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witch mom pages blog about contact other projects blogroll and links support this project thursday february 15 2018 religious tourism my child has been going with me on field trips to other religions houses of worship lately because i teach neighboring faiths at the local uu to middle schoolers last week we went to a catholic mass i personally was admiring how everyone was on the same page with the hymns call and response and how beautiful the sanctuary art was mass ritual can be so soothing you know meanwhile rowan was confused and upset we had some talk while we were there that had to be tabled for a larger discussion at home because i did not want to be a bad guest to our hosts things my little witchlet did not understand or like 1 why do they have dead jesus everywhere doesn t that hurt their feelings doesn t that celebrate his death instead of his life i had to explain that jesus was the christian version of the divine kings who were king for a year and sacrificed in the summer to create good crops for the people it was his role to die god made jesus so that he could be sacrificed for the people except in the christian version it s not about fertility and abundance it s about this idea of sin and forgiveness for the record he doesn t like the pagan version of the divine king story either 2 which led to more conversations about sin and forgiveness i told rowan that christians believe that you have to say that jesus is your savior to be forgiven for bad things that you do that everyone does bad things but you have to make that statement before you die to go to heaven otherwise you will go to hell i explained the christian ideas of heaven and hell to him and he thought their god was mighty unfair their god can forgive people at any time but he makes them do that or he punishes them i told him yes their god had a lot of rules including not working with any other gods besides him so if he were a christian he would have to say everyone else s gods were fake and wrong and only work with god and jesus he thought that was prejudiced he also was confused how christians become good people if all they do is follow rules and not think for themselves i explained that value was not placed on that idea we as witches place value on that idea but many christians was christians to be sheep and follow their leader that we are more like goats than sheep i also explained that god sent lots of punishments to non believers and tests to his followers not just when they die it s a lifelong thing i explained plagues and the story of isaac he was very upset and thinks that the christian god is a jerk now he is mad that kids at school who are christian spout some of the things that they do going to hell comments especially now that he understand the context better he thinks those kids are now god s bullies 3 i explained that mary the church was named after mary was jesus mom he did not know that and had questions so mary was married to their god my response no mary was married to a man named joseph rowan but mary had a baby with god instead of joseph i laughed and told him he knows many people that have had babies without being married or while being partnered with more than one person we know many poly people or people unmarried with kids me well she did not plan it god put baby jesus inside her rowan she didn t know how is that not rape at this point we had to table the conversation to after church as to not be offensive and disruptive guests i mean the kid has a point of course i have thought all of these things and rejected christianity because of them as well but the kid has to live in a majority christian world and be ok with others having these ideas posted by witch mom at 10 32 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tags christianity rowan uu wednesday march 8 2017 todays reading worker owned coop one of the goals that i have for this year is to turn my apothecary into a worker owned coop we have our first meeting this evening monday the 6th with eight interested people meeting with me about how to proceed today i did a reading to see our prospects the overall reading the center the now the heart of the matter we see the hare in the moon santisima muerte a franc with the words fraternité liberté egalité showing a buckeye a success norse sigil and a crystal i interpret this as change transformation to a more egalitarian structure successfully some cluster in the recent past the alligator paw is holding mandrake the wishbone cradles a nutmeg and a coin which is resting on dog tooth calcite the baby doll leg and key crowns all this i interpret as movement without knowing how it will turn out towards a grounded fortune the near future has two items my buddha nut and high john the conqueror i interpret this as work towards enlightenment with success i always advise folks to practice of course but take readings for themselves with a grain of salt ego often gets in the way when you divine for yourself i always align my souls and do a little sitting before a divination for myself posted by witch mom at 11 16 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tags bone reading reading for the day sunday march 5 2017 nature walks with my son augury is one thing i am teaching him i am proud to say rowan loves being outdoors among plants and animals i think he ll do wonderfully when we finally have our farm today it was unseasonably warm for early march so we went for a nature walk he and i like to collect things from our walks and look for signs and portents in nature to divine future events rowan is now 7 and has lots of interesting ideas about the world and how it works my job is to teach him many ways of thinking magic science and that oddity of all oddities human behavior honey locust thorns when we are on walks we collect things nuts pinecones rocks if we collect something living as we did these thorns we always ask first and make an offering to pay the coin after we offered spit for a thorn today rowan is going to use his to write on candles i am adding mine to my bone set i explained to rowan how thorns all thorn trees are sacred to the fey and how they can be used to work or travel to their realm as well as to blast and curse to the river look a whirlpool i explain that the river has currents that can be dangerous but it also gives life by keeping the water from being stagnant for the