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Title: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Nina on August 01, 2006, 04:15:46 AM
How do you know for sure that you are ment to be one, is it the birth marks, or animal that speak to you, or what? Im really interested in this, personally, and would really appreciate your help and answers.

Thank you all Monstrous people!!!!

Nina
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Necropolis on August 01, 2006, 05:43:19 AM
A compulsion or need to perform it that I have had all my life from the begining of my memories.
Kind of like the need to express a talent.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: jordyn on August 01, 2006, 09:15:07 AM
A compulsion or need to perform it that I have had all my life from the begining of my memories.
Kind of like the need to express a talent.

pretty much, but it's hard for me to make it so simple...i had a lot of influence in my younger years through my father's side of the family...but i didn't actually claim the title of witch until years later, after i sought what i needed on my own...i think a person who can work with naturally occuring energies, manipulating them into manifesting personal improvements and desirescould qualify as a witch. 
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Weirdelicious on August 01, 2006, 09:24:35 AM
I agree with jordyn but sadly, so many people give themselves the title of witch just because they read books or know some spells by heart. Like one author in perticular that I will not mention  :x . Because there are natural witches (people who don't need rituals or lessons for things to happen) and those who learn. You don't have to be designated by a priestess or mage or whatever. It's like anybody can do it IF they have the "spark" in them. Because some try and try and never succeed. That's my opinion.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: jordyn on August 01, 2006, 09:55:31 AM
it's sort of entertaining how many people fail to seperate witches from wiccans though...i don't know if popular media is a blessing or a curse, on one had it shows witches aren't whore's of the devil hell bent on destroying humanity, but so many now view us as some light, fluffy "charmed ones" that can wiggle our nose and have it done, as long as it harms none.  :roll:

Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Nina on August 01, 2006, 02:31:44 PM
Hm, and when someone makes you sad, then suddenly something bad happens to those people? Or when the storm comes you can just smell it? And enjoy in thunder, just go out with this ....urge to dance and chant? And when, as a teenager, I was very upset, stuff falled of the walls, and cats just .....start to surround me and meow in that silent way, just staring at me? Or when I go to woods then some weird energy starts to surround me, like it was alive and ...  almost humanoid? But nothing big happens, only this small details I see when no one other can.....Where do I put  that?
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: jordyn on August 01, 2006, 02:59:46 PM
Hm, and when someone makes you sad, then suddenly something bad happens to those people? Or when the storm comes you can just smell it? And enjoy in thunder, just go out with this ....urge to dance and chant? And when, as a teenager, I was very upset, stuff falled of the walls, and cats just .....start to surround me and meow in that silent way, just staring at me? Or when I go to woods then some weird energy starts to surround me, like it was alive and ...  almost humanoid? But nothing big happens, only this small details I see when no one other can.....Where do I put  that?

well, it sort of fits the bill...;)

the difference between natural abiliies and actually being a witch however is that the witch aspect requires some sort of study, an attempt to understand and control such abiliites...while finding other energies to keep you balanced...it's pretty scary when things are imbalanced and out of control.

first you should decide what you want to have faith in...you apparantly have the abilities, but until you find a path to master them, it's just raw talent.  I'd suggest looking into some general new age material, they talk about dealing with the abilities, and focus on grounding and centering through meidtation, and have have a less occult like approach than many specific artists.  Go to a book store and browse the new age section, see if anything jumps out at you, an exploration into psychic abilities may help you figure things out to, once you decide on your spiritual path, it'll be easier to focus on a specific area of study.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Nina on August 01, 2006, 03:05:37 PM
Ok, this is what Im currently doing:
meditating, studying the occult initiations, keter, and train will. chokman, higher visualisation, balance, awarness of self, imagination, wish, mantring my kundalini mantra, body awarness...that kind of training, but it all stays in some peacefull trail, I go to the nature a lot, walk barefoot on forest land...the problem is I dont know the exact start, I just feel the urge to train, and to help
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Weirdelicious on August 01, 2006, 03:08:10 PM
Hm, and when someone makes you sad, then suddenly something bad happens to those people? Or when the storm comes you can just smell it? And enjoy in thunder, just go out with this ....urge to dance and chant? And when, as a teenager, I was very upset, stuff falled of the walls, and cats just .....start to surround me and meow in that silent way, just staring at me? Or when I go to woods then some weird energy starts to surround me, like it was alive and ...  almost humanoid? But nothing big happens, only this small details I see when no one other can.....Where do I put  that?

