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| Call of the Witch Dark as black, Silver Moon, Here our Call, Our Baneful Rune, Earth, Air, Fire & Water, Come unto me, Fill us with Power, From the Land, Come & Join, From the Sea, Come, and Obey, From the Fire, Dance & Hiss, From the Air, Leave softly a Kiss, Now is the Time, This Witching Hour, Come my Sisters, Dance With Healing Power, I call to you, This Darkest of Nights, Invite the Lady in, The Queen of Heaven, The Mother of All, Call your Lord, Our Consort, Our Bright Knight, He is the Horned One, the Protector of Nature & Night, Sing Louder Witches, Chant in rhyme, Welcome the Ancestors, One at a time, Keep the Evil Spirits Away, Call in the Helpers, The Undines, the Gnomes, The Fey, Call in the Lizards, Bring Magic this way. Within this Sacred Space we Call, Come out, Come out, Witches One and All. It is time for Sabbat, It is time for ye to say, Come Out Witches, I call you this Blessed Day. With equal fervor, with equal balm, Ride the Rune, Sing our Song. With Power & Light, Blessings May, So Mote it Be, Our Magic, Our Circle, Our Sisters, Let us Be One & Play. �Gilraen Kailen 2004 |
| Druid Magic There are three Parts to Druid Magic.. Setting the Wards Shapeshifting The Druid Egg |
| Setting the Wards: Protecting with Wards The words reward, warden, steward, warn, wardrobe, warrant, wary and beware all come from the same Old English root "ward," that meant to guard, protect, or watch out for. "Setting the wards" is a magical technique for guarding and protecting an area or a person. We know that the Druids protected places from unwanted attention. The Roman poet Lucan wrote of a grove never violated over the ages, which people did not use for worship but left fallow for the gods. Guarding people and places is within our ability today and setting wards is one way to do it. |
| Shape Shifting Fith-fath (fee-fawh) is a Scots Gaelic term meaning "deer aspect" or taking on the appearance of a deer. There are numerous Celtic stories of people being changed into deer or other life forms. However, it is possible to share with you other ways of shape shifting that are Druidic, magical and far more usable. When you learn to shapeshift, the purpose is to become like something else, so like it that you are almost it. For example, Welsh Mystic Shapes call on the practitioner to work with the animal he/she feels closest to. On this path you are called upon to examine your interests, pursuits and personal tendencies as these will assist you in identifying whether you want to work with animals of the sea, sky or land. Once you have selected the element that attunes closely to you think deeply about specific animals. Visualize them, visit animal refuges, wildlife sanctuaries, aquariums, and the like. Hike in the wilderness and sleep out to experience which animals come to you. Make representations of your chosen animal to help you shift into that reality. These separate realities all exist simultaneously and it is up to us to find the veil or crack between the worlds. |
| The Druid Egg Pliny the Elder, a Roman scientific writer, mentions the Druid Egg in his Historia Naturalis ("Natural History," XXIX.52). He described it as a small talisman called a "serpent's egg" that gave an unfair advantage to a Gaelic Vocontian chief who carried one during a legal battle. Pliny wrote that the Druid Egg was the size of a small apple with a pocket shell made of something like cartilage. For our purposes, the Druid Egg is a smooth round, oval, or, yes, egg-shaped stone that can be conveniently fit in a pocket. It may be of any material including glass, and of any color. Be alert and sensitive as you look for a stone that signals to you. The Druid Egg is a tool used for developing single-mindedness. Stones are good at waiting, at not leaping into the future, therefore they can help you to stay in the present. Learn to focus your gaze and awareness on the egg until distractions die away. You will soon understand why this is known to be a tool for empowerment as it will assist you to become centered and ready to concentrate on any matter at hand. |
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