Story Time With Summer…
In what seems like eons ago, I had the fright of my life. Believe it or not, I was a very Christian girl. I was devout and committed to Jesus. There are stories I could tell you about how religious I was. I was actually going through a huge change in my life and dealing with some heavy emotional issues with immense loss. I was altruistic, idealistic, and very set in my ways.
Apparently, I wasn’t as set in my ways as I thought. It was just before Christmas. My children were still young. I was shopping for gifts that I could afford and it was probably the last year I would ever be able to buy gifts for my children. The guy I lived with would call me a natural witch and when I made tea he would call it my witch’s brew.
In my family, it is almost a guarantee to get some good old fashioned sweet tea when anyone came to visit. Being such a devout Christian soldier for God, being called a witch was a jab and the idea of becoming a Witch was as frightening as being demon possessed. OOOOHHH Scarrrry stuff.
I was very fearful of all the spirits and ghosts. Movies about demons and ghost hauntings would give me nightmares and I would have intense anxiety about them. The Quija Board was demonic and a tool of Satan. It was to be feared and never used because it would invite evil spirits into your home and bad things would happen to you.
I was taught that my natural gifts of empathy and insights were of Satan and that I should repent and rebuke Satan. I was so afraid of everything natural because everything that came naturally to me was evil. Nature was evil. So, one day, I was walking through the store not quite sure of what I was looking for, I found more than I bargained for.
In the Toy section of a corporate discount department store, I saw the Magic Eight Ball. It was a giant black ball filled with a dark colored fluid with a little floating piece inside that had answers printed on it. These things were obscure answers like “yes, definitely”, “absolutely”, “NO”, things like that. I can’t remember these days what the answers were exactly but I do remember the question I asked that day.
I picked up the Magic Eight Ball and I shook it. I giggled to myself and thought of the most ridiculous questions I could come up with. I was a devout Christian and my faith did not waver. Until that moment I asked If I stay with this guy will I become a Witch. I giggled some more as I asked the question. I looked at the answer. Oh My God! It said, “Yes, Definitely”.
I looked at this toy in my hand with the utmost fear. I could feel the color drain from my cheeks as my head began to swim. I asked the question again and got a confirmation by this Magic Eight Ball that I was definitely going to become a Witch! I quickly dropped that cursed Eight Ball back in the bin and ran away as fast and as far as I could. I didn’t buy anything that day. I left the store immediately and prayed all the way home for protection from Satan.
I am sure my spirit guide was rolling on the ethereal floor laughing her immortal ass off as I prayed for protection from the magic eight ball owned by Satan and his legion of Witches.
Needless to say, I was soon on my very Wiccan path running very quickly away from my Christian faith and was happy to do so. I didn’t realize it at the time but I was already on a spiritual path to leave Christianity. I just had to figure it out for myself.
Today, I am not afraid of the mystery behind the little Magic Eight Ball and I really wish I had one. I am not afraid of my craft and I can’t imagine life any different. I may not identify as Wiccan these days, but then again, I don’t really identify with religion as much as I do with my solitary spiritual practices. I have found the path I belong on, at least for today.
Hip Hip Hurray for that little magic eight ball of yesterday.
In Love and Light,
I know where you’re coming from. I myself was raised to Christian. But in my household we taught tolerance and respect to other religions. My father being in the military he traveled the world. And then other people who practice other religions. Especially in Japan , Hawaii and New Mexico. Where he befriended some Mescalero Apaches. Who taught him many things. My mother had the gift to read people, my grandmother practice divination, she used to read tea leaves ,and my aunt had the ability to talk to animals and birds. My mom’s family never said they were witches. But I suspect their ancestors practice the old religion. As well as did my father since they were from Germany and my mother’s was from France. My mom she was a witch. but I didn’t know if she was joking about it or if she was serious. Which doesn’t really matter at this time since both of them are deceased. However when I was young I was studying other religions. Including Wicca as well as other Path’s of mysticism, shamanism, and the occult.
