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mamaangiwine · 1 year

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☆☆ Reblog! ☆☆

I've seen a few posts on here from a variety of different blogs now that seem to kinda lament the fact that tumblr is not as rewarding to intermediary/advanced practitioner blogs, and I think that's kinda sad because that's what I want so see. So reblog if you're one of the following-

- An intermediate/ advanced witch, wizard, sorcerer or any other practitioner who doesn't necessarily post for beginners.

- A pagan/polytheist who posts about their thoughts and lived experiences in connection to their gods/faith.

- A mystic who wants to get into the nitty-gritty of scripture, theology, and personal approaches.

- A practicioner who posts mostly UPG, theories, and/or experimental magic.

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eternal-echoes · 1 year

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I wonder if a lot of Christian witches in this website started playing around with demonic magic because the Christianity they were taught was rote and mundane, so they try to look to foreign religions for a sense of mysticism. They probably weren’t taught about Eucharistic adoration and just went along with Christian traditions in a robotic routine so they didn’t think to go to Christianity to quench their thirst for spirituality by reverently worshipping in the Mass and admiring the beauty of the Biblical imagery in churches built in medieval period. They weren’t adequately taught about the mysticism of prayer so to answer that tug that says materialism is wrongheaded, they went to occultism, tarot card readings, and black arts.

Kinda like how there are communist Catholics and white nationalists Catholics. They were probably only taught that the only political stance that the Catholic Church stands for is anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage not the political writings of Pope Leo XIII and St. Thomas Aquinas on the role of the government so they think it’s okay to be a communist Catholic and white nationalist Catholic. They didn’t think that the Catholic Church having the fullness of Truth would also have teachings on the proper earthly ruling in a way that is conducive to man's salvation so instead they thought political ideology and religious truth as separate rather than having the teachings of the Catholic Church shape their entire worldview.

It’s sometimes unavoidable to be cafeteria Catholics when we’ve only been fed little bits of Catholicism in small packages rather than the whole buffet. Granted, spiritual growth doesn’t take a day and sometimes the Holy Spirit can only spoon feed to us the truth so we can eventually learn more the full picture of the Catholic Social teaching and priests can only fit so much in a homily every Sunday but we can at least start by saying that the Catholic Church has the fullness of truth, she transcends all political ideology that every man has ever thought of and whatever doubts you have about the Faith she has the answer in the treasury of her wisdom so that can at least lead to the search for truth. Not everyone is into politics but anyone who is inclined to law has a duty to be an advocate for Catholic philosophy in that regard. Likewise, Christian witches would be better taught about the mysticism in contemplative practices within some religious orders for the sake of their salvation since their natural inclination for deeper spirituality has been disorderly led to pagan religions.

But even then, we can’t always look for that feeling of mysticism to feel God. Because in His silence is when He is the most active in our lives. Despite feeling of hopelessness we always have to remind ourselves that God is there because He is omniscient.

#Catholic #Christianity #Christian witches #paganism #text #witchcraft

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crazycatsiren · 1 year

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I'm giving a shoutout to all the Christian witches, Jewish witches, and Muslim witches. I know a lot of us get a lot of crap from both our religion communities and our witch communities. It's not always easy being who we are. But we're here, and we're valid!

#mother witch ramblings #witchblr #witchcraft #religions #spirituality #christian witches #jewish witches #muslim witches #witch community

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mykyttykat · 3 months

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Better late than never...

Finally got to do my Feast of Epiphany / Twelfth Night Three Kings House Blessing for the year. I combine the traditional chalk markings on the doorways from my church growing up with portions of prayers I found online and ritual work from Sister Karols Book of Spells, Blessings, and Folk Magic.

#three kings day #epiphany #twelfth night #house blessing #folk catholicism #christian witches #folk magic #catholicism #folk catholic #new year blessing

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viettna · 28 days

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who is Amaris?

Warning ahead of time, tetragrammaton uncensored Hi!! I keep telling myself I'll do a post explaining my deity belief system but never do, sorry. I don't have the spoons for a full explanation rn, but I do feel bad so a summary! Feel free to ask followups if the summary does not have enough context haha

I believe in five main divine powers, and their names honestly are kind of dynamic (?) for me. There's the Father, who could be Yahweh, or YHWH or Jehovah or even JHVH. I like Jehovah for no reason in particular. The Son is obviously Jesus and or Yeshua.

