Make a Moon a Witch

Rattling Death Breath.  Make a moon a witch.  Full, round lunar phase.  There is some haze around the rim.  Burn sage.  In preparation for the workings of a witch, you must prepare yourself.  It is something anyone can be but few choose.  Perhaps the reasons are that people are born to a different path, perhaps it is that people are afraid of the work, perhaps it is misinformation.  Either way, you have a witch within screaming to bust out.  If you let her, she will fly.  Most of the work of protection, cleansing, blessing becomes a daily ritual of sorts.  When we aren't managing the everyday, we are protecting ourselves and our loved ones.  We are pulling at roots of energy.  We are pulling them up.  We are allowing the flow to follow and fill us up.  Each night, the moon grows.  Each night, I pray for a lighted moon, a bright moon of night.  Fill up the sky with your phase.  Again, a witch is made on this night.  A witch in a year and a day.  Or tradition can fly out the window.  We get the scorn enough until something happens.  Other spiritual traditions try to maintain the anti-spiritual practice of not getting their hands dirty.  Even in the smallest circles, in the shortest rituals, we are blessed and we are drained and we need to remember to sustain ourselves.  Witches.  'Witch' is a loaded term but it is best understood as healer, friend (willing to go the extra mile to help others), warrior and nurturer.  There are those who can work with darker energy as well and perhaps that is the misunderstanding.  People are afraid of the dark.  Rightly so, I guess.  For certain spirits.  Challenges in a checker board.  Attracting the correct energy in ones life.  Asking always what is correct for me.  Is it to be lonely?  I'll have ghost walks and cemeteries.  I'll have writing workshops.  All to myself.  Is it to be lonely?  Is it to cast a circle, create a spell and offer up myself to servitude of the responsibilities of 'witch' even though I have responsibilities of marriage and work (and that's it).  Life might be better.  Burn sweet grass.  Bring in the sweet energy after clearing out all of the bad.  Burn the light in your mind.  Bless yourself with whatever you need to do work.  Sprinkle salt.  Close off your space to negative energy.  Create havens.  It's spiritual sanctuary.  It needs to be.  Walking in the sun.  Dying in the sun.  Sitting on the stump.  Sitting in a healing temple.  Kneeling in the woods.  Burning leaves of grass.  Night will come.  Make this moon my witch.  A most delicate friend with fur.  Frenzied spring break.  After smoke releases the season of cold and death.