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Nurturing a Relationship – Is It Casting a Spell? (a Witch’s Perspective)

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“Three divorces?” I asked.

A friend said, “Yeah. And that’s just recently for some friends I have.”

“Three separate couples?”

He nodded.

Many of us who deeply love our life-mate want to nourish our relationship.

In a recent conversation with a spiritual elder, I thought about how the elements of casting a spell may be similar (in a way) to making a relationship strong and sacred.

Briefly, here are some ideas.

We’re using an analogy of nurturing a relationship.

  1. Bless water and bless salt. Combine them to make holy water.
    • Any relationship is a combination of energies.
  2. Cleanse with water and earth
    • Have a sturdy foundation of respecting each other.
  3. Cleanse with air and fire
    • You need to clear the air. Sometimes, you ask for forgiveness.
  4. Cast Circle
    • Make your home a safe haven from the outside.
  5. Call the Quarters (which is calling in the 4 Directions represented by The Elements)
    • Call on friends and family, whom you trust, to support you and your partner.
  6. Do your spell.
    • Show up and hug each other all the time.
  7. Raise energy – speaking words, raising a cone of power. Release the cone of power to do its job.
    • Pay attention to what lifts your partner’s spirits. If it includes watching some Star Trek Series with them … okay.
  8. Cakes and wine ceremony.
    • Food. Enough said.
  9. Close your Circle.
    • Find “completion points” in your day. (For example, my sweetheart massages my back every night.)

May these insights support your path.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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“Valentine’s Day”- a Loving Time to Glow and Grow (A Witch’s Perspective)

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How do you feel about this time of year when people celebrate “Valentine’s Day”?

Does it look like an opportunity to celebrate your love?
Or is it something you dread a bit? Will my partner disappoint me?
Oh, no!—will I fail my partner somehow?

And, can I quiet down my expectations? I mean, it’s okay to have expectations, right? Right?!

In this section, we’ll talk about patterns for couples.
(If you’re not in a couple at the moment, this conversation can still be useful.)

1. Celebrate
“Magic is love. All magic should be performed out of love.” – Scott Cunningham

With my sweetheart, I celebrate that we are kind to each other—and we do NOT give up on each other.

What would you celebrate with your partner?

2. Reaffirm
When my sweetheart and I “jumped the broom” together, we certainly related to the Wiccan tradition of “as long as love lasts.” We’ve been happily together for over 25 years. Our love is reaffirmed every day. Oh, Goddess—you need patience. Also, facial tissue for when he gets into a sneezing jag.

One thing I’ve learned is that love means you support your sweetheart’s calling. He is called to filmmaking. And, I am called to serve through this blog and my podcast. We are there to support each other’s calling.

What is your partner’s calling? How can you support them?

3. Deepen
Over the years, I have deepened as a person by stretching and learning that I could do things I did not imagine that I could.

The first time I did a workshop in New Zealand—that was a stretch.
Giving a speech is something I had to grow into.
I’m an introvert. One thing I like is the quiet time in the morning. My sweetheart is asleep. I find my own center for the day.

As a couple, we have deepened our flexibility to honor each other’s individuality.

How can you deepen your experience on your own path? How can you deepen your commitment to your partner?

Several authors have expressed: “A relationship is NOT a place you go to GET, it’s a place you go to GIVE.”

Here’s a prayer you can use:

Lord and Lady,
Help me show appreciation to my lover.
Let me support their calling.
May we glow and grow together.
So Mote It Be.

May these insights support your path.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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What is the Real Gift? (A Witch’s Perspective)

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“What was the gift in your brother calling you fat—when you were a little girl?” someone in my circle asked.

“I don’t know … Empathy, maybe,” I said. I know what being ridiculed feels like. I can connect and empathize with others who have had a similar experience.

“For if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.” – the Goddess speaking in The Charge of the Goddess as written by Doreen Valiente

The gift for me may have been that I learned not to rely on human approval.

What do we seek within? It’s the divinity that the God and Goddess placed within you.

I had another thought. Without experiencing my brother’s ridicule, I would not have a certain form of compassion.

