Category: A Thought for Today
Hello and Merry Meet, Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening WOTC Family and Friends! A Thought for Today
A Thought for Today – Pagan/Witch Pride
I just want to add it is also one of the ones its practitioners still to the day get persecuted, shunned, lose family over, besides other negative things attached to it. If only people would ask a witch or pagan to briefly explain their spiritual path we witches would be able to come out of the broom closet easier, where an amulet openly that we as individuals feel represents our spiritual path like Christians who wear a cross, or a Jewish person who wears the Star of David instead of feeling we have to hide under our clothing or carry it in a pocket.
From the first time I heard the following song to this day it inspires me and helps me to not go back into my broom closet but to be proud of the fact that my spiritual and magickal path is how I choose to connect with the divine and Mother Earth’s inhabitants be they animal, bird, reptile, aquatic, or another sort of human species (an example would be Fae Folk or the Spirit Plane). The only sentence I sort of disagree with is, “We don’t need no angels, we have fairies in their place.” A personal choice I made is to believe in the Archangels and the help they can provide to us if we ask them to especially when it comes to self-protection or protecting our home, or vehicle.
I am Pagan and I’m Proud
Song: I Am Pagan Artist: Spiral Rhythm Album: We Are Light
I am pagan And Im proud I am pagan Gonna shout it loud I am pagan Want the world to know That I follow the Goddess Cause she rocks my soul
Dont need your bible Ive got the Wisdom of the crone
Dont need your heaven Into this life Im reborn No ten commandments One fills the bill And it harm none Do what you will I am pagan
And I’m proud I am pagan Gonna shout it loud I am pagan Want the world to know That I follow the Goddess Cause she rocks my soul
Don’t need your churches The worlds My sacred space
Dont need your angels I’ve got fairies In their place
We raise the spirit Most every night When we dance the fire In the pale moonlight
Are you pagan I am pagan Are you proud I am proud Are you pagan I am pagan Then shout it loud And I’m shouting it loud
If youre pagan Let the whole world know That you follow the Goddess Cause she rocks your soul
Well you take your path And Ill take mine A little tolerance And well both be fine
You keep an open mind It’ll set you free And Goddess bless So mote it be
Are you pagan I am pagan Are you proud I am proud Are you pagan I am pagan Then shout it loud So I’m shouting it loud If youre pagan Let the whole world know That you follow the Goddess Cause she rocks your soul
Are you pagan I am pagan Are you proud I am proud Are you pagan I am pagan Then shout it loud
So I’m shouting it loud If you’re pagan Let the whole world know That you follow the Goddess Cause she rocks your soul Are you pagan I am pagan
Are you proud I am proud
Are you pagan I am pagan
Then shout it loud So I’m shouting it loud
If youre pagan Let the whole world know
That you follow the Goddess Cause she rocks your soul
Good day WOTC Family and Friends!
It was long night filled with nightmares when I finally fell asleep after being up for 22 hours. Now it is going to be a long after only about 90 minutes of sleep since yesterday morning. But I am here still trying to reach the goal I set for myself on the August new Moon to not miss any days of posting until the new Moon in September. Excuse any typos or the usual order of posts not being in their usual line up and there might be a couple of posts missing. I hope I don’t zone out and just make a total mess of WOTC this morning. I will do the best I can for this moment in time while posting. After this I hope to get a couple or three solid hours of sleep before it is time to feed our fur kids, make us something to eat than get on the road to serve more people paperwork. Thank goodness I don’t do any of the driving so if I fall asleep in the car it’s not such a big deal.
Wishing you all a spectacular Saturday full of whatever you feel like doing and with whom you want to do it with!
Good day WOTC Family and Friends!
I don’t really have anything to say this morning because my brain is not fully functioning yet…lol
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Well, we have made it through another week in 2023. This has been a strange year for weather so far. Where I live, we were in near drought or drought up to this week when we had flood warnings. The big differences in temperatures and whatever else the weather wanted to do has been hard on me with having fibromyalgia and arthritis this summer. I know many of you are in the same boat as me with daily pain, aches, and stiffness. Hopefully, fall will be kinder to us, but I don’t count on it. I was fortunate enough to have one of my apprentices suggest a baneful herb to help with the pain ectara and to have it work for me. I am not going to give the name of the baneful herb as taken in the wrong dosage it can lead to death. If you would like some more information about it, please write to me at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com and I will forward it to my herbalist to contact you.
