Silver Chalice Wiccan 'Zine #55

My Brother Channeled the Spirit of a Very Old Witch
and
"Elevator Shield" to Transmute Harmful Energy
and
The Hidden Shadow: Revealing & Healing

February / March 2017

Editor's Note

This is the busiest season for me, with new students enrolling in the Wicca School every day and getting everything rolling for the 2017 class.

Still, I've been making a very determined effort to keep up with all the emails and messages, and post in social media regularly.

And have a very happy Imbolc!

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Table of Contents

Events & Announcements

Magickal Training

The long awaited Magick book has been re-created — it's now an online magickal training course!

	Spellcraft
	Miracles
	Mind Magick
	Light Magick
	Magickal Healing
	Magickal Protection
	Banishings
	Moon Magick
	Time-Travelling Magick
	And of course, lots more (If you've studied with me before, you know what I mean! "Comprehensive" is my middle name! Though that's too long and tricky to spell, so I don't ordinarily use it. )

New Enhanced Wicca School Course

The second announcement this month is that A Year & A Day: 53 Weeks to Becoming a Wiccan has been revamped and enhanced!

It's the same course, but with added stuff — extra tidbits, tips on how to get the most out of the course, reminders, some bonuses, and lots more interconnection between us. 

Want to Join the 2017 Class? It's Not (Quite) Too Late!

Wicca Students Speak Out

Here's what our students
are saying about
A Year And A Day:
53 Weeks to Becoming a Wiccan

* See What More Students Have to Say... *

Website Highlights

Spotlighting some of the Wicca Spirituality articles you may not have seen yet!

Magickal Self-Protection

There is a lot you can do to protect yourself!

This article discusses basic self-protection that will help no matter why things are going wrong in your life.

If your life is going sour, read on.

Protection from Being Cursed and from Evil Spells

Some people (who don't know how dumb an idea it is) do cast evil spells on people. By definition, these people are not Wiccans, since Wiccans "harm none" and know that they hurt themselves more than they hurt anyone else.

You don't need to be Wiccan to protect yourself, either.

Here's what you need to know....

Energy Protection for Highly Sensitive People

It's because you are bombarded daily with energies that affect you. And because you don't know how to keep yourself from energetic harm.

So you must take action to protect yourself!

These are not skills that our culture teaches, because our society is ignorant of energies and the needs of highly sensitive people.

It is crucial for you as a highly sensitive person to take care of yourself in the onslaught of these energy fields.

And it is vital for you as an Energy Healer to learn command of your mind.

This article will show you how...

Sabbats & Esbats & Other Wiccan Rituals

Magickal Shield to Transmute Harmful Energy from Others

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ADVANCE NOTICE

Fair Warning: Price Change for the Wicca Course

Wicca Magick

(Course In Development)

What Really Is A Magickal Shield?

A magickal Shield is an Energy boundary that you build around yourself. Its purpose is to keep negative Energy from entering and infecting your Energy Field (that is to say, your body/mind and thus your life).

Shields are usually seen as oval or round, like a bubble that completely surrounds you and travels with you wherever you go.

NOTE: This is an actual page from the Year & A Day course lessons that has been made available to you for a limited time. (The additional pages in the lesson are accessible only to students.)

This info is a prerequisite for the Magick course, so it's a preview into both.

They can be made as thin or as thick, as permeable or impenetrable as you desire.

They can be just outside your skin or beyond your reach, but more usual is at the distance of a normal aura... at roughly arm’s length all around you.

There are probably dozens if not hundreds of ways to Shield, so the methods given here aren't meant to be The Best And True Ways, but they're easy to do and suitable for most needs.

Here we’ll cover a few simple but effective protective Shielding spells you can do, and when to use them. But first, let's look at why Shields are important to Wiccans...

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Ask The Priestess:

My Brother Channeled the Spirit of a Very Old Witch

Dear Priestess,

Starting off, I'll say that I'm very in-tune with feelings and what's going on around me beyond my own two eyes. Some of the people who I tell about it call it being an empath, others being psychic, others tell me I need to visit someone to get a psychological evaluation.

