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By Sarah Durham Wilson. 原文链接： http://www.rebellesociety.com/2014/01/17/13-signs-youre-a-witch/
People often ask me, “How do you know you’re a witch?” Most often, the
question beneath the question is, “Am I a witch? Am I magic?” Often, they
ask a little nervously because of the shadow that shames the word.
We owe that shadow to the Patriarchy — the masculine societal rule that has
pervaded the planet for over five thousand years. This is important — not
male, not gender, but a perversion of masculine energy which brutalized,
raped, suppressed the feminine.
The witchhunts of Salem and Europe whipped up a hysterical mob mentality
against women, against the feminine.
It rounded up and killed the wise women, the natural healers, any women with
land they wanted or those outside of the societal status quo, who refused
to conform to Christian and Patriarchal rule.
Basically, in fear of the power of the feminine, women, the earth, and its
creatures, were slaughtered under false and hysterical pretenses.
It is crucial we reclaim ourselves and the beauty, power, heritage of the
word Witch. A witch’s purpose is the very earth we need to save.
Witches love the earth, and worship nature. I repeat, Nature, not Satan. The
latter is a myth — including that we are wart-on-nose Halloween-mask-scary
ugly — that we owe to Patriarchal Hollywood movies.
Truth is, witches are as beautiful as nature herself and do no harm. They
live by the rule of three, a karmic understanding that everything they do
comes back to them threefold. The more we kill the earth, the more we kill
ourselves.
For as long as we can remember, we have been taught to fear ourselves as
well as nature. Witches however, relish their wild nature and align
themselves with the cycles of the earth and the phases of the Moon.
For many women, to reclaim the word Witch is to reclaim one’s self and her
relationship to the Great Mother.
So, because I love to de-stigmatize, and re-honor the big beautiful juicy
word Witch, the answer I give, when someone asks me if they are one, is Yes.
If you think you are a witch, you are a witch — meaning you are a Goddess,
Priestess, Healer, Shaman, Wise Woman. Here is a round up of 13 moonlit and
mystical signs you might be a witch:
1. Earth Powers. A witch is a woman of the earth. We inherit her natural
powers of birth, transformation, healing, rebirth. These are the powers of
woman, one in the same with the powers of the earth.
“Where there is woman, there is magic.” ~ Ntozake Shange
Do you find the answers to life through the patterns of Mother Nature? Is
her wisdom your wisdom? Are you, your life and body, aligned with her
seasons?
For instance, are you on fire — sexually and creatively in the Summer,
letting go and cutting out what does not serve in the Fall, dying to the old
in the dark silence of Winter, and reborn in the Spring?
***
2. Wisdom. Do you find yourself bubbling from an internal cauldron of
ancient natural healing wisdom?
Are people drawn to you to sit by your fire and discuss life and all its
fury, pain, love and wonder? Do you end up sending them off with hope in
their hearts, and perhaps a tincture, a potion, an herbal remedy (you are
familiar with the properties of plants), or even a ritual or two?
In other words, when shit hits the fan, is it you they come to?
***
3. Nature. Do you live by or in the woods, or by a body of water — and if
not, do you long to?
Witches, being intricately intertwined with nature, embodying the powers of
the Great Mother herself, long to be as close to her natural beauty and
power as possible. Many do their rituals by the water or in the woods. You
have most likely always felt at home in nature.
***
4. Storms. Are you not afraid of storms? In fact do you revel in the power
of Mother Nature at her most visceral? And do you sometimes wonder if you
yourself — your passion and energy — caused the storm?
***
5. Animal Nature. Are animals naturally attracted to you, and do you love
them as well, so much that you cry empathetically with the creatures of this
planet? Do you naturally know their totems, and find wisdom and insight in
their visits/appearances in your life?
Do lost dogs follow you home, do birds fly into your windows, do horses rush
towards you in the fields and place their long necks on your shoulders? Do
you find you can speak to them? Heal them?
Witches and animals are so aligned with nature that they speak a similar
energetic language and recognize each other.
***
6. The Moon. Are you drawn, pulled, and moved by the moon’s energy? Have
you gazed at her, spoken to her, been flooded by her light since you were a
little girl? Are you aligned with her phases?
