I think this topic isn't talked about enough :) My biggest struggle is believing in my own power. I have more confidence in other people's magic than my own :(
I'm a total skeptic, i love rationality and science, i teach math FFS. But, reality is still full of mystery. There's so many possible paths for things to take, and your thoughts about your life really really matter. To me, magick is the act of making your life into art and getting in touch with your intuition. It's accepting that things are BOTH real and not real, reality is both objective and subjective. In the infinite diversity there are infinite combinations, as the vulcans say.
I have been a Christian for 3 decades and never fully satisfied. I have been drawn and compelled all that time to different more direct influence of power, magick, I am just now embarking on this journey and have been led to you, as well as runes and tarot. Let the magick begin! Thank you Kelly Ann.
This could also be helpful: there are issues of the brain, where truth and thought matters most. Like politics, medicine etc. There are matters of the hand, where "is it practical/does it work" matters most, like I'm not worried about truth when building a bookshelf, i'm worried about how to get even edges. And there are matters of the heart, where emotions matter most: when consoling my friend, it is less important what is true and more important what will help them and make them feel better. Magic is often in the realm of the hand (does it work? Thats the important thing.) Sometimes a matter of the heart (how does it make you feel) and only seldomly a matter of the brain. This was taught to me by Jason Miller from strategic sorcery
"You have no burden of proof." This is exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you so much!! The older I get the louder the inner skeptic yells at me. I want to believe so bad, but theres this unceasing anxiety that at any given moment someones going to manifest before me, demanding I defend all aspects of a path that either dont fully vibe with me or that I havent fully figured out yet. Thank god real life isnt as brutal as a reddit comment section. Im nearly 40 and a witch/pagan for the better part of that, but still such a beginner because I talk myself out of doing any of the work because I haven't found my one 'true' path, and feel like im just playing make-believe. Its really good to be reminded that it should be the other way around. That Im not going to determine whats right for me without testing things! (Edited for misbehaving auto-correct)
This is literally the most helpful witchcraft video I've ever seen (and I've seen LOTS of witchcraft videos). The idea of practicing just because I want to and the belief coming after is something that never occurred to me and honestly should be shared more in the magic/occult community. Thank you for this! ^_^
I totally agree with this comment. It’s like the next VERY NEXT video to watch for every new witch’s “So you wanna be a witch” intro session… and then to rewatch every so often after that!
I think one thing that I love about witchcraft and the witch community is that we tend to maintain this level of skepticism even as we partake in magic haha. I think it keeps us humble about our craft instead of allowing us to slip into extremism like we see in other groups such as many organized religions. But we do have to be careful to not become too skeptical to the point that it gets in our way. Thanks for the advice!
Great points here. The other thing worth noting is that a lot of us are de-conditioning from religious trauma and persecution. It took me a while to trust my own experiences-I don’t always speak to deities when I paint, but it’s happened enough times for me to believe that it’s real.
Please can we get an "I AM THE OCCULTIC TITS' on a t shirt/bag/mug!!! 😄🥰🙌 Wonderful advice as always, thank you for another gem of a post 😊 And those earrings are brilliant 🍋💛
Love the idea of an alter ego or persona to step into powerful belief! I don't necessarily struggle with skepticism in my practice, but I have definitely experienced belief after practice, as you mentioned. I've tried things I believed in and had them not work. That's ok. I've tried things I didn't believe in work, and subsequently added them to my regular "toolbox". It's fun to see how my practices and beliefs shift as I continue on my path. I'm open to it.
I really needed this right now. My inner skeptic has been overactive for the last couple of years, pushing me away from everything magical and spiritual and convincing me that I need to have it all figured out in a logical way before I even say a prayer or light a candle. It's exhausting! Thank you for your words!
@xoanwahn Yes, that is exhausting and you're not alone. Lots of practitioners are delayed due to an overactive inner skeptic. I'm glad I could help in any way. 😚😋
I love the point of being allowed to try something without believing in it. That is so true. Sometimes it really doesn’t matter, because the process and ceremony in itself can be cathartic enough even without expectation of a real result.
Kelly-Ann, you posted this right when I needed to hear it! You made my day, thank you so much! Impactful messages, as always! 🧡 Love those earrings too! 🍋🍋🍋
This was so lovely and helpful Kelly-Ann! The struggle I've had is not that I don't believe, it's that I don't believe *I* get to and can do this. Thinking about myself in parts and doing without needing die-hard belief really clicked 💜
It's totally shape-shifting and I love the effect it has on me when someone does it to such a high standard that I am literally moved to tears or inspired to change my whole life. That is HIGH Alchemy. ❤
@@kelly-annmaddox 100% agree. Have you seen this clip of Kathryn Hunter as a Weird Sister in McBeth? Stellar Alchemy. Total transformation and spellbinding to watch. ua-cam.com/video/13WWN6rhxM4/v-deo.htmlsi=CDz6jU8SolhuBEPL
I have a strident inner sceptic that holds me back in my witchy ways! Your advice is amazing and I'm going to watch the video again so I don't miss any of it. Thank you 😊
I have described myself spiritually as an open-minded skeptical. As I listen to this while cooking I think I have realized what that means. I have no real problem believing other people do magick. I believe my pagan/witchy friends when they tell me about their experiences. I have had powerful experiences myself that I can't explain outside the framework of magick and spirituality. My problem is that I have a LOT of insecurity about my own abilities. The part about calling on an alter Ego (an altar Ego, if you will) may help me. I have a fictional characters in my head who is basically me in whatever fandom thing of the moment. Sonya Romanov (or one of her past life selves) can absolutely do the things because she's the shit and because I fucking said so.
