HELLO

Hi! I'm Elle. 

This is the part where I tell you a bit about myself.  I was raised in the Baptist Church.  I remember being terrified of the Pastor and confused by the teachings at Sunday School.   Sitting in Youth Group I remember thinking, these kids can't possibly believe what they are saying.  This makes no sense. I got a spell book as a teenager, like most teenage girls do, and played around.  But I wasn't fully aware of what I was doing.  Not until I was in my 20s and had moved to England.  I felt something in England, I felt the land, felt connections and stirrings that I didn't understand.  As I looked within myself for explanations, I found myself going back to those spell books in my mind.  I decided there must be some connection and started researching.  Researching led me to Wicca and the further I fell down the internet research hole, the more things started to make sense for me.  Lightbulbs were turning on, things were clicking.  The fundamentals of Wicca were filling in all the spaces that the book religion I was raised on had left.

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Once I found it, I couldn't get enough of it. Resources were a bit limited, but I read everything I could get my hands on.  Thank you, Google.

My craft and my spirituality has changed and evolved over the years, I've adopted new practices, dropped that which no longer served, but that feeling of coming home has never waivered.

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Let me give you some insight into how I practice witchcraft.  I don't necessarily label myself as any "type" of witch.  When my youngest daughter became interested in the craft, she took every "What Type of Witch Are You?" quiz she could find.  She *needed* the label.  She felt overwhelmed by the scope of witchcraft and thought the label would narrow her focus.  It didn't work, as every quiz gave her a different answer, and the ones that were made up and just for fun confused her even more.
 

But I've never been one for the labels.  I'm not in a Coven (unless you count my immediate family), I generally work alone, though my children and I do things together and Sabbats are celebrated as a family.  So, while I am not "Coven-based" I'm not a "Solitary Practitioner" either.

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I use planetary alignments and moon phases in my practice, and I understand the relationships of the signs, but I'm not a "Cosmic Witch."
 

I will use herbs in my spell craft but I have no gardening or plant tending skill (we always had fake plants in my house). So, "Green Witch" I am not.
 

My altar, sacred spaces, really my entire house, is littered with crystals. They call to me energetically but also they are so shiny! Bit of a magpie, I am.
 

Another label I am definitely not is a "Baby Witch." I started practicing in 2003 while I was living in England with my then-husband and my two oldest babies. Resources weren't as plentiful as they are now, but I got my hands on some things and I started at it.
 

I remember the first spell I ever did was a Prosperity Spell, things were tight financially and I figured "why not?" Shortly after my then-husband ranked up, which came with a pay increase.

Score!