Check out this article folks
Where Have All the Happy Witches Gone?
Author: Autumn Heartsong
http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=ustn&c=words&id=12979
What a wonderful article, good point!
I am no newbie (something in between Neophyte and Elder I suppose) either but when I attend group rituals and say things with emotion, show any emotion really, do more than just stand there shifting from foot to foot, people think I’m either crazy, fluffy or new.
*sigh*
People, magick, and ritual works better if you actualy do it and say it like you mean it. You should freaking mean it if your going to do it. You’re there in the presence of your gods, ancestors etc and you are half heartedly muttering lines you are reading from a script written by someone else?!
You don’t have to dance or sing if you’re not comfortable with that, but people: move, emote, toss that freaking script out the window and follow your heart. Pour yourself into it.
ITS NOT ABOUT BEING COOL
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Some of my Favorite Celtic Triads ~ Part 1
Concerning three things that hide: an open bag hides nothing, an open door hides little, an open person hides something.
Three things by nature cause their possessor to err: youth, prosperity, and ignorance.
There are three things which move together as quickly the one as the other: lightning , thought , and the help of the Mighty Ones.
Three things not loved without each one it’s companion: day without night, idleness without hunger, and wisdom without reverence.
There are three whose full reward can never be given to them: parents, a good teacher, and the Mighty Ones.
Three slender things that best support the world: the slender stream of milk from the cows dug into the pail; the slender blade of green corn upon the ground; the slender thread over the hand of a skilled woman.
Three things by which excellence is established: Taking all things in moderation with nothing in excess; abidance to oaths; and acceptance of responsibility.
Three things which strengthen a person to stand against the whole world: Seeing the quality and beauty of truth; seeing beneath the cloak of falsehood; and seeing to what ends truth and falsehood come.
Three things it is everyone’s duty to… Continue reading
Hags and Hedges
hag
c.1225, shortening of O.E. hægtesse “witch, fury” (on assumption that -tesse was a suffix), from P.Gmc. *hagatusjon-, of unknown origin. Similar shortening derived Du. heks, Ger. Hexe “witch” from cognate M.Du. haghetisse, O.H.G. hagzusa. First element is probably cognate with O.E. haga “enclosure” (see hedge). O.N. had tunriða and O.H.G. zunritha, both lit. “hedge-rider,” used of witches and ghosts. Or second element may be connected with Norw. tysja “fairy, crippled woman,” Gaul. dusius “demon,” Lith. dvasia “spirit,” from PIE *dhewes- “to fly about, smoke, be scattered, vanish.” One of the magic words for which there is no male form, suggesting its original meaning was close to “diviner, soothsayer,” which were always female in northern European paganism, and hægtesse seem at one time to have meant “woman of prophetic and oracular powers” (Ælfric uses it to render the Gk. “pythoness,” the source of the Delphic oracle), a figure greatly feared and respected. Later, the word was used of village wise women. Haga is also the haw- in hawthorn, which is a central plant in northern European pagan religion. There may be several layers of folk-etymology here. If the hægtesse was once a powerful supernatural woman (in Norse it is an… Continue reading




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