At least the finical stress both myself and Big Dawg were under for the last year or so has been mostly lifted because of Lord Genish bring a good paying job to Big Dawg that he enjoys. Yes, it keeps both of us pretty busy most of the time, but it is worth it. The only drawback is driving miles and miles, and more miles through corn and soybean fields which makes getting to where we need to be really boring at times. At least we get to pick what days and hours we work which helps with the care of our fur kids and for them not to get to upset when we get home late for the last potty time of the day. An extra treat usually helps to smooth the upset feelings they have with us.
I’ve got to get back to doing the regular daily posts, so have a great weekend everyone!
Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!
We also do not expect to do something wrong to another person or animal or anything and be totally forgiven for the act just by praying to the son of the Christian God. We take personal responsibility for the wrongs we do than attempt to make amends. We know that in order for our Karma to stay in balance we need to right our wrongs no matter how hard that might be.
With this in mind I apologize to anyone I have inconvenienced by skipping or getting posts up late. I sincerely thank all of you that support me and WOTC with words, actions, money, or whatever.
May your joy be plentiful and your troubles few! Blessed be dear Sisters, Brothers and Friends!
Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!
Today I am setting a goal of not missing a day of posting over the next Moon cycle (new Moon to new Moon). Don’t know if I will be able to do it or not because of my health lately but I am sure going to try to hit this goal for you.
What goal do you want to set for this next cycle of the Moon?
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Soul Contract
The idea bred false conclusions
And a fateful contract
Signed in blood
Ancient text with ancient rite
Demon summoning
Lonely crossroads
It sounded easy
No payment due
Saved until a future day
Bargaining with your soul
What’s the value
None can say
They rather trade it away
Earthly pleasures
They’re easy to see
Wealth, fame, power
Living life so lavishly
Yet time
Time’s a mortal enemy
Try not to think
That eternal damnation
A constant cycle of cremation
But only after pain
And so much suffering
Distract yourself
Try not to see
Deal with it eventually
You want it now
Everything
Eternal youth and diamond rings
Pleasures only flesh can bring
Forgotten was the ancient spell
Your private highway
Your road to hell
Tied now to the hourglass
Amazing run will travel fast
The pact fulfilled
The payment due
Now he comes
Comes for you
Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!
Hello dear Sisters, Brothers, and Friends! I am still waiting for further votes to know how you all would like the regular daily posts to come to your email’s inbox.
Please take a couple of minutes out of your busy day to tell me what you want. For today I am going by the votes I tallied early Sunday morning before getting things ready for my grandson’s birthday party Sunday afternoon.
I am a little confused, which is easily done lately, by the two people who have voted on Saturday, August 12th as they both said they want individual posts for everything but also want to daily and birthday horoscopes as well as the current moon phase and northern hemisphere’s planetary positions in 2 combined posts. If the votes are reading this, could you please clarify that for me separate posts for everything or the 2 combined posts and everything else separate?
Off to do tomorrow’s posts before leaving to go to the doctor for my yearly checkup…oh what fun…not! I wish you all a great Monday!
Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!
If you would like to copy and print this out or save it to whatever you are reading it on, please do.
I have this hanging up in my home office now along side a picture of Lady Abyss and it has really made me think how I go about working on all things connected to WOTC’s website, WOTC’s School of Witchcraft along with its monthly get together, answering emails, and WOTC’s Lady Carla Beltane’s Grimoire on Patreon. It made me realize I had moved my focus to how make I was making from all of it on a monthly basis instead of continuing to do the posts ectara as a labor of love and to carry on the work Lady Abyss started over 2 decades ago to let society know that being pagan and/or a witch is an OK thing. By spreading fact instead of fiction about witchcraft and pagan spiritual and magickal paths in general.
