Swati Prakash

Top Tarot Healing and Wiccan Expert

Category: Witchcraft and Wicca

Positive Witchcraft and ethical Wicca based on the Wiccan Rede as a guideline : An Ye Harm None and Do What Ye Will which means to do what a person chooses to with own will power, with no harm to self or others and without interference or domination over oneself. Freedom from limiting belief systems that have created misunderstandings about witchcraft and magic so that the right teachings are given.

  • Birthday of a Witch!

    Birthday of a Witch!

    We have heard his stories, of all the miracles and wonders that he brought into the world, His healing powers, prophetic abilities and magical skills are well known.

    Jesus Christ seems to have been an extremely good witch, a magickal human who had tremendous wisdom and consciousness. If those tales are true it seems that he used his power of consciousness to create a change, to awaken the masses, to see the future,  and to show and lead by example. 

    Legend says that he was sacrificed…and it is also known that so many alleged witches have been framed and murdered through time for being courageous, self driven, focused…why… just because they chose their own beliefs and used their own inner spiritual powers instead of going as per the dictates of others?

    Following the path of Christ is about following the inner self. Instead of merely worshiping and remembering such great masters we must try to be like them, to learn the ways of the healers, to be enlightened, to work with the angels and unseen beings of nature, to prophecise and see the future, to perform divination and magick, to create a more positive state of being for ourselves, facilitating that for others, creating more beauty, peace and joy in this world, to be in balance, to maintain the balance of nature…Then we will truly be in the energy of God(dess).

    We may celebrate his birthday today in many ways but it will be incomplete if we did nothing to invoke our inner light as that is what God(ess) is truly all about. 

    Whether we attend a sacred ceremony, meditate, perform a spell, spend time in nature, or simply be in the energy of truth, we must know that the light of the world is being born within us in this very moment… as we spend some time with our-Self discovering the magick within us all.

    Blessed Be

    (*)

  • Nature = Science = Religion

    Nature = Science = Religion

    Humans consider themselves to be more intelligent, more evolved than other creatures of earth. I have come across certain spiritualists who believe that their being human is such a gift because ‘they are so much more spiritually evolved’. Many believers in reincarnation actually state that human life is the highest possible level of reincarnation on earth and it is through this that we attain the so called higher state of ‘liberation’.

    It is true that humans are biologically more evolved, being the most dense, physically and mentally more complex species on earth.

    Biological evolution and spiritual evolution however are two different things.

    Biological evolution can be termed as spiritual ‘involution’. All matter has evolved from its original spirit form. Spirit, energy, chi, prana, shakti is life and it is the essence and original state of everything that exists (both the living and so called ‘non living’). Energy has ‘condensed’ to become what we see as matter. This is a scientific fact and a peek into quantum physics will help us understand this.

    Becoming more and more complex from our original, simple, ‘unity’ state of existence – this is the process of involution.

    As nature becomes more and more complex, spiritual vibrations become denser and denser, more and more complex forms of life evolve as spirit gets ‘involved’ in the play of existence. We become physically more complicated, mentally more complicated, hence highly ‘intelligent’ humans.

    Animals (read other animals as humans are a part of the animal world scientifically speaking), are less biologically evolved and less mentally complicated. They are closer to the spiritual self.

    Plants are even closer to the spiritual self. Minerals, crystals, rocks are close too as they have fewer complexities.

    Earth (solid matter), Water, Fire, Air, are all closer to Spirit in that order.

    Spiritual evolution refers to the process of us (complex human forms) becoming more and more attuned to our original essence of spirit, this means to simplify ourselves, be more natural, more scientifc, which means more spiritual.This is also ‘Shedding our Huge Human Ego’. Humans need to meditate to get rid of mental chatter and to be in touch with their simple self. Other beings of nature need this much lesser than humans do.

    In the quest for achieving spiritual liberation humans have created religion. Religion is another name for shared spiritual belief system…. and there are so many variations of these belief systems… each eager to prove its superiority and establish its dominance. All these religions are untimately based on stories, books, myths and mythologies. Science and common sense urge us to understand that these myths, stories, books and mythlogies contain just lessons for us to learn, rather than facts. There is truth within them, even though they may not be exactly factual.

    The fact is that all myths, customs, rites have evolved from nature. In the beginning humans observed nature and its phenomena. Sun, moon, tides, storms, lightning, rain and so on. These were all honoured as deities and as they started responding to the wishes and thoughts of humans they began to understand what magick is really all about. Every aspect of nature began to assume a deity form, animals, birds and even human. We prayed to the gods of rains for rainfall, sun for warmth, and so on.

    As religion evolved into more complex forms in line with the biological and mental evolution of man, we went out of step with spirituality and nature. We forgot that all modern myths and mythologies in all modern religions have originally evolved from nature worship.

