Introducing Moon Magick

My first connection with magick came in the form of the Moon. I’m not sure why I felt inclined to learn about lunar energy first – I don’t know if that’s the natural order of things, or if that just suited me best. At any rate, my connection to the moon, her phases, and her [...]

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Introducing The Magick Compass

I’ve created a new page (as opposed to category) at The Road Home called Magick Compass. You can find it in the top navigation links (as opposed to the categories on the right of the page).
The Magick Compass is something I created years ago when I was first exploring the world of magick.  With it, [...]

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Wonderful Weekend: More Tree Spirits

This weekend, although we did go to T’s sister’s and his mothers, we weren’t able to go out on the 4-wheeler again into the woods for tree-spirit photos.  However, I did have an opportunity to visit an extremely enchanted tree. This was such an incredible experience – I’ve never seen anything like it, and yes… [...]

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The Magick Moving Through Art

Written in 2001
 
“The magick moving through art is the ability to visualize without seeing, listen without hearing, speak without talking, and feel without touching.” ~Wendi Friend~
I over-slept today. I awoke frantic and frazzled due to bad dreams and thick stress. My eldest child, Atlas, was already gone off to school. The younger two decided that I [...]

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By Way of Feng Shui

Written by:
Wendi Friend
“We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.” ~J.B.S. Haldane~
Do you ever feel displaced in your environment, off balance in an unexplainable way? Having bad dreams? Keep finding yourself [...]

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A Magickal Garden

Written by:
Wendi Friend
Growing a garden can be an excellent springboard for nurturing the health of your body, mind, and spirit. Long recognized for the physical properties of foods and medicines produced, gardening is also a benefit for its natural tranquility. Most of us are familiar with the phrase, “Stop and smell the roses.” Maintaining a [...]

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Word Magick

Written by:
Wendi Friend
Most of us won’t deny the power of words – especially those of us who rely on them as tools of our trade. We, as a race, regardless of the language we speak, depend on words to get us through each day. We read words on menus when we order food in restaurants; [...]

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Quilting Magick

Written by:
Wendi Friend
Introduction
About eight years ago, give or take a few months, I received my first quilt. My father, long-since divorced from my mother, was married to a woman who had no children of her own. During two brief visits to my father’s house, I met and bonded with his wife. Shortly after those visits, [...]

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I Made This Up!

Written by:
Wendi Friend
When it comes to conjuring spells, writing incantations, brewing potions, or working other forms of magick; with the exception of honoring the threefold law and the law of harming none, the greatest benefit is that there are no set rules etched in stone to be followed. True, you can go to any bookstore [...]

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Power of the Pentagram

Written by:
Wendi Friend
Gazing into blackened sky, it’s the stars that are appreciated or wished upon. Actors, singers, dancers and artists are referred to as stars because we associate them with brightly shining glimmer and glitz. When a student does well on a paper, they’re often rewarded with a star. Our human bodies, when standing with [...]

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