies being only three of the best known.

Very little is actually known with any certainty about the Celtic people for they did not leave written records; most all knowledge was passed down verbally, from generation to generation, and apart from documented names that are thought to be of deities, the only detailed accounts were done by the Roman invaders.


Celtic paganism was one of a larger group of Iron Age polytheistic religions.  The Celtic pantheon consists of numerous recorded deities, both from Greco-Roman stories and written literature. Figures from medieval Irish mythology have also been interpreted as iterations of earlier deities as well.

According to Greek and Roman accounts, the Druids came to be in Gaul, Britain, and Ireland. Very little is definitely known about them. Following the conquest of Gaul and southern Britannia, though, Celtic religious practices began to display elements of the new Romanization, resulting in a Gaelic-Roman culture with its own religious traditions, and thus, its own set of gods and goddesses, such as Cernunnos, Artio, Telephones, etc.

In Roman Britain, this lost at least some ground to Christianity by the time the Romans left in 410. This began to change in the next century as the pagan Anglo-Saxon religion was in the process of getting eradicated. Christianity was supplanting the earlier religious traditions; however, polytheistic traditions still left a legacy in many of the Celtic nations, and eventually served as the basis for a new religious movement: Celtic Neopaganism, in the 20th century.

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Do You Believe

 

~Magick ~

Do you live with Magick? Magick is a term used to differentiate REAL Magick from performance magic.  Magick defined as “the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will”, including both “mundane” acts of will as well as ritual magic. It has been postulated that “it is theoretically possible to cause in any object any change of which that object is capable by nature”.
Magick is the essential method for a person to reach “true” understanding of the self and to act according to their Will.

Magick: Definition and  Purpose 

The term is an Early Modern English spelling for magic, used in various works such as Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s De Occulta Philosophia. Aleister Crowley popularized the old spelling in the early 20th-century occult revival. Crowley defined Magick as “the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.”He goes on to elaborate on this, in one postulate, and twenty-eight theorems. He goes on further to state:

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one’s conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

FLAVORS OF MAGICK

There are, however; many different divisions, or “Flavors”, of Magick: from Angelic to the Satanic. and everything in between. I do not claim to be a master of all, or even a practitioner of all of these divisions, for that matter. I will cover what I know, and give examples, insights, pointers, and (if I can) guidance to my fullest.