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Index
Activism, xvii, 38; affinity groups, 300; allies, 127–28, 135; community, 39; danger signals, 214–15; giving back, 65, 239–40; guidelines for diversity of deities, 239–40; headline bonfire, 305–6; injustice, 126–27; nonviolent, 142–44; oppression, 135–36; political, 303–4, 306–7; ritual, 181–82; shared intent meditation, 304–5; vision meditation, 305. See also Sacred task
Adair, Margo, 304
Air, 18, 19, 20–23, 91
Allies, 127–28, 134, 216–18, 261, 287, 290
Alphonsus, Jeffrey, 93, 305, 308
Altar, 36–37, 63–65, 70, 104, 106, 130, 132, 177, 207, 290, 247–48
Ancestors, 46–56, 177
Anchoring, 41–43, 45, 245–46, 256; exercise, 43–44; offering guidance exercise, 85–86
Anger, 100, 101; creating a personal ritual, 125–26; exercise: observatory, 121–22; getting acquainted with, 120; Hermine’s breaking the wicked vow, 122–24; honoring, 101–2, 126; “I” statements, 134–35; meditation, sea of fire, 138; ritual of transformation, 102–3; shielding, 110–11
Aspecting, 271–75
Athalme, 15, 21, 123, 124
Aura, 105, 255, 268; car wash, 108; creating a glamour, 268–69; physic cleansing of, 107–8; seeing exercise, 107
Avalon, xv, xvi, xx
Balance, 8, 9, 23, 126, 192, 193–94, 218–23
Baruch (teacher), 131, 301
Beshderen, Mevlannen, 271
Beverly (teacher), 92–93, 179, 273, 301
Birds, 99; Goddess, 99
Blame, 33–35
Body maps, 33
Book of Shadows (journal), xx, xxiii, 33, 44, 47, 53, 71, 72, 79, 85, 115, 210, 224, 243, 249–50, 262, 306
Bradley, Marion Zimmer, 268
Breath, 21–22, 91
Brigid, 9, 181, 281
Brook (teacher), 53, 54, 80
Cardinal directions, 16–18, 104, 199–201
Carnival of the Spirit (Teish), 46
Cauldron, 233–35, 293
Casting a circle, 16–17, 231
Center, 231; cauldron of changes, 233–35; cone of power, 233; Great Wheel, 231–32; invocation and exercise, 52–54
Ceres (woman), 300
Chakras, 117; cleansing, 118–20
Challenge, 187–88, 194, 201, 202–3
Character work, 269–75
Circle, working in, 69, 75, 82, 93, 156–63, 280; moon meetings, 279–80; safety of, 182–86; support roles, 184–86. See also Coven
Colors, 5, 73, 118–20, 147–48
Community, xvi, xvii, 39–40, 46, 52–54
Companion self, 241–42; trance, 242–43
Core worth, 42, 43–45, 85–86; apple meditation, 247–48; crone’s three gifts, 248–50; finding, 246; through physical sensation 246–47; word “core,” 246
Coven, xxiii, 29, 32, 75, 123–24, 138, 156–57, 280
Creativity, xix, 103; Younger Self and, 11, 79
Criticism, 257–63
Crone (Old One), 6, 58, 78–79, 100, 127, 291, 293–94; three gifts trance, 248–50
Cybele (teacher), 60, 75–76, 184, 244, 247
Cynthia (of Diana’s Grove), 175, 206, 219, 221, 252, 308
Dance, Rose May (teacher), 106, 115–16, 129, 306, 308
De Anda, Rosa, 177
Dead, honoring, xvii, 22, 46, 177. See also Ancestors
Death, 234, 276–77, 289–94, 297–98, 310
Deep Self, 12, 26, 28, 79, 146, 150, 151, 246
Deep witnesses, 184–85
Devoking (or reversing), 20, 56, 79, 148–49
Diablo Canyon nuclear protest, xvii, 53
Diana’s Grove, Missouri, 175, 219, 308
Diversity: deity of many ancestries, 237–39; gender issues, 138–41; walk, 136–37; welcoming space, 137–38; working with issues, 52–54, 127
Divination, 31, 64, 154
Donate (teacher), 256
Doorways and portals, 17, 20, 33, 150, 151, 177, 245
Doyle, Pomegranate (teacher), 177, 182, 199, 254, 256, 268, 269
Drama, ritual, 177–82, 269–72, 305–6
Dream pillow, 31
Dreams, 27–28, 30, 38, 146–49, 152–53