I find myself less concerned with the question of whether or not my conceptualizations align with reality, and more concerned with what kind of person those conceptions lead me to be. Am I responsible and respectful? No. Not enough. Not yet. I would do whatever it takes to close the gap and to become a responsible and respectful person, even if it means potentially believing something silly. I do think that when it comes to the shared experience, trusting in one's doubt is the only responsible thing to do. But the private experience is a bit beyond the jurisdiction of skepticism, tbh. Ah, but 2:30 in, I will say that this channel appears to be one of the specially good ones. :)
LOVE THIS!!! Yes! I don't give a hoot if xyz deity is real or not. The question is what kind of person does your belief system make you and how does it teach you to interact with the world? Great comment. 👍
Yesssss this is so much of my own viewpoint too. I just wanna see that my witchcraft is helping me to be more of what I most want to be. Is it helping me to live with integrity? To be more caring? To speak my truth? ❤❤❤
Thank you! 💖 I REALLY needed to hear all of this!! I've had so many "spiritual"/witchy/paranormal experiences that I absolutely believe in, yet my Biology degree skeptical science logical brain wants to dismiss/minimize them, so I sometimes feel stuck. This video is SO incredibly helpful to me right now! 🥰 Thank you! 💖
Oh wow! I've recently been feeling much more skeptical and almost atheistic about my beliefs and it has made me feel as if my connection to my magick and spiritual practice has been severed. This video came at the absolute perfect time, thank you so much 💗🐺
Came here today to remind our internet godmother of tarot that we're all patiently waiting for more episodes of "Vibing with". 🕯 That's it, just wanted to give a little offering candle to that end. Feel free to chime in on the offering, fam. ✨️
Such a great video, thank you. I'm quite a skeptical person (if me a year and a half ago could see me now!) - what helps me in focusing on "does this make me feel better?" Do I feel more empowered, do I feel better emotionally, does this bring me comfort/joy/connection etc, does it help me do what I want to get done? Sidenote: love the Powerpuff girls T!
I started fearing I’ll end up conscious in nothingness and eternity. And cleave to any idea of a something, hopefully nice. Hekate seems to be one for this type of condition. I just love the green eye shadow. 🤩
Yeah since getting into all the Witchy/Magick stuff I've certainly found that you hit road blocks and sometimes something that felt so clear to you the week before suddenly feels complicated and you feel differently about it for reasons that are hard to pinpoint, then the week after it all feels clear again.. 😅 It can be more stressful to wrap your head around how you specifically perceive certain things than it can be to wrap your head around the things to begin with. Paradigm shifting is one thing I understand and have been able to pull off well a few times so far but there are a lot of times I get stuck in 1 paradigm or another, or multiple blend together when I didn't intend them to and it muddles things up. I'm sure all this type of stuff will become easier as the years go on but for now it varies from amazing to mind melting in a bad way. I'm thinking I should dive into parts work properly, I think that would be helpful right now.
Yes, if you've nailed paradigm shifting then your magickal world is fully open. ❤ Check out Internal Family Systems for a great framework for exploring parts. 🙂
I don't have much of an inner skeptic...I'm a pisces lol. but also I feel like, hey, who KNOWS what's reallyactuallytruly going on behind the scenes, we're never going to understand it from here on the material plane, so yeah, what makes you feel good, what works for you, that's fine. whatever gets you through the night, it's alright. no one for sure knows what comes after you leave this plane and there is so so so so so so much that science can't explain, so much dark matter. there is a lot of room for belief in there. and faith, I find, creeps up on you when you aren't looking and then one day you realize you have it. when doubts do creep in, I don't really entertain them too hard because in the end, I'm not going to know. being an atheist is another kind of faith. believing there's no magic is another kind of faith. I choose the one that makes my life brighter and more meaningful to me.
"The difference between a hallucination and a vision is the meaning you ascribe to it" me, after having seen a great cat in the pattern on my bathroom floor tile during one of the hardest times of my life. Also, whether or not I believe in something, the psychodramatic action of it is something I feel good about and the ritual of it is important to me. I ascribe meaning to it. So if it doesn't hurt me, then the skeptical parts of me can just enjoy the pageantry.
"The Occultic tits" 💀 I refuse to view myself as anything other than this going forward 🙌 Your content has been such a gift. Thank you for all you do 💕
Great video ❤👍 I find witch craft fascinating and I love watching UA-cam videos. I tried to get into practicing it myself but I have a hide time connecting with nature, and I feel like you have to connect with nature as part of the practice for some reason. I haven't found a way to practice that resonates with me. Also I grew up believing witch craft was bad and an ex partner was dead against it, so didn't start exploring it till my mid 40s.
