I have been a witch since before I even realized it. Looking back I think I have always had an awareness that I didn’t realize not everyone had. Embracing that sort of background spirituality has waxed and waned greatly in my time on earth, starting with creating potions in the back yard and communicating with the lake spirits at my late grandfathers backwoods cabin to discovering Wicca in my college years. I settled into something that was not quite a practice just an active belief that wasn’t fleshed out in my subconscious for a long time… no label really fit so I let it simmer in the back burner while I went about my life. Now I try to recapture my initial vigor for the subject, and I realize there IS so much I already know about. It isn’t starting from scratch as I thought it would be and the next step, embracing a regular practice and figuring out what that looks like, doesn’t seem so daunting. I think I am definitely in the right place, still a beginning, but not an overwhelming one.

What is a witch anyways? That word has as many meanings as one has wishes through out their life. I use to think I couldn’t be one if I didn’t do it a certain way and follow a certain path and that is why it hasn’t been a label I have used for myself. I have used ‘Pagan’ mainly because it was a catch all for not being planted in any of the religious pots that are most common on the census…. and even the ones that aren’t. I do so love the idea of a coven and being a part of a strong community but due to a rather intense non-pagan religious upbringing organized religion/spirituality just gives me the heebie jeebies. I just don’t think I am someone that can follow as intensely as a truly established coven would require. I will visit, for sure, but I likely won’t join the collective unless I magickly come across one that jives. As eclectic as I am I think that might be slightly impossible. But never say never I guess.

Does that make me a chaotic good Witch? I guess I am still figuring that out.

(Please note: I just want to apologize to any followers that might be slightly aghast at the idea that this blog has been wiped clean and restarted in a completely different format (not that it had any format before). Or maybe you still find me interesting and this is an exciting change you wan to witness? Witchy is a way of life so certainly this blog won’t be all spells and rituals, but there is only one way to find out: keep following! (no pressure))