Tag: healing

Sigils Witchcraft

Updated Sigil Graphics

I have created updated sigil graphics, so that all community use sigils are now available in a graphic that includes either the specific intents of the sigil, or an incantation to accompany the sigil. This is to help clarify the intents of the sigils when they are found out in the wilds of the internet, and to aid with effective sharing.

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The Balancing Path (prose) Witchcraft

Speak Honestly of the Dead Even if it Means Speaking Ill of Them

How the concept of “don’t speak ill of the dead” is typically utilized is fraught with dismissal and erasure. Every time someone problematic dies, it is nearly inevitable to hear statements of “don’t speak ill of the dead,” but who does that idea serve? What benefit does it have? Certainly, if we want to learn from the past and honor those who have been harmed by people now deceased, we must speak honestly of the dead, even if being honest means speaking ill.

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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

The Paradox of Estrangement in the Time of COVID-19

As cases of COVID-19 are surging throughout the United States, I cannot help but wonder about my birth family, how they are faring, and if they are safe. It is a strange thing to have no idea, to be aware that I may never know, to be glad for the estrangement which prevents that knowledge, and yet to wonder and hope that they are well. It creates a paradox of conflicting emotions, a cognitive dissonance, to be so concerned, and yet know that it is far and away in my best interest to retain the distance of estrangement I created.

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