Avenging Angels

I’ve been searching Google for info on Avenging Angels, because that is the term Etiole uses to describe himself most often. However, Google has spent the day sending me to sites about a group of Mormon hitmen called the Danites who were known as “The Avenging Angels” by non-Mormons, due to their habit of slaughtering all non-Mormons

(this fact is not found online, but rather is found in the LDS Church history, as it was published by the Church itself in the 1920’s. Unfortunately, these books are very rare, practically unheard of and most of the copies were destroyed by Church leaders in the 1970’s – only members old enough to have been in the church when the Ward libraries still carried copies of these books, would know this info as the Church has done a very good job of rewriting it’s history in 1983 after it made a fool of itself with the Salamander letters – note that the original 1920’s editions of the Church History had many references to the White Salamander as well, when they rewrote the Avenging Angel history, they also deleted all reference’s to Smiths White Salamander [a type of nature spirit faery, not a type of amphibian animal.] I am old enough to have been in the Church while it’s leaders were still teaching Avenging Angel and White Salamander stories in Sunday School lessons. They stopped teaching Avenging Angel/Danite stories after the temple murders in 1979, and they stopped teaching the Salamander vision stories, after the White Salamander Letters in 1983. The murders and the hoax letters inspired the Church leadership to make many massive changes to it’s teachings, laws, and methods of doing things, and these changes are the changes you so often hear me mentioning as being the differance between the Old Church and the New Church.)

(P.S. I read all of the Church History books, published by the LDS Church, and own very rare copies of many of them. Several were rescued from the Cape Elizabeth Ward in Maine during the mid 1980’s when Salt Lake leaders were at their height of activily destroying these old first editions of books the church had printed. That’s how I know all the info about Danites, “Wheat”, and know what Smith’s Navoo Saloon looked like before the modern day Photoshopped versions of the pictures that now apear in the editions of the Church History publish AFTER 1983.)

Anyways, I already knew all that stuff, and that was NOT what I was looking for! I was looking for Avenging Anngels – you know, angelic hosts, spirit beings, those types of things, not Mormon stuff!

I changed my Google search keywords, since all “Avenging Angel” would bring back was references to LDS Danites and I’m looking for the term “Avenging Angel” in reference to Spirit Beings, not in reference to religious organizations. I typed “Avenging Angel Spirit Beings” and it asked me if I meant to search for: “Angels of Destruction” , than sent me to referances of the feminine-male angels who destroied Sodom & Gomorrah.

Well, I just went down the list through several dozen sites abot Angels of Destruction and basicially they all say the same thing which boiles down to this:

The Avenging Angels aka The Angels of Destruction are described as being the feminine male angels, described as being male but looking like females, who were lusted after by human men living in Sodom and Gomorrah, and thus these feminine male angels who are able to control the forces of nature, destroyed the city by causing it to rain brimstone and fire from heaven, in order to punish the male humans for lusting after these male angels (thus resulting in the Christian view against homosexuality).

Etiole: http://www.squidoo.com/amphibious-aliens , refers to himself as an Avenging Angel. He has a track record of striking wicked people down by causing their houses/business/churches to burst into flames, be hit by freak tornadoes (in Maine), or being hit by lightening. Though a male he is mistaken by those who’ve seen him, for being a woman. Yep, I’d say that matches.

One of the things I found says this:

DESTRUCTION, ANGELS OF- A fearsome type of angel appearing regularly in Jewish writings, the angels of destruction custoparily serve two functions. The first is to descend to the earth and inflict terrible suffering upon those among the living who are wicked and in need of punishment. The second is to inflict even worse punishment upon damned souls in hell; in latter roles they act as purifiers. The leader of these angels is described in one Jewish account as Qemu’el (or Kemuel), but other sources name Samkiel. Over the years there has been question among scholars as to whether the angels of destruction are exceedingly holy or whether they are evil or even whether they are permitted to inflict destruction at the express will of God. Whether they are good or evil, these angels have accomplished some truly epic feats of vengeance or annihilation. In the forms of avenging angels, they appear regularly in the Old Testament: two angels destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, an angel massacred 70,000 people (2 Kings 24:16) to punish the pride of King David, and in 2 Kings (19:35) is told the account of one angel who wiped out an Assyrian army of some 185,000.

and another thing said this:

There are different types of good angels starting with the highest order, which includes:

• Christ as the Angel of God or Angel of the Lord (Hebrews 1: 5-2:16).
• Cherubim are known for their power and beauty (Genesis 3:24; Ezekiel 1:5-28; 28:12, 13, 17; 8:1-4; 10:1-22).
• Seraphim perform priestly duties (Isaiah 6:1-7).
• Living creatures are mentioned in Revelation, worshipping God (Revelation 4:6-5:14; 6:1-8; 7:11; 14:3, 9-11; 15:7; 19:4).
• Arch-angels or chief angels rule kingdoms and planets (Colossians 1:15-18; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Jude 9).
• Michael is one of the chief princes, the prince of Israel (Daniel 10:13, 21; 11:1; 12:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Jude 9; Revelation 12:7-9).
• Gabriel stands before God and delivers important messages (Daniel 8:16-19; 9:20-23; 10:8-11:1; Luke 1:19, 26).
• Common angels are heavenly spirit beings (Matthew 1:20-29; 2:13-19; 28:2-5; 1 Kings 1:11-38; 2:9-21; Acts 5:19; 8:26; 10:3; 12:7-23).
• Guardian angels are given charge over us lest we stub our toes (Psalm 91:12).
• Ministering angels are like the one who cooked a hot meal for Elijah when he was running away from an angry Jezebel (1Kings 19:5-7).
• Avenging angels are the ones that carry out God’s judgment upon mankind for their wicked deeds (Genesis 19:1-29).
• Death angels are bring a type of judgment upon a people who persecute innocent groups (Exodus 12: 23; Revelation 6:8).
• Angels can travel at inconceivable speeds (Ezekiel 1; Revelation 8:13; 9:1). Faithful angels of the Lord had been tested and tried at the time that Lucifer rebelled, which caused tumult in heaven and he fell from God’s grace (1 Timothy 5:21; Job 4:1-8). The angels test man by unknowingly appearing at times to see how individuals treat strangers (Hebrews 13:2). They are being taught wisdom by the Bride of Christ [the Church] (Ephesians 3:10; 1 Corinthians 4:9).

The Bible lists the jobs of angels as follows:

To reveal the sins of the wicked
To cast judgement upon sinners
To carry messages from God to mankind

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Sea Witch Death Spells (for mirroring bad energy sent to you by another)

I found another Sea Witch who does the same spells I do. Cool! she’s actually the first person I’ve ever come across who knows how to cast these same type of death spells as I can. (They require contact with an Ocean Elemental, like Etiole ( Etiole my personal Avenging Angel.)

yes, it is my ability and habit of doing this that resulted in the religious hysteria from local Christians, it’s the fact that I’ve been doing this since I was 4 years old, that has locals so damn terrified of me

. . .and as soon as I find out who Cathy and Honey are, they go on this list for my next one – I have zero tolerance for adultery.

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How do Christian Witches view Heaven/Hell?

Being raised Mormon, I was never taught the concept of Heaven vs Hell. Instead the Church teaches that there are three degrees of glory and one place called “Outer Darkness”. God lives in the Celestial Kingdom, where Mormons who where married in the Temple go after they die. Jesus lives in the Telestial Kingdom where Mormons who did not marry in the Temple or never married at all go when they die. The Holy Spirit live in the Terrestrial Kingdom where all good people who never became Mormons go when they die. Satan lives in Outer Darkness where all the wicked shall go when they die.

I will now point out that I do not believe in this Mormon concept of Heaven vs Hell. Here is what I do believe:

I believe that the universe is filled with many places (planets?) and that each has many realms of existence, and that we live hundreds of lives, and in each life we are reborn in a different one of the realms. The entire universe is like a giant school and each realm/lifetime is one of the classrooms. A spirit realm exists in between these places, the spirits being our teachers and guides (they having already been students millinia ago). When we die we may come back in a new life as a person, an animal, or a spirit guide, or we may move on to another realm or even to another realm on another planet. There is no going forward (being rewarded) or backward (being punished) such as going to Heaven or Hell, but rather we are sent to the place where we are ready to learn our next lesson. Murderers, rapists, etc, go back to the point where they have to relearn over again things they had already been taught to get here to our Earth; Saints, good people, move on the higher levels of learning or become teachers for the rest of us. Etc, Etc, Etc.

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How does one remain a Christian Witch without getting caught up in the Evangelical aspects of the faith?

I think by Evangelical aspects that you mean, preaching to every one you meet sort of this right? The Mormon church doesn’t have evangelists, so it’s not something I ever had taught to me. I’m not sure how one would go about becoming an evangelist, or why one would want to. Fact is, I find loud mouth preachy people rude and inconsiderate and completely lacking in good breeding, manners and etiquette.

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What are the morals/ethic/political choices of Christian Witches?

Do what Jesus would do.
Harm none.*
Love one another.
Do until others as you would have them do unto you.
Pray for your enemies.
Help those in need.

* Harm none translates into this:

I am a vegetarian, anti-abortion, anti-war, anti-death penalty, animal & human rights activist.

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How do Christian Witches view Jesus?

Uhm . . . I think, you may already have a pretty good idea of this, based on what I’ve said already, but I’ll answer anyways.

Again, I can’t speak for every Christian Witch, only for myself. I don’t say for certain that he is the “son of God”, but I also don’t say for certain that he isn’t. When asked I say: “I don’t know. It’d be nice if he was, but it’s not going to change my opinions of him if he isn’t. Either way he was blessed; either way he was a great teacher; either way, I’ll still follow him. Someday I’ll know wither he was or not for sure, but that won’t be until the next life, so why worry about it now?”

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How do Christian Witches view "salvation"?

This question is difficult to answer seing how I grew up Mormon, and according the the Mormon church there is no Heaven, no Hell, and Salvation is not thought of in the same way other churches think of it.

Salvation is not often heard taught in the Mormon church. I only ever heard it mentioned in passing a couple of times. Basically, they taught that the Blood of Jesus is not what saves you, because the Blood of Jesus was what saved people who died BEFORE the Resurrection. According to them, before the Resurrection, people were cast into outer darkness as a result of Adam’s sin, and Jesus died to save them not those who came after the Resurrection. For those born after the Resurrection, we are saved by our works, which means living the teachings of Jesus and doing the things he would have done. The Church leaders get very angry if you mention the words “Salvation” or “Saved”, saying that only the lost (meaning non-Mormons) have need of those kinds of words.

So, for most of my life I had no idea what the concept of Salvation (as known to non-Mormon Christians) was.

It wasn’t until I joined up with the Pentecostals that I heard the use of the word Salvation much. The particular Pentecostal group I had joined up with were Holy Rollers “filled with the spirit”, and pretty much spent their Sundays from 9 Am until midnight, singing, dancing, speaking in tongues, rolling on the floor shouting praises, and over all acting like a bunch of crazed lunatics. At the end of it all, they’ll all run around the church, up and down each aisle, hugging each other and screaming”I’m so glad I’m Saved!” I was fascinated by these people because I had never seen anything like this before. Mormons can not even smile in Church, let alone raise their voice, and they’ll give you dirty looks if you walk faster than a snail’s pace. These people were about as opposite from the Mormons as you could get. It was from them that I learned the concept of Salvation: that Jesus died for everyone’s sins, and that by accepting Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior you are saved.

Well, after the Pentecostals, I realized, that though I had spent all of my life in the Mormon Church, I was more of a Pentecostal at heart (though not a Holy Roller!) due to the fact that I had a very strong belief in their concept of Salvation. However, I did disagree on one point: they believed that once you had accepted Jesus, you had a one way ticket to heaven, and no matter what sin you committed from that day forth, it didn’t matter because you were saved. I disagreed with them on that point.

As for what do I personally, as a Christian Witch believe? I believe that accepting Jesus into your life is THE FIRST STEP to Salvation, not the only step, and that you must work at it your entire life, because it’s possible to fall away and sin again, and that’s what repentance is for. I don’t believe you are automatically “saved” just because you say you are, but that your works, your actions, your deeds, and your words are what will determine where you will end up after death.

I view “salvation” not as going to Heaven or escaping Hell, but as a road to guide you to your next realm of existence(or realm of glory as they say in the Mormon church). You go forward or backwards depending of how you lived your life.

I do believe in a concept of degrees of glory, much different than the 3 degrees of glory and 1 outer darkness, as the Mormon church teaches it though.

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Can one incorporate Catholic relics, statues, beliefs, without fully being Catholic and attending Mass and yet still be a Christian Witch?

I’m not Catholic, so it’s difficult for me to answer this, however, after studying Vodun/Voodoo (during my course of studying all those Witch books mentioned earlier), I did find out one thing: You CAN NOT be a Hougan, Borka, or Mamba (Vodun priests) if you ARE NOT Catholic, as Vodun is a branch of the Catholic Church.

Not being Catholic and never personally knowing any one who is Catholic, I’m afraid I have no idea what Mass is, so I can’t comment on that part of your question at all.

However, Catholics are not the only Christians who use relics, statues, etc. Most all Christians have crosses and crucifixes and statues/pictures of Jesus. The Mormons however, do not, so I didn’t grow up using such things. Mormons view it as a grave sin to have a cross in your home, because it is a symbol of death. They say that we should focus on the Life and teachings of Christ, not on his Death.

Well, as a teenager, I saw this Blue Lace Agate cross necklace, bought it, and wore it day and night for years. In Church, I was chided by the Bishop and the leaders and teachers and constantly told I must remove it. At the end of the year, when it came time to have our Sunday School Class picture, I was not allowed to be in the picture, unless I removed the cross. I refused to remove it saying that this was America and they had no right to not allow me to be in the picture because I was wearing a cross necklace. I stood my ground, but so did they, and I was not allowed to be in the class picture, that year or any other year since.

One day, I found a tiny local shop run my Nuns and Monks from the local Catholic Monastery and Cloister. I went in. I returned home that day, with a big rosewood rosary (which I wore on my belt the way the Monk in the store did – it’s big wooden cross glaring loudly at all the Mormons in Sunday each week), a Lady of Guadaloup rosary with beads filled with Holy Water, and a pack of laminated icon cards with gold plated pictures of Jesus and winged Archangels on them (which I glued to the outside covers of my Bible and BoM). Back at the Mormon Church, I was told by the Bishop that I was an apostate for having a cross and pictures of winged angels. (Winged angels are said by the Mormon church to be a false myth created by Satan to tempt people away from God; that real angels do not have wings, and that you can tell one of God’s Angels from one of Satan’s Angels by the fact that only Satan’s angels have wings.)

