RavenWings' Book Of Shadows

What Is Wicca? - Why Am I A Witch? - Altars & Sacred Spaces - Magick for Protection - Three-Fold Returns - Blessed Yule!

Why am I a Witch? And why am I called RavenWings?

A few years ago we were playing rounders at school. I'm totally not sporty, so I was sitting on the side lines waiting for my time to bat, and kinda zoning out?

As I sat there, with my fingers knotting in the grass, I slowly began to feel this deep connection to the grass and its roots, the green life pushing down through the earth looking for water. And then I felt more and more connected, through the whole network of roots, to all the other plants and the animals that ate them and that whole cycle. It was like I was totally anchored, and my soul was spreading across the whole world.

But then I looked up, and saw a big black bird flying overhead, in front of the boiling hot sun. Might have been a crow or jackdaw, not a raven, but whatever. And instantly I wasn't anchored, I was totally free. I felt like my soul had jumped up to join the raven, and I was watching the whole world below me, tiny people and animals and houses, like I was in an aeroplane looking down.

Then it was my turn to play rounders, and they called my name, and broke it.

But afterwards I read up about what had happened, and discovered Wicca (which teaches about how we are all connected through nature), and Out Of Body experiences, and the Morrigan. And kept reading and reading!

The Morrigan, and ravens, are often symbols of Death, carrying people's souls away? But I feel like this time they were more like the death tarot card not actual death, it was more like the death of my old self so I could be born again.

What Is Wicca? - Why Am I A Witch? - Altars & Sacred Spaces - Magick for Protection - Three-Fold Returns - Blessed Yule!