Hestia Homeschool for Young Wild Women

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Tabitha wants one of these bags for a magickal bag to keep her treasures in. She currently keeps her magic stones, a small plastic thingie, and a few sea shells in a cotton bag that she has informed me sternly is not special enough.  She also has a lost tooth from when she was a baby in it. 

My own special magickal bag is handmade and leather. I keep in it, among other things, my babies' umbilical cords. I know that the objects themselves are not magical. I AM MAGICKAL. (But it is fun to have all the trappings to play with.) A few weeks ago someone wrote me and wanted to me to address the subject of magick and Christianity, since I am both a Quaker and a witch. 

From my point of view, magick is the Force that unites the universe. Whether you call it God, Goddess, Prana, Chi, Magick, Energy, The Force or The Light, it is all the same. All beings possess the ability to tap into it and merge with it.Children and animals do it unconsciously. Most adults have to remember how to tap into it. 

Whether you call it a spell, a prayer, or meditating, it is there, and it works.  I CAN talk to animals. I CAN heal with my hands and my intention. I CAN make a difference in a world full of hate and destruction, as well as in the same world filled with love and creativity. It would be destructive to curse or to hate, because that same energy clings to you and returns. Christ knew what he was talking about when he conjoled us to love our enemies and pray for their well being. It is for our own good, as well as the Universal Good.

I know at times that I am in the Presence of God. Of course, I am always in the Presence, but the problem is I don't always realize that God is there within me all the time. Sometimes looking into the dear trusting eyes of my nursing baby, I see God reflected back at me.  Or when I hold the hand of a grieving mother, I can feel the Universal Compassion move within me.  When I pick up an injured wild animal off the road--and I have never been bitten once by any wild animal-- I know they know that God is with us both, and I have only Good in my heart. When that poor deer that had been hit by a car trustingly lay down when I asked her to and put her head in my lap,only to try to spring up when anyone else approached, I knew she trusted me because I could FEEL her inside of me. Her trust was a Blessing.

God is here. We are all wondrous creatures of Light, and God is goofily, madly infatuated with us. If we can just surrender ourselves to Love, we will have a happier life.

Sermon ended. 

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• #7 Comment from seshathawk 
  10/9/04 2:02 PM | Permalink

  "All beings possess the ability to tap into it and merge with it. Children and animals do it unconsciously." --That is SO going to be used in my writing someday. You said it better than I've been trying to. *g* Now I must eat some lunch, despite my sleep-depriven, total-of-four-hours-driving trip to visit Caroline, because Elyse is insisting on going to visit Mandy and talk about costumes. *sigh*
• #6 Comment from kahluadiva 
  10/9/04 2:16 AM | Permalink

  your sentiment/knowledge/awareness was so beautiful it made me cry. Thank you. And,one day, I, too, will have a vulva bag. ;o)
  
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• #5 Comment from suzypwr 
  10/8/04 9:17 PM | Permalink

  Very nice entry, Kas. Interesting vulva, too. xoox
• #4 Comment from jadzia7667 
  10/8/04 8:58 PM | Permalink

  This is wondrous and full of light and joy.....it's got me thinking about a future entry, too :)
• #3 Comment from sugar1337 
  10/8/04 7:07 PM | Permalink

  You sound like you are really in touch with this world and that is a lovely characteristic and that makes you an even more lovely person that you already are!  :)