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The Wheel of the Year at LVNHM 2020

10/28/2020

 
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Saturday, December 12, 2020 at 12 PM PT
The Wheel of the Year
Presented by Inner Circle Sanctuary

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Join Inner Circle Sanctuary and the Las Vegas Natural History Museum for the December to Remember event.

Our very own Elder Lady Sister Wolf will be giving a lecture on the Wiccan Wheel of the Year. Tune in for a magical good time.

Online meeting details to follow

Las Vegas Natural History Museum
https://www.facebook.com/LasVegasNaturalHistoryMuseum/

Visit our event invite on Facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/950627152013539/

#WheelOfTheYear #Wicca #Witchcraft #ICSEvent #InnerCircleSanctuary #LasVegasNaturalHistoryMuseum #LVNHM
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Scourge Making 2020

10/28/2020

 
Check out these beautiful scourges from our crafting event
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Scourge Making
with Inner Circle Sanctuary
Saturday, November 21, 202 from 6 PM - 9 PM PT
​on Zoom

Let ICS allay your fears about this traditional magical tool by showing you how to make a scourge and by explaining what it’s used for. When finished, we will consecrate our new tool together.

If you’d like to join our online crafting event, you can pick up a kit for $10 which will include:

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Mercury Retrograde Spell

10/19/2020

 
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The way Inner Circle Sanctuary lives with Mercury Retrograde is to stay in touch with Him, via Candle Magick. 
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In this case, we use a Blue Candle, Mercury Oil, and draw/inscribe His Planetary Glyph and Rad (symbol of three diamonds) on it.

-For Jar Candles, this Rad can/should be carved into the wax.
With Mercury Oil, we anoint the top counter-clockwise, because He appears to be moving backwards through the heavens. This is NOT a Reversing Spell, but to stay close to Him. 

-If one uses Pillar or Household Candles, we suggest anointing towards one’s self, for the same purpose.

We light these candles during Mercury Retrograde, and until He is out of His shadow - when He reaches the point where Retrograde started.

****Never Leave Candles Burning Unattended!*****

Ours is a Candle Shop Tradition when it comes to spellwork, namely from Bell Book and Candle, and Cat n Cauldron, which were both home to the Temple of the Inner Circle, headed by Lady Morgana and Lord Mordred. Bell Book and Candle was the oldest Occult Shop in Las Vegas, and had its own deep roots through Tarostar and Charmaine Dey.
Read our post about what is Mercury Retrograde: ​https://www.innercirclesanctuary.com/updates-and-info/mercury-retrograde
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A Requiem for John Lennon

10/11/2020

 
A woman came into the World Famous Bell, Book & Candle several years ago, and gave our Lord Mordred her Golden Dawn material. This treasure trove included Enochian tablets, illustrations of Sacred Geometry, Talismans, and Rituals, including this Golden Dawn style Requiem for John Lennon. John Lennon would have been 80 this year.
Golden Dawn style Requiem for John Lennon 1 of 4
Golden Dawn style Requiem for John Lennon 2 of 4
Golden Dawn style Requiem for John Lennon 3 of 4
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Book Review: Garbed in Green by Casey Giovinco

10/7/2020

 
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Garbed in Green:
Gay Witchcraft & The Male Mysteries
by Casey Giovinco
A Book Review by Lord Tanys

Garbed in Green is one of the best books on Witchcraft I have read in a long time, and easily the most interesting. While I have read Witchcraft books by Gay Male authors, this is the first I have read that is about Gay Witchcraft, for Gay Male Witches. I really enjoyed reading it, and I refer to it quite frequently.

Casey writes about Gay History in a flowing, easy to understand manner, from modern to ancient. For anyone who is looking for historical accounts that are not the usual Wicca/Witchcraft fare, this is certainly eye opening and important.

He talks about the Mysteries for several chapters, and these are some of the most interesting in the book. Here the author talks about Goddesses and Gods, Legends, Polarity, in a very diverse context of ages and cultures that opens one’s eyes to the vastness of the Mysteries themselves, especially when seen from a new perspective. Few books of Witchcraft and Wicca touch on what Casey writes about.

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Are You Gonna Go My Way

10/5/2020

 
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Elemental Placings

There is no one way to do anything in the realm of Magick. To think that yours is the right way, the only way, or even that there is a right way, or an only way, will only break your heart.

The Elemental Placings is one such example. Inner Circle Sanctuary uses the:
          Air/East 
               Fire/South 
                    Water/West
                         Earth/North

placings that was popularized by the Golden Dawn. The Aurum Solis uses this system as well.
Since the GD attributes virtually everything to the Qabala, YHVH (the Tetragrammaton) is divided by equating
          Fire with Yod,
               Water with Heh,
                     Air with Vau, and
                          Earth with Heh final.

