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How Witches Avoid Misusing Magick – Ep. 169
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How Witches Elevate a Ritual for More Power
“How did everyone in your coven know to point their athame in one direction all at the same time?” my friend, Samuel, asked.
“It’s a motion that we’ve practiced many times,” I replied.
When you want to elevate the power of your ritual, it’s necessary to rehearse the various elements for maximum effectiveness.
Here are three insights.
- Select the right words.
Witches know that words have intrinsic power. To many of us the word love means something deep and essential. If you use the wrong words in a ritual, you can weaken the result. More than that, you could actually create the opposite of what you desire.
For example, Sara did a money spell. She asked for $8,000 to come to her for the vacation of her dreams. She made a mistake. She failed to be specific and also to put in “protection clauses” into the words she used.
The next day she was in a car accident. She suffered significant pain and trouble. Eventually, she gained $8,000 dollars from the settlement. But she said the ordeal was not worth it.
It would have been better if Sara had been careful with her words. An example of a “protection clause” is: “An it harm none.”
- Select the right motions.
As witches, we understand how to make a Circle. Many of us use our athames and focus. We draw the circle of power around a particular space. We focus the energy through the athame and create the sacred boundary between the worlds. We say certain words and do certain actions to succeed in this.
However, if you don’t follow the steps correctly the Circle will not be cast properly. Then it will fail in its job of protecting you.
So, the right actions are truly important. Be sure to do the proper steps and in the proper order.
- Work in harmony with the God and Goddess.
The Gods placed divinity within you. It’s natural for you to harmonize with the divinity of the Gods. However, when you see a band, or an orchestra, become out of tune, harmony is destroyed. With the wrong words and the wrong motions, you’re destroying the harmony with the God and Goddess.
It’s essential that you take great care in selecting the words and the motions. People who are not witches think that magick is supernatural. But we know magick is natural. However, there are people who like to “wing it,” that is, they just improvise without having a solid plan. This can yield unwanted results.
It is understandable that an improvised ritual may have power. Still, we’re talking about taking great care with your ritual. Think of how some of the best music in the world has a wonderful structure. When the composer was working on that music, they took the principles of composing and used great care to create something of surprising beauty and harmony.
Just imagine if you took such care with your rituals.
May these insights support your path.
Blessed Be,
Moonwater
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How Witches Deal with the “Keystone Choice” – Ep. 168
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How Witches Deal with the “Keystone Choice” – Ep. 168
How Witches Elevate Their Personal Strength with Awareness and Leverage
Lisa was shocked about being out of breath from simply climbing up the stairs in her home. That day something clicked. She made a decision then that she had to do something to improve her health and fitness. Lisa stepped forward into a new daily pattern. She focused on healthy snacks and consistently exercising.
“What made the difference?” I asked.
“I guess I simply made a decision,” Lisa said.
- Make a decision now.
Researchers notice that people tend to only change when they are in pain or desperation. Lisa’s shock and upset about being out of breath while climbing stairs served as a turning point for her.
Is there something that you need to decide? Think about what you want. Perhaps, more importantly think about what pain you want to cease. Find your path and make a decision now.
- Identify how you can use leverage.
In a science class I learned that one can use a lever. Depending on where you put the fulcrum, you could use a little bit of effort to lift a heavy load. Using the lever and fulcrum illustrates leverage.
This example taught me about the value of both awareness and strength. My example demonstrates employing the awareness of a scientific principle. Leverage applies to daily life, too. You could leverage the use of your time. For example, every day I go on a walk with my sweetheart. We are doing three things at the same time. We give ourselves a time for refreshing our perspective. We get out of the house and enjoy the sky and trees. We enhance our relationship with this positive together-time. Plus, we are exercising.
We experience three benefits for one activity. Now that’s leverage. It develops strength in us. We strengthen our relationship. We strengthen our mental wellbeing, and we strengthen our bodies.
