Magdalene O'Brien

Practically Pagan: Rituals Are Great, But Everyday Resourcing Is Vital For Magick by Irisanya Moon Practically Pagan: Rituals Are Great, But Everyday Resourcing Is Vital For Magick by Irisanya Moon

Practically Pagan: Rituals Are Great, But Everyday Resourcing Is Vital For Magick by Irisanya Moon thepagancollective.com/2025/06/30/p...

‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed

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This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

Ancestors, weave your shield around us.
Grant strength to our hands, courage to our hearts, and wisdom to our minds.
Let no harm find us, no fear break us, no doubt blind us.
We walk in your light, steady and true.
So mote it be. #WitchSky

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This is a very useful website for finding a coven: www.mandragoramagika.com

I also like her work. Her CV is chock-full of articles I want to track down and read. www.helenaliceberger.com/CV.html

Thank you for that recommendation, Sam! I will add it to my TBR pile.

The shelf on which this book resides (Shelf #4)

A copy of VOICES FROM THE PAGAN CENSUS: A NATIONAL SURVEY OF WITCHES AND NEO-PAGANS IN THE UNITED STATES.

Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book per day (it's okay to skip days if you're really busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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A blue shawl

I set out the Brat Bhride last night, and brought it in this morning. It's so icy outside. Today I clean the house, and make my offering of oatmeal, honey, milk, and good salty butter, along with herbal tea and plenty of candles. Beannachtaí na féile Bhríde ort! #witchsky #imbolc

"i wish i were better at shadow work." meditate.
"i wish i had a stronger connection with my spirits." meditate.
"i obsess a ton over the results of my spells." meditate.
"there's too much in my head to discern properly!" MEDITATE.

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The shelf this came from (shelf #3)

A copy of THE MYTH OF THE GODDESS : EVOLUTION OF AN IMAGE by Anne Baring and Jules Cashford.

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He does have a book on Earth Energies, but his recent work has been on the history of Gerald Gardner and the New Forest coven. He also wrote a biography of Doreen Valiente. A very nice man!

YouTube video by Roland 'Roly' Keates aka Lost Histories A Very British Witchcraft, Channel 4 Documentary 2013 with Professor Ronald Hutton on Gerald Gardner

Definitely worth checking out. You can see him along with Ronald in this great documentary: youtu.be/O9XuYBErxgQ?...

Margot Adler's autograph in the third edition of Drawing Down the Moon.

My only interaction with Margot Adler involved her asking us suspiciously, "You're not a couple of those Hard Gards, are you?" I'm not sure how I would answer that anymore.

A shelf of books about occult topics, all authors beginning with A.

The shelf this came from (Shelf #1)

The shelf this came from (shelf #2).

A copy of Agrippa's third book of Occult Philosophy, translated by Eric Purdue, sitting on a wooden table.

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100% agreed. I reread Triumph of the Moon when the 20th anniversary came out, looking for differences, and it was great to revisit in light of Heselton's recent investigations.

Outside the Charmed Circle The intention of Outside the Charmed Circle is to help readers live as the truest expression of their gendered, sexual, spiritual self. It is designed to support you as you awaken to who you ...

Hey there, #BookSky and #WitchSky and #OccultSky!

Five years ago, my book OUTSIDE THE CHARMED CIRCLE made its debut. It's about gender, sexuality, embodiment, magic, and devotional praxis. It was a conscious act of queer magical resistance, and it's just as relevant today than when it was released.

I reread it a couple of years ago, after first reading it back in the 90s, and it's amazing how much of it continues to be relevant to my Craft practice! Lots of a-has.

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Wow, it's cold outside (and inside). Someday my woods will look like this again...

The art only comes by developing your own power, and not by the stroke of a magic wand. It is a strange mystical experience. You feel a different person, as if much dross were sloughed off. There is some strange mystery of worship, delicate as a dream. Bibliography: Gerald Gardner

The art only comes by developing your own power, and not by the stroke of a magic wand.
It is a strange mystical experience. You feel a different person, as if much dross were sloughed off.
There is some strange mystery of worship, delicate as a dream.

Bibliography: Gerald Gardner