Here's another round of Q&A for technically November!
Welcome back to our monthly advice column! Technically this is actually November's, but life has been crazy, so we're going to have to just take it on the first week of December instead. But we've got another ten questions to get through, so let's hop right on in.
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Now for all this good conversation!
What Texts Inspired You to Become a Christian Witch?
"What were some texts that inspired your journey to become a Christian witch?" —Jennifer
Hi, Jennifer!
I actually have a YouTube video that goes over how I became a Christian witch. But basically, I've also always been a fantasy-minded, mystical person, and growing up in Catholicism, it made sense to me that these things would go together the more I studied it.
As a result, the texts that inspired me to become a Christian Witch... were actually fantasy books! God, I loved the idea of magic. Everything about it seemed so cool, like the world was limitless with it and that the only real constraint was your imagination and your willpower. Imagine the excitement of an 11 year old girl finding out that such an idea was true? That magic did exist, and that the only limit to what could be done with it was my own mind?
Of course, I would've loved for all the goofy stuff I saw on Spells of Magic to be legit—the time-bending, fireball-shooting, mind-melding stuff they promised you could do with a red pen and a string—but finding out the real uses of magic as I went along afterwards, it was still just as neat. The very first book I ever read about real witchcraft and magic was Judika Illes' Pure Magic, which I really don't recommend just because it's heavily Wiccan and full of wacky stuff, but it did show me what was what at a basic level. You know, color correspondences and elements and all that. It was also boring as dirt to an 11 year old, but hey. It got me started, and I've been steadily learning more ever since, about both witchcraft and Christianity.
Can You Romantically Godspouse an Angel?
"What is your opinion on angels and that of godspousing them? I understand that it can mean being like a nun but someone told me they were spoused romantically to an angel. I only have surface level knowledge of that being a big no. So I was just wondering what your opinion would be on it or if you can point me to books to better get an understanding of it. Thank you." —Anonymous
Oh my God. -sigh-
To be clear, friend, I am not frustrated with you. I am frustrated with whatever absolute goober said that they are romantically godspoused to an angel. Because that is not possible. Can you maybe do this with fallen angels (as in, angels who are already booted from Heaven)? Sure.
But any angel that is still in Heaven? Like Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Uriel? Absolutely not. Even in the context of something more like a nun, no. This doesn't happen with angels, because Abrahamic angels are, themselves, servants of God. They want you to be some kind of nun or godspouse to God, not to them (and not in a romantic way, because obviously).
To answer your question on where to find this information, we look to two places: the Book of Genesis (the literal first book in the Bible) and the Book of Enoch (which is an extra-canonical text, essentially a divine filler episode, that takes place right before God floods the world and follows the prophet Enoch, who later became the archangel Metatron).
Let's start here with Genesis 6:1-8:
When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
And then you know the rest. Noah builds an ark, sticks two animals of every type on that thing, and they sail around a while until the flooding is over. But notice a few key things in there: the Nephilim, the Sons of God and Daughters of Humans, and the evil that resulted. These ideas are further developed in the Book of Enoch, where we see this here in Chapters 6-8:
And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto 2 them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men 3 and beget us children.' And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not 4 indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations 5 not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together and bound themselves 6 by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn 7 and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, 8 Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaqiel, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.
1 And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms 2 and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. And they 3 became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed 4 all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against 5 them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and 6 fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.
1 And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all 2 colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they 3 were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, 'Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal (taught) astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven . . .
So what do we learn from this? A few things:
Angel Dad + Human Mom = Living Calamity (Nephilim)
The giants are pretty shitty and mess everything up
The specific angel Azazel is something of a Prometheus type figure in that he taught us all these secrets of heaven (metalworking, magic, makeup), so that's cool.