Drumming, 82, 93, 140, 171, 182, 273; trances, 174–75, 291–94
Dwyn, Gweneth (teacher), 221
Earth religions, xv, xvi, 22, 26, 62
Ecstasy, 156–66; adding movement, 162–64; committing to a practice, 164; group chanting, 162, 182; moving and working through an emotion, 163–64; seeking, 156; weave of sound and, 161–62. See also Ritual
Egret (teacher), 76
Elements o
f Life, 18; air, 21–23; corresponding symbols, 20; earth, 18, 19, 197–98; fire, 104–12; invoking each, 20; modes of awareness exercise, 252–53; power of, 20; water, 154–55
Elements Path, xxii, 8–23, 58–67, 101–12, 146–55, 190–98, 230–40, 277–88. See also Giving back; Guidance; Rituals; Spellcasting; Trance; Wandering; Wicked Vow breaking
Energy: anger, 100, 102; aura, 105; base, 92; body and body’s fields, 105; building a base ritual, 92–93; casting a circle, 18; chakras, 117; chakra cleansing, 118–20; cone of power, 93, 140, 170, 177, 233; devoking and, 20, 56, 79; exercise: aura car wash, 108; exercise: the brushdown, 107–8, 154; exercise: the candle, 106; exercise: following, 93; exercise: the hairbrush, 106–7; exercise: healing and healing with a partner, 109–10; exercise: seeing auras, 107; grounding and, 13; invoking and, 18; moving with, 92; negative, 254; ritual, orchestrating use of in, 171–74; seeing and perceiving, 17, 105–10; shielding, 110–11; voice, effect of, 98
Engstrom, Donald (teacher), 94, 138, 141, 257, 309
Eostar (spring solstice), 281
Fairy tales and myth, xxi, 25–27, 165–66, 289
Fall Equinox, 281
Family secrets (castle of), 6–7, 23–24, 35–37
Fata Morgana, 2–3, 145, 146, 155, 187, 194, 199, 205, 209; trance, 201
Fear: asking its name, 285–86; facing, 282–86; meditations on, 285–86; overcoming, 298–99; ritual for groups, 299–300; trust as antidote, 300
Feminism, xvi, 187, 188
Feminist spirituality, xv, xvi–vii, 42
Fever, 107
Fire, 18, 104–12, 300–301; direction, south, 18, 104, 138; exercises, 106–11, 154; giving back, 112; indoor, building, 234; meditation, 301–2; meditation for rage, 138; ritual: breaking the wicked vow, 125; wand, 104. See also Energy
Flame (teacher), 52, 308
Food, 78, 197–98, 204–5
Fortune, Dion, xvi, 166
Fox, Matthew, 260
Frederick, Beverly (teacher), 161–2, 163
Freedom, xvii, 38–39
Gail (teacher), 134–35, 136–37
Gender issues, 138–41
Gimbutas, Marija, 5
Giving back, 22, 58, 61–62, 65, 77–78, 86–90, 112, 152, 154–55, 238–40
Goddess religion, xvi, xx, 9–10, 42, 88, 101, 128–29, 163, 212, 213, 218, 246, 282–85, 297; Charge of the Goddess, 27, 37, 69, 182, 279; Charge of the Star Goddess, 235; facing fear and, 282–86; love bathing, 128; opening to diety, 236–40
Gonzalez, Rafael Jesus, 54–56
Gossip, 208
Gratitude, 267; meditation, 267–68
Great Goddess, xv, xvi, 5, 8–9, 27, 38, 59, 193, 234, 248
Grounding, 13–16
Grove (teacher), 302–3
Guidance, 74–75; anchoring exercise, 85–86; asking the Old Woman, 15; circle or coven, 75, 85; creating home altar, 63–64; divination, 64; finding the Old Woman, 62–63; guides and helpers, 58, 84; invoking deity, 65–67; meditation, 85; mentoring, 84; Mother Nature providing, 60–61; offering, issues of, 84–91; teachers, 75–77; trance: asking the Old Woman, 78–79; working at the home altar, 64–65
Gutierrez, Juan Pablo, 177
Halloween (Samhain), xvii, 22, 46, 281–82
Harrow, Judy, 271
Healer, role of, 218–23. See also Leadership
