Witchdom in the 21st
century
Or Confessions Of A Thecno
Pagan :)
Despite the fact we tend
to picture the rites and rituals
As being done as our
forebears did them
©
Robin Wood 1997, Used with Permission"
There is this inescapable
fact... WE are not them
This is now
And we should act accordingly
Getting up on
my ever present soap box for a minute... :)
It has been brought to
my attention by a few people
That I and others like
me are not "real" pagans
Whatever the heck that
means... :)
But what they meant
was
Because of how I do some
things now a days,
as I follow the Way of the Witch
Like on-line
rituals and Cyber temples
I have a lovely one ..
have you seen it.. :)
The
Temple
Anyway
Here's
my thoughts on all that..
Is doing ritual on line
a slap in the face to the Gods. I think not
The heart is willing
the mind has the right attitude,
then it works, period, If there is honor and
respect
there is NO way to do
it wrong...!
It is the Gods to whom
I petition,
and It seems to me if
its acceptable to them
that's good enough for
me
.
An it harm none so says
the rede according to the wicca
And I can't see how my
doing a Cyber rite harms anyone
Take the ever present
tool in most rites the Athame,
I shocked a person in
discussion
the other day when I
told her I didn't have one
I have never used
one
not that there's anything
wrong with them,
not a bit..but they have
never called to me
as a tool for my rites.
A wand of wood at best..if then...
Now there are those who
would argue
as this person did, that
I can't do that..!
That I have to
have and use the tools
according to the old
ways
Oh really ? ... I think
not...
The will is the thing,
not the tools
Now the right tools that
call to you
to do certain things
certainly help
I have a whole collection
of special tools for
rite and ritual
But as my Dear Friend
and Coven leader used to say..
"
A good Witch can Do high magick,
if
dropped naked into the middle of the desert "
And he was right...
All the colors and the
smells for certain rites do call to ones senses
and help you create the
correct connection, this is Feng shui ,
it is like calls to like,
and sympathetic magick
But do the right colored
candles
and the right incense
make the spell ?
NO
Its
for bloody well certain our fore mothers
didn't
have rainbow colored candles
but
they managed just fine
The
Witch makes the magick with the grace of the Gods.........Period
For
me if I do an on line rite with friends,
there is no separation
between us, we ARE one
as the Spirit is one,
the will is one. Proximity only makes that connection easier,
for the most part, but
sometimes even that does not help.
If the parties are not
in tune with each other,
it does not matter if
they are sitting in your lap..!
Does the fact that I
work without a Live Coven at the moment,
make me less of a Witch?
Again I should think
not..
there are more Solitaires
out there than Coveners,
so We comprise the lionesses
share
of the acts of Magick
and good will by sheer
numbers
My
book of Shadows and Grimore..
( which I am still transcribing...)
is a DOS
Disk of Shadows.. or
in my case a CD-OS...
I've been here a while...
:)
Write it in some dead
language so nobody can read it..?
Ever heard of encryption..?
Same thing...and I don't have to try and learn Latin
I use a computer program
to tell me when the next
full moon is due, so what
I can, it's there, why
should I do it the hard way, for traditions sake..?
I doubt very seriously
if anyone in the modern day keeps a sextant handy
Traditions are great
and I honor a great many of them,
but ours is a faith that
must be re born,
in how we do it in many
cases
We have been left so
little from the time of our forebears
that we don't really
know
what they did or did not do,
whose to blame for that
loss is irrelevant
It merely speaks to the
point that to do it a new way,
is the only way it CAN
BE done
If our fore mothers had
the tools we now possess,
do you not think they
would use them..?
Of course they would.
! A Good Witch uses what works best
I have reached more people
who seek knowledge of the Pagan Way
than I have ever or could
have ever reached in my life time,
Via this site you are
now reading
And my own knowledge
expands exponentially
right along with them
as the teacher always
learns as much or more than the student.
I have studied and continue
to study
all the old ways, from
all walks of life,
from every angle possible.
I want to know it all, but
I will take from it what
calls to me and leave the rest
WE
are the Others...and we are an Eclectic bunch...
this
is our survival, this is our strength , our very diversity'
Is
why we thrive and grow and become better people
with
each passing day...( or should..if we are working at it..)
We must not allow ourselves
to be sucked back into the past
to the point where we
are the past, and get stuck there.
We must grow and evolve
as a group
Stagnation and Decay
are the only things on the path
that does not grow and
change,
May we Ever bloom brightly
:)
Getting down off my soap
box now... :)
Thanks for listening...
©
Robin Wood 1997, Used with Permission"
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