Phenomena Encountered: The Magazine Issue 6 | Page 6

Just an Ordinary, Run in the Mill Witch

I am a Witch. I am not psychic. I am not a Medium. I do not communicate with fairies, elemental, or other spirits of the Earth. As I became more active in the Pagan/Witch community and met some amazingly gifted people, I became rather insecure about my lack of abilities. I mean what kind of Witch doesn’t work with fairies. What kind of Witch struggles to see entities on the other side of the veil? I believed that my simple style of spell work looked pitiful next to other vast and elaborate rituals. Sure, I had success with my little spells but I would never become a power with such a plain practice.

I admit I led my mind and energy down a trap by comparing myself to other witches. I’m sure I am not the first or last magickal practitioner to do such a thing. I later realized that by comparing myself to others made me down play my own gifts. In my mind the fact that I am able to find the source of pain within a person and get rid it was nothing special. The fact that I am able to ease even the most anxious mind to me was lack luster. Also, my ability to make any food dish into an enchanted potion; well anyone can do that.

By convincing myself that other were much more “proper” witches than I, I bond my own abilities by assuming that they were unimportant and weak in the grand scheme of things. For example, I was driving down a busy road one day and had the sudden idea to turn into a parking lot I’ve never been to before. There I found an older woman had fallen in-between two cars and was unable to get up on her own. I was glad to help but of course my ability was still pitiful in my mind. Explaining to a mother that her daughter was going to have great issues with her reproductive cycles before it began. Meh, that’s nothing. I really believed this in my mind because great witches speak with those on the other side, have connections with guardian angels, and converse with the gods.

I have since grown older and hopefully wiser in understanding how to use my abilities for the greater good. I suspect that if I did not waste too much time believing that my gifts were a mere drop in the great ocean that is The Universe they would be more advanced by now. That is not matter now; I am embracing them now and using it to the fullest extent that I am able; even pushing to the limits. I hope with message reaches another that is now looking at other Witches with envy and ignoring their own gifts from the Universe. All of us have a gift that given to us at our birth for a reason. Explore and gown with those abilities and fulfill the purpose you have in this life.

There is no Witch that is greater than another. We are all different and that what makes us beautiful in our own ways. Forever growing and learning is what this path is all about, but do not neglect what comes natural to you either.