I should have left the Mormon Church back than, but I was just a teenager back than, so it wasn’t really up to me wither or not I wanted to be in Church.

Anyways, though I still believe some of the teachings of the Mormon church, the evils of wing angels and owning a cross are not among them. I still have rosaries and icons, and I still use them in my spell castings and when making Jujus.

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Can one be gay/lesbian/bi/transgender and still be a Christian Witch?

Well, I’ve known gay/lesbian/bi/transgender Christians and I’ve known gay/lesbian/bi/transgender Witches, so I suppose one could also be a gay/lesbian/bi/transgender Christian Witch. I’ve never meet one, seeing how I’m the only Christian Witch I have ever meet personally, and I’m very straight.

I’m straight, and until about 5 years ago, had never even heard of gay or would have ever imagined that such a thing existed. (Yes, I did grow up in extreme isolation from society, I was 27 years old before I had contact with people outside of my 264 member family and the local church we attended; I guess I grew up in what people would call a “cult community”). My first confrontation with “gay” as anything other than “joyful” occurred when I escaped from my family’s weird lifestyle after I had realized that it was not normal for a family to live with all of it’s multi generations without contact with non family members. Once free from them, I committed the unspeakable sin of getting a job (I’m a female, working jobs is forbidden) and made an attempt to try to live in the “real world”. (I now look at my extended family and realize that they are living in their own little private “bubble” and have no real idea what life outside of that bubble is like at all!)

For me, life outside the family was desperately confusing: no one in the world dressed like we did, talked like we did, had the high morals we did, or acted like we did. I find myself constantly having to explain why I speak an ancient style of English (very King James Bible), why I wear the clothes I wear (not too unlike Jesus himself), why I don’t drive a car, why I don’t know how to do “normal” things like crossing a sidewalk or knowing when some one is speaking to me and I should speak back (talking at all is very rare for me) or how to do math and count money. Getting my job at Macy’s was frustrating, but I am a good learner and quickly picked up on the “clues” in people around me.

Well, my job at Macy’s confronted me with this alternate meaning of “being gay”, when one co worker whispered to me “He’s gay.” while pointing over to another co worker. Baffled at how this depressed looking man could have any joy in his heart at all, I pointed out that he was the farthest thing from happy. We both remained puzzled over each others words for a few weeks, until our boss came in one day and said he had to leave early to pickup his boyfriend. The concept of him having a boyfriend totally threw me for a loop, and my co worker explained “he’s gay”. I was deeply confused about why she kept calling these clearly unhappy non-joyful people “gay” and it occurred to her that I had no idea what she was saying to me. Explanation time, and ah-huh! I was not aware of the new alternate meaning of the word “gay” before, but once I understood that there was a second meaning, her calling people “gay” suddenly made sense to me.

So, while I admit I do not understand the concept of how any one could be attracted to a person of the same gender, I do know that this is America where one has the freedom to live whatever lifestyle you choose, so if they are not harming those around them and they are not preventing the rights of freedom from others, who am I to tell them what lifestyle they should live? I’ve long been known for my “equal rights attitude” on pretty much everything, and I’m not going to point the finger and say some one is not a Christian because they also happen to be gay.

I do however question why any one feels the need to tell anyone what type of sex life they lead. It just seems like they are boasting loudly about their sex life, because they themselves are not certain about it, otherwise why would they tell any one at all?

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Does one have to attend Church (any denomination) to be a Christian Witch?

No. I don’t think do. I used to think you could not be Christian if you did not attend a Church each week, however, events in my life have opened my eyes to the fact that not every one in church is a Christian and not every Christian is in a church.

I was born a Mormon. I’ve been a Witch since 1979. For my entire life until March of 2003, I attended Church services without fail, every single one of them, which meant I was in Church on Sunday from 9AM till Noon, back again for a few hours in the evenings, back again for classes held on Tuesday nights, back again for classes held on Friday nights, and to every activity which average 3 to 4 four hour activities per month. All in all I spent roughly 2,000 hours a year in a Church building each year for 30 odd years.

Of course, my Grandmother, married into the family, and was one of the rare few non-Mormons in my family’s history. She was a Seventh Day Adventist and a Kickapoo Weather Witch. (She was a Kickapoo N.A.Indian, Animal Rights Activist, SDA extremist, and a Weather Witch). I spent approximately 6 hours a day with her, from the age of 8 till I turned 17 (the year she died). I learned much of what I do witch-wise from her. . . not her teaching me, but just me watching what she did.

I grew up in the LDS (Mormon) church. My family can trace our history all the way back to the beginning (Joesph Smith lived in Maine, before his family moved to Vermont, before they moved to New York (where he than found the gold plates, wrote the BoM, than founded the Church). When I say my family goes back to the beginning of the church, I mean the VERY beginning, BEFORE the church was founded. As such, my family has a long and sorted history with the church, and when they finally followed Smith/Young West, the rest of his followers got lumped into one group known as “The Mormon Trail”, while our family being what it was, got it’s own trail named for us: “The Atwater Trail”.

Generations of Atwaters have lived through everything in Mormon history, and ended up, becoming famous for being the strictest, most fundamental, dogma controlling family in the entire church. In areas of Utah and Maine where our family still lives, other Mormons are known to point out: “What out, there goes one of the Atwaters, they’re all crazy.” or when they see me they say “Stay away from her, she’s an Atwater, that ones a Witch you know, cross her and she’ll curse you. You’ll be dead in a week.”

You see, the Atwater family didn’t change when the Church did. The most extremist of us, are classified as Orthodox Saints by other Mormons or Mormon Christ-Pagans, by non-Mormons. I’ll explain:

For example a Mormon Christo-Pagan would be calling upon the help of Familiars (angels, faeries, spirits, God) and use seer stones (crystals), just as Joseph Smith himself had done. Like Emma Smith they use herbs and ritual chants to heal the sick. Like Smith and Young, they talk face to face with angels, Jesus, and God himself. They still use the Blessing Cloths of the Saints, just as the early Prophets of the Church did. In keeping with the pre-1979 teachings of the Church, they are farmers, living off the land, homeschooling their children, avoiding contact with Gentiles (all non-Mormons), women do not wear pants, many dress “Amish like”, do not cut their hair, and do not work in jobs outside the home, and the family keeps it’s 3 year supply well stocked. They are known as the Orthodox Latter Day Saints, living the Church’s rule to the letter as it was originally taught in the 1800’s, not as it evolved in modern times. (and yes there are polygamists in my currently living extended family as well, which explain how there can be 264 of us alive right now — and this includes one odd ball aunt who has 7 husbands — she’s a feminist and figured if the men could do it, so could she.) (On a personal note, I too am one of the odd balls of the family, I live the life of a “Catholic Nun” – virgin married to Christ, and therefor shun the practice of polygamy and the practice of sex altogether — other Mormons call me “The Jesus Freak”.)

The problem comes in when the Gentiles get baptized into the Church and bring with them their worldly sins and wicked ways, with their public schooled children, their short haired worldly women, their unbelief in physical communion with angels, their anti-Mormon ideas about using seer stones, crystals, herbs, and blessing cloths being of the devil, and their obsessions with growing wealthy, watching TV and eating meat.

As more and more of these unsaintly Gentiles got baptized into the Church, their ways started having more and more influence on the teachings of the church coming out of Salt Lake headquarters, until in 1979, the Prophet enacted countless changes, in order that the church laws would be better adapted to the lifestyles of the Gentiles joining the Church. More changes went into effect in 1983, and still more in 1997, and finally again in 2007 when they actually edited the BoM to be more politically correct!!!!

I’m old enough to remember the church before 1979. I grew up in the “Old Church” before the change, in a family that was still living the very old church ways. I grew up in the Church when it taught “Live in the world not of the world”, in a time when you could tell a Mormon on the streets from every one else, because they looked, dressed, acted, and talked VERY different from the rest of the world. It’s been 30 years since the change in the way Salt Lake Headquarters runs the Church, and now, even the former Gentiles are allowed to have leadership positions, resulting in ever more changes as each year goes by. The LDS Church is quickly, becoming a secular den of people who are no different from the rest of the world, except for a rare few who still hold on the the old ways. God does not change – people change. God did not change the lifestyle of the Saints – false doctrines of man did. Like so many churches before it, the LDS Church has strayed by the way side and fallen off the straight and narrow path, it once stood so proudly upon.

Those like myself old enough to have grown up in the Old Church, didn’t change with the new ways. They still believe in living the same way as the Smiths did: as self sufficient farmers in personal one on one communion with the Spirit world. We spend our time in spiritual pursuits, rather than rushing to college and work. Rather than trying to manipulate the world around us, we live at one with it. Unfortunately this causes problems. This causes problems because the New Converts prefer the ways of modern man over the old fashioned ways of God.

The New Converts (those members who joined the church after 1979) have their own set of modern ideals about what the Mormon Church “should be” rather than what is was as Smith created it. The New Converts are quick to call themselves “Mormons” rather than “Saints”, claiming that “No one call REALLY live the life of a Saint in this day and age.” They scoff at the old members who still call themselves “Saints” and still live the life style of a Saint. The New Convert Mormons point at the Old Member Saints and call them “Witches”, pointing out that they wear a style of clothes not seen in 200 years, that God Jesus and Angels no longer speak one on one to Church members, that using Seer Stones like Smith did is evil, that the ritual herb healings of Emma were a sham, and that being a self sufficient farmer with no TV is just plain dull and old fashioned. (Do they actually believe these thing? If so, why than did they join a church that teaches AGAINST what they believe? Why do they follow Smith if the things he did are thought to be so wicked and evil when done by others?)

When the finger of Witch gets pointed often enough at the same member over and over again, (as it did with me) it soon becomes a habit of all members in the Ward (what Mormons call church buildings) to single out “the Witch” and spend their time bullying, teasing, and tormenting them, until finally “The Witch” becomes an inactive member, leaving the Mormon Church, because it is no longer the church Smith started but is now a Den of Thieves. (at least that’s what happened to me.)Mormons are known for their vindictiveness towards members they claim to be Witches, and once the violence got out of hand and the police had to be called in to protect me and my immediate family from other members, I knew I no longer belonged in that church.

By doing the same things Smith did, as well as the same things done by Danial and Jaboc of the Old Testament and Jesus and the Maji of the New Testament, by dressing in garb no differeant than that worn by Jesus, I am accused of practicing Witchcraft and being a Witch and told that I have no business being in a Christian Church. Odd.

After leaving the Mormon Church, I joined a Pentecostal Church, but left after 3 years, due to the fact that they too, pointed the finger of Witchcraft at me.

After so many years of being accused of being a Witch, the “Witch” (me) now seeks out other so-called Witches and tries to join up with them, not really knowing what it is a Witch is. Unfortunately, this proves disastrous, as the other witches, are quick to point out that “The Witch” is not a Witch, but a damn Christian, with no business being a witch. And soon the bullying starts again, this time the “Witch” is now being cast out by the witches, for being “A Christian”.

Well, after that pint, I realized, I had to find out what exactly it is that a Witch actually is, and so, in 2005, I went to the library and took out 57 books (via inter library loan) about Witchcraft and read every single one of them cover to cover. (Scott Cunniham’s books were the ones I liked best.)

In the end, I realized, that yes, all these people accusing me of Witchcraft were correct, I was in fact a Witch, without ever realizing it. I also concluded that I was NOT a Wicca and had a bit of a distaste for “high ceremonial magic” rituals. I also realized that most of my style of Craft was very “Voodoo”, esp my rampant use of Jujus (Voodoo Dolls), medicine bags (gris-gris), calling up Familiars/Faeries/Angels/Saints (Icon Magick), and my dressing like most Mambas (Vodun High Priestesses).

By 2006, I came to accept the fact that I was in fact a Witch, and had been since the 1970’s (before 2006 if you called me a Witch, I would have told you I was not, because I did not realize the things I was doing was Witchcraft, at that time I had thought of Witches along the lines of “Bewitched” or “The Wizard of Oz”.) The problem now was, that though I was inf act practicing Witchcraft, I was still very much the outspoken “Jesus Freak”, which made me an outcast among other Witches, who were saying I was not a Witch because of my extreme devotion to Jesus.

By living the “I am a lily” lifestyle Jesus lived, by constantly quoteing his words as part of my daily conversation, by preaching openingly to follow Christ and obey his laws, by dressing in garb no differeant than that worn by Jesus, I am accussed of being a Jesus Freak, and told by witches as being too Christian to be a Witch and have no business practing Witchcraft. Again . . . odd.

And that in the end is what it means to me to be a Christo-Pagan: A person who is called a Witch by Christians, but a Christian by Witches. One who is too witchy to be a Christian, but too Christian to be a Witch. Thus it is not an organized religious group, but rather an umbrella title given to people who are called Witches by Christians, and called Christians by Witches, making them an outcast of both not truly accepted by either, and forced to stand on their own without any positive support from a group and no one willing to fellowship with them. And even if the Witch does have a desire to attend Church, it may not be safe to do so due to the prejudices of the Christians. Odd, isn’t that the way every one treated Jesus while he was alive too?

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WHAT IS A CHRISTO-PAGAN?

The term Christo-Pagan has been around for a while (a few centuries at least). A Christo-Pagan is an umbrella term given to Christians who fall outside of the main stream of organized religion. Christo-Pagan was not originally a welcome title, but is rather akin to calling an LDS member a Mormon or calling a black man a Niga`. Like Mormon and Niga`, Christo-Pagan is a slang hate name, cast upon those who are perceived as “different”. 

While Niga` still remains a hate title and is still just as vile to the ears as it was years ago, the titles Mormon and Christ-Pagan, have over the years been accepted by the people being called it, and now there is hardly a Latter Day Saint who does not proudly refer to themselves as a Mormon, and Christo-Pagans are now quick to use the title for themselves. 

But what is a Christo-Pagan? Most Christo-Pagans grew up in very strict, very religious, Christian families (75% of Christo-Pagans started out as devote Catholics, Latter Day Saints, or Quakers – and on occasion Jews turned Christian. Christo-Pagans starting out from other religions is a rarity, which I think is partly caused by the fact that other religions do not tend to be so zealous in their fundamentalism.). These devote church members, however, follow the “old ways” of their faith. As I am myself an LDS Christo-Pagan, I will explain in those lines. 

