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

Magick by Type: Elemental Magick

ELEMENTAL MAGICK is a basic tier of magickal correspondence to the Western Tradition. All things on Earth, and all magickal goals can be categorized as a function of the powers of Air, Fire, Water, Earth (the cardinal elements which correspond to the Four Directions, and sometimes to Spirit alone, the Fifth Sacred Thing, which is composed of and at the same time the origin of the Four.

In other words, any type of magick you might endeavor can be accomplished with one or a combination of the basic Elements, and all potions made in the Natural Magick tradition take into account the Elemental powers of each ingredient.

The Air element is the principle of wind, speech, thought, ideas, self-discipline, and joy, and Air oil or incense could be used to magickally evoke any of these powers, or to mark the Eastern corner of a Temple.  The Fire element is the principle of heat, passion, activity, work, and desire, so Fire oil or incense could be used for any of these types of workings, or to summon the Southern Watchtower. The Water element is the principle of emotions, psychism, compassion, peace, healing, and dreams in the West, and Earth element is the principle of physicality, wealth, growth, grounding, mysteries, and secrets of the North. The Spirit element is the principle of connection, magick, change, transformation and Divinity, and is seen as existing as the Center of the magick Circle, as the Circle itself, and as the Multiverse beyond the Sacred Circle.

Elemental oils and incenses are often used in a ritual setting is for the calling of the Four (or Five) Directions, Guardians, Watchtowers, or however they are called in your tradition. The oils can be used to anoint candles which mark each of the directions, or the incense can be burned to emphasize each direction as it it summoned.

Short List: Elemental oils Set of Five 1/4 oz bottles, Elemental incense Set of Five ½ oz. vials

Oils

Air oil

Fire oil

Water oil

Earth oil

Spirit oil

Elemental oils Set of Four ½ oz bottles

Elemental oils Set of Four 1/4 oz bottles

Elemental oils Set of Five ½ oz bottles

Elemental oils Set of Five 1/4 oz bottles

Incenses

Air incense

Fire incense

Water incense

Earth incense

Spirit incense

Elemental incense Set of Four ½ oz. vials

Elemental incense Set of Five ½ oz. vials

Spirit Guide oils

Paralda oil

Djinn oil

Nixsa oil

Ghobe oil

Elemental Kings oils Set of Four

Elemental Correspondences: Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Spirit

AIR

SANSKRIT/IRISH/LATIN: Vayu/Aer/

DIRECTION: East

ASSOCIATIONS: Thought, communication, travel, intellect, abstract thinking, teaching, divination, freedom, joy, laughter, beginnings,

QUALITIES: hot, moist, light, active

GENDER: masculine, projective

MAGICAL POWER: To know

COLORS: yellow, sky blue, pastels

ARCHANGEL: Raphael

ELEMENTAL BEING: Sylphs

ELEMENTAL KING: Paralda

ANIMALS: Eagle, birds, Dragonfly, Butterfly, flying insects

PLANTS: Celtic trees - Aspen, Alder, Birch. Herbs - Anise, Lavender, Lemongrass. Natives ? Mistletoe, (Ball Moss), Cedar Elm, Acacia, Mimosa

STONES: Mica, Pumice, (Fluorite)

METALS: Aluminum, Tin

MYTHOLOGICAL BEINGS: Gryphons, Gremlins, Pegasus

KERUB: Human Being

TAROT SUIT: Swords (Wands)

TAROT TRUMPS: The Fool

RUNES: Ansuz , Raidho Eihwaz, Tiwaz

ZODIAC SIGNS: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius

PLANETS: Neptune, Jupiter, (Mercury)

HOUR: Dawn

DAY(S): Thursday (Wednesday)

SEASON: Spring

LIFE CYCLE: Infancy and childhood

ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL: 🜁

TATTWA SYMBOL: blue circle

QABALISTIC SEPHIROT: Yesod/Foundation, Tipharet/Beauty

MAGICAL TOOLS: Wand, Staff, Athame, Sword, Incense, Feather, Pen, Broom, Scourge

CHAKRA(S): Heart, (Throat, 3rd Eye)

TYPES OF MAGIC: Study, visualizaton, divination, finding lost objects, astral travel, telepathy, travel, communication

POSITIVE CHARACTERISTICS: Joyful, humorous, communicative, intelligent, intuitive, diligent

NEGATIVE CHARACTERISTICS: Gossipy, boastful, spendthrift, untruthful, selfish, fickle, inattentive

