Any Witches Here? Part 9.

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Or Wiccans. or Pagans? Or anyone who is interested in a magical path or feels some magical stirrings.

A place for support, learning, swapping ideas and magical inspiration.

MonstranceClock welcome, pull up a cushion, there's always tea in the pot.

Merry meet! So glad I’ve found this thread. Good chance then that I looked at busiest threads, as I’m usually in one section.

Solitaire here, teach my children the path. Youngest son is into it more than eldest. Both are spiritual and follow our most basic beliefs.

Started as Wicca some decades ago, but has flowed into a general spiritual thing and kitchen witch mostly.

I need to read through these posts. Just wanted to say a quick hello!

Hi Thankyou for the warm welcome. I’m a satanist, currently exploring magic. Still have a lot to learn and am happy to find a group of people I can learn from

purple I don’t live on central London but work there. I live in a heavily concrete part of zone 5 and have to be near mum, work etc. Some areas have been targeted for intensive building, so it wasn’t this bad when I moved here.

I hope everyone had a nice weekend, mine was dire so I’m metaphorically trying to clear the air and get some good energy flowing.

Hi all,

Posted on earlier threads but mainly just been popping in and out to see how everyone is.

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, please ignore me if it's not. I'm currently just post cancer treatment for a second time and wondering if anyone had any suggestions of anything I could do to help improve my health or protect me? I have some weeks to find out if this treatment has worked and I really need it to.

Forgive me if this isn't the right place to ask x

Good evening all, I hope everyone's had a good start to the week? I'm just back from my 'tea and tarot' group, so feeling happy and uplifted from being in the company of like minded friends 😊

Welcome to all the new comers. Lovely to have you with us.

Shestoodinthestorm I'm so sorry to hear you have been battling cancer, you sound very strong. I know a few friends of mine who have been through cancer. One of my closest friends found reiki healing to be beneficial. Also, she made a real effort to nourish her body with healthy food, lots of organic fruit and veg and filtered water to help flush through any toxins. Also probiotics to put the good bacteria back into the gut. Most importantly though, be kind to yourself and get as much rest and relaxation as you can ❤️ Sending love and healing your way.

Rosa sorry to hear you've had an awful weekend. Sending you positive energy and love for a better week 💫

Purplefig so glad you enjoyed your break and you're feeling rested.

Yashmis so pleased to hear things are starting to shift and you're feeling less overwhelmed ❤️

@SheStoodInTheStorm I have a friend who is qualified in Jenny Young Oncolocy massage. It may be worth seeing if someone local to you does it. The training is specifically taliored to treat cancer patients.
Aside from that just finding something that appeals to you to aid mindfulness and relaxation to allow you to heal, mentally as well as physcially.

Very grey here today. I made the most of a sunny breezy day yesterday to wash and dry youngest's school uniform. I washed and pegged it with love and protection to carry him through the school day.

Hello wise women

I hope everyone had a good day

I’m curious about something

Does anyone think of bereavement in a different way than loss of a person? I met someone today who was on the same wavelength as me, I think, and she indicated twice that she thought I had suffered a bereavement recently. I asked her why she was saying that. She said she didn’t necessarily mean that anyone close had died, but that it could mean something else.

As I walked away, it occurred to me, she might be right; to some extent, I have lost my sense of self recently.

RosaWaiting

I think there are many ways of suffering a bereavement- a living loss, perhaps having a child with a life limiting condition, having a loved one develop alzheimers for instance.
I would consider these bereavements too.

@RosaWaiting yes there are absolutely other types of bereavement and grief.
I talked about this in some detail during my recent therapy. Something happened in my life that was a big change to how I had planned things, it left me devastated and I was really struggling to pick myself up and embrace the new path. In all honesty I am still struggling a little.
It was so completely tied up with my identity and sense of self, having to accept it has changed me profoundly.
It was my therapist who actually said 'you are grieving' and although I knew I was, hearing a professional tell me so was liberating. Grieving the life I had dreamed up, grieving the person I thought I was, grieving the principles that I had to let go.

speakout and queenrollo

Ah, I feel I should have thought of those! So true. I think what’s happened to me has happened so slowly, I didn’t realise. I definitely recognise the scenario of loss after something awful happens, but my experiences so far have been after big dramatic problems.

So perhaps I am grieving the loss of self and didn’t realise till today. Or perhaps I’m still actually in here somewhere? 🤔

Thank you, as always, for your wise words

*Rosa
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Sorry to hear you're feeling like this. I know what you mean about grieving the loss of yourself, I've felt like this before and it's something that's come up quite a few times when I've reading for people.

I believe the real you is always still there, it's just buried deep under the layers. Throughout life we find ourselves behaving differently in order to 'fit in', we take jobs that done fit with our personal values because we need the money, we spend time with people (often family) who we can't be our true selves with. As wives, mothers and daughters, we put others peoples needs before our own, and somewhere along the way we get lost.