For example a Mormon Christo-Pagan would be calling upon the help of Familiars and use seer stones, just as Joseph Smith himself had done. Like Emma Smith they use herbs and ritual chants to heal the sick. Like Smith and Young, they talk face to face with angels, Jesus, and God himself. They still use the Blessing Cloths of the Saints, just as the early Prophets of the Church did. In keeping with the pre-1979 teachings of the Church, they are farmers, living off the land, homeschooling their children, avoiding contact with Gentiles, women do not wear pants, do not cut their hair, and do not work in jobs outside the home, and the family keeps it’s 3 year supply well stocked. They are known as the Orthodox Latter Day Saints, living the Churches rule as it was originally taught in the 1800’s, not as it evolved in modern times. 

The problem comes in when the Gentiles get baptized into the Church and bring with them their worldly sins and wicked ways, with their public schooled children, their short haired worldly women, their unbelief in physical communion with angels, their anti-Mormon ideas about using seer stones, crystals, herbs, and blessing cloths, and their obsessions with growing wealthy, watching TV and eating meat. 

As more and more of these unsaintly Gentiles got baptized into the church, their ways started having more and more influence on the teachings of the church coming out of Salt Lake headquarters, until in 1979, the Prophet enacted countless changes, in order that the church laws would be better adapted to the lifestyles of the Gentiles joining the Church. 

I’m old enough to remember the church before 1979. I grew up in the “Old Church” before the change. I grew up in the Church when it taught “Live in the world not of the world”, in a time when you could tell a Mormon on the streets from every one else, because they looked, dressed, acted, and talked VERY different from the rest of the world. It’s been 30 years since the change in the way Salt Lake Headquarters runs the Church, and now, even the former Gentiles are allowed to have leadership positions, resulting in ever more changes as each year goes by. The LDS Church is quickly, becoming a secular den of people who are no different from the rest of the world, except for a rare few who still hold on the the old ways. God does not change – people change. God did not change the lifestyle of the Saints – false doctrines of man did. Like so many churches before it, the LDS Church has strayed by the way side and fallen off the straight and narrow path, it once stood so proudly upon. 

Those old enough to have grown up in the Old Church, didn’t change with the new ways. They still believe in living the same way as the Smiths did: as self sufficient farmers in personal one on one communion with the Spirit world. We spend our time in spiritual pursuits, rather than rushing to college and work. Rather than trying to manipulate the world around us, we live at one with it. Unfortunately this causes problems. This causes problems because the New Converts prefer the ways of modern man over the old fashioned ways of God.

The New Converts (those who joined the church after 1979) have their own set of modern ideals about what the Mormon Church “should be” rather than what is was as Smith created it. The New Converts are quick to call themselves “Mormons” rather than “Saints”, claiming that “No one call REALLY live the life of a Saint in this day and age.” They scoff at the old members who still call themselves “Saints” and still live the life style of a Saint. The New Convert Mormons point at the Old Member Saints and call them “Witches”, pointing out that they wear a style of clothes not seen in 200 years, that God Jesus and Angels no longer speak one on one to Church members, that using Seer Stones like Smith did is evil, that the ritual herb healings of Emma were a sham, and that being a self sufficient farmer with no TV is just plain dull and old fashioned. (Do they actually believe these thing? If so, why than did they join a church that teaches AGAINST what they believe? Why do they follow Smith if the things he did are thought to be so wicked and evil when done by others?)

When the finger of Witch gets pointed often enough at the same member over and over again, it soon becomes a habit of all members in the Ward to single out “the Witch” and spend their time bullying, teasing, and tormenting them, until finally “The Witch” becomes an inactive member, leaving the Mormon Church, because it is no longer the church Smith started but is now a Den of Thieves. 

After so many years of being accused of being a Witch, the “Witch” now seeks out other so-called Witches and tries to join up with them, not really knowing what it is a Witch is. Unfortunately, this proves disastrous, as the other witches, are quick to point out that “The Witch” is not a Witch, but a damn Christian, with no business being a witch. And soon the bullying starts again, this time the “Witch” is now being cast out by the witches, for being “A Christian”. 

By doing the same things Smith did, as well as the same things done by Danial and Jaboc of the Old Testament and Jesus and the Maji of the New Testament, by dressing in garb no differeant than that worn by Jesus, I am accused of practicing Witchcraft and being a Witch and told that I have no business being in a Christian Church. Odd.

By living the “I am a lily” lifestyle Jesus lived, by constantly quoteing his words as part of my daily conversation, by preaching openingly to follow Christ and obey his laws, by dressing in garb no differeant than that worn by Jesus, I am accussed of being a Jesus Freak, and told by witches as being too Christian to be a Witch and have no business practing Witchcraft. Again . . . odd.

And that in the end is what it means to be a Christo-Pagan: A person who is called a Witch by Christians, but a Christian by Witches. One who is too witchy to be a Christian, but too Christian to be a Witch. Thus it is not an organized religious group, but rather an umbrella title given to people who are called Witches by Christians, and called Christians by Witches, making them an outcast of both not truly accepted by either, and forced to stand on their own without any posative support from a group and no one willing to fellowship with them. Odd, isn’t that the way every one treated Jesus while he was alive too?

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Harassment of Witches: What Happened to Me

I was worrying out loud about wither or not the years of harassment had actually come to an end. It’s been 15 months now since the vandalism stopped and I want to believe the nightmare of those years is finally over, but I guess it’s a case of once bitten twice shy, because even though I have started going out in public again, I still find myself desperately jumpy and nervous around most people, and my phobia of Mormons is now manifesting itself, as I can not be in close contact with any of them any more, which is odd considering my many years of Mormon extremism I lived by. It used to be I couldn’t be around any one who was NOT Mormon and now it’s full swing the other way around. Anyways I was talking about such things on FaceBook, when one of my friends sent me a link to this site: Project Witches Protection

I had no idea such a thing existed. It’s a wonderful idea. I went through and read all of the stuff on the site, but I find that the advice there, really only told me to do what I have been doing right along: Go to the police.

Here’s the problem: I DID do everything she said – when I tried to get help outside of the local level is when things got 100 times worse, and when my house got burned down! The problem, was that it was Jim Thomas himself who was giving the orders to do these things (he was the Old Orchard Beach Town Manager as well as an LDS High Priest), and Ken Shoup (Town Building Inspector) and Will Watson (an OOB Police Officer) whose names were on the actual documents that they had with them when they came into the yard to destroy things.

Will Watson and Jack Nichoals (both Police Officers) were the ones who went through every room of the house tearing everything apart and ripping things up. Kathy Smith, a close friend for 30 years, was the one who brought Human Service and the Humane Society in, and he husband (a local mechanic and another LDS High Priest) is the one who vandalized my car.

It was a family from New Hampshire that did the paint balling, rock throwing, and axing of garden equipment, with a van full of people none of whom I knew because they were members from a church in New Hampshire!

Once the news reporters showed up, things really went wild, and we had tourists and sight seers from all 50 states stopping in our yard to take pictures and so many people were showing up that our house got put under 24 hour police guard for about 6 months in 2003.

The State Police got involved in July of 2001 when the vandals torn down our barn.

We never found out who it was that was leaving the pictures of guns on our front door, but the police officer who wrote the report said the pictures were torn out of a government supply catalog for the police department – he recognized it – he said only a police office or some one high up at the town hall, would have access to those particular gun pictures

We don’t know who started the fire, all we know is that after the firemen finished their investigation, they concluded that a deep fryer had been left on the stove, over heated and blew up, because it had cellophane fly tapes cooking in it. . .the thing of that is, at the time of the fire I had already been living in the tent for 4 months, and our deep fryer, was packed away under the sink, meaning someone took the trouble to find it, fill it, turn it on, and leave it until it blew up and took out half of our house.

I wasn’t home the day some one took a sledge hammer to my Liberace` records, and my grandmothers antique ceramics collection, and than torn out each page of my comic books and that tore each page into confetti.

. . . that was the same day some one broke all the windows out of the house, took an axe to our furniture and also stole my grandmothers 1920’s stamp book full of stamps from the 1800’s.

Nor was I home the day someone thought it was funny to kill and dissect 75 of my hens and leave their remains hanging in my rose bushes, so I don’t know who did that either.

The Dutrumble family was suspected, but never proven, to be the ones who dumped oil in our brook killing 30 of my ducks.

Lisa Bolduc killed Tajid and was found guilty and executed 6 months later.

Several of the rumors about me being evil were started in 1991 by a Major in the Air Force, also an LDS High Priest, who was the one who went to first Bishop Regan and than Bishop Morgan, It was Regan and Morgan who started the religious hysteria. Today the Major, now dieing from a rare illness continues to spread rumors about me, now saying that I put a curse on him to kill him.

The Major originally got his information from a schizophrenic man in Salt Lake City, who claimed to be “the true prophet”, and spent most of his life writing 30 page letters to the real Prophet of the LDS church, telling him that he was being deceived by Satan. I had the misfortune to meet this delusional “prophet” in 1991, and for the next 14 years daily received 30 page letters from him, telling me that I was the spawn of Satan.

I told him to his face what I thought of him, his insanity, his claims of being the “real” prophet, and told him that if he wrote my any more letters I would burn them unopened. He said he would stop at nothing to see me excommunicated from the church, because women had no rights and only witches dared speak back to “a prophet” . . . I was 14 years old at the time. Less than a month later Bishop Morgan called me out of class to discuss a letter he had received. . . guess from who

Tajid was murdered a week later, and 6 months of court followed, with me being the only witness, and police and lawyers asking me hundreds of question, most of which I couldn’t understand. By mid 1992 I had stopped talking.

The letters from the self proclaimed prophet heightened, both to me, and to the Major (who at the time was a close friend), and to Bishop Morgan. The resulting harrasment from Morgan went full swing by fall of 1993, with him calling me “The Anti-Christ” “the holy Apostate”, and a demon possessed witch, and climaxed with him bringing in doctors from Pine Land Center (an asylum for the criminally insane).

In 1997 Augusta Stake President Dr. Earnshaw stepped in when I showed him the letters from “the self proclaimed prophet” along with the letters I was now receiving from Bishop Morgan. Morgan lost his calling as Bishop and both Morgan and the self proclaimed prophet were told by Earnshaw that they needed psychiatric help.

Earnshaw spent the next several months apologizing and trying to help – which I thought was weird since he wasn’t the one who did anything wrong, and yet here he was doing all the “I’m so sorry this happened” every single Sunday at church.

Morgan’s counselor took over as Bishop, but he was heavily influenced by Morgan’s tyranny (Morgan was a white supremisict as well, and had harassed every non white family in the Cape Elizabeth Ward – I am a Native American Indian, so that was why he was so quick to accept the letters from the “self proclaimed prophet”). The new Bishop, refused to say my name instead calling me “White Trash” as though it was my name. The shunning by other members of the Ward soon followed.

In 2001 I stopped going to the Cape Elizabeth Ward due to the shunning and started attending the Sanford Ward instead.

A few weeks after switching Wards, the paint balling and rock throwing started.

Our barn were torn down on July 2, 2001. The local police, the state police, the Journal Tribune, and ABC News Reports got involved by August. Things went out of control after the news reports hit the front page of our local newspapers, which ironically they chose to publish on October 31, 2001, thus farther inflaming the accusations of witchcraft

The physical acts of violence skyrocketed after the news reports. Reaching their height in the summer and fall of 2006. All of the vandalism stopped all at once in February of 2008, after the Bolduc family’s inexplicable and world wide reported death. The same Bolduc family involved with Tajid’s murder and the court trails of 1991.

Before the fire had been put out, the Town Manager called me in to the Town Hall and accused me of having sent the demon poltergeist which lived in my car to enact revenge on the town and demanded the car be destroyed. Actually, he hid in the other room while his assistant told me this. I told he that if she and the rest of the town didn’t leave me and Etiole alone, that I’d let him burn down the whole town and every one in it.

The next day, along with reports of the fire and deaths, were reports of an investigation that had been underway for 6 months into suspicions of the Town Manager and his counsel not being what they claimed they were. Along with announcements of the Town Manger’s swift removal from the town, along with all of his council members, whom it stated were suspisioly all members of his church, along with the announcement that an investigation was started as to which of them was behind the embezalment of town funds.

Several police officers were also investigated and lost their jobs. In the weeks that followed some shocking reports came out about Town Manager Jim Thomas and the fact that Old Orchard Beach was the FOURTH Town Manager job he had been run out of, and that he had fled to Maine to hide from the towns he had abused out West.

From the day of his removal as Town Manager there has been no more acts of violence or vandalism against me or my family, and the constant accusations of witches, curses, demons, and poltergeists have stopped.

As for the self proclaimed prophet, he stopped writing to me in 1997. However, in August of 1997, the Major picked up where the self-proclaimed prophet left off, only he writes to me via email. Today 12 years later, I am still receiving letters from the Major, the longest of which printed up to 64 pages, when I had it printed up and turned over to the Stake President.

In 2003 I received one final letter from the self proclaimed prophet – a letter saying that an angel had appeared to him and revealed to him that he had lived a very wicked life and had deeply hurt both me and my grandmother (he had accused her of being a witch and a child of Satan, back in the 1950s – 1960s, just as he had done me in the 1990s), and that he was going to be punished in hell if he did not make amends for the wrong he had done. The letter than went on begging for my forgiveness. He was found dead from starvation at age 100 years and 14 days old, in the basement of his daughter’s home in Utah a few weeks later.

In the end, all I have to say to any of these people is this: In the day of judgment the wicked shall beg the mountains to fall upon them and hide their sins from the face of God. Be sure your sin will find you out.

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Still questioning ministry goals . . .

Actually, I know what kind of a ministry I want, but it’s the very idea behind it that was the same thing that resulted in the vandalism at the hands of religious wackos to begin with. Nine years of vandalism in an attempt to stop me preaching the one thing I know to be true, is what now results in my move to speak out more than ever, resulting in my getting legal documents stating that I can now start a church. . . if the cut water pipes and resulting flood, the murder of so many of my pets, the destruction of my books, the arson to my house, the resulting year living on the streets under a tarp . . . if none of that had ever happened, I don’t think I would have gotten so fired up to tell the world the same things I had told the people who did the vandalism, and yet . . . fear of farther vandalism, stops me from moving forward in this

I’m now an ordained minister, something which, before the year living under the tarp, I would never have even considered . . . every one tells me that God works in mysterious ways and that all things happen for a reason.

I never would have left the Mormon church, never would have sought to become an ordained minister, if the events leading to my year of homelessness had not happened. Things in my life are moving me farther and farther in that direction, it’s so strange. Could it be that this is the “mysterious way” and ultimate reason I had to go through those 9 years of hell?