But if you continue reading, you see that Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel realize that everything is messed up, tell God, and start the whole mess that is God basically rebooting the world. He also condemns all those angels who went marrying human women; they are no longer in heaven. Any angel that does this kind of thing is not allowed back into heaven. Just look at this bit of Chapter 10 from the BoE here for proof:
And the Lord said unto Michael: 'Go, bind Semjaza and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves 12 with them in all their uncleanness. And when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement that is 13 for ever and ever is consummated. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: and 14 to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever. And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all 15 generations. And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because 16 they have wronged mankind.
Like... angels who did this got bound, watched their children and lovers be torn apart and killed, got condemned until the Day of Judgement... the whole damn thing. There is no room for godspousing an angel that is still in Heaven; obviously, any angel that has not been condemned to the fire and is still doing all that Heaven Stuff™ has learned what the consequences are for doing what this troupe of angels did.
Anyone who says they are godspoused to a still Heaven-bound angel in a romantic setting is not dealing with said angel, but a trickster spirit or some form of spiritual psychosis. Full stop.
What Was the Point of Jesus Dying?
"I have a question about Jesus dying on the cross. If it wasn’t because we all needed to be saved because we are so sinful, what was the purpose of it?" —Anonymous
Hey, friend!
So, I do think I've talked about this before, but the theory you're describing, known as penal substitutionary atonement, is actually only one theory of very many that came around in the early days of Christianity. It's a derivative of the ransom theory, which suggests that Jesus was a ransom to save humanity from Satan/sin/etc. Another theory, which I align with much more (but isn't the only idea worth looking at), is called Christus Victor, or literally, "Christ is Victorious."
In this theory, the idea isn't really that Jesus dies as a sacrifice to the angry God demanding blood for all this sin. Rather, it's God (as Jesus) restoring the original way of the world before the ejection from Eden: one where Death does not exist. There's still an element of sin in it—because obviously, it was the inception of sin, or going against God's design, that caused Death to creep into God's creation—but God just kind of deletes it with this one last Pascal lamb that is His Son. The thing about this, though, is that we still mess up and make mistakes. After all, that's all sin really is: a mistake. So there's still reason for us to recognize when we mess up and make an honest attempt to make amends for it (repentance, reconciliation, fixing any problems caused, etc.). But when we die, that isn't the end; death of the body is not the Death that existed before.
Another theory is one that I came to myself and had more or less confirmed when reading Jurgen Moltmann's The Crucified God: one that suggests Jesus didn't necessarily die for us, but with us. Jesus, aka God Incarnate™, goes and stirs up the people with a message of radical love, hope, and jubilation even in the face of an oppressor like the Roman empire, and then gets killed alongside two criminals in the most disgraceful way one could be put to death at the time. He didn't have a hero's sacrifice; He died there between two people that society wanted to write off as lowlifes and forget about. He hung there among the lowest of the low, the final way in His life He could show His solidarity with the downtrodden—and even took one, St. Dismas, to paradise with Him! This, to me, shows that God is forever with the underdog, the disinherited, the downtrodden; He is not up there with earthly kings, robed in earthly glory.
This develops even further for me, too: it shows God takes accountability as well. Because why do the disinherited even exist, especially among those who claim to be God's people? Why is there so much suffering and misery and injustice under the watch of the Righteous Judge? God Himself took other gods of the Divine Council to task for this in Psalm 82 (I bolded some especially notable parts):
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God presides in the great assembly;
he renders judgment among the “gods”:
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“How long will you defend the unjust
and show partiality to the wicked?
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Defend the weak and the fatherless;
uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
4
Rescue the weak and the needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
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“The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing.
They walk about in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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“I said, ‘You are “gods”;
you are all sons of the Most High.’
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But you will die like mere mortals;
you will fall like every other ruler.”
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Rise up, O God, judge the earth,
for all the nations are your inheritance.
God condemns these other gods of the Divine Council to "die like men"—and yet, what did His own Son do? What did He, the God of all and judge of the earth, do? Die not only like a man, as He told other gods they would do for their negligence, but like a criminal.