For instance, do you start new projects and relationships when she waxes (
grows full), do things peak and culminate — and tend to go a little crazy
— around you while she is full, and are you drawn to let things go, or end
relationships and patterns, as she wanes?
On the New Moon, in the darkest of nights, do you sit with the mystery, the
emptiness and unknown, the potential and possibility of the dark? Do you
dream up new plans in the dark of the new moon?
If you answered No, then the above are just a few ways you can attune with
the moon’s phases.
***
7. Powerful. Do you have more than a sneaking suspicion that your wishes
come true — good or bad, and are you perhaps a little cautious and in awe
of your own power? Have you been called an old soul on the reg?
Witches are as old as time; your eyes — the windows to your soul — hold
ancient stories and secrets, myths and mysteries, answers and possibilities.
You were probably speaking ancient truths and wisdom even — or especially
— before you forgot your magic, as a little child.
***
8. Healing. Are you drawn to the healing arts? Do you tend to seek natural
or energetic remedies for yourself, and do you offer them to others? Have
you ever laid a hand on someone’s bad back, which was fixed the next day?
People might also heal just by being around you.
Witches, being so attuned to the earth, are natural healers.
***
9. Past Life Memories. Do you have painful past life memories or images of
being cast out, burned, or drowned — just for being wild, wise, and free
you?
Most importantly, are you scarred from for being different, not conforming,
for loving who you wanted to love, for speaking the truth/saying what you
were called to say — in an old lifetime? This is karma you are awake to
heal. It is time to not be afraid, and to be your you-est you.
This is how you will heal your karma, by being unafraid to live your fullest
expression. It is your time.
***
10. Outsider-ness. Have you always felt a little bit of an outsider — nose
pressed against the glass of life on earth, while knowing you were actually
an insider of a magical tribe, with insider wisdom?
While you never fit in the norm, you knew there was something sacred, secret
, special about you — a magic just a few other magical people could see.
You do not run with big crowds; you are a bit more of a sensitive but
powerful lone wolf; you need a lot of time to think, dream, recharge, and
commune with Source — Nature/The Universe/The Goddess.
***
11. Mystical Crystals/Accoutrements. You are drawn to beautiful rocks —
pieces of earth energy — and you have kept stones like clear quartz,
turquoise, rose quartz around you for as long as you can remember, even if
you did not know their properties at the time.
They were either given to you, or you picked them up along the way and
collected at least a few.
Witches know the properties of the earth’s stones and charge them with —
among other things — healing, love, abundance and protective benefits, and
are often wearing their special stones in jewelry.
You also love to keep candles around and lit — because candles are
invitations to spirits and angels, and create a more magical, divine vibe.
And you probably like a good, energy-clearing sage or incense.
***
12. Magic. Did you believe in magic as a child, see magic in the air and in
life? Were you drawn to magical things, creatures, fables, stories, even as
you grew older, despite everyone telling you “There Was No Such Thing?”
And despite the rest of the world not believing, did you save some room in
your heart for tales of magic, love, and the mystical and mysterious —
anyway?
Were you drawn to movies and books about witches, magic, the spooky, the
mystical, the unknowable? Have you always thought there was no such thing as
a coincidence, that we were not really alone, and this was not all there
was?
Do you believe that no-thing means nothing — in other words, everything
means something? Do you believe in signs and symbols?
***
13. More Magic and Divinations. Speaking of signs and symbols — you get
premonitions, as if you have an internal crystal ball.
When you are talking about what you think will happen, people tend to perk
up and listen. Sometimes you see or feel outcomes — flash forwards — so
far ahead that you find it frustrating when others have not caught up with
you! You have dreams and visions, of past lives and the future.
And you can read other people and their energy and intentions fairly well.
You have Sixth Sense. It is also a reason why you are drawn to Tarot, Runes,
or other mist-parting divinations.
I hope this has helped. These are just 13 signs — you might recognize a few
, or a whole lot of these witchy ways. A witch’s message is one of self-
love, earth-love, and about the importance of aligning with the phases of
the earth and moon. Pretty simple, really.
But at one point, if you were too close with the earth, if you were too wise
, too powerful — too much, and definitely too feminine — you were cast out
or slain for your largeness and wildness. It need not be so any longer.
It is time to heal your past karmas, own your power, wisdom and beauty, and
rise, dear ones — the earth needs you, and we, of course, need the earth.