For those wondering what it is that I said that resulted in the religious hysteria – I wrote it down HERE. it’s my belief in who or rather WHAT God really is. My belief in what angels really are, all summed up in a few paragraphs.

it’s also the founding basis for everything I believe religious-wise, and the core doctrine of my infamous unpublished 900 page thesis “Faith Not Religion”, which stands as the foundation from which I build up the whole idea of starting a church from . . . it’s also the reason why so many LDS Bishops have tried to have me institutionalized as insane.

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LDS Friends, Temple Trips, & the continual lowering of standards by the Church

Why do people always come back from the Boston Temple complaining that the cafeteria raised it’s prices again, they didn’t bring enough money for food, and ended up buying snacks out of the vending machines instead? What the hell are vending machines doing in the temple? Why is there a cafeteria in the temple? Buying & selling in the temple, didn’t Jesus have a few things to say about making temples a den of thieves?

I take it that LDS Temples are quite a bit different now, than they were in the 1970’s. Back when I went if you even thought of bringing money in the building it would have warranted questioning wither or not you should be excommunicated.

The church has been going progressively down hill since they changed all the laws in 1979. I do not like all the “new ways” not one bit. It was bad enough when they started letting children attend public schools. Now buying and selling in the temple? What’s next?

And, you are supposed to fast 3 days prior to a temple trip and fast while you are there, and fast for at least 24 hours after returning home – when the hell the the church change that?

I think the church that likes to preach “In the world but not of the world” has finally lowered it’s standards so much that it is now no different from any other politically correct religion. The Mormon church I grew up in, and the church today are so very different from one another. It’s like it’s not even the same church any more. This isn’t the church that I joined 34 years ago, the laws are so changed, the ways of governing are so different. What happened? Why did the Salt Lake Leadership find it necessary to lower their standards until they were dragging in the gutter? What ever happened to “In the world but not of the world?”

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How to start a religion:

I was just thinking all religions seem to have the same basic start – one person’s theories.

How to start a religion:

1. Observe some aspect of the universe.
2. Invent a theory that is consistent with what you have observed.
3. Use the theory to make predictions.
4. Test those predictions by experiments or further observations.
5. Modify the theory in the light of your results.
6. Go to step 3 and make new predictions.

Is there really anything other than that, to the start of any religion ever created?

The many years of sarcasm from my relatives – there are 264 Atwater’s last time any one counted and that was abut 5 years ago, not sure how many there are today- has resulted in my writing a 900 page thesis on what I do and do not believe in regards to religions and than me constantly quoting from that has resulted in several hundred people (non-relatives) telling me I should start a religion based on it because no religion out there has the same theories I do . I’m starting to believe that may very well be true – 15,000 religions in the world and I can’t find one that has the same theories I do LDS and SDA are the closest, though neither is 100% the same as what I believe.

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I’ve been tagged: Job Interview

I was tagged for this interview . . . well 2 years ago, and for some odd reason the backlink comment only just showed up today!!!! OMG! Why did it do that? Oh well, I figure I should answer it, better late than never, right?

Here is a copy of the MeMe I was tagged with:

In Richard Nelson Bolles – What Color Is Your Parachute?, Bolles wrote about Informational Interviewing. It’s where you contact your friends, family, etc and ask them for contacts in the field that you are interested in and gather information for your career change.

It can be a job you’d held in the past or currently. You can link back to this post but it’s not compulsory. The reason I post this is I’m researching on jobs and would love to know more about your jobs. I’ll comment on some of my job experiences too because I’m not a sucker that takes without giving :p

Job:
Co:
Duration in this position:
Salary & benefits:
Education:
Other factors that helped you in scoring this job:
The job is about:

How did you get this job?

What do you like most about it?

What do you hate about it?

What’s next? What do you need to achieve that?

Who else do this kind of work?

Well fact of the matter is, I have several jobs, all sort of helter skeltered together, so it’s a bit difficult to clearly defin them all, but I’ll try and see what happens. So here it goes:

Job: Writer/Author

Co: self employed; freelance

Duration in this position: since 1978; still working in 2009; 31 years!

Salary & benefits: varies from $0 – $200 per project 

Education: I left public school at age 8; self taught after that

Other factors that helped you in scoring this job: it’s a job I created for myself because I love to write

The job is about: writing (formaly I wrote fiction, but since 2006 I’ve only written non-fiction)

How did you get this job? I just started writing and than had it printed up (self-published) or sent to a publisher (traditionally published) or posted on a web page (web publishing) or posted on a blog (problogging). Being a freelancer, means I have a lot of ways to get published and I take advantage of every single one of them as often as possible. The more I write, the more I get paid.

What do you like most about it? I like that I can change my schedual to fit my needs: if I want to stay awake and write steady for 48 hours, I can. If I don’t feel like writing for 2 or 3 weeks, I can do that too. I like that I can work around other jobs too. I guess you could call me a work-a-holic, because I’m not happy unless I’ve got lots of jobs all at once.

What do you hate about it? Lack of a steady income – you could end up going weeks or even months between pay checks; lack of any benafits: no social security, no retirment, no insurance, nothing, zip, nadda.

What’s next? What do you need to achieve that? Next? After getting approxamatly 600 fan requests for me to write an autobiography of my strange and multi faceted life with a focus on my time being homeless and the events that lead up to me becoming homeless and how I made it back up off the streets again, I started work on my book “For Fear of Little Men”, to tell the story of how my sightening of what some called and alien and others called a demon (though I called a faerie) resulted in a group of religious fanatics taking matters into there own hands by burning me out of my house. Of course on the side libes of that, and as a result of their religious prejudices, I’m planning to get my 900 page rant about why I dislike religion, edited down to a magageable 250 book, and finally get it published – I started writing it in 2003, and it just kept getting bigger and bigger. 

What do I need to achieve that? Not much. Pen. Paper. Word Processor. Memories of events in my life. Time to write it all down. And, since I own my own publishing house, well, I also need to publish it afterwards.

Who else does this kind of work? uhm, well, other writers, here locally we have Stephen King living near by, and you’ve more likely heard of him, so I’ll use him as an example, only he’s more focused on traditionally published novels, and I’m more focused on shorter self published chap books.

You can find out more about what I do for a living HERE.

Job: Artist/Painter

Co: self employed; freelance

Duration in this position: since 1978; still working in 2009; 31 years!

Salary & benefits: varies from $1 – $200 per project; no benifits; though I was working as a painter for 31 years, I did not recieve my first actual payment for my work until 2004, when I placed my art for sale online via CafePress and Zazzle. 

Education: I left public school at age 8; self taught after that

Other factors that helped you in scoring this job: it’s a job I created for myself because I love to draw and paint

The job is about: drawing and painting everything that pops into my head and asks me to recreate it on paper.

How did you get this job? I just started drawing and painting. I wrote a really long and highly detailed article about how I got started HERE. Be warned though it well take you a few hours to read, it’s a small novella leagth article.

What do you like most about it? I like that I can change my schedual to fit my needs: if I want to stay awake and paint steady for 48 hours, I can. If I don’t feel like painting for 2 or 3 weeks, I can do that too. Because I never sell my originals, only prints, this is a repeat sale job, which means that I can paint one painting, and than continue to recieve payments, via royalties for many years after I made the painting. As a result I only need to paint one or two pictures each month. I like that I can work around other jobs too. I guess you could call me a work-a-holic, because I’m not happy unless I’ve got lots of jobs all at once.

What do you hate about it? Lack of a steady income – you could end up going weeks or even months between pay checks; lack of any benafits: no social security, no retirment, no insurance, nothing, zip, nadda.

What’s next? What do you need to achieve that? Next? Just more of the same thing really. More paintings, more drawings, more uploading them to CafePress and Zazzle, more marketing and advertising, more getting the word out about my art so more people can find it to buy it.

What do I need to achieve that? Not much. Pen. Paper. Crayons. Paints. Pencils. Time to paint. A camera for my photogray work. Lots and lots of marketing and SEO skills.

Who else does this kind of work? uhm, Everybody else who sells stuff via CafePress and Zazzle!

You can find out more about what I do for a living HERE.

Job: Witch

Co: self employed; freelance

Duration in this position: since 1979; still working in 2009; 30 years!

Salary & benefits: varies from free volunteer work to $200 – $700 per session client; no benifits; 

Education: I left public school at age 8; self taught after that – People have been calling me a witch, a poltergeist, or an evil demon possessed girl since I was 4 years old.

I had a very good teacher in the art of casting spells and making Voodoo dolls.

Other factors that helped you in scoring this job: It helps that I have Autism. Apperently as a result of my being autistic I am able to do things that non-autistic people can not do. It’s a job I created for myself because I love to sew dolls, spend time with animals, protect those who can not protect themselves from harm, and listen to things my Faerie has to say to me.

The job is about: There are hundreds of types of Witches out there. So I must break it down so you know what type of Witch I am, as to not confuse me with other types out there. I have written articles detailing what I do and such, and I’m linking those to the words which match their topic, so if you want more info about my job description, simply click on each of the links to read what I do in more detail. 

I am a Sea Witch which is a type of Hedgewitch. This means that I work with Familiars to practice Sea Magic, which is a type of Grey Magic (different that White Magic or Black Magic, meaning I’m also knowwn as a Grey Witch rather than either a White Witch or a Black Witch.)

In short, I I heal broken auras with the use of spell casting, voodoo dolls, color therapy, crystals, and by channeling the energy created by Etiole. 

For those who saw the job title of witch and instantly thought Wicca, please know that Witchcraft is a career and Wicca is a religion, and though I am a Witch, I am NOT a Wicca. If you don’t know the differance between a Witch and a Wicca than please READ THIS.

How did you get this job? I didn’t seek out this career. It was sort of thrust on me when I was 4 years old. I was “born a freak”, or so I’m often told.

What do you like most about it? That it has no schedual at all. I go where I’m needed and work when I’m needed.

What do you hate about it? I hate the vandalism at the hands of so-called “Good Christians” who claim it is their “God Given Duty” to “cast out my demons”. 

Lack of a steady income – you could end up going weeks or even months between pay checks; lack of any benafits: no social security, no retirment, no insurance, nothing, zip, nadda.

What’s next? What do you need to achieve that? Next? Well, because I’m always saying (preaching???)  what people call “pretty radical” things, and because I’m always quoteing scripture, and because I spent 20 years studying the Bible, and because as a teenager my goal was to become a preacher, and because there is no religion that teaches the things I do, and because since 2003 I’v had more than 200 people tell me I should start a church of my own, that’s what I’m going to do.

What do I need to achieve this? Well, a good working knowledge of the teachings of Jesus, which I have already. Knowledge of the laws regarding churches. In Maine you have to be legal ordained before you can start a church. As of yesterday, I am now an ordained minister, through a non-denominational church (therefor allowing me to start my own religion). I now have the title of Reverand in front of my name. Next step is to figure out how to actually start a church. In the mentime, though, I require a book of theogies, creeds, laws, and docrtines, and well, that’s why the sudden move to publish my previously unpublished 900 page rant “Faith Not Religion” as mentioned in my writing job info above.

Who else does this kind of work? uhm, I’ve actually never come across another person who does what I do. I’ve encounted many “Witches” but none who are able to do the things I do. They just all seem to do rituals and chants and burn candels and stuff. They say I give other Witches a bad name and accuse me of being a poltergiest or working with a poltergeist. Christians call me an evil witch possessed by a demon, but when I turn to other Witches, they tell me I am evil too, and that I’m not a regular type of Witch like they are (whatever that means) that I’m some sort of freak of nataure. Sometimes they get mad because I do the things I do, without any rituals and such, I just say it and it happens, and me doing that freaks them out, because they say it’s not the type of thing Witches normally do, they tell me I am supposed to be useing all sorts of herbs and rituals and candles. They point out that they studied Witchcraft for years and celbrate all the sabets and worship Goddesses, and get angry because they still can not do the things I do, and ask me how I do it, and I just say I don’t know, because I’ve been doing these things since I was 4 years old and I’ve never studied Witchcraft, I don’t know what Sabets are, and I’m a Christain who would never dream of worshipping a Goddess.

So, long story short, while I would like to find another Witch who was a natural born witch with REAL powers, I have yet to find one and am pretty much outcast by the rest of the Witch community because they think you can’t be born a Witch they think you have to spend years learning how to do it. So I can not provide you with any one else to compare me with, unless of course you want to compare me with Jesus or one of the Old Testament Prophets or the ancient Priests of Egypt, because they are the only other ones I’ve ever heard of who did this type of stuff.

You can find out more about what I do for a living HERE.

Job: Avon Sales Representative

Co: Avon Products, INC.

Duration in this position: 1996 through 2003; 

Salary & benefits: varies from 10% to 30% commision depending on ammount of sales that weekt; no benifits

Education: I left public school at age 8; self taught after that

Other factors that helped you in scoring this job: I had the $20 required to buy the starting kit. That’s all there is to getting started working for Avon – no training, no interview, no questions; you just hand the Sales Manager a twenty dollar bill, she hands you the sales kit, and than you head door to door selling stuff. 

(note – I sold Avon before they opened their web site and started selling online; when they first started the online store in 2003, they cancled the accounts of about 75% of their door-to-door sales personal, claiming that they were going to discontinue door to door sales, and that the few remaining sales reps were going to move on to regional managment jobs. A year later, they changed their minds, reenstated the door to door sales and wanted all their old sales reps back, but I never signed back up again.)

The job is about: being a fast talking door to door sales man who carries around a brief case of products and testers and catalouges and tries to convince people they want to buy make-up, perfumes, lotions, and gift products that they never would have known existed if you had not knocked on their door and told the they could not survive without your wounderful product.

How did you get this job? I had the $20 required to buy the starting kit. That’s all there is to getting started working for Avon – no training, no interview, no questions; you just hand the Sales Manager a twenty dollar bill, she hands you the sales kit, and than you head door to door selling stuff. 

What do you like most about it? I like that I can change my schedual to fit my needs: if I want to stay awake and paint steady for 48 hours, I can. Pretty much it was a one day a week job – one day I deliver all the products to my customers, they gave me new orders, I didn’t have to do anything until the next shippment arrived for me to deliver. I guess you could call me a work-a-holic, because I’m not happy unless I’ve got lots of jobs all at once.

What do you hate about it? Lack of a steady income – you could end up going weeks or even months between pay checks; lack of any benafits: no social security, no retirment, no insurance, nothing, zip, nadda. The fact that you have to try to get people to reorder something EVERY SINGLE WEEK!! Avon would be much better if the shipments were once a month not once a week.

What’s next? What do you need to achieve that? Next? From Avon I moved to Macy’s.

Who else does this kind of work? uhm, Everybody else who sells beauty products door to door.