I would recommend finding the entry point that works for you. If it's not nature then that's ok. Just take the easiest doorway for you - whatever feels like it's full of magickal potential. Your connection to nature could be something that flourishes later. I hope you can heal from having an unsupportive ex. X
Thank you Kelly-Anne, I found this video really helpful! I definitely do feel a connection to witchcraft, and at the minute the main things I do is a monthly tarot reading for myself and celebrate the sabbats. But you’re correct, the beliefs come and go and when they go I feel quite bad. But of course we need to remember like you said our beliefs can change depending on our mood for example, so maybe focus on the fact that there are definitely times we believe and how good that has made up feel❤
You know what I'm struggling with? Maybe a bit off topic, but the feeling every time I come to do a spell is, do I really have the right to do this? Not that I lack confidence, just that I believe doing magic moves energy around in ways they wouldn't have otherwise, and I'm nervous about getting it wrong, moving things around in a way I might regret once I've learned the full picture of the situation. It's happened before. Of course, everything we do moves every around. Washing the dishes moves energy around. Most of the time it doesn't affect other people in the slightest, so what's to worry so much about? Well, if I could answer that one...
omg how serendipitous this video is. It come up as the suggestion on my UA-cam and I am having some doubts or lack of faith (or concrete faith) on my path and magickal workings or understanding on things. I take this as a sign. Been watching Kelly vids for years and she is like a breath of fresh logical air to my worry wort mind lols. Plus the likes was 555 like during the time I'm watching this video and I take it as another personal sign as that number is my personal magickal synchronic number 😂❤ much love to you Kelly cookie 🍪 love 💕
The Powererpuff Girls!! My favourite was always Buttercup! Kind of sultry and a bit passive aggressive and yet feisty and packs a punch! I loved it when they did a collaborative with the Sugababes. I think Keisha was paired up with Buttercup, which is a kind of a match made in heaven!
Thank you for this video. I have DID and so the section on parts was especially helpful since we have a lot of thoughts and feelings going on. I also appreciate the idea of creating a persona to do magic. I think I'll give that a try. It reminds me of Beyonce having a persona to perform until she felt comfortable doing it as herself.
As someone who has had so much “proof” of the other side in my life and of the power of my medicines… I’ve felt this mode of heavy skepticism enter my life within the past 5 years and am coming back to the woman I always have been in knowing there is so much going on that the eyes can’t explain or the realistic world can’t explain. As for my magic, I’ve see it work but I hesitate and hesitate again, I mean I don’t have much room with two little ones running around but in the spaces I do have room, I know they are listening and even if I’m not “asking” for anything, I’m building relationships. With my ancestors, with my home, with my guides, with the moon, a few deities kind of trying to poke at my consciousness (trying to figure out what kali is trying to teach me 🤔) and being drawn into the urge to make art because for some reason I know…I KNOW…that that is a source of my magic and at the very least a place where messages can manifest. It happened before so why not now 🤷🏽♀️
Such a perfectly timed video! I was just talking to my therapist yesterday about processing out the burden of proof of the people no longer in my life, and the reaction the Catholic part of my blood is still having to the word witch 💜
Weirdly (or not!) this just came up on my YT recommended, after I'd just been thinking about the fact that I have (once again) fallen off from spiritual practice, full of doubts as to whether it's "real". Identifying the different parts was a really helpful way of thinking about it, thank you!
I'm listening to you while working... suddenly : "The Occultic tits'' ... I burst out laughing, I am going to remember this! Educationnnal and much fun, Many thanks Kelly-Ann!
Helpful video. When I was in a working coven more than 20 years ago I remember saying that soon popular science will catch up with the craft and I feel like now it has. Looking at the work of Bob Monroe and Tom Campbell and others who work with consciousness, it becomes very well documented that magic is a Fact. Funnily enough when I've been the most skeptical has been when I've been surprised at how well it all worked. Sometime I just needed also to look wider at what might be a 'result' because every action has a result, but it doesn't always come as fast or wrapped up in the package I expected. If I take the long view, I can see the ribbon of magic that wound throughout. I'm also a coach that uses parts work and this view of magic is really helpful - I never thought of it. Thank you!
This is so perfect for me as a former literature and philosophy professor! I get in that professional academic mode and end up being devil's advocate at really inappropriate times for things I actually think or want to believe. Losing faith is also a very real issue for those of us in a country who has just elected a literal and actual insane felon. Christ may not give his believers more than they can handle, but Morrigan is fucking testing me. :p Blessed be and thank you SO MUCH for this gift of a video!!
This is wonderful advice 🎉. I’ve experienced exactly what you’re explaining. A friend asked me to see if I could channel her beloved pet that had died. I doubted I could but said I would do my best. I stepped into role play mode and performed some ceremony before trying. And guess what??? It freaking worked… now I’m a believer 😮😅. Love your new book BTY pure gold ❤
I struggle with trying things and nothing working, which fuels the inner skeptic. The thinking it's a waste of time. Or the fact that none of the traditional deities resonate with me. I want to incorporate my favorite video game characters into my practice, but it feels so *wrong*, like honoring characters who were created by humans not that long along feels silly. I'm tired of my inner skeptic winning.
@@midnaslament8479 Modern characters are all based on archetypes, which are ancient and powerful. They all contain and embody the wisdom of ages, the potency of old gods, and the potential contained in all human beings across history. It is the furthest thing from silly for a practitioner to incorporate modern interpretations of the archetypes that speak to them. It is far better to do that than to force yourself to connect with versions that don't speak to you. X
@kelly-annmaddox thank you so much for your response and wisdom. I'll just have to keep trying and put the skeptic part of me away for a bit and work with the believer part. Hopefully I can make some magic
This is a sweet segment. Lots of warm fuzzies. Hope everyone comes away from this feeling stronger, more confident towards all their witching. My own approach is Chaos, and I blend in some elements of Buddhism and Taoism, hypnosis, and meditation. When I do a working, it's spontaneous, for the most part, and in plain sight. Most of all, it's fun. It's got to be fun. It's the old skool Discordian in me. Hail Eris. Much love. Blessed Be 🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀
For me on my journey, with my experiences: spirits are real. I couldn't educate anyone on spirits and I don't need to! There also seem to be a wide variety of 'consciousnesses'. Living cosmos!
