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About the Author
Timothy Roderick is the author of The Once Unknown Familiar. He holds a masters degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, and he is currently a psychotherapy intern in Southern California. He is a long time initiate of an order of English Traditional Wicca. He has been a student of the occult, mysticism, and earth-centered spirituality for many years and is the founder ofEarthDance Collective, a group that sponsors open rituals, classes, and workshops that promote awareness of feminist spirituality. Timothy also teaches classes that blend western psychology and native shamanic wisdom throughout California.
Llewellyn Publications
Woodbury, Minnesota
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Dark Moon Mysteries. 1996 by Timothy Roderick.
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Cover Art by Anthony Meadows
Cover Design by Tom Grewe
Interior Art on pages 3, 15, 39, 55, 77, 87, 103, ll5, 129, and 143 by Anthony Meadows
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roderick, Timothy. 1963
Dark moon mysteries :wisdom, power, and magic of the shadow world
I Timothy Roderick.-- 1st ed.
p. em.
ISBN 1-56718-345-X (trade pbk.)
Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-7387-4721-7
1. Witchcraft. 2. Magic. 3. Ritual. 4. Shadow (Psychoanalysis)
-Miscellanea. 5. Goddess religion. I. Title. BF1566.R59 1996
133.43--dc20 96-13525
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Acknowledgements
With sincere gratitude I wish to thank the following people who aided in the creation of this book. My good friend and editor, Mead Hunter, was instrumental in shaping this work into something acces sible using his knowledge, skill, humor, and insight. My thanks to this High Priest and Sage who has had tremendous impact on my work both magically and professionally. Thanks to Karen Cummings, a wonderful psychotherapist who helped me sort out some psycholog ical and magical theory. The members of Earthdance Coven, Cres cents Shadow, and Moontydes have been a great system of support during my own Dark Moon processes. Thanks to Victoria Sciarra who initially set me on the Widdershins path. Many thanks to B.T. Halphide for her eagle eye in the final editing stages. Finally, I must thank Lady Varda, a wise woman who knows the ways of the crone and who has guided me along my spiritual journey.
Contents
: Shadows: Dark Moon Wisdom
. The Meaning of Darkness
. Naming the Shadow
. Shadow as Threshold Guardian
. Assimilation
Spirals: Dark Moon Power
. The Widdershins Spiral
. The Power to Accept
. The Power to Surrender
. The Power to Wonder
. The Power to Resonate
Spells: Dark Moon Crafts
. The Ways of Dark Moon Magic
APPENDICES
Part I
Shadows: Dark Moon Wisdom
hag (hag) n. 1. an ugly old woman, esp. a vicious or malicious one. 2. a witch.
hagio-, a learned borrowing from Greek meaning saint; holy sacred used in the formation of compound words: hagiology, hagiocracy.
hagiocracy (hag e ok r se) n. 1. government by a body of persons esteemed as holy.
-Burleigh Muten, Word Magic
. Burleigh Muten, Word Magic , copyright 1993 Burleigh Muten.
Chapter 1
The Meaning of Darkness
The Sage speaks:
I have grown old. Death speaks to my brittle bones, calling me to rejoin the Mather. Time is now my enemy, far all of the wisdom that I have gained from my arts can be last much mare easily than it was acquired. The season has come to initiate you into my secrets. I am about to give you a great gift, my beloved-the gift of darkness. You have lived with it all of your life, yet you have ignored it, feared it, shunned it, or in same way denied it. But it has never gone away; gifts from the Gods rarely do. And ah, what great treasures the dark holds-treasures beyond your imagining. Yet because these treasures are placed in chambers that you your self lack and call forbidden, they are forgotten-but never have they been last! Only you can unlock the chamber door. And to do this takes great courage, for when you find a keep bolted as heavily and as fast as this you know it to be shut far some good reason, eh?
Easily a thought can skitter across your mind when you see the gated entryway: Some demon must lie in wait there. Whatever is in there must be dangerous or surely it would not be closed away. But remember my dear, demons exist on either side of that locked door. It is when you no longer have passage to the other side that you are truly trapped in the chamber with a dangerous thing. The key to this locked chamber lies in the arts of the dark moon.
The dark moon, the time between the full moon and the new moon, carries secrets all its own. Look to the moon as she wanes and you will find a mirror of your own inner darkness-your dark self. It is this very mystery that keeps the fainthearted at bay. It is for the better that most magical folk, and even you yourself, hesitate to fully engage in the magical crafts of the dark moon. For fear is the demon hidden away, skulking in the corners beyond the lock. Fear whispers to you-even now. It says darkness is a force beyond human control; it is best kept dormant.
Even the cowan folk not drawn to the Ladys ways, those who do not make study of her cycles, are taught to fear what they call shadow. The cowans and their priests talk of darkness as though it was their satan, or fear it as a realm of devils. But, thinking on it, in some strange way, they know of what they speak. For one great secret of darkness is this: fear locked away in the shadows turns into an endlessly tormenting devil. Ah, but face the dark and you will find a place of untapped power, rest, peace, harmony, and finally, balance. To the wise adept, to the brave adept, an exploration into the cave of darkness yields the jewels of knowledge and wisdom (beyond that which is already known). It is the sacred ground where destiny changes. Your destiny changes there, my child.
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