You seem to have the "spark" Nina! Congrats! jordyn is right, study it up!
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: jordyn on August 01, 2006, 04:28:08 PM
Ok, this is what Im currently doing:
meditating, studying the occult initiations, keter, and train will. chokman, higher visualisation, balance, awarness of self, imagination, wish, mantring my kundalini mantra, body awarness...that kind of training, but it all stays in some peacefull trail, I go to the nature a lot, walk barefoot on forest land...the problem is I dont know the exact start, I just feel the urge to train, and to help

it'll fall into place...just give it time.  :)
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Necropolis on August 02, 2006, 12:41:58 AM

pretty much, but it's hard for me to make it so simple...i had a lot of influence in my younger years through my father's side of the family...but i didn't actually claim the title of witch until years later, after i sought what i needed on my own...i think a person who can work with naturally occuring energies, manipulating them into manifesting personal improvements and desirescould qualify as a witch. 

You had the advantage of having too many "bad" influences in your childhood. While I had to fight everything they taught me about magic about how it was evil, unnatural, required cruelness, can never be used for good etc because my heart screamed out that the information they were forcing on me was WRONG.
And people wonder why I rebelled so hard.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: jordyn on August 02, 2006, 07:20:00 AM
your parents were normal? 

mine have always been a little, odd...i used to hear stories from neighbors of my dad out in the field calling aliens to come and take him home.   :banplea:
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Weirdelicious on August 02, 2006, 07:28:41 AM
your parents were normal? 

mine have always been a little, odd...i used to hear stories from neighbors of my dad out in the field calling aliens to come and take him home.   :banplea:

 *<:) Oh yeah? Check this out, when I was a child, my mother used to tell me horror tales before bed! Why? Because they made me laugh! At school, my favorite doll was a latex skeleton! I've been told that my great grand uncle had framed pictures of coffins in his livingroom and when he had guests, late at night he would get up and trow metal plates in the basement to scare them! I come from a weird family...our last name should have been Addams...
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: jordyn on August 02, 2006, 09:38:31 AM
i think smith is appropriate...for my family, it's sort of infamous in the town i grew up with...everyone has a smith kid story or something one of my parents did, i don't understand why my mother couldn't relate to the things we pulled off, she was just as...wild.  :roll:

gotta love small town living, and meeting old friends of the parents in a bar.  :-o
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Necropolis on August 02, 2006, 01:39:59 PM
your parents were normal? 

I'd rather not go into it. Lets just say I had an interesting childhood.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Nina on August 02, 2006, 02:52:25 PM
your parents were normal? 

mine have always been a little, odd...i used to hear stories from neighbors of my dad out in the field calling aliens to come and take him home.   :banplea:

Well, my mother had seen the old wise man in white, that loved to come and dissapear, and father had some....well, lets just say-enlightened moments....
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: jordyn on August 02, 2006, 03:23:53 PM
your parents were normal? 

I'd rather not go into it. Lets just say I had an interesting childhood.

we usually do.  ;)
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Necropolis on August 02, 2006, 05:24:02 PM
The one down side is that I lack disapline and my mind lacks structure, and so it really affects my ability to perform magic.  With out these two factors it is really hard to be anything more than an armchair magician. I do enough magic each day to stop the feeling but not much more.  Hel I have trouble developing habits. Bad or good ones.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Weirdelicious on August 02, 2006, 05:29:41 PM
The one down side is that I lack disapline and my mind lacks structure, and so it really affects my ability to perform magic.  With out these two factors it is really hard to be anything more than an armchair magician. I do enough magic each day to stop the feeling but not much more.  Hel I have trouble developing habits. Bad or good ones.

