Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Jason Mankey, author of several books, including The Witch's Book of Shadows, The Witch's Athame, Transformative Witchcraft, Witch's Wheel of the Year, Horned God of the Witches, and the new Witch's Book of Spellcraft
I discovered Witchcraft in the early 1990s, back when Witchcraft was considered by many to be both a magickal practice and a religion. Over the last twenty years the word "religion" has come to be frowned upon by many Witches, and the focus for many practitioners has been away from figures such as the Horned God and Great Goddess and simply towards magickal workings. None of this is a problem for me, but I deeply love the more