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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
balance of heart, mind, and morals.
The beauty of that meadow reminded Hannah of the reasons to live in the world, and the reasons to mistrust those who saw wickedness in others, but never in themselves. The natural world was at the heart of her craft; what grew in the woods could harm or heal, and it was her obligation to know the difference. It was part of old Norse tradition, Seidhr, that had been brought to England in the ancient times. This was green magic, visionary in nature, blending the soul of the individual with the soul of the earth.
The distrust of those who see wickedness only in others shows self awareness, projection, and the danger of moral superiority. A reminder that nature is both healing and harmful just like people are not simply good or bad, there’s problems in everything.
“Remember one thing,” Hannah told Maria. “Always love someone who will love you back.”
It pushes back against the romantic idea “love no matter what” “love has no boundaries”.
This was true magic, the making and unmaking of the world with paper and ink.
Just like spells, words have consequences.
Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold.
do as you will tell you to follow your own path, truth and desires but followed up with harm no one creating a boundary between freedom and recklessness. What you give will be returned threefold is both a warning and promise. it’s spiritual karma with the volume turned up.
There are secrets that must be held close, and most of these have to do with the wounding of the human heart, for sorrow spoken aloud is sorrow lived through twice.
speaking doesn’t always heal, sometimes it re-opens, re-lives, and re-traumatizes. secrets in this case are not lies, they are boundaries, protection, and reverence.
want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense.
it separates want from need. want is emotional, obsessive, and irrational. need is about survival. it calls out how want can override logic and how it can be the root to self sabotage.
There were other spells, not medicinal treatments, but spiritual, ancient enchantments that began with the Hebrew word Abracadabra, I create as I speak, taken from the even earlier Aramaic chant, Avra kadavra, It will be created in my words.
words have power to create worlds. language shapes reality.
