The Contemporary Witch

“ All life is pulsation, continually moving in waves between opposite poles: rising and falling, intensifying and releasing, coming into form and dissolving into space. The sun’s life-giving energy is born of the interplay of centrifugal and centripetal forces. Similarly, our heart keeps us alive through a cyclical flow of drawing blood in and pumping it out again. In every aspect of creation, the pulse of life alternately contracts and expands, gathering in and radiating out.” – John Welwood Archetypal “sacred marriage” is the essence and quite often the very foundation of belief, in many distinct and ancient practices and cultures. Shiva and Shakti(Hinduism), Osiris and Isis(Egypt), Odin and Frigg (Old Norse), Yin and Yang (Taoist), Tara and Avalokitesvara (Buddhism), are the palpable examples of this sacred union. Sacred marriage is the union of polar opposites. The joining of God and Goddess is synergistic in nature and necessary to function at our highest available capacity.

“ If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Nikola Tesla    In the metaphysical world something you hear discussed frequently is energy; how to move it, how to protect it and why. In the Physics world energy comes in many different forms, kinetic energy , potential energy , heat energy , chemical energy , nuclear energy , just to name a few, all forms of energy are associated with movement or the potential for movement. Energy may take all different shapes and forms but it is agreed "that energy cannot be created or destroyed", this is known as the Law of Conservation of Energy . Energy can be transformed into something new, the way the sun coaxes a seed out of the soil and into a flower.   Energy can be exchanged, the way the atmosphere and the Ocean interchange CO2 in a cyclic mutually beneficial relationship. It can be transferred, it can be transmuted, but it cannot be destroyed. In the spiritual realm we