In The pagan/witch community, when the problem is not the whole community, but the division of the factions.
That superficial discord in the pagan / witch community, when the problem is not the whole community, but the division of the factions.
It's October, Samhain, Halloween, All Hallows Eve, witch season, events (live and online), and the typical boring competitions of "I'm more a witch than you", "you're a witch", "I'm just surrounded by real witches "," those are not witches, they are just influencers "," my broom is bigger than yours ", and these discussions become, so, so, but so boring, so superficial, so monotonous.
The occasional "Elder" (a term mostly used by white people over 50 to refer to themselves, you don't see black witches in New Orleans or any voodoo priestesses proclaiming themselves an "elder"), harassing the young witches who appear on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Tiktok, Zomm, Twitter, and any fashion platform where they can feel part of a community (since many are very young closet witches who do not live with other witches at home and therefore do find no one else to relate to), which is really no different from Laurie Cabot appearing on the Oprah show many years ago, or any other famous witch giving radio and newspaper interviews some 40 years ago, those were the platforms of the moment, and They used them, are they guilty for it? does that make them immediately less magical ? or are they simply some envious "elders" because in the same amount of time they have not received the same level of public attention?
Is Laurie Cabot (a highly respected Salem witch and psychic of certainly advanced age) very different from a witch half her age appearing on TikTok or teaching witchcraft via youtube? Laurie Cabot was not initiated (or at least it is not of my knowledge) in Gardnerian or Alexandrian witchcraft, so, is she "less of a witch" for that? I would like to know.
On several occasions I have commented that the problem that everyone highlights is not "the community", the community is not and cannot be a problem, in the end, a community is nothing but a group of people with a certain influence, culture, or common purpose that unites them. And in all communities there are drawbacks, and there are people who turn themselves into drawbacks (because they are more focused on what others are doing or not doing than on contributing something productive themselves).
The Christian community, the Catholic community, and those visits to the Church every Sunday where they hug the neighbor they are later talking bad about while having coffee, in short, in all communities there will always be a small group of individuals who are more focused on highlighting that in helping, and because standing out is so complicated in a group of people where everyone has a common purpose, the easiest (and certainly the most cowardly and uncreative) is to harass others and publicly decrease their efforts, their contribution, and everything they do.
Once again, the problem is not the community, it is the factions
The entire pagan/witch community is made up of a huge diversity of individuals of various ethnicities, races, colors, etc... Where strength is not measured in general numbers, but rather in numbers of followers of each group. If you have many followers, those who do not have them are going to call you an egomaniac, and if you do not have many followers, those who have more than you, are going to play the card of "nobody knows you", in fact not only me I mean followers in social media, I also mean followers in real life.
And for those who say "social media is a reflection of real-life", well ... not exactly, as a marketing graduate and with years of work in social networks, if I have learned something, it is that although social networks serve to measure the algorithms of reality, you can also alter these algorithms to show what is more commercial for you, in social media, you can buy followers, and you can even buy "likes" for your posts, so the fact that someone has 500 followers or 5k followers, means that probably the one with 500 followers is more reliable than the other.
Yet our community is measured in numbers.
Just as participants in a church, the "temples" and "factions" in the community are measured mostly in the number of followers, it is not something that is talked about much but let's be honest, Laurie Cabot has in real life more followers and Readers than many "witchy influencers" in modern times, she could drop all social media, and would still be a name, some of us (and I include myself) can disappear from social media for a week and most people probably don't even do it. they would notarize. This makes Laurie Cabot entirely more relevant than many of us.
The factions are those small groups that are formed within a community, for example, in your local community there are 4 schools, with around 500 students in each school, that makes "the school community, made up of four factions, that is, the four schools. "Now let's take this to an even smaller scale, in your classroom, 34 students in the same classroom, a single teacher teaching the class, yet in each classroom, there are these little factions, the bullies, the guys who think they are too cool, good students who usually don't need to sit in the front because they are not interested in gaining the validation of the teacher (they know that they will pass the chair studying, no matter where they are seated), the "we are too rebellious for this", who sit together at the end of class to sabotage the entire class, introverts who seek to sit away from others to minimize social interactions to a minimum. sible, those groups that spend the entire class talking and making noise throughout the hour, and those that sit at the front of the line, either because; They are very good students (but they also want to make it clear to the teacher that they do not have contact with the rest of the class), or those who simply sit in front to see better, or those who are seated in front because that way they can smile more at the teacher and they think that will help them pass the semester.
As I exemplify (with errors, but also the best that I could), it is a compendium of small "alliances" or "factions" conspiring and socializing among themselves within the same classroom, with the same purpose, to pass the semester and leave. there.
