RE: What do you think of Wicca?
June 20, 2018 at 11:41 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2018 at 11:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It has the benefit of being steeped in western mythology, rather than n. european.
I have a suggestion, btw..one you;ve probably heard. Keep a magical journal of whatever spells you do. ASddityionally (if you don;t already) keep a separate regular journal. I still cant stress enough that magic isn;t likely to provide validation to you that your hearts in the right place (or, if you prefer..that you may find it too suspiciously willing to do so)..as an example you mentioned...but you can go meta on that shit and you might notice patterns of convergence or divergence between the contents of both journals. You may even notice a cycle.
I did something similar once. I kept a list of ritual behaviors (I even enlisted some friends to help me identify the ones I missed)..and I kept a sort of free form train of consciousness journal.
What I found was that my intentional ritual behaviors were a reliable expression of whatever story I wanted to tell about myself at the time, whereas the ones I needed others help to notice were more indicative of where I was, who I was.
Much in the same way that a crook who goes to confession imagines himself to be a good person, the ritual reenforces that appraisal..but the pattern of engaging in that ritual expresses a deep seated suspicion and doubt about ones self in precisely the same regard.
I have a suggestion, btw..one you;ve probably heard. Keep a magical journal of whatever spells you do. ASddityionally (if you don;t already) keep a separate regular journal. I still cant stress enough that magic isn;t likely to provide validation to you that your hearts in the right place (or, if you prefer..that you may find it too suspiciously willing to do so)..as an example you mentioned...but you can go meta on that shit and you might notice patterns of convergence or divergence between the contents of both journals. You may even notice a cycle.
I did something similar once. I kept a list of ritual behaviors (I even enlisted some friends to help me identify the ones I missed)..and I kept a sort of free form train of consciousness journal.
What I found was that my intentional ritual behaviors were a reliable expression of whatever story I wanted to tell about myself at the time, whereas the ones I needed others help to notice were more indicative of where I was, who I was.
Much in the same way that a crook who goes to confession imagines himself to be a good person, the ritual reenforces that appraisal..but the pattern of engaging in that ritual expresses a deep seated suspicion and doubt about ones self in precisely the same regard.
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