I have a video from early this year calles “Let yourself believe” (and then the title continues) because this year I’ve decided to believe, like a right I’m claiming. It’s all about MY practice
I gave up believing a year ago or so. I miss it so much even if i probably really don't believe in occult practices and witchcraft anymore. Walking through a forest isn't the same. Pun not intended, life's magic feels dull now. I wish I i could again. This video popping up on my home feed despite not engaging with spirituality content anymore brings up some of those feelings unfortunately. Also, my OCD was made way worse by believing. It added so many new compulsions and obsessions, so even if I could, I sadly feel like i shouldnt
I’ve been having major skepticism and haven’t practiced in at least 6 months. I was listening to this video while commuting to my personal late capitalism hellscape. One of the times you said “practice witchcraft”, I looked right and I saw the word “witch” written on a sign. And then I remembered who I am
This topic was so needed. You are a 💯 right, we need to practice and the belief will come. Thank you for all the amazing content and the time you offer 💓
As someone who's very logical and has a lot of air in my birthchart. I've come to the conclusion that i believe in soft polytheism. As well as Perennialism. It works for me. It makes logical sense to me in a spiritual way. As for witchcract, it works if you put your everything into it. For me, lighting a green candle and casually stating that i want a little money, doesnt work for me. HOWEVER if I light that green candle, carve "MONEY" on the side and sit there chanting and focusing intensly as the candle burns down. Almost breaking out in a magical sweat. It works. You have to WILL it to work. MAKE it fucking work. 🔥
Okay, between your adorable accent and captions, I'm confused. u gave an example of working with her at 6.39 6.50, and captions say hell 😅 I've never heard of a diety or goddess by that name. Is that what was mentioned, or can someone help me out curious 🐈⬛✨️
This video, along with some other not so subtle hints, came at the right time as I have been getting too much in my head and in my own way. Thank you for that! I´m gonna go play and be The Occultic Tits ;) Love the earrings!
I swear Kelly-Ann, you always read me for filth about the things I o need to be read and in a way that I can listen rather than becoming defensive. thank you so so much for this 🙏🏽❤️
when life gives Kelly-Ann lemons, she just looks fabulous
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You have never looked hotter! Love this season for you Kelly-Ann!
@@kelly-annmaddoxikr id marry you tomorrow u beautiful reincarnation of the goddess Aphrodite Venus and Selene the moon goddess ❤😊🫦🤭☺️😊🩷💜💋😘✌️🧚🧚
I think this topic isn't talked about enough :)
My biggest struggle is believing in my own power. I have more confidence in other people's magic than my own :(
I'm a total skeptic, i love rationality and science, i teach math FFS.
But, reality is still full of mystery. There's so many possible paths for things to take, and your thoughts about your life really really matter.
To me, magick is the act of making your life into art and getting in touch with your intuition. It's accepting that things are BOTH real and not real, reality is both objective and subjective.
In the infinite diversity there are infinite combinations, as the vulcans say.
Love this!
I have been a Christian for 3 decades and never fully satisfied. I have been drawn and compelled all that time to different more direct influence of power, magick, I am just now embarking on this journey and have been led to you, as well as runes and tarot. Let the magick begin! Thank you Kelly Ann.
May u be blessed with protection and wisdom on ur journey❤ it takes a lot to walk away from Christianity but I’m so much happier I have
This could also be helpful: there are issues of the brain, where truth and thought matters most. Like politics, medicine etc.
There are matters of the hand, where "is it practical/does it work" matters most, like I'm not worried about truth when building a bookshelf, i'm worried about how to get even edges.
And there are matters of the heart, where emotions matter most: when consoling my friend, it is less important what is true and more important what will help them and make them feel better.
Magic is often in the realm of the hand (does it work? Thats the important thing.) Sometimes a matter of the heart (how does it make you feel) and only seldomly a matter of the brain.
This was taught to me by Jason Miller from strategic sorcery
I love this! Thanks so much for sharing. I wanna read more Jason Miller. ❤
From now on, my official title will be Grand High Priest of Whereverthefuck.
Hehe, love this!
"You have no burden of proof."
This is exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you so much!!
The older I get the louder the inner skeptic yells at me. I want to believe so bad, but theres this unceasing anxiety that at any given moment someones going to manifest before me, demanding I defend all aspects of a path that either dont fully vibe with me or that I havent fully figured out yet. Thank god real life isnt as brutal as a reddit comment section.
Im nearly 40 and a witch/pagan for the better part of that, but still such a beginner because I talk myself out of doing any of the work because I haven't found my one 'true' path, and feel like im just playing make-believe. Its really good to be reminded that it should be the other way around. That Im not going to determine whats right for me without testing things!
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This is literally the most helpful witchcraft video I've ever seen (and I've seen LOTS of witchcraft videos). The idea of practicing just because I want to and the belief coming after is something that never occurred to me and honestly should be shared more in the magic/occult community. Thank you for this! ^_^
Wow, thank you so much! ❤ Glad it was helpful! 💋
I totally agree with this comment. It’s like the next VERY NEXT video to watch for every new witch’s “So you wanna be a witch” intro session… and then to rewatch every so often after that!
I think one thing that I love about witchcraft and the witch community is that we tend to maintain this level of skepticism even as we partake in magic haha. I think it keeps us humble about our craft instead of allowing us to slip into extremism like we see in other groups such as many organized religions. But we do have to be careful to not become too skeptical to the point that it gets in our way. Thanks for the advice!
