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Witch Medicine

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Take a journey with me across the month of Samhain.

 

 

The medicine of the Witch is the medicine for our times; she stands as the seer at the edge of the world. Inviting us to remember our power and the ways of the wise women, while re-inventing herself for the new epoch.

Across a series of three, three-hour online immersions, you will be guided into an experiential process of learning, release, healing and reclamation, exploring the craft that lives within our witch blood.

The Witch is a figure many women understand intimately, almost instinctively, and yet much of the history, practice and complexity that sits beneath her has been obscured, romanticised or reduced within modern culture.

Across these workings, we will approach witchcraft both as a living spiritual and magical art and as a body of practices shaped by many different historical currents. We will explore the older folk, ecstatic, esoteric and feminine traditions that have contributed to our contemporary understanding of the Witch, while also asking what it means to practise and develop these arts now.

We begin with Witch Medicine, exploring the many currents that have come to sit beneath the word witchcraft. We will move through the distinctions between modern witchcraft, Traditional Craft, folk magic, cunning traditions, Faery belief, spirit work and ecstatic practice, while examining the complicated histories of the witch hunts and the many figures that existed around the edges of European magical culture. We will explore familiar spirits, trance, flying ointments, poisonous plant traditions, Goddess paths and the relationship between witchcraft, altered states and the unseen.

From here we enter Voces Magicae, an exploration of language as magical technology. We will work with spell, incantation, sacred sound and the ancient Greek voces magicae, alongside practices of channeling, glossolalia, ritual language and the contemporary phenomenon often described as Light Language. We will consider the voice as a medium through which altered states, intuition and meaning can be expressed, and explore the ways rhythm, repetition, breath, song and language have historically been used to heal, invoke, enchant, curse and cast spell.

 

The final immersion takes us into The Magick Mirror and the art of seership. This teaching is designed to work with both novice and more experienced practitioners, introducing the mirror as a serious magical and contemplative tool rather than simply an object of divination. You will learn practices for working with black mirror and obsidian for scrying, altered perception and visionary work, alongside processes concerned with personal power, projection, self-perception and healing our relationship with the feminine form.

Together, these three immersions explore three fundamental dimensions of the craft: the tradition we inherit, the voice through which we give it expression, and the capacity to perceive beyond the immediately visible.

They are an invitation not simply to learn about witchcraft, but to consider what it means to consciously reclaim, practise and steward these arts within a contemporary life.

 

Witch Medicine 

Where does the witch come from? Lineage, old craft, trance, Faery, familiar spirits, wise women, ecstatic traditions.

 

Voces Magicae 

What happens when the witch speaks? Invocation, incantation, oracular voice, channel, sacred utterance, words of power.

 

The Magick Mirror 

 What happens when she learns to see? Scrying, the imaginal, vision, reflection, glamour, perception and revelation.

Witch medicine

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In this 3 hour workshop will explore;

Witch craft & shamanism

The Old Craft & Faerie

Wise women & the devil

Flying ointments & psychedelics

Trance & brooms

The Familiar spirit

Goddess Paths

The many names of Woman

Why Modern day Magick

 

The live call is Sunday 25th October

4 - 7pm Irish time

11- 2pm EST

8-11am PST

Recording and reading list will be shared.

 

 

 Voces magicae

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In this 3 hour workshop will explore;

Spells, language & Voces magicae

The art of channeling

Shamanic languages

Glossolalia

Language & spell crafting

The Ancient Greek art of Voces Magicae

Light Language ancient origins

Incantation, Witch craft & tongues

Enochian magic

 

The live call is Sunday 15th November

4 - 7pm Irish time

11- 2pm EST

8-11am PST

Recording and reading list will be shared.

 

Mirror magick

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In this 3 hour workshop will explore;

Magic mirrors across history

Mirror working to heal our body

Archetypes within the mirror

The medicine of vanity  

Skin deep beauty, shape & womens form

Eye gazing with the self

Sacred sensuality & reflection

Witches & mirrors

Folk lore

Reclaiming the goddess in our image

Accessing the Akasha

 

The live call is Sunday 6th December

4 - 7pm Irish time

11- 2pm EST

8-11am PST

Recording and reading list will be shared.

 

WITCH MEDICINE

Across these three immersions, we will explore the Witch as a living spiritual, magical and cultural figure, moving through the histories, practices and states of consciousness that have shaped her across time.

 

We will look at the many currents that now sit beneath the word witchcraft, from folk magic, Traditional Craft, Goddess traditions and spirit work to trance, seership, incantation and altered states. We will consider what has been inherited, what has been reconstructed, what has been obscured, and what is still emerging within contemporary practice.

 

The work moves through three distinct but connected territories: the roots of the craft and the many histories of the Witch; the voice as a medium for spell, channeling, sacred language and invocation; and the mirror as a tool for seership, altered perception, power and self-knowledge.

 

This is not an attempt to create one definitive version of witchcraft. It is an exploration of the practices, lineages and symbolic worlds that continue to inform the Witch today, and of the ways we might engage them with greater depth, discernment and embodied understanding.

 

We are interested not only in what the Witch has been, but in what she is becoming.

 

This series is designed to work equally well whether you join live or move through the teachings in your own time.

 

If you cannot attend the live dates, you will receive access to the recordings and can still experience the full depth of the teachings and practices at your own pace.

 

 

 

Witch medicine

The three part immersion

€150

€150

Founder 

enodia

Cathy Coyle

Cathy Coyle is a witch, wise woman, doctoral researcher and founder of Enodia School of Oracular Arts and Leadership. Her practice has been shaped through initiation and study within Traditional European Witchcraft, alongside other lineages of magical and esoteric practice.

 

She is completing a PhD in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology, with a particular research focus on wilderness, European spiritual and folk traditions, rites of passage, and mystical and self-transcendent states of consciousness. Her work brings this academic inquiry into relationship with many years of advanced spiritual and initiatory practice.

 

Cathy is recognised internationally for her work in women’s leadership and rites of passage, and for developing spaces that centre mystical experience, embodied practice and direct encounter as pathways for transformation.

 

 

 

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