Such an honour and a privilege to be sent a preview copy of Deborah Lipp's upcoming new book 'Roadmap to Moonlight : A guide to Wicca for life. A soon to be released title by Crossed Crow Books. ' You would be hard pressed to find a more erudite and interesting guide to Wiccan witchcraft than Deborah Lipp. Her latest offering 'Roadmap by Moonlight - A Guide to Wicca for life' illumines the theology, spirit and practice of Wicca. Delving deeply into this most magical Craft. W

January and February always seem like long months in England. Winters cold, icy grip still holds the land, as rain pours and winds whip and scream along the hedgerows, lanes and streets. The Sabbat of Imbolg or Candlemas though is a time of promise, that of life to come. Nature defiant, even in this sad age of global warming and damage to wild habitats. Snow drops and Crocus rise in a patch like cloak across the forest floor. Whilst above small flocks of Finches and Tits flit

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