| Ululation - The part of an incantation or chant which demands full vocal force and volume.
Uma - Hindu Goddess of power, the personification of light and beauty, embodying great beauty and divine wisdom Uncasting - Opening the circle at the end of a ritual. Undine - The traditional term for a Water Elemental. Unmanifest - The unknown source of existence, it is said that magicians take their power from the unmanifest to use it within the manifest. Universal Deity - The concept that all gods and goddesses (and thus their two polarities) are united as one. Further this term asserts that all beings living and non-living are united with this single sentient energy form. Belief embraced by many--though not all--Neopagans though many old pagan traditions do not hold to this as a truth. Valkyries - Scandinavian; women warriors who carried the souls of men slain in battle to heaven. Vampire/Vampyre - A physical person who psychically draws life energy from other people. People who drink blood are not vampires they are just sick. Vampirism - The draining of psychic energy from one individual by another. Veil - Symbolic and literal barrier(s) that separate the various planes of existence from one another. This barrier often seems an inconvenience to students of the occult who wish they could more easily bypass it, but in truth most scholars agree that veils do, in fact, protect individuals from becoming lost in the planes they are not rooted in to the exclusion of their own. At times the plane we are most strongly rooted in requires our full attention to maintain life and promote spiritual growth. However, there are also times when it is most appropriate (and thus safe) to know how to bypass this barrier. Learning the appropriate methods (as well as times) for bypassing the veil is a major goal of most occultists due to its natural inhibition of divination and magickal empowerment. Veil Of Forgetfulness - A thin invisible field that shields the conscious mind and physical sense from the etheric world; for protection of the physical mind. Veil of Unknowing - The boundary between the manifest and the unmanifest. Venus - Roman; Goddess of Love and Romance. Vesta - Roman Goddess of the hearth Vibration - A specific pattern within energy; a person who's sensitive to energy can distinguish the pattern behind an energy form by sensing it's vibrational frequency, color, sound and/or order. Virgin - Youngest aspect of the Triple Goddess. Also know as the Maiden. Represented by the waxing moon, colors white and blue. Her Sabbats are Imbolc and Ostara. Virtues - Magickal properties of objects like herbs, stones, and creatures as was assigned to them during their divine creation. Vision Quest - Using astral projection, bi-location, or dream time to accomplish a specific goal. Also called path working. It is a Native American Shamanic practice. Visualization - The process of forming mental images. Magickal visualization consists of forming images of needed goals during ritual. It is also used to direct personal power and natural energies for various purposes during Magick, including charging and forming of the Magick circle. It is a function of the conscious mind Voluptas - Roman Goddess of pleasure Voodoo - Polytheistic religion derived from worship of gods in African and the beliefs of Catholicism. Practiced mainly by the West Indians. Vortices - Energy centers or Chakras of the Earth connected by meridians or "Ley Lines" which transmit energy between them. |
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