Job: Macy’s Sales Associate (part time temp)

Co: Macy’s Department Store

Duration in this position: 2006 through 2008; 

Salary & benefits: $7.50 an hour; no benifits

Education: I left public school at age 8; self taught after that; had 2 years of college for fashion design and merchandising; took the “Give Them The Pickle” sales seminar

Other factors that helped you in scoring this job: my years as an Avon Sales Rep, my training in fashion design and merchandising, my training in sales via seminars

The job is about: running cash registers, cleaning fitting rooms, help customers find the perfect outfit, stocking racks of dresses.

How did you get this job? I walked into the store and asked if they had any job openings, and they hired me about 5 minutes later (she liked the way I was dressed, said I looked like some one who knew a thing or two about the fashion industry – I was wearing a black business suit with my hair tied in an Olive Oyl bun, and make up expertly applied to match my skin tonelearned  via my many years of appling Avon products during my sales rep career with them — if I had learned anything selling Avon, it was that you need to look the part if you want to be a sales rep, and though it’s not what I wear outside of work, I can pull off one hell of a professional career woman look, when I really want to) After hireing me she rememberd that she was required to have me fill out a job application.

What do you like most about it? I like that I can change my schedual to fit my needs: being a temp, ment that I was only working 4 or 5 hours a day 2 or 3 days a week, usually to replace some one who called in sick, and I could fill out a calander of days I was unable to work, and they only asked me to come in on the other days. 

For the first time in my life I had a steady income and a weekly pay check I could count on. Loved that.

What do you hate about it?  Actually, I haven’t bee able to come up with anything I actually hated about this job. I loved it. I think it was my favorite job of anything else I’ve ever done.

What’s next? What do you need to achieve that? I have to reapply every year for this job, because it’s a temp job and not a regular job. I didn’t reapply this year, because my dog was very ill and required my constant daily care. He died a few months ago. Since than, I just seem to have not been much motivated to do anything at all. He was my constant compainion for 13 years, he was the one who stayed by my side through the flood, the fire, and the ordeal of being homeless and living on the streets. I’ve had a hard time not having him with me any more and some how that effected my going back to work at Macy’s. Or any place else for that matter.

Who else does this kind of work? uhm, Everybody else who sells beauty products door to door.

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This Blog Now Part of the Pagan Blogger’s Network

I kept seeing the Pagan Blogger’s Network banner on several of the blogs I read, and just finally got around to clicking on the banner to find out what it’s all about. Low and behold, it turned out to be a Z-List for Pagans. Cool! Anyone who reads my Star Log blogs knows how much I love themed Z-Lists (me having more than 30 blogs, means I have loves of themed blogs in need of marketing!) Over my many many years of blogging, I have personally found that the best way to market a blog is through the use of a Z-List, and as I mentioned a while back, I had planned to seek out and join (or start) a Z-List for Witches. Well, now I don’t have to start one (like that’ll stop me from starting another one though!LOL!)

Any ways, since a Z-List only works if you copy the original post and past it at the bottom of your own post introducing the fact that you’ve joined, so here is a copy of the original post:

Anyone with a blog that wants to join the newly formed Pagan Blogger’s Network please just comment here and include this graphic on your blog linking back to this post. I’ll be posting a list of all the blogs taking part at the bottom of this message. It’s a great opportunity for us all to share our thoughts and ideas while working towards building a large pagan network. But it will only work if we all take part.

Just a couple of things that people should know when they apply to join. I don’t update the comments on this thread every day. Sometimes it will take a few days for your name to appear on the list. Also when I do add people I always check their site. If I can’t find the Logo on your blog I won’t be adding you. A couple times a month I get someone wanting to added but who doesn’t add the banner and I have to be fair to those who do. So please link back to us with the banner.

Blogs

1. Between the Ticks
2. A Heathen’s Day
3. Bringing Up Salamanders
4. Meta Pagans
5. Howling Hills
6. Another Ravan Perch
7. Coffee House Studio
8. Where I am, Knitting is also
9. tinkerbell
10. Centaur Cunningman Journey
11. Stir the Claudron
12. Owl’s Wings
13. The Scared Space
14. Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom
15. Whisperings on the wind
16. The Holy Dark
17. Hedge Raven
18. Flight of the Fnordomancer
19. The Kentucky Kitchen Witch Circle
20. That Grrl
21. Pagan Witch
22. Witchy Mama
23. Diana’s Muse
24. Rocky Mountain Druidry
25. Everything & Nothing
26. Inner Musings of An Eclectic Pagan
27. Words of a Witchy Woman
28. The Witchy Kitchen
29. A Crafty Witch
30. Goddess a Day
31. The Magical Earth Podcast
32. Draco’s Rose
33. Hedge and Hearth
34. Free Spells Daily
35. The Unnamed Path
36. Geek Witch Podcast
37. A Pagan Tapestry
38. Woodland Witch
39. The Mad Hexer
40. Chasing Domestic Bliss
41. Between the Worlds
42. Crafty Witch Shop
43. Get Witchified Podcast
44. Shamaness
45. Hedgewitch Hollow
46. Aelwyns Halloween
47. A Witches Way
48. Metis Butterfly
49. Sit for a spell with Suntiger
50. The Pagan Side
51. Bohos by the Sea
52. Consonants and vowels
53. Reflections in the Pond
54. Wiccan Woman
55. Strength of Spirit
56. The Sacred Oak News Letter
57. Wyzwmn’s World
58. Osun’s Corner
59. The Sea Priestess
60. Aradia Rants & Raves
61. Ariel
62. Wings of Wax
63. Wyrdwood Publications
    
64. Live from the Red Leather Couch
65. Abarra ca Pocus
66. English Pagan in Canada
67. Pagan Librarian
68. Magic in these Hills
69. Neopagan Ink
70. Confessions of a Kitchen Witch
71. iPod Witch podcast
72. Midnight
73. Mrs. Flam
74. Chrysalis: One Witches Journey
75. Mylissa Nameton
76. Daily Meditation
77. Fate does not seek our consent
78. Jupiter’s Kitty Korner
79. Lost In The Attic
80. Tarot Healing by Lisa
81. Lizzies Logic
82. Amethystiana
83. Sari0009
84. Nicoles’s Blog
85. The Eclectic Witch
86. Enchanted World of a Rambling Rose
87. Sprouts, Pots and Candle Sticks
88. finding the goddess within
89. Lady Jayne’s Book of Shadows
90. Iridecent Dark
91. The Frugal Pagan
92. Rivergarth
93. Rowan’s Magickal Space
94. Cattra Shadow’s Magickal World
95. 2 Witches Blog
96. Artist Witch
97. Celestial Veracity
98. Moonsong
99. SpiritWitch’s Homeschool Blog
100. Crafty Celtic Cutie
101. Candles & Wicks
102. Dragon petals
103. Greek witch
104. Hedgewitch Inn
105. Moonlit Meadows
106. Inciting a Riot
107. Fallen Angels & Hidden Demons
108. Beautifully complicated
109. Pumpkins and Toadstools
110. Magic Happens
111. Witchy living blog
112. Get out of the Broom Closet
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I am now an ordained minister. Say hello to Rev. EelKat.

I can now legally start my own church. From this point on you can now call me Reverend. – “As an ordained member of the clergy, you are hereby authorized to officiate religious rites and ceremonies, including marriage, baby naming, funeral services, invocations, and holiday ceremonies, as permitted and subject to the laws and regulations of your country, state, and municipality.”

Does this mean that I am tax exempt as well? Don’t know how the whole tax exemption thing works. I’ll have to remember to look into that.

Well, next step is to figure out how to start a church. There’s an old church –big huge 1700’s white church with towering steeple and super amazing stained glass windows– for sale in Biddeford. I’m seriously thinking of trying to get it.

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I am now an ordained minister. Say hello to Rev. EelKat

I can now legally start my own church. From this point on you can now call me Reverend. – “As an ordained member of the clergy, you are hereby authorized to officiate religious rites and ceremonies, including marriage, baby naming, funeral services, invocations, and holiday ceremonies, as permitted and subject to the laws and regulations of your country, state, and municipality.”

Does this mean that I am tax exempt as well? Don’t know how the whole tax exemption thing works. I’ll have to remember to look into that.

Well, next step is to figure out how to start a church. There’s an old church –big huge 1700’s white church with towering steeple and super amazing stained glass windows– for sale in Biddeford. I’m seriously thinking of trying to get it.

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For those wondering, I was ordained though a non-denominational church that offers ordination to ministers looking to start a church of their own without affiliation to a traditional organized religion. Pretty much you just tell them you want to start your own church based on a non-trad religion or that you have been called to start your own religion, and tell them which state you plan to start your congregation in, and they put you on their list of ministers ordained through their own church authorizing you to branch off their church so you can start your own church.

I can perform marriages, funerals, baptisms, etc in the state of Maine, as a result, but would have to check laws with other states, because not all 50 states recognize a church based on a non-trad religion. I only did research on Maine laws regarding starting churches; each state has different laws.

I can now preach on street corners too, but that requires a permit from each town and a lot of town don’t allow it and will arrest you for preaching in public — OOB, allows street preaching — Old Orchard gives out such permits; in the summer down by the Pier there are street preachers all over the place — I might get a permit to preach on the beach

Plus I checked with the IRS – I’m only tax exempt if I file a non-profit form with my tax return AND they approve it, but it says they don’t very often approve non-trad churches or churches that do not keep their door unlocked and open to the public 24 hours a day — I can’t think of a single church that doesn’t lock their doors, how are they tax exempt?

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I am now an ordained minister. Say hello to Rev. EelKat

I can now legally start my own church. From this point on you can now call me Reverend. – “As an ordained member of the clergy, you are hereby authorized to officiate religious rites and ceremonies, including marriage, baby naming, funeral services, invocations, and holiday ceremonies, as permitted and subject to the laws and regulations of your country, state, and municipality.”

Does this mean that I am tax exempt as well? Don’t know how the whole tax exemption thing works. I’ll have to remember to look into that.

Well, next step is to figure out how to start a church. There’s an old church –big huge 1700’s white church with towering steeple and super amazing stained glass windows– for sale in Biddeford. I’m seriously thinking of trying to get it.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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How to price a spell for sale to clients

PLEASE NOTE: This answer only applies to my JuJu Spells (these starting at $300 and go up) which require the making of a JuJu (aka a Voodoo Doll), and is in response to why the dolls have such a high price tag on them. My other spells and readings are not nearly as expensive (starting at $9.95 and going up) as the JuJu spells due to the differance in materials used to make the JuJu Spells.

In talking about the possability of selling my spells online, the discussion of how to price my spells came up. I determined that it was not possible to sell my spells for less that $300 per spell, and even that was pushing the limits, with prices of $500 or $700 range being a better option. Once I had said this though, I was posed the following question:

Why would your spells so expensive? I see other Witches selling spells online for only $30 or $50 per spell, heck, I can get a mass produced Voodoo Doll for ten bucks on Amazon! I bet you’d sell more spells to more people if you brought the price down by a few hundreds dollars. Isn’t it to your finacial advantage to sell more spells at a lower price?

It is an interesting matter, the topic of how to price a spell for sale, and I have decided to devote a post to explaining how I came up with my figures.

Fiirst off, I would like to point out, that in September of 2009 (just a few months away) I will be celebrating my 30th year of practicing Witchcraft. I have been a practicing Sea Witch since September of 1979. In my 30 years of spell casting, I have never once recieved payment for my services. Not one single penny. I have always simply helped those in need, as the need was found. Likewise, my use of Poppets (Voodoo Dolls) has been on a very traditional basis, in that the client, never has actual contact with the doll itself. I keep and later destroy the doll. I complete the spell from start to finish. The client takes no part in the spell being cast, never has the doll in their possession, and never even sees the doll at all.

The move to selling the spells online, results in a need for a slight change in my methods: namely, the client will recieve the doll, use the doll, take an active paart in the spell casting ritual, and if need be, they will destroy the doll after the spell is complete.

The difference in price results from Federal, State, and Local laws, which require a change in the materials I will be useing to make the dolls. When the doll itself never comes into physical contact with the client, it is possible for me to make the doll out of any material I happen to have laying around. However, should the client need to come into contact with the doll, Federal, State, and Local laws require that the doll can only be made out of certain types of mmaterials and that said materials were bought new and unused and are certified as safe for use in items for sale to the public. In other words, when the doll was not made available to the client, I could make it out of old .99c peices of fabric I found at Goodwill, whereas when the doll comes in contact with the client, I must go out and buy the cloth for $7.95 – $54.95 per yard from Jo-Anne’s Fabric Store. What this means is, by selling my spells online, I have increased my overhead by as much as 500%! This in turn means that there is no way for me to offer the spells without pay, due to the fact tha I must buy the materials to make the doll. This means I can not sell each doll for anything less than the cost of the fabric used to make it.

Quality of the cloth is another factor to consider. The cloth I use for my dolls is a high quality 100% cotton. Those $10 Voodoo Dolls on Amazon, are made out of polyester. Polyester is a man made material, and does not conduct a high output of energy. Poly-Cotton has some cotton in it, and thus a higher output of energy as the percentage of cotton in it increases. Of course the more cotton in the fabric, the higher the cost of the fabric, and 100% cotton is a high range fabric as a result. Now, if I was worried about cutting costs and making a finacial success of things here, I would do like those mass produced dolls and use poly or poly-cotton, however, the weaker energy output would result in a much weaker and far less effective spell. 100% cotton is going to put out the highest out put of energy possible for a fabric to put out, thus resulting in a far more powerful and effective spell. So, by cutting corners on cost, I would have to also cut corners on the effectivness of the spell as well, and I’m not willing to do that. But I do have to buy the fabric to make the doll, and so again, I can’t sell the doll for anything less than the cost of the fabric.

Of course it’s not all about the fabric. I use crystals and gemstones in my spell casting, and gemstones being a commdety means that during a ressesion, their value goes higher and higher while the value of  paper money goes less and less. The end result is, an Amythest crystal which in 2005 I could have bought for $3 now sells in 2009 for $30. And here’s where selling the spells  directly to the client, as opposed to me preforming the spells alone, comes in: I can reuse the same crystal for each cllient. Thus my $3 crystal can be used over and over again for years, so long as I purify it and reenergize it between clients. However, when I sell the spell to the client, the crystal has to be sent to them, along with the doll. This means that now, instead of useing one crystal for every one, I now must buy one crystal per client. This means that I can not sell the spell for anything less than the cost of the crystal or gemstone. (Keeping in mind here that some crystals and gemstones sell for $500 or more per stone!)

