CHAKRAS: Seven major energy vortexes found in the human body. Each is usually associated with a color. They are: crown- white; third-eye- purple; throat- blue; chest- pink or green; navel- yellow; abdomen- orange; groin-red. Smaller vortexes are located in the hands and feet as well.

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CHALICE: A ritual tool. It represents the female principals of creation.

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DIRK: Ritual knife of the Scottish tradition.

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DIVINATION: The magickal art of using tools and symbols to gather information from the Collective Unconsciousness. This can be on people, places, things and events past, present, and future.

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DIVINE POWER: The unmanifested, pure energy that exists within the Goddess and God. The life force, the ultimate source of all things.

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DOWSING: The divinatory art of using a pendulum or stick to find the actual location of a person, place, thing, or element.

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DUALITY: The opposite of polarity. When used as a religious term, it separates two opposites such as good and evil and places those characteristics into two completely separate God-forms.

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EARTH MAGICK: The energy that exists within stones, herbs, flames, wind, and other natural objects.

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EARTH PLANE: Metaphor for your normal waking consciousness, or for the everyday, solid world we live in.

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ELEMENTS: Usually: Earth, air, fire, water. The building blocks of the universe. Everything that exists contains one or more of these energies. Some include a fifth element- spirit or Akasha.

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CONSCIOUS MIND: The analytical, materially-based, rational half of our consciousness. The part of our mind that is at work while we balance our checkbooks, theorize, communicate, and perform other acts related to the physical world.

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CONSECRATION: The act of blessing an object or place by instilling it with positive energy.

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COVEN: A group of thirteen or fewer witches that work together in an organized fashion for positive magickal endeavors or to perform religious ceremonies.

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COVENSTEAD: The meeting place of witches, often a fixed building or place where the witch can feel safe and at home.

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CRAFT: Witchcraft

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CRONE: Aspect of the Goddess represented by the old woman. Symbolized by the waning moon, the carrion crow, the cauldron, the color black. Her Sabbats are Mabon and Samhain.

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DAYS OF POWER: See Sabbat. They can also be days triggered by astrological occurrences- your birthday, a woman's menstrual cycle, your dedication/initiation anniversary.

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DEDICATION: The process where an individual accepts the Craft as their path and vows to study and learn all that is necessary to reach adept ship. It is a conscious preparation to accept something new into your life and stick with it, regardless of the highs and lows that may follow.

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DEOSIL: Clockwise, the direction in which the shadow on a sundial moves as the Sun "moves" across the sky. Deosil is symbolic of life, positive magick, positive energies.

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CHANNELING: A New Age practice wherein you allow a discarnate entity to "borrow" your body to speak to others either through automatic writing or verbally.

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CHAPLET: A crown for the head usually made of flowers and worn at Beltane.

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CHARGE: The Originally written in modern form by Doreen Valiente, it is a story of the message from Goddess to Her children.

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