    For example – what we celebrate as Christmas or birth of Jesus Christ in December was originally celebrated as Winter solistice. Around this time each year we witness the longest night and the shortest day of the year, after which days begin to grow longer and longer. This is the peak of winter and the Sun god is at its weakest dying stage, and soon as the solstice ends, Sun is born again and slowly gains power as the wheel of the year turns. This is also called Yule and originally being a nature festival that symbolised the rebirth of sun was celebrated with evergreen trees, holly and mistletoe being symbols of the cycle of death and rebirth, popcorn garlands and decorations were warpped around trees to keep the ‘tree spirits’ warm. Such a beautiul way to celebrate the magick and mystery of nature – and most of us who celebrate Christmas don’t even know that.

    Gods and goddesses that are visualised as having human form are actually all originally just aspects of nature. Thunder and lightning (Zeus, Indra), male god (sun, Lugh, Mithra, Aditya, Vishnu, all versions of male ‘God’ deity in modern religions such as Christianity), female goddess (moon, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Artemis, most female deities that are conspicous by their absence in modern patriarchial religions). The lists of gods and goddesses may be endless but they are all forms of nature and should ideally help us be more and more aligned with our natural self.

    Air, Fire, Water, Earth, Plants, Animals and all other beings of nature are more in tune with their essence, their spirituality than humans who falsely believe themselves to be superior. They are all far more at ease with themselves, their intuition, their ablity to ‘be’, their basic needs and desires than most humans who have created way too much stress and complication in their lives and are seeking a way to escape this through one of two extremes:

    First extreme – the path of asceticism, meditation to the extent of losing their basic ‘grounding’ or practicality, celibacy, to a less extent vegetarianism, Jainism, veganism and fasting to a greater extent denial of food and water, relenquishing pleasure while being misfits in society and deeply unhappy within.

    The second extreme – Overindulgence in the life process, drugs, addictions, poly-amourism (multiple partners – no committment), maximising pleasure, numbing themselves to pain while being deeply unhappy within.

    A lot of so called spiritualists I have observed acually fall in one of the above two categories. I have actually found them to be broken, sorry people who are in real need of healing but their spiritual egos keep them far from accepting their natural truth.

    Thankfully to help us achieve this we have Science.

    As we learn to observe nature (which is the essence of science) we try to discover facts and move away from myths. We learn the language of nature and its laws. We learn how all matter is composed of vibrations that are altered through the power of consciousness. Through scientific experimentation we have discovered that there is ‘Magick’ and what we really focus on condenses from spirit to matter, from imagination to reality, E=mc square etc… – a fact that witches and mystics have known all along and ‘new age’ gurus have finally ‘exposed’ as the Secret.

    We finally learn that all we really need to be is our simple, humble, natural self. This means our intuitive, spiritual, scientific, magickal self.

    Imagine if we all were in tune with this part of us, with our essence.

    Imagine a world where we are in perfect harmony and sync with nature, its bounty, its beauty.

    A world in which we use our common sense and scientific understanding of the world to discover its facts and our natural intuition to discover their underlying truth, instead of being brainwashed by modern religious leaders into following what they claim to be the ultimate concept of ‘God’.

    A world where we realise that we are biologically well evolved as humans but need to spiritually evolve – which means to go back to our natural simple, intuitive, magickal state of being.

    A world in which we are truly happy, abundant, enlightened and peaceful because whatever we want and desire is manifesting each moment by the way of natural Magick and it is scientific – and real – and good. We use it only for good and never to harm, because we know that we do not want to harm anyone if we truly wish to achieve peace, joy and happiness – purity of intent – Satva-yuga!

    Welcome to the magickal world of Wicca – a nature oriented spiritual system – a scientific, rational religion – a path of Love and Light!

    You can read more on this on the blog and if you’d like to learn more, register for the courses.

    Join us for the Yule ritual this 21 Dec 2009 (more on the page Magick on Facebook – link on this blog)

    Merry Yule, Happy Winter Solstice and Blessed Be
    (*)

    Swati Prakash
    Head Priestess – Earth Healing Temple

    Founder – Global Wicca Tradition

  • Freedom…a Wiccan’s point of view

    Freedom…a Wiccan’s point of view

    I have been hearing so much about freedom lately (Independence day discussions on 15th August) that I decided last night to ask the universe to expand my awareness of what this word could really mean.

    I asked myself…. if you were to be totally on your own, away from the responsibilities of the world would that be freedom? If you switched off your phone and cut off fromt the world, then would you be a ‘free bird’? If you went on a vacation or drank and dozed off for the night…will that be freedom. If you ended a relationship that is difficult to handle, then would you be truly independent and free…. Perhaps not!

    True freedom lies in being free from within. We have all heard of this I am sure… but its just like saying something out of a book. What does this actually mean to me and you? Free from what…and free of what?

    If you are free from everything else but not from your own self limiting beliefs and patterns… that state of being can hardly be called freedom.

    If you are free of temporary cares and troubles but not truly peaceful and in touch with you inner power to heal and tranform these troubles… that can hardly be called freedom.

    True freedom is in knowing ourselves and being true to ourselves.  The truth is that we are constantly creating what we call our destiny. We are always free to choose what we create. That’s why we say freedom is within and this choice is always within you and me.

