#ecstatic witchcraft

[wildecstasy]

Let your body be awake rather than polite.

-Dave Gaddy, “Raw Magick: A one-hour ecstatic rite of the feral self”

[black-dog-bones]

What do I want from witchcraft?

“On a primal level, I want to have mastery over myself. I want to know things. I want to be able to sink into the ecstasy of my mind, the sorrow, the rage, and come back. I want to have control, I want to lose control. I want to have greater clarity on a mental, emotional, and spiritual level. I want to use witchcraft to be successful and influence my life. I want to know power and I want to have power.

I have to throw away everything I know and come back to the basics, starting over and addressing that raw barking madness lurking at the back of my mind. I have to look into it’s depths and make peace with it. I have to stop stumbling forwards in the dark and step back to see what lurks behind me.

How? How? How? Staring into mirrors until you’ve learnt something. Sitting with yourself and divining the messages of your own spirits. Going deeper into yourself than you ever have. Feel the self-loathing, the self-veneration. Experience completely objectivity of your soul.”

—a journal entry of mine that I feel I need to bring back

[sandstoneandoldbone]

Daily Saining Water:

Saining water or holy water is a large part of my practice, I use different saining waters for different purposes. A simple daily ritual I do is to cleanse myself with saining water by dabbing it on each wrist, the back of my neck, and forehead before I leave my home and when I come back, as well as before I give any offerings.

To make this water gather water from a river or stream both the living and the dead have crossed. Natural spring water also works well. The water should be gathered in a non-metal container.

If you want, add a tincture made from any of the following: rowan, juniper, heather, rosemary…

Drop a hag stone (stone with a naturally formed hole in it), a piece of silver (a ring, coin, or necklace chain as long as its pure silver), or three beach stones (one red, one black, one white) into the water.

Blow on the water three times then recite one of the following incantations, speaking so closely to the water that your breath touches the surface of it:

Blessing of Brighde (Brigid):

Toradh, airgead, uisge         Pronounced- Tor-ug, air-eh-ket, ush-keh

Blessings of Brighde on this water

Simple:

By silver and stane may the water be sained

Purification:

In the name of them that can cure or kill,

This water shall cure all earthly ill,

Shall cure the blood and flesh and bone,

For ilka ane there is a stane

May they fleg all trouble, sickness, pain,

Cure without and cure within

Cure the heart, and horn, and skin.

[lunar-root]

The Story of the Witch, the Fairy People and the Eternal Sabbat- with Gede Parma

[wildecstasy]

This is the second book I got. I am very excited for this one. I have been wanting to read this one for a few years now and I have appreciated what little I know about the author. It’s going to take everything in me to finish the first one before I start this one, but I’m determined. I think reading the other one first will serve me well

[wildecstasy]

This is the 1st of two new books I got. It’s time for me to really dive into the history and methodology of oracular and trance-possessory work. I have done so much of this off instinct over the decades and I’m looking to supplement that instinct as well as find new ways to explore it now that I have much stronger boundaries and a stronger sense of self than I did 15 years ago. Expect to see me share passages that resonate

[wildecstasy]

When the whole of the ancient world looked as though it was going to burst into the flames of war, when people struggled to survive famine and pestilence, and when natural disaster threatened to destroy the tenuous fabric of ancient society, the oracle, the sibyl, and the seer were there with messages of hope for the future.

- Janet Farrar & Gavin Bone, “Lifting the Veil: a Witches’ Guide to Trance-Prophesy, Drawing Down the Moon, and Ecstatic Ritual”

[wildecstasy]

The Body is the Altar. The Voice is the Blade. The Will directs the Fire.

-Dave Gaddy, “Raw Magick: A one-hour ecstatic rite of the feral self”