At somepoint the words people throw at you are...annoying. So, color me annoyed.
I'm not hurt. I'm not angry, I'm just fucking annoyed.
I can only speak for my experiance
Define witchcraft....
Here it is. . . from someone who practices when they see fit.
Witchcraft is a natures religion, which celebrates and revolves around all aspects of life including death. Just like all religions, there are extremists who are just down right fucking evil assholes. I'm not one of them.
Let me break this down for you. If I need a maple branch for some spell I'm working on... I normally try to find one that has fallen of its own accord so i don't have to damage a live plant. Witches, when having to take a live branch generally leave a thank you or an offering...not of a virgin or a first born child ... fucking idiots... usually a lock of their own hair, or some herb medley that they grew and harvested..
Think of spellwork ...as an ornamental prayer... fire and lightening doesn't spark from our wands... leave that shit with disney. Our wands or staff or any other tool we use is simply representation of a direction at which we choose our prayer to go or an amplifier so its a little louder than all the others.
Love spells aren't about making some poor unsuspecting soul love you that would otherwise think your barely tolerable...they're about asking the universe to help you find the love you're looking for.
The herbs we grow or offer nature ... compare them to the insence Catholics burn at mass. Its meant to cleanse the area and effect the mood, to keep out intentions that would go against prayer.. or in witch's cases spells.
The Jews, Catholics, and baptists all for as long as I can remember burn candles to send love or wishes for one reason or another.... witches do the same. Light a single large candle with 2 smaller ones ... to join in marriage, light a small white candle at mass in thought of a loved one whose passed or ill, do it in a church and no one bats an eye. Do it at home while casting a spell FOR THE SAME REASONS and you're an evil witch....
Witches drink tea to heal a sore throat or cough, they use witch hazel to ease skin irriatations, onions to pull out bacteria in the air... they're healers.
And that pentacle that you just love to hate on.... is a symbol of protection... lest you forget ... they're on Sheriffs badges and cars, most military vehicles, and I've recently spoted them in the breaklights of school buses.
I can only speak for myself here .... but you drink blood and eat flesh.....(yes I'm aware its wine ...grape juice... and stale bread wafers)
The difference between a witch and a christian isnt' that we're evil heathens or we're negative or synical. . It's that we struggle to believe in a book that has been translated by man, and is incomplete. They still have yet to find all the manuscripts that actually belong in the bible. There are around 20 years of Jesus's life missing.
On top of all of that there are several places that are misinturpreted or contradictory.
Do not judge lest ye be judged....
Thou shall not kill.....
Thou shall not suffer a witch to live..... what does that mean...
So...I'm not supposed to judge anyone
and I'm not supposed to kill anyone buuuutttt.. ya want me to judge that someone is a witch and kill em????
Jesus hung with whores, gamblers, lepers... but i don't recall ever reading that he went to church...Jesus taught in the streets....
Listen here too.... before you decide to get all high and mighty thinking I dunno what I'm talking about. It took me a long time to leave the broom closet, I as never quietly there. I have never been a sheep and followed the masses... I carried the bible to school and read the scripture, even then they were bitching about god being out of schools. I paid attention with my dad, his friend Ronnie, and my grandfather practiced their Hell, Fire, and Brimstone revival sermons. and way back then I was teased for it... called goody two shoes... mocked even in youth studies on Sunday nights with these called christians.
I carried my spell a day almanac an was mocked for that too... no matter what you belive you're going to catch shit for it.
But no religion is positive or negative. It is what you make of it, and my religion of Witchcraft IS NOT FUCKING EVIL OR NEGATIVE IN ANY FUCKING WAY.
And here is where I close my rant. I have this customer, a very kind man, a Protestant preacher. He brings me Moroccan coins with pentacle adornments so I can make jewelry from them. He performed a marriage for an atheist and catholic, an he always letting me know if the antique store he works at has cast iron cauldrons.
I asked him once why he didn't look down on wicthcraft and other heathen religions the way most do and this in a nutshell is what he said to me.
I have faith that my path, is the one and only path. However, I am only human, and should I be wrong, I want to show kindness to those who may be right. So that when the time comes, if I am wrong, those people will show me kindness in return.
Moral of my story here and my rant. Stop telling me my religion is negative or evil, especially if you are uneducated and know nothing of it. I AM NOT LESS THAN.
Quit being stupid and ignorant and learn something new.
Give a witch a hug today! Trust me we need one.
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Monday, January 21, 2019
The name of a "wild flower that's a weed"
I have a fascination with unappreciated plants. A while back when I was out back-roading (LIKE 2 DAMN YEARS BACK). I saw three plants with this really pretty purple flower.