- Realize your spiritual beliefs can leverage your personal growth and spiritual renewal.
Your personal beliefs, as a witch, create your personal growth. We, witches, use magick and the love of the Gods to help us grow spiritually, mentally and more.
When I first started with the Craft, I was a shell of the person I am today. I am stronger and more focused on creating change in my life. Before the Craft, I just drifted in my own misery. But once I found the Gods, my bud bloomed into the rose that I am today.
Because of the God and Goddess, I have stronger boundaries because I value myself more than I did before experiencing the Craft.
How has your experience in the Craft strengthened you?
May these insights support your path.
Blessed Be,
Moonwater
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How Witches Deal with the Question: “Do I Deserve This? —Ep. 167
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How Witches Use Wise Attention instead of Self-Absorption
Have you ever had a thought that beat you up? Maybe you made a mistake, and you felt bad about it.
My depression symptoms are like a bad army that marches on my head. The depression symptoms show up as certain thoughts that form awful criticisms. I need to be careful so those thoughts do not take over my experience of life. Instead, I must use wise attention to keep me from spiraling downward.
Wise attention is part of a process of expanding your perception.
I have three insights for you.
- Let go of Self-Absorption.
Many of us have a friend who bends our ear with constant complaints and tales of pain. When someone is feeling pain, it’s easy to be self-absorbed. Giving in to such habits will create more pain in your life. If you are talking about your back pain, and ruminating all day on it, you only make yourself and others miserable.
We can look on negative thoughts like leaves on a stream. Some of us pick up a negative thought (“a leaf”) and place it close to our eyes so we can see nothing else.
Instead, we can make a shift to wise attention.
- Bring wise attention into focus.
Wise attention is about having a perspective that is expansive. For example, Susan is dealing with back pain. However, she pauses and does some deep breathing. It’s true she is experiencing pain. But she also realizes that she has blessings all happening at the same time. Her family members are well. She has a job that provides financial prosperity so her family is supported. As she deep breathes and experiences gratitude, she discovers that her back pain reduces a significant amount.
Wise attention is not denying you that you are in pain or discomfort. That would be unhealthy. Wise attention is stepping back from your pain and discomfort and seeing it for what it is. You can step back and see a larger picture.
- Ask the Gods to guide you through it all.
My depression symptoms are with me every day. Through focusing on wise attention, I realize the strength of my depression symptoms is not a constant. When I’m in meditation or when I ask the God and Goddess for help, I can experience a shift into wise attention.
I also deep breathe and pray to the Gods to help me calm down. I can stand back and see my problems as part of the fabric of my life.
Years ago my sweetheart said, “You have a choice. You could look on yourself as a spirit who deals with depression symptoms instead of merely calling yourself a ‘depressed person.’”
The idea that I am a spirit who is not identified with depression symptoms is part of wise attention. I also realize I will have a chance to be reincarnated without such limitations. This reminds me that I am a spirit having an experience with this particular body. Potentially, in my next incarnation, my spirit will be free of such depression symptoms. And now, it is my challenge to shift to wise attention and avoid allowing depression symptoms to crush me into self-absorption.
Have you had moments of experiencing wise attention? Have you had the experience of dealing with pain but also being aware of the blessings in your life? I invite you to pause, breathe deeply, and observe what blessings you do have on your path.
May these insights be supportive of your journey.
Blessed Be,
Moonwater
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How Witches Explore Spatial Spirituality – Ep. 166
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How Witches Elevate the Positive Divinity Inside Them
“It almost feels like I have two opposite voices inside me. One is full of hope and the other one is full of fear,” Darrell, a friend said.
This conversation reminded me of something called the Theory of Possible Selves by Hazel Markus and Paula Nurius.
Often, I write about how the Gods have placed divinity within us. Recently, I’ve been thinking about how that personal divinity is connected with hope and love.
The Theory of Possible Selves suggests that you have possible Hoped-for Selves and you have Feared Selves.
