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Everything is Witchcraft
A fellow Tarot reader and I were recently hired for a 10-year-old’s birthday party for a girl who loves witches. My colleague read cards while I taught an age-appropriate lesson about how to be a good witch.
I asked the group of fresh faces, “So, what do you think about witches?”
Each girl repeated a similar sentiment:
“Well, I used to think they were scary and bad but then I learned that a lot of witches are good.”
I asked them, “What do you think witchcraft is about?”
One of the first answers floored me:
“I think it’s about trusting yourself.”
I had written down that very idea as a part of the lesson. I didn’t expect to hear it reflected so quickly. I was delighted to hear from a young person’s voice how understanding around witches has improved.
This story relates back to ancient mythology. If you look at the history of the feminine divine, her representation was twisted through centuries.
She began as whole and complex, and slowly turned into females who were either good or bad, dark or light.
The witch became associated with the darkness, despite the wide array of people who she belonged to.
What is the danger of the witch?
She listens to the signs of nature around her. She is respectful of and tuned in to a form of wisdom that no middle man between her and the divine can own. She trusts herself.
The witch is a dangerous figure to those who would want to wield power to the detriment of those she loves. Thus burning her at the stake.
It’s easy to call someone a witch. Because witchcraft is (potentially) everything.
One night years ago, I came home very late to find my roommate bubbling tinctures in enormous pots. She was going to Burning Man and was preparing Chinese herbal medicine that would help friends naturally manage the heat.
I helped her clean up, sweeping the floor with a broom and washing out essentially a witches’ cauldron.
Medicine is not the only thing that witches brew.
If you make food while hoping to infuse love into it, you’re basically spell casting.
When you cut pictures from a magazine with the intention of manifesting something better, you are welcoming in collaboration with the divine in a witchy way.
If you go for a walk in nature and collect pieces of lichen and sticks and stones to place on your altar at home, you might be doing witchcraft.
Beyond that, as the 10-year-old girl noted, the simple art of trusting yourself is what witches are all about.
Listen to your body deeply.
Observe the world around you for the unseen quiet knowing within.
Dance you’re empathic body clean of all the weight of others that you’ve been carrying.
Take an Epsom salt bath.
Make art with intention.
A financial planner can be witchy about her work. I know one. It’s in the way we do things with awareness and intention.
I know a lot of witches. They are all good. That’s who I surround myself with.
Of course there are toxic witches out there as well. There is no subset of humans that does not include some unhealthy people.
The problem with the witch hunt is that it is easy to claim anyone is a witch if it’s primarily a woman with power who offers healing support to her community. Scared people who don’t have answers will look for any threat that they can scapegoat.
That’s why it’s so important that this group of 10-year-old girls gets to learn to own this word with safety and curiosity and hopefully a mentor who helps them respect the craft and only use it for good.
I felt honored to teach these girls a little with games around telepathy and setting good intentions.
This October, I hope you will welcome in your own witchy ways in your approach to the mundane daily tasks with some intention setting and intuitive knowing.
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Enjoy getting ready for Halloween!
Cackle Cackle,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
Present Path Tarot 