What is this blog about?

A Wise Woman and witch told me once that it is time for us to declare ourselves Wise Women without waiting years to do so.
I am not there yet, I don't feel ready to declare myself a Wise Woman, but on the other hand that is what I aspire to be.


Wise Women were sought after in the old times to help and heal, to see through the veil to the other side, to walk both worlds and co-create with Divinity and to provide a spiritual dimension and perspective to life. 
They were covering the roles of Witches, Healers and Priestesses at the same time, recognizing that these seemingly different roles are closely linked together.

This is what I will attempt to do in this blog.
I am a Wiccan Witch, I have been Pagan since the age of 13 years old, when I was reading one of my first books, HedgeWitch by Rae Beth and I realized that this is what I was. I am 37 now and I have studied Witchcraft ever since, although the ups and downs of life didn't make it possible or easy sometimes.
I have been interested in Healing for a long time, and my path led me to study different modalities. The ones I value the most are definitely the BodyTalk System and EFT, as well as color therapy. In the end all there is to Healing (and to Magick for that matter) is consciousness and energy directed through intent, with the help of a structure that the left brain can understand, and these modalities provide that.
The role of Priestess is something that I am developing. For me this is a fundamental piece of being a Wise Woman. To me being a priestess means honoring and conversing with Deities and working with them. To me Divinity is One, male and female, and at the same time Two, God and Goddess separately. It seems a paradox, but the universe thrives on apparent paradoxes. The God and the Goddess inhabit every cell, every atom, every subatomic particle of this vast universe and of all the universes in existence. This means that every being is made of Divine energy.

What am I driving at? That while acknowledging the Great Mother and the Great Father I am a polytheist and an animist. I believe that everything in nature has consciousness from a rock to an elephant, from a thunderstorm to the Earth and the Sun, and this includes all the energy beings that we can't normally see, like spirits and Deities. And deities have their own separate and distinct personality and individuality, although they recognize and work more in alignment with the Divine in everything.

Some people may argue that all Deities are aspects of the Diamond of the ultimate Divine. I believe they are that, in the same way that each one of us humans are aspects of this Diamond, but in the same way that each of us is unique and each of has has a personality and a separate existence as well, so do the Deities. 

Deities interact and change us on many levels that are interrelated. The differences between this levels is most of the time semantics and mostly depend on the degree of awareness we have or are expressing. One can relate to the Deities as archetypes, as psychological constructs, as creation of the imagination or as actual Beings, but all these levels, as all of creation is, are separate and intertwined at the same time, and it is undeniable that the different Deities we honor and work with have definite different effects on our psyche, on our emotions, on our energy body and on our spirit and even on our physical body.

Blessed Be,

Antonella