The Flame in the Cauldron: A Book of Old-Style Witchery

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Few words entice and incite like the word witchery. Thousands of selfidentified witches, pagans, and magical practitioners embrace the word, but seldom go beyond the practice of the wellaccepted and learned forms of "traditional" witchcraft to explore the path of oldwitchery. Orion Foxwood invites readers to walk on the path of oldstyle witchery, a naturebased practice that is as old as the swamps and as wild as the woods. For the first time, Foxwood reveals some of his own deeply personal rituals and spells directly from his own grimoire of witchery; he highlights the differences (and similarities) between Wicca, "traditional" witchcraft, and old style witchery. By weaving his own path to witchery throughout the book, he gives readers examples of how to identify the way toward this path. There is a revolution among the Pagan and Witchcraft communities, a movement away from prescribed ritual and neopagan practices and a reaching back toward what Foxwood says is in the heart of any true witch: a thundering call deep within their very blood to become a healer, a reckoner, a protector of magical arts, and a guardian of the wild woods. Praise for Flame in the Cauldron Praise for The Candle and the Crossroads f LAME The Witch Lives One Witchery Beyond the Forms Witchery from One Witch's Perspective The Challenges of Finding Witchery An Old Form Witchery Checklist A Witch Must Be a Witch The Four Ways of Witchery Two The Baby Steps The Witch-Blood: The Great Teacher Awakens Why Witches? Is Everyone of the Witch-Blood? The Witch-Knowing Three The “Toucher” is Touched Sensitizing and Synchronizing with the Mill The Serpent and the Well A Technique for Entering the Mill Four The Witch-Flame as the Essence Five The Parents of Witchery Is there a Devil in Witchery? Six The Light of the First Flame: The Legend of Beginnings The Tool-Flames of Witchery The Fire of Spiritual Communion Seven Core Beliefs and Practices Eight ReEngaging u/ith Our Spirit and the Spirit World The Roles of the Witch in the Modem World Nine Orion's Tips for Sane Witchcraft (Ponder and Apply to Living) Ten Seeking the Familiar Spirit Gathering Your Power and Centering Your Spirit Pulling the Witch-Flame Composing Charms of Enchantment A Magical Space Waters of Moon-Fire To Conjure Power from the Witch's Pot (Cauldron) Awakening the Children of the Earth A Call to the Witch-Blood, Witch-Knowing, and Witch-Flame Wisdom of the Watchers To Our Readers