The Art of Incantation

Aunt Clara: "Now . . . there was a time that, when you put a spell on someone, they knew it. Not now . . . oh no, not now."
(Bewitched, Season 1, Episode 14, "Samantha Meets the Folks")

An image of an incantation I used in casting a spell on the evening of March 5, 2021. While I was brushing my teeth later that night, a spirit came to me and told me that the goal of the spell would come to pass.

Three days later, on the evening of March 8, I learned that the goal had been achieved. It had actually been achieved on March 5, between the time I cast the spell and the time I was brushing my teeth. It just took three days for word to reach me.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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Lammas Images

( My Father, Italy, Primagosto [Lammas] 1988 )

I was initiated into the Craft the following year, 1989, at the age of 19.



The Lord of the Sun

Hand-colored image in the Coven's Book of Shadows, before the section on the Lammas Sabbat.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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Sic Dixit Pater Cornutus

So Says the Horned Father

My first Tarot deck ever was a Marseille Tarot, which I loved. Within a couple of years, I had been seduced to the Rider Waite Tarot, although something about the images on the Minor Arcana cards bothered me, for some reason I could not then articulate.

Later, however, I cast the Rider-Waite aside, when I learned that none of the Wise, whom I later met, ever used it. And they taught me the distinction between the old style deck and the new one. And then they taught me that I could read the old style deck like a book. In fact, I could read the world like a book. In fact, I was learning what some Witches call "True Speech."

As my mind grew accustomed the idea, I found that it was so. I could spread out 21 cards and read the Seeker's world. If I had only a brief question, I could draw fewer cards and get a sentence as an answer. I learned that the World and the Holy Powers could and would speak to me, if only I submitted to their language, in humility.

I once asked the Horned Father a question on a certain topic, and combed out the above cards. This was His answer:

"My child [He always calls me that], let the Sons of Darkness dig their own graves."

Word.

He was telling me to mind my own business and to not get caught up in the situation facing me.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

* Copyright to Coven Rochester