{"id":133,"date":"2018-03-01T11:44:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T11:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2018-03-01T11:45:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T11:45:44","slug":"why-wicca-why-witchcraft-why-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Why Wicca? Why Witchcraft? Why Witch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the things that make sense to me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Divine is immanent in all things<\/li>\n<li>reality is not <em>either\/or<\/em> but <em>and~more<\/em><\/li>\n<li>polarity is important not just for the extremes of the spectrum but for the infinite in between<\/li>\n<li>in between things, we find connection<\/li>\n<li>connection is the meaning of life<\/li>\n<li>ritual connects us to the sacredness of life<\/li>\n<li>magic is meaning given shape by desire<\/li>\n<li>there are levels of meaning\/truth\/knowledge\/experience that we cannot know without connection\/communion\/ecstatic sharing with the Divine<\/li>\n<li>the key to walking the line between things is balance<\/li>\n<li>traditions have value<\/li>\n<li>traditions start off as innovations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, but why the Craft? Because I am a<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>woman<\/li>\n<li>fighter<\/li>\n<li>rebel<\/li>\n<li>healer<\/li>\n<li>writer<\/li>\n<li>feminist<\/li>\n<li>magician<\/li>\n<li>poet<\/li>\n<li>hippy<\/li>\n<li>nerd<\/li>\n<li>mystic<\/li>\n<li>diviner<\/li>\n<li>Scorpio<\/li>\n<li>weirdo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the things that make sense to me: the Divine is immanent in all things reality is not either\/or but and~more polarity is important not just for the extremes of the spectrum but for the infinite in between in between things, we find connection connection is the meaning of life ritual connects us to the sacredness of life magic is meaning given shape by desire there are levels of meaning\/truth\/knowledge\/experience that we cannot know without connection\/communion\/ecstatic sharing with the Divine the key to walking the line between things is balance traditions have value traditions start off as innovations Okay, but why the Craft? Because I am a woman fighter rebel healer writer feminist magician poet hippy nerd mystic diviner Scorpio weirdo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[40,29,36,37],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-me","category-blog","tag-personal","tag-religion","tag-wicca","tag-witchcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}