Hod is spelled Heh, Vev, Daleth.  Heh is the first Breathe from which G-d gives life, and the Window through which we can see clearly.  It represents the clarity and truth found in the intellectual Hod.  Vev is the Hook and And.  It is about coming together, binding things together.  This is seen in Hod as the embracing of hardship.  Daleth is the ( Read more... )

Last night, when I was walking in the snow again, I started thinking about the Pearl Pentacle and how it relates to the Tree of Life.  Law, Knowledge, and Wisdom are easy to place.  Love and Liberty are a little harder ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about the Iron Pentacle of Feri Witchcraft when I've been walking that last few times.  Before, I talked about the Iron Pentacle as the lower triad of the Tree of Life.  I've been looking at it in relation to the entire tree ( Read more... )

I Asked for Wonder, A Spiritual Anthology from Abraham Joshua Heschel's writings (Page 96):

Defiance of Despair

A religious man
is a person who hold God and man
in one thought at one time,
at all times,
who suffers in himself harms done to others,
whose greatest passion is compassion,
whose greatest strength is love
and defiance of despair.

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A Witch's Esbat:We are all dressed now in our black garb, adjusting our cloaks as we stand now in humility and poverty; the beginnings of all magical power.
Magical power doesn't begin with confidence or pride.  It begins with humility.  It begins with Shiflut.  Before we can hope to change the world around us, we have to first realize and ( Read more... )