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.by Christopher Penczak, edited by Tina Whittle In many ways, I find it funny to be considered an "elder" of a tradition, not only because of my age, but also because the more I practice, the more I realize how much I don't know and look to go deeper. However, through the frame of reference that comes from many years of serious practice within a community, you get to observe trends and changes in thought within that Read More...
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How come sometimes we can feel like we have laid our hearts wide open for someone and the message is just not getting through? And why is it in some relationships we do our very best to understand each other’s emotional language but we can't? Let's see if the language of astrology can help us to decode the emotional language of the people we love the most and hold close to our hearts. I've been working with Read More...
The Temple's Sagittarius Ministry and Mystery School are pleased to announce new in-person Witchcraft II: The Outer Temple and Witchcraft III: The Shamanic Temple courses are now open for registration. Taught by High Priest and Temple co-founder Adam Sartwell, these courses will be offered monthly at The Robin's Nest in Bellingham, Massachusetts. Witchcraft II begins in January 2020 while Witchcraft III begins in April 2020. Please visit the individual class pages for details and links to the registration pages Read More...
by Christopher Penczak, edited by Tina Whittle It looks like a fork in the road. On one side is the path of knowledge. On the other side is the path of wisdom. What is the difference, and which should we choose? We live in an age of knowledge. Information surrounds us, and we are its constant mouthpiece, not only shouting facts but also opinions. The voice of knowledge speaks incessantly—it pauses for listening in order to agree Read More...
We all need to recharge our energy from time to time, especially when life is hectic and we experience a lot of stress. But what happens when our partner's way to recharge is different from our own? How can we make the differences into an asset instead of something that tears at the relationship? And what about those times when a person in your family or close to you is going through a tough time, but whatever Read More...
We at the Temple of Witchcraft have been looking for ways to do outreach so our distant members can feel more connected to the greater work of the Temple. The Pisces ministry presents a full moon circle here at the Temple's home in Salem, New Hampshire, every month. This year our focus for those moon circles is spell-work. We were inspired to produce some spells for the Temple full moons and to make them available to all Read More...
The Temple's Sagittarius Ministry is pleased to announce the opening of registration for an upcoming Witchcraft II: The Outer Temple year-long class offered in Jackson, Mississippi, starting in January 2020. The class will be taught in-person by teaching assistant and Temple Seminary graduate Amanda Dear, overseen by High Priestess Alix Wright. Completion of Witchcraft I is required to sign up for this course. For details and the link to the online registration form, please see the Witchcraft Read More...
Now is a wonderful time to dive deep into the mysteries. The Asteroid Pallas Athene is at 22 degrees in Scorpio (mysteries) together with Mercurius (communication and learning) at 22 degrees in the same sign. Not too far away at 15 degrees we also find Venus. This is a beautiful combination for going both very deep (Scorpio) and very high (Pallas Athene). If you like working with herbs and plants, you can find new and very exciting Read More...
by Christopher Penczak, edited by Tina Whittle The world appears broken. Our experience of our society is illness. Injustice reigns, and the cosmic order is in disarray. We tell ourselves, as practitioners, what we have been telling ourselves for years—these are the last vestiges of the Age of Pisces. We are ushering in a new world. And perhaps we are right. But it doesn’t feel like that, and after working personally and in community and seeing no Read More...
The Sagittarius Ministry of the Temple is pleased to announce the opening of new upcoming levels of Witchcraft I, II, III, and IV in Porter, Texas. Taught by High Priestess Virginia Villarreal, these classes begin in November, January, August, and February, respectively, and are now available for registration. Virginia is also offering a seven-session in-person Mysteries of the Wheel of the Year class, starting in November of 2019. Please see the individual class pages from our Education page for Read More...
