Alone With The Gods

Yes, I am a witch. It’s not a big deal really. I guess I could tell you I’m pagan or simply gnostic or “spiritual” or perhaps a “Western Buddhist” which might really get the heads scratching.

Yet, simply put, I’m simply a witch. (I have friends that are in love with calling themselves “magicians” versus witches and are convinced that they’re on some higher magickal plain, to which I disagree completely.)

But what does that really mean? Movies aside, it’s not about flying, at least not in a bodily way, there’s no hexing people or such similar nonsense and I’ve never ever said, “hocus pocus.”

So then what to I do? I sit a lot in silence and think meditation is as witchy as you can get. I cast spheres (the circle plus above and below) while uttering poetry and other mantras. I speak to god and goddess and other deity and I’ll even work the occasional spell (prayer, right?). I’m also a healer both of self and others around me when possible. I work with energy and etheric matter. I’m also a teacher, a student and deeply concerned with connecting to my inner divinity and the world to which we are all connected to at all times.

So that’s it for me and that’s why I am a witch. I see being one as a chance to become, as Thorn Coyle has stated, “more human.” And the reason for this is that witchcraft, or any esoteric path for that matter, forces us to participate in our spirituality. It forces us to face ourselves and to look deeply inside at the best, and sometimes more imporantly, the worst of who we are. Because we’re not perfect beings. But, by confronting our shadow side, we can better know all of our parts.

Here lies gnosis, the true knowledge of self that is the goal of so many seekers out there. Here lies balance. And this too is what it means to be a witch.

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