My muse and I have an on-going disagreement of sorts. Well. I do. She is indifferent as usual to my thoughts and feelings. She clomps into my bedroom, Manolos in hand, Aviation martinis from the Lambs Club and a burrito from Taco Morelos on her breath.
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I've never been a Witch in the woods. The thing is, to be a proper Witch in the woods, villagers have to know where you live (no) or you need to do a lot of festivals which involves camping (no).
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Thank you - wonderful article.
One of the most important virtues a magician can cultivate is curiosity. While the old saying that curiosity kills the cat comes to mind, we should consider that such a saying really is a response to curiosity that favors the status quo. It discourages exploration in favor of keeping things the same. Such an attitude should be an anathema to the magician.
Curiosity is at the core of my spiritual practice. When I was much younger I was a born again Christian and I left because I realized that I couldn't find all the answers in one book and that allowing myself to be limited to what I considered to be a narrow perspective of the universe was not good. So when I discovered that magic was real I voraciously began to read books and I allowed my curiosity to explore and experiment with what I learned. Curiosity motivates me to discover my questions and answers and it is an emotion that I couldn't imagine being without.
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Well said! If you think about it, any seeker wanting growth and spiritual health needs curiosity. It's the only way to expand our
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I couldn't agree more with your every word. I follow the same approach and give the same advice that you are giving here to my own
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Thanks Carolina! It's important to encourage curiosity...it's how we grow.
Witchcraft gets romanticized a whole lot. Just look at my picture of the Charmed sisters. They're off solving problems in mid drift tops living in a huge house, learning about love and sisterhood. My first reaction is much like yours, it can be summed up as sigh. But. If it wasn't for Charmed, my mother and I would be locked in the same stalemate we had been locked in since I was 22. Charmed made modern Witchcraft accessible to my mom and made her less afraid of whatever I was doing.
Romantic witchcraft isn't reserved for non-Pagans though. In Paganism, being able to be a career Witch/Occult Shop Owner/Pagan Writer/Special Shaman Who Talks to Ponies/Whatever has become the dreamy eyed ideal. And why shouldn't it be? There's enough of us now to actually support career minded people who want to support themselves off their Craft. I know a few people who I'm incredibly jealous of who are doing that very thing. It's not exactly a new concept, communities generally supported an occultist who lived on the fringe of society/in the weird house at the end of the block for ages.
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I really identify with this. I support my work as priestess through writing and publishing, and before the economy tanked also thr
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I find it difficult to keep separate the idea of devoting oneself to the occult as a career and that of being a priest or priestes
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I don't really see myself as clergy really so it's not really an issue for me. But I know there are people who do both, hopefully
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Ah yes, as a fellow Etsy seller and writer I can definitely relate to everything you say here! The occult marker is a difficult n