Now the Holy Spirit I believe to at times refer to both the Mother and then at times the Daughter. The Daughter is Sophia. I don't know shit about the mother except what She's told me through our limited divination together. I also reason out that just as Jesus preached of the Father, Sophia will one day teach us of the Mother).

The Mother is Amaris. Do I have any reason to be sure this is Her name? Nope.

But She told me She is at least /okay/ with it via tarot, and not okay with me specifically using Deamaris, and it feels right.

#christian witches #christian witch #christian witchcraft #christopagan #christopaganism

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theblasianwitch · 1 year

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I'm crying 😭😭😭

#bible belt #bible belt witch #christian witches #christian witch #decolonization #country music

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secretcatholicwitch · 2 years

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🌾Happy Lammas/Lughnasadh everybody🌾

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beloved-not-broken · 6 months

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what do you think about witchcraft??

I've heard lots of Christians damn it but I've also heard of a lot of Christian witches

thoughts?

Hey, anon!

Great question. To be honest, witchcraft is a topic I don't know much about, but I'm happy to learn for both of our sakes.

Actually, stay tuned 'cause I'll be doing a blog post about this topic over on my website. I'll reblog this post with the link when it's up 😊

#asks #witchcraft #christian witches

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thebrownbabywitchisback · 8 months

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I think one thing that can be very helpful in witch and pagan communities is safe places to discuss lingering fears instilled in some of us by pervasive fundamentalism.

Like, I recently learned about Doreen Virtue and her descent into fundamentalism. From my understanding, she had always incorporated Christianity into her work before preaching a more Evangelical version of Christianity and pretty much slapping her followers in the face by condemning her old work as evil.

The thing about people like Doreen, is that while I imagine it was disappointing for people who took to her work, but I cannot say I'm surprised that she went the way she did. Speaking from experience, all it takes is for someone to talk about the burning pits of Hell and I'm triggered back to the days of when I was a child and dreaded every mistake I made and had nightmares about the devil and going to Hell. Fundamentalism is terrifying, and all it takes is a few bad influences to get someone on board.

I think we really need to be more open about lingering fears that some of us still have about Heaven and Hell, because if we don't talk to each other about it, someone on the fundamentalist side will.

Also, we can do this without alienating Christo-pagans and Christian witches. They absolutely deserve to be welcome in our communities.

#doreen virtue #fundamentalism #spirituality #chirstianity #christo-pagan #christian witches #witchcraft

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lunasun1verse · 2 years

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Let’s talk about Christianity and Pentagrams shall we?

Something that is controversial among Christians that, in my opinion, shouldn't be controversial at all, is pentagrams. I mean they were considered to be THE symbol of Christ after all.....

Now the Pentagram has been in religious practices throughout history forever. I’m not going to get into the semantics about who had it first because quite frankly who the hell cares. The point is, Pagans and Christians have used both in some capacity and it had always been a positive symbol.

Today I’m going to be focusing more on the Christian aspect of it, given that I’m a Christian witch…… but more specifically, I'll talk about how Christians demonized their own pentagrams.

In The Beginning.....

First identified on Sumerian pottery from around 3500 BCE, pentagrams had been associated with either Ishtar or Marduk at various times. Ancient Greeks were known to use the symbol themselves, with a vase dating back to possibly 7 BCE. The followers of Pythagoras in 6 BCE, lovingly known as Pythagoreans, used the symbol as a symbol of mutual recognition and wellbeing.

The pentagram was even used as the symbol of Jerusalem from around 300-150 BCE! It can be found in the Old Testament as the first and most important of the Seven Seals, an amulet believed to have seven seals representative of the seven secret names of the Father. I want you to read that again. The Pentacle can be found in the Old Testament as the first and most important of the Seven Seals of God. It was on King Solomon’s ring, and even was interpreted to refer to the first five books of the Torah. So suck it, mom……

Throughout the Middle Ages.....

