The Witch - The Sacred Feminine in Magic
The Witch - The Sacred Feminine in Magic
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was seen as being the child as well as the mate of the goddess.
His archetype would be divided twofold, the horned god and the
sky father, one which would always cater to witches and the other
be the patriarchal agent which would usurp the Goddess and
outlaw her and all she personified.
I believe the will and perception the twin forces of the spiritual
reality, dwells within all things, and no one should feel limited or
confined to any box. There have been and will be great warrior
women, rational and philosophical, great thinkers, as well as
scientist women, and plenty of violent and cruel egotistical
women, and women rulers throughout time. Still as an Occultist I
recognize archetypical energies, and although nothing is totally
separate, differences exist between day and night, woman and
man, yin and yang, cool and hot, expansive and contractive. It is
by understanding the limitations and conditions of things, we can
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Anyway, the Goddess like the God has many aspects, and like a
fierce lioness, she can hunt or like a mother bear, rip and maul.
Likewise the God can be a blessed son or lover, or provisioning
father, or wise and clever old grandfather. The possibilities are an
endless a humanity. I learned long ago though studying feminists
they wanted to not as a whole usurp Patriarchy just wanted men
and women to be equal. Feminist men want the same thing.
Unfortunately few masculine or Patriarchal men historically want
the same. Thus based off history, is how this thesis of Matriarchy
was formed.
step at a time, and time will in deed take it's time. Still I mention
the differences as well as likenesses of above and below, but truly
both must be transcended.
Spells for beneficial and increasing purposes are best done during
this time of the moon. Love in the pure unconditional kind, as
well as puppy love, and the spells and rituals for are also best
during this time.
Past, the beginning and Future the end, are important, but
neither reflects the truth of reality of an infinite circle in whatever
ultimate state that may be, than the present. The now, is all we
ever really have, and we are never aware of a true beginning or
end, as real awareness happens somewhere in the middle. Thus
the Mother of the Goddess and Father of the God, the middle
aged, mature parents, are the ultimate expressions of Divinity.
The more we can learn to live not in the past or future, but
in the present, moment by moment, the more fully we live. Thus
magic during the Full Moon is said to be the most potent.
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Thus the Mother Goddess and Father God, find life most
fulfilling by the service to each other and to the care of their
offspring foremost.
The Solar Grandfather God, also does the same each day
appearing young when rising and aged and old, dying when
setting.
But the secret of the Crone is that she is not evil, just
karma. Natural cause and effect. In the very end, the new moon
appears and life is once again created out of the ashes, like the
mighty phoenix. This cycle of life and death, the Crone actually
fosters as she knows all must end. If anyone is evil it's the
innocent Maiden. The transcendental spirit beyond duality of
light and darkness, immortal and mortal, is reached by for all, not
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Thus the circle is what the line is drawn on. In death there
is a new beginning, and in the beginning there is an end, before
and after, which allows for life. The cycle of the circle exists, as
the four elements of relativity, in imbalance or balance, relativity
or timelessness.
The Maiden is the Fire element, the God the Air element,
the Mother the Earth element, and the Crone the Water element.
Fire is Light, Air is more Light than Dark but both, Earth, more
Dark than Light but mixed, and Water is Darkness. These
descend, ascend, crisscross, and wrap around as a full circle.
The God, was originally the horned God of the hunt of the
early shamans. When many gods were conceived, by the
multiplicity the primordial Goddess and God, lunar and solar,
created in their unions. The God as well as the Goddess became
many aspected, and took the major attributes or archetypes of
nature and sentient being, such as fire, lightning, love and hate.
Thus out of two, actually four, as the Goddess is triple, the God
singular, as is the moon and sun, changing and fixed, circle and
line. Were created a multitude, who in return, created lesser
things, to which made up their beings.
division. Thus the Devil was more a friend to the Goddess when
the God, became so divided he tried dividing himself and erasing
the Goddess's existence. What was once love, given from female
to male, and the male reflecting back to female, and so
togetherness of light and dark, became hate, division, an attempt
to blotch out the unfit into nothingness, the way of division,
which is a lesser reality, as there truly is no such thing as it doesn't
exist. The true reality is male and female equalized, and so can
be said to be both nothing as well as being, as it's each to their
extremes, which the relative molds itself from.
The first age was of water, then earth, then air, and finally
the age of fire. Although the aim of true feminism is an equality
of male and female, it is called feminine because the fire element
is overall the once actively bringing the water element to equality
with it, verses imbalance, discord, and unequality. Thus
Patriarchy has tried to separate women from men, especially seen
with it's attitudes toward sexuality as discouraged or a sin.
Masculinism though, like feminism seeks equality between the
sexes, by focusing on men's education and rights.
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In fact, magic never really died, just like the Goddess was
never truly forgotten. It simply adapted and went in disguise of
the fringes of the Patriarchal religion.
So although the Sky Father and his Solar Son (Sun), had
no room for a Goddess, they had little problem adapting her
power, as long as it was regulated, by the official Patriarchy.
So I've put down a lot Patriarchy and the God in this book.
He sort of deserves it though, but the Goddess doesn't damn, and
she is only complete when he is her equal and beside, as she
embodies togetheness.
Also the Goddess exists somewhat even when the God has
divided against her, she is the Devil, when he is the Sky Father.
As just as togetherness embodies both God and Goddess, so does
apartness embody apart, but there, the God and Goddess as well.
She is just made masculine, as some in the Patriarchy have
accused the God of being feminine when he is with the Goddess.
Spiritual people, live and let live, but also, influence for
the better reality. We respect individuality and personal religion,
solitary or expressed as a group, no matter how large. We do not
believe in collective or exoteric religion, as we know each body is
an expression of it's individuals. We do not try to affect world
events, but do our part in pollution and hunger, poverty, and ills of
all forms of life. We live within ourselves, and see positive
spirituality, not the way of the world. We do not believe in death,
though our bodies may appear to die to the unspiritual. We live!
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Practicing Witchcraft, Ancient and Modern
You don't need to get all these things at once, in fact you
may never need all of them, depending on what kind of spell
work you will be doing.
Salt (sea salt best), and water (spring water best), with a
prayer said over them to remove all psychic influences then
sprinkled or covered the object in question in the salt water works
great to cleanse.
and or God, to bless and consecrate the object, is all that needs to
be done, to consecrate the object.
You can create your own spells and rituals, with the aid of
Magical encyclopedias on color, planetary, elemental, etc,
magical associations, and encyclopedias on magical properties of
herbs, stones, incense and oils.
until you actually can see it, or power a small electrical device
like and LED light.
are not aware of. There is even earth bound ghosts, in the earth
element and nature spirits like devas, faeries, and dryads. Each
elemental plane has elementals as well which form the energy of
them. The elementals are undines (small mermaids), for water,
gnomes for earth, slyphs (fairy or small angel like beings) for air,
and salamanders (lizard like beings on fire like the bird phoenix)
for fire. Spirit or Akasha even has an entrance to it which is
occupied with spiritual beings of nearly pure consciousness,
called buddhas in the east.
The earth plane has it's elemental aspect, but mostly other
than the material world, is home to nature spirits which help the
physical world and beings, as well as plants and rocks and soil,
develop into productive forms.
your home on the physical and especially your altar if you have
one.
May the white lady of the moon, and her consort the
horned god of the forests, bless you.
Blessed Be,
-Kenneth E. Hayes