The devil of witchcraft in the Amazon.

The devil of witchcraft in the Amazon.

Unlike many other similar posts that you may have read on the internet before, if you already know my work as a writer and blogger, you know that I do not summarize what others write, there are others writing about it, I prefer to focus on writing about what I know, and that implies (most of the time) that many other authors and writers are going to completely disagree with me, but that's what my blog has always been about, writing from my perspective and experience, even when this It sounds a bit arrogant on my part, but I think the diversity of views is important in these issues.

Already after rambling a bit to introduce you to the topic (something silly but necessary), now to return here to the topic we came to, several months ago I posted a very silly phrase on my twitter account due to an entirely personal situation, the tweet read the following:

“In my culture, we do not venerate the devil and in my family, we never discuss if it exists or not, but if he goes around I think he owes me a couple of favors 🤔 where are my devil?”.

And as expected, he receives more questions and doubts than he expected, and it is understandable, in this modern hodgepodge of witchcraft / Wicca / paganism, where everything seems to enter but nothing can come out, and everything ends up transforming into something much in there. more ethnic and weird, and that really doesn't bother me at all, this only seems to piss off some 'pseudo-keyboard activists' who fight “at heart” against something they call cultural appropriation.

The topic to be discussed here is about the devil's belief in witchcraft, although I recognize that I am not the most qualified to talk about the subject, I am sure that this will help as support material for others in the future, at least as a reference, Maybe because of my origin and ethnicity.

The devil, this charismatic, eccentric, witty and vivacious Christian folklore character who seems to earnestly gain more followers than his apparent creator and father, is today (and perhaps always has been, I don't know that) one of the most common characters in folklore linked to witchcraft and magic.

Something that I understand, admire and respect greatly, is that many modern wizards and pagans come from the Catholic religion, and many of them for that reason tend to include the belief in this 'malevolent' character as part of their practice, which although not It seems to correspond to them, in a way it has been linked to the witches since the time of the persecution, if my mother said "it is totally absurd to persecute someone for venerating something they do not believe", I also understand that persecutors of witches accused them of venerating the devil for being what they identified with evil, especially because certain verses of the Old Testament promote the taking of immoral actions against witches, which he repeatedly calls " Demon lovers. ”

Perhaps for practitioners of black magic and other forms of dark arts, I am referring here to true practitioners who perform rituals and invocations, not those who read hundreds of books and do not practice anything (usually they know much less than they believe ), these in their practice venerate the figure of evil in the form of the devil, and the few that I have known in my personal life, assure me that they believe in the devil and venerate him in different ways, not publicly (or attending any church), and they claim to receive huge favors, benefits, and powers from this character.

Now, in my case and from my point of view, the first time I remember hearing that word "devil", I remember that I was 10 years old, I was waiting for my mother outside of school, she arrived entirely dressed in white, because she was at that time living her stage of 'iyaworaje' as a follower of Santería, and I clearly remember that Professor Lucía Ramírez, commented to another of the representatives “oh yes, that is the lady who is diabolic”, I I kept quiet and when I got in the car, I asked my Mom, she only replied “oh, the devil is the one to blame for everything”, she has always been very crude to answer about these types of issues, not telling me nothing else, I waited until I got home and asked the same question to my sisters, one of them 'Neyiber' replied that the devil was a kind of dark god that “certain people” revere and others are afraid of, and every time someone does something wrong, or something bad happens and the reasons are not understood, they simply blame him.

I continued with the doubt for some time, perhaps because I have never been very sociable, especially in school so I did not ask anyone, on the contrary, I waited until I got some books and a dictionary to inform me about the subject, and although with the passing of I have continued to have many doubts about this, at least I have informed myself much more and a broader view on the subject.

"There are no devils in witchcraft and magic" ...

