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.