There is an advantage to this change, of sending the crystal directly to the client. Though it will cost the client more money to buy the spell, it will however be a stronger, more powerful, and longer lasting spell. Here’s why: When I cast a spell, reusing a crystal, I had used on an older spell, there is a chance that some of the old energies are still effecting the crystal and thus causing the spell to not be as effective as it should be. Also, once I have finished the spell for one client, and reenergized the crystal for the next client, the crystal has not had it’s connection with the first spell broken, which means the first spell will begin to weaken from that point onward, until it is rejuvinated. 

However, if the crystal is instead given to the client, the cystal will continue to work on the spell every day, and each time the client picks up the crystal, the crystal becomes slightly more energized making the spell slightly more powerful each day, instead of growing weaker each day. What this means is, that a spell which would  have lasted only a few days, without the crystal’s connection, will now last for weeks, months, or possibly even years, because the crystal is focused only on  this one spell and never used for any other spells. The end result is an extremly powerful and very long lasting spell.

Okay, now we come to another factor: Visualization. Certain colors and symbols each have certain universial meanings, which, even if you do not know their meaning, you are envocking their power simple by looking at them and visualizing them in your head. Now, I know most of these color and symbol meaning by heart, and can just close my eyes and visualize them in my head without the use of the actual symbol in front of me. This cuts a huge ammount of cost, because I do not have to buy physical repesentations of the colors and symbols and when doing spells fulling on my own, I have no need for them. However, when a client buys a spell, nine times out of ten, said client has no idea which color to use when or what they symbols even look like let alone what they mean. This posses a problem and results in the need for the client to have in their possesstion some way for them to visualize and know what to visualize when and why. I have found a way to solve this problem, but it is not cheap.

Back to fabric used for the doll itself again. Being a Witch is not the only thing I do. I am also and auther, a writer, a painter, a pet artist,  a fashion designer, and costume maker. Well, all that rolled into one means, that I have access to fabric companies who will take your artwork and for a fee will print up bolts of fabric using your art work. What this in turn means is that in addition to designing my own patterns and sewing my own clothes, I also design the fabric used to make those clothes. And here’s where we get back on topic: To solve the visualization of symbols and colors problem, I painted a series of art works featureing those symbols and colors, and had fabric made up from them. Fabric of 100% cotton, to be used to make the caftans worn by the dolls, but fabric which due to it being custom made costs a whooping $54 per yard. Ouch! Well, once again, it’s a case of, I have to buy the materials to make the spell, and I can’t sell the spell for anything less than the cost of the materials used to create it.

Of course there are other materials included with the spell. The JuJu (or Voodoo Doll) is the main focus of the spell, and the crystal is the main battery which powers the JuJu, but than there is the soap used in the ritual baths (by the client) before the client can complete the spell, and there’s the candles, and any of the additional smaller items unique to each individual spell. Likewise there is the incese and oils I used when blessing the JuJu.  Each of those items adds up.

And finally to adress the issue of: “Wouldn’t it be to my finacial advantage to sell my spells at lower prices?”

Yes. Finacially speaking it would in fact be to my advantage to sell my spells at lower prices. And yes, if I did like other online Witches did and sold my spells for $30 or $50 per spell, I’d probably sell dozens of spell every day and make an easy quarter of a million dollars each year. But, there is a magor problem with that concept, and I’ll explain it to you. For starters, those so-called online Witches selling dozens of spells a day for $30 to $50 per spell are frauds, and I can prove it. They are selling their spells so cheaply because they are not selling you high quality spells, if they are even selling you a spell at all. How do I know this? Simple. A spell takes a lot of physical and mental energy to pull off. An effective spell can’t be ppulled off  in less time than a week. 

If the Witch is asting several smaller, weaker, or otherwise less powerful spells, she’ll at her best be able to create only 2 or 3 spells per day, but than not every day. She’ll have to take a day off every 3 or 4 days to recharge her physical and mental energies. For bigger, stronger, and more powerful spells, she isn’t going to cast more than one spell each week, not even if the client was Bill Gates offering her ten million dollars to do so.And after casting a big spell (such as a JuJu Spell) she may very well need a week or more off to reenergize her physchic strength.

I was out to become the next millionaire psychic, I’d be creating tons of tiny mini-spells and selling dozens per week at low prices. The thing is, I’ve spent much of my life homeless and living off the land; I’ve rarely had an income of more than $2,000 per year, far less than the average person earns in one month. Money, has never been a high priority in my life. My goals have always been on a spiritual level, so, I have no reason to be out there trying to pass off a bunch of non-effective cheap spells that don’t work. When I make a spell, I want to make sure it’s going to be as powerful as I can make it. What this means is, I rarely make more than 4 or 5 spells a month, usually less, because I want to conserve my energy into higher concentrations, less frequestly, rather than low consetrations very frequently. As such, I’ve never cast more than 50 spells a year, never more than one per week. So if I sell them for $300 per spell, that’s only $15,000 of whih $12,000 would have gone to materials, which means at the end of the year I would only have $3,000. Not very much, when you look at it that way is it?

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How to price a spell for sale to clients

In talking about the possability of selling my spells online, the discussion of how to price my spells came up. I determined that it was not possible to sell my spells for less that $300 per spell, and even that was pushing the limits, with prices of $500 or $700 range being a better option. Once I had said this though, I was posed the following question:

Why would your spells so expensive? I see other Witches selling spells online for only $30 or $50 per spell, heck, I can get a mass produced Voodoo Doll for ten bucks on Amazon! I bet you’d sell more spells to more people if you brought the price down by a few hundreds dollars. Isn’t it to your finacial advantage to sell more spells at a lower price?

It is an interesting matter, the topic of how to price a spell for sale, and I have decided to devote a post to explaining how I came up with my figures.

Fiirst off, I would like to point out, that in September of 2009 (just a few months away) I will be celebrating my 30th year of practicing Witchcraft. I have been a practicing Sea Witch since September of 1979. In my 30 years of spell casting, I have never once recieved payment for my services. Not one single penny. I have always simply helped those in need, as the need was found. Likewise, my use of Poppets (Voodoo Dolls) has been on a very traditional basis, in that the client, never has actual contact with the doll itself. I keep and later destroy the doll. I complete the spell from start to finish. The client takes no part in the spell being cast, never has the doll in their possession, and never even sees the doll at all.

The move to selling the spells online, results in a need for a slight change in my methods: namely, the client will recieve the doll, use the doll, take an active paart in the spell casting ritual, and if need be, they will destroy the doll after the spell is complete.

The difference in price results from Federal, State, and Local laws, which require a change in the materials I will be useing to make the dolls. When the doll itself never comes into physical contact with the client, it is possible for me to make the doll out of any material I happen to have laying around. However, should the client need to come into contact with the doll, Federal, State, and Local laws require that the doll can only be made out of certain types of mmaterials and that said materials were bought new and unused and are certified as safe for use in items for sale to the public. In other words, when the doll was not made available to the client, I could make it out of old .99c peices of fabric I found at Goodwill, whereas when the doll comes in contact with the client, I must go out and buy the cloth for $7.95 – $54.95 per yard from Jo-Anne’s Fabric Store. What this means is, by selling my spells online, I have increased my overhead by as much as 500%! This in turn means that there is no way for me to offer the spells without pay, due to the fact tha I must buy the materials to make the doll. This means I can not sell each doll for anything less than the cost of the fabric used to make it.

Quality of the cloth is another factor to consider. The cloth I use for my dolls is a high quality 100% cotton. Those $10 Voodoo Dolls on Amazon, are made out of polyester. Polyester is a man made material, and does not conduct a high output of energy. Poly-Cotton has some cotton in it, and thus a higher output of energy as the percentage of cotton in it increases. Of course the more cotton in the fabric, the higher the cost of the fabric, and 100% cotton is a high range fabric as a result. Now, if I was worried about cutting costs and making a finacial success of things here, I would do like those mass produced dolls and use poly or poly-cotton, however, the weaker energy output would result in a much weaker and far less effective spell. 100% cotton is going to put out the highest out put of energy possible for a fabric to put out, thus resulting in a far more powerful and effective spell. So, by cutting corners on cost, I would have to also cut corners on the effectivness of the spell as well, and I’m not willing to do that. But I do have to buy the fabric to make the doll, and so again, I can’t sell the doll for anything less than the cost of the fabric.

Of course it’s not all about the fabric. I use crystals and gemstones in my spell casting, and gemstones being a commdety means that during a ressesion, their value goes higher and higher while the value of  paper money goes less and less. The end result is, an Amythest crystal which in 2005 I could have bought for $3 now sells in 2009 for $30. And here’s where selling the spells  directly to the client, as opposed to me preforming the spells alone, comes in: I can reuse the same crystal for each cllient. Thus my $3 crystal can be used over and over again for years, so long as I purify it and reenergize it between clients. However, when I sell the spell to the client, the crystal has to be sent to them, along with the doll. This means that now, instead of useing one crystal for every one, I now must buy one crystal per client. This means that I can not sell the spell for anything less than the cost of the crystal or gemstone. (Keeping in mind here that some crystals and gemstones sell for $500 or more per stone!)

There is an advantage to this change, of sending the crystal directly to the client. Though it will cost the client more money to buy the spell, it will however be a stronger, more powerful, and longer lasting spell. Here’s why: When I cast a spell, reusing a crystal, I had used on an older spell, there is a chance that some of the old energies are still effecting the crystal and thus causing the spell to not be as effective as it should be. Also, once I have finished the spell for one client, and reenergized the crystal for the next client, the crystal has not had it’s connection with the first spell broken, which means the first spell will begin to weaken from that point onward, until it is rejuvinated. 

However, if the crystal is instead given to the client, the cystal will continue to work on the spell every day, and each time the client picks up the crystal, the crystal becomes slightly more energized making the spell slightly more powerful each day, instead of growing weaker each day. What this means is, that a spell which would  have lasted only a few days, without the crystal’s connection, will now last for weeks, months, or possibly even years, because the crystal is focused only on  this one spell and never used for any other spells. The end result is an extremly powerful and very long lasting spell.

Okay, now we come to another factor: Visualization. Certain colors and symbols each have certain universial meanings, which, even if you do not know their meaning, you are envocking their power simple by looking at them and visualizing them in your head. Now, I know most of these color and symbol meaning by heart, and can just close my eyes and visualize them in my head without the use of the actual symbol in front of me. This cuts a huge ammount of cost, because I do not have to buy physical repesentations of the colors and symbols and when doing spells fulling on my own, I have no need for them. However, when a client buys a spell, nine times out of ten, said client has no idea which color to use when or what they symbols even look like let alone what they mean. This posses a problem and results in the need for the client to have in their possesstion some way for them to visualize and know what to visualize when and why. I have found a way to solve this problem, but it is not cheap.

Back to fabric used for the doll itself again. Being a Witch is not the only thing I do. I am also and auther, a writer, a painter, a pet artist,  a fashion designer, and costume maker. Well, all that rolled into one means, that I have access to fabric companies who will take your artwork and for a fee will print up bolts of fabric using your art work. What this in turn means is that in addition to designing my own patterns and sewing my own clothes, I also design the fabric used to make those clothes. And here’s where we get back on topic: To solve the visualization of symbols and colors problem, I painted a series of art works featureing those symbols and colors, and had fabric made up from them. Fabric of 100% cotton, to be used to make the caftans worn by the dolls, but fabric which due to it being custom made costs a whooping $54 per yard. Ouch! Well, once again, it’s a case of, I have to buy the materials to make the spell, and I can’t sell the spell for anything less than the cost of the materials used to create it.

Of course there are other materials included with the spell. The JuJu (or Voodoo Doll) is the main focus of the spell, and the crystal is the main battery which powers the JuJu, but than there is the soap used in the ritual baths (by the client) before the client can complete the spell, and there’s the candles, and any of the additional smaller items unique to each individual spell. Likewise there is the incese and oils I used when blessing the JuJu.  Each of those items adds up.

And finally to adress the issue of: “Wouldn’t it be to my finacial advantage to sell my spells at lower prices?”

Yes. Finacially speaking it would in fact be to my advantage to sell my spells at lower prices. And yes, if I did like other online Witches did and sold my spells for $30 or $50 per spell, I’d probably sell dozens of spell every day and make an easy quarter of a million dollars each year. But, there is a magor problem with that concept, and I’ll explain it to you. For starters, those so-called online Witches selling dozens of spells a day for $30 to $50 per spell are frauds, and I can prove it. They are selling their spells so cheaply because they are not selling you high quality spells, if they are even selling you a spell at all. How do I know this? Simple. A spell takes a lot of physical and mental energy to pull off. An effective spell can’t be ppulled off  in less time than a week. 

If the Witch is asting several smaller, weaker, or otherwise less powerful spells, she’ll at her best be able to create only 2 or 3 spells per day, but than not every day. She’ll have to take a day off every 3 or 4 days to recharge her physical and mental energies. For bigger, stronger, and more powerful spells, she isn’t going to cast more than one spell each week, not even if the client was Bill Gates offering her ten million dollars to do so.And after casting a big spell (such as a JuJu Spell) she may very well need a week or more off to reenergize her physchic strength.

I was out to become the next millionaire psychic, I’d be creating tons of tiny mini-spells and selling dozens per week at low prices. The thing is, I’ve spent much of my life homeless and living off the land; I’ve rarely had an income of more than $2,000 per year, far less than the average person earns in one month. Money, has never been a high priority in my life. My goals have always been on a spiritual level, so, I have no reason to be out there trying to pass off a bunch of non-effective cheap spells that don’t work. When I make a spell, I want to make sure it’s going to be as powerful as I can make it. What this means is, I rarely make more than 4 or 5 spells a month, usually less, because I want to conserve my energy into higher concentrations, less frequestly, rather than low consetrations very frequently. As such, I’ve never cast more than 50 spells a year, never more than one per week. So if I sell them for $300 per spell, that’s only $15,000 of whih $12,000 would have gone to materials, which means at the end of the year I would only have $3,000. Not very much, when you look at it that way is it?

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The Return of the Fey?

I was just reading a forum where the conversation turned to faeries and one poster said this:

“After 12-21-2012 we fully enter the age of Aqarius with no more influnce from Pices like we have know. Then the old portals to the other side will be open again. The Abrihamic religions will die out. Than the Fey will return to Earth.”

… Anyone got any thoughts on that statement? I’m sure Etiole does.

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Found My Kente Today

I just unpacked my Kenti (a huge aprox 12 yard long, antique 200+ year old robe that belonged to an African chief’s witch doctor) it was badly damaged in the flood of 2006, so I put it away until I had time to repair it. I used to wear it all the time, it’s one of the things that used to really freak people out and get them pointing the “she’s a witch” finger at me. Anyways, I’m going to spend the week repairing it.

