The Traditional Witchcraft series … revisited by Melusine Draco

If you have never read any of this series you are missing a real treat. They are like a walk in the wild and reading them is like devouring a cream bun on your birthday!

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As Trevor Greenfield, the protective spirit and guiding light of Moon Books never tires of reminding me, I am the Moon Books Matriarch, having published my first book with them in January 2012 (the first month the imprint started) and 23 books later I’m is still there with a new title (Sexual Dynamics in the Circle) out in March 2021.

In fact, my first book for John Hunt Publishing was for the O Books imprints, Mean Streets Witchcraft, but this was re-packaged two years later as the first in the ‘Traditional Witchcraft’ series for Moon Books as Traditional Witchcraft for Urban Living. For the witch whose career confines them to an urbanized environment, regular Craft practice may often seem like a futile gesture, especially if home is a small, gardenless-flat. Even the suburbs can be magically incapacitating, if there is constant noise from traffic and neighbours…

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Midsummer’s Eve in Ireland

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Midsummer’s Eve-

21 June;

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A hundred years ago, and for many centuries before, Midsummer’s Eve was celebrated throughout Ireland on the 23 June, that is, on Saint John’s Eve.

The bonfire was central to the activities of Midsummer’s Eve, and those who witnessed the flames more than a lifetime ago noted that the landscape was filled with hundreds of bonfires, creating a beautiful aspect by illuminating the country as far as the eye could see. These fires were lit on elevated sites including mountain tops and hills, but also in fields, at crossroads and on the streets and in squares of towns and villages throughout the country. In Dublin bonfires were outlawed by the Lord Mayor in the 1700’s, and as a substitute, the towns’ people attached candles to trees and bushes to maintain the tradition in some form. Gradually, during the nineteenth century, coercion bills eliminated bonfires from many…

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LOVE YOUR MOTHER

We really have to get this message over to the people. Commercialism and technology have made people insensitive to nature yet we are a part of it, by destroying it we destroy ourselves.

Decolonization and Pagan Relationship with the World

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This might get a bit complicated but I want to write a bit about the concept of decolonisation and how this should be part of how we are as pagans.

Luckily for me, somebody else has expressed this in a much better way than I could ever come up with so I’m asking you first of all to listen to this conversation with Dr Amba J. Sepie, who brings this up in a very understandable and absolutely bang-on-target way.

I don’t expect anyone to just listen to this just because I have told them to, so I’ll try with quotes and paraphrases to explain its relevance to the ethos around The British Druid Order, and how this removes the BDO from the fringes of western neo-paganism and places it within a wider , global understanding of the world and our human place within it from an indigenous (and essential) understanding.

This…

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