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Silver-Witch (aka Stephanie Ashcroft) is a Wiccan Crone Elder, educated in many majickal arts and psychic paths.She performs two skypecasts: "Wiccan, Pagan, Heathen Chat" and "Religious Tolerance".Silver Witch is an advocate of proper Wiccan teachings. You may also read this blog entry and the archives here.

Now this is what is stated on pagan news website and had the editors been watching instead of just leaving their computers on automatic they would have seen that I have stated that I am NO LONGER AN ADVOCATE OF WICCA or any religion. I am however an advocate for proper education even that of witchcraft and I believe that spirituality surpasses religion in leaps and bounds. I still do skypecasts upon occasion called witch-talk but I am not promoting the wiccan or pagan religions because there are too many holes in that bucket (called religion) and I am no longer willing to try and patch those holes up, as it just puts me in a bad frame of mind.

For the beginner

Not all witches are wiccans or nature based majik users as some are ceremonial metaphysicians deeply studied in the sciences of the majiks without the need for religion or the need to feel apart of a group. Many of the older crowd after experiencing the ego fights and BS stories of being in covens, refrain from this activity. Many people wander off to some other belief system very disgruntled as seen by the many people who say they were in witchcraft but now they are a what ever follower and witchcraft is evil. They are just kowtowing to the next religion that comes along or is the fad of the times. There are many what ever wannabee people in every line of education that fail. It is because they ultimately do not believe in themselves and if you cannot believe in yourself what can you believe in? This makes for a real good follower and witchcraft is not for followers but for a person to become educated and become a leader in what ever their education has proved to be affective to make good changes in there life. You could consider your boss at work to be a high priest/ess and the community of the employees to be the coven members. The steps you took in school to do your line of work can easily equate a ritual but you never hear about the temple of the janitor and calling yourself a janitor is not as ego boosting as calling yourself a witch or a high poohba of a coven. Witchcraft is not about ego but about self empowerment and there are many books in which to learn from in the library on any subject that you can think of. The word craft is not synonymous with the word religion and I would suggest that these words are looked up in a dictionary because the dictionary is the greatest of all spell books. If you are capable enough, you will learn comprehension enough from a dictionary to learn anything. Just as an exercise look up the words natural and super then the word supernatural and there you might begin to see the truth that not everything that you know from what you have heard is the truth because some words have become corrupted by religious propaganda or hear say. Knowledge is power and if that is what you want then go and get the education. If education is too hard for you it may help you to go find something else to do.