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NOW OPEN: Coven Oldenwilde's online store! Learn magic & spellcasting, explore Pagan & Wiccan spirituality, inspire the Witch within through our ever-expanding offerings of e-books, audio & video tutorials, and more.

Featured Offerings

Hypnotic Trance InductionLady Passion's soothing voice guides you on an out-of-body adventure, and teaches how to experience astral travel, past-life recall, time travel, self-hypnosis, and more.

Hypnotic Trance InductionLady Passion's soothing voice guides you on an out-of-body adventure, and teaches how to experience astral travel, past-life recall, time travel, self-hypnosis, and more.

 Magic Barbarous Spell Words of PowerLady Passion & *Diuvei teach how to use and pronounce "barbarous" ancient spells and words of power. So potent that religious bigots tried to censor the Google/YouTube preview!

Magic Words of PowerLady Passion & *Diuvei teach how to use and pronounce "barbarous" ancient spells and words of power. So potent that religious bigots tried to censor the Google/YouTube preview!

 Ask-A-PriestessWish you had a wise woman on-call for spells, spirituality & solutions to stresses? Lady Passion answers 70 fascinating magic questions posed by folks worldwide.

Ask-A-PriestessWish you had a wise woman on-call for spells, spirituality & solutions to stresses? Lady Passion answers 70 fascinating magic questions posed by folks worldwide.

Oldenwilde Magic DVDDVD collection of news and documentary videos of Coven Oldenwilde: Witch rituals, a love-spell lesson, preachers protesting our booksigning, our Samhain Rites.

Oldenwilde Magic DVDDVD collection of news and documentary videos of Coven Oldenwilde: Witch rituals, a love-spell lesson, preachers protesting our booksigning, our Samhain Rites.
Oldenworks Witchcraft eStore

Our Public Rituals
Masked Goddess reclining on crescent Moon

Asheville's 2009 Public Witch Ritual

See the photos, read the story!

Mystic Romance

Find out how we celebrated Samhain 15 in the "Salem of the South"

 Jack o'lantern on Fire altar. Dancers beneath oaken beams, High Priestess at far right with orb.

More than a decade of Free Public Witch Rituals in the "Salem of the South":
Every Halloween since 1995, ever more Pagans from all across the Southeastern U.S. have gathered in Asheville to dance, divine, and have a wondrous time!

Our Wiccan Wins
"Save the Tree"
Protest Art Gallery Archive
Anti-divination law repealed. We won! North Carolina General Statute 14-401.5 banning clairvoyance and fortunetelling is no more. On Samhain 2004, we publicly burned it. Find out more about how our state's Witches and the ACLU together beat this bad law.
  • Pictures and information about North Carolina Witches' and Pagans' protest against the antiquated state law against palmistry and divination that N. C. police used to arrest psychics and shut down metaphysical bookstores. See how we got this unconstitutional law repealed!
How to Win Wiccan Religious Freedoms: Advice for Pagan parents, schoolchildren, renters, employees, military personnel, and prisoners who are experiencing religious persecution.
  • Compelling the Virginia state prison system to allow inmates tarot cards is indicative of our ongoing international work. Read "The Bliss of Besting Bigots" by Lady Passion.
Lingua Arcana spell words movie still
 The Magic Lesson Bigots Tried to Censor: The preview on Coven Oldenwilde's YouTube channel of our instructional video, "Lingua Arcana: How to Pronounce Magical Barbarous Words of Power," is apparently so potent that an anonymous Witch-hater flagged it as objectionable, causing Google's search engine to label our channel "potentially offensive"The full warning: "The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as being potentially offensive or inappropriate. Viewer discretion is advised.". Shortly after we spoke out on WLOS-TV primetime news, Google removed the prejudiced warning.

Join the Black Ribbon Campaign to end religious persecution:

Counseling & Guidance
Do you have a pressing problem? Consult directly with Lady Passion for magical advice and counseling.
Lady Passion is a highly skilled diviner, psychic, and herbalist; she is also an R.N., with extensive experience in both physical and psychological medical care.
Lady Passion's Prophecies:
Get an instant reading.

The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells for Modern Problems
The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells for Modern Problems
English

Read our critically acclaimed book about magic:
The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells for Modern Problems
Lady Passion & *Diuvei, Coven Oldenwilde (Sterling)

BUY "The Goodly" in a revised, paperback edition with new material added!
List price: $14.95.

  • Read rave reviews from readers, reviewers, and famed Craft authors Raymond Buckland, Gerina Dunwich, Raven Grimassi, and Judika Illes!
  • See scores of unsolicited fan e-mails about how beloved The Goodly Spellbook is worldwide.
  • Form a Goodly Spellbook study group in your school, home, prison, or military base.
  • Read our press kit.
Il Libro degli Incantesimi: Antiche formule magiche per risolvere problemi attuali
Italian

Or read The Goodly Spellbook in Italian!