A technique that was suggested for me is to think back to when you were at your happiest. Then think about what you were doing at that time that made you happy, and what's missing in your life now. How can you get back to being that person again?

Violet so true.

Frankly the problem now is my elderly mother, she is lovely, but I am a single childfree wanderer who craves solitude. My ideal job would be “ornamental hermit”.

The relationship is sucking the life out of me, but also she has some horribly toxic friends who look after her. So I have to be nice to them. I do not have a choice.

I never wanted to have “family”, yet somehow I have one. I should have moved away years ago. If someone could tell me if it will be another ten years, perhaps I would still go. Perhaps guilt would be a more suitable companion. It will never phone up crying and needing help.

I don’t pray exactly but I fervently wish to die young. Well, it’s a bit late for that, I’m 43 😁 but okay, 50 would do. But perhaps mum will be here then.

Funny that. I was just thinking today that I feel somehow that I’m a white witch.

“what's missing in your life now. How can you get back to being that person again?”

The TLDR version is, I was free! I never had to look after anyone. I always thought I’d find that boring and unrewarding - but it’s actually worse.

Rosa
This must be very hard for you and I can understand why you often say you feel 'stuck'. I know it doesn't help right now, but this will pass, and a time will come when you are free to live the life you want to. The situation you're in now is a challenge, the learning you take from this will only make you stronger, more empathetic and more developed spiritually. I believe you'll look back at this in years to come and you'll understand what it was all about.

Until then and

Violet I really need to work on being less empathetic. I’m not sure I’ll,live to tell a tale of anything learned, but I learned nothing from dad’s death except...he was lucky not to make it to old age.

I am bringing negativity here so I’ll leave you lovely women to have a lovely night 😘

Hello and welcome to all of our new people. park your broomsticks, grab a cushion or a beanbag and come and sit by the Aga. Help yourself to your favourite brew or two from the magic teapot, it pours whatever you'd like.

I've posted a link near the top of this thread which gives a list of all our previous threads. I'd recommend you all take some time to read through them as there's a lot of information there and answers to lots of questions that the people who are just discovering or re-discovering their talents have asked. Have a magical night

I have been a bad witch I'm afraid - my other half was annoying me so I hexed him and he ended up being voilently sick in a pub and then went to bed to sleep it off. He is really trying to stop me from enjoying my life and I might have to leave him but it will be hard because my children might never forgive me - but I might have to risk that because we only have one life don't we ?

Good morning- so much to catch up with here.
A beautiful start to the day here, a golden sunrise from my bedroom window.
Very tired this morning, I have set the alarm to do some work before a gym class at 9am, but squeezing everything into my day is a bit too much at times. Still housework/woprking cooking/caring/shopping/post office to do and then the gym, for all its benefits- becomes a chore to squeeze in. Then everything else in the day had to shuffle up and compete for time, making one of the reasons I exercise futile- ends up adding to my stress instead of removing it!

Time to jump up, have a spa shower and crack on wih work- I'll see how much I can get done early before deciding.

Have a wonderful day everyone.
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Good morning,
Just stopping by for a morning tea, enjoying the cool fresh air and autumnal light.
Love to you speakout and a wish for some moments of peace amongst the demands of the day.
I had a difficult day yesterday and was left drained. Didn’t feel like it at all so I took that as a sign to push myself to make the effort to recharge.
I walked along the coast path, sat and breathed in the sea air, meditated on the sparkle of the sea and the horizon were the sea meets the sky. When I’d finished my flask cup of peppermint tea I filled it with lovely ripe blackberries infused with sea energy. I’m lucky to be able to do this. Just what I needed. I also enjoyed a lovely few minutes amongst it all watching a bee on a late Californian poppy growing between the cracks in paving slabs. Very soothing whilst on hold for an important call!
I hope everyone finds some magic in their day 💫

Oh my God Yashmis, where do you live? It's gorgeous!

YashmisCrone Thank you for those beautiful photos. My energy is flagging this week too. Didn't get to the gym this morning, but managed to get a good deal of work done, house tidy ( ish) and a trip to Tesco. It's a full time job keeping everyone fed!

Sending everyone a magical sprinkle.

Some interesting reading for fellow laundry witches.

aminoapps.com/c/thewitchescircle/page/blog/laundry-magick/1r6p_Z5S6u1MgkGpo0m3r1lgkB04RKndXG

Speakout thank you for that link, I like the idea of adding essential oils to my washing, I'll be giving that a try.

Yashmis thank you for sharing your beautiful photos. What a stunning view! I enjoyed reading about your meditation, just what you needed to relax and recharge.

I feel like I'm chasing my tail this week too. Lots going on at work and I feel like I'm rushing from pillar to post, and not really doing anything well! I'm going to my spiritual group tonight so really looking forward to the guided meditation and sitting in the energy for a couple of hours.

Love to you all ❤️