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Shadow Work: Unworthiness

10/17/2017

“We have a whole definition of what a woman is, what a man is, how a woman should behave sexually, how a man should behave sexually. Men are always too macho or too wimpy depending on who is judging. Women are always too thin or too fat. We have all these beliefs about how a woman should be in order to be beautiful. You have to buy the right clothes, create the right image, so you can be seductive and fit that image. If you don’t fit that image of beauty, you grow up believing that you’re not worthy, that no one will like you.”

- The Mastery of Love, by Don Miguel Ruiz

Chakra Removal

10/10/2017

Chakras are energetic points, nodes, or vortexes within the subtle body, which is composed energy or etherical matter, and are connected by energy channels called Nadi. There are various chakras, usually seven, depending on the tradition there may be more considered, running the length of the torso. When there is a blockage of energy in any of these chakras the physical body experiences pain or distress and depending on which chakra it is that is blocked, will determine how that pain will manifest in the physical body; sometimes if the blockage is in the crown chakra, the individual will experience a headache, in the solar plexus – stomach distress. The ideal condition for over-all well-being and health is to have free flowing energy throughout the body and to have chakras that are neither blocked nor hyperactive or over stimulated.

Using The Spirit Board

10/3/2017

This morning I had a fellow Witch, who is just discovering or rather rediscovering herself and her Craft, message me about her recent experiences with a spirit board. It is a tool she is building a relationship with and through this process has discovered that she holds some energetic resistance to it. She is clearly aware that she is skeptical, but there is some deeper resistance and was seeking my insight to her experiences. The resistance she is experiencing I suggested was fear.

Spirit boards carry a bad reputation, in part I believe, because of the plethora of movies that have been made filled with the prorogation that they are

Shadow Work: Dealing With Shadows

9/26/2017

I recently watched a recording of a LIVE stream on YouTube where the individual asked:

"Are we dealing with the Shadows of others when we deal with judgement from others? Are their Shadows being forced upon us?"

I wished I could have been watching when the stream was live because I would have shared my thoughts then, but I wasn't so I will share them here in a blog post.

The simple answer to these questions is “No.”

Anam Cara

9/19/2017

So I was sitting here at my keyboard since yesterday, wondering what I was going to post about this week and it seemed that I had nothing to say, which is unusual because there are always thoughts and ideas dancing around in my head; character development ideas for Secrets of Syn, plot points for the novel I’m in the process of writing or just ideas of videos, and I considered that perhaps I felt uninspired to write because of the grief that had quietly and unassumingly resurfaced as it does every year at this time.

It’s autumn and Mabon is just days away, which will be quickly followed by Samhain, my all-time favorite holiday, but since 2011 it has become less fun and more bitter-sweet. It doesn't help that she was autumn

Angie Wrote ...

9/11/2017

I am the author of an on-going paranormal fictional series titled Secrets of Syn. You can purchase a bound copy of chapters 1 - 35 through Amazon by following the link in the side bar.

In this witchy series the main character, Angie, an angsty teenager with a fractured psyche and unusual abilities direct descendant of Abigail Williams of Salem fame, identifies herself as a poetess. I've decided to share some of Angie's writings with you this week because honestly, her words are my own. I hope you enjoy.

A Great Transformation

9/5/2017

The world is going through a great energetic shift, which will ultimately lead to a spiritual evolution, one in which many of us have been anxiously waiting, but these great shifts do not come without pain and suffering. We can look at the natural order to see that with every manifestation that occurs on this plane of existence within this shared reality there is always some type of destruction and with that there is usually pain and suffering. Human beings are born into physicality through their mothers, who experience the pains of labor followed by the physical stress and discomfort of child birth, but these women endure and some willingly experience this pain more than once during their lifetime because they possess the knowledge of what joys are to come. There is truly nothing more valuable to us than that which is

"Witches Are Women and Maginas"

8/29/2017

I have been asked by an online friend and Witch, Adam Balan, to address the following quote that he shared with me. He explained that he read this comment in a post on a video that they had watched on someone else's YouTube channel. It was not stated by the YouTuber he was watching, but was left by a viewer of this particular channel. Adam recorded his own thoughts on this quote, which can be found on his channel under the video titled: The Witchy Show: "My Craft Is Better". You can access it through this link. I agree with his opinion and thoughts on this, but I have some things to share with you, my readers as well. Let's begin with me sharing the quote with you.