creatures that live there i talk about possibilities of what a whirlpool or a circle of current could be in the river that he spots i tell him science first then what it could mean in terms of sympathetic magic we pass many interesting places and things on our walks homes for land spirits buds that are out too soon damn climate change rowan finds forts and cool things everywhere while he is still learning to be quiet and still so we can birdwatch he does have an appeal as a hike partner being with him is seeing with beginner eyes all over again being with my son is an adventure a fort cool burr posted by witch mom at 5 01 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tags augury hike natural world nature sunday february 26 2017 dedicating my bone set it starts with smoke as promised i am resurrecting this blog hopefully after such a long hiatus we still have some readership today s post is the first in a series all about one way i divine divination can be done by reading the clouds listening to animals i tend to watch crows or other nature spirits tarot cards runes pendulums or other miscellaneous items often called bone casting or reading the bones as many of these systems contain animal parts i do all these things as oracular work divination and spirit communication are my jam so i have tried them all and do many on a frequent basis smoking my casting basket what is divination many people have a mistaken idea what it is and isn t when you do it correctly spirits speak through you you are a conduit of information and the tool that you use is not the message it is the tool to garner the message for example when i first learned to use a pendulum my teacher told us to talk to our particular tool and say show me your yes no and maybe many students took that to mean that the pendulum was somehow speaking to them and a different pendulum may have a different way of stating yes no or maybe nope soaking in salt water bone reading is done worldwide by many cultures including in africa and by african descendants in the americas in siberia in eurasia and pacific islands it seems to be one of the earliest forms of getting messages from spirits gods besides actual trance possession channeling whatever you may call it the awesome thing about this system is it is ever evolving and highly personal today s post is about my bone reading set assembling cleansing dedicating it so that it works well with me the witch since this system requires myriad items collected from animals the earth the sea and the like getting them to work together for you is a project as an animist i know that all these items have a spirit and a message it s not always the same message each time for example a coin always means money i have to learn to listen as much as they need to learn how to speak to me they also have attached memories sometimes and that memory of how i acquired them often goes into how i read that item some of my set i also know that perhaps how this item came to me was not awesome for that item crystals being ripped out of the earth are often cursed by earth spirits and why should they not be animals who were killed for sport and not respected in their death often have issues to reconcile i need to pay the coin make amends and gain the ear of these items so that they work with me i the witch offer them a purpose after their trauma and they see me through my traumas we become allies smoking to cleanse i am working on my own reading cloth for example which reflects my worldview as a traditional witch it will be different than a sangoma surface which is often a circle and cross pattern drawn in the dirt or painted on an animal hide different than commercially available cloths some of the items in my set are like items in others sangoma sets as that symbolism resonates with me but other items have been removed yet my set is unique as a whole and no one on earth has a set that contains all my items some examples i have a wishbone from a turkey consumed by me and my witch kin at a yule feast wishbones traditionally imply luck chance etc but this one also has the celebration kinship and tribal feelings attached to it my skull means the ancestors as well but the skull in my set has dozens of friends scattered all over the world i bought a whole set and gave them to initiates and apprentices in my tradition over the last year the humble pockmarked quartz stone in my set is from the front yard of my oath mother it means family oaths and loyalty stay tuned for more posts about divination and this ever evolving set for those that are interested the smoke i used for this purpose was not made by me while i often create incense blends for ritual purposes there are others that make awesome blends too the large round jar is a lilith blend made by the sword and the rose in san francisco they create amazing self lighting blends the formulary is well researched and finished while in trance with the spirit that they are creating for i have several of their blends i also used summoning spirits and divination by rosarium blends of washington state posted by witch mom at 2 08 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tags bone reading divination oracular work pendulum tuesday october 28 2014 hello there as you can probably tell this blog is very inactive it may be resurrected as a regular project again one day but most of my time and energy is going into boline apothecary and its blog shop webstore and needs feel free to browse the archives here there are lots of articles that i am mighty proud of on parenting witchery philosophy and more posted by witch mom at 5 16 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom village witchery for the internet age search this blog blog archive 2018 1 february 1 religious tourism 2017 3 march 2 february 1 2014 2 october 1 march 1 2013 44 december 2 november 1 october 4 september 1 august 2 july 5 june 3 may 7 april 4 march 6 february 6 january 3 2012 105 december 5 november 4 october 7 september 6 august 9 july 6 june 10 may 8 april 9 march 15 february 11 january 15 2011 161 december 11 november 14 october 12 september 12 august 13 july 14 june 18 may 16 april 13 march 10 february 13 january 15 2010 106 december 13 november 15 october 18 september 20 august 18 july 11 june 5 may 2 march 1 february 3 networked blogs follow this blog followers recent visitors feedjit live 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