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When do I feel most magical?

 

October and Halloween, for sure.

And it is all comes together. When I have been plotting something and then that one piece hits me and it all makes sense and I can see it.

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How do I see mythological creatures?

 

Real. If not in this world as flesh and blood, then in another world or layer.

They exist in some form.

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What do I believe happens to us when we die?

 

Oh, this is a fun question for me and I have given it some thought.

Once upon a time I was at my grandfather’s funeral, plotting out a curse to put on his soul. He killed my grandmother, destroyed my family, and I wanted revenge only a witch can do.

As I was updating the plot of the cures to my Facebook group, while at the funeral, a question was brought up. Part of my curse was I had brought 2 quarters with me, tokens to give to the Ferry Man to take over the river Stxy. I had leaned over his dead body and told him was gonna burn in hell for killing Grandma and I held his tokens for the Ferry Man, and that he needed both to cross over. My plan was to spend one quarter at the store and chuck the other into the ferry point of a local river.

So, the question of the curse was if my grandfather didn’t believe in the Greek myth of the afterlife, would the curse still work?

And that lead me to my own idea of the afterlife.

I think we start a journey after we die. We go through all the trials, St Peter at the pearly gates, Anubis with the scales, the Ferry Man at the river.

Every culture has a theory and I think they are all right and all happen to us. Like a video game, we go through each one until we hit where we are supposed to be.

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Witchcraft XVII

Which aspects of witchcraft appeal to me most, which the least?

 

What I like is how I decide what I want to work on and be better at. Right now, I am trying to improve my daily practice. I have hopes to investigate ancestor worship and deity work later.

What I like the least is more how there is zillions of beginner books but nothing about what to do after that. You get the basics under your hat and you think, what’s next?

I know now that I had the freedom to just go out and start exploring on my own but 20 years ago, I was a bit lost.

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Witchraft XVI

Would I like to work with a group some of the time, all of the time or not at all?

 

I have been solitary for over 20 years. I don’t know if I could work with a group if I wanted to.

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How do I believe divination works?

 

I use cartomancy for my divination so, how do the cards work?

There’s layers to it. When I throw my cards I feel I am yelling into the void and the void is giving me clues and hints.

Sometimes I think it’s the deck itself that is doing the talking, like this set of cards know what’s going on, not that it’s any higher powers talking to me.

With that, I have use cards to talk to higher powers/things that go bump in the night/my Friend in the backyard. Ask a question, pull a card for the answer.

Sometimes I think I am looking for an answer and the cards make me think about that is going on.

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Witchcraft XIV

Which (witchy) holidays, if any, would I like to celebrate and how?

 

Halloween is my high holy day. I ward, I light a fire at night and watch The VVitch outside after casting my spells.

My practice is right now at a time of change. I am marking the Witch’s Sabbats because I have the Seasons of the Witch oracle decks and using them in my daily draws.

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What in nature am I drawn to; the ocean, animals, the trees, etc.?

 

I like penguins, groundhogs, opossums, and vultures.

I love lilacs and all the flowers I have growing around my house.

I love the Gasconade River.

I like to get lost in the woods.

I love living out in the sticks.

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Witchcraft XII

What are the basic morals and ethics I feel I should live by?

 

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Witchcraft XI

Do I want to practice something similar to my ancestors?

 

It’s a hot mess of me finding out what my ancestors did.

I thought I came from a long line of German Roman Catholics. Then I find out we were Lutherans in the old county.

And on the other side, a mix of English Quakers.

And then I went down a rabbit hole of the Venus of Willendorf.

She was found 10 hours away (driving) from where my people came from in Germany. Not knowing what all was going on 30,000 years ago, my ancestors may have worship her.

Do I want to practice something similar to my ancestors? I think I am.

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Witchcraft X

What are my views on cursing/hexing?

 

Let’s say your friend get sick, cancer. You whip up a wonderful healing spell, to help them get cured of cancer.

It’s a healing spell, nothing as bane as a curse or hex. You would never do that!

But to the cancer, it’s a death curse, pure and simple.

Any work is bane work if you think about it. You want a job, you craft a spell for it, it pushes other people out of the way so you are the one getting the goods. You cursed someone so they didn’t get the job.

I firmly believe in hexing and cursing. It’s not evil or bad, it’s another tool in your caldron.

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Shadow and Light

 

This past week has been not good for me. I didn’t know I was waiting for Thursday afternoon.

It started that morning with work being work and me reaching god statues and being recognized by management that I am awesome. By the afternoon, I received not news but realization that a dark cloud that’s been over my head since May is now fucking gone.

I woke up to the sun shining and the cats singing. I saw this spread the other day and thought that this will give me insight but I have that now. I still want to do it because getting better is a never-ending action and this will get me to a new level of better.

What is hidden? Forget-Me-Not. What is hidden is this new life I can live out now. Things are going well and I don’t have to fear pending doom.

What is revealed? Sage. That I am done with one part of my life and can move to the next part.

How can the shadow serve you? Daisy. The shadow can show me the way to the light.

How can the light guide? Violet. I just need to bask in the light.

I thought February was going to be my starting month. I didn’t know that I needed things to align and it would take all of February.

I am ready for March.

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Simple or elaborate spells/rituals? Why?

 

Some days I need to pull out all the stops, light all the candles, put on the ritual dress.

Some days it’s just yelling in my backyard.

I need both. It’s just the way I roll.

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Witchcraft VIII

How do I believe magic works?

 

I believe that there is an energy that flows. I believe that magic is part of that, if not that. I believe that when I use certain herbs and colors and what not, I am bending that energy to make into that, i.e. using lavender to make things calm.

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What kind of deities, if any, do I want to honor?

 

Karpo. She is the Greek goddess of fall. I have fallen off the wagon so bad that a goal of this year is to get back into a devotion towards her.

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Witchcraft VI

 

Where do my witchy talents lie?

 

I know tarot is a big part of my practice and power. I also have a way in just creating spells in a hell of a creative way (love spell using a song from Rocky Horror Picture Show).

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What areas of witchcraft would I like to learn more about?

 

I have plans this year to work on some things with the tarot. I got some, ideas, and I want to try them out.

As for witchcraft as a whole, nothing is really hitting me right now.

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Witchcraft IV

Do I want to follow a path that has to do with a little nature, or a lot of nature?

 

My path has the right amount of nature for me.

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Witchcraft III

What in witchcraft makes me happy?

 

That there is an answer for everything.

Whatever problem I have, I can find/work up a spell to solve it.

And there are so many ways to do witchcraft. I have body scrubs, body sprays, candles, charms. It’s all magic and it all works.

I am not powerless. I can look over my books and think and find an answer for anything.

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Witchcraft II

How do I see the divine?

 

My view of the divine have changed so much over the years I have been practicing.

Right now, I see the divine in the smallest of thing and the largest of things. Seeing the pray mantis in the fall, that is divine. The moon, that’s the divine. Sunsets and sunrises, all divine.

Nature is the divine for me.

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