Witch Boot Camp
Tools of the Craft
Altar: This is a special, flat surface set aside for magickal workings and/or religious acknowledgments.
Amulet: Considered an object of protection that has been charged to deflect specific negative energies or thought forms.
Ankh: An Egyptian hieroglyphic that is widely used as a symbol for Life, Love and Reincarnation.
Aradia: This is the name of a Italian Goddess sworn to protect her people against the aggression of masculine faith and its persecutors during the reign of medieval terror. She taught around 1353. She was imprisoned more than once, escaped several times and eventually disappeared.
Arcana: This is the two halves of the Tarot deck. There is the Major Arcana, that consist of 22 trumps. They reflect the dominant occurrences in our lives. Then there is the Minor Arcana (also known as the lesser Arcana), they consist of 56 suit cards. They assist the Major Arcana by reflecting smaller occurrences in our lives.
Astral: Another dimension of reality.
Astral Travel/Projection: This is the process known as separating your physical body from your astral body to accomplish travel on the astral plane.
Athame: This is a ceremonial knife that has been cleansed and consecrated. It is NEVER used for blood-letting, and very rarely used for cutting anything on the material plane.
Bane: This means bad, evil or destructive.
Banish: To rid the presence of. To magickally end something or exorcise unwanted entities.
Bind: To magickally restrain someone or something.
Blood of the Moon: A woman’s menstrual cycle. If this occurs at the time of the full moon, she is far more power than any other time of the month.
Book of Shadows: This is a collection of information for a Witch’s reference.
Witches personal recipe book .
Bolline: This is a white-handled knife used for magickal purposes such as cutting. Example: inscribing candles, or cutting a branch for a wand.
Cabala: Is the ancient Hebrew magickal system.
Call: Invoking Divine forces.
Chakras: In the human body there are seven major energy vortexes. These vortexes are: 1. The crown (white) 2. forehead (purple) 3. the throat (blue) 4. the chest (pink or green) 5. navel (yellow) 6. abdomen (orange) 7. groin (red). Note that there are colors associated to each chakras. To mention also there are smaller vortexes in the hands and feet.
The Charge This is a story of the message from the Goddess to her children.
Channeling This is where you allow a disincarnate entity to “borrow” your body to speak to others in the forms of writing or verbal.
Charms: The can be amulets or talisman that have been charged to perform a specific task, an incantation being said over it.
Cleansing: To remove negative energy from an object or place by utilizing positive, psychic energy.
Consecration: To bless an object or place by charging/instilling it with positive energy.
Coven: Is a group of Witches, (13 or less), that work together for positive magickal goals, and perform religious ceremonies.
Covenstead: Is the place that Witches meet where they can feel safe and at home. This could be a building or a place.
Dedication: This is where the individual accepts the Craft as their path and promises to study and learn to reach the goal of adeptship in a given tradition.
Deosil: This is clockwise movement.
Divination: This is the act of using magickal tools/symbols to gather information on people, places, things and events in the past, present and future.
Dowsing: This is the use of a pendulum or stick to find the location of a person, place, thing or element. This is also very useful in answering yes and no questions.
Drawing Down the Moon: This is a ritual used during the Full Moon for witches to empower themselves and unite their inner selves with a particular deity.
Earth Magick: Magick that uses the powers and forces of the Mother Earth.
Elder: Is a group of people that oversee the operations of the church and its functions.
These people are experienced and educated in Magickal adeptship and counseling.
Elements: Earth, Air, Water and Fire. They may also be associated in a magickal circle with direction, East is Air, South is Fire, West is Water and North is Earth. The center of a circle is Spirit or Akasha.
Enchantment: These are magickal objects that have been charmed and kept secret and hidden from all human eyes and affects a hidden aura.
Evocation: This is to call something out from within.
Fascination: Also known as mind-binding, this is an act of mental effort to control anther person’s or animal’s mind.
Gaea/Gaia: This is a Greek Goddess, now meaning Earth Mother or Mother Earth.
Green Man: This is another name for the God.
Handfasting: This is the name of a Wiccan or Pagan marriage ceremony.
Initiation: This is the experience and/or awareness of a person, that their personal and earthly reality has been changed.
Macrocosm: The world around us.
Microcosm: The world within us.
Magick: Focusing your will and emotions to cause change in both the macrocosm and microcosm.
Magick Circle: This circle protects the Witch from outside forces while conducting ritual magick. The magick circle is considered the doorway between the worlds, and allows us to move between the two.
Magickal Systems: This is the set of guidelines relating to specific Gods and Goddesses or Traditions, Denominations, Sects and/or Pantheons.
Pantheon: This is a group of Gods and Goddesses in a specific religious structure.
Pentacle: This is an upright 5 pointed star that is encircled. Each point of the star has a meaning: 1. Earth 2. Air 3. Fire 4. Water 5. Spirit. /ether.
Priestess: Is a female that is devoted to the service of her chosen deity and humankind.
High Priestess: Is the female leader of a coven, she plays the role of the Goddess in certain ceremonies. This could also be a solitary Witch that has dedicated herself to a particular God or Goddess.
Priest: This a male that is devoted to the service of his chosen deity and humankind.
High Priest: Is the male leader of a coven, he plays the role of the God in certain ceremonies. This may also be a solitary male witch that has dedicated himself to a particular God or Goddess.
Reincarnation: To return to the physical body. The soul upon death, exits one body and begins to prepare to come back into life within another physical form.
Ritual: A physically/mentally focused ceremony to thank or honor your chosen pantheon, or to perform a magickal working.
Runes: Are used in divination and magickal workings. They are a set of letters from the old Teutonic alphabets, inscribed on wood, stone, clay, tiles. They are widely used in all forms of magick.
Scrying: Divination method using specific tools, such as a bowl of inked water, where the diviner “sees” normal or mental visuals or information without any visual.
Sigil: Is a magically oriented seal, sign or other device used in a magickal working.
Spell: This is a magickal rite, an extension of mental/emotional energy, either spoken aloud, written, said to oneself, it could be drawn and even expressed in the form of dance. There must be a need for the spell to be successful.
Talisman: Is a magickally charged object, to bring something to the bearer.
Vision Questing: Also known as pathworking, The use of astral projection, or dreamtime to accomplish a specific goal.
Webweaving: The sharing of information between magickal people by means of any form of communication to assist each other in their studies and life goals.
Wheel of the Year: This is the full cycle of the seasonal year, beginning with Samhain in some traditions and Yule in others.
Widdershins: This means to move Counterclockwise.
Working: Known as magickal working. This is the process used magickally to reach a positive goal.
Magic vs. Science One very interesting aspect about magic and the craft is that it is more science than religion. Every aspect of witchcraft is almost purely scientific based on the manipulation of energy and the human mind. So often, I get questions from people asking me to prove it. These same people ask the same question of Christianity as I did so many years ago. Prove it. The wonderful thing about the craft is that there is nothing intangible; nothing that you cannot see. There are no all-knowing gods hidden in the sky that push the clouds around or make the rivers flow. Our gods are the clouds and the rivers. One of the most refreshing things about the craft is knowing that one can go outside at any time, on any day and lay down on their God/dess and feel it between their fingers or flow between their toes or breathe it into their lungs.
Everything in witchcraft is real. There is no spooky-ooky magic.
There is no Hell. There is only that which is real and the belief in things one can see and feel. Witchcraft is likely one of the most down-to-earth religious practice.
Hope this helps with your knowledge of the terms and tools of the craft there are many I did not touch on we will discuss more later .
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