Jack Greenhood

Spirit in Nature

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To me, intention is basically just thought + action. Living your life with intention is the opposite of being on autopilot. It can look like stirring your pot a certain number of times in a particular direction.

From: Intention Obsession, by Erica Feldman

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All occult work is the very essence of creativity; occult work is the deepest expression of the self. To believe and to trust in the Invisible World, and one's own potential mastery of the Unseen forces, to trust in and use the as-yet-unknown parts of the self -- this is what occult work is traditionally all about. From: Positive Magic, by Marion Weinstein

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"Whatever you touch will touch you back. The simplest way that I can try to explain it is that when you spend time touching the core of the earth, soaking in the stars, communing with the moon, aligning with the elements, working with the gods and spirits--it changes a person. It's as if their wavelength begins synchronizing to different wavelengths and the person's energy hums like a symphony. " From: Psychic Witch by Mat Auryn

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Imbolc is a cross quarter day, the halfway point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. Some people write about it as the beginning of Spring. But that depends on where you live. The standard media picture of Imbolc tends to be the flower Snowdrop (galant husnivalis) sprouted and flowering through the snow. But they do not readily grow here in North Florida, where we may get snow maybe once every 10 or 12 years. This year was a snow year, with 4 inches falling at my house. But just over 10 days later on Imbolc, the snow was gone, and the hope of the coming Spiring was beginning to show. The first signs here are the White Violets, our Snowdrop, and the Taiwan Cherry.

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He wondered what manner of thing in reality sympathetic magic might be; as described by the anthropologists it was just plain idiocy; but he had a shrewd suspicion the anthropologists never really got at the heart of anything. In sympathetic magic one imitated a thing and so got into touch with it. From: "The Goat Foot God," by Dion Fortune.

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The winter days are short, no more than fragments. A pallid and ineffectual sun pierces the fog and clouds but lingers briefly and without warmth. January is a halting, feeble month, a time that gives a glimpse of a world without Brother Sun. From: "Earthclock: a narrative calendar of nature's seasons," by Anita Nygaard

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The work of magic involves transformation, and the first transformation is the shift of perception. Once we establish that anything is possible, then the world as we know it can be flexible. From "Positive Magic," by Marion Weinstein

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At the end of the day, when the journey is done, what will matter most is that we have used our time on the lonely road to building personal gnosis. Devin Hunter, "The Witches Book of Mysteries"

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Our lives extend in long limitless paths, behind birth and after death, not to mention in other realms and dimensions. Earth Magic, Marion Weinstein

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Magic, indeed, is all around us, in stones, flowers, stars, the dawn wind, and the sunset cloud; all we need is the ability to see and understand.

Doreen Valiente

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As above, so below.

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Spring Equinox sun in clouds.

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