I Am a Solitary
“Magic is natural. It is a harmonious movement of energies to create needed change. If you wish to practice magic, all thoughts of it being paranormal or supernatural must be forgotten.” ― Scott Cunningham, Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
There are so many symbols, rituals, feasts, and ways to work Magick. There are many ways to practice:
Coven-Based Witch
Solitary Witch
Hereditary Witch
Crystal Witch
Cosmic Witch
Green Witch
Hedge Witch
Plant Witch
I am a Solitary. I perform my rituals alone. I use Tarot, pendulum, candles, crystals, and my Book of Shadows.
I have an athame, a chalice, ceremonial bowl, and an incense burner that live on my alter.
I perform moon phase rituals, feast day rituals and spell rituals.
I make offerings to the Goddess I work with and to the God who is her consort.
I am thinking of doing a weekly article that goes into more detail of the many things that belong to my Wiccan journey in either Sinners or The Reality Show...
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where does well/water witch fit into all this, or does it?
There are those that are able to divine where water is under the surface. Most use divining rods. They most likely fall under the Green Witch category.
very interesting.
You gave me a good idea for the first set in my series. I will go through each of the different type. Thanks for the idea.
you're welcome. if you recall, I admitted to you months earlier that I can witch wells. I've done multiple successful wells for people, the world's biggest cynic. my grampa let me know I could do it when I was very young and showed me how to find and hold the rod. according to him it's passed down thru father, daughter, son, and I was wondering if that is the case for other forms of these paranormal types of science.
That's really something! Have you seen the movie Holes? With Sigourney Weaver, Shia LeBouf, etc.?
I believe many of these gifts are generational. My father could witch wells. I did not inherit that gift. My gifts came more from my paternal grandmother. It is a gift of empathy and foresight.
no, never heard about it until now. I'll try and remember to look for it.
my grampa tested me when he witched my parents well in the mountains. he found the spot, marked it with a bottle cap, and my dad placed a rock over the cap. the next weekend I walked over the 2 acre lot with a rod and found the bottle cap under the rock. I'll never forget the look of shock on my dad's face, as opposed to the look of elation on my grampa's. the neighbor down the road had my grampa witch their well, but the dumbass missed the spot by 4 feet when he drilled and got nothing. he blamed my grampa and sold off the property at a loss plus the cost of drilling. the new owner drilled in the right spot and hit water. the last well I witched for a friend's new home site came in at 9+ gallons per minute.
That's awesome dev. What a story! You could make a movie out of it.
The movie 'Holes' really relates to what you are saying and I won't spoil it but it's a great movie with a great cast and a great story. I think you'd really like it. Especially the divining rod part(s).
I'll look for it, but the whole thing kind of fucks with my head. popular sentiment totally disagrees with the concept, while the rod twists blisters in this cynics palms. I hate that shit.
the last time I was going to do it, I showed up and there was an audience, which was a bit unnerving. I told my friend I was afraid that might mess with my accuracy, so they went to town for an hour and left me alone. she showed me where the house was going to be and I started getting hits all around it. I marked the 3 strongest hits with stakes and by then my audience returned and I showed them how it was done. it was the usual watching my hands for tricks stuff, trying to keep the rod from pointing down and trying to figure out how the rod was turning in my hands. I won over several skeptics and found a couple of them could do it too, over the same hits I got. it was pretty fun watching them discover they had an unknown gift.
Been able to dowse for many years.
Friends and family use me.
Can find any underground conduit.
The world is electrical in nature.
yup, the dowsing rod doesn't care what the water is in when it finds it.
... or what the water is under I should say. are you saying that underground electrical can dowsed? I know a locator can be used to find any buried utilities, but a dowsing rod?
Earned my first black belt at 16.
Much of high-level martial arts comes close to magic.
Interesting, kinda similar to how many NA's practice our beliefs.
I have read some things on NA culture and I have realized the similarities. Being Nature based is a biggee.
I think that would be great. I think Perrie is looking for more original content. This is interesting stuff
What kind of sacrifices are made to the Goddess?
no comment...
