pagan
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There are presences that do not enter the life of a witch as belief. They arrive as recognition. One does not adopt them as an idea nor construct them through study alone. Something older stirs when their name is spoken, as though an ancestral memory awakens beneath the present life. Hecate has always belonged to…
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From the earliest stirrings of my path, the archetype of the Dragon spoke to me with quiet insistence. As a young girl, I dreamt of them, sensing their presence like a hidden truth beneath the surface of things. Yet when I searched for mentors—those who claimed to walk the Dragon Path—I first found not wisdom,…
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If you have ever held a mandrake root, you can see why it has stood apart from ordinary herbs. Mandragora officinarum is the name given to it in the old botanical texts. Mandragora comes from ancient Greek, a word tied to enclosed gardens and fields and also associated with a root shaped uncannily like a…