Elixir Holistic Wiccan Therapies

26/05/2026

It always amazes me that names have to categorise a Witch. 🙄 When on this path doesn’t all kind of paths find you ? 🧙🏼‍♂️

25/05/2026

19/05/2026

The Pentagram and the Pentacle.

While they look incredibly similar and are often used interchangeably, the difference comes down to one geometric feature—a circle—and how the symbols are historically used.

Here is the breakdown of what sets them apart.

The Pentagram: The Shape
A pentagram is a five-pointed star drawn with five continuous, straight strokes. The word comes from the Greek pentagrammon, meaning "five lines."

The Design: Just the star itself, with no surrounding borders.

The Symbolism: In modern paganism and occult traditions, the five points represent the four classical elements (Earth, Air, Fire, and Water) plus the fifth element, Spirit (usually the top point).

Context: It is a geometric symbol and a concept rather than a physical object. When inverted (two points up, one point down), it is often associated with Baphomet or Satanism, representing the triumph of matter over spirit.

The Pentacle: The Object (and the Circle)
In modern usage, a pentacle is a pentagram enclosed within a circle. However, historically, the word had a broader definition.

The Design: A five-pointed star bound by an outer circle. The circle represents unity, wholeness, protection, and the infinite cycle of life and nature.

The Historical Nuance: Historically (such as in old Renaissance grimoires), a "pentacle" didn't even have to be five-pointed. Derived from the Latin pentaculum, it referred to any magical amulet or talisman inscribed with a protective symbol—whether it was a hexagram, a square, or complex sigils.

Modern Context: In Wicca and modern witchcraft, a pentacle specifically refers to the circled star, and it is often a physical object—a disc made of wood, silver, brass, or clay placed on an altar to ground energy.

BONUS INFO: Did you know that the Pentagram was used in the medieval Christian Church? Yes it is true, It was a prominent Christian interpretation of the pentagram was as a representation of the Five Holy Wounds (the stigmata) that Jesus suffered during the crucifixion. Now they say it is evil.... LOL

18/05/2026

The Maiden, Mother, and Crone are often reduced into soft archetypes, but in witchcraft they function as cycles of transformation and control.

The Maiden is emergence.

Expansion, movement, initiation, risk. She aligns with the waxing moon, spring, first blood, first action. This is the phase of becoming, where energy moves outward without full understanding of consequence. Power here is unstable, exploratory, reactive.

The Mother is maintenance.

Creation sustained over time. Not just birth, but preservation, structure, repetition, labour. She aligns with the full moon and peak season, where energy is strongest but must be managed or it burns through itself. This phase holds responsibility, protection, and continuous output.

The Crone is reduction.

Not weakness. Precision. She aligns with the dark moon, winter, endings, and severance. This is where illusion is removed and only function remains. The Crone cuts, closes, denies access, and determines what continues or ends.

These are not fixed identities.

They are operational states.

A practitioner moves through all three repeatedly. Beginning. Sustaining. Ending.

That’s the mechanism.

The problem comes when people try to remain in one phase permanently. Endless growth without structure collapses. Endless giving without reduction depletes. Endless cutting without renewal leaves nothing left to build.

Older traditions understood balance through cycle.

Everything rises.
Everything peaks.
Everything declines.

And power comes from recognising where you are in that cycle before trying to force a different phase.

14/05/2026

Life is easier when it is simple 💚

12/05/2026

I wish peace and healing for our world 🌎

05/05/2026

And they taste nice too. 💚

25/04/2026

Magickal tree 💚