Good Evening witches,
I’m currently reading The Gray Witch’s Grimoire by Lady Amethyst Raine. Just in the first few pages one of the things that has struck me is this
“…most of the pagans today come from backgrounds steeped in the Judeo-Christian paths, and there is a completely different mindset to so anything’s in the word of the witch – and especially the world of the gray witch. I so often see the effects of a Christian upbringing in the views, decisions, and practices of modern-day Pagans….but so often this mind set — which was created to control – is still controlling the thought processes and actions of the modern-day witch and shackling her in a figurative way to the burning stake….what is not acceptable in the practice of Christianity or Judaism is often very acceptable to the witch…and this includes revenge and retribution aimed at our enemies in the form of hex or curse…”
As I’ve already said, in my down time over the summer I’ve been doing a lot of shadow work as I seek to work out some of my mental blokes and to sort out what is learnt behaviour and what is truly my own. This has caused a few schism with in the family, nothing that I wasn’t mindful of when I started the journey and certainly nothing that I hadn’t predicted would happen by observation of past behaviour over the last 35 odd years. But it has made for some uncomfortable family times. With all sorts of things said by both sides.
In what I’m sure will be the first of many such situations, my christian heritage has been thrown back in my face more than once. And in the early days of my witch path I did knowingly and unknowingly cling on to it. I’m grateful for the spiritual teachers I meet and for the things they taught me and I had acknowledged that as part of my witch heritage and honoured those who I knew that have now passed. And I will continue to do so but as for the rest of the Christian ethos and teachings it’s time you went in the bin. As I continue down the path of the Witch and have acknowledged Hekate as my deity and now found the courage to start to break the bonds of the Christian mindset I’m now feeling so much more myself and at last like I’m finding my true inner self. It’s only taken nearly 50 years to do it but at last I’m starting to see me in all the fog. And it is truly liberating.
When I have struggles so hard to love myself as I am, as many gay’s do the last thing I need to keep carrying with me is the teachings of “The Church” Their will be more on this as I start to work things out but I am so grateful for the insight I’ve found today. As it’s strengthen some of the truths I’ve already found, and pointed me in a new direction to help clear out some of the old to make way for the new. Spiritual self development, like personal development is the true path of any spiritual discipline. Never ever stop questions and seeking the answers.
Have a blessed week, laters witch’s.