Healing, earth, xvii, 7–8, 38, 41, 46, 150, 218, 305–10
Healing, personal, xvii, xxii, 7, 24, 40–41; approach to dreams and symbols, 28; asking the old nurse, 35–26; blame, 33–35; breaking the wicked vow, 103–4, 114–17, 122–24; contemporary culture and suppression of self, 27; courage, 35; Deep Self and, 26; fire exercises for, 109–10; friends to help, 29, 32–33; “gossip,” and, 208; guidance, 74–79; magical tools for, 25; questioning and, 29–37; searching for what was lost, 37; shame, 35; spells and, 195; stereotypes, confronting, 53–54; taking care of ourselves, 218–21; taking responsibility and, 7; trance to Well of Healing, 152, 164; Younger Self and, 26–28
Hel, 272
Hennessy, Keith, 227
Herbal allies, 190–92, 197, 274. See also Nettles
Heschel, Abraham, 260
Hilary (teacher), 216, 266
Honor, 128–29
Humility, 129
Huston, Jean, 252
“I” statements, 134–35
Induction, for trance, 96–97, 174; rainbow, 147–48
Inflated or deflated self, 42, 43–45, 85–86, 97, 110
Initiation, xxi–xiii; begins, 6; death and rebirth, 276–77, 297–98; Twelve Wild Swans as a guide, 5; wandering in the wilderness, 57–58
Injustice, 126–27; gender issues, 138–41; “isms,” 135, 261; oppression, 133–36, 188, 223, 239; prejudice, 34, 238; racism, 52–54, 127, 136–37, 238; Multicultural Ritual Group, 176–77; target groups, 133, 134
Inner Path, xxii–xxiii, 23–37, 39, 67–79, 112–26, 199–211, 240–50, 240–50, 288–97. See also Anger; Death; Dreams; Ecstasy; Guidance; Healing; Trance; Wandering; Wicked vows
Interconnection of all things, xv, xvi, xvii, 10
Intuition, 106
Invocation, 18–19, 171; Deity, invoking, 65–67; Diety of Many Ancestries, invoking, 237–40; Echo, 136; Flame’s center, 52–54; Goddess as She Who Feels, 136; Goddess as She Who Listens, 76, 136; incorporating movement, 171; Opening to Diety, 237
Jealousy, 229–30, 243–44; ritual, 266–67
John (teacher), 91–92
Katrina (teacher), 127, 132, 135, 137, 143, 224, 253
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 127, 143
Kitty (teacher), 178, 252
Kymistree (teacher), 301
Law of Threefold Return, 195
Le Fay, Morgan (teacher), 237
Leadership, xxiv, xix, 40–41; allowing time, 79–80; anchoring, 254; boundaries, 263–64; crows, 186; hazards, 254; inflated or deflated self, 42, 43–45, 85–86, 97; offering guidance, issues of, 84–91; pickup truck metaphor, 215–16; projections, 251, 254–55, 256, 263–64; revenge and, 130–31; sacred voice for, 94–95; shared, 263; shielding, 254, 255–56; spontaneous ritual, 83; stepping into authority exercise, 227–28; trance, 96–98. See also Criticism; Power; Self-knowledge
Life purpose, 199–201, 244–45; challenge in, 187–88, 194, 201, 202–3
Listening, importance and exercise, 159, 268
Logan, Gwydion (teacher), 236, 237, 261, 308
Love, xvii, 69; bathing, 128
Macy, Johanna, 251
Madrone (teacher), 263
Magic, 39; advanced training, anchoring, 41–43; air powers, 19, 21–22; balance with nature, 9; challenging, support needed during, 126; changes in the energy body can create changes in the physical body, principle, 105, 149; clockwise (deasil) and counterclockwise (widdershins), 232; community and, xvii; danger, getting what we ask for, 6; defined, xvi, 11–12, 142, 151, 166; Elements Path and, xxii; ends and means in, 130; fire, powers associated with, 104; nonlinear nature of, xx; power from within and, xix; reawakening, xv; tools of, xvi, 15, 21, 104, 123, 124, 233–35, 293; true stories, 295–97; wand, 104, 262; wording, 6, 29–30, 141, 209
