The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft

are connected and share an essence:
• If the moon’s phases are consistent and reliable, all is well.
• If a woman’s phases are consistent and reliable, all is well
• If a woman’s phases are inconsistent or unreliable, they can be realigned by strengthening her affinity with the moon, the tides, and other lunar force

All are connected and share an essence:
• If the moon’s phases are consistent and reliable, all is well.
• If a woman’s phases are consistent and reliable, all is well
• If a woman’s phases are inconsistent or unreliable, they can be realigned by strengthening her affinity with the moon, the tides, and other lunar forces

This intense, dynamic rapture can be experienced and witnessed through ecstatic music and dance, the best sex, ritual possession, some forms of divination, or glossolalia (speaking in tongues), all of which may be components of shamanism.

It is an ecstatic vision. In this vision, everything is alive, continually interacts and can potentially communicate, if it so chooses, if it can be so compelled and, most crucially, if you can understand.