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About Erin Dragonsong
Expertise
I can answer questions on the spiritual aspect of Wicca, and Wicca as a path for personal development and spiritual enlightenment. My interest is in the Truth that lives within all religions, rather than the dogma of any one path. Still, I believe Wicca offers perhaps the greatest potential for the spiritual evolution of humanity at this time. Also specialize in divination, magick and manifestation, accessing the Divine Within, and the planetary evolution now underway. One aspect of this is Energy Fields: we can often get caught up in emotions/physical situations that do not reflect our own situation but a need of the morphogenetic field. Something needs healing, and we pick it up as our own mood or illness or what have you, so that we can heal it within ourselves and then offer that healing back to the world. This can be a dangerous situation, if it is out of control. Check in with me to find out if what you are feeling or experiencing is your own, or an energy field you're caught in. I have an extended collection of practices for every spiritual need. I won't offer spells.

Experience
I've been a practicing Witch for 25 years. I've studied Reclaiming skills, Goddess spirituality, and some faerie magick - though I'm pretty much a novice in this. I am a High Priestess and an ordained minister. I am a student of many different spiritual paths, including yoga, Sufism, Vipassina, Native Spirituality, and more. I let the wisdom and experience of these traditions inform my practice of Wicca as spiritual devotion. I have been doing divination, particularly tarot, palmistry, and psychic readings for almost as long, professionally and personally. I have developed very successful ways of manifesting desires. I'm vitally interested in the New Sciences, and their implications for Wicca and spirituality. I have extensive experience with spiritual development and spiritual healing - much of it developed as a synthesis of the great practices and truths of many religions - and teaching these to others.

Organizations
DIMC (Wiccan Circle), Friends of Radha, Universal Life Church; United Communities of Spirit (Global Interfaith Initiative)

Publications
We'moon; Sea, Sky & Dreams; Flagstone; DEEP

Education/Credentials
Radha Yoga (Hatha, Hidden Language, Kundalini, Dreams); various other training courses in healing and spirituality. Christian studies. Vipassina meditation, Mantra, Mandala meditation, etc. Counselling, Massage and Postural Healing, Facilitation, Teaching Adults, Non-Violent Communication

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Pagan/Wiccan Religion - black candles

Expert: Erin Dragonsong - 11/9/2009

Question
ok so first question is what if I don't have black candle handy. is there anything else i can use to absorb the negative energy i am trying to banish? I am trying to do a banishing spell in the waning moon cycle - its on short notice and did not have a candle.
#2 is there a basic blessing for items i would like to place on my altar and what are the basic items i should have for an altar. I am relatively familiar with wicca but it has been many years and i am in desperate need of a place to start moving energy in and out of my house and life.

Answer
Hi Susanne,

Any candle will do... White is also good for purifying, so that would be my second choice. But any candle can burn away negative energy if that is *your intention.* You can inscribe some symbols or runes on it to help with that.

Alternatively, you can use sea salt or salted water to absorb negative energy, or smudge your home with sage. Both work well to banish negative energy.

For what goes on a Wiccan altar, see this article: http://www.wicca-spirituality.com/wiccan_altar.html

And for blessing and purifying your altar tools, read: http://www.wicca-spirituality.com/ritual-tools.html

With Blessings,

erin

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