Nocturnal Witchcraft Magick After Dark Book Konstantinos PDF Free Download
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| Comics Name | Nocturnal Witchcraft Magick After Dark Book Konstantinos PDF Free Download |
| Author | Konstantinos |
| Category | Occult and Witchcraft |
| Language | English |
| Page | 229 |
| Quality | HD |
| Size | 52.2 MB |
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Wicca by Night
To live as a Witch, you need not follow a strict routine. There’s no building to report to weekly, no alleged spiritual rulers to obey.
However, there are some Craft traditions that can enrich your life if you choose to follow them.
We have many days-okay, nights in our case-that can be cele- brated for the energies they lend to our lives. In all, we recognize cight sabbats or holidays, thirtech Full Moons, and thirteen Dark Moons to choose from.
Available to us is the use of wonderful tools, ranging from simple to elaborate, that can help us succeed at magickal and religious rites. We use these in conjunction with personal altars to form the center of our own sacred spaces. We can be with the Gods anywhere we choose.
As for the specific ways we celebrate our religion, and the specific im- plements we use to do so, all these vary. Except for those who work in es- tablished traditions, most Witches are comfortable with picking and choosing what works best for them in experiencing the Old Religion.
Nights of Power
In books about a particular ethnic type of paganism or about a certain Wiccan tradition, a section like this one would typically contain a cycle of myths describing the eight days or nights of power. We’d then fol- low the stories of specific Gods and Goddesses, as reflected by the changing seasons. Such a look at the Wheel of the Year, as the group of holidays is called, is certainly valid. The eight holidays do form a cycle that can be applied to the legend of, say, a particular dying God. How- ever, in this book we’ll avoid repeatedly focusing on any one pantheon when describing the Wheel, touching only briefly on the most univer- sal associations of the Gods to the eight nights, including a few names where most relevant.
What you’ll be reading here is my explanation of the major ener- gies present in each of the eight nights of power or sabbats. Do not ac- knowledge these eves out of fear you won’t be breaking some com- mandment by ignoring then. Celebrate the sabbats to tap the naturalenergies that cycle through our bodies, and to better connect to various aspects of Divinity throughout the year. But don’t wait for a sabbat to act on some magiekal need. For most purposes, the nights of the Full and Dark Moons can be more practically applied to the challenges that regularly arise in life. Waiting until Halloween to do a divination rite, for example, isn’t always practical.
As for exactly how to celebrate the sabbats, we won’t have room to cover that. As mentioned, this book is in many ways an introduction to a system. Using the basics you learn in its tluce parts, you may create your own rituals to flesh out what Nocturnal Witchcraft means to you.
including the way you wish to honor the sabbats.
Note that although the holidays are ancient, many have undergone transmutation by the Church. Such adaptation of traditions is com- mon when one religion tries to convert followers of another. We’ll be pointing out these parallels, even when they’re obvions, to better clarify the core energies at work during any particular sabbat.
Samhain, or Hallows (October 31), can be thought of as the night when the pagan year ends and begins anew. An end of the harvest, this night marks death and the promise of rebirth.
Just as the crops will re- turn and the year’s cycle of seasons will return so shall those of us who pass on. While the word Samhain is Celtic, the celebration of death and rebirth on this night has been attributed to various cultures across continents.
They all sensed that as the earth stands balanced be- tween death and life, so do all who attune to this night’s energies, which is why I prefer to use the more-recognized name Halloween for this universal night. It is the time when the veil between the worlds is at its sheerest, and when we can most easily peer through a great night for divination and necromancy, as well as for celebrating the dark months that are approaching.
Like many of the pagan holidays, Hal- loween was Christianized by the Church, this time as a hallowed eve before All Saints and All Souls. We celebrate the night in religious ways, too, commemorating the idea of the dying God, who ultimately symbolizes the cycle of death and rebirth.
Reaching the Dark Divine
The Source.
I like that word for Divinity. It reminds us that we came from some- where, and that we have someplace to ultimately return.
Yet I could never pray directly to the Source, or hope to connect with it easily, by thinking of it in such a nameless, faceless form. As mentioned in chapter I, God and Goddess names provide us with a way to access Divine energy.
In this chapter I’ll show you how to reach that energy.
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Hal Borland