OVERBALANCE: Chatterbox, shallow, or overintellectualization

UNDERBALANCE: Muddy thinking, slow, inability to communicate


WATER

SANSKRIT/IRISH/LATIN: Apas/Uisce/Aquae

DIRECTION: West

ASSOCIATIONS: Emotions, dreams, compassion, love, sadness, psychism, healing, rest, cleansing, dissolution, astral travel, death/rebirth,

QUALITIES: moist, cold, heavy, passive

GENDER: feminine, receptive

MAGICAL POWER: To dare

COLORS: blue, indigo, aqua, green, silver, purple

ARCHANGEL: Gabriel

ELEMENTAL BEING: Undines

ELEMENTAL KING: Nixsa

ANIMALS: fish, dolphins, jellyfish, all aquatic creatures

PLANTS: Celtic trees - Alder, Hazel, Willow. Herbs - Aloe, Lemon, Yarrow. Natives - American Elm, Cat Brier, Mesquite, Violet, Wax Myrtle

STONES: Aquamarine, Lapis, Limestone, Moonstone, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Shells, Sodalite

METALS: Copper, Sliver

MYTHOLOGICAL BEINGS: Mermaids, Mermen, Selkies, Sea Monsters

KERUB: Eagle

TAROT SUIT: Cups

TAROT TRUMPS: Moon, Death, Lovers

RUNES: Uruz, Gebo, Hagalaz, Isa, Pethro, Ehwaz, Laguz, Dagaz

ZODIAC SIGNS: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

PLANETS: Moon, (Venus)

HOUR: Dusk

DAY(S): Monday, (Friday)

SEASON: Fall

LIFE CYCLE: Adulthood, Reproductive years

ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL: 🜄

TATTWA SYMBOL: Silver crescent with horns pointing up

QABALISTIC SEPHIROT: Hod/Splendor, Chesod/Mercy, Binah/Understanding

MAGICAL TOOLS: Chalice, Cup, Bowl, Cauldron, Ring, Sickle

CHAKRA(S): Navel, (Heart)

TYPES OF MAGIC: Divinations, Dreams, Psychic work, Astral Travel, Healing, Fertility

POSITIVE CHARACTERISTICS: Compassionate, loving, forgiving, sensitive, easygoing, modest, flowing

NEGATIVE CHARACTERISTICS: Overly sensitive, weepy, dependent, indifferent, lazy, insecure, frigid

OVERBALANCE: Depression, hypersensitivity

UNDERBALANCE: Cold, emotionless nature

NATURAL MAGICK PRODUCTS: Water oil, Water incense


FIRE

SANSKRIT/IRISH/LATIN: Tejas/Tine/

DIRECTION: South

ASSOCIATIONS: Action, the will, passion, sex, anger, desire, energy, work, purification, destruction, strength, protection,

QUALITIES: hot, dry, light, active

GENDER: masculine, projective

MAGICAL POWER: To will

COLORS: red, orange, gold, yellow

ARCHANGEL: Michael

ELEMENTAL BEING: Salamanders

ELEMENTAL KING: Djinn

ANIMALS: lizards, snakes, lions

PLANTS: Celtic trees - Thorn, Holly, Oak. Herbs - Basil, Cinnamon, Garlic. Natives ? Spanish Dagger, Oaks, Juniper, Sunflower, Chiletepin

STONES: Amber, Bloodstone, Carnelian, Citrine, Diamond, Garnet, Ruby, Tiger's Eye

METALS: Brass, Gold, Steel

MYTHOLOGICAL BEINGS: Dragons, Phoenix

KERUB: Lion

TAROT SUIT: Wands, (Swords)

TAROT TRUMPS: Sun, Strength, Emperor

RUNES: Thurisaz, Kenaz, Naudhiz, Sowilo, Ingwaz

ZODIAC SIGNS: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius

PLANETS: Sun, Mars

HOUR: Noon

DAY(S): Sunday, Tuesday

SEASON: Summer

LIFE CYCLE: Youth and adolescence

ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL: 🜂

TATTWA SYMBOL: upward pointing red triangle

QABALISTIC SEPHIROT: Netzach/Victory, Geburah/Judgement, Chokmah/Wisdom

MAGICAL TOOLS: Athame, Sword, Wand, Staff, Candle, Flame, Scourge

CHAKRA(S): Solar Plexus

TYPES OF MAGIC: Banishing, exorcism, purification, tantra, sex, empowerment, protection, success

POSITIVE CHARACTERISTICS: Energetic, enthusiastic, courageous, daring, faithful

NEGATIVE CHARACTERISTICS: Stubborn, greedy, jealous, angry, resentful

OVERBALANCE: Dominating, egotistical, violent

UNDERBALANCE: Apathy, boredom, feelings of inferiority, laziness, lack of energy

NATURAL MAGICK PRODUCTS: Fire oil, Fire incense


EARTH

SANSKRIT/IRISH/LATIN: Prithivi/Talamh/

DIRECTION: North

ASSOCIATIONS: Stability, food, wealth, crops, animals, home, mountains, strength, grounding, protecting, nature, death/rebirth,