This also shows the Court Cards of Tarot: King (Father) Fire, Queen (Mother) Water, Prince (Son) Air, Princess (Daughter) Earth.


Here on Earth, we can see a reversed progression, the path through the Elements back to Spirit, by looking at the Zodiac Signs, starting with any Earth sign.
          Capricorn (Earth)
               Aquarius (Air)
                     Pisces (Water)
                          Aries (Fire)

is an example, and this cycle repeats itself all through the rest of the Zodiac.


None of this explains why the Elements are placed where they are, however. Only in the Hexagram Ritual is it more obvious, if you know a bit more about the Zodiac Signs. On a Horoscope, the natural homes of the Signs at the Quarters are
          Aries (Fire) East,
               Capricorn (Earth) South,
​                    Libra (Air) West,
                         Cancer (Water) North.

The Golden Dawn draws different Elemental Hexagrams in each corresponding quarter.
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So, we see even in one Magical Order, two different placings of the Elements in the Cardinal Directions. What matters is the purpose of the Ritual.

Aleister Crowley, in his brilliant Star Ruby, a very user friendly version of the Pentagram Ritual, and of which he wrote two versions, are thought by some to have Kabbalistic attributions of the directions, the fixed signs of the Zodiac by others. The Star Ruby is also performed anti-clockwise, which we will also discuss later.

As the theory of the Elements was being created by ancient Greek Philosophers, each was assigned two qualities each of Hot, Cold, Dry, and Moist. Most modern Magical Orders and Witchcraft/Wicca Traditions explain them as such.

By switching Fire and Air, half of the Golden Dawn system stays intact, keeps one half of the Elemental Circle Active and the other Passive, and is still recognizable to most. This is how the Cabot Tradition of Witchcraft assigns their quarters. It looks like this:
          EAST/Fire (Dry and Hot)
               SOUTH/Air (Hot and Moist)
                    WEST/Water (Moist and Cold)
                         NORTH/Earth (Cold and Dry).

It flows very nicely, and worked well in some Aurum Solis experiments I did.


Flip this Circle upside down, so that
          NORTH/Air,
               EAST/Fire,
                    SOUTH/Earth,
                         WEST/Water,

and the flow of the Aristotelian Elements remains, and this is how The Clan of Tubal Cain practices, and many modern Traditional Witches as well. The Elements are directly opposed from their opposites in these last two systems as well.


Some Covens and groups use geography and topography to determine where they place the Elements. Nehallenic Wicca, though created in Philadelphia, PA, sees the Elements from a Continental Europe point of view, so
          EAST/Earth (Asia)
               SOUTH/Fire
                    WEST/Water (Atlantic Ocean)
                         NORTH/Air.

I wish I could find the site again for the Temple of the Ways which practices and teaches Nehallenic Wicca as it is really interesting.


Mind you this is just from Western Magical Traditions. Those from the East may be completely different.

Which brings me to Circles, and how they are cast and/or danced. The Golden Dawn moves deosil (clockwise) to bring Solar energy to a Working, and widdershins (counterclockwise) to release said energy. Crowley’s Star Ruby moves widdershins while the Golden Dawn Pentagram Rituals (Invoking and Banishing) move deosil.

Inner Circle Sanctuary casts our Sabbat rings deosil, and picks them up widdershins. There is no moral quality to this, just how we see energy. Similarly, we anoint Spell Candles deosil to attract, and widdershins to reverse (including Mercury Retrograde Candles, as He appears to move backwards from our vantage point on Earth).

Tarostar’s Circles and Candle Anointings are the exact reverse of Inner Circle Sanctuary’s, and he explains it so excellently with the Pentagram of Earth. The Invoking Pentagram of Earth is drawn widdershins, the Banishing is deosil.  

Evan John Jones, a late Magister of the Clan of Tubal Cain wrote in The Star Crossed Serpent, that Treading the Mill is always done widdershins.

Some Traditional Witches dance deosil for celebrations, and widdershins for Magical Working. The Regency danced both counter-clockwise (for the Goddess) and clockwise (for the God) in their Rituals.

I won’t even get into the Golden Dawn pentagrams and Aurum Solis Pentalphas, or the different ways the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram by different groups - vibrate the Name when you “Pierce the Eye of Yahweh”, or while drawing the Pentagram, or like the Thelemic Golden Dawn does it, breathing so each line of the Pentagram has an inhale or exhale. There are different ways to do everything.
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Is there a point to all this? Magick is All - All is Magick. It all works, if it is worked with understanding. And understanding other Traditions is eye opening, and promotes support amongst us. There are different techniques for different purposes, and as the Farrars say in the Witches Bible “…every Coven is a law to itself…” which also applies to Traditions, and individuals.

