Magick?<\/b><\/p>\n
This brings me to Pitch’s second <\/p>\n In most case wild animals and But this last point leads to my Let me tell a story – a true one.<\/p>\n Many years ago for the first and so The transformation was not As a culture we rarely treat the I think agricultural societies Magick? This brings me to Pitch’s second point, that in many ways really underlies his first. Wild species are more magickally powerful than tame. When you have a message from Spirit that your work should focus on native species, as I gather is the case with Pitch, that follows. But what about those of us…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,106,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-pagan-culture","category-pagan-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"\n
\npoint, that in many ways really underlies his first. <\/span>Wild species are more magickally powerful than tame. <\/span>When you have a message from Spirit
\nthat your work should focus on native species, as I gather is the case with
\nPitch, that follows. <\/span>But what
\nabout those of us who have not received that particular message?<\/p>\n
\nThe tame and domesticated really
\nare different in fascinating ways from their wild cousins. <\/span>The latest New Scientist (Oct 3-9
\nissue, not online yet) <\/span>has a very
\ninteresting article “Taming the Beast” by Henry Nicholls on what happens when
\nwild foxes, rats, mink, and otters are tamed – as well as how that is
\nachieved. <\/span>So I can imagine
\ntheir energies are different to work with than are those of domesticated plants
\nand animals.<\/p>\n
\nplants are harmoniously integrated into the energies of their place. <\/span>Their connections are often symbiotic,
\nwhich is different than with many aggressively invasive species. <\/span>Perhaps crucially important, they are
\nnever our “property.”<\/p>\n
\nmain argument. <\/span>I think it is as
\nmuch how we approach ‘domestic’ as compared to wild beings as much as their own
\nqualities that determines their magickal and ritual efficacy. <\/span>Probably more so. <\/span>After all, cats have been domesticated
\nfor a long time.<\/p>\n
\nfar only time, I rented a small house with a big backyard. <\/span>Like with most rental property, nothing
\nmuch had ever been done to that yard in a long time. <\/span>Because I love working with the earth, over the years I put
\nin flower beds all over the place and enhanced the vegetable garden. <\/span>But more importantly, every morning and
\nafter many other meals I would put a small offering outside before I ate. <\/span>Once a week I burned a candle along
\nwith rum and tobacco offerings in a safe spot with a stone altar. <\/span>I placed it at the edge of a small area
\nnear a redwood into which I almost never entered or interfered. <\/span>In short, I tried to enter into a
\nrespectful relationship with the energies of the place.<\/p>\n
\ninstantaneous, but within a couple of years people who visited said the back
\nyard felt “different” in a good way.
\n<\/span>Wonderful flowers began to volunteer even though I had not planted
\nthem. <\/span>A rose even appeared, and it was not a native one. The agapanthus that volunteered
\nwere still there when I walked by recently, maybe ten years later. <\/span>Every year it seemed one variety of
\nplant would act “unnaturally” vigorous, at least for the area. <\/span>This varied from a 12 foot hollyhock to
\ngargantuan tomato vines to a delphinium that was taller than me with 7 – 9
\nstalks from one plant. <\/span>In short,
\nthe place came alive. <\/span>Yet there
\nwere few native plants in the yard, though when they appeared if they could
\n“share,” and be part of this “human community,” I left them.<\/p>\n
\nanimal and plant members of the human community with much respect. <\/span>In my experience, when we do, wonderful
\nthings happen.<\/p>\n
\nmarked the first great alienation from natural energies. <\/span>What appeared as a gift in the wild
\nbecame property when planted in a field and labored over. <\/span>Making a field took an area out of
\nnature, and under more or less successful human control. <\/span>I suspect we had little choice in
\nmaking that shift, but it gave human life a split personality that has yet to
\nheal.
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