Witchy Wednesday – Spells

Do you perform spells on a regular basis?

An interesting question for this week’s (probably a couple week’s ago now) Witchy Wednesday.  The over all answer is no, I don’t cast on a regular basis.

When I was younger, I tended to believe that spells were a somewhat last resort when everything else you had tried had failed.  It’s not what I would tell others when they asked for advice, but it was a weird standard I held myself to.  I collected research, spells, rituals, lore, etc, but I rarely used any of it in a practical sense.

Then came my Saturn’s Return, and I turned away from the Craft pretty well all together.  I still considered myself pagan, but in the small ‘p’ sense where I just didn’t want any part of spirituality or the like.

In the past few years, I have been slowly working my way back into my Craft, and really, until this year, I haven’t felt the need to cast anything.  Life was pretty easy, and aside from wishing that I could twitch my nose and clean the house, or chant an incantation that would put my kids to sleep at night, I didn’t really have a lot of need for spells. I did keep up on my meditation and grounding skills because they had fallen by the wayside, but that was really about it.

Then recently, a group of friends and I began creating large workings to help influence change in the world.  There are places outside our lives that need our power and our skills, and that work really gave me a sense of purpose with my spells.  And as sometimes happens, the more you cast, the more you see instances when you should.

I have a few spells for the spring lined up for myself, and then through the summer, I will probably do some more charitable/empowerment workings for causes that are important to me.

Maybe ask me again in six months if I cast on a regular basis, and the answer might be yes.

Next week I will be jumping on the topic of Spiritual Practises.  Might be a short one.  Cheers!