But you could do mental exercises to be more focused. All you need is will, patience and self-confidence.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Necropolis on August 02, 2006, 05:38:18 PM
That has always been a catch 22, to develop focus and displine you must have focus and displine. I have trained for focus and patience I can stand or sit still for hours staring at the same spot. My eyes dont rove like they're supposed to do. The problem lies in this when I learn these things I had nothing else to do but these things. I used to sit and meditate for 6hrs (I am told it always seemed like 5 minutes to me), becuase there was nothing else to do.
Real displine allows for life, where I have trouble doing remembering to do things I do everyday.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Weirdelicious on August 02, 2006, 05:55:17 PM
Oh I see...not very convenient!
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Lena on August 02, 2006, 06:08:21 PM
Natural abilities...strange things always happened around me, and I've never been able to convince myself that I didn't really see fairies and my dolls didn't move on their own as a small child. That stuff stopped as I was told over and over it was my imagination until I mostly believed it...but there were always little things that didn't fit with the accepted 'reality'. I guess I'm sort of coming full-circle... When I was little I'd try to do magic, but it never worked, probably because of my very skewed idea of what it was and how to do it...abracadabra and wiggling my fingers and such...

I was one of those kids who openly believed in fairy tales longer than everyone else...tolerated for awhile then finally ridiculed into keeping it to myself, but never really able to stop.

One thing I always was 'allowed' to believe in was dreams...my mum believes very strongly that dreams can have important things to say and should be paid attention to, and she would always listen to me and try to help me figure it out.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Weirdelicious on August 02, 2006, 06:13:33 PM
Of course we have to pay attention to our dreams. Most of the time, they are just the account of your day or your emotionnal state. But often they can indicate solutions, or sometimes predict the future.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Lena on August 08, 2006, 09:30:52 AM
I've had enough experience with that by now to know better than to ignore any of them...
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: jordyn on August 08, 2006, 09:50:31 AM
i second that assessment, not that my dreams have ever been overtly prophetic, but a lot of time their meanings will hold some good messages for me to apply to my life...i'm usually most grateful for the warnings, like using my credit card a little too much and having a dream of becoming overdrawn...fortunately i'm not, but i take it as a warning to curb it.  ;)
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Morticia on August 08, 2006, 02:08:34 PM
Natural abilities...strange things always happened around me, and I've never been able to convince myself that I didn't really see fairies and my dolls didn't move on their own as a small child.

Same here.  I was absolutely positive that my dolls moved.  I'm still not convinced that they didn't.  I have memories that go back to the age of around 2 1/2, and a memory of a smell from when I was 9 months old.

All through my young childhood, from around 3-7, I had a persistent thought: "I have to remember all of this because it is important." 

I was very isolated as a child.  We lived on the family farm in a house that was exactly one mile from the pike (main road  :-)), and as I was the first child, there was nobody at all for me to play with.  There were only sporadic visits from friends and relatives who had children so I spent a lot of time by myself until the age of 8 when we moved to town.

I have strong intuitive senses.  Sometimes I don't know exactly what's going on with someone I'm with, but I always know for sure if they're having a problem or sadness.   I pick up on unspoken communication extremely well, and sometimes mistakenly take it for granted that everyone else can do that too.

Once I had a throat infection that the doctors couldn't cure and my mother took me to the local witch healer.  She chanted something and used herbs dipped in three glasses of water.  She rubbed the herbs around in my mouth and the infection was gone the next day.

I do not claim the title of 'witch' anymore, but I believe there are a lot more things possible than most mainline Christians are willing to admit.

~Morticia

Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: jordyn on August 08, 2006, 02:25:30 PM
my favorite trick i learned out of a folk magick book was concerning taking an onion and rubbing it on warts three times saying something like out warts into onion, and then bury the onion, as it rots the warts will fade away...i woke up one morning and they were gone.

the odd part is that i had them burned off, they came back, i had them frozen off, they came back...and finally i tried the onion...now i have three little scars on my mount of venus to attest that, something made them go away.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Weirdelicious on August 08, 2006, 02:33:32 PM
I read something similar, you rub a snail on your warts, hang the snail to dry. When the snail is dry, your warts are gone. Ewww......
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: jordyn on August 08, 2006, 02:35:44 PM
I read something similar, you rub a snail on your warts, hang the snail to dry. When the snail is dry, your warts are gone. Ewww......

poor snail... :cry:
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Devious Viper on August 08, 2006, 02:45:51 PM
Yes, that is a warranted emotion, particularly if the said warts were of the "genital" persuasion.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: jordyn on August 08, 2006, 03:01:46 PM
well, i don't have to worry about that, either way...perhaps my goddess finds my lust for life too appealing to curb me through such a cruel punishment.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Necropolis on August 08, 2006, 03:17:34 PM
Yes, that is a warranted emotion, particularly if the said warts were of the "genital" persuasion.