More than anything else, more than solidarity and the destruction of Death, I always come back to wonder if the blood of Jesus isn't also the ink God wrote His apology to us in—an apology for letting the rot of injustice and cruelty spread under the watch of His skies.
How Do You Include Other Gods Without Violating the 10 Commandments?
"I was wondering as someone who wants to start Christian witchcraft how do we worship other deities and know that we are saved by God? What's the limit? Because I feel like Lilith is reaching out to me and how do I reach out to her back without ignoring the ten commandments? What should I do?" —Anonymous
Hey, there!
So, there's actually something really interesting about the whole "Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me" thing:
It suggests there are other gods (because why else would God need to say this?)
It suggests that so long as God comes first, you can do whatever (at least for Gentiles).
In fact, when you read the Jewish Study Bible, and you get to the point where Moses is talking to his father-in-law Jethro after they leave Egypt, there's something really interesting that happens: Jethro, of a pagan tribe at the time, recognizes the superiority of God, but does not denounce the other gods he serves to only follow God. And the footnotes of this section of the story mention quite explicitly that in this time, the idea of pure monolatry was only for Israelites—and that Gentiles were not expected to give up their gods, but to do as Jethro did and simply recognize God as elite above all other gods, especially in His own territory and among His own people. This suggests that actually, people would have worshipped God and other gods at the same time (and in fact we have a lot of evidence that they did across various cultures where this God was introduced, be it in the near east, Europe, etc.).
What really matters, however, is your idea of worship. For me, it doesn't really matter how many gods I talk to, or what I might give them as a gift for their time and attention. None of that is worship to me. I don't sing their praises as the best and greatest, I don't defer to them first above God, and I certainly don't submit and sacrifice all that I am to them. These honors that I deem to be worship go to God alone, even if other gods are in the mix. I can't submit to God and other gods; I can't lay my will before both God's and other's. But as someone from a Catholic background, again—just talking and offering hospitality to the gods in your space isn't worship.
So hopefully this helps reframe your ideas around worship, as well as give some practical ideas as to how to contact Lilith without overstepping!
An Online Community for Christian Witches?
"Could you direct me to an online community for Christian witches?" —Abigail
Hi, Abigail!
The biggest one I know of is actually the Discord server of Lina the Jesus Witch. She runs a really robust hub for literally dozens of like-minded folks! You may have some luck finding folks to make friends with there.
What if God Doesn't Want Me?
"I suppose what I’m asking is: what if God doesn’t want me? I have prayed and I’ve been answered in the past, but perhaps now He wants to let go of me..." —Linda
Hi, Linda!
I know that this feeling can be a rough one, and I'm sorry you're dealing with it. While most Christians would tell you that God wants everyone, and while my knee-jerk reaction is to ask why you think He'd want to let you go, the truth is... sometimes God does cut people loose to find where they really belong in this life. Sometimes God has other divinities watching over His children for a time, and sometimes people actually end up not being ones He claims in the first place. However, to figure out if this is the case takes a lot of soul searching and a lot of communication with God.
Throughout the rest of your message, you mention not feeling comfortable with your church and being unsure of how to go about rediscovering Christ. While I'm grateful that you're considering grabbing a copy of Discovering Christian Witchcraft, and while I can definitely recommend good Bible translations to you (the Jewish Study Bible and Jewish Annotated New Testament are amazing, as well as other arrangements like A New New Testament that includes early Christian writings exluded from the Bible), the truth is that it really starts by just calling out for God in the wilderness. Maybe you're having trouble connecting with Him because you aren't meeting Him in the place He wants you to. If you were going on a date, and someone asked you to meet at the city square, but you kept trying to meet them at the church on the other side of town, wouldn't it make sense you wouldn't find them there?
God doesn't stay hidden forever. Think outside the box, and you may discover Him in ways you didn't think possible. You may end up parting ways with Him, too, and that's also okay. Just go to Him, wherever He is, and be open and honest; that's the first step.