So says an old saying that many preach and I believe in him, but I understand that this is a matter of perspective that plays with the beliefs of the origin of each individual, some believe that the devil is the one who gives his powers to the witches, others think that he works directly with the witches who seek to do evil, and not with other witches, the Wiccans see it as something alien to their practice, pagan wizards mostly refuse to believe in it, I personally see it as one of many myth-surviving gods, as a kind of dark god, a trickster like Loki, and from what I have read I understand that he was a beautiful and wise angel of light who was in a way, punished for believing himself as great as his creator, I see him as a representation of rebellion and freedom, an archetype of the rebellious and tempting god that you can find in all myths, and obviously an ingenious master of sorcery.

My experience in the Amazon.

If you have the opportunity to visit the Amazon, and if you can visit the Wayuu and Caribbean tribes, you will understand that the devil is a belief entirely alien to them, they do not understand it for different reasons, mostly because the beliefs of origin teach them that gods are unequivocally flat, the gods of light only give children of light and the gods and dark spirits only bring darkness, but it is difficult for them to understand that a god of light has a perfect child and it is revealed.

Most of the Amazonian folklore is recorded in old books that are contained in the national public library of Venezuela, and which, unfortunately, on issues of Economy and Government, have not had the opportunity to be digitized, so what many of us know, We know really very little, in the vicinity of the Orinoco River some healers of the old school call it “awujii” (the one that was brought), referring to the Amazonian legend that tells the arrival of some clouds over the blue sea, and in whose clouds full of iron men came a spirit of redemption and light, and a dark spirit that would bring misfortunes, temptations and death to the tribes.

For them clearly the devil is something completely alien to their faith, but if you visit those aboriginal peoples that survive in the vicinity of the border with Colombia, where the Catholic faith has mixed and diversified with the native pagan faith, where the Cults of the different gods, the devil is known as "the pinzao" a horrendous demon with burned skin, four eyes without pupils on the face and bat wings, the size of a dog that moves among the trees and deceives the who get lost at night, take the form of the deceased and give sweet gifts to children and treasures to adult men and women in exchange for serving them for life, these men, women, and children who fall under their influence become sorcerers who fly at night and transform into all kinds of animals, and this character "the pinzao" can possess their bodies to walk in the human world and have sex.

Now, the indigenous indigenous groups of the Yaracuy state, the caquetíos, gayones and jiraxaras, see the devil as an annoying "pixie" that grants all kinds of wishes in exchange for granting him three favors, one at dawn, one at sunset and one at midnight, that pixie seems to have many names for them, but they all clearly describe him always with the same characteristics, a dwarf man with very dark purple skin, pointed ears, always naked and with six fingers on each hand.

In the Amazonian folklore there is also the figure of “Aworie”, described with all the characteristics of a faun, a bearded man of short stature with animal legs and horns on his head, this character “Aworie” has an iron crown around of his horns which he decorates with precious stones, he is the king of the women who leave the tribe to not marry and he, grants them powers and gifts, these women then do not age and do not know the disease, can see at night and speak The tongue of all animals, these women give birth to the children of Aworie every eight moons and these children, who look like men with horns, have powers to cause disease and call thunderstorms.

Now, although I usually mention having worked with the magic books of the old school "the grimoire of Solomon", "the book of St. Cyprian" and similar ones where they always mention the character, I have never worked with him and never I have had the need to do it, clearly that is not my way, but I invite you to answer below if you have any personal experience or anecdote about it.

Hugs and lots of light...

Ghosts & Spirits (essences) and a little confusion about.

Usually people tend to confuse both terms as one, but this confusion is due to a misuse of the term that has been used in the media, such confusion began in 1967 with the publication of the first metaphysics books of the hand of an American publishing house, who used the term "spirit" to refer to conscience, or in some cases to the will of the people, because it was an interesting and attractive term to attract the public. In the most practical term, ghosts are the souls of the dead (in most cultures), in metaphysical terminology, once these souls spend some time in the spiritual world (outside the physical body) permeating themselves in spiritual energy, these souls become ghosts.

The biggest difference between the two forms from the shamanic vision, is that souls are "constructed" of an energy so subtle that they can be easily summoned and their presence is almost imperceptible from the world of the living, while ghosts have a much presence more remarkable, stronger, it costs more work to invoke them, and due to the energy they possess they are called in shamanic rituals for possession works. A spirit is something much more evolved, an intelligent way of life that inhabits the spiritual plane, and that with some help, is able to move between different planes and spiritual worlds (making it clear that these are many and more than one), and the oldest of these spirits become part of the essence of the great spirits, those who lead the spiritual plane.

