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What are you? |
Witch |
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7% |
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Magus |
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Sorcerer |
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0% |
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Psi-User |
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17% |
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Magician |
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10% |
[ 4 ] |
Other |
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60% |
[ 24 ] |
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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:25 pm
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Well, I have done a lot of...soul searching as it were, and I have come to the conclusion that I am not a witch...but a magus...or something. I look at all kinds of magic, but it isn't strictly witchcraft. I draw from all sorts of sources to do my workings. However, I am not ceremonial in that everything has to be a certain way on a certain day at a certain time in a certain month with certain correspondences etc.
I just practice magic. A friend of mine referred to me as a "user" because when she first saw me at a dance she was like: "WTF you use magic!" It was quite funny really because at the same time she entered the room I had put up a shield because I felt someone probing XD
Anyway. This is mostly for Mitsh because he seems more learned in the occult ways than I (lately I have been looking a lot into Chaos magic, I find it fascinating). What should I call myself? Magus seems to be the best term really...I think.
I do not adhere to any "god" but I call on the forces of nature itself: Death, the Wyrd, Chaos, Life etc, the four classical elements: earth, air, fire and water; and the four spaces of power: sky, land, the sun and the river of souls; the seven directions etc. I don't really believe in angels because they are a Judeo-Christian thing that I do not really adhere to by that I don't believe in demons either. The "Goetic Demons" are merely power manifestations of a their archetypes, that is how I see them.
In general I am fascinated with all kinds of magic from folk to ceremonial but I do not like to take a long time to do a spell (much like it would appear in some forms of ceremonial magic). Nor do I like to do things a certain way because I am very spontaneous and chaotically organized.
I know the gods exist, I just don't adhere to them because we personify them too much I think and identify with them in an unnecessary way.
What would you call me?
And what do you call yourself?
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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:34 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:33 pm
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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:33 pm
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Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 12:02 pm
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Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 10:36 am
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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 5:39 am
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:21 am
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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:47 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:19 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:54 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:56 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:13 am
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I'd like to say that i am like any other person. Only, i have a small lightbulb problem i cant ever seem to fix. I don't follow any traditional path of magick usage, i don't worship any gods, per say. I believe in energy, in consequence, and in strict study. I do however make it a point to study every belief system i come in contact with, because i feel that at the bottom of it all, there was once a root religion and a root culture that all of the separate beliefs sprung off of, and that is my goal. In the above poll, i marked myself as a psi-user. However, i have only been studying that particular bit for a little over the last year, keeping a journal to look back on. I have, though, been in the study of nature magick, such as 'wicca' for the last ten years, under the guidance of my grandmother. But we are different in that we believe really only in life cycles and nature itself. Not the personification of energies, which is really all that gods are, in our opinion. And i would also like to add, though for some it is taboo, that i have been studying sexual magick itself for a couple of years (don't worry kids i'm legal), and at least in the case of me and mine, it actually ties quite nicely into the psionics/energy manipulation.
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:17 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:42 am
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This is a subject which has been perplexing to me for a while as well- I've never known what to call myself in this regard. Back when I was a Wiccan, I used to think that I could only be called a "witch" inasmuch as the words "Wiccan' and "witch" were often used interchangeably- and whether that was a correct usage of the term I couldn't say. Back then, although I was fascinated by magical theory, I didn't really practice it that much beyond the very basic circle casting required for ritual.
I've since moved out of Wicca and into a reconstructionist approach, and while I have retained my fascination for different schools of magic, the style of "magic" associated with my chosen cultural focus fits much, much better with my lifestyle and worldview- no big surprise there! However, I'm still not so focused on magic that I'd anchor my personal identity on it- and within the culture of ancient Egypt, the source of my spirituality, the types of things that I do with magic don't seem like they would have been all that amazing or uncommon. It's just another technology, and I use it where appropriate.
The word "witch" seems rooted in Western occultism anyway- it has a distinctly European flavor to it to my mind. I don't know if it would even be applicable to someone who practices heka (an Egyptian word which is often translated as "magic"). And I don't know whether I would qualify as a "magician" or just another person who is applying her understanding of the world when interacting with her environment.
So I chose "other" in your poll.
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