• In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded. Terry Pratchett
    Lords and Ladies

Other Blogs

  • Someday I Will Be Doing Research Again
    Until that point apparently I will just pop in once a year or so and remind people that it is the Opet season, a time when we show civic support for our broader communities here at Peaceful Awakenings’ Take On Kemetic Social Values. If anyone wants to join me, The Emboatening Crew on Kiva is […]
  • Opet Again
    Just popping in to remind everyone that with the Opet season upon us again, the Emboatening Crew is still rolling to support Kiva loans. (My office renovations are going well if slowly, so who knows if that means I’ll get more work done when they’re done.)
  • CowOfGold Moving
    An update on my previous post: Cow of Gold will have a new home here when the maintainer has a chance to put up the site again (with some revisions, apparently).
  • Hills of the Horizon: The Past is Another Country
    The problem with extrapolation from history is that nothing is testable. The evolution of a religion over time is not a predictable and easily comprehensible thing, where we can look at a point in time and say, "It was like this then, so it would be like that now." The process of deciding what needs […]

Things My Ancestors Tell Me

The way of the witch is the way of the power that must be hidden. It is about holding on to sovereignty in a world that does not want you to have it – you, the specific you, the one who the structures deny.

Why do you keep silent? Because when your work is hidden, the ones whose power does not run the shadow ways, the delicate ways, they cannot see it and cannot use their overtness to disrupt it.

It is not the way of the jewelled knife, the fancy knife, the set-aside knife only used for occasions, the knife that never gets used; it is the way of the knife that is used for many things, for everything, and also for power. It is not the way of the cup that never leaves the altar, the grail that is too holy to touch; it is the way of knowing how to bless this cup, the one in your hand, that mug, that bowl.

People fear the knife but not the cup, but the cup is the thing defined by its emptiness, its hunger.

The way of the witch turns over rocks looking for the things that other people will not claim. Does it upset you, turn you away? Then it is worth investigating to see what can be used. This is something that They will not know. They do not have the need, because they can work in the light. Only if there is something in you that has the need will you turn over those rocks. Everything is useful for something. If you don’t need it now, you may still find a use for it later.

It’s not about the forms, the shapes that people put on their work to make it subtle enough to be effective against the ones who work in the light. But do not neglect the forms; those too have power.

Iron your linens.

Comments are closed.