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13 Goals of a Witch

1. Know Yourself

To know yourself, your true strengths and weaknesses, your desires and needs and driving forces, virtues and values, and other facets of your inner self and true will intimately; to regularly employ critical self evaluation and examination requiring radical self honesty and acceptance. For you cannot move forward without first knowing from where you start- nor from where you stand thereafter.

2. Know Your Craft

To know your practice and path, and be well studied in its historical, technical, scientific, and academic aspects- and well as practiced in their execution. But more: To seek the mysteries; to know that which can only be conveyed through experience, communion, and ritual itself.

3. Learn

To accept that, regardless of what ranks or masteries we may obtain, our experiences, or the like, we are all eternal neophytes; no one will ever obtain full knowledge or mastery- and yet it remains all our eternal duty to constantly seek knowledge, wisdom, truth, and experience; to constantly improve ourselves and our craft.

4. Apply Knowledge With Wisdom

To exercise common sense; to practice discernment and commit to the proper process of verification and validation of one’s experiences; and to not rush headlong into decisions. To instead apply good and sound judgment through the weighing of all current knowledge, experience, and options, and with proper consideration paid for both the long and short term ripples that our decisions may create.

5. Achieve Harmony and Balance

To find one’s spiritual and mundane equilibrium so that one’s life maintains balance. But also to find emotional and physical balance as well- and to achieve a neutral state regarding one’s self and understanding and acceptance. Important, too, is achieving harmony and balance within our environment; from harmony and balance all things floor more easily and naturally.

6. Keep Your Words In Good Order

To say what you mean, and to mean what you say- and not to mince words, lie, or mislead others; to not break oaths, nor enter into oaths lightly, or make an oath you cannot keep. A practitioner’s word is sacrosanct, and one should take great care to maintain its integrity.

7. Celebrate Life

To be joyful of and revel in the marvel that is the Earthly existence we are granted. To celebrate it, and to show gratitude and appropriate reverence for its existence in all forms- and to respect all forms of life as both worthy of existence, and as beautiful.

8. Attune With the Cycles Of the Earth

To be aware of and follow the cycles of the Earth, both seen and unseen, and to participate in them as they go; to connect with our natural rhythms within our local cycles, especially; to recognize that we are a part of nature, not separate from it, and that to be Human is to be Animal indistinguishable from any other.

9. Breathe and Eat Correctly, and Exercise the Body

To care for one’s physical self through proper diet and movement; appropriately tend to illness and deficiency; and t0o properly attempt to achieve- and maintain- one’s wellness, health, and hygiene. For the body is a temple in its own right, and should rightfully be treated as such. But also, it should be recognized that our health is necessary to serve our Spirits; all things flow easier when we have taken the time to care for ourselves properly and are at our personal optimal.

10. Meditate

To exist in a state of contemplation and reflectivity wherein one may be granted illumination or insight, or any such things conducive with the goal and method of meditation; the point of meditation is as varied as the types and methods available to the practitioner, but all are beneficial in some way to the craft and it is therefore an important skill to be honed.

11. Honor the Spirits

To give HaShem, The First Ancestors (Chava and Adam- or The Lady and the Lord), the Ancestors, and all other Spirits their rightful worship and due respect according to The Laws.

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