A bit of witchy poetry that I pulled out of my Elemental Witchcraft manuscript due to length constraints… Enjoy! Seeking the Pentacle Path Seekers who take the witching quest, for truest truths, with powers to test, for treasures sought and love attained, must venture there and back again. You’ll have tales to tell, and scars to tend, but there is wisdom only struggle can wend. The trailhead lies beneath your feet, to sovereignty, truth, power, love and completion, like crossing... Read more
The Wind Full Moon in Libra/Aries opposition peaks on Monday, March 25, 2024 (Eastern Timezone 3 am). There is also a Lunar Eclipse during that early witching hour. If you really want to tap the oomph of this moon, work your magick the night before, on Sunday the 24th, after the moon enters Libra at 4:38 pm. Then you can stay up late to watch the show! For this occasion, I dressed and charged these special Lunar Magick Candles with... Read more
The Hermetic Law of Compensation speaks of how the old masters would work to lift their Personal Ego into a higher plane as an attempt to escape the swing toward pain. If you can look at your life at a much higher scale of vibration, keeping sight of the greater achievements and benefits that comes with experiencing life’s challenges, then you might avoid much of the drama and trauma that could accompany those lessons. But that is a tall order for the average witch of today, what with all the horror, threat and struggle we all face just to survive in this dominator society. Read more
Along my ongoing quest to better understand the patterns of lunar cycles according to zodiacal pairings and Lunar Leadership, my study required a look at the larger patterns of Blue and Black Moons, and how those special triads of lunar events switched the order of Full and Dark moons within pairings. That's when I took the deep dive into the Soli-Lunar Metonic cycle, and the patterns of how the sun and moon align throughout the two calendars. Then I stumbled upon a mysterious future Yule night of 2052, when wyrdness may fall, and the dark lunar goat goes missing... Read more
This kind of Lunar Witchcraft might be weird. It names whole lunations by the full moon in the middle, divides dark and new moon into separate phases (making nine total), works the magick of lunar pairings, tracks the trading lunar leadership after blue and black moons, and then noticed the really cool wyrd thing...no matter how you slice this moonpie, you begin and end in the same sign as the sun. Read more
Allow me to share my recent fascination in lunar magick: celebrating Full Moons in six zodiacal pairings to balance each axis of human consciousness. I'll include some ideas for how to balance the Axis of Identity during the Wind and Blood Moons in Aries and Libra. Read more
Proudly presenting our collection of guided musical meditations, now available for download. I teamed up with the incomparable, Pranavam Das, who studied sacred sound within the ashrams of India, and now offers his musical landscapes as an act of devotion. Together we are producing the guided meditations from my book "Elemental Witchcraft: A Guide to Living a Magickal Life Through the Elements," set to his musical compositions. The first nine meditations are now available for purchase from my shop's digital products website: https://www.thesojo.com/sojo-digital-products Read more
Presenting my 2024 Wheel of the Year astrological calendar for Witches and Pagans, integrating the Sabbats, Full and Dark Moon Esbats, and lunar leadership. The following information is presented within the framework of the Pentacle Path of Elemental Witchcraft as outlined in my book. As you celebrate the Wheel of the Year, these are the auspicious times and dates I recommend for powerful rites in the Northern Hemisphere; times given are for Eastern Time Zone. In 2024 we have a Blue Moon on July 21, which switches the leadership of lunar pairings from Full moons to Dark Moons. Read more
For magickal purposes, Blue Moons are the second full moon to fall within the same zodiac sign. There are no blue moons in 2023. On August 30th, celebrate the Harvest Moon because it is the only opposition of the Sun in Virgo to the Full moon in Pisces to occur this year. Let's discuss why! Read more
"The Baphomet should never be cute." I overheard this spoken among our customers at the Mystic South Conference this July. They scowled with disapproval at my own colorful rendering of this often misunderstood symbol. Bemused as I was, that comment got me to thinking about the misunderstandings surrounding the original Baphomet symbol since its creation by Eliphas Levi 169 years ago. I'd like to talk about that more. Read more
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