Today I want to discuss discovering and opening yourself ...
Today I want to discuss discovering and opening yourself up to your path of becoming a witch. ��A witch���s message is one of self-love, earth-love, and about the importance of aligning with the phases of the earth and moon. Pretty simple, really.
Are You in Touch with Your Magical Side?
I knew something was different about me while I was growing up. I was always diving into the metaphysical books whenever I went to the library. My parent’s religion being Catholic, they often pulled me away from it, saying it was not something they were going to tolerate.
When I had my place, I started diving into crystals, and I found excellent books on white witchcraft, Wicca, paganism, and everything that you could think of. I did, and I learned a lot from it. It is a great stepping stone, but eventually, I did break free. I knew who I was and who I was becoming being a woman and a witch, obtaining knowledge through everyday practices.
Wicca it is a great stepping stone, it is something that can get you on the right path. Eventually, you might want to break free if you do not feel comfortable with it.
I felt satisfied just being a solitary witch, connected to the cycles of Mother Nature and everything that comes with it. I didn’t like following guidelines of religion, and I don’t like the idea of hierarchy. I also really enjoy experiencing and reading knowledge from multiple different faiths, and I don’t want to ever just limit my thoughts or beliefs to one book or one belief system.
I’m proud to say I’m just a human like the rest of you.
What I practice is just being a genuine person, honoring the cycles of everything in nature, the beauty of the life and the death, how we can harness the energy from that and transmute it through our strength.
When we’re practicing with all of our heart and all of our beliefs, we can become closer to the divine. We realize that we can harness this energy through the power of magic and the power of faith. We learn how powerful the mind and the heart are.
So, if you’re starting out on your path now, I want you never to doubt yourself and never stopped having belief in yourself.
How to Find Those Books That Will Bring Magic to Your Life?
I don’t often give book recommendations because, in my opinion, you go find books that you are intuitively drawn to. That is how you should found your path. Followed your heart and felt the books when the timing is right for you.
So the books I read was connected with my path and was presented along with my journey from the Cosmos. When you are walking through a bookstore, looking for the right book, something will draw you along to the right book.
Trust your divine guidance and intuition. Always keep yourself open to the possibilities of the Universe and the books that you need will find you at that time in your life.
What Is the Difference Between White, Black, and Gray Magic?
Your intention���not just what you say or do���matters. Some magicians subscribe to the following definitions:
White magic is performed for the purpose of connecting with spiritual forces in the Universe, in order to gain wisdom, insight, or enlightenment.
Black magic is done to harm or manipulate someone else.
Everything else falls into the gray area. Sourse
When you’re starting your path to witchery, stay away from anything that brings fear to you. The energies that we bring in from nature are all neutral. There is no white magic or black magic until we make it that.
So, if you’re working from a place of fear and you believe that God is going to punish you for casting a spell, then don’t do it. Better start with some a little less intimidating to your belief system tasks, like meditation or just taking nature walks and listening to the elements.
You have to unlearn everything that you already have learned as a child. You have to make peace with it, and you have to understand that there is nothing evil about witchcraft or becoming a witch.
It is all something beautiful, and it’s from nature. So if you have a firm belief in the system of God, then you will know that everything in life was created by God or the Cosmos or Source or whatever you want to call it.
Whatever you believe it’s all created it’s all there for us to use, so, how can it be evil in any way, shape or form? Once you make peace with that knowledge, you will be able to grow exponentially. It will be such a beautiful path for you!
What Is the Meaning of Magic Circle for You?
Stay away from any blogs or books that bring this negative connotation to witchcraft. Sometimes you might read something that just takes you back. I remember when I first started, I read about casting circles.
People often ask about how to cast a circle. I feel that if you create your sacred space to be a space of pure love and energy and every day you bless your house, making it a positive space, you don’t necessarily need always to cast a circle.
In my opinion, casting the circle is perfect to help you get into that mindset especially if you’re going to cast spells. It’s a beautiful thing to create a bubble of protection around yourself so that you can keep your own or drive all the energy that’s surrounding your body through your hands and into the intent of whatever you’re working with.
