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BEGINNING YOUR STUDIES

CASTING THE WITCH'S CIRCLE workshop is an introduction to the core practices used by our local Sydney Coven is the focus of this workshop. Learn how to use the Witch's Circle to transform your life and restore a connection with the psychic reality. The workshop is usually run over 4 consecutive weekly sessions. I also run these for private groups occasionally. Held over two Saturdays as a weekend intensive workshop.

Workshop facilitator is published author Tim Hartridge.

Next workshops:
Starting Saturday 1 November Tim will be running workshops at Blackcats and Broomsticks in Sydney from this November 2008.
Sydney CBD starting Friday 10 October 2008.
Expressions of interest please email for updates: info@witchesworkshop.com

CASTING THE WITCH'S CIRCLE WORKSHOP
SUMMARY
The workshop overall is broken into 4 parts over 4 weeks, with each week includes a theory session followed by a practicum in the form of a number of ritual practices. Also included is a copy of the Witches Workshop Handbook, reference manual to the workshop.

WEEK 1
Theory session: Brief intro and how to get started; Wicca verses Witchcraft and the contemporary expressions of the Craft; The influence of Alchemy and Ceremonial magick in the Witch's Circle work; How our Coven functions and an introduction our core method and approach to Circle ritual. (Any questions are encouraged throughout.)
Ritual practicum: An introduction to the Middle Pillar (Chakra) practice; The use of Chi or psychic energy in ritual; a method of Circle casting and using the Enochian tablet of Union; An Hermetic magickal primer exercise; Applying the 'alchemy' of the Witch's Cauldron; Condensing thought-forms for improvised Spell-casting. Feedback time.
Reference works from Gerald Gardner, Doreen Valiente, Franz Bardon, Margaret A Murray.

WEEK 2
Theory session: Jung, Alchemy and Magick; Hermetic magick as internal Alchemy and applied to the Witch's circle; What is really happening when the Pentagram is used in ritual; Rosaleen Norton's practice of Witchcraft and method of work; Primal tools of trance, dance and drum. Viewing a Coven ritual - 7 minute video documentary, an archive of our old Coven in ritual; What is the Witches' Cone of Power. Questions.
Ritual practicum: Using dance for power raising; 3rd part to Middle Pillar (Chakra) practice; the Circle casting; Attempting power raising with dance; Applying trance techniques. Feedback time.
Reference : Rosaleen Norton, Aleister Crowley, Carl Jung, Michael Harner

WEEK 3
Theory session: Using Alchemy as an analyzing tool; Principles of Spellcraft using techniques of Sympathetic magick; Fundamentals of Sigil Magick and constructing a Sigil; the Witch's use of alchemical processes in spells. Questions.
Ritual practicum: Reinforcing the rituals - Middle Pillar (Chakra) practice; the Circle casting; Using the Sigils in a practical Spell-casting combined with raising the witches' Cone of Power with dance; Alchemical incubation of the spell. Feedback time.
Reference : Austin Osman Spare and Mrs Patterson, James Frazer, Phyllis Curott, Paul Huson, Dion Fortune.

WEEK 4
Theory session: Witchcraft and the ancient Mystery Cults; Pompeii and Dionysus; Aradia and the Goddess of the Strega; A central sacred Myth of contemporary Witches; Inner meaning to the Initiation rite and the Pentagram; Decoding sacred time and space in Wicca. Questions.
Ritual practicum: the middle pillar and Circle casting rite; Techniques for deepening trance and connecting to psychic energy in the Circle; Using the Tarot oracle to divine a path ahead. Feedback time.
Reference : Joseph Campbell, Robert A Johnson, Ginette Paris, Virgina Beane Rutter.

What should you read?
These following link to books are highly recommend and will help you greatly improve your comprehension of the workshop and subject material.
Click HERE for Recommend Reading

UPDATES:
Check WitchesWorkshop Facebook Events list for updates or email us.
Casting the Witch's Circle workshop to be announced
Vinum Sabbati Witch Camp Easter/Eostre long weekend, 9–13 April 2009

PAST EVENTS:
REHEARSE A WITCH CAMP: 25-27 January 2008. Pics from the first Witch Camp Retreat see - pics and reports
See - Witch Camp Planning Meeting on discussion board

WITCH MOON WITCH CAMP: 9-11 May 2008. See other reports and pics from the Retreat - pics and reports
See also - the discussion board

CONTACT: Witch Camp Team

OTHER EVENTS & UPDATES

WITCHES WORKSHOP HANDBOOK
This Handbook contains an introduction to Witchcraft as well as a number of ritual practicess. By familiarising yourself with the material in the Handbook you are taking your first steps toward the work we will undertake at the Workshops and the Witch Camps.

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Nuit's Veil Coven– Sydney
A training coven embracing a contemporary interpretation of traditional witchcraft using a fusion of wicca, thelema, shamanism and alchemy.

Babalon's Rising Coven – Blue Mountains
A private Coven in the Blue Mountains region providing contact and training for Pagans, Witches and Ceremonial magicians.

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