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 The Goddess of Women, Health, Immortality and Magic
By Phoenix the Elder – The Immortal of Heaven, the Supreme Goddess Xiwang Mu or Wangmu Niangniang as she is known in China, or simply known as the Mother of the West and Immortal Peach Goddess. Xiwang Mu 西王母 is the Immortal enlightened Goddess of Women, overseeing Health, Immortality, and Magic! She is known as […]
Slavic Domovoi
By Phoenix the Elder – When Autumn comes (over the last ten years), the return of my apprentice’s Domovoi who has a specific name given to her in her dream. I first met him on the China Russian border in my dream walking and he took me north towards a dense forest. I don’t remember […]
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 […]
Third Moon of Winter 2019
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Greetings Moon Lovers, Artists, Dreamers and Empaths, we finally made it to the last Moon of Winter, the last of our Seasonal year. It begins Monday, February 4th 2019 as we now prepare for a transformation of seasons, the death of winter and the rebirth of spring. Winter begins to fade, […]
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 […]