Yes, and the difficulty only compounds itself over time as just showing simple images or video of yourself doing your work just becomes more white noise to the very folks you hope to enchant on over to the magic side. Anymore, I just want to learn from my friends who are sharing their own practice and have our little group of like 20-50 people I maintain my correspondence with. The jig is up, right? The game is rigged. Especially here in the US, you can feel how some witchy spaces even are mediated spaces created for content-the simulation becomes the reality.
I’m sorry they made you perform🥺. So lame. Like couldn’t writing a book be enough? Sorta a trick question tho, right? It never is.
This: The fantasy of the witch with all its aesthetic accoutrements can only be performed. We can’t live it because at its heart it’s nothing but the detritus of a demonic Christian delusion. Witchy-ness for public consumption can only ever be theatre. It will never reflect our reality as spiritual beings. Let that sit with us as we scroll. 👌
Yes, and the difficulty only compounds itself over time as just showing simple images or video of yourself doing your work just becomes more white noise to the very folks you hope to enchant on over to the magic side. Anymore, I just want to learn from my friends who are sharing their own practice and have our little group of like 20-50 people I maintain my correspondence with. The jig is up, right? The game is rigged. Especially here in the US, you can feel how some witchy spaces even are mediated spaces created for content-the simulation becomes the reality.
I’m sorry they made you perform🥺. So lame. Like couldn’t writing a book be enough? Sorta a trick question tho, right? It never is.
A most excellent essay, Ally.
This: The fantasy of the witch with all its aesthetic accoutrements can only be performed. We can’t live it because at its heart it’s nothing but the detritus of a demonic Christian delusion. Witchy-ness for public consumption can only ever be theatre. It will never reflect our reality as spiritual beings. Let that sit with us as we scroll. 👌