I picked one. I took it home. I asked everyone who might know and no one could tell me what this flower was. I started seeing it all over next to paved roads. Then I was told its just a weed, some kind of wild flower that probably takes over. . . SO WHAT... it's a pretty weed, let it take over.
Today, I'm scrolling through my Facebook feed and what shall I find but my unnamed wild flower weed.
Chicory.
This weed is called Chicory. Thank you Granny Goodwitch, for finally sharing my flower so I can google and learn more.
This Lil' Witchy, LOVES the GOOGLE.
Here's Granny's Post.
I picked one. I took it home. I asked everyone who might know and no one could tell me what this flower was. I started seeing it all over next to paved roads. Then I was told its just a weed, some kind of wild flower that probably takes over. . . SO WHAT... it's a pretty weed, let it take over.
Today, I'm scrolling through my Facebook feed and what shall I find but my unnamed wild flower weed.
Chicory.
This weed is called Chicory. Thank you Granny Goodwitch, for finally sharing my flower so I can google and learn more.
This Lil' Witchy, LOVES the GOOGLE.
Here's Granny's Post.
Now, off to the google... I have no idea if those links and references work, but here's a link to the page where they do JIC The Wikipedia
Common chicory, Cichorium intybus,[4] is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant of the dandelion family Asteraceae, usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Many varieties are cultivated for salad leaves, chicons (blanched buds), or roots (var. sativum), which are baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute and food additive. In the 21st century, inulin, an extract from chicory root, has been used in food manufacturing as a sweetener and source of dietary fiber.[5]
Chicory is grown as a forage crop for livestock.[6] It lives as a wild plant on roadsides in its native Europe, and is now common in North America, China, and Australia, where it has become widely naturalized.[7][8][9] "Chicory" is also the common name in the United States for curly endive (Cichorium endivia); these two closely related species are often confused.[10]
Chicory root contains essential oils similar to those found in plants in the related genus Tanacetum.[32]
In traditional medicine, chicory has been listed as one of the 38 plants used to prepare Bach flower remedies.[33] According to Cancer Research UK, "essence therapists believe that using essences can help to increase your mental, emotional and spiritual well being ... Essences are not used to prevent, control, or cure cancer or any other physical condition."[34]
On to my books. . I'm paraphrasing and adding my 2 cents... fuckin deal okay!
Use the Roots and leaves, biennial or perennial that gets 2-4 feet with stalkless flowers usually blue (in my opinion they're purple but i'm not a scientist in this book) usually found on roadsides!! OH HEY That's where I found them. Use an ounce of root in 1 pint of water as a diuretic, laxative. Folk use in jaundice, skin eruprions, fevers. Extract diuretic, cardiotonic; lowers blood sugar, slightly sedative, and mildly laxative. Historically used for liver and gallbladder. The leaf is weaker than the root.
If ya want all that medicinal crap buy the book I don't wanna give away too much.
The roasted root is widely used as a coffee substitute and/or additive
Its rare but some people can be allergic.
The Hedge Witch Herbal by Nuit Moore.
You're on your own with finding this book, its a small paper pamphlet I received in a Magick Mail (now called Inked Goddess Creations Box) so, if you really want it maybe check out www.inkedgoddesscreations.com or hit Mrs. Morgan Moss up. She's an amazing fellow witch.
Chicory Root is good for digestion, assists with liver disorders and improves liver and digestive function. it's a mild laxative.
Recognized by its flower in early spring, Chicory has a long deep taproot, in season all year. There are no poisonous look alike... Well isn't' that just awesome!
It differs from its relative the common dandelion because most of the leaves have irregular hairs on them, while the dandelion is hairless. Wild lettuce is similar, but with fibrous root.
Chicory grows in disturbed habitats, along roadsides, and in fields, throughout the USA. Young chicory tastes similar to dandelion and wild lettuce in early spring. Use Chicory the same way you'd use dandelion greens, before the mid-spring flower stalk appears, when it turns very bitter.
Oh here's something new. According to this book the flower is edible but they wilt soon after picked and aren't especially good. BUT They are plentiful, so try batter and deep frying.
Tap root is dry and bitter, but roast it in a 250* F oven for 2-4 hours until dark brown, brittle, and fragrant. then grind in a blender to make homemade, caffeine free coffee substitute. Can be used in your coffee maker just as ground coffee, it tastes like coffee but doesn't create the nervous over-excitement that coffee creates, according to folklore.
There you have it. Some days are just more interesting than others.. and if you need to poop. or you ran out of coffee... just dig up that purple flower on the side of the road.. I'm still not convinced its blue.
Saturday, January 5, 2019
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