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Peacefully Awakened
By Piscian Rainbow

Laughing children running around with happy faces
Seeming so hard to keep them still or in their places
Memories of your childhood begin to wander and
positive memories are what I sit and ponder.

Sunny beach days beating on my skin
Cool breeze blowing on myself and him
Words full of meaning yet not quite spoke
Keep on trying and that spell too shall be broke.

Now that your young and still so pure
Enjoy your childhood like nothing you'll endure
With white light forces circling all around you
Know that no matter what ever happens
Nothing can keep you down or blue...

Fore protection of peaceful, white light forces will
always guide and be with you!

 

Waking Up Wicca
By Mary Nunez

Restless in my sleep,
Oh how long the night becomes.
Unable to close my eyes,
Something deep within calls.

In the distance stands the light,
Inviting, luring, chanting in my soul.
Does anyone hear it but me?
Nature surrounds me and cuddles me ever so gently.

Protecting me from harm as I protect all in return,
Mother moon rejoices as my journey ends in her arms.
I recall those lullabies in the wind.
I stir, I move, I wake up WICCA!

 

Poetry Submission: I Am A Witch
By Stormhawk Evanmoon

I am a witch, that's what I be,
Will you take a walk with me?
I'll tell you a tale of an age gone by
When men ruled the ground and dragons the sky.

The dragons were peaceful yet strong in might,
Yet men feared them and killed them on sight.

Their treasures they stole and kept in their keeps,
This made the dragon's ire and anger run deep.

For the ignorance and greed of man as a whole
Will forever damn the dragon's immortal soul.

The dragons fought back with claw and fire,
Like thunder they rolled over hill and shire.

They killed every man who held dragon gold,
Leaving the children to tell the stories of old.

I am a descendant of those children, you see
I am a witch, that's what I be.

 

The Dream of The Summerland
By Stormhawk & Teren Evanmoon

I had a dream where dragons fly
And faeries dance and play,
This is where I would choose to die
And want my spirit to stay.
It's a place of beauty that knows no pain
It's very real and true,
Where everyone can dance without shame
This is The Summerland, for me and you.

 

Beltane……. The Brink of Summer
By Logi Alfheim

Beltane……. The brink of summer. Warm days and nights filled with stars and warm breezes. Bonfires, drum circles and dancing, magick under the full moon, and the creatures singing their songs of love.

We all feel the urge to pair with our lover of choice. Picnicking and love making on those hot nights.

The Druids and their successors raised the Beltane fires on hilltops on May Eve, this was a true act of magick. The fires were lit to bring the sun’s warmth back to the earth, like we do today, in a symbol of fertility being returned to the land and the people.

The fire is a blessing from the Goddess. It sanctifies and purifies the whole community; the people, the livestock and the land. It drives out the cold, and unwanted beasts, it cooks, cleanses, is a signal, even sheds light when there is none, and brings communities together.

Open your hearts and minds, explore your feelings, and enjoy the warmth of the BELTANE FIRES, inside and out.

All acts of love and pleasure are HER rituals!!

 

The Beltane Dance
By Stormhawk Evanmoon

Dancing around the Beltane fire
To the music of the flute and lyre
Drums, hands and stomping feet,
Thumping, clapping, keeping the beat
Spiral is the shape our dance will take
Chanting, raising power for the magick we'll make
Drawing down the Moon - her soul, her power
Healing the Earth in this magickal hour
This is our right to manifest our desire
While dancing around the Beltane fire.

The Seed is Alive Again
By Hedgewizard

I have come to understand
I come back again and again
From all Groves
Through mists of time

From the ancient fields of battle
And from the edge of the sea
I have traveled through
Pain and persecution

First by Rome
Then by the bloody Anglicans
If I shall be reborn again.
That time I shall know who I am.

My brothers who gathered round
My sisters in the high country
To give me grace in 679
The lords of light

Who watched over me
The Old ones who taught me
Without words and in darkness

I say Thank you.
I was French and Celtic
Germanic and Norse
And Scottish and American
And ever a priest.