Sally and Jack had a wonderful day at the beach. They swam, sunbathed, played some volleyball.Sally took Jack out and he caught some crabs, only he didn't knowe it yet.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Phantom X on August 08, 2006, 05:15:44 PM
my favorite trick i learned out of a folk magick book was concerning taking an onion and rubbing it on warts three times saying something like out warts into onion, and then bury the onion, as it rots the warts will fade away...i woke up one morning and they were gone.

the odd part is that i had them burned off, they came back, i had them frozen off, they came back...and finally i tried the onion...now i have three little scars on my mount of venus to attest that, something made them go away.

I heard it was a potato, that went well for my brother. Strangly, my mothers boss(whom is a doctor) told us to do it.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: jordyn on August 08, 2006, 05:21:46 PM
my favorite trick i learned out of a folk magick book was concerning taking an onion and rubbing it on warts three times saying something like out warts into onion, and then bury the onion, as it rots the warts will fade away...i woke up one morning and they were gone.

the odd part is that i had them burned off, they came back, i had them frozen off, they came back...and finally i tried the onion...now i have three little scars on my mount of venus to attest that, something made them go away.

I heard it was a potato, that went well for my brother. Strangly, my mothers boss(whom is a doctor) told us to do it.

maybe there are certain chemicals in some vegetables that work in counteracting the wart creating stuff?(can't think of the proper name for it at this time)
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Phantom X on August 08, 2006, 05:24:11 PM
my favorite trick i learned out of a folk magick book was concerning taking an onion and rubbing it on warts three times saying something like out warts into onion, and then bury the onion, as it rots the warts will fade away...i woke up one morning and they were gone.

the odd part is that i had them burned off, they came back, i had them frozen off, they came back...and finally i tried the onion...now i have three little scars on my mount of venus to attest that, something made them go away.

I heard it was a potato, that went well for my brother. Strangly, my mothers boss(whom is a doctor) told us to do it.

maybe there are certain chemicals in some vegetables that work in counteracting the wart creating stuff?(can't think of the proper name for it at this time)

Possible, but if there was then doctors still wouldnt use the freeze and burn techniques.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Devious Viper on August 08, 2006, 05:34:31 PM
the wart creating stuff?(can't think of the proper name for it at this time)

human papilloma virus
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: jordyn on August 08, 2006, 05:45:56 PM
the wart creating stuff?(can't think of the proper name for it at this time)

human papilloma virus

you and your knowledges... :wink:
my favorite trick i learned out of a folk magick book was concerning taking an onion and rubbing it on warts three times saying something like out warts into onion, and then bury the onion, as it rots the warts will fade away...i woke up one morning and they were gone.

the odd part is that i had them burned off, they came back, i had them frozen off, they came back...and finally i tried the onion...now i have three little scars on my mount of venus to attest that, something made them go away.

I heard it was a potato, that went well for my brother. Strangly, my mothers boss(whom is a doctor) told us to do it.

maybe there are certain chemicals in some vegetables that work in counteracting the wart creating stuff?(can't think of the proper name for it at this time)

Possible, but if there was then doctors still wouldnt use the freeze and burn techniques.

what would allow him to charge more, a potatoe, an onion or the chemicals to remove them?
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Morticia on August 09, 2006, 10:11:45 AM

what would allow him to charge more, a potatoe, an onion or the chemicals to remove them?

 %*)BINGO!  And don't forget the drug companies who figure into this racket.

People who are interested in natural healing might like curezone.com.  It's HUGE, with lots of information - you have to wade through and sift out what you believe is really good.

My favorite is Ask Dr. Stoll or Walt Stoll Bulletin Board.  He's an MD who went into holistic medicine, got his license lifted in Kentucky on some bogus charges and retired to Florida.  He's elderly now and not in the best of health, but he has maintained this bulletin board and has a literal library of archived information.

Dr. Stoll also says "it's all about the money."

~Morticia
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Morticia on August 09, 2006, 10:17:32 AM
the wart creating stuff?(can't think of the proper name for it at this time)

human papilloma virus

I have this.  I was a virgin when I married my first husband.  He wasn't - he had been with a prostitute without using protection, in addition to anyone else he could get in bed during his younger years.  I went to the doctor when 'warts' appeared and he told me what they were.  I had never heard of this before.  After several months the warts went away on their own, but the doctor told me I would always have the HPV virus.  It put me at a much higher risk for cervical cancer, which I have had.  Fortunately it was caught in the early stages and treated.

