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You May Be Surprised (A Witch’s Perspective)

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The Triple Goddess symbol of the waxing, full, and waning moon over dark background. (Photo of the moon: NASA)

“I’m exhausted,” my friend, Amy, said.
“Your Sjögren’s syndrome is a lot to bear,” I said.

Part of caring for my friends is to listen well.
I ask questions, and they discover details for themselves.

I asked, “Would you be okay with exploring two ideas?”
I waited. Maybe she was too tired at this moment on the phone.

“It’s okay,” she said.

“What does the fearful part of you say?” I asked.

“That I’m done. My life is going to stay in this box of illness. That I’m going to have this level of pain until I leave this planet.”

We talked some more.

A few minutes later, I asked, “What would Goddess say?”

This stumped her.

She paused.

I waited.

Eventually, she said that Goddess would encourage her. Goddess, would say, “Be compassionate with yourself. Because you are My child. Pain has different colors and textures. You’ll have times when you won’t think about the pain.”

Later, I reflected on this.

Often, I return to the words of the Goddess, in The Charge of the Goddess, as written by Doreen Valiente:

“Keep pure your highest ideal; strive ever towards it; let naught stop you or turn you aside.  … Let My worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.  And therefore let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.” – The Goddess speaking in The Charge of the Goddess, written by Doreen Valiente

May these insights support your journey.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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See What the Goddess Reveals (A Witch’s Perspective)

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“I feel so vulnerable,” Sheri, a friend, said.
I nodded. I deeply related to this.
I reflected on this later.

What if we could align ourselves with Goddess? What if we could know Her power?
And, we can!

Goddess and the God placed divinity within us.
That is our essential identity. Yes, our essence.

Here is something that stands out: the Goddess’s Principles.
Here is a definition of principle:

A principle is a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning. – Oxford Languages

We can find some of Goddess’s principles as she speaks in the writing of Doreen Valiente:

“Keep pure your highest ideal; strive ever towards it; let naught stop you or turn you aside.  … Let My worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.  And therefore let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.” – The Goddess speaking in The Charge of the Goddess, written by Doreen Valiente

Here is a prayer to support you in your own identity.

My Gracious Goddess,
Show me my own beauty and strength,
My own power and compassion,
Let me strive for honor and humility, mirth and reverence in all I do.
Let me see myself in You, and You in myself.
So Mote It Be.

May these insights support your path.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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Sleepless with Regret or Shame? Goddess Is Present (a Witch’s Perspective)

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It happened again. I thought about something I regretted. It looked like I wouldn’t get sleep.
Then I shifted my thoughts. I brought an image to my sleep-deprived mind.
I am floating in the ocean. Peaceful.
The waves softly flow.
The Ocean is Goddess.

Eventually, I fall asleep.

Later, I reflected on this.

Here are two definitions:

“Regret is an emotion. It’s a negative emotion in that it’s an emotion that makes us feel worse, not better. And it’s an emotion that’s triggered when we think of something from our past and wish we had done something differently, done something in a different way, not done something, taken an action, not taken an action.” – Daniel Pink

“Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.” – Brené Brown

Whoa! Stop!

Goddess put divinity within us.
We ARE worthy of love and belonging.
We belong to the Goddess.

I remember this quote:

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou

So I need to shift from regret to reflecting on what I may want to do differently in the future.

Here’s a prayer you can use.

Goddess,
Let Your waters of love caress and flow within and without me.
Let my shame and regret be washed from my mind, body, and soul.
Soothe me, nourish me, and heal me.
So Mote It Be.

May these insights support your journey.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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Missing Closeness in Relationships – See What Goddess Points To … (A Witch’s Perspective)

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“I don’t think she cares anymore,” my friend, Bert, said of his wife.

I reflected on this.

Bert, like many men, places all the burden of emotional support on his wife.

It’s heavy!

A comedian noted that when a wife dies, the man falls apart.

However, when the man dies, the widow carries on with grace because she has a group of women to support her.

I thought about this. The Goddess directs our attention to nature.

I have two insights for you.

1. In an ecosystem, each being plays a role.

I like sharks. Now, do I want to swim with them? – No!

There was a book called How to Swim with the Sharks…

No thanks. I’ll swim in a swimming pool.

But sharks, the coral reef, lionfish, sea turtles, and sea anemones all play a role.

So, if you want more closeness in a relationship, make sure you have an ecosystem – that is, a community.

Then, you can relieve the relationship of some emotional burden.

You can come back together refreshed and open to your special bond.