WitchCraft and Cultural Appropriation? (again)?

WitchCraft and Cultural Appropriation? (again)?

I just found another white American witch speaking about cultural appropriation around the pagan cult 廊 as if the Gods were misogynist racists, do you think that they will not attend the requests of a faithful believer because of the color of their skin or their passport?.

You really need to give up those disgusting prejudices you have with a psychologist, stop acting like a "messiah" who thinks knows better than anyone else what the gods want or ask.

Behind each white idiot with a sign of "that is cultural appropriation" I see a frustrated racist who fights against diversity and social integration, seeking to pigeonhole and label everyone separately.

The gods are not racists, supremacist misogynists like you, you can not talk openly about something as eclectic and ethereal as "the energies", "the spells" and "the spirits", and then act like another republican Nazi supremacist trying to cage everyone  separately, leading a battle that only exists in your head caused by a false and hypocritical feeling of guilt.

 Do not use the name of the gods to justify and disguise your racist feelings and actions.

My own personal experience with 'Out of Body Experience' & Astral Projection.

In the next videos of this little 'homemade' series I will explain, and also expand as much as possible the theme of the astral projection, lucid dreams, walkers, the world of dreams, the astral plane, the world of spirits, and a theme that you have asked me much, the spiritual possession and the techniques that the shamans use to carry it out.

For a whole year I have been receiving your emails and comments on this topic, I understand that it is due to how much I have mentioned it before in my blogs, books and constant posts on social media, so I have decided to make a series of 'video posts '(4 or maybe 5) explaining as much as I can on this topic.

The 'Out of Body Experience' is perhaps a more complicated subject to understand than many believe, and the number of theories that exist in this regard is many and varied, so I decided to go directly to practice to explain to you about it, this video (although perhaps unnecessarily extensive) covers a good introduction to the subject, in the next videos I will explain in more detail the theory and practice, techniques that I have learned and some necessary precautions that you probably will not find in any published book.

As always, I apologize from my heart for my terrible and quixotic pronunciation, but this is much faster than writing the whole concept and sharing all this material in writing.

If you have good books and references on astral travel and out-of-body experience, I invite you to share them here, I would love to read those books too, we have a huge map of worlds to discover, and I want to invite you to be part of this adventure.

If you liked the video do not forget to like it and subscribe to the channel, I will not ask you to share it if you do not want to do it, the truth is that I do not want to reach a million views, I just want to please those who read and write to me putting at your disposal what I have learned from the subject.

If you have any questions, please let me know below in the comments box.

Hugs and Blessings for all.

Urban witchcraft in these times, will it be for money?

Urban witchcraft in these times, will it be for money?

Greetings and hugs dear reader, if you have come to this post today is because you could surely identify with the title, and although this is a subject that would give us a lot of material to cut, try to be as short as possible, that if, do not be surprised if in the near future I will give you a continuation or second part of the post (as I have done before).

This is a subject that always brings some controversy from various sides, some always associate religions with money, and makes a terrible criticism about it to the different churches, religious ministries, and most popular institutions because of the income they manage, and they are based on this argument to ensure that esoteric stores, botanicals, and temples, are merely mere excuses to make money at the expense of the "suffering" that afflicts other people, yes, it is quite likely that people who listen to these words, never see them participating in a Sunday in the local church or during a sabbat celebrating the lunar phases and the equinoxes in the company of colleagues and friends, so in many cases, unfortunately, this argument is only supported by those who believe that "All religions" (and that includes for them, covens, sects and all kinds of groups and meetings for spiritual purposes) They are a fraud.

On the other hand, there are those who complain about it arguing that witchcraft is made up of a group of people who "at the expense of knowing how to do one or two things" want to charge you an eye for their services, I really do not know answer with respect to these people, because I know many with the same argument, but the truth I have never studied much.

