Cerridwen Greenleaf - Dark Moon Magic

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Dark Moon Magic: Supernatural Spells, Charms, and Rituals for Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Library of Congress Cataloging
ISBN: (p) 978-1-63353-792-7, (e) 978-1-63353-793-4
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018940704
BISACOCC026000BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Witchcraft

Printed in the United States of America.

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From there come maidens, knowing much,
From the well that waits under the Tree:
Urdh hight one, another Verdhandi
Score they cutthe third is Skuld.
There they laid down laws, there they chose lives.
For children they spoke rlg.

From the Vlusp, 20

Contents

In deepest appreciation of Will Daley, wise man extraordinaire and a brightly burning light in the darkness.

Eternal gratitude to Robert Kent in all his myriad brilliancemusic, art, and the well-written word.

And to the son of my soul, Duncan McCloud, who back in the Gilded Age of the 80s helped start it all for melove eternal.

During the Dark Ages, northern Europeans practiced a sort of primal paganism. The Goths were Germanic tribes, the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Lombards, Burgundians, and Franks, hailing from the area we now know as Scandinavia. Gothic spirituality was informed by a mythology best described by the Roman historian Tacitus: In their ancient songs, they celebrated an earth-god Tuisco, and his son Mannus, as the origin of race, as their founders. Powerful female elders, or seeresses, passed down this pagan mythology through an oral tradition, and the runes were their only writing, a symbolic system used for signs and omens. Goths made quite a name for themselves as they moved across Europe, spreading destruction and even ransacking Rome. Their violent antics earned them the name barbarian, which was later replaced by the much more colorful term goth , meaning uncivilized.

What is Dark Moon magic? It is the modern art of magic deeply rooted in the old ways, a personal path that honors the ancient while harnessing the power of the past to enhance todays daily living. It is a singular craft that heralds and encourages individualism while retaining an all-important connection to a spiritual tribe.

Dark Moon Magic is your all-inclusive guide to the art of magic for this new dark age in which we live, with both the history and how-to. Dark Moon Magic is the next step beyond Wicca for beginners. If you are a spiritual adventurer who likes to look at the other side and the hidden, strange, and mysterious, to discover a marvelous and unexpected world of enchantment, then Dark Moon Magic is for you. This volume will help you gain a fuller understanding of what makes Dark Moon magic unique and provides you with a stepping-off point for self-exploration and the creation of your own personalized spells and tribal rituals. Each chapter contains rituals, charms, and spells from simple quickie spells to more complex enchantments that mark very special rites of passage and engender the deepest personal transformation. Reader-friendly and eminently helpful, Dark Moon Magic is an instruction book for leading an utterly enchanted and empowered life.

Who are these Dark Moon witches anyway? To a mundane (the uninitiated non-witch), todays Dark Moon witches are weirdosextremely pale black-clad creatures who are overly interested in the world of the shadows and dont seem to come out during the day If your idea of a good time is to dress as though you are in mourning, pack a lunch, and head off to the local cemetery for a picnic, you could be a Dark Moon witch!

Take a closer look, however, and you will find a rich tapestry of ideas and practices beyond the stereotypes. For example, Amber Rae, a witch in San Francisco, grows rare flora from the nineteenth century and uses them in her magical tinctures and essences. Similarly, Miss Kat, a ceremonial magician and Thelemite, studies Egyptian mythology and creates ritual music and art. You will also find that Dark Moon magicians are highly literate, spiritual, colorful, and creative people from all walks of lifedoctors, attorneys, musicians, teachers, writers, and more. Yes, they all do wear a lot of black, but despite their rather gloomy appearance, they are probably having an awful lot of fun and pursuing the ancient adages of Know thyself and To thine own self be true.

For those who walk their own path and express their inner nature while honoring nature and living harmoniously with the earth, Wicca is increasingly their religion of choice. In May 2005, the New York Times noted that Wicca is the fastest growing religion in North America, and it has not stopped since. Whether they consider themselves white witches or dark Wiccans, something is calling to people on a profound level, something that spiritually feeds them in a way nothing else does. Perhaps it is that Wicca does not preach a prescribed path and rules. Heyit does not preach at all! There is only a bond of honesty and the golden rule of Wicca that holds true for all Wiccans. In our lifetimes, we have seen suppressed traditions such as Wicca and other traditions of witchcraft enter into the mainstream. Wicca has a wonderfully straightforward approach with a strong ethical code based on moral and personal responsibility.

The Three Principles of Wicca

An ye harm none, do as ye will .
Gerald Gardner, The Meaning of Witchcraft

THE WICCAN REDE

This tenet of witchcraft encourages the individuals freedom to do as she or he sees fit as long as it does not affect anyone negatively. So, while you pursue your own interests, think of how your actions affect others. This applies to all aspects, especially ritual and spell work, because you are working with energies that have wide-ranging powers to affect everyone and everything. This rede, or wise teaching, requires real attention and a high degree of consciousness in terms of assessing the impact of any action in regard to all the possible physical, spiritual, emotional, and psychological consequences that result from all ritual work.