While these days the persecution is less widespread, especially in Western communities, there is still the issue of location & real estate. Not everywhere can be lush & vibrant. Places need to exist in opposition. Balance needs to occur. Oasis Springs is one of those places. It's an Offset Location. A balance point for the natural order.
But everywhere needs a witch. For this place, that witch is me.
Being a witch is not an occupation to take lightly. It's not a career one holds because you want to take it easy. It's not all riding around on broomsticks & cackling at the moon. Being a witch is about never having downtime you can make plans for. It's visitors at all hours of the night: my gran is sick; my wife is struggling in labour; my cow is struggling in labour. In a small community, witches wear more than just a pointy black hat. In these places, witches are the go to for any issue without a dedicated service provider.
No hospital? The witch can be your healer/bone setter/midwife. No vet clinic? Same. Need herbicides or fertiliser? Yep. Witch.
We are the door you knock on to ask for help, regardless of the time or date. And when it's a rural, isolated community, this is even more the case.
Here in this Balance environment, I tend the sick, the sad, the broken, the hopeful, & the dying. I look after the entire community; the animals, plants, humans, & non humans too.
You may think the landscape & lifestyle are nothing but dry, inhospitable nothingness, but it's Home to many. And it's important to the planet herself.
The sand though. The sand is an ultra fine grit that's almost a dust... & it gets in everything. And because it's in everything, there can be no such thing as white.
Perhaps that's the difference between wizard magic & witchcraft. Wizards might focus on allowing whites to happen, throwing a bit of prestidigitation around for good measure. Us witches? We work our healing & helping around the reddish beige tones & get on with the things that need doing. Balance.
