spiritual rambling, thoughts and frustrations

I’m sick and tired of wet rag witchcraft, religion and spirituality! Love light positive energy banish the negativity only love and healing! I’m sick of sickly sweet spiritual things I have a headache from pastels and lilacs. I’m sick of self help magic or magick with the unnecessary K I’m sick of anti negativity and false positivity I’m sick of phrases like ‘living my best life!’ ‘Self love!’ ‘Be your authentic self!’ Yuk!!

 I’m sick of religion and spirituality that sees these things as separate and that denies the reality of God, Gods and other spirits or even reject the reality of miracles and miraculous events in the religion’s structure, faith and traditional history. 

I’m done with the criticism of the occult communities against mainstream communities embracing moderate mystical metaphysical spiritual things! No one has an exclusive right to any of it no one has a monopoly on religion spirituality or the mysteries of existence. Who are you to say some can and others can’t? Who are you to ridicule another on their journey of faith or magics? Your multitudes of initiations and your copious amounts of drug taking and excessive drinking definitely don’t give you the right to be self righteous and judgmental. 

Stop stopping others from exploring their spirituality and spiritual transformation stop claiming cultural appropriation and persecution when the only persecution is self made and all individuals and cultures are guilty of cultural appropriation. Stop criticising condemning and boycotting! 

Start learning and start guiding and teaching when correcting it needed. Guide  and teach with real answers and truth not halfhearted responses or arrogant entitlement. Teach and open all the doors you keep barricaded with unnecessary rules of secrecy and an ego centric attitude that goes with it. Remember always you are not the god or power you worship but a fellow servant and pilgrim on the journey. 

I don’t believe witchcraft is meant to be about the attainment of enlightenment or some sort of spiritual transformation or transcendence. I really don’t think that’s the role of witchcraft. It may be a by product or mystical exploration in the practice of witchcraft but I don’t think enlightenment is the goal of or in witchcraft. 

I’m skeptical about witch cult theories and crypto paganism whilst I believe that folk religion and magic and folk lore and medicine may have syncretic and  connected links to indigenous cultures pasts and shamanic like practices but for the most part they are essentially Christianised and are a type of folk Christian practice rather then “underground paganism” or pagan witchcraft if there really was such a thing. I definitely don’t believe that real witches were executed during the witch trials in history. There’s no witchcraft religious persecution! Get a grip already! 

I have no issues with the Devil in witchcraft but would argue that this may not be the Judaic Christian understanding of the being at least in the medieval concept of him. Satan and/or the Devil can’t do anything significant without the will of God allowing him to do it. The medieval theology gave the Devil too much power, power he never had. 

Stop being anti Christianity just because you are a witch pagan or polytheist these modern traditions exist because of Christianity and the church. Stop with conspiracy theories they help no one and only perpetuate misinformation. 

“Also there is no such thing as a "traditional witch", witches are intrinsically eclectic, syncretic, and incorporate everything under the sun and moon into their practice, there is no such thing as orthodox witchcraft, so I see no contradictions here, I've known witches who used Christian prayers, I've known witches that took up with Santero orisha, it is all still witchcraft.”

There’s no such thing as a universal religion of witchcraft 

I’m sick of feminist bull shit witchcraft! I’m sick of the man hating stereotyping goddess spirituality bollocks!! Get over yourselves and stop perpetuating the evils that were perpetuated upon you women! Get a grip already and stop creating a false history about matriarchal cultures that never existed or supposed patriarchal conspiracies. Just stop it! It’s dumb! 

If all gods are one and if everything is connected then Christianity is as much a part of paganism, witchcraft and hermeticism as any other religion or belief system. 

Books of shadows and grimoires are not a form of scripture in witchcraft. 

January looking back and looking forward

2019 has begun and January is nowmeandering it’s way to a close and we stand on the threshold of a new month. 

January is a month that seems to drag its feet, a month that seems to bring sadness after the celebrations of Christmas if you follow the secular understanding of Christmas and believe it is done when the sun sets on 25th of December. From a religious and traditional Christian practice the season of Christmas doesn’t end till the 6th January when the season of Ephany starts and carry’s on to the 2 February with candlemass a celebration of light  and the remembrance of the presentation of Christ in the temple and the blessed Virgin Mary’s Purification. All of these observances and celebrations are points in the new year to remember the divine is with us, revealing himself to the world and recreating our nature in his image, by his incarnation we are a new creation. 

January is a slow month but I think it is intended to be slow, giving us a feeling of getting nowhere fast. That is the perpose of the month and it’s effect on us. January says slow down, breath, thinking and contemplate the new year from a new beginning a new creation if you will. January is the month of introspection a time to go into our selves and make changes if you choose to or to reenergise our motivation for a new year. 

This month was named after the Roman god of thresholds, beginning and endings the two faced god Janus. He looks both to the past and to the future and represents the stop gap or slowing and dragging nature of January. January says stop make peace with the year that is gone it has passed, remember the joy and learn from the sadness. January also says look to the future of the new year and the new creation move forward with hope and mindfulness take the lessons of the last year and grow in this new year. Always remember the centre of it all the present moment, that small narrow point between the two faces of Janus. That mindful moment of right now.

   

Christ’s incarnation is about right now the new creation is not just a hope for the future or a belief of something to come. It is right here right now. The blessing of love is right here right now what we seek is right here right now God is truly with us right here right now. Right now is within us and part of us the whole time. God is within us and part of us the whole time. 

As January closes remember what you are seeking is already within you. Let us move into February ready to be purified and put our contemplation into loving action ready to grow as the first signs of spring reveal themselves and the new creation is born through us.