Okay witches, check this out: It is totally fine to learn from and appreciate other cultures and practices, but not okay to appropriate them. Like, maybe a Native American shaman can teach you how to perform a proper smudging, but that doesn’t mean you can call on their ancestors to help you out. Like, you got your own ancestors; use them. Maybe a Voodoo practitioner can teach how to make a gris gris bag, but that doesn’t mean you know how to contact their deities and show them the proper respect. The point I’m trying to make is that you can appreciate without appropriating. Just respect the cultures and heritage of other people.
Magic is not yours to censor. It belongs to everyone, not just one culture. Same goes with the gods.
No. Many practices are closed and if you’re not initiated or born into them you keep your grubby hands off. Show some respect.
You’re absolutely retarded. Magick is a natural process, to try and keep people away from it just because they were not born into it is like discriminating because of race, gender or sexual orientation. Get fucking real.
“Retarded”? That word alone lets me know your argument is trash. There are types open for everyone. You don’t get to just take things because you want them like a selfish toddler. Some things are not for you and never will be. Screaming that you deserve them even though you’re not part of the tradition and have not been allowed into it by those closed cultures means that you don’t care about anything but taking things from other people.
You don’t get to do what you want. That’s life. Some specific practices simply don’t belong to you and you can either act like a grown up and deal with it, or prepare for some backlash to your tantrums. You don’t deserve other people’s things just because you want them
@thelonewarlock, Why are you getting so mad because some practices are closed? Also, I would like to point out that the meaning of the word warlock is “oath-breaker”, referring to someone who has betrayed their coven to practice dark magick, yet you say you follow the right-hand path. So you clearly don’t know enough about the magick you practice to be trying learn somebody else’s. Educate yourself and get back to me .
PS some practices were literally forged by people of color to survive white supremacy and colonialism so if you’re being an entitled asshole and trying to call on ancestors/gods that routinely work against people like you then lol good luck with that energy 👌🏽
but you realize that as a white american you have nowhere else to go, because the Norse gods arent yours the Irish gods arent yours the Greek the Egypt gods the Slavic Gods, you have nothing. If you say taht all white people can use all parts of white cultures you are hypocritical and racist and admit its not about culture its just about segregation.
I see it more as a question of connectivity.
As a Slavic person I know my spirits and they know me, if I would try to connect to Greek deities for example I think it would take a lot of time and work to build this connection but when there is one you can use it just like any native person.
Means if you feel the call of any sort of deity BUILD that connection and you can be a part of them as they can become a part of you.
“but you realize that as a white american you have nowhere else to go”
Ok but whooooose fault is that? Whose Fault is that?? WhOsE faULt is ThAt?
Like yeah we all get it that white Americans got chopped from their roots the moment they decided to colonize this country and send either criminals or people of non-nature based faiths here so yeah you guys are chopped and guess what? That’s your problem
But also don’t speak for all white Americans because I have friends that are like second-third generation Scottish/Irish and instead of using crocodile tears to excuse some type of entitlement to other practices cause they might be more Americanized than their parents, they do the work to reconnect with their ancestors and traditions.
Also im eye rolling at all this cause my whole blog is how connecting with local nature can help you find your own faith. Even though I’m half Haitian, vodou is a practice that occurs within a community and takes work and initiation to become apart of. I can’t just start practicing it. Even if I did know about any French folk magic practices I can’t dive into it cause folk magic tends to do with the immediate land surrounding them and the spirits that are attached to that land and people. That’s why practitioners of paths like vodou or mugyo travel to their homeland to practice it or folk practices have so much to do with the region it stems from.
Like yes there are little things from every culture that’s ok to use like I use lenormand that is French so I feel a little bit of a connection to my other half but if you feel disconnected the answer isn’t going into someone else’s shit to take what you want it’s digging your hands into the earth and reconnecting yourself. It’s making an eclectic path and rebuilding your roots. If you ever felt a need to do magic in the first place that magnetism will always be there where magic can always be found which is simply nature. And through that entities local to the area will work with you if you care about working with stuff like that. You need to rebuild your own home instead of busting into somebody else’s and using their shit.
Discourse aside, this is my first post to reach 1000 notes
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