2. The Goddess revels in Her Three Phases.

The God respects the Goddess. And She respects Herself.

We, witches, find grace and peace when we flow through our phases.

I think about my teen years. My face had no creases.

But I’ll celebrate my wisdom right now.

How about you?

Are you finding your personal value in the phase of life you’re in now?

May these insights support your path.

Blessed Be,
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3 Signs You Are on the Right Path (A Witch’s Perspective)

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At fourteen years old, I met the God and Goddess. It was a big surprise. Especially because I was on a retreat for a “conventional religious path.” The retreat leaders sent the attendees into the forest to have quiet time alone. (Well! They would have been surprised to hear about MY experience.)

I didn’t see the God and Goddess. I felt Their Prescence. The big difference was that my depression symptoms quieted down. Peace flowed over me.

Every day, my depression symptoms were like a rake clawing my arm. (But worse.)

Then, when the God and Goddess appeared … it was like I let out a big, cleansing sigh.

I have three insights for you.

Here are signs that you’re on the right path …

1. The Gods introduce themselves to you.

    In my experience and that of others I know, the Gods appear in the time of silence. Some people get “auditory Guidance.”

    My friend, Tiana, gets an “intuitive zing” up her back.

    From experience, she knows that the Gods are supporting her and guiding her.

    2. You see signs of affirmation.

    Imagine you actually see signs that you’re on the right path.

    You may see certain animals that represent the God and the Goddess. Perhaps, you’ll see a mature buck, raven, owl, white heron, or hawk. These animals are good signs that the Gods are guiding you.

    3. You have a knowing or intuitive sense of what to do.

    Sometimes, the Gods lead you through your intuition.

    The first time I encountered a book about Wicca in a bookstore (I miss you Borders!) … I felt like I was coming home.

    You may observe nature and feel a direct connection to something going on in your mundane life.

    Have you suddenly felt relief? – like a weight lifted from your shoulder?

    Or has your chest felt warm and full?

    It can be different for each individual.

    What we do observe is that one often needs to “go quiet” and “make space” for the knowing to appear.

    Learning the Craft is a path.

    Do you feel at home on this path?

    May these insights support your journey.

    Blessed Be,
    Moonwater

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    Open the Door to the Goddess’s Embrace (a Witch’s Perspective)

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    My parents dragged me—as a little girl—to Sunday church service. Often, the church leader would talk about how wretched the people in the chairs were. They had to be wrecks so they would need to be “saved.”

    I could feel my head shaking. Even at eight years old, I knew this was not my group. This was not where I belonged.

    Over the years, I’ve learned that a primary way to feel the divinity the Gods placed in you is to go to the place of “letting go.”

    — to let go of limiting beliefs

    — to let go of needing approval

    — to let go of needing to fit in with the “in-crowd”

    — to let go of the narrative that one is born innately inadequate.

    Instead, I learned to shift to a space of wholeness.

    When I communicate with the Goddess, I feel on two levels. My awareness opens. And, I feel embraced. Yes, I feel this hug on the physical level.

    Would you like to make a daily time, perhaps when you awaken, or before you sleep, so you can open the door to the Goddess’s embrace?

    May these insights support your path.

    Blessed Be,
    Moonwater

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    Beltane 2025

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    Sunflowers

    Sunflowers

    Happy Beltane to all! May you be blessed with the season’s energies.

    Beltane

    To our ancestors, Beltane celebrates the beginning of summer. Bale or “bon” fires are an important part of the Beltane Sabbat. All fires at home or in shops were extinguished and then re-lit from the sacred bonfires that blazed on the tops of the surrounding hills. This was also the time when the herds were blessed. The people marched their cattle around and between the bonfires to bring good luck and fertility and to protect them during the year.

    The Sabbat Beltane, coincides with when the God actually impregnates the Goddess. This sacred act ensures the continued fertility for crops and animals throughout the light half of the year (between the Spring and Fall Equinoxes.)  A popular symbol for this sacred act, the May Pole represents the impregnation of the goddess. A May Pole is a pole set erect in the ground with ribbons attached on the top. People then each take a ribbon and dance in a weaving pattern around the pole. The pole represents God’s phallus and the colorful ribbons that the dancers wind around the May Pole represent the goddess with her flowers a-blooming. And so the impregnation of the Goddess is fulfilled.