What Do You Think of Black Mass?
"As a Christian witch what is your take on black masses using consecrated hosts from churches?" —Anonymous
I actually think this whole concept is so goofy. Like, it doesn't seem real. It seems like Hollywood nonsense from the Satanic Panic of the '80s. From my brief research, too, it really doesn't seem like something that any Satanist groups, theistic or atheistic, actually do in modern times. A tiny bit of it from Aleister Crowley isn't enough for me to think it's very legit or widely acknowledged.
As for anyone who ever has done it, well. I mean. They have free will to do whatever they want. They also have the free will to face any consequences that may come for doing that. I don't really care either way, though; there's always someone out there wanting to be super edgy and stick it to the Man, y'know?
What to Do If/When a Spell Backfires?
"How can you tell if a spell you’ve done has backfired on you? Also how long should you wait to know and if so how do you break it and redo it in a way that won’t backfire?" —Anonymous
Not gonna lie, this question has me chuckling, friend—because I just imagine a poor witch covered in soot from a blown up potion, like cartoon scientists or something.
However!
It is a good question, and to give a short answer, there are questions to ask ourselves here:
Did you ask any outside help (a god, a spirit, etc.) for this spell?
Did the spell achieve any effect at all yet?
Did you set a time limit as to when you should see results?
Do you believe in your ability to cast a spell in the first place?
Were you specific in what you were looking to achieve?
A lot of times, spells go wrong mostly for that last reason: people weren't specific enough. When you say you want prosperity, do you mean abundance of money? Or of food, of friendship, of opportunity? When you say you want money, do you mean from a job? Or from a random lump sum? When you say you want a lump sum, do you mean in the lottery? Or as a result of getting an inheritance from a recently dead relative?
As a Christian Witch, when I do my monthly ritual of gratitude for all God has provided and a request to continue providing, I purposely keep it vague so that the prosperity and abundance and stability I hope for can come in any way God deems appropriate. I don't want to put limits on how He manifests His miracles for me. However, when I need to be specific and I'm not, I've definitely had moments where God goes out of His way to mess with me a little. I just told a story about that on TikTok as a good example of what I mean.
So if you were casting a spell, and you haven't seen any results yet, or you have results you didn't expect, then you can either guess that you weren't fueling your spell right (see question 3) or that you weren't specific enough. If you don't actually believe you can effectively cast a spell, then that doubt is like pouring water all over your campfire wood and then wondering why it won't light. If you weren't specific enough in what you were trying to do, then you're going to get some weird results that may still achieve your end goal, but not how you were expecting.
And, importantly, if you're doing any of this work not as a solo or agnostic witch, but as a servant of a certain Divinity, then you have to consider that they simply denied your request. I've casted spells before that I could feel would go absolutely nowhere because God was watching me flounder around and make requests out of anger/sadness/fear that He shut down so we could focus on getting my head right first. I've also had requests get a veto simply because they were no good for me at the time, or because I had a serious lesson to learn before I could receive such a reward. The efficacy of my spells is directly linked to God's will and judgement, so without His approval, I'm dead in the water outside the tiniest, simplest, no-questions-asked type stuff (like quick psychic protections).
As for breaking a spell: honestly, I've never had to do that for one of my own workings. I've only ever broken the curses other people have tried to send to me. I imagine it works the same, though: it's a case of needing purification and reconsecration. Like washing mud off you, you have to cleanse the energy and untangle it from your old spell, dissipate it, and then wipe the slate clean to start over. How you do that entirely depends on what ritual will best help you find the thread of your magic and untie it so you can tie it a different way. Remember that ritual is just to help you physically represent and more viscerally connect with what you're doing in the invisible world of spirituality.
Any Tips for Witches with Anxiety/OCD?
"Do you have any tips for witches with OCD/anxiety that’s mental health get in the way of spell work? (Over thinking about the spell, having intrusive thoughts during making the spell/ right after the spell)" —Sam
Hey, Sam!
