Co-founded by Christopher Penczak, Steve Kenson, and Adam Sartwell, the Temple of Witchcraft started in 1998 as a system of magickal training and personal development, and eventually developed into a formal tradition of Witchcraft.It’s the holidays.Bah. Don’t get me wrong, I usually love the holidays, but let’s be honest: this season is hard for some of us… and this year, I’m firmly entrenched in camp “some of us”. No, I am not depressed. No, I am not in despair. I know what I am: grieving. And grief, especially when you had to tuck it away for awhile and not let it do its full course… well, Beloved, grief is patient Read More...
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Host Adam Sartwell talks with Temple High Priest Mur Windtalker from Victoria, British Columbia, about his work with the Temple. You can find more about Mur and his offerings at his website, windtalkermethod.com Read More...
by Christopher Penczak, edited by Tina Whittle As a teacher, I find myself saying the same thing in multiple ways because you can never be sure what language, which symbol, and what moment will help someone understand a subtle teaching. Magick is taught in a twilight language of poetry, ritual, and symbol along with metaphysics, philosophy, and mythology. Teaching is often stirring up the right atmosphere and circumstances to transmit an idea that is not easily put Read More...
It's part 2 of Adam's conversation with Karen Ainsworth, High Priestess and Assistant Dean of the Temple Mystery School Read More...
I used to be a lady. Very compliant. Very demure as they say. The smiling, cheerful, obedient one. When I was a child, there was a song they taught us to sing each day. Like a mantra over and over again. Warning: I have encircled these words to mute and silence the power of them, because I believe songs are spells…this one certainly is a tool for brainwashing young, innocent minds. So, before you read the following Read More...
It's part 1 of an extended conversation between host and Temple founder Adam Sartwell and Karen Ainsworth, High Priestess and Assistant Dean of the Temple Mystery School. Part 2 coming soon Read More...
by Christopher Penczak, edited by Tina Whittle Magickal spirituality is many things to me, but two keys have always been the quest for attainment and the intention of embodiment. I see myself as part of an ancient, non-linear, decentralized timeless tradition of magickal priesthood, and I find kinship in others who are also a part of it, in this time or ages past, whether they would necessarily use this description or not. Despite identifying as a Witch Read More...
Samhain: Through the Eyes of a Broom Closet Witch Blessed Be! Welcome back and welcome to “For Broom Closet Witches”, with a new twist! Claire de Lune here, a High Priestess in the Temple of Witchcraft tradition, with the 21st article in our “For Broom Closet Witches” column, where, as a Broom Closet Witch, I turn inward and show that, even if a Witch can do nothing outwardly to celebrate the Sabbats, there will always be ways Read More...
Host Adam Sartwell talks with High Priestess Dawn Costorf, the new lead minister of the Temple's Cancer Ministry, associated with the archetype of the Mother and the Divine Feminine Read More...
Meditation does not come easy for me. I enjoy meditation journeys to be sure: I have an active imagination and it loves meander and discover along a guided path. Sitting still in silence is another thing completely. Yet, for the past several months, without fail, I have been diligently sitting for five minutes of “being still”. Then seven minutes. It is a daily struggle. So this week, I decided to flip my morning routine on its head Read More...
