As a Sottary Witch you start to feel alone. When the Full Moon comes around and you find that you are the only in the Circle. When that spell you been working on finaly came to manifestion and you want to share with others. I know I have been there I have been working witchcraft alone since i started. There are many joys to working alone do not take me wrong. Like not having to amend the ritual to fit the need of others. If you mess up it is no one falt and no one else can get caught in the back fire form a spell gone wrong. ect.
I have been working with a coven for the past year. This Coven is Great. I met other people to share my magick with. I got to learn new forms of magick; like the ritual of the lesser bansishing pentacle. I never want to learn it becaise it Christian connection. Turns out I was missing out in one the best bansishing ritual ever.
I got to learn the joy sharing in a feast in the name of the gods. Join hands and forming the Circle. Feeling the power of the Gods move through us and connect each and ever one of us. Dancing around the fire or leaping the fire if you are brave. The Wine share in good toast and blessing all around. The stories told of each members magical past last on for hours. Each member has a speical gift that they bring to the circle. Like the Voodoo guy and then there the Magician the Kitchen Witch a Wiccan The Guardain. ect. Each one is differnet but we are all the same A child of Magick.
Each memeber of the Coven plays a imporant part wheather it is know or not. Some lessons are learned the hard way and ties have to be cut; but there were lessons learned in those sad time to be taught let us learn them well. Working together we create maricals we even cure cancer once. We have created love and became a family. Each one of us has things to teach and skills to offer to help make our life much easier. By the Mystic Alchemy of the Goddess does a Coven like this one exist. So may differnt oppions so many tradtions and paths working together as one
I have gain many new friends and a whole new family that joys of working with a coven is great for me at least I still work as a solitary witch but I am so glad that the Goddess led me to my Coven.
So, You Wanna Be A Witch, Eh?
Well sit right here, by my side
and I'll tell you the secrets of the tide ...
And just get comfy, honey child,
while I speak of nature, free and wild.
But you don't have a cloak, or a pointed hat?
Bah! and Piffle! ... What's with that?
The Witch is worn within the soul,
not donned for occasions, or kept in a bowl.
When you think of Witches, you tremble at magick?
Oh, silly girl, that is indeed tragic!
Well take a deep breath, and hold tight to my hand,
and together we'll dream to the edge of the land ..
where forest and sky kiss the edge of the waters.
Where spirits as we claim a kinship with daughters
of elements born before words are remembered,
where feelings .. and thoughts .. are no longer hindered.
Tis the everyday things that witches are aware of.
The sun and the moon and the wee tiny cherub,
who tugs at our heart strings and drives us to madness,
yet gives us such joy, and fills us with gladness
A soft gentle rain, nudging buds to full flower.
Hurricane! Twister! .. Such terrible power.
Candles, and heart fire, warming and scented
Forests ablaze, volcanic stacks vented!
A mantle of snow, both preserves and gives pleasure.
Avalanche! Iceberg! .. So full of treasure
The warmth of the Sun bringing life we so cherish
Bleak desert landscape. Burnt tundra, we perish
Now open your eyes and look closely at me
You came here so fearful, now what do you see?
A kindly old woman? An evil old hag?
A cloak of maturity? A dirty old rag?
Both sides of the coin, Light and Dark we encompass
Good and Evil abide, and still walk among us.
So be very sure, that a Witch you will be
for we own it all .. you and me .. you and me.
© 1997 .. Jacci Sutton aka Paniteowl