Old Weavers of Spider Magic
By Phoenix the Elder – The Weavers of Old are a great mystery to us now, long forgotten and leftover drops, she finds herself in a few folktales and mythology around the world, whose husbands and consorts were given the main focus to be handed down to future generations up til today. But steeped into […]
Mesopotamian Magic āšipūtu
By Phoenix the Elder – I have abstained from any kind of magic and paganism my whole young life, my adult life, and my more mature adult life. I wasn’t sure why, in particular, that I chose this, but I knew not to for many reasons unexplained. I’ve had many mystical experiences this lifetime, too […]
Xiwang Mu 西王母 Immortal Chinese Goddess
Compilation and additions by Phoenix the Elder – “Introduction: I have done a series of compilations on the oldest powerful Chinese Goddesses. In the article’s list, I used the same cover image, so when you scroll through you can identify it. You can also search on the articles page: Chinese Goddess for convenience. As I have […]
Dreaming Mirrors
By Phoenix the Elder (Compilation and additions) – My intention with this article is not magic, but to inspire being conscious when it comes to rituals, practices and dreaming, especially if these are natural gifts. Since we all have past life karma, the complexities of dreaming or those applied to waking dreams (signs, synchronicity and […]
Real Chaos Magic and the Dream Bridge
By Phoenix the Elder – I want to share an example of what a chaos magic is from the walk as a shaman and dreamer. I went to a Magic Convention in Portland (an LGBTQ one) last spring, with a friend of mine who is a retired commercial pilot. Everyone was young (under forty) and […]
Magic and the Goddess Melinoë
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain Dreaming – I wanted to look up some Magic Gods and Goddesses to see traces and clues to the ties of karma, that real living magicians and sorcerers are connected to, from the eras of our past history. Well, its everywhere in the ancient scripts of Greek and Mediterranean and Middle […]
Mi’kmaq Magic, Weather and Medicine
The Mi’kmaq Nation are people at Tufts Cove, Nova Scotia in Canada and their name Mi’kmaq derives from the term nikmaq, meaning “my kin-friends”. They have significant populations in Canada, United States (Maine); Newfoundland, Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, British Columbia and Prince Edward Island. Related ethnic groups are the Abenaki, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, […]
She Wolves of Midwinter, Slavic & Balkan Animism in the traditions of a Shaman (part 2/2)
By Phoenix the Elder – Continued from Part 1: Animism and my Shaman dreaming ritual: Zack is in High School and does drugs weekly, and because of that, he was weak in the dream and had lost power and if he continues this behavior in his waking life, by 30 he will have no more connection […]
Third Moon of Winter 2017
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Greetings and welcome Dreamers, Artists, Healers, Singers, Soul and Moon Lovers! We are now entering our last and final moon cycle of Winter, which includes a partial Solar Eclipse on Thursday February 15, 2018 @ at 27º Aquarius (traditionally the Pisces New Moon). For the newbies here, see the link […]
Wind Horses, Lightning Horses, Water Horses and the Mari Lwyd Horses
Compilation along with writings by Phoenix – Winged horses combines the sacred animism symbolism and the Soul (bird wings of air) together in the form of air & earth, or movements of the horse clans. The chthonian (underworld) animal of the psychopomp (retrieving the soul from the underworld) is a state for purifying karma and spiritual […]