Lesson #1: The Witchy Well
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Witchy Well
The topic of this lesson came up when I was writing to Pixie about my lack of creativity over the past week. I told her I knew I was supposed to write these lessons but witchy well just dried up.
Of course the light bulb above my head went off and I got the idea for the first
lesson.
So many of us have complained we have no desire to do ritual, meditate, or do anything witchy. For many of us it means we have to take time out of a busy day or make sure everyone else’s needs are met before ours. It might seem like a lot of work to meditate or do ritual but it doesn’t have to be. The problem I see is we are told we have to set up an 8x10 foot table complete with an altar cloth your gt-gt grandmother made and make sure you have 10.7 candles on the altar. You must also soak and smoke the room to banish those sneaky energies that might want to watch. Then you must call the quarters, the elements, the watch towers, and all of your ancestors and then and only then are you ready to ritual. Either that or we’re told our way is, “The Wrong Way.”
I don’t think so.
While some may enjoy doing rituals like this (and I do sometimes) it’s not practical for those who have lives. I also think it’s a contributing factor to the dried up Witchy Well.
For this first lesson we are going to tap into your dried up witchy well and help you figure out what’s creating the drought. I want you take out that journal I told you to use for these exercises and make a list of everything that makes you feel witchy. Is it a walk outside? Watching the rain fall? Reading a good book? The sky is the limit.. do not make a short list. No one is reading this but you. It doesn’t even have to be something witchy.. just something that makes you feel alive.
Once you’ve made your list I want you to think about why you’re not doing these things. For example: When I need to recharge my witchy batteries I go for a hike. If it’s cold or raining I obviously can’t do that so I find my inspiration elsewhere.. a park or even looking at Mt. Hood in the distance or a hawk on a light post. It’s the little things we forget that can help us the most. Once you’ve figured out your road blocks I want you to choose one thing on the list that makes you feel witchy and do it. Do it a few times. Write down your experiences. I don’t care if you have kids and a family. Lock them in the close until you’re done. LOL If you don’t have time, make time. There’s always time to take care of yourself. Have fun!
Witchy Well
The topic of this lesson came up when I was writing to Pixie about my lack of creativity over the past week. I told her I knew I was supposed to write these lessons but witchy well just dried up.
Of course the light bulb above my head went off and I got the idea for the first
lesson.
So many of us have complained we have no desire to do ritual, meditate, or do anything witchy. For many of us it means we have to take time out of a busy day or make sure everyone else’s needs are met before ours. It might seem like a lot of work to meditate or do ritual but it doesn’t have to be. The problem I see is we are told we have to set up an 8x10 foot table complete with an altar cloth your gt-gt grandmother made and make sure you have 10.7 candles on the altar. You must also soak and smoke the room to banish those sneaky energies that might want to watch. Then you must call the quarters, the elements, the watch towers, and all of your ancestors and then and only then are you ready to ritual. Either that or we’re told our way is, “The Wrong Way.”
I don’t think so.
While some may enjoy doing rituals like this (and I do sometimes) it’s not practical for those who have lives. I also think it’s a contributing factor to the dried up Witchy Well.
For this first lesson we are going to tap into your dried up witchy well and help you figure out what’s creating the drought. I want you take out that journal I told you to use for these exercises and make a list of everything that makes you feel witchy. Is it a walk outside? Watching the rain fall? Reading a good book? The sky is the limit.. do not make a short list. No one is reading this but you. It doesn’t even have to be something witchy.. just something that makes you feel alive.
Once you’ve made your list I want you to think about why you’re not doing these things. For example: When I need to recharge my witchy batteries I go for a hike. If it’s cold or raining I obviously can’t do that so I find my inspiration elsewhere.. a park or even looking at Mt. Hood in the distance or a hawk on a light post. It’s the little things we forget that can help us the most. Once you’ve figured out your road blocks I want you to choose one thing on the list that makes you feel witchy and do it. Do it a few times. Write down your experiences. I don’t care if you have kids and a family. Lock them in the close until you’re done. LOL If you don’t have time, make time. There’s always time to take care of yourself. Have fun!
posted by Pixie at 6:03 PM
3 Comments:
Sweet! Thahnks to Anna and Pixie for taking time out of their day to help US all be witches again. LOL I'm always climbing out of a witchy rut in the beginning of winter, so thank you!
xoxo
Bella
Thank you both so much for doing this, it's just what the doctor ordered.
I've been doing my homework in a pretty silver journal that Aud and Bex bought me and realised early on that there's two levels to feeling 'witchy' in my outlook. Level one is really for myself and/or deity; level two is for the community or the wider world.
I'm still working on my list, but so far I've gone for level one. This, to me, is about touching the Mysteries. I was trying to come up with a description of it and all I've got is feeling like there's 'fire in your bones', which isn't right and sounds more like rheumatism. It's that moment when you feel so utterly in sinc with the natural world, the Mysteries, deity, the Universe etc, that you know yourself to be truly divine. It's also those times when the Goddess feels so close that you can practically make her a cup of tea and invite her to sit down at the kitchen table.
My list so far:
* Top of the Black Mountains* Forests
* Oceans, particularly crashing waves, night-time etc
* Inside a raised circle
* Skies
* Storms
* Midnight drives through country lanes
* Keeping the Solstice vigils
* Star-gazing
* Dawns and sunsets
* The sound of the bodhran
I plan to do much more of the above this year.
Level two is giving something back, which can be fun and satisfying, but the emphasis is more on it being beneficial to the community etc. I've done this overmuch last year, so it's level one I'm needing to concentrate on to redress the balance in order to be in a better state to approach level two more usefully. This isn't to say that I'm hanging up my Brownie uniform and telling the world where to go from now on, just not doing it at the expense of level one.
Both are equally important still to me.
yours
Mab
xxxxx
Thanks so much for doing this you guys, you're fabulous!
Here is my "witchy" list so far (naturally written in a leather notebook with an ink pen)
Writing with an ink pen on nice paper,
The smell of leather,
Sunrises and sunsets,
Looking at the Uffington White Horse,
Blowing bubbles,
Looking through the Faerie Oracle cards,
Listening to the rain falling,
Listening to my kittens purr,
Doing cross-stitch with a kitten on my lap,
Feeling the sun on my skin,
Randomly dancing to a video on TV,
Looking at the moon,
Shuffling through my Witchy Tarot deck,
Watching Practical Magic,
Reading a witchy DiscWorld book,
Candlelight,
Being somewhere wild and empty,
A beach at dawn.
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