Tradition Reconsidered On The New Moon

Tradition takes on a different meaning when you believe the world we see and experience is a collective illusion. Because then the question becomes, how real do we want to make all of this? I’ve never been a witch who embraces tradition anyway, preferring instead to craft my own. We’re here to create, not react, but it’s easy to get that one backwards. Most of us react all over the place.

Which brings me to hexes and curses. I know witches don’t take these things lightly, but I’ve never been comfortable with them. I confess to thinking, oh a little binding spell is okay, after all, it’s just a little time out to think about things. It’s a gift, really. They could think of it as a spa day or something. About that time Higher Self taps me on the shoulder, asking me how real I want to make all of this, and I’m like..here we go. And suddenly my mother’s voice is there saying, well you know I’m right.

All of this leads me to wonder who it is I’m actually binding with a binding spell. Am I binding a specific person or situation, or is it my perception alone that I’m binding? One guess as to what Higher Self and Mom both said.

We experience our bodies as dense because they look and feel that way. Empaths have the sense that we exist both within and without, watching our life unfold as much as experiencing it first hand. It’s as if we look out from behind our eyes, from a place that’s outside perception, where truth is eternal and we are all one.

I remember reading something a long time ago that suggested everthing is a reflection of agreement. Energy coalesces into form because of an agreement to do so, a consciousness-based creation. Take a moment and think about that. Pull back away from what you think you are, go within and align with your Higher Self. Feel the resonance of the collective consciousness. You’re never alone for Source sustains you always. Extend that awareness to others, seeing them as the family they indeed are, as extensions of Source, and you’ll feel no judgment, but only love.

Sorta makes it hard to hex someone, no?

So on this New Moon, reflect on what you’ve created, and consider a new tradition as you willingly let go of what no longer serves.

~Blessings to all!