*****
By Sarah Durham Wilson. 原文链接： http://www.rebellesociety.com/2014/01/17/13-signs-youre-a-witch/
People often ask me, “How do you know you’re a witch?” Most often, the
question beneath the question is, “Am I a witch? Am I magic?” Often, they
ask a little nervously because of the shadow that shames the word.
We owe that shadow to the Patriarchy — the masculine societal rule that has
pervaded the planet for over five thousand years. This is important — not
male, not gender, but a perversion of masculine energy which brutalized,
raped, suppressed the feminine.
The witchhunts of Salem and Europe whipped up a hysterical mob mentality
against women, against the feminine.
It rounded up and killed the wise women, the natural healers, any women with
land they wanted or those outside of the societal status quo, who refused
to conform to Christian and Patriarchal rule.
Basically, in fear of the power of the feminine, women, the earth, and its
creatures, were slaughtered under false and hysterical pretenses.
It is crucial we reclaim ourselves and the beauty, power, heritage of the
word Witch. A witch’s purpose is the very earth we need to save.
Witches love the earth, and worship nature. I repeat, Nature, not Satan. The
latter is a myth — including that we are wart-on-nose Halloween-mask-scary
ugly — that we owe to Patriarchal Hollywood movies.
Truth is, witches are as beautiful as nature herself and do no harm. They
live by the rule of three, a karmic understanding that everything they do
comes back to them threefold. The more we kill the earth, the more we kill
ourselves.
For as long as we can remember, we have been taught to fear ourselves as
well as nature. Witches however, relish their wild nature and align
themselves with the cycles of the earth and the phases of the Moon.
For many women, to reclaim the word Witch is to reclaim one’s self and her
relationship to the Great Mother.
So, because I love to de-stigmatize, and re-honor the big beautiful juicy
word Witch, the answer I give, when someone asks me if they are one, is Yes.
If you think you are a witch, you are a witch — meaning you are a Goddess,
Priestess, Healer, Shaman, Wise Woman. Here is a round up of 13 moonlit and
mystical signs you might be a witch:
1. Earth Powers. A witch is a woman of the earth. We inherit her natural
powers of birth, transformation, healing, rebirth. These are the powers of
woman, one in the same with the powers of the earth.
“Where there is woman, there is magic.” ~ Ntozake Shange
Do you find the answers to life through the patterns of Mother Nature? Is
her wisdom your wisdom? Are you, your life and body, aligned with her
seasons?
For instance, are you on fire — sexually and creatively in the Summer,
letting go and cutting out what does not serve in the Fall, dying to the old
in the dark silence of Winter, and reborn in the Spring?
***
2. Wisdom. Do you find yourself bubbling from an internal cauldron of
ancient natural healing wisdom?
Are people drawn to you to sit by your fire and discuss life and all its
fury, pain, love and wonder? Do you end up sending them off with hope in
their hearts, and perhaps a tincture, a potion, an herbal remedy (you are
familiar with the properties of plants), or even a ritual or two?
In other words, when shit hits the fan, is it you they come to?
***
3. Nature. Do you live by or in the woods, or by a body of water — and if
not, do you long to?
Witches, being intricately intertwined with nature, embodying the powers of
the Great Mother herself, long to be as close to her natural beauty and
power as possible. Many do their rituals by the water or in the woods. You
have most likely always felt at home in nature.
***
4. Storms. Are you not afraid of storms? In fact do you revel in the power
of Mother Nature at her most visceral? And do you sometimes wonder if you
yourself — your passion and energy — caused the storm?
***
5. Animal Nature. Are animals naturally attracted to you, and do you love
them as well, so much that you cry empathetically with the creatures of this
planet? Do you naturally know their totems, and find wisdom and insight in
their visits/appearances in your life?
Do lost dogs follow you home, do birds fly into your windows, do horses rush
towards you in the fields and place their long necks on your shoulders? Do
you find you can speak to them? Heal them?
Witches and animals are so aligned with nature that they speak a similar
energetic language and recognize each other.
***
6. The Moon. Are you drawn, pulled, and moved by the moon’s energy? Have
you gazed at her, spoken to her, been flooded by her light since you were a
little girl? Are you aligned with her phases?
