2/17/2023 0 Comments Is witch from brave evilI did start out as a Wiccan, but I find that tradition is too limited, too prescriptive, and too sexist in its roots. Since then, I've noticed that a new generation of feminist witches has been making the same choice, and for similar reasons. I made my decision because no other word embodies the combination of reclaimed feminine energy, magic, and power that I needed to express. I am aware of this, which is why I waited 20 years and considered numerous alternative words before coming out of the broom closet in my 2010 blog American Witch. Since I met my first witch in 1990, I have consciously studied and practiced earth-centered witchcraft alone and with others, using herbs, crystals, symbols, colors, and divination tools in addition to my poetry witch tools of words, chanting, movement, and ritual. I was born on Halloween and have always felt connected spiritually to the earth and to other realities. My primary magickal tools are skill in the craft of shaping words into talismans, charms, and spells, and a calling to perform my words in ritual and for healing. I am a spiritual poet whose spirituality is grounded in the earth and in female power. Why do you call yourself the poetry witch? The word "witch" is loaded with connotations, misunderstandings, and anxieties for many people, and since I started using it in public about a decade ago, I have gotten a lot of questions about it. Reading Lists on Poetry, Feminism, Goddesses & Witchery, Spirituality.“Are You a Good Witch …or a Bad Witch?”.
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