On occasion other ways of working of a different flavour to the regular Sabbat or Esbat may be of use to the Witch & Coven. We are the inheritors also of varying ways of magick, some more akin the the Ceremonial workings of magicians of renaissance Britain & Europe & beyond. These Rites though are, to a degree echoes of the Ritual worked in late antiquity at the twilight of the Pagan world of imperial Rome, especially within the north African city of Alexandria. Within this b

The Merry month of May is finally upon us. The Hawthorn & Blackthorn awash with sprays of blossom. The woods and copses ring with the trill of the Wren and a multitude of migratory birds return from their winner haunts to nest among the brambles and sedge. The ear strains for the now elusive Cuckoo, and sap rises in branch and bough. May Eve, Beltane is a magickally charged time. Also it is when the founder of Alexandrian Craft, Alex Sanders sadly passed to the Summerlands ba

The Wheel of the year turns in earnest as the Vernal equinox is upon us. Despite the woes of the World our Rites bring us into the calming presence of our Goddess & the Horned God. We melt away into their magickal realms, into the heady mix of Ritual our Rites bestow. The sense of communion with the Gods is felt too in the world at large, the crisp cold nights giving way as the Suns rays pierce through the clouds to bring warmth to the land and joy to the soul. The scales ha

The Alexandrian Craft is a magickal thing. At once similar to its sibling the Gardnerian Craft from which it sprang. Sibling is perhaps the wrong word choice....more of a wayward line that adopted some of its own style and flavour. Personally i have never been Gardnerian, from what i have seen though we do have a few subtle theological differences. Also too that often quoted Alexandrian penchant for a more ceremonial manner of working, which does have some truth to it. Perhap