Announcements

Temple Scorpio lead minister Elsa Elliott and psychic medium Danielle Dionne are facilitating a series of Death Cafes this year at the Robin’s Nest, in Bellingham, MA, beginning on Saturday, Februrary 13th at 5:00 pm.

While the Temple of Witchcraft is not sponsoring these events, we want to get the word out to our community about this important discussion. These cafes are open to all who wish to come, regardless of their belief system. The facilitators will provide a confidential, supportive, and open forum for discussion. The hope is to change the narrative about death to be one of ease. Death cafes look to provide a place and time where people of all walks of life can come together and speak about that which has become unspeakable: death. We come together simply as people who will die.

During the past century, death has been removed from everyday experience and relegated to the hospital or nursing home. Some of this is due to the advances in medicine that have provided remedies for many of the diseases that were primary causes of death in former times. A side effect of this good news is people have been separated from their own mortality and that of loved ones and have been unable to talk bout it easily. Death Cafes provide a space to talk about it, to help connect to your mortality so you can live more fully in the moment and be able to think about your relationship with death. As David Kessler says in his workshops on the needs of the dying and grief and bereavement; “Despite medical advances, the death rate is still 100%.”

Please join us. Please contact Robin’s Nest to let them know you are coming so they can have enough cake and other refreshments.

Our new page profiling all of the certified teachers of the Temple Mystery School is now available on the site: just click “Teachers” under the Mystery School listing of the Education menu to view it, or click here.

The Temple is happy to announce that registration for Christopher Penczak’s year-long Magickal Astrology class is now open. The class is offered in-person at the Temple in Salem, NH, as well as online via email and audio download.

• Click here to go to the class home page

An intensive and powerful introduction to astrology through the lens of a magickal practitioner. In the ancient world, astronomers, astrologers, magicians and priests were all one vocation, and the stars were looked to not just for insight and prediction, but as living spiritual forces active in our life. Visionary meditation, ritual and spellcraft where ways you could actively engage the forces of the heavens and work cooperatively with them in your life.

The Temple of Witchcraft participates in the Amazon Smile program, which donates a percentage of your purchases on Amazon.com to a charity of your choice, including the Temple! Just click on the link or image above or go to smile.amazon.com and choose “Temple of Witchcraft” as your charity for donation. Then just make sure to start your shopping from the smile.amazon.com page so your purchases are recorded as supporting the Temple! [continue reading…]

The Temple of Witchcraft is pleased to once again host author and teacher Michelle Belanger. Michelle can be seen as a psychic and team member on Paranormal State. She has also made appearances in documentaries on A&E, the History Channel, and HBO, and appearances on channels such as Reelz, Fox, History Canada, and CNN Headline News. She is the author of numerous books, including The Psychic Vampire Codex, The Psychic Energy Codex, Haunted Experiences, The Dictionary of Demons, The Ghost Hunter’s Survival Guide, Haunting Experiences, Psychic Dreamwalking, and Walking the Twilight Path, and has recently released her first novel, Conspiracy of Angels. [continue reading…]

The Temple is pleased to announce that registration for new Witchcraft III, IV, and V courses in our Mystery School, taught by High Priestess Alix Wright here in Salem, NH, are now open! Click on the links to go to the individual class pages for more information and links to online registration.

Witchcraft III Year-long In-Person (Salem, NH) Apprenticeship with High Priestess Alix Wright: Class dates (Third Tuesday of each month) 11/17/15, 12/15/15, 1/19/16, 2/16/16, 3/15/16, 4/19/16, 5/17/16, 6/21/16, 7/19/16, 8/16/16, 9/20/16, 10/18/16, 11/15/16. Initiation TBA. Classes held at the Temple of Witchcraft, 49 N. Policy Street, Salem, NH from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. once each month.

Witchcraft IV Year-long in-person (Salem, NH) apprenticeship with High Priestess Alix Wright: Class dates (first Tuesday of each month) 2/2/16, 3/1/16, 4/5/16, 5/3/16, 6/7/16, 7/5/16, 8/2/16, 9/6/16, 10/4/16, 11/1/16, 12/6/16, 1/3/17, 2/7/17. Initiation TBA. Classes held at the Temple of Witchcraft, 49 N. Policy Street, Salem, NH from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. once each month.

Witchcraft V In-Person Apprenticeship (Salem, NH) with High Priestess Alix Wright: seven week intensive January – March 2016: 1/26/16, 2/1/16, 2/8/16, 2/15/16, 2/22/16, 2/29/16, 3/7/16. Year-long course (fourth Tuesday of each month) beginning in March 2016: 3/22/16, 4/26/16, 5/24/16, 6/28/16, 7/26/16, 8/23/16, 9/27/16, 10/25/16, 11/22/16, 12/27/16, 1/24/17, 2/28/17, 3/28/17. Initiation TBA. Initial classes held at Sunshine Farm in Chester, NH. Remaining classes held at the Temple of Witchcraft, 49 N. Policy Street, Salem, NH, from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm.

Questions? Inquire with Alix via email at [email protected].

In Witchcraft, we recognize that things go in cycles, waxing and withering, fertile or lying fallow for a time. One such thing is the Temple’s offering Wheel of the Year sabbats in Portland, Maine. After doing so for some time, High Priestess Silver Lyons and High Priest Casey O’Brien need to turn their attention elsewhere. This means the Maine sabbats will be put on hold (“sabbatical” as it were) beginning with this month. The scheduled Mabon and Samhain dates in Maine are cancelled and, should the Temple begin offering sabbats and other events in Maine again, we’ll announce them via our website and social media. We would like to thank Silver, Casey, and all of the Temple volunteers and members of the Maine community for their work and support in helping to turn the Wheel, and we hope to see many of you at our regular New Hampshire sabbats and upcoming events!

Temple High Priestess Virginia Villarreal will be offering an in-person year-long Witchcraft I apprenticeship for the Temple Mystery School in the Houston, TX, area beginning in November 2015. Classes will be held at Elvenwoods in Porter, Texas (35 miles North of Downtown Houston) from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm once per month. For class dates and full details, see the Witchcraft I class page or email Virginia directly at [email protected].

An in-person version of the Witchcraft I: The Inner Temple year-long apprenticeship, taught by High Priestess Alix Wright, in Salem, NH, is now open for online registration.

Topics include the history and role of the Witch, magickal ethics, trance-inducing techniques, instant magick, magickal theory, energy manipulation, protection magick, psychic self-defense, psychic development, aura gazing, aura cleansing, chakra balancing, psychic healing, spirit guide contact, past life exploration, shamanic journey and building your personal place of power, your inner temple or soul shrine. Develop a solid personal practice in the internal arts of witchcraft. Use “instant” meditative magick to transform your inner and outer life.

Unlike many basic 101 courses, Witchcraft I provides a deep foundation for all magickal and spiritual studies, rather than a quick spell-book and rituals. For those desiring to meditate, develop psychic skills, and start the path of the Witch. A foundation piece to further training in the five levels Temple of Witchcraft tradition. This year-long course fuses material from The Inner Temple of Witchcraft text (required reading) with previous unreleased rituals and rites. The Inner Temple CD Companion is also recommended. Students are expected to complete required homework assignments. Please register in advance. Payment is $300 for the full year. Part of the Temple of Witchcraft’s Mystery School Training.

See the Witchcraft I: The Inner Temple page of the Mystery School section of the website for class details, dates, and a link to online registration. Email [email protected] with questions about the class or to inquire before applying.