Afro-Centric | Witchcraft
From media depictions to ancient, ecstatic rites, the use of alcohol in ritual is one study that cannot be denied.
(Image | Pixabay) You know the terrible thing about depression? And this, of course, is not a generalization of depression as experienced by everyone, this is just my own personal observation with depression as I experience it (now that that disclaimer is out of the way); depression seems to slowly, but surely sap everything within…
(Photo | Imgur) Just a personal musing; bare with me. So, I’m reading through another book on my shelf. I’m trying to plow straight through as I don’t know when I’ll have the time to read or re-read it again, whatever the case maybe. So, as I’m reading I come across a single line in the…
This has been one busy year, one boring year, one depressing year, one exciting year, and the year isn’t even over yet. To be honest, I can’t wait for Saturn to move its task master ass out of my fourth house already, but that’s neither here nor there at the moment. The good thing about…
After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is…
(Image | The Fountain) Taken from my fledgling Book of Shadows: We are – at any given moment – our ancestors and our descendants, all encapsulated in that single grain of time. We exist simultaneously in the past, in the present and in the future. We are our ancestors reborn; we are our descendants yet…
Tincturing with Hawthorn berries (dried) and Kava Kava. I don’t (or won’t, whatever the case maybe) hide the fact that I suffer from depression. It is my truth and I’m coming to grips with it even as I fight tooth and nail each day to deal with it and live with it. I’m not sure…
You know how you can tell a book is fantastically good? When you haven’t finished the whole thing yet and you’re already highlighting pages and writing notes in the side margins. There aren’t very many books that interest me enough to do that within the first few pages (well, except Fahrenheit 451, but c’mon, it’s Fahrenheit…
If you’re a white woman thinking, ‘What’s next? Everything seems insurmountable,’ welcome to the fucking party. Listen to a black woman. – Angela Peoples, Huffington Post I wanted to keep this blog away from political debates and just focus on one of the many vices of conversation folks shy away from: religion. Or maybe not…
She’s just a girl, and she’s on fire Hotter than a fantasy, longer like a highway She’s living in a world, and it’s on fire Feeling the catastrophe, but she knows she can fly away -Alicia Keys, Girl on Fire The elements are an important part of my craft. They make up Nature itself; they…
So, update: I’ve been taking a Witchcraft 101 class in the sleepy little town of Conyers, GA (yeah, that same Conyers where they film the Originals and the Vampire Diaries) and the shop that I’m taking the class (Wicked Mojo FKA Black Cat Curios company) is one of the filming locations. What does this have…
Roots & Bone 