The community in which we live is not at all different, if you analyze them a little, there are the privileged ones who grew up attending expensive schools and studied all these books academically, there are those who did not grow up with the same privilege, and learned from the blows and practice, there are the groups of "only white authors here and we promote ourselves", there are those who are bullies, there are the Coven who are part of their own families, and in the end, we all end up (despite all our differences) connected between us with the same people.
You do not believe me?
Do this exercise, find the group of people you least appreciate in this community, those individuals with whom you prefer (whatever the reason) to avoid all kinds of possible interactions. And look at all the "Facebook friends", or "Twitter followers" that they have in common, you will realize that no matter how much you avoid it, we all inevitably end up rolling the same circles.
We are all students in the same classroom, there are always those quietest, and there are those loudest, there are the bullies who seek to abuse everyone because of their social position or skin color, and there are the "I'm too cool for this", those who in 100% of the cases (as well as at school) remain completely silent every time the abuses occur in public because they are not really interested in participating but have nothing to gain.
But Elhoim, you are forgetting that this community is also generational !!
Oh yes, this community also has something that differentiates it from a classroom, a fact that everyone forgets, the fact that, unlike a classroom, here we are not ordered by age, we are all in the classroom. classes, but we are mingling with each other with at least four or maybe five different generations; Those who follow Laurie Cabot (for example) since they were very young and now are older people, some are grandparents, those who were initiated into wicca several decades before we were born, those who are just entering the pagan path, Those who are older but are not initiated, the odd oath breaker on Facebook throwing darts at everyone because nobody buys their virtual courses, and there are also those young people who are "so busy" with social media, that they do not have the time to sit down to read old books, so they prefer to learn via tiktok and via twitter, which, although it is not the most appropriate way to learn and delve into a topic (especially if you are appropriating decades of studies from an author and summarizing this to 30 seconds of video, where the student's brain is using its maximum to capture the audio and video, not allowing him to develop a clear more individual vision of the subject).
All these features, in the end, form, as in a tapestry, the colorful threads that will illustrate the design, and if you remove all the features that are different from you, you will only end up with a boring, monotonous, and not very valuable one-color tapestry. with absolutely nothing special to offer.
The richest in our community are not the elders (the old generation), as well as the most valuable is not either the novices (the new generation), much less are the authors (who in the end take all the credit even for things that they/we have not done). The richest thing in the community is the complex diversity of colors and voices that we have, where different generations, groups of different colors, sizes, and shapes collude with each other bringing with them more people, more ideas, more colors, more to learn, and more than enrich ourselves.
with love, Elo.
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It's October, Samhain, Halloween, All Hallows Eve, witch season, events (live and online), and the typical boring competitions of "I'm more a witch than you", "you're a witch", "I'm just surrounded by real witches "," those are not witches, they are just influencers "," my broom is bigger than yours ", and these discussions become, so, so, but so boring, so superficial, so monotonous.
The occasional "Elder" (a term mostly used by white people over 50 to refer to themselves, you don't see black witches in New Orleans or any voodoo priestesses proclaiming themselves an "elder"), harassing the young witches who appear on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Tiktok, Zomm, Twitter, and any fashion platform where they can feel part of a community (since many are very young closet witches who do not live with other witches at home and therefore do find no one else to relate to), which is really no different from Laurie Cabot appearing on the Oprah show many years ago, or any other famous witch giving radio and newspaper interviews some 40 years ago, those were the platforms of the moment, and They used them, are they guilty for it? does that make them immediately less magical ? or are they simply some envious "elders" because in the same amount of time they have not received the same level of public attention?
Is Laurie Cabot (a highly respected Salem witch and psychic of certainly advanced age) very different from a witch half her age appearing on TikTok or teaching witchcraft via youtube? Laurie Cabot was not initiated (or at least it is not of my knowledge) in Gardnerian or Alexandrian witchcraft, so, is she "less of a witch" for that? I would like to know.
On several occasions I have commented that the problem that everyone highlights is not "the community", the community is not and cannot be a problem, in the end, a community is nothing but a group of people with a certain influence, culture, or common purpose that unites them. And in all communities there are drawbacks, and there are people who turn themselves into drawbacks (because they are more focused on what others are doing or not doing than on contributing something productive themselves).
The Christian community, the Catholic community, and those visits to the Church every Sunday where they hug the neighbor they are later talking bad about while having coffee, in short, in all communities there will always be a small group of individuals who are more focused on highlighting that in helping, and because standing out is so complicated in a group of people where everyone has a common purpose, the easiest (and certainly the most cowardly and uncreative) is to harass others and publicly decrease their efforts, their contribution, and everything they do.
Once again, the problem is not the community, it is the factions
The entire pagan/witch community is made up of a huge diversity of individuals of various ethnicities, races, colors, etc... Where strength is not measured in general numbers, but rather in numbers of followers of each group. If you have many followers, those who do not have them are going to call you an egomaniac, and if you do not have many followers, those who have more than you, are going to play the card of "nobody knows you", in fact not only me I mean followers in social media, I also mean followers in real life.