Great points here. The other thing worth noting is that a lot of us are de-conditioning from religious trauma and persecution. It took me a while to trust my own experiences-I don’t always speak to deities when I paint, but it’s happened enough times for me to believe that it’s real.
Please can we get an "I AM THE OCCULTIC TITS' on a t shirt/bag/mug!!! 😄🥰🙌 Wonderful advice as always, thank you for another gem of a post 😊 And those earrings are brilliant 🍋💛
😂😂 love this
I love this phrase as well. It's going to be my new mantra.
Love the idea of an alter ego or persona to step into powerful belief! I don't necessarily struggle with skepticism in my practice, but I have definitely experienced belief after practice, as you mentioned. I've tried things I believed in and had them not work. That's ok. I've tried things I didn't believe in work, and subsequently added them to my regular "toolbox". It's fun to see how my practices and beliefs shift as I continue on my path. I'm open to it.
I really needed this right now. My inner skeptic has been overactive for the last couple of years, pushing me away from everything magical and spiritual and convincing me that I need to have it all figured out in a logical way before I even say a prayer or light a candle. It's exhausting! Thank you for your words!
@xoanwahn Yes, that is exhausting and you're not alone. Lots of practitioners are delayed due to an overactive inner skeptic. I'm glad I could help in any way. 😚😋
I clicked for the lemons, stayed for the absolutely fantastic perspective. Thank you!
@@emilysunflower 🍋👁👁🍋 Hehe thank you angel x
I love the point of being allowed to try something without believing in it. That is so true. Sometimes it really doesn’t matter, because the process and ceremony in itself can be cathartic enough even without expectation of a real result.
Kelly-Ann, you posted this right when I needed to hear it! You made my day, thank you so much!
Impactful messages, as always! 🧡
Love those earrings too! 🍋🍋🍋
I have a hard time believing that I'm worthy of help from witchcraft, but I still try😊
This was so lovely and helpful Kelly-Ann! The struggle I've had is not that I don't believe, it's that I don't believe *I* get to and can do this. Thinking about myself in parts and doing without needing die-hard belief really clicked 💜
I don’t try to believe. I try to understand the method I’m using .
Yes! I believe acting is magickal too! I consider it shapeshifting. Thank you for saying this. xo, A
It's totally shape-shifting and I love the effect it has on me when someone does it to such a high standard that I am literally moved to tears or inspired to change my whole life. That is HIGH Alchemy. ❤
@@kelly-annmaddox 100% agree. Have you seen this clip of Kathryn Hunter as a Weird Sister in McBeth? Stellar Alchemy. Total transformation and spellbinding to watch. ua-cam.com/video/13WWN6rhxM4/v-deo.htmlsi=CDz6jU8SolhuBEPL
I have a strident inner sceptic that holds me back in my witchy ways! Your advice is amazing and I'm going to watch the video again so I don't miss any of it. Thank you 😊
I have described myself spiritually as an open-minded skeptical. As I listen to this while cooking I think I have realized what that means. I have no real problem believing other people do magick. I believe my pagan/witchy friends when they tell me about their experiences. I have had powerful experiences myself that I can't explain outside the framework of magick and spirituality.
My problem is that I have a LOT of insecurity about my own abilities. The part about calling on an alter Ego (an altar Ego, if you will) may help me. I have a fictional characters in my head who is basically me in whatever fandom thing of the moment. Sonya Romanov (or one of her past life selves) can absolutely do the things because she's the shit and because I fucking said so.
I find myself less concerned with the question of whether or not my conceptualizations align with reality, and more concerned with what kind of person those conceptions lead me to be. Am I responsible and respectful? No. Not enough. Not yet. I would do whatever it takes to close the gap and to become a responsible and respectful person, even if it means potentially believing something silly. I do think that when it comes to the shared experience, trusting in one's doubt is the only responsible thing to do. But the private experience is a bit beyond the jurisdiction of skepticism, tbh. Ah, but 2:30 in, I will say that this channel appears to be one of the specially good ones. :)
LOVE THIS!!! Yes! I don't give a hoot if xyz deity is real or not. The question is what kind of person does your belief system make you and how does it teach you to interact with the world? Great comment. 👍
Yesssss this is so much of my own viewpoint too. I just wanna see that my witchcraft is helping me to be more of what I most want to be. Is it helping me to live with integrity? To be more caring? To speak my truth? ❤❤❤
Thank you! 💖 I REALLY needed to hear all of this!! I've had so many "spiritual"/witchy/paranormal experiences that I absolutely believe in, yet my Biology degree skeptical science logical brain wants to dismiss/minimize them, so I sometimes feel stuck. This video is SO incredibly helpful to me right now! 🥰 Thank you! 💖
You are such an empowering, inspirational person, and I Love that.
@@autumnsmith3585 🥹✨️ Thank you angel x
THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE HUMAN IN BY PRACTICE!!!
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Seriously. There's so much gatekeeping and perfectionism online about magic.
Oh wow!
I've recently been feeling much more skeptical and almost atheistic about my beliefs and it has made me feel as if my connection to my magick and spiritual practice has been severed. This video came at the absolute perfect time, thank you so much 💗🐺
I'm so glad it's timely for you. ❤
Came here today to remind our internet godmother of tarot that we're all patiently waiting for more episodes of "Vibing with". 🕯
That's it, just wanted to give a little offering candle to that end. Feel free to chime in on the offering, fam. ✨️
More to come, for sure. ❤ Not much longer to wait for the next one now
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I'm a 44 year old spellcaster with no results...thank you for this video
Thank you so much for this video. I really needed this.
