Tag: personal responsibility
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Abracadabra: Having the Courage to Create What We Speak
Categories: ArchiveSpeaking up, speaking out, speaking aloud, speaking confidently is an act of will, an act of magick.
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The Shame Room
Categories: Creative NonfictionAt the abortion clinic, they don’t let anyone go back with you. The waiting room is filled with people wanting abortions, people supporting the people wanting abortions, and people judging the people wanting abortions. You pay up-front. You wait. You get called back. You get blood tested. You wait. You get an ultrasound. They ask
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The Agency of Spirits: Getting Uncomfortable About Noncorporeal Beings
Categories: ArchiveOne of the questions that I am routinely asked is whether or not a practitioner can be called to the service of a deity outside their cultural context. There’s a lot of concern in the Pagan world these days about cultural appropriation and the difference between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation, and it is an
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Teaching the Craft: The Fine Art and Science of Personal Responsibility
Categories: ArchiveI learned the Craft of the Wise in a few different ways. I first learned on my own by reading and experimentation. Then I found a community group that led me to a training circle led by a high priestess and learned through weekly study sessions, complete with handouts and homework assignments. My advanced training
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Personal Sovereignty: Exploring Your Power
Categories: Archiven Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) utters important words to a young Will Turner (Orlando Bloom): “The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can’t do.” This philosophy is of utmost importance in realizing your personal sovereignty
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Don’t Should Yourself: Freeing the Mind and Empowering the Spirit
Categories: ArchiveTags: personal responsibilityI was a little ranty in my last essay. Or rather, I was very ranty but I had a message I was trying to get across. I considered taking it down, reworking it, polishing it up, but then I decided to let it stand because it reflects the truth of what I was feeling when
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Tired and Oathbound: Filling the Empty Cup
Categories: ArchiveThere are days that I wake up and I am tired in my soul. I feel burnt out and unappreciated and forgotten and ready to give up. I question whether I have the ability to suck it up and keep on going for just one more day. For my students. For my colleagues. For my
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The Wiccan Rede: The Supreme Ethic of the Craft
Categories: ArchiveHigh Priestess Judy Harrow wrote Exegesis on the Rede in 1984. As an advancing student, my teacher Susan Stoddard recommended this essay to me to help me better understand what the Wiccan Rede was and what it did — and did not — tell Wiccans to do with our lives. What it taught me was
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Oaths and Why Not To Make Them (Unless You’re Ready)
Categories: ArchiveA witch is only as good as their word. It’s a lesson I try to teach each of my students. Maintaining good boundaries is an important exercise in living — not just living magickally, but living in general. So are being reliable and appropriately committed. As people, witchy people and just people, we are judged