Here are three insights.
- Identify how your Feared Self operates during your daily life.
During my day, my Feared Self acts like a loud passenger that criticizes me down to the bone. The criticism rises from my fear related to my health and connected to fear of somehow becoming homeless. The real problem is the Feared Self acts like a shackle that prevents you from getting more and better into your life. What is your own Feared Self saying to you?
- Discover how you would like your Hoped-for Self to be more present in your life.
My Hoped-for Self is a quiet passenger. Much more subdued than the Feared Self. I need to coax it out from the background. I must feed it to give it strength. My Hoped-for Self needs space to grow. If you don’t make the appropriate space, the Feared Self will take over.
Imagine a garden. Your Hoped-for Self is like roses. And the Feared Self is like weeds. You need to tend the garden so the Hoped-for Self (roses) will thrive. If you don’t, the weeds will take over.
- Use a simple ritual to elevate and honor your Hoped-for Self.
Here is a simple ritual that you can do to honor your Hoped-for Self.
Timing: Waxing to full moon. During the sunrise in the morning.
What you will need:
- One orange chime candle
- Boline
- Rose oil
- Candle holder
- Fireproof surface
- Silver ring
Cast Circle in the usual manner. Cleanse and consecrate all your items.
Dress the orange chime candle with rose oil. Use the boline to carve Hoped-for Self on the orange chime candle. Put the ring around the candle. Place the candle in the candle holder. (Be careful: If your ring has gems in it, watch out because they may be damaged if placed near flames.)
Now concentrate on your Hoped-for Self. Think of all the things you hope for in yourself and the world around you. Feel the happiness of all you hope for.
Once you have that feeling firm in your heart, light the chime candle and say:
Little bright dancing flame,
I instill this ring in your name,
Your energy runs down into this ring,
Instilling my Hoped-for Self in this thing.
Hoped-for Self is now instilled,
Full of energy and now fulfilled.
So Mote It Be.
Let the chime candle burn itself out on its own. Once that has happened, place your ring on your finger.
Every time your Feared Self rises, twist the ring on your finger clockwise (“deosil”.) Say, “Hoped-for Self is here to stay.”
Close Circle
May these insights help you on your path.
Blessed Be,
Moonwater
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How Witches Improve Their Relationship with Time for a Better Life – Ep. 165
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How Witches Take Care of Their Heart
Are you taking care of your heart?
A friend, Steve, told me a story that touched my heart. Years ago, he taught summer day camp children. One boy had trouble with the project the other children were working on.
The boy, “Mike,” had a problem holding a pair of scissors.
Steve thought that maybe the boy had mobility issues.
But then it dawned on him, and he looked for a left-handed pair of scissors.
Mike’s eyes lit up. He could use the left-handed scissors well.
This story reminds me that we may be failing to support ourselves.
We are not broken. We may miss what we need to do well in our lives.
Here are three insights.
- Look for your personal way of moving in the world.
As an individual, do you feel you’re out of step with others? For example, being dyslexic, I have my own way of seeing and moving in the world. I am more motivated by images than text. I am very visual and see the world in a way that others do not.
How do you experience and move through your world?
- Ask yourself, “Am I supporting myself in a unique and personal way?”
As witches, we have unique ways of doing things. We do not follow the pack. But have you really looked at how you support yourself? Are you devoting time and energy to help yourself stay strong? For example, I knit and bake. Sometimes, I take a break from one or the other. It’s about listening to myself. Additionally, I support myself with prayer and talking to the God and the Goddess.
- Ask the Goddess for insight on how to support yourself in a personal way.
Meditation is a great way to talk with the God and Goddess. You can go into a meditation and ask these questions to the Gods:
- What is the most helpful way to support myself?
- How can I be kinder to myself?
- How can I grow?
May these insights support your heart as you travel your path.
Blessed Be,
Moonwater
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