And for those who say "social media is a reflection of real-life", well ... not exactly, as a marketing graduate and with years of work in social networks, if I have learned something, it is that although social networks serve to measure the algorithms of reality, you can also alter these algorithms to show what is more commercial for you, in social media, you can buy followers, and you can even buy "likes" for your posts, so the fact that someone has 500 followers or 5k followers, means that probably the one with 500 followers is more reliable than the other.
Yet our community is measured in numbers.
Just as participants in a church, the "temples" and "factions" in the community are measured mostly in the number of followers, it is not something that is talked about much but let's be honest, Laurie Cabot has in real life more followers and Readers than many "witchy influencers" in modern times, she could drop all social media, and would still be a name, some of us (and I include myself) can disappear from social media for a week and most people probably don't even do it. they would notarize. This makes Laurie Cabot entirely more relevant than many of us.
The factions are those small groups that are formed within a community, for example, in your local community there are 4 schools, with around 500 students in each school, that makes "the school community, made up of four factions, that is, the four schools. "Now let's take this to an even smaller scale, in your classroom, 34 students in the same classroom, a single teacher teaching the class, yet in each classroom, there are these little factions, the bullies, the guys who think they are too cool, good students who usually don't need to sit in the front because they are not interested in gaining the validation of the teacher (they know that they will pass the chair studying, no matter where they are seated), the "we are too rebellious for this", who sit together at the end of class to sabotage the entire class, introverts who seek to sit away from others to minimize social interactions to a minimum. sible, those groups that spend the entire class talking and making noise throughout the hour, and those that sit at the front of the line, either because; They are very good students (but they also want to make it clear to the teacher that they do not have contact with the rest of the class), or those who simply sit in front to see better, or those who are seated in front because that way they can smile more at the teacher and they think that will help them pass the semester.
As I exemplify (with errors, but also the best that I could), it is a compendium of small "alliances" or "factions" conspiring and socializing among themselves within the same classroom, with the same purpose, to pass the semester and leave. there.
The community in which we live is not at all different, if you analyze them a little, there are the privileged ones who grew up attending expensive schools and studied all these books academically, there are those who did not grow up with the same privilege, and learned from the blows and practice, there are the groups of "only white authors here and we promote ourselves", there are those who are bullies, there are the Coven who are part of their own families, and in the end, we all end up (despite all our differences) connected between us with the same people.
You do not believe me?
Do this exercise, find the group of people you least appreciate in this community, those individuals with whom you prefer (whatever the reason) to avoid all kinds of possible interactions. And look at all the "Facebook friends", or "Twitter followers" that they have in common, you will realize that no matter how much you avoid it, we all inevitably end up rolling the same circles.
We are all students in the same classroom, there are always those quietest, and there are those loudest, there are the bullies who seek to abuse everyone because of their social position or skin color, and there are the "I'm too cool for this", those who in 100% of the cases (as well as at school) remain completely silent every time the abuses occur in public because they are not really interested in participating but have nothing to gain.
But Elhoim, you are forgetting that this community is also generational !!
Oh yes, this community also has something that differentiates it from a classroom, a fact that everyone forgets, the fact that, unlike a classroom, here we are not ordered by age, we are all in the classroom. classes, but we are mingling with each other with at least four or maybe five different generations; Those who follow Laurie Cabot (for example) since they were very young and now are older people, some are grandparents, those who were initiated into wicca several decades before we were born, those who are just entering the pagan path, Those who are older but are not initiated, the odd oath breaker on Facebook throwing darts at everyone because nobody buys their virtual courses, and there are also those young people who are "so busy" with social media, that they do not have the time to sit down to read old books, so they prefer to learn via tiktok and via twitter, which, although it is not the most appropriate way to learn and delve into a topic (especially if you are appropriating decades of studies from an author and summarizing this to 30 seconds of video, where the student's brain is using its maximum to capture the audio and video, not allowing him to develop a clear more individual vision of the subject).
All these features, in the end, form, as in a tapestry, the colorful threads that will illustrate the design, and if you remove all the features that are different from you, you will only end up with a boring, monotonous, and not very valuable one-color tapestry. with absolutely nothing special to offer.
The richest in our community are not the elders (the old generation), as well as the most valuable is not either the novices (the new generation), much less are the authors (who in the end take all the credit even for things that they/we have not done). The richest thing in the community is the complex diversity of colors and voices that we have, where different generations, groups of different colors, sizes, and shapes collude with each other bringing with them more people, more ideas, more colors, more to learn, and more than enrich ourselves.
with love, Elo.
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