When I first read about casting circles, and I was diving into Wicca and witchcraft I had read somewhere in a blog that when you cast a circle, you’re going to feel the presence of these entities around you. It was kind of a scary, because then in my mind I was envisioning shadow people sitting in the corners of the room checking out what I was doing. So I stopped doing the circle casting for quite some time and I just focused on going outside.
At that time, I started feeling safer to go outside than to be locked away in a room casting spells. I would go out and just read books, chill with some tea and some candles and create this magical space from the outside.
Then I realized that it was all in my head and it was all me creating this negative connotation of casting circles. I realized that I felt better being outside with crystals and working with different resins, blessing tools and consecrate things.
That was something I became drawn to do, and I was casting continuously magic outside. I started making a little-sacred space in my tiny little yard at the apartment. My fear actually pointed me in the right direction.
That is why again I always say: follow your intuition and lead with your heart because eventually, you’ll learn. You’ll learn from your mistakes, you also will learn from the negative or the bad stuff. Do not forget that everything is a lesson.
To Be a Solitary Witch or to Join a Coven?
If you’re seeking a path of witchcraft and you want to join a coven, be mindful of who you are participating with. You are sharing a lot of in-depth deep energy with the people that you’re going to be collaborating. It’s a good idea to get to know them first before you start working any magic with them.
Who are they as a person, do they consume a lot of alcohol or drugs, do they have low energy on a daily basis or are they a high vibrant person? What kind of energy are you trying to attract into your magical work and your life in general? Because whatever you put out you’re going to get that.
So, if you do want to work black magic, then you’re going to receive that energy back to you. If you’re going to work a neutral path and do kind of grey magic, then you’re going to receive that energy back. The same goes for white magic.
The magic is neutral, and the people that you’re going to bring into your life are neutral until you get to know them. If you’re looking to join a coven, just do a little bit of research. Do some hanging out and get to know them well. Make sure that your friends before you start doing things with them.
Because you don’t know what kind of energy they’re bringing and you want to be mindful of that at all times. You don’t know what they might be doing outside of your magical spells, and you want to be insightful on this.
I stress this a lot because it is essential. It’s like when you’re in a relationship with someone, and you want the people you’re in a relationship with to be terrific in heart and good in mind with pure energy and to match your energy levels. You need the same if you’re going to be practicing magic with someone.
The First Step to Becoming a Witch
When you’re looking to do a path of solitaire witchery, then try looking for events like full moon or new moon rituals in your area. Things that are not too far out of the way. There’s a lot of things that are free like drum circles or bonfires. You can connect with some like-minded individuals. Find inspiration for being around these other people. Maybe you can find some like-minded friends in that process, and you can welcome them into your life.
And do some full moon rituals of your own in your own spare time together. When you’re embarking on this new journey, you will start focusing on your knowledge about the symbols, talismans, crystals, and everything that you are doing to start wearing or decorating your home with. Get to know what each thing means and get very comfortable with their meaning.
If it’s something that you don’t resonate with, then just don’t get into it. Maybe it’s not that time in your life. Don’t feel pressure to invite a symbol into your life that you feel wrong to do. At this time, you will notice through your path that you will come across different things and synchronicities will start to line up.
For example, if you’re not very familiar with the symbol of the goddess, you’re curious, but it’s not coming your way. Often you might find that in a couple of months or later you start seeing the symbol everywhere in synchronicity. The Universe will start bringing that symbol to you.
It’s something that will have to be guided into your practice because you will find it in your practice regularly. It’s a nice thing at that time to start learning more about that subject or that symbol. It’s the Universe’s way of saying: this is your time for this, you’re ready.
You can start decorating yourselves with crystals and other jewelry early on because it’s fun. Certain crystals resonate different energies, and it’s a healing and a great way to explore who you are as an individual.
You might wear something like moldavite, and you feel that you’re not drawn to it, it’s too powerful for you at this time. Maybe you’re feeling a little bit more comfortable with something like malachite. Through learning the crystals and getting to know their energies, you will get to understand your energy a lot better as well.
How to Cleanse Negative Energy From Yourself
Another thing you need to cover on your path to witchcraft is getting to know your energy on a deep level and healing old energy that might be affecting you. A great way to do this is to sit in meditation.
