A witch knows the consciousness altering and transforming power of rituals and how to conduct them.

By means of rituals we go from our everyday consciousness to an altered state in which we are transformed and then returned to our everyday state of consciousness as a different person. If the world is our everyday consciousness, the altered state is ( Read more... )

When we cut a finger healing begins immediately. The pain we feel alerts us to protect the injured finger from further harm. The bleeding cleanses the cut and our skin begins to grow back together.

When we break a bone healing begins immediately. The pain prompts us to take action to prevent further harm. Our bone might or might not need resetting. ( Read more... )

Like creating (magic), curing, conveying knowledge (teaching), and conducting sacred ceremonies, counseling has long been an essential practice of a witch. To be a witch is to be a wise counselor.

A wise counselor is one who has a deep trust in our human ability to solve our own problems. Sometimes the circumstances of our life or the complexity of ( Read more... )

To be a witch is to be an agent of change. But change is going on all of the time. We cannot help but be agents of change. Who isn’t an agent of change?

A witch consciously wills specific kinds of change like healing, financial assistance, love, sex, and success in important endeavors. Who doesn’t consciously will these changes when they are needed ( Read more... )

This method of divination was given to me a few years ago while I was walking on the beach at Topsail Island.

The Eyes of Freyja is a very simple way of communicating with Freyja. You need two relatively flat, round stones. Each stone should be  about the size of a quarter. Mine are surf-polished white quartz pebbles from the beach of Topsail Island ( Read more... )

"Freyja, Freyja, Freyja;
My Lady, my Goddess, my Queen;
Show me what you’d have me see;
Speak what you would have me hear."

Three times I chant these words as I roll “Freyja’s Eyes” back and forth from hand to hand (See note below). I ask my question, release to stones and see which way they land. If both of her eyes look at me, the answer is “No”. If ( Read more... )

Because I care I call his name, but only because he stops and says “Yes?” do we connect.

Because I care I look at her with the hope that she will look back, but only when or eyes meet do we connect.

Because I care I say “Hello” and reach out to shake his hand, but only when he says “Hello” and shakes my hand do we connect.

Caring for her, I lower my ( Read more... )

A while after I wrote about caring I realized that I had more to say. I did not say enough about the caring that Freyja and I share. The caring between my Lady and me is, like communing, a mutual thing. Freyja cares for me and I for her. She desires and embodies her desire in action for my well-being. She helps me become what I am meant to be. ( Read more... )

I began this meditation on the nine-fold way of a witch with communing because it felt like a good place to start. Since the nine-fold way is like a necklace of chain I could have started with any of the nine links. I could have started with caring. To me caring is essential to being a witch. Caring is the link on which I focus now.

Caring is a ( Read more... )

The nine-fold way of a witch is like a necklace of chain. Just as no one link in a necklace of chain is central, first or of greatest importance, so no one practice in the nine-fold way is central, first or of greatest importance. The nine practices are inter-connected. Just as a necklace of chain is only as strong as its weakest link, so the nine- ( Read more... )