So Viper is very correct to call it 'roulette'.

Ladies, PAP tests are extremely important.  I've had breast cancer too, but the mammogram test isn't as reliable as doctors would like us to think.  The very best way to find a lump is to check yourself in the shower with soapy hands.  That's how I found my lump.  The mammogram machine couldn't find it.  I had to keep showing them where I felt it.  (Just felt like sharing that one.)

~Morticia

Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Necropolis on August 09, 2006, 02:22:44 PM

Ladies, PAP tests are extremely important.  I've had breast cancer too, but the mammogram test isn't as reliable as doctors would like us to think.  The very best way to find a lump is to check yourself in the shower with soapy hands.  That's how I found my lump.  The mammogram machine couldn't find it.  I had to keep showing them where I felt it.  (Just felt like sharing that one.)

Apperently according to the Statistic it men who usiually discover the unusual lumps in breat cancer.

I have a theory about alot of the diseases, especially Cancer may be related to electromagntic fields caused by technology weaking our personal fields so that it deflects less radiation.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Lena on August 09, 2006, 05:22:17 PM
That's an interesting theory... It sounds like it could make sense, anyway. Or it could be that technology emits more radiation, thus the same is getting deflected, but more is not.

I shall have to try that onion thing on my foot wart...just the one. I had it for about a year in elementary school, it went away for years, then it came back, went away, and came back again. :roll: Or maybe the potato...my eyes hate fresh onions!
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Morticia on August 10, 2006, 01:59:09 AM

I have a theory about alot of the diseases, especially Cancer may be related to electromagntic fields caused by technology weaking our personal fields so that it deflects less radiation.

I think that's possible, although I believe in my case it was caused by an overall weakening of my immune system due to stress and depression.   Dr. Dean Ornish addresses this possibility in his book "Love and Survival".

~Morticia
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Devious Viper on August 23, 2006, 01:11:44 PM
Going back to toads/frogs...

Frog froth to treat wounds

(Robin McKie, science editor, The Observer, August 20, 2006)

The Tungara frog of Trinidad is an amphibian of unusual habits. When females lay eggs in ponds, their mates build huge balls of froth around them. These act as nests that protect their delicate, developing offspring. But those froth balls are proving to be very special.

Scientists have found that they contain a new type of detergent, as well as anti-microbial agents. Researchers are trying to isolate and develop this chemical to make new drugs and medicines.

"This material is amazing," said Professor Malcolm Kennedy, of Glasgow University's biology department. "You could imagine using this stuff as an emergency spray on soldiers injured by shell blasts or on burns victims. It could provide immediate protection for the wound and stop infections spreading. These frogs lay their eggs in stinking pools bursting with microbes. Yet none of their eggs gets infected, thanks to the froth that the frogs create. This not only prevents microbial growth, but holds its structure for many days. It is astonishing stuff."

The adult Tungara frog, Physalaemus pustulosus, is found across much of South and Central America, as well as in the Caribbean. After the female lays eggs in pools of rainwater and secretes a fluid containing a special detergent-like chemical, the male fertilises the eggs and then creates the froth by kicking the liquid vigorously with its hind legs.

The Tungara detergent does no damage to the fertilised eggs, and may have important uses. 'In particular, it could be used to clear up oil spills, replacing standard detergents which can cause considerable environmental damage on their own,' said Kennedy.
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Nina on August 23, 2006, 02:39:02 PM
That's an interesting theory... It sounds like it could make sense, anyway. Or it could be that technology emits more radiation, thus the same is getting deflected, but more is not.

I shall have to try that onion thing on my foot wart...just the one. I had it for about a year in elementary school, it went away for years, then it came back, went away, and came back again. :roll: Or maybe the potato...my eyes hate fresh onions!
I know a herb that heals that, but dont know what its called in english, I will have to find a photo, it has littlle yellow flowers, and when you break it it leaks yellow juice, you put that juice on the wart and the wart dries in few days never to come back...I know it helped me with the only wart i ever had in my life
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: jordyn on August 24, 2006, 05:43:57 AM
Going back to toads/frogs...

Frog froth to treat wounds

(Robin McKie, science editor, The Observer, August 20, 2006)

The Tungara frog of Trinidad is an amphibian of unusual habits. When females lay eggs in ponds, their mates build huge balls of froth around them. These act as nests that protect their delicate, developing offspring. But those froth balls are proving to be very special.

