Tag: change

The Balancing Path (prose) Witchcraft

Living a Life Free From Regrets

As far back as I can remember into my childhood, I wanted to live a life free from regrets. Now that I am in my 40’s I have a rather large number of them, but I also do not feel like I let myself down. When I said “free from regrets”, what I really meant was “wouldn’t go back to change it if I could.” Accumulating regrets is a natural part of living, and although I do regret how things turned out now and again, I respect and understand all my choices that led up to those things. I can’t think of a single one where I look back and genuinely wish I had made another choice.

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The Balancing Path (prose) Witchcraft

Accountability Culture, Personal Responsibility, and Our Communities

I am a very strong proponent of Accountability Culture. Accountability is key to personal and community growth, healing and reconciliation, and achieving peaceful intersectional inclusion. Accountability Culture is to Cancel Culture, what Call-In Culture is to Call-Out Culture, in that it holds people responsible for their words and actions, while also providing the opportunity for growth, change, and reconciliation before bringing down the hammer of ultimate judgement and banishment on those who refuse to be accountable.

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The Balancing Path (prose) Witchcraft

Winter Solstice and Finding Balance in Extremes

The winter solstice is the longest night of the year, the night when, courtesy of the earth’s axial tilt, the light will start to return. It is one of the two extremes we experience very year as a part of the solar cycle. As an extreme, the solstices are a vital component of celestial and personal balance, and can teach us a great deal about how to move through life even in the most trying of times.

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The Balancing Path (prose) Witchcraft

Beyond Magical Names – Many Names for Many Reasons

From craft names to deadnames, nicknames to married names, usernames to aliases, there are innumerable reasons that most people have multiple names they currently use or have previously used to identify themselves. Despite what bureaucratic systems would have us believe, names, even magical names, are mutable and can change over time as our circumstances change and we, ourselves, change. Most of those names have deeper meaning than the specific letters spelled out on our birth certificates or driver’s licenses.

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