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Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

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Our way out involves both resistance and renewal: saying no to what is, so that we can reshape and recreate the world.…

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In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.

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Our goal is not to get out of the world or to get out of life, but to integrate it, to celebrate…

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Where there's fear, there is power.

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Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together…

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There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which…

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The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule…

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The Goddess is the Encircler, the Ground of Being; the God is That-Which-Is-Brought-Forth, her mirror image, her other pole. She is the…

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Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.

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Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should…

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Sexuality is a sacrament.

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It happens over and over again—a group of people come together, fired up with passion to create change. They begin with huge…

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For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing.

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All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer…

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Our physical senses and our embodied brains allow us to perceive only a small fraction of reality. We cannot see microbes or…

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Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at…

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The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change…

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In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess ~~ we connect with her; through the moon, the stars, the ocean,…

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Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and…

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“even a drop of happiness could color a whole well of misery.”

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On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer…

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Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted…

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If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.

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Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

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