What matters is the Work - may yours be Great.
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by Lord Tanys
09/12/2020

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The Complete Golden Dawn System Of Magic http://newfalcon.com/regardie1.html
Aurum Solis https://www.amazon.com/Rediscover-Magick-Gods-Goddesses-Revealing-ebook/dp/B00KWEY7IK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1FFAFA6IV2AR2&dchild=1&keywords=jean-louis+de+biasi&qid=1599257990&sprefix=Jean-Louis+d%2Caps%2C540&sr=8-1
The Star Ruby explained https://www.praemonstro.com/ceremony-of-the-sun-and-moon-copy
Laurie Cabot’s Book of Shadows https://www.amazon.com/Laurie-Cabots-Book-Shadows-Cabot/dp/1940755069/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EITS8YIJ8TI&dchild=1&keywords=laurie+cabot+book+of+shadows&qid=1599258148&sprefix=Laurie+Cabot%2Caps%2C228&sr=8-1
Evan John Jones and Shani Oates, Clan of Tubal Cain https://www.amazon.com/Star-Crossed-Serpent-Origins-1966-1998-ebook/dp/B086Q2DG12/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Evan+John+Jones&qid=1599258213&sr=8-3
Interview with Tarostar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX84PXKAE6Y and The Sacred Pentagraph https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Pentagraph-Books-II-III/dp/0692600523/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=Tarostar&qid=1599258368&sr=8-6
The Regency https://ronaldchalkywhite.wordpress.com
Practitioners of Thelemic Golden Dawn https://www.facebook.com/Practitioners-of-TGD-113920176707830/

Event: All About Samhain

10/4/2020

 

Event Photos:

Our event kits contained:
*Samhain oil
*Samhain incense, powdered ​ 
*White candle and parchment to write a message
to a deceased loved one. 
*Handmade Geomancy divination tool
by Lady Silverwolf
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2020 AT 6 PM – 9 PM
All About Samhain
on Zoom

Halloween. All Hallows’s Eve. Feast of the Dead. Spirit Night. Samhain. Whatever you want to call it, it’s the most wonderful time of the year.
It’s time to honor our ancestors and invite them to join us in our feasts and merriment.

It’s time to honor the dark seasons that are headed our way.

It’s time to learn all you can about this fantastic sabbat and season.

Inner Circle Sanctuary will be discussing:
  • The history of Samhain
  • Myths and symbolism surrounding All Hallow's Eve
  • Crafts, spells, and divinations you can do at this time,
  • How ICS celebrates the end of Summer
  • Many other themes running through this fun, yet reverential, season.

Our lecture will be held online through Zoom.

Please consider donating $10 to a charity as your entrance fee to our event. As always, if you are unable to donate, please let us know. Due to the nature of our students, many will donate extra to cover the cost of those who can’t.

Please message us a copy of your donation receipt so we can send you the meeting information.

Have some snacks on hand so we can try to keep up the tradition of potluck lectures!!

Please email us with any questions at [email protected]

Visit our event invite on Facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/357225378661254/

#Samhain #AllHallowsEve #Wicca #Witchcraft #ICSEvent #InnerCircleSanctuary
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Event: Sam Hain's Trunk or Treat

10/4/2020

 
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2020 AT 12 PM – 3 PM
Sam Hain's Trunk or Treat
at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Las Vegas
3616 East Lake Mead Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89115

Inner Circle Sanctuary, UUCLV, and Spiral Scouts Desert Pack would like to invite you to a trunk or treat! Our volunteers will be handing out goodies bags from 12p-3p at the UUCLV. We are following common safety guidelines and state mandates. Come enjoy a safe and fun trick or treat experience. Hand sanitizer will be available.

Guidelines for visitors:
  • All school aged children and older will be required to wear masks at all times.
  • We ask that only one family at a time be at each car.
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Guidelines for Volunteers:
  • We encourage all Volunteers to wear costumes and to decorate their trunks.
  • Volunteers must wear masks at all times.
  • Each car will be separated by 6 feet.
  • Each car will hand out goodie bags rather than having a communal bucket of candy (the goodie bags can be as simple as a Ziploc bag with a few candy pieces.)
  • ​NO HOME MADE ITEMS.

If you would like to volunteer please contact Inner Circle Sanctuary on Facebook or at [email protected]

See our Facebook event invite here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2204729066338807/

#Halloween #Samhain #TrunkOrTreat #TrickOrTreat #ICSEvent #InnerCircleSanctuary #SpiralScouts #UU #UnitarianUniversalists

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