Tag: wicca

Kesha’s “Learn to Let Go” Spell

Kesha is just kicking ass and taking names! She fills up my spirit and makes me braver. Link to the youtube video. 

Exorcism— 

I think it’s time to practice what I preach. Exorcise the demons inside me.

Sweet Basil

Birch Bark

Clove

Cumin

Nettle

Comfort—

I’m done reliving my bad decisions. I see now maybe there’s a reason.

Lady’s Mantle

Chamomile

Wisdom—

Whoa, gotta learn to let it go. The past can’t haunt me if I don’t let it.

Almonds

Sunflower

Peace—

Choose redemption. Your happy ending’s up to you.

Vervain

Skullcap

Mix these together and put them into a sachet or jar. Light a blue candle and listen to this song and sing it as then candle melts. You can melt on the jar to seal it if you’d like. Shake when needed. Remember, you can let go of what hurts you. 

Kesha “Praying” Spell

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This song has opened up a space in my heart for self growth that I wanted to share with you all. Here is the link to youtube.

Growth— 

Oh, but after everything you’ve done I can thank you for how strong I have become.

Acorn

Strength and Courage—

‘Cause you brought the flames and you put me through hell. I had to learn how to fight for myself.

Bay Leaves

Mint

Black Cohosh

Pennyroyal

Thyme

Healing—

I’m proud of who I am.

Allspice

Angelica Root

Cedar

Rosemary

Stops Nightmares—

No more monsters, I can breathe again.

Anise Seeds

Ending Relationships—

And we both know all the truth I could tell, I’ll just say this is I wish you farewell.

Turnips

Put whatever you have from this list in a sachet or jar.  You can cover the jar in the wax of a green candle or just watch one burn. After it dries, shake it while listening to Kesha and realize that you can come out the other side of your pain like she has. 

Shake when needed. 

On hate, curses, and growth

I was SO full of hate. I had, and still have, every right to be.Hate is full and warm, it holds your hand through the fire. I cursed the president, I cursed my rapists. It was for justice, activism, and stability. 

I wavered on cursing my father, in case my loving dad was in there somewhere. Foolish. He then cut me out of his life for speaking my truth.  

I tried to come up with a fitting final blow when it occured to me. Hate wasn’t the strongest thing in my life anymore. My poetry had stopped being about the pain he caused me anymore.  

I talked of gardens, of oceans and laughter. Hate had gotten me through so much, but I felt I had gotten to a point in my journey that I no longer needed it. 

Hate leaves me torn open like a fleeing friend. I don’t curse my father. 

I write out spells to help me and others, instead. 

If you have gone through anything and would like to talk, I am here. I can help with curses, I can help with spells, I can help with advice. 

Much love. 

Gender Essentialism and witchcraft

Gender Essentialism: The
belief of there being a fixed essence to women. Women’s essence is assumed to
be universal and is generally identified with those characteristics viewed as
being specifically feminine.

I believe that people can
be anything, that there are no fixed traits that are male or female, or
masculine and feminine. Aggression, compassion, those are human traits that
anyone can have.

I believe in more than a
binary of genders. I believe in a spectrum of genders, each important and
valid.

I believe magic is for
people. Any people. It whispers and screams from the oceans and the trees.

I believe that magic is
open to all genders. It’s not exclusionary.

The cosmic feminine, the great
mother, the idea that there is something special about being a woman, that there
is a better spiritual connection that comes with it, bothers me as someone who
is femme but not a woman. It cuts me out of the equation, it bars me from
magic.

I understand that this sprouts
from the patriarchy and male dominated god-forms, but to exclude anyone who is
not a woman seems counterproductive to me.

I understand the shared
pain of women. I know that is open to femmes and woman-aligned people, but to
exclude others because of their un-feminine-ness? To say, we have the key to
the universe, but you cannot get in? That there is something better about being
a woman than anyone else? I think it’s harmful.

It’s more than being
balanced, because balance is a binary. The whole system needs to be shaken up
and undone.

I come to my goddesses, I
say: “How do I speak when I have no tongue, no language?”

They look at each other.
Each has had their tongues cut out before, but they grew back. Sharper, growing
flowers.  Each had to make up their own
language. Gurgles and grunts, song and silence. What do they say to the young
being that fears?

Scream.