For instance, do you start new projects and relationships when she waxes (
grows full), do things peak and culminate — and tend to go a little crazy
— around you while she is full, and are you drawn to let things go, or end
relationships and patterns, as she wanes?
On the New Moon, in the darkest of nights, do you sit with the mystery, the
emptiness and unknown, the potential and possibility of the dark? Do you
dream up new plans in the dark of the new moon?
If you answered No, then the above are just a few ways you can attune with
the moon’s phases.
***
7. Powerful. Do you have more than a sneaking suspicion that your wishes
come true — good or bad, and are you perhaps a little cautious and in awe
of your own power? Have you been called an old soul on the reg?
Witches are as old as time; your eyes — the windows to your soul — hold
ancient stories and secrets, myths and mysteries, answers and possibilities.
You were probably speaking ancient truths and wisdom even — or especially
— before you forgot your magic, as a little child.
***
8. Healing. Are you drawn to the healing arts? Do you tend to seek natural
or energetic remedies for yourself, and do you offer them to others? Have
you ever laid a hand on someone’s bad back, which was fixed the next day?
People might also heal just by being around you.
Witches, being so attuned to the earth, are natural healers.
***
9. Past Life Memories. Do you have painful past life memories or images of
being cast out, burned, or drowned — just for being wild, wise, and free
you?
Most importantly, are you scarred from for being different, not conforming,
for loving who you wanted to love, for speaking the truth/saying what you
were called to say — in an old lifetime? This is karma you are awake to
heal. It is time to not be afraid, and to be your you-est you.
This is how you will heal your karma, by being unafraid to live your fullest
expression. It is your time.
***
10. Outsider-ness. Have you always felt a little bit of an outsider — nose
pressed against the glass of life on earth, while knowing you were actually
an insider of a magical tribe, with insider wisdom?
While you never fit in the norm, you knew there was something sacred, secret
, special about you — a magic just a few other magical people could see.
You do not run with big crowds; you are a bit more of a sensitive but
powerful lone wolf; you need a lot of time to think, dream, recharge, and
commune with Source — Nature/The Universe/The Goddess.
***
11. Mystical Crystals/Accoutrements. You are drawn to beautiful rocks —
pieces of earth energy — and you have kept stones like clear quartz,
turquoise, rose quartz around you for as long as you can remember, even if
you did not know their properties at the time.
They were either given to you, or you picked them up along the way and
collected at least a few.
Witches know the properties of the earth’s stones and charge them with —
among other things — healing, love, abundance and protective benefits, and
are often wearing their special stones in jewelry.
You also love to keep candles around and lit — because candles are
invitations to spirits and angels, and create a more magical, divine vibe.
And you probably like a good, energy-clearing sage or incense.
***
12. Magic. Did you believe in magic as a child, see magic in the air and in
life? Were you drawn to magical things, creatures, fables, stories, even as
you grew older, despite everyone telling you “There Was No Such Thing?”
And despite the rest of the world not believing, did you save some room in
your heart for tales of magic, love, and the mystical and mysterious —
anyway?
Were you drawn to movies and books about witches, magic, the spooky, the
mystical, the unknowable? Have you always thought there was no such thing as
a coincidence, that we were not really alone, and this was not all there
was?
Do you believe that no-thing means nothing — in other words, everything
means something? Do you believe in signs and symbols?
***
13. More Magic and Divinations. Speaking of signs and symbols — you get
premonitions, as if you have an internal crystal ball.
When you are talking about what you think will happen, people tend to perk
up and listen. Sometimes you see or feel outcomes — flash forwards — so
far ahead that you find it frustrating when others have not caught up with
you! You have dreams and visions, of past lives and the future.
And you can read other people and their energy and intentions fairly well.
You have Sixth Sense. It is also a reason why you are drawn to Tarot, Runes,
or other mist-parting divinations.
I hope this has helped. These are just 13 signs — you might recognize a few
, or a whole lot of these witchy ways. A witch’s message is one of self-
love, earth-love, and about the importance of aligning with the phases of
the earth and moon. Pretty simple, really.
But at one point, if you were too close with the earth, if you were too wise
, too powerful — too much, and definitely too feminine — you were cast out
or slain for your largeness and wildness. It need not be so any longer.
It is time to heal your past karmas, own your power, wisdom and beauty, and
rise, dear ones — the earth needs you, and we, of course, need the earth.
*****