“You can’t pour from an empty cup.” – often attributed as a Zen master’s comment

Some authors suggest: “Strength comes from struggle.”

Here’s a prayer you can use:

My Lord and Lady,
May my tough experiences
Transform into compassion and strength.
So Mote It Be.

May these insights support your path.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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Support So You Rise in Your Practice (A Witch’s Perspective)

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When I started in the Craft, I was a teenager.

I felt ugly, fat, and alone. I couldn’t even imagine wielding any power.
My brother continued to call me ugly and fat to my face and his friends.
I wished my parents would corral their precious firstborn.
My mother, in her anger and prejudice, ignored my pain.

Years later, I would suspect my mother had undiagnosed depression. She still won’t see a mental health professional.

Recently, a new thought came to me.

As teenager and a new witch, I was miserable.
What?! Someday, I could effectively move natural energy?

Now, years later, an image arose in my mind.

Think of natural energy as droplets of water.
A witch new to wielding magick may move these droplets of water one at a time.
Through diligent practice of witchcraft, these droplets may unite into a crashing wave.

Then, I thought…

Where would I like the united droplets to flow in my life?
Perhaps they could be a soothing, peaceful lake in my life.

How about you? Where would you like energy to flow in your life?

Here is a prayer you can use:

Lord and Lady,
Water me gently.
My power gathers.
Soak me thoroughly,
And my power grows.
I wield my power in waves,
To capsize sorrow’s boat, so I heal.
So Mote It Be.

Remember: The God and Goddess have placed divinity within you.
It is natural for a witch to move energy.

May these insights support your path.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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Honor Your Rhythms (A Witch’s Perspective)

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Today, I woke up after sleeping for over 10 hours. That is so unusual for me.
No. I’m not suggesting that we work ourselves to exhaustion.

But this holiday season has seen me go, go, go.
My get up and go, got up and went!
I needed to replenish.

How about you?
Do you work yourself into the ground?
Do you just barrel on through?
Force yourself?
Get pissed off at people next to you?

Someone in my circle works with customers.
He says, “People who come in here are either sick or late or BOTH.”

What happens?
A number of the individuals are rude. Okay. Downright mean.

Wiccans know about the Three-Times Law.
What you put out there returns to you threefold.

Impatient?
Impatience slams you from other people.

Another way exists.

Take care of yourself. Honor your rhythms.
I just saw a comedic film.
I’m renewed.

And, here we have this blog post.

Here’s a prayer you can use.

May I honor my rhythms,
May I honor my inner Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer.
May each flow from one to another smoothly,
As I so will,
So Mote It Be

P.S. Here is one more idea.
In our life, one day can include all four seasons. You may wake up in Winter.
Cold, stormy, and unpleasant. You might call a friend and then have moments of Spring.
Honor your rhythms.
May these insights support your path.  

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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Live Each Day Like a Work of Art (A Witch’s Perspective)

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In one of the last paintings I finished, I have three furry pets pictured as sunning themselves on a house roof.

As I look at the painting today, I notice how I placed dark green trees behind the furry pets.

This makes the three pop out.

What if you and I approached each day like a work of art?

You focus on something. You make it bright. It stands out.

When creating a painting, you choose to make some portions of the painting dark in color so others stand out.

What would you like to stand out in your experience of today?

“Happiness is gratitude minus envy.” – Naval Ravikant

When you pause and declare, “I’m grateful for this [walk among trees, Diet Coke, you name it], you have shone the light of your focus on it.

You can let other parts of the day fade into the background.

What is most important to you?

Here’s a prayer you can use:

Lord and Lady,
Let me see the lights in my life.
Let me bring them forward.
My darkest moments are only a portion of the tapestry of my life.
May I flow from moment to moment.
So Mote It Be

May these insights support your path.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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Beware of Your Addictions (A Witch’s Perspective)

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“Purple!” I squeeled with delight.

“What do you see?” my husband kindly replied.

“It’s a purple dustpan. Oh, a Q-tip container thingy!”

Yeah. I have a purple addiction.