No blood sacrifices for me.
Virgins are hard to come by these days
I don't even look anymore.
Pretty sure I have never had sex with a virgin.
I'm a child of the 60s.
I offer up the food we use on feast days. Also I do wine and bread sacrifices. I usually pour out some wine on the ground and put bread out. Some time it is seed and corn for the wonderful birds and wildlife that surround my home. I burn sage and incense for homage also.
We try and keep the birds fed and it's time for me to put out my hummingbird feeders. I guess you could say I "worship" nature.
I will be putting our hummingbird feeders up next week - hopefully it won't snow again.
be aware of the surroundings when you put those bird feeders out. don't be like my sister and set up the perfect aerial ambush situation for the local raptors and then become traumatized with the results. if you look at the videos of bird feeders on youtube, they will place them around cover or cluster them to make sure it's too difficult for hawks to make those 70mph diving attacks.
as for the hummers, I can't tell you how many hours I spent as a kid with my cousins on the ranch trying to catch one of those feather bearing kamikazes.
I have sage wands I've made from a local species.
I buy mine. But now you have got me to think about growing & making my own. How long do your dry the sage?
I pick mine from a white sage shrub in a nearby canyon. At home I roll the leaves together and tie them with string. It's only 3 or 4 days when they are completely dry and you can remove the string.
You may have a wild sage that's native to your area. There are many species. I tried a few times to grow culinary sage but didn't have a spot in the yard with enough sun.
Thanks for the info. I am going to give it a try. I am going to try a search of my area for wild sage. Although I do have a perfect spot in the backyard to grow it.
We have lots of trees on the property so that provides some cover for the birds. One set up is right in front of the front porch
Do you grow the sage yourself? We've planted sage for cooking but never thought of making a sage wand
Interesting! My dad told me how he saw an eagle dive and catch a squirrel in front of him when he was driving to his book shop one morning.
when I was field supervisor for a telecommunications company, the project manager forbid us to do our admin paperwork (his job) in the office. so I would go park at a place where I could watch the hawks and eagles perform aerial assault on the prairie dogs. it was very cool.
Hawks are awesome too. I see a ton of eagles and hawks where I live.
My hummingbird feeders have been sitting on the back of my toilet since I last took them down (no idea why).
Thanks for reminding me that it's time.
You sound like a girlfriend from back in my Ward Colorado hippy days.
Saw a huge bullfrog attack, kill and swallow a red wing blackbird once.
... give me a time frame on that. I was in that area too.
Yikes.
No I picked wild sage in a canyon near by. Tried to grow culinary sage but it didn't do well.
We've had pretty good luck growing it in a pot on our deck
I look forward to your series.
Thank you.
Unique - a welcome addition to the Front (Home) Page. "Variety's the very spice of life. That gives it all its flavour." (by William Cowper in 1785)
Thank you.
On faeries dancing in your eyes ...
Morning dew clinging to leaves
dancing to the music of a light breeze
sunlight reflected by rippled waters
Nice!
A true Haiku would be..................
On fairies dancing
Morning dew clinging to leaves.
Sunlight reflected.
It wasn't penned as a haiku ... so ...
I have a question, if I may. Does magic require a higher degree of self awareness? IMO that would be an interesting aspect to explore.
You have denied science for many years.
Now you embrace magic?
Science has quite a bit in common with the magic that Veronica is describing. The cartoonish, pop-culture depictions of magic is not informative. Overcoming the predispositions created by pop-culture depictions will be quite a challenge.
check out this magic...................... >poof<
... and again.
making people disappear is fun.
too bad it only lasts 4 hours...
who did you disappear and why does it last only 4 hours?
>poof<
LOL
more fun than kicking beggars...
My maternal grandmother who raised me believed in the supernatural and used to tell me when I was growing up in the desert Southwest of Arizona, "You do not have to believe in things you do not see or understand, but never disbelieve just because you cannot." I took those words to heart and have tried to keep an open mind. I've seen a lot of the world and seen things I did not understand. Were they supernatural not I cannot say for sure, but either way I greatly respect those do sincerely believe.