Before it became demonized, the newly converted Christian Roman emperor Constantine chose to use the pentagram as his seal and amulet. The pentagram, no matter how it looked, never carried implications of evil, and was symbolic of the Savior, Christ, a STARK difference to Christians today, who have denounced it as a symbol of evil and satanism. Christians during the Middle Ages even used to use the pentagram on their churches as a source of protection, just as witches do. Their meaning, however, was different to the typical pagan witch, as the Christians meant for their pentagrams to symbolize the five senses or the Five Wounds of Christ. If you don’t know them (idk how but…..) they are His head (The Crown Of Thorns in Matthew 27:29), His hands, and His feet (I went with Luke 23:33 just because I can’t find a specific verse. They all just say he was crucified). I also cannot help but point out the utter irony in this, as the church today refuses to acknowledge the pentacle as good, and they used to used them inverted to represent the Holy Spirit defending on us…... An example of said architecture is the North Rose of Amiens Cathedral, a 13th Century Roman Catholic church located in the Picardy region of France.

Another is the lovely Nauvoo Temple, also known as the second-built Latter Day Saint (Mormon) Temple located in Nauvoo, Illinois. Their reasoning for using pentagrams actually stems from the verse in Revelation 12:1, which reads "A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head...."

Even popular literature, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight shows the pentagram making an appearance on the hero’s shield. The poet of this poem, who unfortunately is nameless, attributes the symbol’s origin to King Solomon, the wisest king of the Bible. Eventually, Christians gradually then ultimately phased out the pentagram in favor of the Cross, but still didn’t think of the symbol as anything evil, or associated with Satan. That is..... until.....

The Turning Point.....

It was during the Renaissance that people like Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa started to float the idea that the pentagram held magical attributes, and suggested that the points instead represent the five elements (Earth, Air, Water, Fire, and Spirit). This idea began to catch on much more widespread, and by the mid-19th Century, occultists made even further distinctions regarding the direction the furthest point faced. At this point, they make the distinction that point up symbolized Spirit presiding over the four elements and was deemed good. This is reflected in the play Faust, a 1808 tragedy by Goethe that excellently sees the protagonist use the apotropaic (protective) uses of a pentagram to trap the demon Mephistopheles in a room.

THIS Asshole.....

It was former Roman Catholic priest Éliphas Lévi (originally named Alphonse Louis Constant) during the 19th Century because of fucking course it is….. who decided that, in his words that I’ve paraphrased, ‘an inverted pentagram with two points up represents evil, and attracts sinister forces due to its overturning of the natural order, demonstrating a victory of matter over spirit. It’s the goat of list attacking heaven with its horns’ 😒

Lévi’s thinking on the inverted pentagram began to gain traction…. Because of fucking course it did…. And thanks to a few folks’ misinterpretation of the symbol when ceremonial magicians did their thing, by the 20th Century, Christians said “fuck that” and decided to reject the symbol, leaving it to be associated with evil dirty witches.

So to summarize my post:

Christians should use pentagrams just as much as a Wiccan and a Pagan as we, at one point, blessed houses of worship with this lovely life-giving symbol. Crosses can feel inherently like a constant reminder of death while also reminding us of the Life given to us (I say as I’m wearing one…..) Fuck the church’s modern interpretation of pentagrams. Let’s make them great again and bring life and protection into our spaces.

If you liked this small breakdown, please consider following me? The more people following me and suggesting topics, the more of these I'll do in between my boring sporadic posts...... I'd say donate to my PayPal, but it's attached to my legal name and ion want folks knowing my legal name.

Anyway, to end the night, tonight's song is Wonderful Love by Momoland!

I'm a Merry and JooE is my bias for sure, but Wonderful Love is how I feel like describing my newfound love and appreciation for my eyes being open to how magick and Christianity seriously aren't that different.

Sources for everything;

1. This is the source for the history on the pentagram

2. This is the source for the Amiens Cathedral if you want to know more

3. This is the source for the Nauvoo Temple if you want to know more

4. This source helped me dive just a tad deeper into pentagrams and their history with Christians.

4. Bible verses quoted were Matthew 27:29, Luke 23:33 and Revelation 12:1 thanks to the English to Aramaic translation bible on BibleHub.

