There are many ways in which we experience our compass, which might be incorporated into our daily lives and not just our ceremonial, ritual or magical practice. The boundaries we establish, where they extend and what worlds they permit to cross over are within our power.
Within modern witchcraft, two positions have made themselves apparent in recent years that is somewhat surprising, and is perhaps informed in some small way by the increased popularity of witchcraft and its emergence as a mainstream, and commercialised, endeavour.
Within the folklore and custom of the common man, we must remember that the Devil manifests a force that challenges the status quo, driving evolution a necessary agent of change that encourages us, through the trickster’s repertoire of turns, to grow and adapt to circumstances.
Defence of Witchcraft Belief is a wonderful book, thoroughly covering a lot of ground that is pertinent to the belief in witchcraft in the late sixteenth century. The time period, theologically and politically, was a very nuanced and difficult area of study, sufficient that professors have dedicated entire lives to the study thereof.
As the sun is suspended in darkness’ pregnant pause, stillness grips the land between the dying of the old and the emergence of the new. Held betwixt this fractious tension, between temporality and eternity, timelessness renews time just as the Light emanates anew from the yawning maw of blackened Night. The Saturnian shadow of Father Time turns the hourglass, facing two ways as Janus the night watchman of the boreal portal.