    Blessed be,

    Moonwater SilverClaw

    Happy Ostara 2025

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    Spring Arrives with Ostara

    Spring Arrives with Ostara

    Ostara

    Ostara happens at the Spring (Vernal) Equinox. The days becomes equal to the night, and the light finally overcomes the darkness of winter. Ostara’s theme is fertility. The God courts the Goddess and their sexual energies of desire flow over the Earth, leading to a burst of new life and growth upon the land by the plants and the animals. Here the courting God and Goddess’s desire to mate drive the Earth and its inhabitants to mate and bring new life to the land.

    The Teutonic goddess of spring, Easter brings her symbol of the egg and her patron animal, the rabbit. Wiccans celebrate Easter during the Ostara Sabbat. The Christian Church tried to stamp out celebrations of Easter and her symbols of fertility (the egg and the rabbit), but they had become too deeply embedded in the people’s hearts. Christians got their Easter eggs and rabbits from this Goddess. How many Christians know that when they celebrate Easter, they’re using a term originated by Pagans?

    Generally, eggs are a popular representation of fertility and new life. Early Wiccans revered the “cosmic egg,” as many refer to it, for the secrets it held; it contained and produced life. It looked like a stone but held life within.

    Wiccan activities on Ostara include coloring eggs and decorating them with fertility symbols, and then hiding them for children to find.

    Blessed be,

    Moonwater SilverClaw

    How Witches Know When to Walk Toward the Fear

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    Terrified. That was the right word. I stood in front of the audience about to give my first speech at a Toastmasters meeting.

    It did not matter that other people would speak after me. They would be nervous, too.

    My own fear made me shake.

    Speaking aloud in front of an audience had not gone well in my past. I remembered reading a paragraph aloud in a high school English class. My dyslexia made me sound like an idiot.

    The teacher said, “Okay that’s enough.”

    Fellow student, Joe Jerk-face said, “Yeah! That’s enough!”

    And now at Toastmasters, I was about to give a speech. Crap!

    I said, “I couldn’t breathe. My brother held me underwater. Why would he torture a little girl? When I coughed up the water, the swimming pool didn’t look like a place to play. How much more of this life could I survive?” A few minutes in, I saw two people nod. (Oh, thank you! Good humans!)

    After I finished. Some applause.

    All good.

    Even better. I was proud of myself. I had walked toward my fear.

    Later, I went on to be a guest speaker – over 12 times – at a Comparative Religion college course to introduce people to Wicca. That was new for them. It still was a tough stretch for me to talk to an audience but … again and again … I walked toward the fear.

    Here are three insights.

    1. Keep yourself safe.

      Number one. Keep yourself safe. Can you get physically hurt if you take on a risk?
      David, someone in my circle, was a movie stuntman over 20 years ago. Would he risk his health or life today? No f***ing way!

      Still, he took precautions during his stuntman time. He also refused to do certain stunts. And, he’s alive to tell the tale.

      Are you thinking of taking a risk that could hurt you physically? Like walking in a dangerous area? Just after the bars close? Hold up! Stay safe.

      2. Decide what you value most. Drop the distractions.

      Other risks may mean temporary pain.
      So, high school kids laughed at my reading a paragraph. I still adapt to having dyslexia.

      But, you know what? Who cares about high school kids’ laughter?!

      I have to value your opinion in order to let it control me.

      What do you value most? Is it growing as a person? Pushing beyond some artificial limits?

      When do you feel most alive?

      3. Ask Goddess for support.

      When I have walked toward fear, I was answering the call of divinity that Goddess placed within me.

      Here is a prayer you can use:

      Goddess, help me answer the call,
      Help me know the true call from the false call.
      Show me how to walk into the unknown with Your strength.
      So Mote It Be.

      May these insights support your journey.

      Blessed Be,
      Moonwater

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      How Witches Change Their Awareness

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      My cat shares my Diet Coke … well, he licks the condensation off the bottle.

      But I can tell he likes being part of what I’m doing.

      I get him toys, but it’s the Diet Coke bottle that he likes!

      I reflected on this.

      I have a particular insight for you.

      Be open to little things. And, your awareness changes your experience of the next day.

      Recently, my friend, Irma, faced a lot of pain. She wrenched her back. She had an earache, sore throat, no energy, and chronic pain in her shoulder.

      Instead of only focusing on pain, Irma chose to rest up and then find moments to talk with friends on the phone.

      These moments lifted her spirit.

      Here is a prayer you can use.

      Goddess,
      Open my eyes to the precious little things in life.
      Shift my next moments to joy and peace.
      So Mote It Be.

      May these insights support your path.

      Blessed Be,
      Moonwater

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