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.
