Discussion: Ask a Witch: Morgaine

"How does one become a "born witch?" Just curious."

"Thanks for the info. I received the Ouija board at 8 also. I predicted my brother's death twice. Really I always knew it but kept it to myself. The second time seemed like deja vu'. My brother walked into my dorm room and announced that he joined the navy. I screamed at him and my mother. He is going to die. I wanted him to run away. Go to go the island and live there forever. My parents thought I was jealous and purchased me a bigger TV.


the day he died, I was in a trance at at picnic at Bear Mountain. I was emotionally drained and did not want to play with my family. When I returned from the outing, my father told me that he was dead, and I was a witch. It strained our relationship for years. My dad became an alcoholic, and I retreated into myself.

You're right. I do have a metabolism problem and I am terribly sick. In my family having the gift is not a good thing. To that point I never confronted any vision I saw. I told a neighbor and she told me to always ask what the ghost wanted. I was scared out my wits when it responded. But from the look on its old face it seemed like it adored me, and was startled that I saw it and dared to talk. I floated up into the ceiling when it said the watcher thing. Maybe it was saying, "I am the watcher," (of you.)

Thanks for your reply. Maybe I will gather the courage to accept my gift, and stop using the drugs. But it seemed to work, most of the time."

"All stones need to be cleansed now and then. Citrine is very strong - I can't wear it because it overloads my 4th Chakra - I get ulcers. Every time I've ever tried to wear a piece of jewelry with 7 stones for the 7 major chakras, that stone falls off. I don't find that it neutralizes negativity at all. It's more like Quartz in that it is an amplifier of energy of all kinds."

"Hi Morgaine! I've been a solitary witch for 15 years, I started young and had to keep my beliefs very secret. Family,friends, and my home town. Issues all witches go threw. I recently had a situation where my best friend who is a gifted tarot card reader come to believe that her gift is a curse. She is a practicing catholic and she feels that her gift is a sin. I know people of our faith deal with this situation a lot. But for me, I have no coven or fellow sisters to turn to. She was my only one, she doesn't judge me, but it still hurts to loose a powerful witch in my opinion, to others fear. Please message me with your thoughts and wisdom. Its so good to know I can talk to a fellow Wiccan. See I capitalized it this time. LOL!"

"Thanks for remembering to capitalize! It's a small, but important thing.

Your friend is going through a crisis in conscience. It's very hard to watch someone questioning the very thing that you love about them. Catholics are particularly hard because of the abundance of Pagan symbolism and ritual they use. It's hard to know how the person in question will perceive your ideas.

If you can talk to her without trying ot convert her, there are some questions she might want to consider before she decides that her gifts are a curse. She may not want to talk about it, though, and you don't want to push the idea. She may not be in a place to hear what you have to say just now.

Does she take communion? That is Pagan in origin. Odin, Dionysus, Arthur, and Osiris all predated Jesus in this ritual to name just four of what may be thousands.

Does she eat fish on Friday? That's a hold-over from the cult of Venus/Aphrodite and it's supposed to make you horny. Fish represents the Goddess - the Icthys used by Christians is a Womb symbol. Friday is the day of Freya/Venus/Aphrodite. The eating of fish on Her day is a sexual and/or fertility rite.

Does she say the Rosary? They are purely Pagan - the Rose is a symbol of the Goddess and the petals represent Her labia. The beads are supposed to represent Her genitalia. There's a line in the Bible where Jesus specifically disapproves of using Rosaries - he calls it "vain repetition" and says that the Pagans think they will gain points in heaven for their "much speaking."

So why do they pray the Rosary? Because the Goddess worshiping people who were told to convert or die wouldn't give up their Goddess, so they named Her Mary and wrote a whole new story to explain why they were doing these things.

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Over the years, people gradually forgot the original reasons they did these things. In some cases, they learned new reasons and in some they didn't bother. Next Ash Wednesday, find Catholics with smudges on their heads and ask them what the ashes symbolize. I haven't found one yet that could tell me why they wear the ashes, but they do it any way. Does it still count if you have no idea what you are doing or why you're doing it?


Catholics are generally discouraged from asking questions or even studying the bible. Your friend might not want to hear anything she perceives as negative toward Catholicism, and could become very defensive if you tell her something that goes against her training, even if it's something you can prove to be true. Most adults in our culture stay stuck in concrete thinking their whole lives and never learn to process abstract concepts so they feel physically threatened if you question their belief system. Approach the subject with caution - you don't want to lose a friend over this. Just give her some space. "

"WOW,

okay, after reading this - I'm wondering if my life long fixation with collecting Mary statues and Rosaries (despite no religious upbringing) isn't my subconscious "wink wink - nudge nudge" ing me.

I had NO idea about the Rosary thing !
Thank you Morgaine - this is making really REALLY good reading."

"The Virgin Mary revelation that Morgaine explained is interesting. I recently found out that my family converted to Catholism during the Inquistion. They are rose growing freaks. I also grow roses. And yes, I think there is something very feminine about roses.

In fact, A very famous newspaper publisher named his Mistress' vagina, "Rosebud". That remark made Orson Welles write the script for Citizen Kane. The publisher tried to squash the movie, but could not. Rosebud was not a chlld's sled.

I am also interested in Marian visions. Did you know that the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, is built upon an Aztec Temple for the Goddess, Tonantzin? So again, in order to make the "pagans" follow the faith the Catholics changed the name a Goddess to the Virgin Mary.

Maybe being a witch is not a bad thing. But as long as there is Christianity, there will always be a negative connotion about witchcraft. I admire you, Morgaine. You have the courage to admit what you are, without the fear of someone harming you, or hating what you are.

Tou are "out of the closet". You're fearless!"