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[thejourneyintowitchcraft]

@thedaggerofsight reblogged your post and added: “About the blog”

Welcome! I’m excited to share in your journey.

Thanks so much! I’m so happy to be here sharing my experiences with you :D

[trivia-goddess]

So dionebacchus needs to cleanse their apartment, and I’m pagan so I knew that I could ask some pagan friends for simple ways to cleanse the home. What I know is the basics: burn sage. Sage is unparalleled in cleansing negative energies. Walk it around your house and wave it everywhere. 

Bu as for anything more advanced, I must outsource the question. Paging thedaggerofsight burntumbra and any other magickal followers.

[ababypagan]

Witchcraft Wednesdays: Getting Started

Hey all. I have decided to do a weekly update thing about my path with the magickal arts as I muddle along. This week, it's mainly about resources. My friend Cyn reblogged this post which has a ton of different websites and references for each step along the path. And yesterday I got two new books: A Guide to the Pagan Year by Nigel Pennick and The Modern Guide to Witchcraft: Your Complete Guide to Witches, Covens, and Spells by Skye Alexander. Add that to Power of the Witch: The Earth, the Moon, and the Magical Path to Enlightenment by Laurie Cabot with Tom Cowan from my lovely friend Corvid. I have yet to delve deep into any of the books, but what I have read seems quite promising. I hope to have one book finished by next week. One thing that's awesome about a magickal path is that you literally shape it, as Corvid says, "Take what you like, discard the rest."

This is obviously radical to me. Paganism, and now Witchcraft, have all been about my choices. What do I want to worship? What do I want to do? Growing up Christian, I was not allowed to think about choosing my own path, as God would choose one for me. I couldn't ignore or disregard an aspect of God that I didn't like (though many Christians are raised this way, I was not). This sheer freedom of choice is overwhelming and yet, empowering. We'll see where I go and what paths I choose.