The witch of this world
is the witch of THIS world. The American witch cannot simply be aping
something from the British Isles . Tied to our
land and its many cultures we are digging deeply, for we have many resources,
and the practitioner of color cannot live like the white occultists, for often we
have more immediate connections to the occult. We did not have the long winter
of thou shalt not Protestantism that isolated us from the natural magic of the
world. A brown witch often has other magics at hand that the British witches
are just rediscovering and -+*British druids hardly know.
The
American druid is the druid in this land and this time, not a second rate
Irishman or a reconstructionist. This is not a renaissance fair, al though there
is nothing wrong with a turkey leg and a fit, firm assed man in tights. We are
drawing lessons from all places, as those before us did, for like them we come
from all places. The idea of eclecticism only came because were under the spell
of Orthodoxy. Christianity, and through Christianity, Judaism taught us that.
But of old people were learning from every way. From north south east west,
present past and possible future, the witch was weaving her way, the druid was
constructing his temple.
So we’re going to need
Advent wreaths and Advent candles and Christmas hymns. We may even need baby
Jesuses and Crosses. And we’re going to need reindeer, reindeer women and Sun
Goddesses. We’re going to need Norse Myths and Greek ones and Mabinogions.
We’re going to need Cesar Chavez, Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga and Che Guevara, maybe even Fidel Castro too. We're going to need the
letters of James Baldwin and Eldridge Cleaver, of Black artists on Negritude, to properly raise up our witch’s temple.
We’re going to need the personal gods of our own house with names no one has
ever known, and we’re going to need intuition. We’re going to need prophecy and
inspiration and our own powerful imaginations. We’re going to need to not be
afraid to follow our own way.
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