💚wonderful as always
Such a great video, thank you. I'm quite a skeptical person (if me a year and a half ago could see me now!) - what helps me in focusing on "does this make me feel better?" Do I feel more empowered, do I feel better emotionally, does this bring me comfort/joy/connection etc, does it help me do what I want to get done?
Sidenote: love the Powerpuff girls T!
I LOVE those questions you ask yourself. ❤
I started fearing I’ll end up conscious in nothingness and eternity. And cleave to any idea of a something, hopefully nice. Hekate seems to be one for this type of condition. I just love the green eye shadow. 🤩
I really needed this. ❤
i really needed this video bc my inner skeptic is SO ANNOYING
Sounds like witchy IFS and I am here for it 😂
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Thank you so very much for this lecture. Blessed 🙌 😇 🙏 be 🙌
So here for this flavour of chaos parts work 🖤
You already know! 😋😉😘🤩
Yeah since getting into all the Witchy/Magick stuff I've certainly found that you hit road blocks and sometimes something that felt so clear to you the week before suddenly feels complicated and you feel differently about it for reasons that are hard to pinpoint, then the week after it all feels clear again.. 😅 It can be more stressful to wrap your head around how you specifically perceive certain things than it can be to wrap your head around the things to begin with.
Paradigm shifting is one thing I understand and have been able to pull off well a few times so far but there are a lot of times I get stuck in 1 paradigm or another, or multiple blend together when I didn't intend them to and it muddles things up. I'm sure all this type of stuff will become easier as the years go on but for now it varies from amazing to mind melting in a bad way.
I'm thinking I should dive into parts work properly, I think that would be helpful right now.
Yes, if you've nailed paradigm shifting then your magickal world is fully open. ❤
Check out Internal Family Systems for a great framework for exploring parts. 🙂
I don't have much of an inner skeptic...I'm a pisces lol. but also I feel like, hey, who KNOWS what's reallyactuallytruly going on behind the scenes, we're never going to understand it from here on the material plane, so yeah, what makes you feel good, what works for you, that's fine. whatever gets you through the night, it's alright. no one for sure knows what comes after you leave this plane and there is so so so so so so much that science can't explain, so much dark matter. there is a lot of room for belief in there. and faith, I find, creeps up on you when you aren't looking and then one day you realize you have it. when doubts do creep in, I don't really entertain them too hard because in the end, I'm not going to know. being an atheist is another kind of faith. believing there's no magic is another kind of faith. I choose the one that makes my life brighter and more meaningful to me.
"The difference between a hallucination and a vision is the meaning you ascribe to it" me, after having seen a great cat in the pattern on my bathroom floor tile during one of the hardest times of my life.
Also, whether or not I believe in something, the psychodramatic action of it is something I feel good about and the ritual of it is important to me. I ascribe meaning to it. So if it doesn't hurt me, then the skeptical parts of me can just enjoy the pageantry.
"The Occultic tits" 💀 I refuse to view myself as anything other than this going forward 🙌
Your content has been such a gift. Thank you for all you do 💕
Hehe, yesss, you ARE the occultic tits, baby. Dream it, live it, be it. ❤🔮🧹🧙♀️🕯🙌
Amazing look and amazing advice!!
Thank you! 🤩😍🥲
you are awesome 😂 and also love this video, so informative!
My goddess i needed this reminder so much! Thank you, parts!
Absolutely awesome video!! ❤❤
This video couldn't have come in a better moment for me, thank you! 🥰
This is an amazing video, thank you so much!
Great video ❤👍 I find witch craft fascinating and I love watching UA-cam videos. I tried to get into practicing it myself but I have a hide time connecting with nature, and I feel like you have to connect with nature as part of the practice for some reason. I haven't found a way to practice that resonates with me. Also I grew up believing witch craft was bad and an ex partner was dead against it, so didn't start exploring it till my mid 40s.
I would recommend finding the entry point that works for you. If it's not nature then that's ok. Just take the easiest doorway for you - whatever feels like it's full of magickal potential. Your connection to nature could be something that flourishes later. I hope you can heal from having an unsupportive ex. X
@kelly-annmaddox thank you x
I'm an agnostic gnostic witch with a balance of both. SASS which works for me! :)
Glad I found your channel! I'm nearly done reading Rebel Witch and I've really enjoyed it.
@karenbb5063 🥲🥰😍 Thank you so much for checking out my book and popping over to the channel. I appreciate you. X
Probably the most helpful video I’ve watched all year. When life gives you lemons, make earrings.😂
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This was a very helpful video! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! ❤❤❤
Thank you Kelly-Anne, I found this video really helpful! I definitely do feel a connection to witchcraft, and at the minute the main things I do is a monthly tarot reading for myself and celebrate the sabbats. But you’re correct, the beliefs come and go and when they go I feel quite bad. But of course we need to remember like you said our beliefs can change depending on our mood for example, so maybe focus on the fact that there are definitely times we believe and how good that has made up feel❤
You know what I'm struggling with? Maybe a bit off topic, but the feeling every time I come to do a spell is, do I really have the right to do this? Not that I lack confidence, just that I believe doing magic moves energy around in ways they wouldn't have otherwise, and I'm nervous about getting it wrong, moving things around in a way I might regret once I've learned the full picture of the situation. It's happened before. Of course, everything we do moves every around. Washing the dishes moves energy around. Most of the time it doesn't affect other people in the slightest, so what's to worry so much about? Well, if I could answer that one...