Il Libro degli Incantesimi: Antiche formule magiche per risolvere problemi attuali
Lady Passion & *Diuvei
(Gruppo Editoriale Armenia, 2006)

Interviews
Witches on the air

Watch & listen to some of our many lively media interviews
and learn about Wicca, Witchcraft, Paganism, magic, peace activism & more:
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Film Witches! Lady Passion, *Diuvei, and their Covens often work magic on camera.
Production companies with educational projects are invited to contact Lady Passion.

More Writings
Cover of Oracle 20/20, June 2009
Read Lady Passion's articles in Oracle 20/20 Lady Passion
Play music
 Listen to part of the Oldenwilde chant, written & sung by Lady Passion, accompanied by *Diuvei.

America's Pagan Heritage: No, America is NOT a "Christian nation"!
Are you a student, an educator, or a life-long learner? Read *Diuvei's essay on the quadrivium, the millenia-old "four-way crossroads" of arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy through which all other disciplines are interconnected — and the origin of liberal-arts education. (Also explored in The Goodly Spellbook.)

More of What Coven Oldenwilde Does
Coven Oldenwilde's covenstead

Coven Oldenwilde's covenstead (pictured at right) is certified as Backyard Wildlife Habitat site no. 46961.
To find out how to make your yard a wildlife habitat, visit the National Wildlife Federation.
See Coven Oldenwilde's listing in the Resources Guide (p. 523 & 596) in Margot Adler's revised edition of Drawing Down the Moon.

Wiccan Warnings
Posers and Pellars Alert -- Unethical people claiming to be Witches or Priest/esses can mislead sincere Seekers. Learn how to recognize and avoid them. 
Tarot Fool
Pensive, by Lady Passion "Pensive,"
by Lady Passion

Bash-blogs & Slander-sites:
or, Why Ilk Attack Infamous Witches

What motivates hate-mongers to lie about goodly Witches?
Read and learn more.

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About Coven Oldenwilde
  General Information about Witchcraft
    Meet the Coven Members
      Oldenwilde Teaching Materials (includes recommended books)
        Chronicle of Asheville's Samhain Public Wiccan Rituals

About Coven Oldenwilde

Merry Meet!

Coven Oldenwilde was founded on Samhain, 1994, and meets in Asheville, North Carolina, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. We are a group of Witches who use ancient magical principles for the betterment of life, the continuance of the Universe, and the glorification of the Gods.

Such principles are based on the wisdom of the Wiccan Rede (rule) "An it harm none, do what ye will" and upheld by the observance of the traditional Wiccan Laws.

Members of Oldenwilde specialize in different magical talents, contributing to rituals elements such as spells, chants, songs and dances.
Though we believe in many Gods, we especially esteem the Lady of the night, Hecate, and the Lord of the hunt, Herne.

Appreciative of its scope, we work with time, using prophecy and divination, astral planes and past-life regression both to learn from history and to be forewarned of the future. We show our reverence for time by conducting magical working meetings (circles) in accordance with the cycles of the Moon and Sun.

In consideration of life and time, we celebrate the seasonal sacred days of:

  • Samhain (Halloween) on Oct. 31
  • Yule (Winter Solstice) around Dec. 21
  • Imbolc (Candlemas) on Feb. 2
  • Ostara (Spring Equinox) around Mar. 21
  • Beltane (May Day) on May 1
  • Litha (Summer Solstice) around Jun. 21
  • Lughnasadh (Lammas) on Aug. 1
  • Mabon (Fall Equinox) around Sep. 21

When the year is complete, we begin the cycle anew.

Our coven works independently of our students, who perfect their magical knowledge and talents before possible inclusion.

Oldenwilde does magic with the Wiccan community at large through the year and as needed.

We empower our circles with support from the elements Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, and layers of correspondences (complementary enhancers) such as color, music, candlelight or moonlight, incenses, and oils for specific occasions.

We honor and hold these rites of passage for our members and others:

  • Wiccaning (dedication to the Gods after birth)
  • Moon Time (celebration of beginning menstrual status)
  • Green Manning (celebration of achieving manhood)
  • Dedication (dedicating oneself to the study of the Craft)
  • Handfasting (bonding as husband and wife for a year and a day)
  • Handparting (dissolution of bonding)
  • Eldering (designation to serve as model and teacher for any Witch or Seeker)
  • Croning (celebration of menopausal status)
  • Departed Soul (celebration of ascension to the Summerlands at death)

We acknowledge our members' spiritual growth in three ceremonies:

Firsting:
Initiation into the Craft following a minimum of a year and a day's study of basic Wiccan magic.
Seconding:
degree Elevation/recognition for deeper mastery of Wicca and contribution to the Craft, Coven, or Community using a personal Path talent.
Thirding:
degree Elevation/autonomy granted for total mastery of a multitude of magical arts and contribution to the Craft, Coven, and Community.

As priests and priestesses, we aid our members and others with knowledge of herbal medicine and alternative healing techniques, fertility issues, and spells as necessary.

Seekers or interested Witches are encouraged to e-mail us about opportunities to attend Oldenwilde public rites, or to find out how to begin studying traditional Wicca.

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