You’d note that with the purple hair on my head.

What’s your addiction?

I once heard the author Tom Marcoux say, “Social media is a Rage-maker, Patience-taker, and Time-waster. … okay, not aways…”

Something for everybody.

So, the question is … how do you quiet down your addiction?

Here’s a prayer you can use.

Lord and Lady,
Help me see my addictions.
Strengthen me so I continue on my  healthy path
Keep me safe,
Keep me strong,
So I carry on.
So Mote It Be

May these insights support your path.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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When Friends Leave and the Gods Open a Door

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Have you seen friends abandon you because of your Wiccan faith?

Three former friends come to mind.
They’re gone.
I miss them.

But then I realize this question: “What will I dwell upon?”

Imagine the Goddess was here to coach me.
She might say, “Moonwater, let this go. It’s all right.”

Or…

The God might coach me with this comment: “Who cares? Let them go.”

Well, let’s look at that “Who cares?” part.

It reminds me: “Does caring about the people who chose to leave my life help me at all?”

We’re talking about how we experience our daily life.

If I think about the former friends whose prejudices led them to leave … it won’t change anything. Except it drains my energy. Thinking about them makes me feel bad.

But I could dwell upon a completely different idea.

When a friend chose to reject me due to Wicca, they closed a chapter of my life. A chapter that had them in it.

One thing is: A “fair weather friend” leaves … and my schedule opens for other people to come in.

Okay.

Here’s a prayer you can use:

Lord and Lady,
Help me not dwell on the doors that shut in my life
And help me heal from the loss of the friends who leave.
May I dwell in your Divine Shining Light.
So Mote It Be

May these insights support your path.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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The Real Way to Deal with “Accumulating Mental Garbage” (A Witch’s Perspective)

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I’m frustrated. See if you can relate.

It took weeks to get a medical appointment for an MRI scan. Then today, medical team members of another department taped a heart-monitoring device on me.

Poof! That threw away my MRI scan appointment.

Grrrrrrr.

It feels like a bunch of time wasted.
New frustration.
What can I do with this?

“Uh, hello, Goddess, what can I learn from this?” – it’s a thought I had.

[[Go with the flow. Surrender. Be grateful for what you have.]] – an intuitive thought that arose.

Grateful for what?

That my body works.
That I’m still here with my husband, with my parents, and with my glorious cat, Magick.

What?

Earlier today, a car racing on the other side of the highway raced toward me. With its turn signal on.

Well, the genius driving the car merged over, demonstrating that he would be making a turn. But he apparently did not know the turn signal was on.

**An accident almost happened.**

I AM grateful that no accident occurred.

So I say,

“Okay. Goddess, I AM grateful for every blessing.
Help me empty the “can” of mental garbage.”

Here’s a prayer you can use.

Goddess,
Help me empty the can of mental garbage I have collected.
Open my eyes to all the blessings You give me.
So Mote It Be

May these insights support your path.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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“Live Into” Rather Than “Live Up To” (A Witch’s Perspective)

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Yeah, I flunked kindergarten. This made me into “compliant girl.” I had to live up to my parents’ standards about my grades and more. By the way, eventually, I was diagnosed as a person who has dyslexia.

So, there’s that phrase “live up to.”

As a girl, if I said anything original and an expression of my true self, I was chastised.

Yes, these were the parents who dragged me to THEIR church.

Recently, I had a conversation with a spiritual elder. The topic of “live into” versus “live up to” arose.

We, Witches, are called to LIVE INTO the divinity the Goddess and God placed within us.

We do not need to gain someone’s approval.

Each one of us is a unique expression of that divinity.

I remember one of my early boyfriends. I did not feel comfortable expressing my Wiccan spiritual path. So, I said nothing.

Are you finding that you tend to “live up” to someone else’s expectations?

What if you were free to “live into” your true spiritual path and destiny?

Here is a prayer you can use.

My Gracious Lady,
Help me let go of others’ limiting expectations,
Lord of the Greenwood,
Help me live into my true destiny!
So Mote It Be

May these insights support your journey.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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