Hello everyone! I know, I know, I'm sure you have clicked on my blog and thought... What in the hell?? She's got not a damn thing written in here, why the heck is it even here? Well, I hope to write about my life, what I know, my personal experiences, and practices. Except my life has totally been way wack, and busy as heck leaving me like no time to get into my writing. So with that in mind, take my apologies and lets get into my life in a nutshell.
Let's start with hi! My name is Heather and I go by The Green Witch. I'm a 37 year old witch that got my start in my freshman year of high school when I stumbled upon some fancy books on ESP & natural inborn talents like moving things with your mind, and mind reading while I was soaking up the smell of books in the library. Yea I know, total dork! But hey that's me and a good book is a great way to kick back and learn, that's how I see it. In high school I was that girl who loved to be in class, do my work, and learn all I could. I practically lived at school. My home life was pretty shitty so I found my thing in school.
Now I grew up under the weirdest traditions with roots in Jehovah witness and Greek Orthodox. My mom will swear to the Catholic side of our family, but forget that Bishops can't marry under roman Catholic law which makes our family very Greek by nature. On the biological side I'm split between Scott's, Sicilian, Irish, and German, and I'm pretty sure I decent from the Germanic Tribes, but proving it has been pretty hard. My dad's family has gotten us linked back to 1856, but I need to reach back like 900 more years to find out if i'm right or not. So needless to say I didn't fall into the way of my families current traditions, but it did offer me quite some perspective.
I see myself as universal, meaning that I see all traditions, as personal cultural traditions that are all universally linked within each other, but called by different names, and practiced under different ways. What one calls Jesus, another calls All father and so on and so on. What I can't seem to wrap my head around is the idea that one has to be better than the other, or more right... That sounds like the dumbest thing ever! That be like me moving into a culture that is different from my own just to tell them they are wrong for what they do. Ummm they be looking at me like "what the fuck you talking about" So I never understood why there is such a power trip on who's right and who's wrong. What is right and wrong? Who defined this idea of wrong? Why are cultural differences feared, and what makes the human being desire power through the use of pain suffering, and murder?
Ok, so I got off topic... I'm sure there will be a lot more posts about my philosophy in the coming text. So, why do I call myself a green Witch? I call my self green because I have developed myself out of what I call self creation. What I mean by that is that I do not have a tradition that I have glued myself to. I have been a long lived solitary practitioner that loves to learn through culture, people, practices, by vision, by feeling, and through experiences. This means that I do not pick up a book, in this case something like Wicca, and follow it by the book. It does not entirely fit who I am, but I can learn from it's practices, laws, and intentions. I am green because I find myself connected to the earth by practice, through life, by elements, and human interaction. I am green because I find myself drawn to plants, medicine, and healing. I am green not by a book, not by a tradition, not by one practice or another, but by the creation of my own.
Back ten years ago when I created the GWC it started as a blog, a place where I just shared the things I learned. I created and linked a Facebook page to the original blog that I created and started to share posts, memes, and random things. I built that into a group not really knowing what I was gonna do with it, and then it fell dormant with like 300 members. Life got in my way and I put my focus in other places. I perused plant based medicine, went to college, built another group, found out I was pretty good at growing things, built another group, and took care of my kids among the other stuff that took up my time. In 2018/19 the GWC began to truly develop into what you see today, which is a growing community of witches formed on the foundation of learning. My vision grew into creating an environment of pagans or spiritual people of all walks of life, cultures, traditions, and practices, under one roof per say, where we could learn from one another and not feel judged or shunned for how, or what we practice. Where knowledge is power, and learning is raw. Now over the last few years I've seen some bumps, some breaks, and some lessons come from growing this group, but I really feel like it's potential is just scratching the surface of what it can really offer it's members.
So the growth on the group has been massive, and my ideas have been massive right along with it, but i'm a cork when it comes to creating. Call it the artist in me or call it universe. When I get an idea, I run with it, I lay down the foundations, and set up its structure, and let it set for a while. I then go on to the next idea and do the same thing. I found that the universe often gives me a few ideas at once to develop and then moves me to another thing on my list, or takes me back to a previous development to put it into place. What I mean by this is that I had developed various groups on Facebook, one for each of my interests. Gardening, witchery, and healing/ medicine that I posted in randomly over the years, but didn't see how they would connect. Today these groups are linked to the GWC organization that is now developed. They have converted into Kitchen witchery, Garden witchery, and the witchery group under the whole of the GWC. So, I move with the universe as she sees me through the dreams I make for myself in the good that I want to give to the world, however that comes across, and that goes for each of the elements within the groups. No, I'm not giving up, no I'm not distracted, No I'm not lost, I'm simply allowing the universe to gauge the timing according to its will. That takes us right back to my empty blog.....
Here I am with my first entry in quite some time, finally with a little time to write... So what's next in my realm of ideas? Will you see more entries? Yup, over time I will start to tell all my secrets, and teach you what I know, but it will come as the universe feels it's needed, so hang in there with me.
I'm developing The Green Witches Academy. The foundations are set, but the classes weren't meant to be at the time when I developed the school. Universe said I needed a place, something more proper, and help. I'm sure I frustrated a few people and some of you lost faith in me, but if there is anything that I have learned in the years following the universe, it's that divine timing is not my timing. The greatness of the ideas that flow through me from universe are purposeful and direct even if I do not know the end result, or how to bring about the creation, but I do know that universe has not failed me in the desires and ways I wish to give back to others. All things are possible if you simply allow them to come when the time is right.
Recently I was given a place to develop the GWC storefront. A physical place to build out my dreams and give back to the community in ways I only hoped for.. With this location I was given the place I need to peruse the academy and seek the help I need to bring class work to the learning environment. I still do not know how things will come to be, but I can see the classroom that was created from my visions and I can see people in it. The ideas for how are coming, but I have left the help up to Universe as those who wish to teach will come forward.
So there is quite a lot going on in my life at the moment and many ideas, so I hope that you all bear with me as the development of what is and what will be are still in the works... It is my hope that you participate and enjoy the community, as well as get to know it's members, while giving back what you know because what you know might be exactly what the next person needs. Never underestimate your own power, lessons, or practices for they may guide another in ways you could never imagine. Be kind and loving as we all need those kinds of humans
Merry Meet. and Merry part as we will surly meet again ~
The Green Witch