I will happily make a video on this ❤ Lemme get my thoughts together x
omg how serendipitous this video is. It come up as the suggestion on my UA-cam and I am having some doubts or lack of faith (or concrete faith) on my path and magickal workings or understanding on things. I take this as a sign. Been watching Kelly vids for years and she is like a breath of fresh logical air to my worry wort mind lols. Plus the likes was 555 like during the time I'm watching this video and I take it as another personal sign as that number is my personal magickal synchronic number 😂❤ much love to you Kelly cookie 🍪 love 💕
The Powererpuff Girls!! My favourite was always Buttercup! Kind of sultry and a bit passive aggressive and yet feisty and packs a punch! I loved it when they did a collaborative with the Sugababes. I think Keisha was paired up with Buttercup, which is a kind of a match made in heaven!
Buttercup is my main girl too. 😊 She is the one that I am defo the most like, but I can defo turn into Bubbles if you get close enough to me. 😂🫧
@@kelly-annmaddox Cute!
Thank you for this video. I have DID and so the section on parts was especially helpful since we have a lot of thoughts and feelings going on. I also appreciate the idea of creating a persona to do magic. I think I'll give that a try. It reminds me of Beyonce having a persona to perform until she felt comfortable doing it as herself.
Oh my goodness… thank you thank you thank you….. have needed to hear this for so long, and this really resonated with me. I’m so grateful for this.
As someone who has had so much “proof” of the other side in my life and of the power of my medicines…
I’ve felt this mode of heavy skepticism enter my life within the past 5 years and am coming back to the woman I always have been in knowing there is so much going on that the eyes can’t explain or the realistic world can’t explain.
As for my magic, I’ve see it work but I hesitate and hesitate again, I mean I don’t have much room with two little ones running around but in the spaces I do have room, I know they are listening and even if I’m not “asking” for anything, I’m building relationships.
With my ancestors, with my home, with my guides, with the moon, a few deities kind of trying to poke at my consciousness (trying to figure out what kali is trying to teach me 🤔) and being drawn into the urge to make art because for some reason I know…I KNOW…that that is a source of my magic and at the very least a place where messages can manifest. It happened before so why not now 🤷🏽♀️
Thank you. I just found this and I am struggling because I am recently leaving Christianity to Witchcraft.
Sending my love and encouragement darling ❤️
Such a perfectly timed video! I was just talking to my therapist yesterday about processing out the burden of proof of the people no longer in my life, and the reaction the Catholic part of my blood is still having to the word witch 💜
I've been thinking about this topic for a couple of days. Today this video appeared. 😊
@@lola888ism Love that 🥰😍
Omg, I love listening to you!!! I need you to kick my a*s into doing things lol
Hehe, consider this comment to be your personal ass-kicking! 🦵😉🤩😘
@@kelly-annmaddox thank you!! hahah XD
interesting! i’m at the thing you’re talking at on 16/11 and i’m intrigued to see how much they’re gonna take down astrology
Weirdly (or not!) this just came up on my YT recommended, after I'd just been thinking about the fact that I have (once again) fallen off from spiritual practice, full of doubts as to whether it's "real". Identifying the different parts was a really helpful way of thinking about it, thank you!
@@FallenAngel-wb4ub I'm glad I could show up at the right time for you. 🥰
I want a neon glowstick now.
Oh Kelly-Ann you have awakened my desire to do witchcraft again. My skeptic was too loud.
@@charlenewallmark1187 🥰 Yesss get back on the magickal horse! ✨️
Inner miserable pessimist…relatable
Great down to earth video ❤
I'm listening to you while working... suddenly : "The Occultic tits'' ... I burst out laughing, I am going to remember this! Educationnnal and much fun, Many thanks Kelly-Ann!
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Helpful video. When I was in a working coven more than 20 years ago I remember saying that soon popular science will catch up with the craft and I feel like now it has. Looking at the work of Bob Monroe and Tom Campbell and others who work with consciousness, it becomes very well documented that magic is a Fact. Funnily enough when I've been the most skeptical has been when I've been surprised at how well it all worked. Sometime I just needed also to look wider at what might be a 'result' because every action has a result, but it doesn't always come as fast or wrapped up in the package I expected. If I take the long view, I can see the ribbon of magic that wound throughout. I'm also a coach that uses parts work and this view of magic is really helpful - I never thought of it. Thank you!
thank you for this
This is so perfect for me as a former literature and philosophy professor! I get in that professional academic mode and end up being devil's advocate at really inappropriate times for things I actually think or want to believe. Losing faith is also a very real issue for those of us in a country who has just elected a literal and actual insane felon. Christ may not give his believers more than they can handle, but Morrigan is fucking testing me. :p Blessed be and thank you SO MUCH for this gift of a video!!
This is wonderful advice 🎉. I’ve experienced exactly what you’re explaining. A friend asked me to see if I could channel her beloved pet that had died. I doubted I could but said I would do my best. I stepped into role play mode and performed some ceremony before trying. And guess what??? It freaking worked… now I’m a believer 😮😅. Love your new book BTY pure gold ❤
My alter ego is pure goddess 😂😂 it’s fantastic 😊
Wow did I need this!
Exactly what I needed, thank you!
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I struggle with trying things and nothing working, which fuels the inner skeptic. The thinking it's a waste of time.
