You are poets and playwrights, makers of futures and crafters of time. You use your powerful, magical minds and voices to formulate powerful enchantments, spells, blessings or curses, to brighten or darken yours and others' days, weeks, even lifetimes. Every word you speak ripples through your world, leaving its footprint in the fabric of the web in which we all live.
As powerful magical beings, we cast spells over our lives in each and every word we speak, emerging from either our powerful intentional minds or out of foolish, unaware mischievous minds, still unruly from our ignorance and lack of focused discipline and awareness. We have a choice as to how we choose to think, what we think about, what we focus our minds on and on what words we choose to express and focus that thought and power. In every word we speak, we send powerful mind energy out into our world.
As I watch CNN for news from around the world, which I am trying to limit to just the news lately rather than listening to the long diatribes which turn the news into long running soap operas, I am made further aware of this truth. Does the news report on the world's tragedies or does it contribute to them? Scenes of Middle Eastern men and boys attempting to speak to the CNN newscasters have made me aware of the importance they place on the broadcast word. If each word we speak has an impact, I can only imagine how powerful each word spoken by a newscaster that is spread throughout the world has in raising or lowering the quality of the real worldwide web in which we are all immersed.
I find it sad that throughout the centuries we have condemned and stereotyped, maybe out of fear and ignorance, the power of the "witch," which simply means "wise one." Most of the world's patriarchal religions have condemned witchcraft leaving in our minds pictures of hideous green old women with mangled fingernails and wild hair. So we all project our unconscious fear of our own power, of our own innate magical powers onto these iconic archetypes of power. We have distrusted the powers of the "wise ones" and consequently given ourselves permission to continue to sleep in a perpetual state of unconscious ignorance, remaining unaware of who and how powerful we really are.
Whether or not we realize it and then use it wisely or remain ignorant and use our powers foolishly, we are powerful beings who do cast spells and enchantments into the world every time we open our mouths to speak, to complain, to criticize, to gossip, to spread malevolent news or to sing "glad tidings," to raise someone's spirits with a simple compliment, or smile at another and look into his eyes and radiate joy and love and peace and blessing into his soul.
When you become aware of your power, you will first become silent, become vigilant over your wild random thoughts, harness them like a herd of wild mustangs, and focus them in the direction you would like to see change, healing, hope for the future. When you become aware of your power, that very power of the single word, you will use your words wisely, carefully.
I've always been impressed by the Native Americans, whose wise men speak very rarely, and only after a considerable amount of time and reflection. They do not feel the pressure for a quick response. It's not a race to see who says the first witty word first. It's not a race or a campaign to manipulate the minds of others, to get the best bone in the pickings. It is to draw from the deep well of wisdom within, carefully consider the impact his words will have on the listeners near and far, because the world is listening, whether or not you are aware of its immediacy, and then cast his words forth to create - hopefully to create, to bless, to heal and to bring love.
Obviously dark witchcraft, the stuff of legends, is not ever what you think it is. Are large global religions any less guilty of malevolently bending the minds of ignorant people, who though still sleeping and unaware pf their powers, are honestly intending to seek and choose goodness and light? Those who once condemned witchcraft, sending millions of soft spoken, wise women to die horrifically painful deaths, are they not the very ones they accused others of being?
We would be wise if we listened carefully to the essence of what we are hearing and then choose our own words carefully, sifting out the wheat from the tares, before casting them out into the world.
As you bring forth the most beautiful encantation, I love you, remember that your creator, the divine one, loves you that much and so much more. As you receive the love of our divine parent, you will become more loving and wise, and will gain the power to create in those three words, "I love you."
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