When was the last time you were made to sit in the corner because you were a Bad Witch? Really? That recently? What an interesting weekend that must have been. Now, you "get" to be in this Corner, because you've been a Good Witch. Would you mind pouring the tea - its hard to type with these arthritic old fingers and be Mother at the same time. Here we sit, settled in for a precious few magickal moments, set aside just for us. You and me. No one else. Do you feel special? I knew you would. No sugar for me, dearie - it will sweeten my disposition.
Why I am Cranky? Well, wouldn't you be if you saw the Wiccan Wonderland you'd walked in for decades upon decades going to Hel in a handbasket? Its getting downright scary out there. For example, this year I have personally witnessed much of the following, and what I haven't seen, heard, or experienced first hand, I have from a very reliable source or 12 - nothing says lovin' like gossip from the Coven....
Signposts along the Road to Perdition - Wicca style:
Mere children (in experience only) Drawing Down the Moon, when they should be drawing remedial Invoking and Devoking Pentacle exercises - 100 lines of each, please. What do you mean you don't know the difference between invoking and devoking...... Yes, my dearie, the four elemental pentacles really do all start at different points... No, my dearie, the pentacle only has five points... you've got one too many ... here let me show you ....
Adults who experience emotions ranging from discomfort to horror when the Great Rite is revealed to be more than a simple a wine blessing, and the difference explained between "in truth" and "in token". (Pssst - its about S-E-X. The Sacred Marriage. It is what makes the world go round and the room spin, if you do it right)
The Redabuk Tradition - Basing their Arte and Craft on less than extensive book learning (shall we comment on critical and comparative reading skills?), rather than an extensive experiential pursuit of Magickal proficiency and Spiritual maturity. Not to be confused with the Redtoobux Tradition, which is a scholarly tradition of a highly literate 3rd Degree Priesthood (the Eye-didso's and the Eye-yamtu's) who have been in the Craft about "that" long. Excuse me, that "that' was a little longer than I had intended. Snapping my fingers that fast is a little hard at my age.
That's worse than it sounds, because they are reading books with more pictures than words, and all the pictures are of very pretty people in highly elaborate robes, and lovely altar decor with enough stuff to open their own little Martha Stewart's Good Thing Wiccan Pagan PolyTraditional Crafty Supply Emporium. All of which just look silly to the Mundanes. Apparently, you have to be a man in a dress with a smoking purse, a pointy hat and Prada shoes to worthy of respect, let alone veneration. Good old fashioned robes just don't inspire the awe that they once did, even amongst the dedicants, and initiates of the Craft. Its all so "medieval" or "fantasy world" - hoop skirts, bustiers, ruffled collars - and that's just what the men are wearing - you should see the women.... So few things that are simple, dignified, easy to get into and out of in the wiggle of a nose. And then there's the jewelry - completely over the top. In such bad taste. Chunks of crystal as big as my head. Copper Crescent Moon Crowns that look like satellite dishes gone tragically wrong. They must get great radio reception - and maybe even wireless internet service - Bluetooth compatible. Is that the right term? I knew a Bluetooth once, his brother Bluebeard married my cousin's sister-in-law's stepdaughter's second husband's first wife's daughter from an arranged marriage. It ended badly, but she wouldn't listen... and married him anyways.
The disrespect for men in our circles - People have actually been known to laugh at a man with a crown of antlers on his head.. IN CIRCLE. Be still my beating heart - which was beating a little fast at the thought of a properly prepared good looking man in a properly prepared sacred space with a rack of antlers on his noble brow. There are few enough men, and the really good ones are so much fewer and even farther between. What is it that Lord Effem says - when it comes to the ratio of men to women in Wiccan circles - "the odds are good, but the goods are odd". And they are generally so young? Where are the Sages? I've been out of Sage for a while - at least in this neck of the woods. Oh, for a wise, witty and wondrous Sage, to share the meaning of the Mens Mysteries and balance the energetic equation. Men - not the wishy washy sensitive new age "guy" who follows the light and doesn't see or hear the train coming. Men who can embody the face of the God of the Greenwood for His children. Men who honor the earth, and are Warriors, not soldiers. Men who don't have to be bribed with a few stiff drinks to wear the Antlers in ritual. Oh, there goes my heart again - pass me that little container from the top shelf ... smelling salts ...
I feel so faint .............
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