Tuesday, January 17, 2017

THE NATURAL MAGICK TRADITION OF MAGICK, WORSHIP AND OBSERVANCE




Natural Magick is now being offered by Cedar Stevens as a pathwork tradition within the modern NeoPagan, WitchCraft and Western Tradition.  The focus of Natural Magick is on Earth, Animal, Elementary, Plant, and Planetary magick, religion and spiritual practice.

Natural Magick System Statement of Principles
*Natural Magick is a system of magick within the modern NeoPagan and Western Tradition.
*Natural Magick is a tradition that honors and observes Nature.
*Human Nature is a subset of Nature and therefore Natural Magick is guided by love, respect and devotion of Nature towards the unfolding of Human individualism, will, and ritual magick.
*Natural Magick respects and advocates for the unfolding of the destiny and fortune of All Living Species.
*Natural Magick acknowledges Science as the Consensus Reality and the most current expression of the Western Tradition.

The Natural Magick Tradition of ritual magick is a direct descendant of the Reclaiming Tradition, and we are whole hearted participants and students of Reclaiming. Beyond that, we research, pioneer, test and adapt our modern tradition to serve the needs of the laity, Priest/esshood and Magick.

The Natural Magick tradition specifically teaches the arts of Botany, Native Botany, Native Gardening, Wildcrafting, Herbalism, Herb Gardening, and the use of Herbs, Essential Oils, and the natural produce of the international botanical market to create Magick Potions of High Quality for all manners of positive Human intentions. This art form we call “Potioneering,” and Natural Magick potions are produced under a rigorous System.

Natural Magick Shop turned ten years old on Thanksgiving Day of 2016. Over this decade, and the decade prior, I have been developing the Natural Magick process of potioneering, as well as training in Priestess skills. Gardening, Wildcrafting, Priest/ess skills, and a broad bandwidth of history and lore have woven together into Natural Magick, becoming what I believe can now be considered a distinct Magickal Tradition with a wealth of instruction, support and challenge for the Student and Seeker.

The intention of the Natural Magick courses will be to 1) train the Initiate in the Arts and Crafts of Natural Magick and Priest/esshood and 2) support Natural Magick Shop (the business) with a Fair Trade of Labor and Funding.

Simply put, classes will be taught in exchange for some labor plus some money on a sliding scale.

I have developed and am further developing material for two tracks within the Natural Magick Tradition. All Initiates will be trained in the Priest/ess Path, which will be a traditional year-and-a-day regimen of instruction in Sabbat, Esbat, lore and basic-imtermediate magickal technique. Initiates may also choose to join a Potions Path that can be taken alongside the priest/ess Path. The Potions Path will be a hands-on Gardening, Botany, Native Plants and Wildcrafting course of instruction leading up to training in making Magick Potions.

For now, this course of Natural Magick instruction is available for Austin area participants. In time, I hope to make it available far and wide via podcast and traveling magicians!

Cedar Stevens
Jan. 16, 2017



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