A Calling

I read a really good blog post about Being Silent within the Witchcraft Tradition.  It comes from a phrase known well within the Witchcraft Community – to Know, to Will, to Dare, and to keep Silent.  It’s a good phrase to learn.  It sounds simple enough, but you can delve so deeply with it.

And with all that is going on in my life at the moment, To Keep Silent resonates with me so much.  I’m an introvert.  I’m a Scorpio.  And here recently, I’ve put myself Out There too much.  Especially when it comes to the inner workings of myself.  I’m just so thrilled that so many things are crystallizing and finally coming into focus that I just want to share it with the world.  But maybe that isn’t the correct approach.  At least not for me.  Not right now.

I’m feeling the calling to turn inwards.  I’m feeling the call to hibernate and marinate in whatever the Spirit World has to offer me right now.  And more and more, I have the feeling that it isn’t something that should be shared with the entire world.  I’ll still write about my mundane world – the hilarious things my husband and students do.  The trials and tribulations of Old Lady’s twilight years (though, honestly, we could be talking months, sadly).  The fun and headache that goes with house ownership.  And the insanity and work that goes with school.  I’ll even generally brush off spiritual topics.  But the meat of my faith will be written down.  Guess I’m finally feeling the call of doing a Book of Mirrors once more – a Witch’s journal of reflection (similar, but different from the Book of Shadows, which is more of a spiritual how-to).  Who knows?  I may even get into the swing of maintaining a Book of Shadows.  I’ve tried in the past, but it just never quite sticks.  ::chuckles::  Maybe I’ll find a method that resonates with me.

But for now, I know that I spend way too much time on the internet.  I spend way too much time talking about spiritual things instead of DOING/EXPERIENCING spiritual things.  

I think it’s time for me to return to my roots – how I started out on this Path.  I grew up in a very small, very Christian rural Texas town.  And to be a Witch THERE?  I had to Keep Silent on the vast majority of it.  I think I’ll read through my Book of Mirrors from those early days.  I may cringe at parts of it, but I think I would do well to return to the beginning once more. 

Who knows how deep this rabbit hole will go?