Boy, oh boy, do I have tips—especially as a witch that also has OCD and anxiety (specifically religious-based OCD). Everything you describe there was me once upon a time: overthinking the shit out of every ingredient I chose and every way I arranged it, having intrusive thoughts trip me up in the middle of my prayers and incantations, and fearing that God would be pissed for the things those intrusive thoughts would say. The thing is, though, that if this is what you're dealing with, then spellwork isn't the answer right now: building trust is the answer.
Because my OCD is religious based, the big fear I would have is that if I said something wrong or offensive to God, He'd like, strike me down and hurt my family or something. Why did I think this, especially as a kid that really didn't grow up with a strict Christian household or have any threat of hellfire hanging over me? Quite literally, only God knows, because I still can't figure out how this happened, either. But it would still screw me up a lot! I would have to shut down, basically, and sit in my own head trying to repeat the same praise to God perfectly three times without messing it up with some intrustive thought before I could feel okay again. It made for some really awkward pauses when such a thing took over during a conversation with someone else, lemme tell you, but it wasn't something I could just ignore, because then God would be pissed and bring suffering on my head!
Right?
No. Wrong. Completely wrong. It was actually through deeper study of religion, specifically Christianity, and more specifically of God Himself, that I realized that God is not only merciful, but understanding. He knows my brain is a bit dented. He knows I don't mean to call Him names or say terrible things about Him, and that those are intrusive thoughts. And now I know that He won't hurt me for my own mental illness (especially since the illness has hurt enough). I have told God directly what the issue is and that I don't mean to say these things, and I trust Him to understand and support me rather than hurt me for it. Trust erases fear, the heart of anxiety and OCD, and when that fear is erased, the OCD coping methods of that anxiety become less frequent—even though the mistakes and intrusive thoughts haven't ever truly stopped!
Even now, when I do spellwork, sometimes I think a little too fast and accidently switch words around in my head. Where this would've once sent me spiraling into a panicky refutation of everything I'd just said, though, all I do now is say, "oops, sorry God, I messed that up" before saying what I originally intended to say. That's it. No big deal. Easy peasy. He understands. He knows what I mean and what my intentions are.
And that's the big thing: what are your intentions? Can you grasp those intentions and feelings without putting them into words? Can you visualize what you're trying to do without needing to spell it out? Because that'll make it so that even if you fumble the incantation or get briefly distracted with an intrusive thought, you can shake it off and say "oops, what I mean is—" and continue on.
As for the overthinking of the spell, I always like to think in threes: three herbs, three stones, three other tools, That way you're not dragging everything under the sun into your workspace and making a gigantic mess. It also makes it less overwhelming to figure out what you want to do and what you want to use for it. If you know your intentions are protection and wealth, for instance, then you might choose onion, garlic, and bay leaf, for instance. (Which sounds like the base of a nice pot of spaghetti sauce you could charm for that.)
Remember: it really doesn't need to be that complicated. In fact, you literally don't even need a single item to do magic in the first place. The entire point of these things is simply to help you focus on the energy you're spinning into a tangible push of will out into the world. So relax, work on the trust with your Divinity, and acknowledge that intrusive thoughts are not your fault.
Is Christian Witchcraft Compatible With Me?
"I'm Catholic, and I've had an interest in witchcraft for years, and I've bought your book Discovering Christian Witchcraft and SpiritualiTEA's beginner Christian witchcraft kit, but since then, I find I've had trouble starting. I have a tarot deck that I read occasionally, and I have candles for the Holy Trinity and St. Francis of Assisi, but I'm overwhelmed with the Bigness of it all, the fact that I have to create my own structure (not my strongest skill, with ADHD). Am I just giving up before even trying, or is this possibly a sign that the witchcraft part isn't necessarily for me? Is it okay to respectfully bow out and just learn about it or is this a lack of self-discipline?
