Beyond the Surface

… have hearts that beat and eyes that blink.
They have big impact on lots of people without meaning to or knowing how.
They could pour out their deepest, darkest secrets and still maintain a type of effortless innocence that can’t be learned.
They can make you breathe a little faster because something in you knows they have a purpose and that they mean something.

Bearing in mind that I am only one witch and do not speak for all witches, here’s what I think.

On The Bible

I believe that the Bible is an interesting historical reference and a wonderful book of wisdom that can be applied in ways different than most Christians apply it. For instance, I don’t believe that the Father, the son and the holy ghost actually portray separate entities (and Christianity also teaches the paradox that they are the same being, depending upon the church you go to). Rather, I believe that those are our parts of self - id, ego, super ego - or fetch, talker, high self.

I also believe that there are quite a few reasons not to depend upon the Bible for day to day decisions:

• The books of Jasher (referred to in Joshua 10:13 as Book of the Upright (Sēper haiYāšār)) and Shemaiah. Never heard of those? That’s because…

I came to a point in my life, not too long ago, when I gave up panic, in the moment. There is no reason for overwhelming emotion in that moment, there is no reason to push up against something I don’t know how to handle, in that moment. There is no reason for instant reactions. It simply does no good. It’s not productive.

I admit, that I reached that conclusion only after having been pushed into the panic corner so much that I finally gave up. And low and behold, the sky didn’t fall if I didn’t hold it up with my panic! I learned that if there is nothing that can be done right then, in that moment, there is simply nothing that can be done. It’s like living moment to moment, I suppose.

I might panic, in general when too much is laying on me and I certainly do…

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Every day, I get an email in my mailbox from google alerts. It includes all blog entries and news stories from that 24 hour period with the word ‘witchcraft’ in it. Aside from the blog posts with the occasional spell, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in the news. All over the world, innocent people are being stoned, burned and otherwise murdered for witchcraft.

All over the continents of Africa and Asia, in Saudi Arabia, India and in Papua New Guinea, people are still persecuted with a death sentence for practicing witchcraft and the terror and craze that comes over people at the mention of witchcraft still causes innocents to be murdered.

Only this month, a child was accused of witchcraft in the Central African Republic because she had nightmares and walked in her sleep, something that is known as a sleep disorder.

This WEEK alone, A story appeared of two children…

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The benefit of being able to tell this story in retrospect is that everything unfolds reasonably, in order and foreshadowing can occur. If only there had been a narrator present at the moment I decided to go to the beach. He would have leaned in in his movie traitor voice and said something like “A girl, The Gods, A beach. A life at the brink of destruction. Who knew that five simple minutes and a scream to the goddess of destruction and recreation could destroy everything.”

But nay. At the time, I had no idea and it wasn’t until a few days later, sitting on a bench at the courthouse that I would comment on how horribly serendipitously everything unfolded and realize that truly there was a divine hand involved.

So it was entirely obliviously and unthinking that one fateful Monday evening, I went to the…

Kala, as I am discussing it, is a Feri tradition witchcraft practice of purification (getting the gunk out) and transformation (turning the gunk into gold) so that the three selves can work more seamlessly together. If the three selves are working seamlessly together, god self is talking to fetch, is talking to talker and v/v and we are closer to moving within the Black Heart of innocence. And I get that that sounds like gobbeldy gook to non-Feris. Onward.

“I’ve sat with it and I am kala with it.” “I have done kala on it.”, both followed by the equivalent of “so I’m sure you are wrong”.

Now, I’m not talking I killed your momma and you hadda do kala with it. I’m talking we just had a disagreement on principal. We had an emailed disagreement and you had to run do kala over it. Really? And not only did you have…

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Tiamat is a personification of the abyss. She is primordial chaos. In the Babylonian creation myth, the Enûma Elish, she is ‘the beginning’ and from her spring the first of the gods representing land, water and other basic elements of our physical world.

Although her origins are debated, in every culture that is put forth as her possible birth place, the story is the same. She is without human form. She is as massive as the seas and very probably the essence of the sea. She churns and rushes and from her depths belches new life.

Although not a dragon, as we think of dragons today, she has always appeared serpentine to me. Pieces of being slithering, rolling over other pieces of being. When she ‘speaks’, it’s not words, it’s feelings, impressions that roll over you and engulf your entire being and quite possible two city blocks…

Last year, one of my students who’d been with me for a couple of years gave me a plant as a gift. It started to die eventually and I dejectedly told her that I couldn’t make anything stay alive. She assured me I could. We figured out that the pot didn’t have any drainage so the water was never being used and the plant was getting over watered. We put it in new soil and a new pot and within a week, it had new buds and was coming back to life.

I asked her to show me her plant magick. “How do you keep something alive?!” She told me it was easy and there really is no magick to it. “It’s just about listening to the plants.” “Great”, I though. “I have to be a Plant Lady who can talk to my plants to get it.”

So she brought…

I must say that after relating the experience to several Feri family members and hearing that it was uncharacteristic, I was a bit confused about the whole thing and didn’t post the entry that was written almost two years ago.

However, I finally posted my experience with luckymojo.com, the hoodoo store, after receiving an email that my student status was going to become ‘inactive’, well over a year after the fact.

Although I did have a negative experience with luckymojo.com, I am glad to have a positive update. The emails that I received over the past few days from Cat’s (the owner) partner, as a result of the ‘phantom’ student status, have been nothing but kind and accommodating and have made the experience much more pleasant.

Turns out, after emailing back and forth with Cat’s partner, who takes an active role in the business, that the experience that I had doesn’t…