Category: Spirituality/Paganism & Magick

After the Spanich Conquest, the Spaniards tried to suppress cultivation of sunflowers because of their association with solar religion and warfare.

Ancient farmers were growing sunflowers in Mexico more than 4,000 years before the Spaniards arrived, according to a team of researchers that includes Florida State University anthropologist Mary D. Pohl.

The eye in the pyramid has been a part of our culture for so long that it's become a part of our collective unconscious. However, few of us know what it means.

If after watching one of Disney’s National Treasure films, you surfed the web for “hidden meanings in American symbols,” you might be shocked at what you found. Most other writers, beside myself, who are speculating on American symbolism say that the nefarious Illuminati-Mason Satan-worshipers are in control of world events. If you’ve seen their compelling slideshows where they flip through hundreds of corporate logos resembling the eye in the triangle over the pyramid, you can imagine how gullible people everywhere now believe America’s Founding Fathers were Satanists.

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Reverse of the Great Seal of the United States

Okay, so this story doesn't exactly tell you how to evoke trolls to do your petty bidding for you. However, it's charming, and great folklore - so get over it.

In my capacity as the UK Director of Operations for One World Tours Limited, I would like to share some of the wonderful stories that I was told in Iceland recently. Just over half of the country’s population believe in trolls, elves or hidden people and hopefully I have remembered enough to pass them on to you.

Celtic Christianity is a unique blend of Christianity with indigenous religions such as druidism, according to Linda McKinnish Bridges, professor at the Wake Forest Divinity School. The two faiths mixed easily in the early centuries, and today remnants of the druidic tradition still remain within the practice of Christianity in Ireland.

As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, the legend will be retold of how the Christian missionary Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland. However, zoologists say there never were snakes in Ireland, and historians suggest that the snakes refer instead to the druids, who had their own non-Christian religion. Over time the Christian church incorporated elements of the druids’ traditions into its own religious practices in Ireland.

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Linda McKinnish Bridges, professor of ministry studies in the Divinity School at Wake Forest University

Being a Wiccan is wonderful and knowing the two most common beliefs within our tradition helps us find love and live a happy and healthy life. That is what these two beliefs do, they helps us understand that when we take responsibility for our actions we can achieve all of our desires.

One of the best parts of being Wiccan is that we all follow our own path. However, there are a couple of common beliefs that, as Wiccans, we live by to make our lives happy and healthy.

Although we're still in the dead of winter, now might be the time to start doing your garden magick. This way, when you're ready to plant, the energy will be right.

Are you establishing a new garden? Are you trying to bring a long neglected or difficult garden back to life again? You can create a flourishing garden anywhere. All you need is loads of desire, a little imagination and an open mind. In this article I briefly summarize some techniques that I have successfully used for encouraging growth in difficult areas of the garden. By adding a little magick to some basic ecological gardening principles your can create a sensation.

The Rose of Jericho is a wonderful wealth talisman for homes and businesses; learn how to make the best of your living amulet with a simple ritual. Whether you're a beginner or an adept, this ritual will help you “wake up” the guardian spirit of this amazing magickal plant.

The Rose of Jericho, or Resurrection Plant, is endemic to most north African and Arabic deserts. Since the Canary Islands are only a few kilometres away from the Northwest coast, it is very known and used here. This plant dries completely and curls up in dry times, and “lives” again when in contact with water, hence the name of Resurrection Plant.

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Rose of Jericho plant.

Most occultists believe that there is a direct connection between the Tarot and the ancient Hebrew form of mysticism called Kabbalah. Frederick Gimino explains.

The origins of the Tarot deck and its associated interpretive meanings may never be known with empirical certainty. However, one school of thought, subscribed to by Kabbalistic occultists, is that the Tarot deck stems from Jewish mysticism.

Hex, curse, bad speck, jinx or evil eye, the power and influence of the magickal curse has been around since man emerged on the earth. How does it work? Why use a hex to rid yourself of negative influences or get rid of an enemy? Listen and I'll tell you all about it....

What is a Hex, a curse, the evil eye or just a jinx. Every race, civilisation and culture has at one time or another has reffered to the art of the would be gypsy or witch, and thier potent arsenal of evil spells and deadly rites. But what is it?

You don't have to be part of a secret society bent on world domination to use their secrets of power. Even an ordinary person like you can take the rules of power used by the Illuminati to get more out of life.

Whether the Illuminati exists or not is not something that will be argued in this article. Instead let's take all that is rumored about The Illuminati and extrapolate rules that anyone can learn and apply into their lives to gain more and more control.