The Victorian Society of Metaphysics & Magic is a neo-pagan and high-magick community serving Delaware, south Jersey, northern Maryland, and eastern Pennsylvania. The community celebrates the natural cycles of the year and the traditional turning of the seasonal wheel, while coming together to explore the mysteries of magickal practice and traditions. We adhere to a loose religious and spiritual framework that gives some structure to our community. In this framework we’ve chosen to flavor our experience with the energy of the Victorian era. Nevertheless, we welcome those from varying practices that are interested in being part of a community that supports and nurtures each other.

Throughout the year, the Society actively hosts celebrations that not only bring us closer to the natural world, but also closer to our own innate rhythms as human beings. Our members participate in magickal working in the home as well as in the group. The Society is also a place of scholarship and learning as we promote, teach, and explore such esoteric subjects as high magick, ancient cult traditions of the Mediterranean and Egypt, astrology, alchemy, and ancestral connection.

The Society and its members also seek to integrate spiritual practice into daily life. Instead of coming together only for festivals and celebrations as a group, or only doing magick on occasion as a solitary entity, we strive to foster a commitment to a spiritual connection that is there with us on a more regular basis.

Finally, the Society embraces the energy of being close to one another in physical form. Another way of saying that is that we meet in person. Although we have members who can’t leave their homes for certain reasons and a few of our members have moved farther from our physical base, we believe that the importance of bringing energies together in the real world, instead of a cyber world, can’t be underestimated. Whether we are celebrating Beltane before roaring fires or the great Eleusinian mysteries with a grand ceremony, doing group energy raising and magick working, or just getting together at a winery to drink a toast to Dionysus and laugh amongst friends, we believe that no virtual platform exists that can take the place of energies coming together in the real world.

The VSMM is open to anyone who feels called by our core values and connects with the energy of our community and practices. We do not discriminate based on race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, current or past religious experience, political beliefs, or personal philosophies. The only thing we ask of our members is that you actively seek to raise the energy of the group and are respectful of everyone while keeping an open heart and mind in all that you do within the organization.

We hope you’ll join us on this incredible journey!

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