Scientists have found that they contain a new type of detergent, as well as anti-microbial agents. Researchers are trying to isolate and develop this chemical to make new drugs and medicines.

"This material is amazing," said Professor Malcolm Kennedy, of Glasgow University's biology department. "You could imagine using this stuff as an emergency spray on soldiers injured by shell blasts or on burns victims. It could provide immediate protection for the wound and stop infections spreading. These frogs lay their eggs in stinking pools bursting with microbes. Yet none of their eggs gets infected, thanks to the froth that the frogs create. This not only prevents microbial growth, but holds its structure for many days. It is astonishing stuff."

The adult Tungara frog, Physalaemus pustulosus, is found across much of South and Central America, as well as in the Caribbean. After the female lays eggs in pools of rainwater and secretes a fluid containing a special detergent-like chemical, the male fertilises the eggs and then creates the froth by kicking the liquid vigorously with its hind legs.

The Tungara detergent does no damage to the fertilised eggs, and may have important uses. 'In particular, it could be used to clear up oil spills, replacing standard detergents which can cause considerable environmental damage on their own,' said Kennedy.

i never cease to be amazed at what, or where science discovers this stuff, it must be their assitants...i mean, who comes up with the idea to examine, frog froth? 

"What, ten minutes late?  Here, go take a sample of this."  ;)
Title: fine then!
Post by: jordyn on August 29, 2006, 08:19:54 PM
what don't or didn't you like about being a witch sort of person? 
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Morticia on September 03, 2006, 09:40:24 AM
I didn't like the increasing feeling that I was wrong about my beliefs.

I simply could not ignore the Bible anymore.  I wanted to, I refused to even look at it for a while.  People at WOTA (http://www.waroftheangels.org) kept telling me why I was wrong and I would counter back with some argument or other that I had learned from pagan books.

My heart simply wasn't in it anymore.  It came as quite a shock to me to realize I was wrong.  Now, several years later, I believe it was the Holy Spirit working in my life.

Up until that point, I enjoyed witchcraft.  The only thing that got to be tiresome was trying to keep up with so much paraphanalia for rituals.  Also, it makes me sick how much money I wasted on things.  Money that could have been put to much better use.  I consider it payment for a lesson well learned.

~Morticia
Title: anybody else have an opinion?
Post by: jordyn on September 04, 2006, 08:17:42 AM
i never had and still don't have a sense i was wrong, or wrong about witchery....my general dissatisfaction is that it became another organized religion, witchcraft was never an organized anything and it got to a point where i realized it wasn't any different than anything else, and began to lose the feelings it generated at one time, i started to look for a new thrill...

i guess in a way it came down to Gd or Satan, once witchcraft was getting blahze, i chose the one that was shown to be most, beneficial to my life...keeping me a good happy person, i enjoy peace and happiness, witchcraft once upon a time provided that, but i was becoming more angry at myself and others over it...getting caught up in all the witch war hype, it's funny that Gd's seems newer and more original than the occult. 

if you find the right people.  ;)

i still see witchcraft as a valid and okay path for people to follow if they desire...it's just not a faith that could sustain me, anymore....

any other opinions on witchcraft?
Title: Re: fine then!
Post by: Necropolis on September 07, 2006, 11:23:04 PM
what don't or didn't you like about being a witch sort of person? 


Silver RavenWolf and people getting instant idea that for some reason you worship "Manou".
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: jordyn on September 08, 2006, 05:36:50 AM
i have to agree with you there...the fluffiness and "craft" like approach to anything witchcraft had become tedious some while ago. 
Title: Re: fine then!
Post by: Morticia on September 10, 2006, 08:59:24 PM
what don't or didn't you like about being a witch sort of person? 


Silver RavenWolf and people getting instant idea that for some reason you worship "Manou".

Are you sure $ilver RavenWolf didn't mean 'money', not "Manou"? 

 *<:)

~Morticia
Title: Re: What makes you a witch???
Post by: Lena on November 06, 2006, 02:59:12 PM
I don't like all the ritual stuff and "this must be done exactly this way". I work a candle-spell or some such once in a while, but without frills and chanting, closer to a meditation. I like doing whatever feels right at the time, and work very much 'in the moment', not some fancy ritual memorised from a book.