00:06I don't want to wait for God to answer my prayers, that's why I'm a witch.
00:17It's a way for me to affect change in my life, but isn't necessarily like a belief in a higher
00:23power that I am devoted to, that I pray to. I have spirit contact, there are spirits that I
00:27work with. I invited all of my helping spirits and ancestors and deities and said, whoever
00:32wants to be here during this interview to make sure I'm saying the right things, let
00:36me know and I'll put you in the room. And we've got a couple here who are represented in various
00:40symbolic ways throughout the room.
00:44All of the religious witchcraft traditions have...
00:47Oh God.
00:49Hey girl, what's up? I told you guys about the jawbone, and here she is jumping out at me.
00:53Okay, we'll put you somewhere more stable. How's that?
00:56She didn't like that.
00:58No. No, she didn't. Well, because she's the primary spirit that I work with and she's
01:02like, no, it is religious because I'm here. It's like a familial relationship. It really
01:06depends. Sometimes it's a working relationship with a deity that I'll have. I'll contact them
01:10and say, I need X, Y, and Z done. Here's what you'll get. How do you feel about it? And
01:14we'll
01:14work out some kind of a deal. Or it's in the case of, you know, I've got tattoos for certain
01:20deities that I work with. That's like a lifelong relationship. And that's as meaningful to me
01:24as members of my family. Witchcraft is the doing of magic. So yeah, it's the practical
01:32application of it. When I talk about magic and witchcraft, what I'm talking about is
01:36like, I will use like candles and oils and things, or I will anoint my phone to get a
01:41Tinder date. I will like make like a love attraction oil and then I'll like anoint my phone with
01:46it and I'll swipe. And we'll see who comes through. Yeah, right now he's just processing. I would do
01:55more listening than worrying about all this stuff. Does that make sense? The biggest critique we get
02:01of witchcraft is that it's 99% placebo effect. I have too many practical results to believe that
02:07and to give that any credit. And I just invite anyone who has those beliefs or thinks that this
02:11is all bullshit to just like sit in and see if you don't feel something powerful. It couldn't be
02:17evil in as much as like praying for love couldn't be evil and praying for money couldn't be evil.
02:22It's just a means to an end and a very practical one. Devil worshiping occurs occasionally. But again,
02:31there's about as many deities to pick from as there are like stars in the sky. So some people will
02:36choose to worship like the Christian devil and work with that. Um, satanic temple, a lot of them are
02:41good friends of mine. Um, but you know, there's just as many people who do other things.
02:48Some people have their book of shadows. Um, some people have them in a binder. Some people have
02:52them in an old dusty book. Um, I see no merit to keeping those kinds of things because I like
02:57to be
02:57really off the cuff. So I make them up as I go along and I try not to remember them
03:02after they're done.
03:04You have to take this piece down to the crossroads, close your eyes, throw it in,
03:07make a wish, walk away without looking back. Not hard.
03:13So that's just a little bit of room clearing, getting the static energy out of here.
03:17When I think of what witchcraft means to me, it does stem from this like autonomous female,
03:23uh, like kind of like a warrior who just lives by her own means, who takes care of herself by
03:29any
03:29means necessary and doesn't ask anyone for permission.
