There’s a certain glamour about the hippie witch life that the uninitiated gravitate toward. The carefree, commune-dwelling, love-and-peace aesthetic is alluring. In the mind’s eye, the garden is always flourishing, the animals never get sick, the well pump never breaks, and the outside world is always accepting.
Marcy Young was my very first witchcraft teacher, and one of the things she taught eighteen-year-old me was that I always had permission to work magick for healing and for protection – as long as I did it in such a way as to not infringe on the free will of the person I was…
Traditional Wicca is a priesthood. Initiates are empowered to make direct contact with Deity and become Deity’s agents in the material world. That’s it. That’s the religion.
It was a long struggle for Taz and I both to realize that we, by ourselves, didn’t have the resources available to support the sort of infrastructure that we were trying to build.
Speaking up, speaking out, speaking aloud, speaking confidently is an act of will, an act of magick.