QUALITIES: dry, cold, heavy, passive

GENDER: feminine, receptive

MAGICAL POWER: To be silent

COLORS: brown, black, green

ARCHANGEL: Uriel/Auriel

ELEMENTAL BEING: Gnomes

ELEMENTAL KING: Ghobe

ANIMALS: Bear, Wolf, Deer, most four-legged, animals that go by night

PLANTS: Celtic trees - Ash, Dwarf Elm, Hawthorn. Herbs - Patchouli, Vetiver, Wheat. Texas Natives - Bald Cypress, Inland Sea-Oats, Texas Persimmon, Elbow-bush, Indiangrass

STONES: Amazonite, Emerald, Hematite/Hematine, Jade, Jet, Lodestone, Malachite, Peridot, Serpentine, Turquoise

METALS: (Iron), Lead, Mercury

MYTHOLOGICAL BEINGS: Giants, Leprechauns, Trolls

KERUB: Bull

TAROT SUIT: Pentacles/Coins/Discs

TAROT TRUMPS: Devil, Empress, Emperor, The World

RUNES: Fehu, Wunjo, Jera, Berkano, Mannaz, Othala

ZODIAC SIGNS: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn

PLANETS: (Saturn)

HOUR: Midnight

DAY(S): (Saturday)

SEASON: Winter

LIFE CYCLE: Old Age

ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL: 🜃

TATTWA SYMBOL: Yellow Square

QABALISTIC SEPHIROT: Malkuth/Kingdom

MAGICAL TOOLS: Pentacle, Rock, Hammer, Salt, Shield, Drum

CHAKRA(S): Root

TYPES OF MAGIC: Household, Prosperity, Ancestors, Fertility, Grounding, Protection, Eco-Magic

POSITIVE CHARACTERISTICS: Reliable, punctual, stable, persevering, wise

NEGATIVE CHARACTERISTICS: Greedy, sensualist, materialistic, stodgy, narrow-minded

OVERBALANCE: Boring, tunnel-vision, materialistic

UNDERBALANCE: Unreliable, careless, tasteless

NATURAL MAGICK PRODUCTS: Earth oil, Earth incense


SPIRIT

SANSKRIT/IRISH/LATIN: Akasha/.../Aether

DIRECTION: Center

ASSOCIATIONS: Unification, magic, change, transformation, alchemy, divinity,

QUALITIES: infinity, timelessness, spacelessness

GENDER:both/neither/fluid

MAGICAL POWER:

COLORS: white, black, purple

ARCHANGEL: Metatron

ELEMENTAL BEING: (Helixes)

ELEMENTAL KING:

ANIMALS: (Spider)

PLANTS: Celtic trees - Apple. Herbs - (Artemisia, Vervain). Texas Natives - (Native American Mugwort, Vervain)

STONES: Amethyst, Quartz

METALS: Meteorite

MYTHOLOGICAL BEINGS: (Sphinx)

KERUB:

TAROT SUIT: Major Arcana

TAROT TRUMPS: (The Magician, High Priestess, Heirophant, Hermit, The Wheel, Temperance, The Star,) Judgement

RUNES:

ZODIAC SIGNS:

PLANETS:

HOUR:

DAY(S):

SEASON:

LIFE CYCLE: Before birth/after death

SYMBOLS: Spiral, Star of David, (Unicursal hexagram)

TATTWA SYMBOL: Black oval

QABALISTIC SEPHIROT: Kethor/Crown

MAGICAL TOOLS: Cauldron, Cord

CHAKRA(S): (Crown, Shadow)

TYPES OF MAGIC: Spiritual, religious, pathwork, (time travel)

POSITIVE CHARACTERISTICS:

NEGATIVE CHARACTERISTICS:

OVERBALANCE:

UNDERBALANCE: Lifelessness, shallowness

NATURAL MAGICK PRODUCTS: Spirit oil, Spirit incense

The Natural Magick Process

Why are my Natural Magick products superior? I don’t fudge or cheat, not on ingredients or in my process. You get high quality, natural products made according to strict traditional guidelines. Natural Magick takes cues directly from Nature and diligently researches literature and lore.