You can light candles or incense if you like, but sit in meditation and run a series of words through your head while you’re meditating and in this beautiful trance. Say things like mom, dad, sister, brother, and start simple with the household. Are you having trouble with these people? Is there something that you need to heal on a relationship level with these people?
Then you can work outwards and start saying with work, job, the career like. What are you hitting blockages? What flusters your hear? You can feel it almost bubble up when you say these words through your mind.
What you need to do with those emotions is learn to make peace with them and let them go. Some of these things you might have to do repeatedly for months at a time, but it’s a good practice to run a series of these words through your head and see how you feel and how you react to them when you’re in this meditative state.
If you feel any anxiety or anger over something, those are things that you need to work on healing. You can’t become your fullest and most fabulous person that you can be until you heal what’s keeping you back!
This is a great practice, and you can do with your loved ones too. Invite them to do this and someone can say a series of words so that you can let yourself be in this fully trans meditative state and let those energies work themselves up to a bubble and then release them. Continuously do this as often as you need to.
Compose the letter to someone that might be troubling you or holding you back. Get rid of the anxiety. You don’t have to send the message, you can even burn it, but get it out on paper and release those troubles to the Universe. Let them go.
Any anxieties, anger, guilt anything you’re feeling about anyone or anything, just jot them down and then release them out of your mind, your body and your spirit.
There are so many other ways that you can get comfortable with yourself on your path. The main thing is not to rush. There is no rush, you have this long beautiful life to live, and in this lifetime you have so much to learn.
Use every single day to learn something new and incorporate something new into your practice. Color your own Book of Shadows, feel the art, infuse the pages it with your energy, play with potions, herbs, crystals, and resins. Begin to know all these things, and start to make your magic pieces.
Magic Spells for Beginners
You don’t always have to copy or mimic something that is written in a book and proven to work. It’s confirmed to work just because someone else already put energy into it and they believed it worked. That’s why it works!
When you see something that’s an old spell or an old ritual, and you feel it doesn’t really resonate with you, modify it and make it yours.
When you are getting to know crystals, oils, and herbs and learning their properties, you can start creating your own spells. Using the seasons, the times of a day, the different feature of everything around that you can incorporate, you can make a unique spell that really resonates with you.
You might incorporate colors or sounds, and you will notice that you will get great at this and then you can manifest powerful things. You’re capable of combining all those energies that the Universe is providing for you.
How To Tell Your Family You Are A Witch?
Before you decide to come out of the broom closet, you must feel genuinely comfortable with what you are practicing because you’re going to get a lot of questions from your family, loved ones, boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, wives, kids. They’re all going to wonder what exactly are you practicing? Is it something that’s going to send you to hell or is it something that’s going to take you away from God?
You should be mindful of their emotions and their feelings. Only when you are well educated on what you’re learning, know and firmly believe in yourself you could discuss with them your faiths.
Don’t ever force anything on anyone else, show and lead by example. They will see that something has changed within you. They will be curious about the positive energy you’re starting to emit or the fact that you’re now becoming yourself. People admire that, something deep within makes them wish that they could be as free as you.
Witches love the earth, and worship nature. I repeat, Nature, not Satan. …Truth is, witches are as beautiful as nature herself and do no harm. They live by the rule of three, a karmic understanding that everything they do comes back to them threefold. The more we kill the earth, the more we kill ourselves. Source
You need to learn to educate others and not push anything on them. If you have some family members or friends who after months or years still don’t want to hear anything about what you’re doing, then maybe it’s time to step away from them. Keep your distance, because you don’t want to invite that kind of negativity into your practice.
All you’re doing is practicing with nature, and you don’t need people to inspire doubt in your mind about what you’re doing and to make you fear what you’re doing.
Question the world around you but don’t question yourself. You just need to do what you feel comfortable and what makes you happy. That is it! The highest vibration is when you work to be the highest self, and you work to be happy, you work to be full of love and light always.
I hope that you guys fully reach your potential and you keep growing even after you find your path. I hope your path to be of pure magic, love, and light! Always share that energy and blessings with everyone around you. Even if they don’t tell you they are gonna appreciate and love you for it. Continue your magical path and never stop believing in yourself. (Source)
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