When I saw the title of this article: Then Things to Do to Get Ready to Join a Coven, I was sure I’d dislike it. When I read the first paragraph or so, breezy, fashion mag tone and all, I was absolutely sure I’d dislike it.
But I love it. I adore it. It’s one of the best things I’ve read on the topic. Sample:
1. Learn how to cook.
All Pagans and Witches love to eat. In the twenty-plus years I’ve been practicing Paganism in both coven and community settings, I have rarely if ever attended a ritual that didn’t have some sort of pot-luck feast or meal afterwards. And if everyone brings a lovingly prepared home-cooked dish to the feast and you show up with a bag of potato chips and a container of store-bought dip, it shows a certain lack of maturity on your part. Your willingness to contribute your fair share to the ritual feast may, to others in the coven, reflect your willingness to contribute to coven life as a whole. If you can read, you can learn how to cook.
And it goes on like that. Ten practical, non-spooky, non-oogy, totally smart things you can do with your life to move yourself into a position where you can be a mature, contributing member of a connected group of people.
Read the whole thing.
There it is, in black and white, why I was such a lame witch!
But you can cook!
Yes. Yes I can. Although I’m on day 2 of a migraine; tomorrow may have to be store-bought potato salad.
Let me try this again, sans self-deprecation.
Sounds like 10 great tips for anyone. Any life. What a formula.
It is really good advice.
I agree 100% with you and the article Food will out.