Here are the elements of traditional ritual production that are guaranteed in my products:

MAGICKAL TIMING
We take our cues from Nature. Some activities are favored by the New Moon, some by the Full Moon, others by the Dark Moon. Since Babylonian times, the days of the week have been said to be “ruled” by the seven visible planets: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. This is why we have seven days of the week, in fact! Although called by different names, the essential properties and powers of the planets have been understood to be the same all this time. Natural magicians have used this system since ancient times for everything from planting of crops to business decisions to creation of magic incenses, oils and brews.

Natural Magick strictly adheres to a combination of this planetary and lunar influence. For example, Success is ruled by the Sun, and is a state of fullness. Therefore, Success oil is made on the Sunday on or just before the Full Moon. Blessing is a function of the Moon, Venus, or the Sun, and it is a quality of freshness and newness, so Blessing incense is made on Monday, Friday, or Sunday on or just after the New Moon.

ELEMENTS
Earth, Air, Fire and Water are the classic alchemical “elements,” and this system of correspondence is also used in Natural Magick products. It governs the selection of ingredients, and even the direction I face while making the product. Protection is a function of the Fire element, so I choose fiery ingredients for this oil, and face the South as I blend it.

KNOWLEDGE OF INGREDIENTS
For some reason, I have always been interested in the names of plants. I started this path as a native plant botanist. Unfortunately, magical texts are fraught with the use of common names rather than scientific Latin names. I was frustrated by this, and so I have for over a dozen years looked at references and compared the ingredients. Also I just seem to care more about botanical accuracy than other folks in this tradition. If I say “Bay” you will know if I mean Bay Laurel (Laurus nobilis), Bay “Rum” (a blend of Pimenta dioica “Bay” and other spices) Bayberry (any of several Myrica species) or Sweet Bay (Magnolia virginiana), to give one fairly confusing example! Although all of them can be used to season boiled crawfish, they all have different magical properties!

CORRESPONDENCES
Magical formularies are filled with tables of correspondence, generally based on the principal of “Doctrine of Signatures.” Where no correspondence information can be found in literature, I can figure it out. For example, what phase of the moon corresponds to the goddess Iris of the Rainbow? The answer is in the bow of the rainbow. It was dark during the storm, now it is light with the rainbow in the sky. Therefore Iris is made during the bow-shaped New Moon which follows the Dark Moon. The colors of the rainbow are used to make art; Venus rules the arts, therefore Iris is made on Fridays.

Here is another example of how I use correspondences and Doctrine of Signatures in my work. I have an Anacacho Orchid tree (Anacacho bauhinia) in my yard, which has sweetly smelling white flowers. Was it a Moon or Venus tree? Bearing white flowers is often a Moon signature, whereas Venus rules perfumery. The answer came one Full Moon night as I wandered through my tangled forest gardens. I stopped to enjoy the fragrance of the flowers, and there was none! This tree’s flowers are only fragrant in the daylight hours; therefore it must not be ruled by the Moon but by Venus, the Morning and Evening star. Then I looked at the leaves which are heart shaped, clearly a Venus signature and thought to myself, “Well, duh!”

Just the way things smell, their colors, or their common names, is often enough information. Chamomile essential oil is blue, as is yarrow, making them excellent choices for a Water element formulation. Cedar wood smells like a coffin, which is why I combine it with Blood Orange in the Vampyre oil. Money is made where? At a mint, and the herb mint is much associated with prosperity. I try my best to find these correspondences and use them for the most potent Natural Magick.

DEOSIL OR WIDDERSHINS?
Deosil, pronounced JESH-ul, means clockwise, and is the direction of the motion of the Sun. It is used for all purposes of creation, making, blessing, and increase. Widdershins, surprisingly pronounced the way it is spelled, is the counterclockwise direction, and is the direction for magic of unmaking, getting rid of, banishing, uncrossing and if you must, cursing. The direction of rotation is most important while grinding Natural Magick incenses. Exorcism is the only incense I grind widdershins. All the others are magics of increase and therefore they are ground deosil. Also, the mother stock of my oil blends is made into a round bottle, swirled in the appropriate direction.

NUMBERS
Early on, mathematics, science and magic were all one and the same study. For better or worse, science split from magic, but magical tradition retains a reverence for numbers. Threes nines, and thirteen are considered moon and goddess numbers, so I use three essential oils in multiples of thirteen for the dark goddess Hecate. Five is the pentacle, and the number of fingers on my hand, so it is used for purposes of protection and human power. Sevens is for luck and prosperity, and planetary favors.

When this Natural Magic system is used, the choice of ingredients becomes like choosing words, and the way those ingredients are put together becomes grammar and syntax. This is the language that Natural Magick uses to communicate our intentions to the Universe, reflecting the clues we find in Nature back to the Source. So Mote It Be!