Saturday, May 11, 2019
How do you like brussel sprouts?
I had a love who's scent (and taste) was like brussel sprouts. Normally I don't like brussel sprouts, but she was worth making an exception for. I love my wife's scent and taste which is definitely not like brussel sprouts. The brussel sprouts lady? Every time I have brussel sprouts it brings back happy memories and that makes it easier to eat brussel sprouts.
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
The Sacred Journey to Yourself
The reason I didn't belong in a witchy book club is that so many of the books I find most witchy are not considered witchy books. These are books about personal empowerment which for me is what being a witch is all about.
Jenya Turner Beachy wrote The Secret Country of Yourself, which is a very witchy witchy book. Beachy writes, "We watch our own reactions to events and situations and, through rigorous self-examination, we become familiar with our own depths and heights. We know ourselves and claim ourselves, in all our Parts, glorious and ugly, atrocious and brilliant. And to claim ourselves, we must accept ourselves."
This is exactly the point of Cheryl Strayed and Robyn Davidson's books and something I got out of Gracie X's book as well. We discover ourselves through a sacred journey (that can take many forms) and we become the instruments of our own power.
And, in my opinion, that is the point of all the witchy tools, potions and spells. They reflect back to us in a tangible way all the power that is in us as us.
That power was always there, perhaps untapped. We look at one another and say, "Thou Art Gods." Being a witch provides a narrative for the truth of that.
Jenya Turner Beachy wrote The Secret Country of Yourself, which is a very witchy witchy book. Beachy writes, "We watch our own reactions to events and situations and, through rigorous self-examination, we become familiar with our own depths and heights. We know ourselves and claim ourselves, in all our Parts, glorious and ugly, atrocious and brilliant. And to claim ourselves, we must accept ourselves."
This is exactly the point of Cheryl Strayed and Robyn Davidson's books and something I got out of Gracie X's book as well. We discover ourselves through a sacred journey (that can take many forms) and we become the instruments of our own power.
And, in my opinion, that is the point of all the witchy tools, potions and spells. They reflect back to us in a tangible way all the power that is in us as us.
That power was always there, perhaps untapped. We look at one another and say, "Thou Art Gods." Being a witch provides a narrative for the truth of that.
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