Witch Compass News Today

There are many ways in which we experience our compass, which might be incorporated into our daily lives and not just our ceremonial, ritual or magical practice. The boundaries we establish, where they extend and what worlds they permit to cross over are within our power.

Within modern witchcraft, two positions have made themselves apparent in recent years that is somewhat surprising, and is perhaps informed in some small way by the increased popularity of witchcraft and its emergence as a mainstream, and commercialised, endeavour.

Within the folklore and custom of the common man, we must remember that the Devil manifests a force that challenges the status quo, driving evolution—a necessary agent of change—that encourages us, through the trickster’s repertoire of turns, to grow and adapt to circumstances.

Defence of Witchcraft Belief is a wonderful book, thoroughly covering a lot of ground that is pertinent to the belief in witchcraft in the late sixteenth century. The time period, theologically and politically, was a very nuanced and difficult area of study, sufficient that professors have dedicated entire lives to the study thereof.

As the sun is suspended in darkness’ pregnant pause, stillness grips the land between the dying of the old and the emergence of the new. Held betwixt this fractious tension, between temporality and eternity, timelessness renews time just as the Light emanates anew from the yawning maw of blackened Night. The Saturnian shadow of Father Time turns the hourglass, facing two ways as Janus the night watchman of the boreal portal.

There has been much made in recent decades about the pagan origins of Christmas customs. It is important to note that this idea is not, strictly speaking,

A long time ago, in my early teens, I had a secret and insatiable thirst for knowledge of the magical arts. Growing up in Aleister Crowley’s hometown, the

Perhaps it’s high time that we opened up a little about the Witchcraft Act of 1735, commonly and erroneously cited as the last draconian law against pagan witches. Getting into the weeds of this is tricky, and requires some careful consideration. Hopefully, there's food for thought in what follows...

Magic in the Modern World is a collection of essays from leading figures and experts in the field of academic and practical study of magic.

Tubal Cain, tutelary deity of the craft coterie bearing his name [Clan of Tubal Cain], has a place now in modern Traditional Witchcraft, possibly originating out of a comment in The White Goddess by Robert Graves. In this part of The White Goddess, Graves is talking of the “love-chase” (The Case Song transcribed from the famous trial of Isobel Gowdie) and the transformative procession that takes place between the “Divel” and “Our Lady”.