Spiritual Badass Magazine July 2018 | Page 37

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The cauldron where healing soups were made and where it was infused with love. Where she used magical herbs and spices to heal the sick.

Did you know that if you stir a pot clockwise, you’re invoking healing and positive energy? Next time you stir a pot, pay attention to which direction you stir.

We stand tall in our power of being a Witch. We cast circles to protect our sisters from harm. Our Witchy cabinets are filled with herbs, oils, resins, incense, and salves to heal and nurture people.

We study crystals, herbs, divination, Goddesses, moon phases, the powerful cycle of the Mother Earth and her creatures.

We celebrate the union of the God and Goddess, the cycle of nature, and honor our ancestors who have passed through the veil.

We raise energy together as a collective whole by drumming, chanting, singing, and dancing. Have you ever been to a Witches drumming circle?

It’s the deepest orgasmic like rhythm that you can imagine. Picture a large group of women sitting in a circle around a roaring bonfire.

The full moon is high in the night sky casting shadows and gently kissing them with soft moonlight. We start with a slow and deep rhythmic sound of a bass drum. Thump, thump, thump.

Slow and steady. Almost like warming

up a cold teakettle.

The other Witches start picking up their musical instruments and start working their magic.

Within the circle witches,begin playing a flute, a tambourine, a bell, a few higher pitched drums, and other glorious noisemakers. Then a fellow sister in the circle starts singing,

“We All Come from the Goddess” and we all find our voices and start singing in unison.

The drumming and singing become louder, deeper, and intense. Before you know it, we are all in a trance.

Dancing and weaving our magic under the full moon. This is the power of the gathering of Witches.

Witches bring about change and healing If you hang around a Witch long enough,

she’ll start to rub off on you. She will change your thoughts about being shy and quiet. Witches are anything but shy and quiet.

After all, we have danced with the wind, drank from the well of the Goddess, and drawn down the energy of the moon. We are strong and powerful women.

Let’s face it Witches know shit! We don’t WAIT for things to happen, we MAKE things happen!

Witches honor and embrace the cycles of a woman and her transition from Maiden to Mother to Crone.

We recognize the playfulness and innocence of the Maiden.