Wisdom and empowerment are the gifts of the Dark Goddess
of Transformation.
She is known to us as Kali, Hecate, Cerridwen, Lilith,
Persephone, Fata, Morgana, Ereshkigal, Arianhrod, Durga,
Inanna, Tiamat, and by a million, million other names:
Hear me child, and know Me for who I am. I have been with you
since you were born, and I will stay with you until you return to Me
at the final dusk.
I am the passionate and seductive lover who inspires the poet to dream.
I am the One who calls to you at the end of your journey. After the day
is done, My children find their blessed rest in my embrace.
I am the womb from which all things are born.
I am the shadowy, still tomb; all things must come to Me and bare their
breasts to die and be reborn to the Whole.
I am the Sorceress that will not be ruled, the Weaver of Time, the
Teacher of Mysteries. I snip the threads that bring my children home
to me. I slit the throats of the cruel and drink the blood of the
heartless. Swallow your fear and come to me, and you will discover
true beauty, strength, and courage.
I am the fury which rips the flesh from injustice.
I am the glowing forge that transforms your inner demons into tools of
power. Open yourself to my embrace and overcome.
I am the glinting sword that protects you from harm.
I am the crucible in which all the aspects of yourself merge together
in a rainbow of union.
I am the velvet depths of the night sky, the swirling mists of midnight,
shrouded in mystery.
I am the chrysalis in which you will face that which terrifies you and
from which you will blossom forth, vibrant and renewed. Seek me at
the rossroads, and you shall be transformed, for once you look upon my
face, there is no return.
I am the fire that kisses the shackles away.
I am the cauldron in which all opposites grow to know each other in
Truth. I am the web which connects all things.
I am the Healer of all wounds, the Warrior who rights all wrongs in
their Time. I make the weak strong. I make the arrogant humble. I raise
up the oppressed and empower the disenfranchised. I am Justice
tempered with Mercy.
Most importantly, child, I am you. I am part of you, and I am within
you. Seek me within and without, and you will be strong. Know me.
Venture into the dark so that you may awaken to Balance,
Illumination, and Wholeness.
Take my Love with you everywhere and find the Power within to
be who you wish.

Now that I have gained an incredible amount of experience and knowledge when it comes to the Craft, I am beginning to think of things in a different context. I no longer have the need to ask questions about what at the moment seem like trivial things, nor do I need help with my path or have my head exploding with questions about Wicca..

No, this time my head is exploding with something else, wonderings about ethical matters, the journey that I have taken and am still taking, thoughts about the mysteries that paganism holds, mainly the monistic context of the God and the Goddess.

To clarify, a monistic view of the God and the Goddess means that they are a whole, a unity, and within them the opposites of the world coexist. To explain further what I mean here, they are both light and dark, good and evil, etc.

They are the joy of childbirth and the wasting disease at the same time. They are a beautiful crisp autumn morning and they are a devastating earthquake that takes lives.

Over the now almost 7 years of studying Wicca and witchcraft lightly, and the past year or so of heavy studying and practicing witchcraft, my whole view of the world was crushed, broken down, and rebuilt. This is not something I decided to do, this is something that happened within me, an internal process, my personal initiation if you will.

This internal initiation brought many challenges and rewards, and a great effort on my part had, and still has, to be made, so I can get through this.

What I wanted to discuss now is the fact that as Pagans we have a special affinity with Nature, be it worship or respect, we all have a different relationship with Nature. Now, Nature is all. It is both light and dark, creative and destructive at the same time. In order to appreciate that to the full extent, we have to view Nature within a monistic viewpoint, that is, as a whole that cannot be broken up into different pieces or categorized.

Now, as God and Goddess are a manifestation or representation of everything, the same must be done with them. But I have again and again encountered pagans or witches that insist on ignoring or suppressing the darker side of the God and the Goddess, wanting them to be purely good and beings of light.

Now, not to offend anyone, but personally, I find this to be rather ignorant. The journey that I have taken, the journey within, my internal initiation has taught me that the God and the Goddess do have darker sides and they want us to acknowledge and respect them. The Dark Goddess has come into my life and I have now encountered her within my dreams and meditations. She does not want to be ignored.

The fact that we as pagans are more often than not coming from Jeudo-Christian backgrounds, we tend to want to break things up into dualistic opposites. The classic example being God/Satan. But we do the same with our deities, break them up so that they do not have a dark or an evil side. But as with Nature which is both creative and destructive, our deities are a whole that cannot be separated.

I guess what I wanted to do first and foremost was to get this rant out of me, and secondly I wanted to hear your opinions. Do you agree? Do you disagree? Why? What is your opinion on the matter?

Now what I want to make clear here is that the Dark Goddess is not an evil part of the Goddess. It is merely the destructive force that is necessary to the creative force.

Deleted all my entries, starting fresh. This blog will be dedicated to Wicca, spirituality and religion from now on, I decided to start a whole new and separate blog for all the health related stuff, because it was taking up too much space on this one which was supposed to be about Wicca from the start.

So... Too tired and uninspired to write anything here today, but I will be updating very soon. I'm thinking about publishing various Wicca articles of mine here, as well as doing my book reviews and stuff like that here, so there's lots to look forward to!