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.
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