00:06I don't want to wait for God to answer my prayers, that's why I'm a witch.
00:17It's a way for me to affect change in my life, but isn't necessarily like a belief in a higher
00:23power that I am devoted to, that I pray to. I have spirit contact, there are spirits that I work
00:28with.
00:28I invited all of my helping spirits and ancestors and deities and said whoever wants to be here
00:33during this interview to make sure I'm saying the right things, let me know and I'll put you in the
00:37room.
00:37And we've got a couple here who are represented in various symbolic ways throughout the room.
00:44All of the religious witchcraft traditions have...
00:47Oh God.
00:49Hey girl, what's up? I told you guys about the jawbone and here she is jumping out at me.
00:53Okay, we'll put you somewhere more stable. How's that?
00:56She didn't like that.
00:58No. No, she didn't.
01:00Well, because she's the primary spirit that I work with and she's like,
01:02no, it is religious because I'm here. It's like a familial relationship.
01:06It really depends. Sometimes it's a working relationship with a deity that I'll have.
01:09I'll contact them and say, I need X, Y, and Z done. Here's what you'll get.
01:13How do you feel about it? And we'll work out some kind of a deal.
01:16Or it's in the case of, you know, I've got tattoos for certain deities that I work with.
01:20That's like a lifelong relationship and that's as meaningful to me as members of my family.
01:28Witchcraft is the doing of magic. So yeah, it's the practical application of it.
01:33When I talk about magic and witchcraft, what I'm talking about is like,
01:36I will use like candles and oils and things or I will anoint my phone to get a Tinder date.
01:41I will like make like a love attraction oil and then I'll like anoint my phone with it and I'll
01:46swipe.
01:47And we'll see who comes through.
01:53Yeah, right now he's just processing. I would do more listening than worrying about all this stuff.
01:59Does that make sense?
02:00The biggest critique we get of witchcraft is that it's 99% placebo effect.
02:04I have too many practical results to believe that and to give that any credit.
02:08And I just invite anyone who has those beliefs or thinks that this is all bullshit to just like
02:12sit in and see if you don't feel something powerful.
02:16It couldn't be evil in as much as like praying for love couldn't be evil and praying for money
02:21couldn't be evil. It's just a means to an end and a very practical one.
02:27Devil worshiping occurs occasionally. But again, there's about as many deities to pick from as
02:34there are like stars in the sky. So some people will choose to worship like the Christian devil
02:38and work with that. Um, satanic temple, a lot of them are good friends of mine. Um, but you know,
02:44there's just as many people who do other things.
02:48Some people have their book of shadows. Um, some people have them in a binder.
02:52Some people have them in an old dusty book. Um, I see no merit to keeping those kinds of things
02:56because I like to be really off the cuff. So I make them up as I go along and I
03:01try not to remember
03:01them after they're done. You have to take this piece down to the crossroads, close your eyes,
03:07throw it in, make a wish, walk away without looking back. Not hard.
03:13So that's just a little bit of room clearing, getting the static energy out of here.
03:17When I think of what witchcraft means to me, it does stem from this like autonomous female,
03:23like kind of like a warrior who just lives by her own means, who takes care of herself by any
03:29means
03:29necessary and doesn't ask anyone for permission.
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