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May Ostara and the Equinox be kind to you.

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Wishing you a blessed Ostara! 🐇🪺

As the Spring Equinox awakens the earth, remember that you are a co-creator of the world around you.

🌱 Just as the seeds you plant in the earth require nurturing and care to bloom, your dreams and desires require attention, intention, and trust to manifest.

💐 Take a moment to tend to the garden of your soul. What seeds of possibility are you ready to plant? What dreams are you ready to nurture?

-SDM

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Finally set up a TikTok account. You can find me on there under none other than.. @Christowitch.

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Most of my responses these days are just “ the church is a cult”….

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Lemme just get on my soap box for a moment.

You blend it like anyone else blends witchcraft with the worship of a deity. I found that alot of the guilt went away when I realized that the religion and the church are very different things. I love God, love and follow Jesus. But the church is a cult and all they do is spread anything to control the masses. Once you realize what the teachings of Christ are and what the bullshit skewed to control the masses is .. you will find a lot more love. It’s been a very long time since I have seen a church that I felt the presence of Christ in. At first I thought I was disconnected from God but I found that the shame and guilt of existing as a human.. a woman even.. that the church put on me was the thing keeping me from following Christ the way it was intended. So I decided to find a different way. God led me to the craft and I’ve been here for near 15 years now. The farther out of the church you get the more you realize it’s just a cult and most of the things you were shamed for and condemned for weren’t even in the Bible in the first place.

Meeting God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit outside of the Toxic Masculine dominated church helped me connect with them in a much healthier and more accepting way.

Deconstructing your views of God from the church is a very tough road but it does get easier the farther outside you get.

So go find a nice bit of nature and connect to God through the organic world he created and disconnect yourself from the shame and guilt that men have placed on us in an attempt to control our blooming existence.

Hey...I'm just starting to learn about witchcraft. I don't really know a lot. I am struggling a bit with Catholic guilt regarding feeling bad about practicing witchcraft (feeling like I've done something sinful or wrong when I try to do a sigil, for example). However, when I asked some witches on Tumblr, they said it was perfectly fine to be Catholic and a witch. So I just wanted to ask, how exactly do I incorporate my faith into my magic, and how does being a Christian and a witch converge?

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I believe this is your wheelhouse, my lovelies. 💜

I will say, as someone who was raised Christian (various flavors of Protestant) and was fairly devout for much of my youth, this is something I also struggled with during the first few years of my practice. It was a growth process and unfortunately, growth is rarely a comfortable thing when you're going through it. I had to retrain my brain away from the systems I was brought up in, but without much exterior guidance or a definite system within which to work. It took some doing and a lot of soul-searching to eventually break out of that mold and get used to that new set of ideas.

As for being Catholic and a witch, there are plenty of folk magic traditions that include the use of psalms, prayers, petitions to saints or the Blessed Virgin, Bible verses, and Catholic paraphernalia. Christian folk magic has existed for centuries and well predates both Wicca and the modern witchcraft movement. So you definitely have a substantial leg to stand on.

And in the end, what you do or do not do is between you and your God. Other people, witches and Christians alike, can keep their judgy bullshit to themselves.

Hope this helps!

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The Real Real Story of St. Patrick’s Day

We all know the mythology that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. Obviously it’s a myth. There were never snakes in Ireland because of the combination of cold climate and being an island. Most pagans know the story that the snakes are a metaphor for pagans and that St. Patrick ran a convert or kill campaign and ended paganism is Ireland. Many don’t know that’s also a myth. There’s no evidence that St. Patrick ever killed anyone, and we know for certain that there was still a Celtic pagan population in Ireland after his lifetime. No, the snake myth probably came about the same way as many myths. People wanted to know why there were no snakes, and someone made up a story to explain it. The pagan myth came about the same way as many other myths. Partial truth meets political agenda. St. Patrick did convert a lot of pagans, and no doubt used some questionable means to do so, but there’s no evidence he used violence. St. Patrick’s Day was originally a celebration of the man who made the single greatest contribution to the Christianization of Ireland. But he was one of many, in a process which took place over a broad span of time. A process which ultimately was not completely effective. Irish Catholicism is full of Celtic pagan imagery and stories, and there are many who claim unbroken pagan family traditions passed down in secret. Today, the holiday is increasingly secularized, and has become simply a celebration of Irish and Celtic culture. It is my feeling it should be honored as such.

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You can hear the story of how St Patrick has a hand in making werewolves here on this episode of the Lore Podcast.

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Everyone always wants to talk about St Patrick and the snakes... no one ever wants to talk about how he had a hand in the creation of werewolves.

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HEY PAGAN TAG

This idea that the snakes in the story of St Patrick are a metaphor for pagans is HISTORICALLY INACCURATE. It is from a FICTIONAL NOVEL.

Here’s what we know. 

1. There aren’t snakes in Ireland. 2. There were probably never snakes in Ireland. 3. Supposedly St Patrick drove out the snakes.

THAT IS IT. NO MORE. WE KNOW NOTHING ELSE ABOUT IT.

The idea that the snakes represent pagans in this story is from this fictional novel. That is the original source of the claim.

Let me repeat that for evidence

THE IDEA THAT ST PATRICK OPPRESSED PAGANS IS FROM A FICTIONAL NOVEL WRITTEN FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES.

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Moss I leave my bed?

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13 Protection Spells from my own personal grimoire. Now for digital download. Feel free to use the pages for whatever you like!

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Sometimes I think this scripture is forgotten. Especially by the fundamentalist Christian’s who use Christianity to control masses by fear and hatred.

So many Christians these days don’t follow the teachings of Jesus and think their acts of hatred are bless by God and will get them into heaven.

How will going against the teachings of Christ get you into heaven… well the Bible says… but was it in the teachings of Christ? Did Jesus say to do that?

How can you walk in his footsteps when you are so far off the path….

The cult of the church claims so many people…

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Living in a fairytale 🌸💐🧚🏼🦄🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️

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gentle reminder

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I wish more Christians practiced kindness, seeing the way the USA is going hurts my heart.

Remember to take some time to do something good in honor of our Lord. ♡