May the Gods and Goddesses bless you and yours with all good things in your life.
Pagan Serenity Prayer
Lord and Lady granted me the power of Water, to accept the things I cannot change.
The power of Fire, for energy and courage to change the things I can.
The power of Air, for the ability to know the difference.
Grant me the power of Earth, for the strength to know and walk my path.
So mote it be! (or however you end a chant or a spell or a prayer.)
Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!
Wishing you all a fantastic, magickal Monday dear Sisters, Brothers, and friends!
Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!
It has been long week but we got a lot accomplished at home. Big Dawg had a good week with serving papers and we have put him getting attacked last week behind us. I got more stuff done on Patreon come check it out Wotc’s Lady Carla Beltane’s Grimoire
The “All in One” tier is free for 7 days.
I have not finished the ritual yet for the super, blue Moon that fall on August 30th. I will be up next week. I just start the ritual tier this week but have not got one live yet. Coming soon there will also be some more free things on Patreon. Well, it is time to go do a bunch of laundry.
Have a fantastic Friday!
Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!
(Side Note from Lady Beltane: Calliope comes to us from ancient Greece she is one of the 9 muses. She also helps to inspire me on what to post, writing spells, and rituals. She loves to have flowers around when she is coming to help someone.)
CALLIOPE’S PLIGHT
Calliope whispered,
Her back screaming, on fire
Flesh tightening, twisting
She grimaced and pulled closer
A pillar and her strong grip
The only things between alive and not
“Help me”
An unbearable weight
Pulling, swinging, no warning
Every fiber a candle wick
And bleeding, she feels the slick
What’s happening to me?
Trying hard just to focus
“Someone, anyone, please”
Lungs collapsing
Every breath excruciating pain
She cries out to the dark night
No help from the forest
Or the water below
The witching hour long past
“I can’t hold on”
A knotted rope around her chest
The mocking weight hung below
When suddenly and terribly, it came
First, an icy wind slithered up her legs
Hungrily licking at her wounds
Lusting at the raw sweetness of agony
“I….I can’t breathe”
And then everything gathered whiteness
Sight growing dim, must be dying
Vengeful girls gathered all around
Surrounded, and then a great sound
Something wicked now commencing
A shining darkness come to play
“Help”
A hunting party, that’s what they say
Message of death to a witch, this day
Her fondness for circumstance, it was
Wrong place, wrong time
A bridge, a rope, a sack of stone
How long could she hold on?
“It wasn’t me”
And now, there’s no one listening
The angry mob of menacing girls
Peddling their false justice off an interstate
But for one, things moved too slow
Her stone pitch, right down the middle
That probably broke a rib.
“!a!a!a!a!a!a!a!”
And how the laughter did flow
The taunts, and a surging crowd
Her pain threshold now crossed
The great iceberg cleaves with a fierce crashing
Waves churning, wind rising
And then, when eyes start glowing
“Enough!”
To the skies, Calliope whispered
And how they did swell and rumble
Blue lightning flashed, icy rain erupting
And suddenly, the heat escaped
Water freezing, blood pumping
A soulless cold spread like a plague
“I’m coming”
Rise she did, as a ghost on the wind
Up, up, and finally over the rail
No one’s laughing now, no one at all
One hand reaches angrily into the wind
Hammering gusts, mean girls running
Nowhere to go, black ice forming
“Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!”
Frozen bolts burst from her hands
She lashes out with the whip of winter
Oh the delicious screaming and wailing
But none escaping, each sees her eyes
Powerless as their souls ripped away
Leftovers fed to the damned
“Hmh”
The realization of painful exhilaration
It’s another long moment of finally being over
And tomorrow she’ll be far away
Start again, somewhere new, just like before
Maybe this time she can stay Calliope
And keep her secret Ice Witch away
“Maybe…”
About the Author:R.J. Schwartz is an American writer, poet, witch, and pagan historian. He has published two books of poetry and contributed to a third. He owns and writes all the content for The Gypsy Thread and also owns The Creative Exiles – an international poetry/short story/creative writing site.