However I've suppressed it most of my life because its a nuisance at times.

I recently visited Salem, MA. I purchased Tarot cards, a list of victims of the trials, and a pentacle. When we got back to [my brother's] apartment he decided to mess about with the Tarot cards.

Started normal... however thinking back on it, as soon as the pentacle and Witches list hit the table, things got weird.

Basically my brother (a skeptic), all of a sudden his Tarot readings were extremely accurate. Scary accurate.

The first one or two I brushed off, however when he decided to do a "random" layout with no pre-determined meaning it hit me. To start I all of a sudden got extremely dizzy, then another thing to note would be the fact that his "random" layout was an actual lay of cards used in readings.

I believe that my brother channeled the spirit of a very old witch.

So on the walk home, I kept getting this feeling of someone being by me. Not right over my shoulder but someone else around me watching and whenever I would look in that direction, there would be nothing. I just blew that off as nerves at first, but when I got back more things happened.

First when I was in the bathroom — images flashed of a younger woman, with dark blonde hair, and she was mumbling. At that point I knew something was going on.

Then I went out to the couch to relax, but that feeling of someone being there was still apparent. I walked to where I felt something and I got an immediate feeling of electricity. Walked away because I didn't want to do what I call "opening the flood gates".

Of course there were a couple more times I got the image flash, but I eventually was able to make it stop. As write this now I feel the same feeling of uneasiness and get the occasional brush on my hands.

The main reason I'm telling you this is because I cannot tell if she's going to be malevolent or not, but she's quite adamant on making herself known.

I believe its a non-malevolent thing, however it is my brother and it worries me.

With that said, if she's non-malevolent I might as well keep her around and give her the attention she wants. 

As for my brother, his skepticism is along the lines of disbelief yet opening himself and inviting anything around.

A. in USA

Dear A,

It is within the realm of possibility that your brother was channelling someone, but it’s FAR more likely that he’s just a natural at reading Tarot.  They are designed to be accurate, after all. And the layouts are often fairly instinctive.

And while people have a lot of superstition about Salem, it's actually just a town like many others that killed people as Witches.

Channelling

Dealing with a Spirit Hitchhiker

What I mean is, she’s more likely to want help than company.

Helping a Spirit Find her Way

	Light a candle outside of the area that you will designate as sacred space.
	Cast a strong Circle, after lighting the candle, and exclude it from your Circle.  Of course, this includes inviting the Elements, as well as any guides, guardians, deities, angels, etc. that you like to work with. If you don't have any, or even if you do, I recommend calling on Archangel Michael, who is extremely powerful and adept at this kind of work.
	Light a second candle inside your Circle, asking your allies to be there and keep you safe and clear from others’ energies.
	Ask them to tell the girl very firmly and lovingly that it’s time for her to leave, as you do the same, with blessings... and ask them to guide her to follow the Light in the outer candle to her spiritual Home.
	When you sense that she’s gone through into the Light, thank them all and open the Circle. Once she's gone into the Light, she can't — or won't — return to this plane.
	Extinguish the outer candle, with thanks to the Divine, and then the inner candle.
	It's also a good idea to cleanse the energy of your home and yourself, after, to remove any links that might possibly remain. Smudging is always good, in my opinion, but you could also rub sage leaves on yourself and your altar and doors/windows/mirror edges, or sprinkle salt around, or use sound (bells, drums, tambourines...) to shake up and clear the energy... or any other cleansing practice that works for you. (You might want to see the House Cleansing Ritual here.)

Do you have a question you'd like answered? Email the Priestess and your question could be answered in a future issue.

(Note: questions may be edited for brevity or clarity. No real names will be disclosed. For reasons of legality, all questions become the property of Wicca- Spirituality.com.)

Fave Quotes

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.

~ Dion Fortune

Nothing is totally impossible. Miracles are just events that are extremely improbable.