Marnie (teacher), 169, 178–80, 269–70, 271–72
May Day or Beltane, 281
Meditation, xvi; asking your fear its name, 285–86; core worth through physical sensation, 246–47; dropped and open intention, 59–60, 81–82; glass half full, 286; gratitude, 267–68; guidance, 85; herbal, 190–91; impact, 130; mirror, 251; opposites, 132; resting in the Goddess, 217–18; river image, 95; sea of fire, 138; sewing, 206–7; shared intent, 304–5; trance to the salt shore, 115; vision, 305
Melusine (teacher), 219–20, 254, 256, 257, 260, 275, 308
Midsummer’s Day or Night (summer solstice), 2, 145, 146, 281; Wicker man, 281
Miller, David, 139–40, 185, 222, 265, 307
Mistakes, 41, 133, 196, 259
Mists of Avalon, The (Bradley), 268
Moon, 5, 6, 15, 232, 279–80
Moonshadow, Raven (teacher), 162, 179
Mother Goose rhymes, 10, 155
Multicultural Ritual Group, 50, 54, 176–77
Mystery: central, 291; human, veil exercise, 158–59; School, 219, 221, 252; within exercise, 74
Nature, 8–9; balance, 8; Charge of the Goddess, 27, 37, 69; domination of, 10; Goddess in, 27, 59–60; estrangement from, 23; herbal ally meditation, 190–92 observing, 16–17, 59–60, 81, 82, 254; reconnecting, 190–93; trance into, 165
Nettles, 187, 188, 192, 193–94, 197, 203–7
Nonviolence, 142–44
Oak (teacher), 305, 307
O’Mallory, Pandora (teacher), 180, 235
Otherworld, xv, xxv, 149, 242; finding a door to, 17, 20, 33, 151. See also Ritual; Trance
Outer Path, xxiii, 37–56, 79–98, 126–44 166–86, 212–28, 250–75, 297–311. See also Activism; Leadership; Rituals; Service; Teachers and teaching
Pablo, Juan, 307
Paganism, xv, xvi, 10, 46, 88–89, 134, 284–85
Pain and suffering, 188, 204, 210–12, 218, 301
Palmer, Wendy, 60
Patriachial religion, xvi, 9, 192
Paul (teacher), 176
Pentacle, 18–19, 19, 178, 248
Persephone, 244, 246
Phillips, Ruby, 304
Poison oak, 191–92
Power, 222–226; decentralized model, xviii, xix; differential exercise, 225; dominion (power-over), xvi, xix, 10, 84, 129, 222, 250; empowerment, xix, xxi, xxii, 222; personal, xxii; privilege, 222–28; shadow-self role plays, 226–27; sharing, xxiv; speech and, exercise, 225–26; stepping into, 294–95; stepping into authority exercise, 227–28; within, xix, 222; with, xix, 130, 222–23, 227; women and, 250
Premonitions and visions, 300, 305
Priestess, xxiv, 26, 28, 38, 39–40, 42, 74, 172–73, 254–55
Privilege, 222–28
Projections, 251, 254–55, 256, 263–64, 268–69
Protection: boundaries, 248–40, 263–64; shielding, 110–11, 254, 255–57
Purification, 14–16, 103–4
Psychic perceptions or abilities, 106
Quest, 5; ritual, 175–77
Questions, 29–33
Rage, 126, 137–38; ritual, 138
Rainy (teacher), 227
Raven (teacher), 15–16
Reclaiming community, xvi; affiliation with xxiii; affirming groups, xviii; altered states and, 271–75; analysis of fairytales and folklore in, xxi, 25–26; birth of, xvii; Collective, xvii; consciousness, forms of and, 11; core principles, xvii, xxiv; drum trance, 291–94; “Elements of Magic” completion ritual, 278, 287–88; Halloween, San Francisco, 22; healing ritual, 308–11; payment for teaching and xxiii, 87–92; Principles of Unity, xviii–xix, 38; rituals, basic forms of large group, 174–82; roots of, 264; rules (inc. drugs and alcohol use), 183, 264–66; sharing of personal stories, xxiii; structure, xviii, 42, 221–22; training. See Witchcamps