Witchcraft is revolutionary

Witchcraft is revolutionary

I never really felt like a revolutionary kind of person. I wasn't a rebel at school, in fact I was head prefect and ran the student council. I knew my own mind and spoke it often but in Wales I was just "gobby" and that was that. I have always wanted to make a positive difference in the world and after finding University full of idiots (and those were the lecturers) and resigned myself to just doing things my way.
After a brief stint back home I was back in England with my hubby and (soon) children.
After my youngest daughter died I was a mess. When I came back to the world I was no longer afraid. When you go through that kind of pain it either pushes you one way or another.

 A lot of what goes into and around Wicca and witchcraft these days can feel a bit twee or "quaint".
Yet the determining of Divine and feminine as well as masculine or even instead of, is anything but. To declare feminine sacred is to take back, and pull down a structure designed to control through hierarchy and fear.
The Patriarchal is not based on religion (Rome was Patriarchal long before Christianity became popular); but it uses religion and exclusion to control. Women were reduced from human, to breeding "bitches" and cattle. So why control women at all? What is gained?
Why divide them, slice them into acceptable and vile?
Women and nature are so connected. Even today this idea is so dangerous that the lie that a woman must be "rescued" is pumped into from birth to make them feel weak. The other lie, "The One true love" is there because women are by nature sexual beings that can hold love for many in their hearts.
If women were allowed to express their natural desires they may indeed have one mate, they are however just as likely to have a complex web of relationships that serve different needs and desires and levels of sexual intimacy.
This sexual freedom and close knit friendships are a powerful force because together they can achieve almost anything.Through solidarity, loyalty and love.
This, above all else is why Patriarchy still is fighting so hard. They want women to obey a man. Then that man to obey his "better". It is in the interest of those who believe they are our betters to keep women from their social and sexual freedoms. Patriarchy pit women against other women and most cruely against herself.
A group of people who understand magick, power, words and the Divine inside and around them, rejecting external control is revolutionary. Yet while women compete with each other instead of build each other up we can not achieve they way we truly could.
Women are still seen as less, and women's spirituality even more so. We can't quite keep it out of our communities and thinking. "Bitch craft" and vamping, fear of close female friendships and the desire to be seen as "good" by the general patriarchal community weaken us from within. When we help each other stand, we can do anything, and that is what "they" are afraid of.

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