In all its shapes and forms
Life is my way
And the new patterns
And all the Groves
And the blades of grass
And all the leaves

I bow to the only truth I know
And to life I give thanks
For the birth of the new sun

 

Maturity
By Fate

What if being adult doesn't mean being older, wiser
What if being an adult means being afraid
Not smarter, but scared.
As a child, I boldly went without a care,
Now I care and ponder if my car will get me there.
As a child, I thought the dark fun
As an adult, I lock my doors and run
Yesterday, I took an unknown road.
The adult in me worried about a nonexistent flat
The child said, "Who cares, look at that!"
The adult finally came to enjoy the view,
Especially since the road saved 30 minutes, too.
Sometimes I must do what I should not
Because as a child, I was invincible and on top.
If told, "Don't be bold" or "You can't do that"
Ignore them and don't believe it fact
Tell the speaker with childish glee, "Can too".
And resist the aging of man and the cowardice in you.

 

When Kindred Meet
By Hedgewizard

Circles glowing; turning, ever stone, and ever burning
The moon is full on harvest night.
How fade the spheres of wrong and right
When kindred meet

The earth in oneness spirits flashing across the land
Leave no room to lay or stand
No tracks upon the drifting sand
When kindred meet

The Awin glows in streams of emerald green
Lights upon all who breathe are seen
It’s then the living becomes the dream
When kindred meet

 

Article Submissions

 

Different Religions or Just Different Paths
Dwayne Cagle - Coven of Life '04

According to our belief (EOE tradition) the different religions were formed from The All’s decision to break up the full understanding of the power of the seven Elements. In doing so, the All created seven religious puzzle pieces, to form the one “Big Picture”. Each of the seven pieces to the puzzle are mankind’s own interpretation of that puzzle piece. The religions were written by people thousands of years ago and have been changed and manipulated due to time and mankind’s lust for power and greed. The truth can be sought out in the foundation of each faith as long as the seeker is open-minded and can look beyond mundane corruption.

To seek out the “Big Picture” you need not master all seven puzzle pieces. The big picture is The All (God) which lies in the foundation of each faith. Each religion preaches that the truth to their belief is confirmed by a good feeling found deep within ones self. That good feeling is The All which in turn is energy. In the beginning of your search for the big picture, the search for the All, you need to seek out that good feeling within you, and understand it as a form of energy. Each religion starts you on the path to discovering both spiritual and earthly energies by introducing you to their beliefs. Each religion (puzzle piece) is designed to show you one form of this energy or another, in a spiritual and mundane context.

The next step is to compare the basics of your religion with others. To do this, you need to look both at the deep differences and shallow commonalities of each religion to see, with an open mind, that the beliefs within each religion are balanced within themselves. You must see each belief without prejudice. You must view each religion in detail to see the commonality between them in the simplest form. Many have trouble accomplishing this task. For example, one can view a Catholic service in detail then view a pagan ceremony and only see extreme opposites. Most will see the balance of their faith as good and others as evil. That is because they do not look with an open mind and therefore cannot see the commonalities but only the depths of their differences. For example, both of these religions wear robes. View it, at its plainest do not look at differences such as color, style, or accessories. Only view it as something in common. Both religions believe in a supreme power higher then themselves. Both religions use candles and burn incense or herbs during their services. These common attributes that each religion has will help you to understand that although the path is different, the destination is the same.

The different religions exist for each person to have the choice of seven different ways to seek out the knowledge of the All. The seven religions are each represented by an Elemental Spirit that was chosen by the All.

1. Paganism is Earth
2. Native is Water
3. Christianity is Fire
4. Judaism is Air
5. Atheism is Sun
6. Muslim is Moon
7. Buddhism/Hinduism is Life

All other religions are respectfully started from one of these seven. Each religion was formed from one of the Elements listed above; therefore, each of the religions at its base share simple character traits with the Element that created it. Each person is represented by an Element just like each religion and like the seven religions you share simple characteristics with an Element as well. Your own core of existence or energy base is from one of the seven Elemental Spirits that reside in your soul. Each of the different religions was designed to best reach each mundane life by his/her own energy base; therefore, a person with an Air base is more likely to be attracted to the Jewish path. All religions exist to teach you to try to feel the energy of their God within. That is what your piece of the puzzle was designed for.

