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Self confidence 💗🙌🌻

If I learned anything from growing up christian, it is that people’s relationship with what and who they believe in all change and flow. The church or whoever believes they are right can try and push their way of doing things on others.

But

There are like 33,000 Protestant denominations that didn’t like being told what to do or how to believe and went and did their own thing.

Witchcraft looks like different things to different people, and people that tell you that you have to do things a certain way may just be trying to help, but you should always go with what is best for you, your practice, and your path.

You can be any gender and be a witch.

AND you definitely don’t need to be “born a witch”.

Praying for My Soul to Bloom

Athena,

Guide my mind into the open flames of change. Allow my old leaves to float away from my open hands.

Artemis,

Show me my way into the wilderness of thought, into the abysmal green lands that frighten. Let your creatures walk with me.

Aphrodite,

My soul searches for me, the body it carries is lost in an ocean of doubt. Wash my self-hatred from my throat.

Hera,

Butterfly wings pull me up into the evergreen trees, because you are a believer in hearts overcoming themselves.

Persephone,

Darkness isn’t always a terror, a rotten thing. It binds and comforts, allows for introspection. Grow signs along my path.

Demeter,

She knows I walk the path of the unmade. I have much to do, but I am not broken.

Hecate,

The wisp of wind exhales from my lips as newness is drawn into me. Love me through my transformation.

Hestia,

Watch as I stumble into a new welcoming place. The walk is uncomfortable, but you are holding my hand.

Witchy coven space 🌸🌻🔮

Someone: witches can only be female!! Womyn!!!

Me: ANYWAY 🙄nonbinary people of any type and men can be witches.

Looking for more:

LGBTQIA witches

Hellenic witches

Curse friendly

Feminist witches

No TERFS

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.