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mamaangiwine · 10 months

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Personally, I regard "You're going to Hell, Sinner!" to be a kind of curse. So yeah, I really don't have any qualms sending some nasty shit a Christian Nationalist's way.

Zap. Zap.

#also #theyre just straight up violent #theyre literally litigating shit that will bring physical and emotional harm #magic #folk magic #spirituality #magic practitioners #witchblr #folklore #ritual magic #witchcraft #chaos magicians #wizards #sorcerers #christian witches #christian mystics

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cantva190 · 2 years

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Virgin Mary. Queen of Heaven, Empress of Hell

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Yes, the Mother of God, more familiar to modern audiences as the serene woman gazing at the Infant Jesus, was portrayed as the powerful Queen of Heaven and Empress of Hell in many later medieval devotional sources from Northern Europe. Miracle stories and manuscript illuminations show how quickly Christians believed the prospect of eternal damnation could be transformed into the hope of redemption through Mary’s swift and direct intercession with Satan and sinners alike.These concepts of Mary’s identity did not replace traditional depictions of her as steadfastly obedient to God’s will, which also proliferated in the period. Instead, they were all part of a larger religious culture that viewed Mary’s agency—her capacity to act of her own accord—as significant and complex.

Mary’s power and impact on Christian spirituality reached its apex in the later Middle Ages, roughly 1100-1500, with an outpouring of Marian devotion in the form of religious texts, images, and music, as well as shrines erected in her honor. But Christians had been asking Mary to serve as protector and intercessor long before this period, as seen with the third century prayer Sub Tuum Praedisium: “We fly to Thy protection, O Holy Mother of God; Do not despise our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O Glorious and Blessed Virgin. Amen.

Mary’s intercession always included two components: the initial petition for her aid followed by her intercession with God or her son Jesus on behalf of the petitioner. Yet even as Christ was typically depicted as willing to hear and acquiesce to Mary’s petitions, the miracle stories that emerged in the later Middle Ages increasingly depicted Christians who were more comfortable praying to Mary instead of Christ. Authors in this period composed devotional sources about Mary’s intercession that played with the conventional hierarchy of Christ’s sovereignty over Mary, leaving the son to take a somewhat-secondary role.

One of the earliest and largest Marian miracle collections, Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was written in 1135 by an English Benedictine monk named William of Malmesbury. In it, the author observes that in some cases, supplicants ignored Christ entirely and directly sought intercession from Mary: “By her power, she can, thanks to her power over her son, wrest from Him whatever she pleases by a sweet violence. By her clemency, she pities the pitiable; she is so distinguished for it that she positively glories in being known as the Mother of Mercy.” Mary’s mediating role was so powerful, it seems, that some viewed her intercessory abilities as separate from Christ’s power.

This passage suggests that Mary was uniquely positioned to override Christ and wield power over him; her authority enabled her to determine how to intercede on behalf of her supplicants. William does not view this apparent role-reversal as a slight to Christ, but rather a testament to Mary’s distinctive ability to offer mercy to Christians.

Despite these depictions of her mercy, Mary did not always respond with loving compassion, even in stories within the same collection. William of Malmesbury also notes that Mary, “being happy to check offenders with a word and to mitigate the gravest offences by mere speech, was heard to say: ‘Enough, stop crying! When you return to yourself, you will show if you love me. Speed of conversion will be proof of love; punishment will attend the insolence of scorn.’”

Supplicants not only feared the punishments that awaited them, but even recoiled from Mary’s chastising voice. In rebuking one errant Christian, the same source notes, “her voice was harsh, and she was to all appearances far removed from her normal merciful self.” In reprimanding his behavior, Mary admonishes him: “You must be made to understand quite clearly how great an insult you are guilty of.” Mary’s condemnations underscored the severity of the sinner’s actions and inspired a change in behavior. These contrasting depictions, especially within the same miracle collections, helped create a complicated portrait of a powerful intercessor who was simultaneously merciful and demanding.

In this same period, Christians increasingly turned to Mary in their consideration of the afterlife. Throughout Northwestern Europe, including areas in France and Germany where religious orders were devoted to Mary, visionary literature, poems, miracle stories and other narrative accounts all sought to describe heaven and hell.These sources depict Christians seeking Mary’s intercession to help them evade damnation in hell and ascend to heaven, and a Blessed Virgin who wielded considerable power to save sinners from damnation—before their deaths and after.