Building a Relationship With the Elements

8/21/2017

After watching an episode of The Sacred Circle, a follower of my CricketSong facebook page asked if I would share ideas on how to start working with the elements. During the episode Allorah Rayne, Renee Yin, and I discussed how important it was for a new Witch (or any Witch for that matter) to establish a relationship with the classical elements of Air, Water, Fire, and Earth. When the Lunar Wisdom Coven was active each Samhain every member was given an element to work with for that year until the following Samhain when the elements were switched. Allorah suggested working with an element for six months then switching so which ever length of time you decide I would say anything less than six months isn’t

Realms of Creation and Planes of Existence

8/16/2017

The act of creation happens within the four realms of occult philosophy. These realms are the Spiritual, Mental, Astral, and Physical, however the division is artificial and arbitrary because these realms are not a specific locations but are ascending degrees of life, the lowest point being matter and the highest being that of spirit. Within each of these realms there are numerous dimensions or planes which have no real boundaries and blend one into another. They are superimposed upon each other so that they exist in the same place, at the same time within one reality. They are comprised of matter which permeates everything that exists within the Universe whether it is a physical thing or a human being or thoughts, emotions, gases, light, sound; all these things are made of the same matter. This matter is measured by its energetic vibration;

If You Can’t Curse, You Can’t Heal?

8/8/2017

I was watching a YouTube video the other day where the individual was commenting on how the statement, “If you can’t curse, you can’t heal” made no sense to them. The video was about 15 minutes long with this individual going over the reasons why it really made no sense. Instead of making a video response I wanted to share my thoughts with you, my blog readers, on this whole idea. The statement that the YouTuber was referring to was posted somewhere in a facebook group I believe, but is a paraphrase of the quote made by Z. Budapest, the founder of the Susan B. Anthony Coven which states:

The Tenets of Wicca: Understanding The Three Realms

8/1/2017

As I mentioned in a previous blog post that there are tenets that exist that create the foundation of Wicca even if you are a Modern Eclectic Wiccan. There is a line, a boundary for everything, a point when something stops being one thing and transforms into something else. There are characteristics or traits that identify Wicca as Wicca. I will continue to discuss these characteristics or tenets in this blog. I have already discussed other tenets and today I will finish with the last tenet, which is:

Understanding The Three Realms.

The Witch Who Hates Spells

7/25/2017

I was looking through a facebook group I am a member of and came across a post with a link to a blog, which bore the title: The Witch Who Hates Spells. I paused, shaking my head in disbelief. Really? A Witch who hates spells? I was intrigued and skeptical so I clicked the link and read the blog post.

In the beginning as I read the article I found myself empathizing with the author and understood their initial uncomfortablity and lack of fondness for spells and spell books written and published by other Witches as I, too, have always felt it was best to write and cast my own spells than use one written by any other Witch including Scott Cunningham and the like. I don’t

The Tenets of Wicca: Understanding the Lessons of the Descent of The Goddess

7/18/2017

As I mentioned in a previous blog post that there are tenets that exist that create the foundation of Wicca even if you are a Modern Eclectic Wiccan. There is a line, a boundary for everything, a point when something stops being one thing and transforms into something else. There are characteristics or traits that identify Wicca as Wicca. I will continue to discuss these characteristics or tenets in this blog. I have already discussed other tenets and today I will continue with the next one, which is:

Understanding the lessons of The Descent of The Goddess.

What Is Your Intention?

7/11/2017

I was listening to a video the other afternoon and the YouTuber was discussing spell casting specifically candle magick. Within the video they made the following statement:

“Intention is made of two things: your energy and your will.”

Considering this statement as it was said, I believe that this individual doesn’t understand the concept of intention. Perhaps it is because this

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