One of the reasons I decided to redesign the site was because, after nearly three years, I thought it was time for a change. Something completely new and different - as much to amuse myself as to create a new face for the content. Because I really wanted to expand my writing on other topics and to challenge myself to produce better work, and this new direction seemed to call for a new look.

My intention is to make my writing on magickal and spiritual topics more in depth, perhaps to go in journalistic and scholarly directions. I hope to start writing fiction and personal essays again. I want to write social and cultural commentary on subjects ranging from art and literature to politics and the environment. All of which I'd like to share with the lovely people who've read my blog over the years and who will find their way here from new places.

Ultimately, it finally dawned on me that what I was trying to do was to create a way for me to offer something of higher value through my writing. To give Blogickal a higher purpose. So, here is Blogickal's new mission:

I am a witch. Do I fly a broom or wiggle my nose to make annoying people disappear? Alas, no. Do I believe in divine immanence and that it is possible to effect change by creating a shift in energy? Yes. If you use my definition - that of shifting energy - then anyone is capable of working magick, at any moment, even if they don't know they're doing it. That means that I'm not really all that different from any other woman with a thing for shoes and pink cupcakes who crosses her fingers and hopes she can still fit into her favorite jeans.

When I was a relative newcomer to witchcraft as part of a spiritual path, I began writing about my experiences studying, practicing and setting off the fire alarm burning paper in a wok doing double duty as a makeshift cauldron. For a while, this blog focused almost exclusively on that part of my life. Occasionally I offered glimpses into other realms of my personality and blessed be those who continued to read!

My hope for the current iteration of Blogickal is that by sharing rants, musings and personal essays on a broader range of topics I can help to dispel the notion that witches are any different from anybody else. In a time when it has never been easier for people and ideas to travel great distances, awareness of our differences seems to be keeping us apart rather than bringing us together as cohabitants on this small planet. To paraphrase Gandhi, I am trying to be the change I hope to see in the world, one blog post at a time.

If you are not a witch yourself, I'm sure you know one, even if you don't realize it.

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Posted by Angela-Eloise at 9:27 AM