The Winter Solstice past, the wheel has spun, we raise a cheer to the new born Sun!! We have had a Wonderful Winter Solstice- Here's hoping you have had so too! Our Ritual Calendar starts anew. We look forward to the round of Rites & magick for the year ahead. So many great workings to muse over the previous twelve months. Thinking of the Esbats we have worked & why, in what is primarily a Goddess centric religion we have not spoken of such? Obviously in an oathbound traditi

Early December saw Amanda & myself travel to Salisbury. We alighted at the Station as winter rains washed the streets. We were travelling to see an evening with Dr Julia Philips. Her lecture part of the Seed Talks series, this one of Julia's on 'The History & Endurance of Witchcraft'. The venue a Romanesque Temple looking municipal building of Salisbury's guildhall. Having previously read some of Dr Philips work on modern Witchcraft we knew we were in for a treat. It was grea

The end of October saw us attend a book launch & soiree. The event being held & filmed at the Art Workers Guild in London, hosted and put together by Sharon Day & those at Rose Ankh publishing. The book lavishly produced by that company. The work itself a reproduction including new text, artwork & original facsimiles of The Alex Sanders lectures. This new book has a fascinating commentary by none other than Maxine Sanders. The finished result is a thing of rare beauty, illust

Surely Halloween, Samhain is the Sabbat that most fires & enthuses the mind? Modern secular culture has adopted this Christian festival, secularised, popularised & somewhat monetised it. It does though seem to hark back to the Pagan past of Ireland, predating the Christian calendars Rite. As the days darken toward the years end, in times past cattle were slaughtered for the winter months ahead. Thoughts become introspective & naturally turn to those who have gone before. Our