Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
X Has Been a Witch for Y Years
X has been a witch for Y years.
Lots of Craft bios begin this way. Apparently we think that it sounds impressive.
It doesn't.
No matter what your Y is, there's always a Y + 10 that would be more impressive. Not to mention Y + 20, or Y + 50.
Y years? Really? Is that all?
Besides, the statement automatically raises the question: So what were you before that?
And then you've already lost your thrust.
Who, me?
I've always been this way.
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Wednesday, 22 March 2017
Submerged though it may be, somehow this identity just never goes away. Though we wander, we always come back.
I have to think that those hidden years will have given you strengths and discernment that will hasten the process for you now. One advantage might be that in these days there actually are far more wise and experienced elder voices speaking than there were back then.
May the Horns and the wandering Moon guide your way, Patricia, and lead you to the like-minded, and the like-minded to you. My experience has been that the journey is always worthwhile, no matter when we begin. -
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It is still so nebulous and varied what a witch even is. I was always interested and started experimenting at a young age. I disallowed my true self after a frightening experience that put me too close to a way I did not want to be. Now I have begun again, allowing myself to experience and experiment. What was missing was a group of like minded people to associate with that could have supported me and I would have been growing all this time. I just wonder now what I can do at the age of 60, starting again. I was still a witch all those years, just a very guarded one.