Now what I can contribute to this conversation from my personal point of view and experience are basically two things; the first, nobody pays for something they do not believe in, and it is just that it is so, the problem is when due to their lack of faith in something, these people decide to wash the heads of all the individuals around them arguing things like " God does not exist "," witches do not exist "and the typical" the church already has a lot of money ", which only creates and promotes more prejudices than we already have, at least in the case of witchcraft and paganism, we have enough to deal with racism, homophobia, Nazi feminism, sick machismo, "academic" sorcerers who spend most of the time telling you how and when to do things because "nobody does it better than them" and several pseudo-gurus who come to our area to sell themselves as the last messiahs of the new era.

A second point that I can bet on this conversation, and this is something important, is a matter of conventional beliefs and beliefs of origin deeply rooted in the minds of people.

My usual "show me how you dress and I'll tell you who you are ...", I usually apply it to these cases, for those who do not understand it, it's not about fashion, fashion or brands, just the opposite, after having finished my university career in digital marketing and advertising, and take an intensive course of "image in social networks", enter a labor field that leaves almost immediately because it was plagued by individuals who live more attentive to the brand of clothing they use and its number of Instagram followers, than what they ate or where they slept, (except when they have the opportunity to eat something organic and beautiful, because that would look perfect on Instagram and Facebook).

I can swear that I met an Italian-Venezuelan model, with more than twenty thousand Instagram followers, who paid for the most expensive brands of shoes and clothes, but everyone in the agency had to provide money so that she (as a client) could buy the lunch and several times he had to sleep in the office, because he did not have a roof of his own, good friends to give him a hand or even money to pay for a hotel.

And as that example I have many, the most incredible happened on a certain day of March, I do not remember exactly what day but I am aware that March was running because I was coming back from a trip from the Amazon, and my family only traveled to the Amazon to end of February and we returned in mid-March.

That day the boyfriend of the model, another model whose accounts of social networks were run by my agency, and outnumber all the fifty thousand followers, well known in the agency because he always brought bottles of some European liquor from one of his trips, he asks me about the rumors in the agency about my second job as a tarot reader in a local store, he asks me for prices, time and others, and when I answer the number he immediately tells me "that's too expensive, or that you were famous", to which I responded immediately and with my typical tone of "gods give me patience", because what I charge for consultation is my work, it's not a hobby, I'm not charging you anything extra or from another world, when a tarotist charges for its services, is not charging a price that I invent from nothing, in addition to having a reference cost of the market, the tarotista charges for the time and dedication that it will offer, for the use of its energy, and for the access to knowledge that took many years to acquire, which in my case were many years.

Added to the above, what I charge for consultation is not even 10% of the cost of those bottles of liquor that you bring as a gift, and as you are a professional model, and charge your customers for your time in front of you. to the camera, this is what we do, in addition to that it is nothing what a tarotist charges (in any country in the world) compared to what a doctor will charge you to say "it's just stress, it comes back in a few months" and "Maybe it's cancer" six months later, just as it happened with my mother a couple of times.

All religions in a certain way are institutions, except the Catholic Church because they themselves assume and imply that they are a "religious and philosophical" institution, and institutions must be maintained in some way, in the case of esoteric and botanical shops , we must make something clear, yes, if it's about money, because they are stores, usually with employees, they pay taxes, electricity, and most likely other services, and also, it's not just about money, because unlike a supermarket where you go and choose the vegetables, meats and fruits of your preference without consulting with anyone, among a huge variety, in the esoteric and botanical stores usually the people in charge are there to give you advice, to treasure your time, to advise you about what you need or about what you are looking for, many times you will even be in charge of the store who will clarify what exactly you need to do forget your situation, and many times that you need you do not know, because many times people who enter a botany looking for a solution, do not know what is exactly the problem they have, but they know that is where they will solve it.

When you attend the esoteric shop to buy your candles, incense, books, oils, herbs and crystals, that person who is attending you is also giving you their time and patience, is advising you according to their range of knowledge and experience, and in addition to this is placing at your disposal a variety of specific items that is always better to buy there live, than buying them online where your relationship with the product is much colder (not to say lacking) because you personally do not you chose from a variety of items, on the contrary, you selected it virtually and a manufacturer simply chooses it and sends it to you using a mail company, which is why I have always recommended buying instruments and tools (if you enter your possibilities) in a local store, and limit internet sales to books that you can not get in the store and craft items like those you can get in E tsy.com where the variety is amazing and the artisans are great.