The seven pieces (religions) individually do not have to be sought out and understood to see the big picture. The seven pieces themselves, put together as a whole, will only begin your path to understanding the big picture. Once you understand that the path to the spiritual world starts within you and that all religions are designed to seek the energies and that feeling deep within your self; you will seek to understand more of your own energies. Through this process all of the other six paths will be revealed to you. Once all the paths are revealed and understood in their energy forms the All, and the answers to “why we are here”, will appear as the big picture. Only a person, who has seen this picture, will have the love and understanding to see the need and the truth of all the religions. This person will love all religious followers as equals because he/she will know that the only difference between the faiths is the path.

 

 

The Halloween Witch
Author Unknown '03

Each year they parade her about, the traditional Halloween Witch.

Misshapen green face, stringy scraps of hair, a toothless mouth beneath her deformed nose.

Gnarled knobby fingers twisted into a claw protracting from a bent and twisted torso that lurches about on wobbly legs.

Most think this abject image to be the creation of a prejudiced mind or merely a Halloween caricature. I disagree; I believe this to be how Witches were really seen.

Consider that most Witches: were women, were abducted in the night and smuggled into dungeons or prisons under the mercy of darkness to be presented by light of day as a confessed Witch.

Few if any saw a frightened normal looking woman, being dragged into a secret room filled with instruments of torture, to be questioned until she confessed to anything suggested to her and to give names or what ever would stop the questioning.

Crowds saw the aberration denounced to the world as a self-proclaimed Witch.

As the Witch was paraded through the town en route to be burned, hanged, drowned, stoned, or disposed of in various forms of Christian love, all created to free and save her soul from her depraved body, the jeering crowds viewed the results of hours of torture.

The face bruised and broken from countless blows bore a hue of sickly green. the once warm and loving smile gone, replaced by a grimace of broken teeth and torn gums that leer beneath a battered disfigured nose. The disheveled hair conceals bleeding gaps of torn scalp from whence cruel hands had torn away the lovely tresses. Broken twisted hands clutched the wagon for support, fractured fingers with nails torn away, locked like groping claws to steady her broken body.

All semblance of humanity gone, this was truly a demon, a bride of Satan, a Witch.

I revere this Halloween Crone and hold her sacred above all. I honor her courage and listen to her warnings of the dark side of man.

Each year I shed tears of respect when the mundane exhibit their symbol of Christian love...

 

You asked, we listened. Here is a copy of the lyrics to "Children of the Circle" that so many of you have requested. Remember this is copyright protected music that is also listed with BMG Music. The copyright holders are Terry and Will Riley. This song was written by the two of them just prior to The March on Fort God (summer of '93). This song and the music video(s) can be obtained by purchasing a copy of The March on Fort God video at TheMagickMoon.com Grab a pencil and write them down while it is posted.

 

Children of the Circle
Written by Terry and Will Riley

 

Children of the Circle in the world of the mighty ones,
Children of the Circle in the world of the mighty ones,
We are the children of the old ones,
Walking in the ways of the wise ones,
Sons and daughters of mother earth,
Living in a magick world,
Riding on the wind.

Children of the Circle in the world of the mighty ones,
Children of the Circle in the world of the mighty ones,
Dancing, Oh, Oh, Oh, Dancing.
We are the children of the wise ones.

Stretch forth your athame into the sky.
Beneath the crescent moon as she goes by.
Work your magick upon the land.
Together we will make a stand.
Riding on the wind.

Children of the Circle in the world of the mighty ones,
Standing in the Circle in the world of the mighty ones,
I say you feel it,

Standing in the Circle in the world of the mighty ones,
Feel the power,

Standing in the Circle in the world of the mighty ones,
Children of the Circle in the world of the mighty ones,
Children of the Circle in the world of the mighty ones.