I bought it at an antique store years ago, for only $275. They were selling it as a blanket!!! OMG! They had no idea what it was!!!! These things are super, super rare, and museums pay tens of thousands of dollars to get a hold of one. It’s worth a fortune, but I’ll never sell it.

I believe it came from Yoroba. Judging from the cloth, weaving, and colors, I think it was made in the late 1700’s to early 1800’s. Somewhere between 1780 – 1840 -ish. It’s so very “voodoo”, I love it.

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What Is a JuJu?

A JuJu is any handcrafted items that has been endowed with magical abilities. Other words for them are Talisman, Fetish, Gris-Gris, Medicine Bags, Mojo, Wanga, and Poppets.

Most JuJus are made out of cloth and filled with herbs, stones, feathers, shells, garlic, and/or crystals. However they can be made out of anything and may not be filled at all. They often have a foul smell caused by strong smelling herbs placed inside of them.

Jujus are protective devises made to ward off evil, absorb negative energy, reflect bad thoughts away, reverse the evil eye, remove curses, attract good luck, and heal the sick.

Most jujus are small, worn close to the body, carried in a pocket, worn on a necklace, hung in a window, hung over a door, or burned in a fireplace so their ashes can fall on the roof and protect the household.

The JuJus most commonly known in popular culture is a Poppet, which thanks to Hollywood is now known as the Voodoo Doll, and the Garlic Braid, also made popular by Hollywood.

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What are Familiars?

A Familiar is a being who possesses magic powers and psychic abilities and uses those powers to aid a Witch in witchcraft. Their are two common types of Familiars: Spirit Familiars and Animal Familiars. Both are very different from each other.

Spirit Familiars are none human beings, often with demi-god like abilities. Angels, Faeries, Aliens, Poltergeists, Demons, and Ghosts are all types of Spirit Familiars.

Spirit Familiars are often possessive, obsessive, irrational, temperamental beings with quick tempers, wild mood swings, and prone to throwing tantrums if everything is not exactly as they expect it to be (thus resulting in poltergeist activities). They commonly take a liking to certain objects (often old houses) or people (often young children, esp girls) and become fiercely protective of any object or being they have claimed as “theirs”.

Spirit Familiars are extremely powerful and very dangerous, often possessing the ability to throw heavy objects, start fires, cause electrical storms and tornadoes (even indoors), and draining power out of electronics causing cars to stall, radios to go static and other such events.

These highly emotional beings are very kind and loving towards those they protect, but can quickly turn deadly towards anyone who harms their ward.

Spirit Familiars are extremely rare. They are beings from other realms whom have crossed the hedge between their world and ours and are now trapped here in our world, unable to return home to theirs.

Animal Familiars, are animals which posses strong positive auras and psychic abilities, which affect the energy auras of those around them. These animals are often attracted to humans who also posses strong positive auras, which results in most Witches having one or more Animal Familiars as pets.

Cats (esp black cats) are said to posses the strongest auras, resulting in cats being the most common of all Animal Familiars. Dogs, horses, and birds are the other most commonly seen Animal Familiars.

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What is Sea Magic?

Sea magic is any type of magic which utilizes the energy powers of the oceans. Ritual magic performed on the beach, purification baths in the ocean, rune casting with shells, green magic utilizing seaweed, knotted rope spell casting, shell divination, working with water elementals, and shorebird or fish totem spirits are all examples of using Sea Magic.

When practicing Sea Magic, the Witch usually must call upon the assistance of Water Elementals (Faeries who live in the water and control the energy forces in the ocean; they include such beings as Mermaids, Selkies, Sirens, Merrows, etc.) Water Elementals are the most feared of all Spirit Beings, known for their quick tempers, harsh judgements, and cruel sense of humor, they are unpredictable, wild, free willed, and often compassionless towards Humans, they are classified as being Dark Faeries and often refered to as Demons, Poltergiests, or Evil Spirits. They are classified as a type of Trickster Spirit, one who will hurt Humans for the fun of it and take great pleasure in the pain and suffering of any one who has treated them or their wards with disrespect. They are abel to call up storms at will (even inside a house). They possess an arrogance, rarely seen in the Faerie Realm, and demand faithful devotion, which when combined with their god like powers over the energy forces of all things, gives them a demi-god quality.

Water Elementals classify all water, water plants, water animals, fish, amphibians, mollusks, and waterbirds to be under their protections, and will react with dealy force if they feel anything they have laid claim to is threatened. A Sea Witch will often have a Water Elemental as a trusted Spirit Guide, but once this bond is formed, the Elemental will claim the Witch as theirs, creating a life long bond that can never be broken without bringing down the wrath of the Elemental Being. The result of this is, that Sea Witchery is a road rarely taken, due to it being extremely hard to gain the trust of  a Watter Elemental, and deadly to ever leave the Elemental’s compainionship, ocne trust is finally formed. Once you have become a Sea Witch, there is no turning back and no chance of a career change – the Elementals strictly forbid it on punishment of death.

Because of the ocean’s close connection with moon phases and weather changes, Sea Witchery is considered to be a type of Moon Magic as well as a type of Weather Magic, all three of which are types of Grey Magic.

Most witches avoid practicing Sea Magic as it is a type of Grey Magic (the use of both White and Black Magic) which is thought of as offensive by the average Witch. As a general rule, White Witches do not practice Sea Magic, believing it to be a form of Black Magic as is it not always used for “good”, and often requires going against the “Harm None” creed of the White Witch. Like wise many Black Witches tend to be drawn towards Sea Magic, for it’s use of harnessing some of the feircest forces in nature. 

Sea Witchery is considered to be a highly advanced, very difficult, extraordinarily powerful, and a very dangerous form of witchcraft, requiring many years of practice in other forms of witchcraft first. As a result it is rare to find a young Sea Witch. Those new to Sea Magic often find the results extremly unpredicatable and very difficult to control. In order to successfully harness the Sea’s awesome power and channel it as Sea Magic, requires weeks of isolated meditation, days of fasting, years of prayer, and months of absolute silence without speaking a single word. It is the most grueling and physically demanding form of Witchcraft known. Few who take up the calling of Sea Witch are able to cope with the mental and emotional strain, let alone the solitary isolation, and most give up and turn to a more common and much easier form of Witchcraft instead, making Sea Witchery the rarest and least often practiced form of Witchcraft there is.

Also known as Hags or Sea Hags, Sea Witches tend to be older Witches, often Crones, and usually Solitaries living a near hermit-like lifestyle. They are what the average non-witch thinks of when they think of witches, hags, or Halloween. Many Wiccas, Pagans, and White Witches turn their nose at Sea Witches, saying that Sea Witches give the rest of the Witching community a bad name and are working to undo everything they have done to wipe out the “Wicked Witch Stigma” that the public puts on all Witches.

In short, a Sea Witch is as far as you can get from being a White Witch, without becoming a Black Witch.

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What is the differance between a Witch and a Wicca?

Witchcraft is a working class career lifestyle. Wicca is a religion. The two should never be confused.

Witches get paid for their practices of witchcraft. Money received from their services pays the bills, puts food on the table, and feeds their families.

Wiccas practice witchcraft for the fun of it, and have “regular” jobs to pay the bills and feed the kids.

A Wiccan is not a Witch, unless said Wiccan chooses to also practice witchcraft.

Wicca is a Celtic Goddess based religion. A Witch is not a Wiccan unless said Witch worships the Wiccan Deities and celebrates the Wiccan Sabets.

A Witch can belong to any religion and less than 20% of the world’s Witches follow the Wicca Religion, with nearly all of that 20% living in the United States of America.

Wiccans do not believe in the Bible.

Witches are usually well versed in the Bible and often practice Hebrew Gnostic Magic rituals as performd in the Bible.

Witches have been around for more than ten thousand years. Wicca was formed in 1951.

Wiccas only practice White Magic. Witches can practice any type of magic they choose to without being told what to do by a set of religious dogmas.

Wicca is a Religion. Witchcraft is not. Wicca worships Godesses, attend coven meetings, follow a High Priestess, perform religious rituals, and have special sets of dogmas by which each member is told to follow. Wiccas do not attend non-Wicca churches because going to a coven is their form of going to church. Witches can belong to whatever religion they want to belong to or may choose to follow no religion at all.

Witches are often Christians or Hebrews. Wiccas are rarly either.

Wiccas have religious holidays and special holy days. Witches rarely celebrate any religious holy day or secular holiday at all, due to their often refusing to play “follow the leader”.

Wicca is recognized by the US Military as an Organized Religion, Witchcraft is not.

The military has prepared a book for the guidance of its chaplains when dealing with a soldier of a non-traditional faith. The book is: “Religious Requirements and Practices of Certain Selected Groups: A Handbook for Chaplains” (1990) It can be ordered from: USAF Chaplain’s Service Institute, Resource Division, 525 Chenault Circle, Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL 36112-6429. 

Pages 231-236 contain an excellent description of Wicca: 

WICCA 

ADDRESS: No central address. Wiccan worship groups, called covens, are essentially autonomous. Many, but far from all, have affiliated with: Covenant of the Goddess, P.O. Box 1226 Berkeley, CA 94704 

OTHER NAMES BY WHICH KNOWN: Witchcraft; Goddess worshippers; Neo-Paganism, Paganism, Norse (or any other ethnic designation) Paganism, Earth Religion, Old Religion, Druidism, Shamanism. Note: All of these groups have some basic similarities and many surface differences of expression with Wicca. 

LEADERSHIP: No central leadership. The Covenant of the Goddess annually elects a First Officer and there is a constitutional limit of two consecutive terms, but in practice officers have almost always served for one year only. In 1991, there are two co-First Officers, Phoenix Whitebirch and Brandy Williams. 

MEMBERSHIP: Because of the complete autonomy of covens, this cannot be determined. There are an estimated of 50,000 Wiccans in the United States (1). 

HISTORICAL ORIGIN: Wicca is a reconstruction of the Nature worship of tribal Europe, strongly influenced by the living Nature worship traditions of tribal peoples in other parts of the world. The works of such early twentieth century writers as Margaret Murray, Robert Graves and Gerald B. Gardner began the renewal of interest in the Old Religion. After the repeal of the anti-Witchcraft laws in Britain in 1951, Gardner publicly declared himself a Witch and began to gather a group of students and worshipers. In 1962, two of his students, Raymond and Rosemary Buckland (religious names: Lady Rowen and Robat), immigrated to the United States and began teaching Gardnerian Witchcraft here. At the same time, others groups of people became interested through reading books by Gardner and others. Many covens were spontaneously formed, using rituals created from a combination of research and individual inspiration. These self-created covens are today regarded as just as valid as those who can trace a “lineage” of teaching back to England. In 1975, a very diverse group of covens who wanted to secure the legal protections and benefits of church status formed Covenant of the Goddess (CoG), which is incorporated in the State of California and recognized by the Internal Revenue Service. CoG does not represent all, or even a majority of Wiccans. A coven or an individual need not be affiliated with CoG in order to validly practice the religion. But CoG is the largest single public Wiccan organization, and it is cross-Traditional (i.e. non-denominational). 

BASIC BELIEFS: Wiccans worship the sacred as immanent in Nature, often personified as Mother Earth and Father Sky. As polytheists, they may use many other names for Deity. Individuals will often choose Goddesses or Gods from any of the world’s pantheons whose stories are particularly inspiring and use those Deities as a focus for personal devotions. Similarly, covens will use particular Deity names as a group focus, and these are often held secret by the groups. It is very important to be aware that Wiccans do not in any way worship or believe in “Satan,” “the Devil,” or any similar entities. They point out that “Satan” is a symbol of rebellion against and inversion of the Christian and Jewish traditions. Wiccans do not revile the Bible. They simply regard it as one among many of the world’s mythic systems, less applicable than some to their core values, but still deserving just as much respect as any of the others. Most Wiccan groups also practice magic, by which they mean the direction and use of “psychic energy,” those natural but invisible forces which surround all living things. Some members spell the word “magick,” to distinguish it from sleight of hand entertainments. Wiccans employ such means as dance, chant, creative visualization and hypnosis to focus and direct psychic energy for the purpose of healing, protecting and aiding members in various endeavors. Such assistance is also extended to non-members upon request. Many, but not all, Wiccans believe in reincarnation. Some take this as a literal description of what happens to people when they die. For others, it is a symbolic model that helps them deal with the cycles and changes within this life. Neither Reincarnation nor any other literal belief can be used as a test of an individual’s validity as a member of the Old Religion. Most groups have a handwritten collection of rituals and lore, known as a Book of Shadows. Part of the religious education of a new member will be to hand copy this book for him or herself. Over they years, as inspiration provides, new material will be added. Normally, access to these books is limited to initiated members of the religion. 

PRACTICES AND BEHAVIORAL STANDARDS: The core ethical statement of Wicca, called the “Wiccan Rede” states “an it harm none, do what you will.” The Rede fulfills the same function as does the “Golden Rule” for Jews and Christians; all other ethical teachings are considered to be elaborations and applications of the Rede. It is a statement of situational ethics, emphasizing at once the individual’s responsibility to avoid harm to others and the widest range of personal autonomy in “victimless” activities. Wicca has been described as having a “high-choice” ethic. Because of the basic Nature orientation of the religion, many Wiccans will regard all living things as Sacred, and show a special concern for ecological issues. For this reason, individual conscience will lead some to take a pacifist position. Some are vegetarians. Others will feel that, as Nature’s Way includes self-defense, they should participate in wars that they conscientiously consider to be just. The religion does not dictate either position, but requires each member to thoughtfully and meditatively examine her or his own conscience and to live by it. Social forces generally do not yet allow Witches to publicly declare their religious faith without fear of reprisals such as loss of job, child custody challenges, ridicule, etc. Prejudice against Wiccans is the result of public confusion between Witchcraft and Satanism. Wiccans in the military, especially those who may be posted in countries perceived to be particularly intolerant, will often have their dogtags read “No Religious Preference.” Concealment is a traditional Wiccan defense against persecution; so non-denominational dogtags should not contravene a member’s request for religious services. Wiccans celebrate eight festivals, called “Sabbats,” as a means of attunement to the seasonal rhythms of Nature. These are: 

January 31 [Called Oimelc, Brigit, or February Eve], 

March 21 [Ostara or Spring Equinox], 

April 30 [Beltane or May Eve], 

June 22 [Midsummer, Litha or Summer Solstice], 

July 31 [Lunasa or Lammas], 

September 21 [Harvest, Mabon or Autumn Equinox], 

October 31 [Samhain, Sowyn or Hallows], and 

December 21 [Yule or Winter Solstice]. 

