CORE PRINCIPLES OF BEING A WITCH

1) Helping those around you

2) Being accountable for yourself and your actions; even the unintended consequences, where applicable.

3) Being aware of the universe/world around you

4) Being in a state where you are looking to constantly evolve

A WITCH'S POWER
    Is limitless, and at the same time finite. Our spirit is universal, connected to all things, all times, and all places. Literally, spiritually, and physically. Oneness. We each have the power within us to do things to exceed any fantasy novel or biblical story. Unfortunately... We are limited by:     So many witches never truly accept what they do as being "real", and conversely, they shoot themselves in the foot. Their path never truly opens to fate or their soul. They often doubt their sense of right and wrong, and so much of their magick is done half-hearted. SOO many witches come to this path after taking a battering in their lives, and unfortunately they often lack solid self confidence in themself (in any capacity). As a result  of mundane life, there is an inability in most people (witch or other paths) to TRULY and completely love and accept themself. We are all too often choosing to take easier paths in life which directly impacts the lessons we learn, which then detracts from the "work out" our souls would get. Which ends with people often viewing magick as an easy way of getting things in life and expecting handouts in life.
    At the risk of sounding arrogant (and I know that many will think I am being such), I don't really know limits to what I can, or cannot, do. I have experienced and witnessed events that are inexplicable.. to anyone who does not believe. I have done things that I would never dare repeat because I know they sound too fantastic.. too "fantasy". I am so comfortable with who/what I am, that it is almost a catastrophic day
when I do experience a bout of self doubt.  I -love- myself, and know my worth in every role I fill. Every word I speak, every thought I think, every action I take.. is by my choice and purely my choice. Every person who told me "no" is outside of my skin, and has no place in my life beyond that which I give them, and I -CHOOSE- to make my own choices without letting the self doubts and self loathing of others wash over me or my path like a tsunami of psychic sewage.
    I work very hard at every thing I do. I expect nothing to be given to me, and I understand that the universe works in balance.. If you put forth effort for something and are consistent in that path, the universe WILL give it to you.
    So there is my two cents on a witch's power. Take from it what you will, if you find anything of value in my words. To thine own path, tend and travel.

Spell to Find a New Home

Goddess Dwelling come to me
Gaia Gaia, choose for me
House and hearth and besom broom
Give ______ some growing room
as I will so mote it be,
touched by power of the Goddess Three
Trance Channeling/Automatic Writing
    I would advise you to be VERY VERY cautious in any trance channeling/automatic writing.. it is a dangerous thing for a human to  surrender their conscious will, and allow a spiritual being to take their  body. Elementals can be very nasty, and do a lot of damage.. Each time you allow another being in your body.. you lose a tiny bit of what makes you 'you'. No matter how many circles you cast, or how man talismans, spells, barriers you weave.. when you willingly surrender to anything, you give that entity TOTAL and free power over your body. That is not a thing to take lightly.

ON ANGELS AND ELEMENTALS
    I do not really follow any belief structure of a divine that is overly active with mankind. This is NOT to say I do not believe in it, only that I do not believe that we have divine creatures with us at all times. Though light only knows, where elementals are concerned - and if you have one of those, you must seek to wall yourself in, to protect yourself from it.

LOVE SPELL
The best way to accomplish that is to just tell the person you are with that you love them. A minor spell you can try is this:
    Get a red beeswax candle
    Rub it lightly in almond sandalwood oil while thinking of the loved one
    As you light the wick of the candle say,
                                    "I love thee, let our love grow,
                                    spark in seed, I let thee go."

MEDITATION TECHNIQUES
Grounding and Centering Exercise:
    If you are serious in learning magic, you must know how to ground and center.  Close your blinds, play some soft relaxing music if you can, and just meditate on your inner self. Do it for a little while every day.

