Month: June 2015

Traditional witchcraft is regional witchcraft, it is not and never has been a standardised practice and long may this continue to be the case. The day witchcraft loses regional variation is the day traditional witchcraft ceases to exist

Gemma Gary, Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways (via upthewitchypunx)

Witchcraft is rebellion

gardenofthequeen:

“She does it to be rebellious”

In my younger years, I believed those words to be of someone who merely wanted to play pretend. But now, I smile when I hear those words. Of course she is rebellious, witchcraft is the very act of rebellion.

Witchcraft is the recourse of the dispossessed, the powerless, the hungry and the abused. It gives heart and tongue to stones and trees. It wears the rough skin of beasts. It turns on a civilization that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

-Apocalyptic Witchcraft by Peter Grey

People rarely become witches for benign or gentle reasons. Its sought for power, for justice, for control. To look at something and wishing to no longer bare its pain, it is, in its very definition, an act of uprising; of heresy. It is a force, not an order. It is a rallying cry, not chaotic anarchy.

It is forged by those with little to lose. It is for those that know their own strength.

The next time you are told you are simply being “rebellious” smile in pride. You are not helpless….

iopanosiris:

Hand of Sabazius, Museum of Science Boston, Pompeii exhibit  via

[47]  XLVII. Orphic Hymn to Sabasius [Zabazios] …translated by Thomas Taylor

Hear me, illustrious father, dæmon fam’d.
Great Saturn’s [Kronos’] offspring, and Sabasius [Zabazios] nam’d;
Inserting Bacchus, bearer of the vine, and founding God, within thy thigh divine,
That when mature, the Dionysian God might burst the bands of 
his conceal’d abode,
And come to sacred Tmolus, his delight, where Ippa dwells,
all beautiful and bright.
Come blessed Phrygian God, the king of all, and aid thy mystics,
when on thee they call.