| What is your interest in an article with a title that | | | | candles, magic potions, magic healing and magic herbs. |
| mentions witch craft? | | | | This magic and witchcraft knowhow would have |
| Is it because, like thousands of others around the | | | | been passed down through each generation, from |
| world, you've had a long held curiosity of witchcraft | | | | mother to daughter. |
| and what it actually is, or are you like many, many | | | | Our ancestors seemed to have been free thinkers. |
| other people? Are you actually aware of something | | | | They visualized themselves as inherently part of the |
| bigger than, or 'outside' of yourself that you can't | | | | nature around them, closely observing the cycles of |
| explain; but you're nevertheless, sure is there? It may | | | | life being played out every year as the seasons |
| just be that you're someone who already has an | | | | changed. They created myths that tied in with these |
| interest in witchcraft and you're simply interested in | | | | cycles, bringing a greater understanding of what life |
| finding out what this article is all about. | | | | and death meant to them. |
| Whatever your reason, I will try and provide you | | | | They understood that everything in nature was |
| with a little insight into the 'Natural Magic' approach to | | | | balanced and intrinsically connected. For example, |
| magic witchcraft. | | | | looking at the seasons, they could see the process |
| Natural Magic in this form has been practised by a | | | | of birth, death, growth and re-birth as a complete |
| relatively small, but ever growing group of individuals | | | | cycle -- now known generally as 'the sacred wheel of |
| in Sussex, England -- for over a decade. It is derived | | | | the year'. Women were revered as the living |
| from an approach that follows and combines the | | | | Goddess, acting out in life, the sacred wheel of the |
| teachings of both Wicca witchcraft and Pagan magic. | | | | year for all to see. |
| The important aspect of the way in which Natural | | | | Natural Magic as a modern approach to witchcraft |
| Magic has been taught, is that it encourages the | | | | teaches our students how to access and harness |
| individual to set their own level of participation and | | | | these incredible natural energies that our ancestors |
| the freedom to practice within their own comfort | | | | did and teaches them, through practical easy lessons |
| zone. Students have thrived on this approach; an | | | | -- how they too can harness these energies -- |
| approach which completely empowers them to | | | | empowering them to experience a completely new, |
| practice without the traditional confines of a coven | | | | enlightening and liberating dimension to their life and |
| and most importantly, at their own pace and at a | | | | how they want to live it. Natural Magic has enabled |
| time of their choosing. It's an approach that has been | | | | them to tap into and release the previously dormant |
| highly successful and has offered our students a real | | | | but incredible magic spirit that resides in all of us. |
| insight that teaches them how to become their very | | | | The Natural Magic pathway teaches not only how to |
| own Natural Magic and Spiritual Guru. | | | | achieve long held desires, but also teaches 'a way of |
| Today we have a variety of traditions all practicing | | | | life' -- how to take control over your life and how |
| their own form of 'witchcraft', but what is the history | | | | you want to live it. It also teaches you how to bring |
| of witchcraft -- where does it come from? This is a | | | | real positive changes, happiness and contentment into |
| very difficult question to answer, because no firm | | | | all areas of your life. By following the Natural Magic |
| origin could ever be established. We know that | | | | pathway, our students have been empowered to |
| practices that could be described as witchcraft go | | | | take real meaningful control over every aspect of |
| back to at least a few hundred years AD -- in | | | | everything they do, no longer feeling bombarded by |
| northern Europe particularly. However, before we | | | | all the daily dross that life seems to throw at them. |
| move on, it's well worth mentioning that many | | | | How about you? do you sometimes feel lost and |
| researchers would argue that Witchcraft (in various | | | | alone, wondering what it is that is lacking from your |
| forms) can be traced to periods long before this; but | | | | life? Are you one of the ever growing multitude of |
| this could be the topic of a book in itself, let alone a | | | | people searching for meaning; feeling and knowing |
| short article. | | | | that something is missing -- but not knowing what |
| If we take a look at Britain, It is doubtful that our | | | | that 'something' is? The very fact that you are here, |
| ancestors called themselves Witches -- in fact they | | | | reading this page, puts you firmly amongst the ever |
| were known as cunning folk and charmers -- they | | | | increasing number of people who are looking beyond |
| would use their innate knowledge of herbs, plants, | | | | the constraints of 'normal' society, striving to |
| midwifery and spell craft to help the community, | | | | experience the secrets of a spiritual world that exists |
| usually for money. They would practice different | | | | all around us. |
| forms of spells and magic such as, magic ritual, magic | | | | |