Or the fact that none of the traditional deities resonate with me. I want to incorporate my favorite video game characters into my practice, but it feels so *wrong*, like honoring characters who were created by humans not that long along feels silly.
I'm tired of my inner skeptic winning.
@@midnaslament8479 Modern characters are all based on archetypes, which are ancient and powerful. They all contain and embody the wisdom of ages, the potency of old gods, and the potential contained in all human beings across history. It is the furthest thing from silly for a practitioner to incorporate modern interpretations of the archetypes that speak to them. It is far better to do that than to force yourself to connect with versions that don't speak to you. X
@kelly-annmaddox thank you so much for your response and wisdom. I'll just have to keep trying and put the skeptic part of me away for a bit and work with the believer part. Hopefully I can make some magic
It is not that i don’t believe, it feel it beating inside of me, but it scares me a little, what if i do something wrong?
The Grand High Witch of Glittery Shit! I love this so much!
Genius ❤
This is a sweet segment. Lots of warm fuzzies. Hope everyone comes away from this feeling stronger, more confident towards all their witching.
My own approach is Chaos, and I blend in some elements of Buddhism and Taoism, hypnosis, and meditation. When I do a working, it's spontaneous, for the most part, and in plain sight. Most of all, it's fun. It's got to be fun. It's the old skool Discordian in me. Hail Eris.
Much love. Blessed Be 🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀🫀
Hail Eris! ❤ 🍎 Weird, I was just thinking about Discordianism last night after not considering it much for ages. I would love to make a video on it. X
@@kelly-annmaddox Chalk it up to spontaneous telepathy 😃 A piece on Eris would be fun.
For me on my journey, with my experiences: spirits are real. I couldn't educate anyone on spirits and I don't need to! There also seem to be a wide variety of 'consciousnesses'. Living cosmos!
I have a video from early this year calles “Let yourself believe” (and then the title continues) because this year I’ve decided to believe, like a right I’m claiming. It’s all about MY practice
@@AstralLadyTarot I love this whole vibe. Gifting yourself the right to believe is everything. 😍
I gave up believing a year ago or so. I miss it so much even if i probably really don't believe in occult practices and witchcraft anymore.
Walking through a forest isn't the same. Pun not intended, life's magic feels dull now. I wish I i could again. This video popping up on my home feed despite not engaging with spirituality content anymore brings up some of those feelings unfortunately.
Also, my OCD was made way worse by believing. It added so many new compulsions and obsessions, so even if I could, I sadly feel like i shouldnt
I need you to write a book!
@kinkii09 Hehe, another one? 😉 You can find my first two linked in the description, 'Rebel Witch' and 'Witch in Darkness.' 💋
@ I found it in Barnes & Noble’s!!!!
I’ve been having major skepticism and haven’t practiced in at least 6 months. I was listening to this video while commuting to my personal late capitalism hellscape. One of the times you said “practice witchcraft”, I looked right and I saw the word “witch” written on a sign. And then I remembered who I am
Arghhhhh ❤ I LOVE it when stuff like that happens. 😍 Your sign has arrived, baby x
I love this video. Lots of goodness in here. 💋
Thank you glad I found this video getting the occultic tits out now lol
😅❤ Hehe good to hear it! X
This topic was so needed. You are a 💯 right, we need to practice and the belief will come. Thank you for all the amazing content and the time you offer 💓
You are so welcome, thank you so much for your kind words. ☺️😘
As someone who's very logical and has a lot of air in my birthchart.
I've come to the conclusion that i believe in soft polytheism. As well as Perennialism.
It works for me. It makes logical sense to me in a spiritual way.
As for witchcract, it works if you put your everything into it.
For me, lighting a green candle and casually stating that i want a little money, doesnt work for me.
HOWEVER if I light that green candle, carve "MONEY" on the side and sit there chanting and focusing intensly as the candle burns down. Almost breaking out in a magical sweat. It works.
You have to WILL it to work. MAKE it fucking work. 🔥
Okay, between your adorable accent and captions, I'm confused. u gave an example of working with her at 6.39 6.50, and captions say hell 😅 I've never heard of a diety or goddess by that name. Is that what was mentioned, or can someone help me out curious 🐈⬛✨️
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@@TheDementedBabe Hel - the Norse goddess of the underworld. 💕✨️ She is my matron. You can find lots of videos about her here on my channel x
@kelly-annmaddox ohhh thank u so much 💓 for that clarification I'll look through your channel 🖤
@TheDementedBabe 😘😘
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Such a brilliant woman and witch you are. I really like how you make everything and anything that is “true to self” OK.
This video, along with some other not so subtle hints, came at the right time as I have been getting too much in my head and in my own way. Thank you for that! I´m gonna go play and be The Occultic Tits ;) Love the earrings!
Thank you! 😍😍
Just what I needed to hear. Thank you Kelly-Ann ua-cam.com/video/CdT9FNXO9Ns/v-deo.htmlsi=k_8VOSIIQomglDw6
I swear Kelly-Ann, you always read me for filth about the things I o need to be read and in a way that I can listen rather than becoming defensive. thank you so so much for this 🙏🏽❤️
for one day I wanna be the queen empress of the whatever the fuck land
@@samila1142 Yesss do it!
I hope this video stays with your target audience
Edit: what I mean is that I hope militant atheists don’t find this lol
😅 😅 usually 1 or 2 trolls find their way here.
Definitely needed this, thank you!! 🍋💖💖💖