But that something seems expensive or "out of your reach" has more to do with your beliefs of origin and parenting model, than with the true cost of things, it is a matter of priorities, just as a model can choose to buy liquor European and designer shoes, being this for them more important than food, rent, or a spiritual session that allows you to understand the reasons behind your doubts and prevent the future, just as they are in the right to choose what is what you consider most important for you in life, and nobody can force you to believe otherwise, but we must always evaluate using logical reasoning, if something is really "expensive" or "a complete scam" from the use of the reason, and not evaluate these concepts from the ego, ignorance and prejudice.

What if everything around witchcraft revolves around money?

The truth is that yes and no, yes, because you want to accept it or not, everyone around you revolves around money, at least on the material level, food, clothing, school, academic studies, your health, there will always be money involved, but you should not see money as an enemy, but as an energy transition that allows you to exchange something for something of equal or sometimes more value. And at the same time the answer is no, because the fact that something revolves around money, that is, money that lives in the middle, does not mean that something is bad or negative, look at the universities, the institutions Academics, hospitals and even your job, all this has to do with money, but this is not a negative thing.

Another thing that I want to limit is the enormous respect and support I feel for people who dedicate their lives to work in esoteric stores, religious stores and especially botanical, because beyond being very brave to dare to do something that will surely lead to scrutiny public, in addition to having the money, resources, and often the contacts to devise a business model, they prefer to opt for the difficult way and dedicate themselves to work in the esoteric field, not for money, but because this gives them a basis to promote and make known that faith and belief that they love and appreciate, and is a way to connect with other believers of similar ways or even the same way.

And you, do you think that witchcraft is just something about money?

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Solar Eclipse & New Moon.

This wonderful day has arrived with the #newmoon and a #totalSolarEclipse it is time to return to your center and find that point of inner peace. It is time for eclipses, time for changes, time to heal and time to reveal.

Restart, reset and revelation of deep truths, this solar eclipse is quite intense and powerful, for some reason, things, things, the environment, the stagnant, now is just the time to shake them and move forward, do not be afraid to defend, This is a good part of the changes, leave the past, set new limits and help you at all times.

The revelations can be painful or shocking, but ALWAYS open opportunities for change for the better. Remember that the effects of eclipses can be felt up to six months from the moment it occurs.

Many times eclipses can feel like slaps that make us react, it is the moment when your body is subtle and your being unconscious for a short period of time and you must react on everything you are doing wrong, this is where your unconscious being Take the reins, get to leave the new orders and forced to make changes that are not willing to perform previously for the cause of the ego (your solar side and your conscious).

Remember and take into account that a solar eclipse occurs with the new moon in a perfect alignment in the same sign, in this case it is in the sign of cancer, it is a moment where the moon sits in the calm waters of the sign of the crab and stop planning complicated strategies and routes to reach your goal, and simply opt for simplicity, for being yourself, for a safe path in total and complete calm.

This solar eclipse of July 2, 2019, which occurs in the New Moon in Cancer at 10 ° of the sign, is part of the series Saros 127, eclipses are known to trigger strong and profound transformations that most of us perceive as definitive It means moments of renewal, new beginnings, and totally unexpected opportunities.

Eclipses are an energy that imposes itself on their own will, an energy that arrives and imposes its character and forces us to adjust them, but the lunar configuration in the sign of cancer gives us a certain calm and tranquility to do so, this series of eclipses that are starting there to start accumulating a lot of new energy, and it is normal and during the next weeks a huge pressure on you, do not forget that the energy of the eclipses can be as beneficial and changing as it is stressful, nothing that the calm of the new moon in cancer does not help you solve it.

There are no issues to undertake new ideas and processes, you have six months to work with the energy of these changing eclipses and the growing energy of this moon that has just six months with the full moon in cancer.

Blessings and blessed new Moon.