    How can we be true to ourselves? And just WHO are we after-all?

    As for me, I am a Witch. The typical image of a witch flying on a broomstick is often taken offensively by a lot of Wiccans but to me it has always been a symbol of being liberated and free. Especially the ones with an old crone flying on the handle. Within each of us is this old and wise soul who knows everything and is waiting to be recognised. It is this wise one within us that has the keys to true freedom and liberation.

    To me this came through the Wiccan path so let me elaborate upon the concept of freedom as a Wiccan.

    As per Wiccan, as well as Vedic and most of the ancient philosophical belief system, the universe is composed of five key elements – Air, Fire, Water, Earth and Spirit. Much of what we know and experience can be explained through this elemental system. Simplification according to some…maybe…and why not ….after all Truth is always simple…misconstructions of truth are rather complicated.

    Air: This is the element that rules over or represents our thoughts. We are always free to choose our thoughts. That sounds fairly easy, but there is a small catch…We may not always be aware of what we are thinking at all times.  Many of our conscious and subconscious daydreams and fantasies are taken too lightly by us inspite of the fact that over time they collect energy and manifest into real events and situations. Every thought that ever springs into our mind has the potential to manifest into reality to some extent or another. While focused thoughts can turn into manifest reality sooner and much more prominently, unfocused ones may take more time.  That’s not all. Sometimes we consciously think pleasant thoughts but somewhere inside we feel negative, skeptical or fearful about the same issue and this cancels out and dilutes the manifestation of the positive thought we had sent out. Therefore in order to be totally free in mind we need to be aware of our outer and inner mind both. Each time a negative thought presents itself to me I try to be aware of ‘what am I thinking’ and try to heal and replace it with a positive one instead. I have my dark moments too…but the good thing is you will eventually come out of it sooner or later – this is my Freedom of Thought

    Fire: This is the element of our desires and wants. Some spiritualists may opine that true freedom is a total freedom from desires.  ‘Desires when not fulfilled lead to sadness and this is the cause of all suffering,’ they say. This is almost like escaping reality and being listless boring people. In my view true freedom is not about negating desires completely but by choosing to focus on those desires that are beneficial and useful withharm to none (another excellent topic to ponder about). Desires are different from thought. There is more energy in them because we feel it running in every cell and tissue of our body. Whatever we are more passionate about has a greater chance of manifesting than something we don’t really care for.  For instance, many of us imagine magic to be some way in which we can make objects fly in air but for most of the witches such a skill is hardly something they would really care too much to develop. They would rather focus on real needs, issues and wants of their life, and where they need healing is where their fire will be – Freedom of Desire

    Water: This is the element of emotions and most of us are so full of it. Our bodies are composed of plenty of water therefore it is only natural for us to be emotional beings. We may ignore, hide or repress our emotions but that does not mean we do not have them. True emotional freedom is not about blocking emotions but about expressing them and enjoying them. Some of you would say, can we enjoy dark emotions too…the sorrowful, pitiful, hateful ones…? Your choice! But then do not complain if sorrowful and pitiful situaitons keep on developing in your life. Each emotion is tremendously powerful and manifests into reality sooner than we think. If we become sensitive to our emotions, and intuition is a very good way to begin, we will find that it will be a lot easier for us to identify negative or blocked emotions and therefore heal them and replace them with positive and loving ones. We can choose to be in a loving vibrational state.  True emotional freedom is about being in love and allowing it to flow freely through you. This Love is a choice we can make at any moment, and this Love is what we are Free to Feel.

    Earth: This is the element of practical, sensible wisdom. This is the way we organise and integrate our experiences, thoughts, desires and emotions into meaningful patterns. Spells are all about this. A methodical approach that combines the air of clear thoughts and intentions with fire, water and earth works best – you may choose symbolic representations of your intention – crystals, images, oils, anything you can sense and percieve with your senses that can make your intentions turn into somethng more real and believable to yourself. This way you will make manifestation much more effective than through simple visualisations or affirmations or mere positive thinking. Wisdom is an important ingredients and the more of it in your spells the better. This usually takes study, training and practice to develop.  After all being a witch or wiz is all about being wise and that is the real Freedom to Be.

    Spirit: This is the element that is the source of all that is. Usually the imperceivable part of us that is unconscious of itself, but can be made conscious through the right practices. Afterall there is a spell for everything, even spiritual growth. The higher our spiritual vibrations the better our thought, desire, feeling or spell will manifest. We must constantly work on our spiritual growht and awareness if we are to be truly wise beings and really free people. Freedom of spirit is the most important of all. This is our basic essence made manifest in full bloom. We must be aware that we are not just our present body, mind and experiences but much beyond that…souls with several lifetimes of experiences, soul groups with a continnum of souls within it and the divine itself with all the patterns and possibilities that exist in the entire universe – all this is our true nature and reality. This is our Freedom and true liberation. Know thyself!

    So that was my higher self talking to me. I hope you enjoyed our conversation. More later…

    Blessed Be

    (*)