Hex Bomb

A spooky tune for your Halloweening. Recorded at Sunday’s “Halloween Beyond Belief” it’s “Grim Grinning Ghosts” performed by Craig Cackowski, Busy Philipps, Annie Savage, Autumn Reeser, Janet Varney, and Hal Lublin. Music by Jordan Katz & the Elements of Style. 

This is the theme song of The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. It was composed by Buddy Baker, with lyrics written by X Atencio.

You may have heard that we’re doing ONE MORE BIG SHOW before calling it quits for quite some time!

It’s true. And that show is on Saturday, December 17th, at the Theater at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles! It’s our annual Thrilling Adventure Hour Holiday Funaround starring all of the WorkJuice Players and special guests!

The Ace is an enormous, beautiful theater. This looks to be a special evening of comedy, music, and holiday cheer. We sincerely hope you’ll join us.

Tickets

I’m sorry if you thought you’d be informing me of something I had no clue of,  but earnestly this whole “Women own witchcraft” is the very most idiotic, Euro centric argument I have ever heard in Witch Discourse.

You need to get off your racist, sexist high horse right this instant.

I’ve done research and experienced witchcraft in my own culture and have knowledge of the witch hunts of the 1600s. It’s not a case of “The evil males murdering women!!!” It was a case of both women and men who used their religion to murder people horrifically and senselessly out of ignorance and fear. Both genders were the perpetrators and victims, both genders were the victims. Some women are more in tune to their spirituality and open to witchcraft due to the way western culture has brought women and men act. In other cultures, men are more likely to be spiritual leaders, or it may be perfectly egalitarian. 

Saying that women own witchcraft because men in their culture fucked shit up for witches is essentially saying that atheists and pagans alone own witchcraft because Christians fucked shit up for witches. 

Saying that women own witchcraft is like saying that poc own witchcraft because of imperialism’s damage to poc’s culture. 

Saying that women own witchcraft is like saying that only people born to witch families own witchcraft.

Inherently, all people, males included, have the same amount of spiritual potential and energy. The way some people’s witchcraft works is recognizing that we are all witches, we are all beings with energies and spirituality and we choose to develop and partake in our own. Blocking off half the population for crimes they did not commit is disgusting.

Not to mention how GODDAMN RACIST THIS IS!

I come from Miami, and in Miami I’ve experienced a lot of the Santeria culture. Here, people mostly talk about it when there’s dead chickens washing up on shores after sacrifices or when dead animals are dropped off in bags at the courthouse, and I’m going to assume that you think witchcraft is revamped spells from the 1600s where animal bones are cutely replaced with some other herb followed by crystals sitting on the shelf.

However..

Santería is a culture of witches. Santería is very valid witchcraft, it is sometimes bloody and not cute and not adapted to Western Culture but that is the goddamn point. There are males that practice witchcraft in this culture, in fact leaders of all genders.

Native Indigenous culture have had Shamanism and related spiritualistic religions, there are so many tribes where witchcraft comes in the forms of women, men and non binary people such as the complex Two Spirit identity doing rituals, sacrifices, meditations… witchcraft is the practice of magick, and guess who practices magick?

These babies! See the things in grey! Those are called non western civilizations! Theses are places where thousands of individual communities exist, all with their own religions and native cultures! And most of them have all practiced some form of magick! Both men and women and non binary people!

If you’re a crystal witch, male or female or nonbinary Shamans probably made or sold you your crystals. Your lore could be from a Jewish Rabbi, of Jewish Mysticism. Or the Muslim intertwining of pagan and occultism. Or it could be the literal God Of Witchcraft, Thoth, in Egyptian culture. It could be an Alchemist, such as Gilles de Rais or Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, all males murdered for their practicing witchcraft. The masks and skulls bought may very well be from Ghana tribes that were used as Talismans, or certain artifacts and rituals may come from Benin, West African tribes and communities. 

You do not, never have, never will own witchcraft. No one ever will. And if you think men should be excluded, then only female, magick inherited African tribes victim to imperialism should own witchcraft.

let me tell you that learning about permaculture and how cycles and “balance” apply to nature, you begin to understand ma’at in a completely different light.

you could actually use cows to stop climate change.

Not all land is suited for the same use. You can’t grow veg everywhere, and you really shouldn’t try - California is on FUCKING FIRE because corps have been doing so and have literally sunk the water table. 

So our water tables can’t recover because we covered the ground in concrete. And instead of using water we collect from the sky, which is generally better for us than ground water, we just keep using the ground water and going “why won’t the water come back??????”

And then as we use ground water to water our plants n shit, we are just depositing all of the ground minerals into the land, and thereby putting salt n shit in the earth, and we go “why doesn’t shit grow like it should?????”

That doesn’t even get into the issues of monoculture vs. polyculture and how our monoculture agricultural practices literally destroy the land.

like those fucking sugar cane motherfuckers in FL, “oops, WHY IS RED TIDE WORSE THAN IT WAS IN THE 70′S I WONDER.” 

2 yrs later:

There’s a lot to unpack here. First, why has college gotten in the way of taking communion? Are there no churches accessible to you? First, you should know that the Episcopal Church has full communion with ELCA churches, so they will accept you for communion. Also, Morovian churches should as well. If neither of these are options, then here is what I will say: communion is a very important sacrament. It is worth taking even if from imperfect Christians that do not share your values or morals. It is worth taking even from the creepy Christian club at your school.

Now, if the communion issue has to do with a ritual you are not completing (confession for instance), then I’m not quite sure how to help you. I will only encourage you to find a way and time to participate in this rite.

Second, you should know that stagnation is unavoidable and it’s not always bad. We’ve done ourselves a great disservice by insisting we always be moving and changing and growing at all times. Perhaps this is just a time of rest, to enjoy God and the world around you. Perhaps you are called to grow in other areas and need to wait to cultivate your spiritual life at this time. That’s ok too.

Do keep practicing your faith. I cannot stress this enough. Even if you don’t feel like it, please pray, work spells, and read. You are so loved by God. Maybe take some time to call out your greviances to God. I have found that complaining has helped on many occasions. So have the prophets. 😉

And finally, if you really feel a call to grow at this time, then please find a community of believers in person or in spirit. I often read books from theologians when I feel my community is failing me. I enjoy Brian McClaren (for the most part.) Jerome Berryman is also encouraging for me as a children’s director.

Yes, men were persecuted for practicing witchcraft and tried as witches. In some countries, the majority of people accused of witchcraft were men. Here’s a book about it. Here are some stories about men who were executed for witchcraft. Stop saying that only women can be witches because men weren’t persecuted for witchcraft.

Witch is a gender neutral term. If you’re going to argue that witch was only ever used to describe women (it wasn’t) then you should also know that historically witches were seen as malevolent magical practitioners. Many cultures call good magical practitioners something different. One example is the benandanti, who fought witches to ensure their community’s crops didn’t fail.