This is an exercise I use:
    For starters, assume a position you use for meditation... make yourself comfortable, in a quiet place. Or if you can, stand outside, barefoot in the grass. Picture a ball of pure white light in the center of your head, not an overly bright or harsh light, but a soothing one. Push all the thoughts you have in your mind into this ball, until you feel cool, calm, and serene in your soul. Slowly allow the ball to slide downward in your body, and with it push all physical feeling: pain, discomfort.. all of it, into the ball.
    All the while, the ball of light will grow in size and intensity. Once this ball of light engulfs your feet, imagine it being driven into the center of the earth and from that 'hole' you make in the earth, imagine a limitless font of healing, refreshing, and cleansing power coming towards you, and through you until you are a fountain of earth power and magic. And while you are that fountain feed out your hates, fears, insecurities, and meditate on wisdom, and knowledge of self. Wrap yourself in that power, feed your personal energies, but do not gorge yourself, simply take what you need.
    That is also a good time to work magic, once you have learned the control needed to hold coherent and active thought while doing this - and it WILL take you time to do so. Imagine your 'conscious mind' in a little bubble in the back of your mind, being bathed in this healing power. Do this at least once a week, but for starters I would suggest any Novice to this form practice it at least once a day, preferably at night, or early morning

Protecting Yourself:
    There is not really a 'wrong or right' in magic, so far as methods go, but I would suggest you envision a sphere made of glowing white bricks... the bricks will help reinforce in your mind that you have a ward of protection

Grounding & Centering: COSMIC GRACE

ASTRAL PROJECTION
    Astral Project, or OBE for short (outer body experience) is the ability to send your mind/soul/presence out of your body into the world around you. It takes A LOT of work and total faith. It is VERY hard for some, very easy for others - and dangerous for anyone.

Potential Dangers:

    I think that one's element is relevant to one's strengths ... if you are Earth/Water, you are not going to want to AP.  A child of the earth will never have the same kinds of ability with it as an Air sign. Not that an Earth sign cannot be 'as good', but Air and Earth signs will have different skills with it.  It is probably different for everyone though.
    I have always dreamed of flight, so I think I just made myself manifest OBE. I have to be very relaxed, almost on the verge of sleep but not quite... on the cusp of it. I just 'push' my mind outside. The best way to describe it is that it like pushing your finger in a soap bubble.
    I have always believed the first place we see is a 'safe' room of our own creation, the starting point for our journey.  The mind is not very adept at first at seeing things au natural, so it makes a place it can be comfortable in. That is when you are 'out there',
 that is when you can roam the world.
    I journey in the real world, unless I go to view other people's dreams. Then it is like the night sky and the stars are those people. It is not like I 'intrude'.  It is hard to explain.  Most people awake can feel me, but not see me.  It is easier to project my presence than appear physically.  If they are lucid dreamers, then we can converse, and both remember it. Otherwise people just tell me they dreamed of me, and do not remember much more than that. This is how it is for me, anyway... I'm not sure if it is that way for everyone.  And do not ask me how I know which stars are people I know... I just know

MAGIC WITHOUT SMOKE, MIRRORS, OR DEITIES
The Dictionary defines  visualization as 1) the formation of mental images and 2) the act or process of interpreting in visual terms or of putting into visible form.

    I use magic by seeing what it is that I desire, and by 'weaving' that image together with my gifts. I never call on, summon, or name any deities, spirits, elementals, etc. in the work I do, and regardless to how other people feel about that, it has never failed to work for me. In fact, it works quite well for me. I honestly am not sure I believe in a God/Goddess, and if I did, I guess I would find it very pretentious of men and women to call upon such beings of divinity as though they were servants to man. I do not profess to know the highest path, or the only path. Remember, I speak only on the path I travel, and there are many paths up the same mountain.
    I am aware that my doubts of a God and Goddess are akin to blasphemy in the eyes of some Witches. I never say these things to provoke or anger anyone, again, it is only how I feel about it. I have always felt that Divinity created the world, and we are to be its guardians. That means we guard over the planet, and all that exists on/in/around it. That is a daunting task, if one thinks about that a moment or two. Back to the Deity 'issue'...  I have had people tell me before that I only have my beliefs because of the Christian beliefs that are so prevalent in my background, and I find that ridiculous.. if that were true, I would think that it would be easier for me to believe in such a Divine being as the Goddess.
    I hope that this makes some sense and gives insight into my 'work'.  I have always felt our gifts were given to us to use to protect and strengthen ourselves. I think we *those with inborn magic gifts* were put here to be the Guardians of Creation, and thus we are independent of such things as needing to call upon entities to do our work 'for' us. I have always felt that invocations, candles, etc. were just a way to reinforce and strengthen the ability for most witches to visualize that which they do.

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