Medieval devotional sources saw a direct connection between Mary’s roles as Queen of Heaven and Empress of Hell, ascribing to her the power to influence both the highest heights and lowest depths of the afterlife. John Mirk’s fourteenth-century Festial, a collection of Middle English sermons, includes a passage where Mary herself described her double roles as she sought to save a Christian possessed by the devil: “I am God’s mother, and I pray that my son gets this soul a place in heaven. I am also empress of hell, and have power over all you enemies; and therefore I command you that he [the devil] keep this soul no longer. But go your way and let him [the soul] rest.”

Source ofinformation: https://contingentmagazine.org/2020/04/25/empress-of-hell/#easy-footnote-bottom-17-55999

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crazycatsiren · 1 year

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Post Halloween reminder that if you hate on Christian witches then you are not welcome on my blog.

#mother witch ramblings #witchblr #religions #spirituality #christian witches #witch community #witches of tumblr

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mykyttykat · 4 months

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but:

An ADVENT CALENDAR is an object typically designed for children that features small containers counting the days from December 1st to Christmas Day, and contains a small treat or toy for each day. My very Catholic mother put a little Bible verse telling the Christmas story as well as candy in ours, but there are a lot of of secular Santa-focused ones out there (not to mention boozy or naughty adult versions).

Why "Advent"? Advent is the season in the Catholic church calendar anticipating/celebrating the Advent (aka the coming) of the birth of Jesus. It begins the first Sunday of December and continues until Christmas. Advent calendars are basically the children's daily version of the adult's Advent Wreath - a tabletop wreath containing four candles (three purple, one pink, and sometimes an additional white one for Christmas Day) lit weekly, one at a time, through the four Sundays of Advent.

The TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS are the twelve days from December 25th to January 5th, continuing the celebration of the Christmas Season from Christmas Day to the Feast of Epiphany on January 6th - the day designated as when the Three Wise Men/Magi arrived at Bethlehem. (Despite their frequent inclusion in Nativity Scenes, canonically they arrive a bit after Jesus' birth.)

Corporations mix and match these two concepts with abandon when making their holiday products. Like, fuck capitalism ofc, but BY ALL MEANS, IF YOU LIKE THEM, BUY AND ENJOY THEM. Mislabeled and maladapted by our corporate overlords though they may be, you are absolutely still allowed to make Advent Calendars part of your holiday season, regardless of if you're Christian or not! And who doesn't love a Medieval-style Twelfth Night bacchanal!

Happy holidays!

#merry christmas #happy solstice #blessed yule #12 days of christmas #twelfth night #advent calendar #advent #happy holidays #catholiscism #folk catholicism #christian witches

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viettna · 25 days

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What’s Hagianity?

I put it in my bio when I was first exploring the foundations of my beliefs as a Christopagan. At that time, I felt a deep need for a specific label as I was coming out of Catholicism. It's really just a word I made up to summarize my view of an Abrahamic pantheon, based out of Hagia Sophia, who had been my main focus at the time. Embarassingly enough, I was also hoping someone would ask me about it so I could share without feeling like I was trying to proselytize (ironic lol)

My practice is more so centered around Amaris than Sophia at the moment but I still think Hagianity is a decent term that parallels Christianity in the centering of the Daughter/Son without needing to inherently diminish the Mother/Father. I wouldn't now feel the need to try to find a term for myself or to put it in my bio, but it's already there and there isn't any reason to get rid of it. And hey, someone did end up asking so past me technically accomplished one of flair goals, even if it's not my goal anymore lol

#asks #christian witches #christopaganism

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secretcatholicwitch · 2 years

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I regret to say the woman who inspired me to be a witch has died today.

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To others she is Mrs. Potts but to me she will always be Miss. Price, when I was little I would watch Bedknobs and broomsticks on repeat. Just how the way she carried herself and everything she did was just magical. So I swore to myself that I would be a witch when I got older. Now in my 30’s I’m practicing witchcraft and proud to be a witch.

God bless you Angela Lansbury and I will always love you.

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