#matron witch

If nobody is getting hurt, if no bigotry is involved, then different is just different, not better and not worse.

You don't have to agree with anybody. You can just keep doing your own things. We're different people and we all have our own reasons for how we roll.

It's more than ok to take a break.

It's necessary even.

I haven't done witchcraft since February, and you know what? I'm not worried. It'll be here, like it always is, when I'm all rested up and ready to jump in again.

Life happens to us all.

In 2012, Social media wasn't like it is today. I was the only witch in my life. I had no social network, certainly no Witchblr (if it even existed at the time).

So I tried things out, based on what I already knew. I didn't start calling myself a witch until age 25, but I already had things that I could use. I knew folk magic. My grandmother was a medicine woman and she taught me things. I knew spirituality. I knew folklores. I knew my native land and her people. I knew the ways of my ancestors. I had the internet, Google, and my background.

I fucked around and found out.

I encourage you to do the same. Go with what you already know, work with what you already have, and just try things out. Who should be going around giving permissions to witches for doing witchcraft anyway? No one, is the answer.

It's our personal responsibilities to mentor and educate whomever should come our ways.

We ought to be required to answer every single question asked of us.

Both, if you were to think about it for just a moment, are some serious entitlement, and neither is a realistic or practical or fair expectation of anybody, least of all, complete strangers on the internet who don't even know you, who don't owe you their time, and why should they be tasked with doing all of your work for you.

There's a reason why my public school teaching career ended for good when I got sick. I have neither the mental nor physical capacity to be responsible for another's education, children or adults.

Yes. I think being a witch has led me to who I am today, has helped me discover myself and gain my confidence, has shaped my identity, beliefs, and values, and has contributed to my healing.

But this is a process that's taken nearly a decade and a half of finding myself and my place in this world. It didn't automatically happen the second I picked up the witch title all those years ago. And I've had a lot of help along the way.