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Wow I had to remove some tag words because of mixes up between WOTC’s School of Witchcraft and my sister’s school of witchcraft. After finding out there is over 5,000 pages of just tags words saved, some with nothing connected to them, I am slowly weeding through them all to only keep pertinent ones. This is one of those things where slow and sure will win the race just like in the story “The Turtle and The Hare.” Do you recall this from your or your descendants’ childhoods? In it the Turtle keeps going at its normal pace of running while the Hare thinks it has the race in its pocket and stops to take a nap which winds up being its downfall to losing the race. While we might want to finish some tasks fast it doesn’t mean they will be done well or completely. Such as when I sit down to bring you all the regular daily posts. I have learned over the past couple of months that it is not important how much I make from WOTC but what is important is the content of what I post daily.
Special information for those who subscribed to Life in The Craft magazine.
Another day of riding in the Jeep for a few hours after I try to get WOTC stuff done. I am catching up on emails as quickly as I can.
For those who subscribe to Life in The Craft magazine via Patreon I am sorry but there will be no more issues I do not have the time for all the research and everything else to do the magazine justice. I am switching the Spell tier on Patreon to $3.00 USD per month so you will be able to get a spell once a week in place of the magazine. This is a $2.00 discount from where the spell tier cost per month is now. All spells that are already on Patreon will be switched to this new tier between today and tomorrow. The name of this special tier will still be “Luxury Witch” only for those who subscribed to Life in The Craft magazine before August 7, 2023.
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Hello everyone! Starting today I will do the tomorrow posts in the morning after the today’s Some Humor for Your Day post because I started back sliding again on the regular daily posts as I would to the today’s post than take a long break and something always happens around our home, or it is time to go help Big Dawg with his job. So, be sure to watch the dates and days when you read the Daily and Birthday Horoscopes, Moon’s Current Phase and Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions and Some of the Witchcraft/Magickal Correspondence and a Spell for.
I wish you all a great Sunday filled with happiness, love, and all good things!
Good Day WOTC Sisters, Brothers, and Friends
I am so glad there is only 1 more day in this week as it has been a weird one for me. I am sorry the monthly and August happy birthday posts did not go up on the 1st of the month. I am behind on everything in our home and yard too so, feeling a bit overwhelmed yesterday with all I had to do, and some things got put aside until today.
This past week of Saturday through Tuesday we drove around 1,000 miles to serve paperwork to people. While most of them went well I want to share a funny story with you about trying to serve a 58-year-old man:
Big Dawg had to walk past his open, large front window to get to his door. He saw the man on his laptop with the TV turned on and his 2 dogs started barking to let the man know someone was there. Well, the guy didn’t come to his door after Big Dawg repeatedly knocked so he decided to knock on the window where the man was sitting in front of it. Big Dawg saw the man quickly slide the laptop under the couch by the window and dive under a blanket hurriedly trying to cover his head with it. Big Dawg called to him through the window to answer the door and he wasn’t going away until he did. After about 20 minutes of alternately knocking on the door and window while calling to the man to open the door he came back to the car. Keep in mind his 2 poor dogs were barking almost continually because of the knocking and talking through the window to the man getting stressed out because of their human’s unkindness towards them. We felt bad for the 2 dogs because you could tell they were upset at all the knocking and the man ignoring it. So, Big Dawg called the man, he answered his phone and just hung up on Big Dawg. So, we left as it was very close to the time when we have to quit trying to serve paperwork. On the way home the man called Big Dawg back about 6 or 7 times and all he did was turn the volume of the TV up each time and never said a word. How long he sat under his blankety that night we have no idea. We have to go back there today to try once again to get the paperwork served, wish us luck with blanket boy. I really hope he gave the dogs a special treat for putting them through the stress of him not answering his door and trying to hide in plain sight.
Wishing you a fantastic Friday full of magick and fun!
Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!
Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!
Well, I finally had the time to get all the regular daily posts for tomorrow done! I will try my hardest to keep WOTC fresh every day, but life may still get in the way of my best intentions. I am very grateful to all of you for staying with me over the last few weeks.
Wishing you all a happy, magickal, and whimsical Wednesday!
Witches Of The Craft® 
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