Some groups find meetings within a few days of those dates to be acceptable others require the precise date. In addition, most groups will meet for worship at each Full Moon, and many will also meet on the New Moon. Meetings for religious study will often be scheduled at any time convenient to the members, and rituals can be scheduled whenever there is a need (i.e. for a healing). Ritual jewelry is particularly important to many Wiccans. In addition to being a symbol of religious dedication, these talismans are often blessed by the coven back home and felt to carry the coven’s protective and healing energy. 

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE: Most Wiccans meet with a coven, a small group of people. Each coven is autonomous. Most are headed by a High Priestess, often with the assistance of a High Priest. Some are headed by a High Priestess or High Priest without a partner, and some regard themselves as a gathering of equals. Covens can be of mixed gender, or all female or male, depending on the preferences of the members. Every initiate is considered to be a priestess or priest. Most covens are small. Thirteen is the traditional maximum number of members, although not an absolute limit. At that size covens form a close bond, so Wiccans in the military are likely to maintain a strong affiliation with their covens back home. There are many distinct “Traditions” of Wicca, just as there are many denominations within Christianity. The spectrum of Wiccan practice can be described as ranging from “traditional” to “eclectic,” with Traditions, covens and individuals fitting anywhere within that range. A typical difference would be that more traditional groups would tend to follow a set liturgy, whereas eclectic groups would emphasize immediate inspiration in worship. These distinctions are not particularly important to the military chaplain, since it is unlikely that enough members of any one Tradition would be at the same base. Worship circles at military facilities are likely to be ad-hoc cross-Traditional groups, working out compromise styles of worship for themselves and constantly adapting them to a changing membership. Therefore, the lack of strict adherence to the patterns of any one Tradition is not an indicator of invalidity. While many Wiccans meet in a coven, there are also a number of solitaries. These are individuals who choose to practice their faith alone. The may have been initiated in a coven or self initiated. They will join with other Wiccans to celebrate the festivals or to attend the various regional events organized by the larger community. 

ROLE OF MINISTERS: Within a traditional coven, the High Priestess, usually assisted by her High Priest, serves both as leader in the rituals and as teacher and counselor for coven members and unaffiliated Pagans. Eclectic covens tend to share leadership more equally. 

WORSHIP: Wiccans usually worship in groups. Individuals who are currently not affiliated with a coven, or are away from their home coven, may choose to worship privately or may form ad-hoc groups to mark religious occasions. Non-participating observers are not generally welcome at Wiccan rituals. Some, but not all, Wiccan covens worship in the nude (”skyclad”) as a sign of attunement with Nature. Most, but not all, Wiccan covens bless and share a cup of wine as part of the ritual. Almost all Wiccans use an individual ritual knife (an “athame”) to focus and direct personal energy. Covens often also have ritual swords to direct the energy of the group. These tools, like all other ritual tools, are highly personal and should never leave the possession of the owner. Other commonly used ritual tools include a bowl of water, a bowl of salt, a censer with incense, a disk with symbols engraved on it (a “pentagram”), statues or artwork representing the Goddess and God, and candles. Most groups will bless and share bread or cookies along with the wine. All of these items are used in individual, private worship as well as in congregate rituals. 

DIETARY LAWS OR RESTRICTIONS: None. 

FUNERAL AND BURIAL REQUIREMENTS: None. Recognition of the death of a member takes place within the coven, apart from the body of the deceased. Ritual tools, materials, or writings found among the effects of the deceased should be returned to their home coven (typically a member will designate a person to whom ritual materials should be sent). It is desirable for a Wiccan priest or priestess to be present at the time of death, but not strictly necessary. If not possible, the best assistance would be to make the member as comfortable as possible, listen to whatever they have to say, honor any possible requests, and otherwise leave them as quiet and private as possible. 

MEDICAL TREATMENT: No medical restrictions. Wiccans generally believe in the efficacy of spiritual or psychic healing when done in tandem with standard medical treatment. Therefore, at the request of the patient, other Wiccan personnel should be allowed visiting privileges as though they were immediate family, including access to Intensive Care Units. Most Wiccans believe that healing energy can be sent from great distances, so, if possible, in the case of any serious medical condition, the member’s home coven should be notified. 

OTHER: With respect to attitude toward military service, Wiccans range from career military personnel to conscientious objectors. Wiccans do not proselytize and generally resent those who do. They believe that no one Path to the Sacred is right for all people, and see their own religious pattern as only one among many that are equally worthy. Wiccans respect all religions that foster honor and compassion in their adherents, and expect the same respect. Members are encouraged to learn about all faiths, and are permitted to attend the services of other religions, should they desire to do so.

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What is a Hedgewitch? And Working With Faeries.

There is much confusion over the name Hedgewitch due to the change in the meaning of the word “hedge”. Hedge originally meant: the dimension between the physical world and the spirit world; the dividing line between the two, where beings from either side could enter and communicate with the other. Today a hedge is a type of bush or shrub used to make a fence, so named because it divides two property lines.

Because so few people are well educated, most have no knowledge of the original meanings of half the words they speak in their daily vocabulary. The problem with this is that it causes them to than mistranslates other words which incorporate those same mistranslated words. This has happened with the word Hedgewitch.

The common misconception is that Hedgewitch is another title for a Green Witch, Garden Witch, or Kitchen Witch, because people hear the word “hedge” in the word “Hedgewitch” and assume this is meant in reference to a green leafy shrub, when in fact it is meant in reference to the fact that a Hedgewitch is a Witch who can cross into the hedge which divides our physical world from the spirit world and has absolutely nothing to do with plants or gardens at all!

A Hedgewitch by true definition, practices magic with the help of a Familiar, often a Faerie of some sort, which has traveled to our world through the hedge. As such Hedgewitches are commonly said to practice “Faerie Magic”, which for some odd reason causes people to assume Faeries are little flowery garden things and so farther causes confusion, with Hedgewitch falsely being defined as a Green Witch.

A word of caution: Faeries ARE NOT cute little beings that flit about in pink tulle, flying from flower to flower on butterfly wings, granting wishes and doing nice things. Faeries are dangerous creatures with a deep dislike for Humans. They are short tempered, self centered, vain, violent, quick to enact justice, and show little compassion. They can change their size and physical appearance at will, so can  APPEAR to be small pink winged creatures, but keep in mind that this is only an illusion meant to trick you. Most Faeries, without the Faerie Glamour, stand about 4 feet to 5 tall, have pale white to grey skin, large round eyes, and long thin fingers. They are telepathic empaths who can “get inside” your head and make you think they look like anything they want you to think they look like, wither it be a tiny pink flower fairy or a 30 foot tall snarling black dog. They have the ability to change energy fields (including brain wave patterns) and can thus not only make you see things differently than they really are, but can also heal illnesses or create them simply by changing the flow of energy as it passes by your body. They are rarely seen by Humans due to their ability to bend energy fields around them, resulting in them “becoming invisible”. 

The Fey are a race of beings astronomically more intelligent and advanced than Humans. Most Faeries show very little concern for Humans, thinking of them, in much the same manner as Humans think of ants and mosquitoes – an unintelligent annoyance to be swatted if it gets in your way, but otherwise you just ignore it and never think about it. As such only the extremist eccentrics of the Fey Race ever bother with Humans – they are Human Rights Activists, in the same manner in which PETA members are Animal Rights Activists. These are the Faeries witch we Humans thus know as “The Elementals”. They are the nature conservationalists of the Faerie Realm, looking to preserve the Earth and prevent the extinction of it’s lesser beings (us Humans being amoung the so-called lesser beings which they are trying to protect from extinction.) This is why so many people who work with Faeries, are also Green Witches, Garden Witches, and work closely with plants and animals. It’s not that all Faeries are Nature Spirits, it’s just that the Faeries who enjoy working with Humans tend to be the environmentalist type. Faeries who work with Hedgewitches, as a general rule are “Good Faeries”, kind loving, peaceful, and seeking to help the Human Race (and often refer to the Human Witch as their “pet”.) These “Nature Spirit” types usually come to the Witch without the Witch seeking their help, choosing the said Witch over other Humans because they see the potential in advising this Witch over a different Human. Once the initial contact has been made, the Witch can than call upon the help of this same Faerie again and again, whenever help or guidance is needed.

Not all Faeries who initiate contact with Humans are good or helpful however. Like the teen aged Human who finds it fun to tie a tin can to a cat’s tail, throw rocks through windows, and paint-ball cars, there are many teen aged Faeries who do the same. Faeries have a much longer lifespan than Humans, living several hundreds of years, which means they have a period of about 200 years of being “a teenager”, and many of those “teen aged” Faeries take great delight in tormenting the lesser animals, esp, the Human ones. Because of this, it is highly dangerous to call on the help of a Faerie at random, because more often than not, one of these teen aged prankster types wil be the one to answer your call. Many of them are actively on the look out for Humans seeking Faerie assistance, and are quick to jump to the call, but for their own entertainment. The results are often disastrous for the Human who requested Faerie help. 

Just like Humans, however, the environmentalists and teen aged pranksters are only a small minority of the Fey Race. Their realm is bustling with teachers, businessmen, children, adults, and regular average workers just like our world is. Most of the Fey are too busy with their own lives to take any notice of Humans at all.

Like our Human world, Fae has it’s “Einstein’s” as well. The Scientists of Fea are almost “gods” in their abilities, when compared with the sciences of Humans. Not evil in the true sense of the word, Faerie Scientists are among the most dangerous Faeries for a Human to come into contact with. These Faeries are what we as Humans refer to as “The Greys”. They are not extraterrestrial aliens from another planet as popular culture says, but rather Faerie scientists from another realm of our own Earth. Like Proctor & Gamble and it’s tests on cats and dogs, “The Greys” are a group of scientists from a Faerie science laboratory, collecting Human specimens for their tests. As Faerie science advances, they gather more Humans for testing. The Faerie scientists are the reason for the out break of so many “new” illnesses (such as AIDS, New Swine Flue, etc) in resent years. They are highly dangerous Faeries because their research often results in loss of Human life.

Unfortunately, like our Human world, the Faerie Realm, also has it’s “Hitlers”. These are the most dangerous of all the Fey, and when finally banished from the Realm of Fey, are cast into our Realm for the Humans to deal with. These dictatorial Faeries, are power hungry control freaks, often masquerading under the title of “God”. God is a Fearie word (not a Human wiord) and it does not mean a Heavenly Father or Creator Spirit, as it does in the Human world. The the language of Fey, God means “One in Power” or “One Who Seeks to Control” or “The Almighty One”, in other words, a being who calls himself by the title of “God” is a dictator. It is important to understand that “God” is a title, not a thing. The “Gods” banished from the Fae and cast out into the World of Man, are very evil, dark Faeries with twisted minds, seeking to build up armies and kingdoms, with the goal being to create a powerful Human Army, to help them return to the Realm of Fae and take their “rightful place” on the throne as over lord over all of Fae. These power hungry Faeries, seek out Humans looking for answers to life, and deceive them with false promises. 

Like the Teen aged Prankster Faeries mentioned above, these God Fae are also always seeking out Humans who call upon “higher authority” for assistance, and these Faeries, with all their vainity, will often make a grand show of pomp and circumstance with fire and lightening in order to dazzle the Human calling for assistance, thus causing the Human to start worshiping the Fae and calling the Fae “God” at the command of the Fae itself, who is proclaiming to be “God”. Unfortunately, the influence of these Faeries is so powerful that they are able to gather up prophets who build up churches and religions to them. All of the world’s religions, both the Christian and the non-Christian, were each originally founded by one of these Faeries and it’s Human followers.

In closing, I will simple give warning: Being a Hedgewitch can be a wonderful experience, esp for those who choose the Green Witch style of Hedgewitchery and are able to communicate with the kind and helpful Nature Elemental Faeries. However, know what you are doing BEFORE you start, and NEVER call on the assistance of a Faerie unless you are absolutly certain you can gain the attention of one of the helpful nature types. Calling on the assistance of a Faerie, without full knowledge of what you are doing or who you are invoking to help you, can be extremely dangerous and have disastrous results. Like Humans, Faeries are neither good nor evil, but like Humans they can do good or evil things depending on their attitudes, occupations, and temperaments! Be careful!

Hedgewitches living on coastal beaches are sometimes called Covewitches. A cove is a hedge that separates the physical world from the spirit world at an entrance over water, usually the ocean.

NOTE: This information about various types of Faeries and their dealings with Humans was given to me by Etiole`, who is himself a Water elemental Faerie.

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What is a Sea Witch?

A Sea Witch, is any Witch who lives in a small coastal village and practices Sea Magic. Few Witches ever strive to become a Sea Witch due to it being a type of Grey Witch, and thus requiring knowledge in and the ability to perform Black Magic in addition to White Magic.

Sea Witches tend to be wilder by nature than your average modern day Witch, with long wind swept hair, and flowing salt water beaten clothen. They believe the strength of their powers come from purification by the ocean itself and thus typically bath in the ocean giving them a salty seaweed scent to their skin, hair, and cloths.

Sea Witches typically use old fashioned, highly superstitious-styles of “scary” witchcraft: Familiars (Black Cats, Water Faeries, etc), Effigy Magic (Voodoo Dolls, Wangas, & Poppets), Hexes (Rune symbols drawn in sand or painted on walls), and other forms of “classic witchcraft”.

Sea Witches are rarely “true Pagans”, and are often former Christians who turned to witchcraft after being outcast by their local community. They are considered Christian by other Witches, but Pagan by other Christians, leading to them being known as Christo-Pagans.

Sea Witchery is considered to be a highly advanced, very difficult, and extraordinarily powerful form of witchcraft, requiring many years of practice in other forms of witchcraft first. As a result it is rare to find a young Sea Witch.

Also known as Hags or Sea Hags, Sea Witches tend to be older Witches, often Crones, and usually Solitaries living a near hermit-like lifestyle. They are what the average non-witch thinks of when they think of witches, hags, or Halloween. It is commonly said by White Witches, Wiccans, and Pagans, that Sea Witches give the rest of the Witch community a bad name, by embodying everything that they try to avoid.

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What is a Witch?

A Witch is any one who practices magic by use of witchcraft. Magic being defined as the spiritual ability to change the invisible energy forces around you. Changing said energy with the help of such things as herbs, crystals, spirit beings, runes, cards, gemstones, incense, candles, flowers, or other such tools is what is called witchcraft.

Solitaries, practice witchcraft alone. Coventry Witches practice witchcraft in groups of three or more, called covens.

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