~ Richard Dawkins, biologist

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.

~ Richard Bach

To attempt to manifest what you want, without passion, if it’s dead inside, is like dressing up a corpse.

~ Patanjali

. . . . of all hindrances to Magickal action, the very greatest and most fatal is unbelief, for it checks and stops the action of the Will. Even in the commonest natural operations we see this. No child could learn to walk, no student could assimilate the formulas of any science, were the impracticability of so doing the first thing in his mind.

~ MacGregor Mathers

Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

~ Jesus [Mark 11:23-24]

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I still have doubts, and I'll admit there is still some fear, but for the first time, I feel Her.

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Energy-Field Barometer

The Hidden Shadow: Revealing & Healing

However, I won't talk about the mortal level of things, but the spiritual, Divine's-Eye perspective instead. I hope you can understand what I mean, without getting caught in the world-level drama of it.

The Gap Between Ideals & Reality

Now that these shadows and fears and underlying rage are coming into the light, we are able to deal with them productively.

The Shadow in All of Us Needs Healing

²   Please note: I am not speaking about politics.

If you find yourself starting to feel emotionally reactive to the topic, it helps to just to notice it, and explore it like an intriguing discovery.

Ask yourself, not in judgement but because you want to learn more about yourself —

• What exactly am I feeling?
• What's that feeling about?
• What thought in me made that feeling come up? What makes it live?
• What's underneath it?
• What is it trying to do? And why?
• Can I listen more deeply, beyond these feelings, to perhaps learn something new?

If you know EFT (Tapping), tap on those feelings/thoughts. A great way to heal and rise above our emotional triggers.

• become more conscious of our hidden privileges and unacknowledged motivations
• think clearly about whether these match our ideals
• take action, where they're not, to bring us closer to what we want for ourselves and for our planet

Dealing with the Trauma of the Times

	When things speed up around you, remember to slow down. This especially goes for your mind! When it starts whizzing around, focus on relaxing your body... and, if possible, your thoughts (meditation is great for that; try drawing or colouring a mandala if your mind just won't slow down).
	Take deep calming breaths — breathe in through the nose, deep into your belly and pelvis, pause for a moment, and then exhale through the mouth. Nice and slow! Exhale with a descending "ah" sound. This calms your vagus nerve — the body's primary means of communication with the brain. This automatically signals your body to release and let go... and your mind along with it.
	Imagine you are slowing down to the speed of plant growth. Or like pressing rewind on a video. Slow down till you get right here. Being in nature helps with this a lot.
	Shake. Yes, like a duck or deer after a near- miss. Shake it out! Shaking is medicine.
	Learn pendulation: it's switching attention like a pendulum swing, between where you are feeling agitation in your body, and something outside you like a beam of light, the sky, a plant. (This and other helpful techniques were explained in the October/November issue of Silver Chalice Wiccan 'Zine. )
	And the biggest one: Love what arises. Love the anger, the fear, the pain, in your body. Whatever arises, love it. See Matt Kahn for more.
	If you are Caucasian, remember that probably the trauma you're experiencing is in part the death of the illusion of what the world is — for many people of colour this is all not particularly new to see the world operating this way. 3 3   If you are a person of colour, I am aware of the limitations of what I am saying here and am sorry I haven't found a perfect way of saying it. Please advise as you feel moved, with gratitude. Like all deaths, there's a period of grieving that's required. When we are forced into grief, it's easy to get angry about it, and/or to fall into denial about it. (Those are 2 of the stages of grief, after all.) Otherwise, it can seem to overwhelming to deal with. Those are healthy responses up to a point — as long as we recognise that these are defense mechanisms and we don't stay stuck in them or in defending them. Breathe through the grief; allow yourself to feel it and know that it — like all things — shall pass. (This and other helpful techniques were explained in the October/November issue of Silver Chalice Wiccan 'Zine. )
	Do what is yours to do; it is enough. Together we'll get through this challenge and heal the world as we do.   💖

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