My parents didn’t have any issues with it. If fact they were encouraging me to study as much as I possibly can other religions. After their deaths back in 1999 I was into the Kabbalah, as well as ritual Magic. I became interested in Wicca because the simplicity of what it taught. Plus I talked about the Goddess which intrigued me even more. Since in Christianity, Islam, as well as Judaism it is taught there is one God and that he was Male. Increase in entity as you know they believe in God as a father Son and Holy Spirit. I always wondered why? Because it teaches in Genesis that Humanity was created in His image male and female he created them. I learned in the Kabbalah they believe that there is a feminine aspect of God called the Shekinah. In Gnosticism it’s the divine feminine called Sofia. In Islam she is said to be the daughters of Allah. But all seem to be submissive to the one God either being part of him or being under him. Not so with Wicca their equals. That is God and the goddess are equal. And that the many gods and goddesses in mythology or actually their faces. There are some that I know who practice Wicca believe that the gods and goddesses are actually their children their Elder children. But I respect this belief. Oh I know if it since I had embraced Wicca. I have never been more happier than I am now. I feel the reason why there’s so much trouble in the world. Is that they don’t embrace the Divine Feminine, the Goddess. And I hope one day the Christianity, Judaism and Islam will one day embrace the Goddess along with God embrace the Mother along with the Father embrace the Daughter along with the Son and also embrace the Divine Feminine Spirit with the Holy Spirit.
Blessed be,
Richard Tanzer
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Richard, This is such an encouraging story. I am happy when I find others who are like-minded. I love diversity. I hope that at the very least other people will become more tolerant of the rest of world so we can at least have some peace in this world. Thank you for sharing your story. <3 🙂
You’re welcome. ? blessed be ????
You were a devout Christian but you were afraid of demons? Any Christian knows that the demons tremble in the presence of God. The mention of the name of Jesus scares demons out of dreams, and they are powerless against a child or God who stands down and let’s their father deal with them. You may have been religious, but you seem to have missed the character of God and your relationship to him entirely. We aren’t supposed to mess with the demonic because it isn’t real, but because it IS real. Demons disguise themselves as angels of light, but the end is always your destruction. Look what happened with Doreen Virtue.
I came here to read about the significance of the 8 ball. I quite literally just woke up from a dream where a person was reading their bible through an 8 ball and thought it was the best thing.
I opened up their bible and read it, and when I opened it this happened:
I read the book, but I am teleported like in VR.
In this dream a girl is swinging and a guy walks up and says, “Slow swinging, trench in the dirt, are you thinking of home?” She gets upset and runs away. She goes through beautiful woods until she finds herself running in a line with others. At the end of the line she silently jumps off of a cliff down into the waters below.
She is a Christian, so as she floats under the water, a cross lights up behind her and she swam with the current.
The next person behind her is slowed by someone at the edge of a cliff who tells him, “Whoa, watch out for the sharp rocks” and places a plastic, clear stepping stone just after the edge of the cliff for him to stand on. The man waits for this and then stands on the stone. The stone immediately gives way and he falls down to the water explaining how he just wanted to know if God is real.
An underwater horse coach comes by. The horses are black and wispy, not recognizable. The coachman is similar to the horses but green. He did not believe so he got snatched up by this horse coach immediately and went with the current. There was no second chance.
Do what you will with this.
Im sorry, I don’t understand your concepts of demons and god and Christians. But there are some bible verses that you may need to be aware of. let me list them for you.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Matthew 7:1
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Philippians 2:3-4,
“3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; 4 do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.”
if you are as avid of a bible reader as you say, I’m sure you will understand when I recommend doing some daily devotions on this subject to learn some Humility.
1 John 4:7 – 8
Beloved, let us love one another. for love is of God and he who loveth knoweth God, but he who loveth not, knoweth NOT God. For God is Love.
Peace be with you
If you are a practitioner, learning what you can about these hateful religions will help you defend yourself against them. It helps to understand when you are talking to an unstable person or a reasonable person who is still rational. How you handle them both is gently different. People who are unstable are dangerous and should not be engaged. A reasonable person isn’t necessarily a bad person but they participate in bad things such as discrimination of some flavor or an attack of some kind. Mostly, when someone is attacking you personally, the person or people who are attacking you, feel insecure with themselves. That’s why they attack you in whatever way they feel insecure. So, when you encounter these types, Usually it’s the Christians doing the attacking in the U.S. so, learn all you can about some version of the bible and some basic version of Christianity. These are prideful people who go out and attack others as you see in the comment from Stephanie above. I have actually had angry Christians at my front door to chase me out of the neighborhood. If you are a wise witch and you are informed about the bible what Christians believe in general and things like that, you will know not to take it personally. It’s just their closed-minded ignorance. You can’t really have any type of conversation with them. their minds are so closed, they can’t even communicate outside their own religious beliefs. It is just hilarious to me that humans get so locked into their own beliefs that they forget that the world doesn’t revolve around them. I mean it doesn’t matter if its a flavor of Christianity or some Wiccan or Witch tradition. Some people get it in their heads that whatever crap they believe everyone has to believe it. That is why there is NO tolerance. that is why Everyone is screaming for tolerance. everyone wants tolerance but no one is willing to give it. Everyone just wants to fight. I won’t engage in the way “they” want. You don’t have to either.