I suppose what I'm asking is am I giving up without trying or is this just not the right time? Thank you." —Anonymous
Hey, there!
First of all: thank you for grabbing a copy of Discovering Christian Witchcraft! As another ADHD Unit, on top of everything I just described in the last question... I hear you. The bitch about something like witchcraft and personalized spirituality like this is that it requires you to have that element of self directed action, in that no one is going to force you to do this or set your schedule up nice and neat for you like with organized religion. However, have you considered actively including part of that Catholic structure into your witchcraft?
For example, if you're Catholic, then no doubt you're familiar with a good deal of outside structure already: the schedule of rosary prayers, the seasonal shifts with Advent to Epiphany to Lent to Pentecost/"Ordinary Time," the weekly taking of the Eucharist at Mass, the recognition of Saint feast days. Why not build these into the structure of your witchy life and use it as an example of how to build structure? I totally get how witchcraft can be so overwhelming with the million and two things you can do at any given time, but truth be told, I don't really have much of a structure either (mostly because I'm constantly so busy that I can barely take a moment to get myself in order for structure, but I digress).
You don't have to do witchcraft every single day or make a million spell oils and jars and whatever else. You don't have to spend hours and hours on tarot and meditation and all that, either. You just need consistent practices you can readily observe, and all the better if they're ones you can observe with other people in a setting that tells your brain it's time to start getting magical. (For example: ritual at home is nice, yeah, but the setting of the church makes it easier for Brain to say "oh okay, this is what we're doing now." Or like, you know, how it's so much easier to work out in a gym than at home because at home you get distracted more.) Some specific dates you can anchor moments of actual witchery include:
Full and New Moons
Saint Feast Days
Holidays (Christmas, Easter)
The First of the Month™ (typically for wealth/prosperity/abundance)
Sundays (by just going to church, honestly)
Morning Tarot of the Day (for example: I, in theory, like to do a 3 card pull each day)
This way, you're not constantly feeling pressured into doing stuff all the time and burning out. You're more making witchcraft just a time to meet with God outside all the world's many distractions and sit with Him for a bit, whether just to connect with Him or to achieve some outer goal (spellwork). This may make it easier, and it's what my Christian Witch Tarot Planner is really helpful for, as it has information on stuff like the rosary, ember days, holidays, and full and new moon ritual ideas.
However, your question about whether you're really not cut out for witchcraft or just making excuses... I don't know. I can't tell you that. You have to decide that yourself. My only suggestion is to maybe try out building a structure that would work for you based on the things I've said here. Don't overload yourself, or you definitely won't stick with anything, but pick a couple of these things, like church or a 1st of the Month prosperity spell, and try them out. Then ask yourself what magic means to you. Why do you want to do it in the first place? What does it feel like when you do it? Does it actually resonate with you at all, or does it feel wrong and unnecessary and awkward? For any of this to really make sense, you need your why as much as you need your how.
Stay open and curious, and you'll find your way!
Thoughts on Asherah?
"What are your thoughts on Asherah? Do you believe she is God’s wife?" —Anonymous
Hello!
Honestly, I don't really think much about Asherah. I know her history and where she comes from, and I can definitely see her influence behind the many feminine figures that continue to grace us in Christianity (like the Holy Spirit and Mother Mary). I know that at one point, she was considered the Wife of God, the Queen of Heaven, all that—but whether she still is or not is honestly none of my concern or my business. I don't have any connection to this goddess, interesting as she is (and I have met her and appreciate her quite a bit), so I just don't really care what she is or isn't, honestly. It makes no difference to me one way or another.
Ask Your Questions!
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—Sara
Sara Raztresen is a Slovene-American writer, screenwriter, and Christian witch. Her fantasy works draw heavily on the wisdom she gathers from her own personal and spiritual experience, and her spiritual practice borrows much of the whimsy and wonder that modern society has relegated to fairy-and-folktale. Her goal is to help people regain their spiritual footing and discover God through a new (yet old) lens of mysticism.