How to stop feeling like a spiritual orphan, plus the three steps to forging your own path. [ep 4]

Midnight Esbat

Sorry for such shitty audio. I’m not saying connecting to your ancestral history, being inspired by local lore, or finding yourself called to from establish pantheons a bad thing or “icky” (I shouldn’t have used those words in the ‘cast). What I am saying is that none of those things connect to me because of my specific code of ethics and because of my specific heritage/ancestral history. How can I connect to local spirituality when my direct ancestors colonized and oppressed the people who began those traditions? How can I reclaim a culture and spirituality that my ancestors abandoned in favor of privilege? How can I cherry pick pieces of other cultures without being indoctrinated or called to them correctly? Those were the questions spiraling through my head when I decided to take a step back and create my own path of witchcraft. And even tho at the time I knew how to use all my tools and perform the spells, since none of it was fueled by energy, spirit, or faith, it was all empty for me. So, I decided to focus on one path, find my own ORIGINAL spiritual connection, and build the faith I needed to maintain that spirituality. It wasn’t easy—it required a lot of darkness and shadow work along the way. I hope that anyone else listening or reading this who feels similarly can be comforted that creating a path is DOABLE, and even repeatable (I mean, I created a framework for it). I would love to hear your opinions about all of this. How are you feeling? Were you able to easily find your way, or did it take you a while to discover where to go (like me)? Continue reading: https://vellamour.com/spiritual-orphan-lost-in-witchcraft/