When Witches Move

  "Honey...hand me the packing tape!"

...and why I'm having a Moving Sale.....

Let’s face it; moving is a pain in the ass no matter who you are. The sorting and cleaning, the wrapping and packing, the toting and loading; it makes me tired just thinking about it. Then when you get to the new place you have to do it all in reverse. Now, when witches move it’s even more of a pain in the ass. First off witches tend to have more stuff than most other people and if you’ve been a witch for a while you have a lot of other stuff because over the years it just seemed that natural to have whole collections of witchy accoutrements. I mean why have one wand when you can have 12? Even if you seldom use them there may come a time when you need this or that one. One chalice is certainly never enough and people just love to give them to you as gifts. Then of course there’s the various and assorted sharp pointy things that you’ve collected over the years; you know the blades of all sorts, sizes, lengths and configurations. Then there’s the mortars and pestles, candle holders, incense burners, drums, rattles, bells, gongs, singing bowls, statuary and the list goes on and on. Of course we haven’t even gotten to the two heaviest of items that we witches always seem to have an over-abundance of; books and rocks.

Witches, and Pagans of all kinds, always have lots and lots of books. Even though so much is on the web and the trend towards electronic books seems to be taking hold we still have an obsession with books; well at least all the best witches do! At one point my husband and I had so many books I was trying to figure out how to use them for furniture since we were rapidly running out of room for the regular kind. Even though I did do a pretty intense purge a few years ago we certainly still have more books than any of our non-Pagan friends ever thought about having. Books are glorious wonderful things…..until you have to pack them, carry them and unpack them. But what’s a witch to do; I need those books!

Then there are the rocks; really do I need this many rocks? There are small and large ones, polished and tumbled ones, rough and jagged ones, holy rocks and holey rocks, various things made out of rocks like candle holders and plates. Rocks I gathered from the shore during Mabon rituals, rocks I gathered on the beach in San Francisco with my favorite fairy, rocks from the forest in Mendocino County, a rock from ancient Greek ruins, a rock from Petra and even a rock from Michigan. I love my rocks…..but man when you start carrying those boxes to the truck you have to keep telling yourself how much you really need them. When the guy you hired to help is struggling under the weight of a surprisingly small box asks, “What’s in this box, rocks?” …..you just smile.

Of course we’ve only covered the actual moving of material things; the things that must be packed and put in a box but for the witch there’s all those other things. When witches move cleaning takes on a whole new meaning. Of course you still have to do the regular cleaning but then there’s the other type of cleaning that we witches have to do. The latent energy from working with the other side has to be truly cleaned up. I mean it’s perfectly okay for you to live with it but it’s simply bad manners to expect the next occupants to have to deal with it. The miscellaneous fetches, guardians and other various creations will have to be taken with, which in and of itself can be a bit of chore. If you don’t take them with you then you they will have to be deconstructed, banished or in some other way sorted out as it is unwise and unkind to leave latent spectral beings milling about. Witches bottles have to be unburied, the spikes at the corners of the property will have to be pulled up and depending on the witch there may be several other “cleaning” jobs that will have to be taken care of.

I bring this all up because yes we are moving again. We’re not moving far, just a little further up the mountain and hopefully this will be it for a very, very long time. We have been blessed with one of those opportunities that simply can’t be passed up so of course we are not passing it up. A bigger house, a huge space for Raven’s Flight and a temple, a much larger area that can be cultivated with herbs, a greenhouse, a bigger area for the dogs, a lot more storage for all those things I simply can’t bring myself to part with and the some of our dearest friends for neighbors….what could be better! So as I was packing and making lists of things to do it occurred to me all of the things that witches have to do to move…..and I haven’t even brought up the chore of moving Raven’s Flight. So to hopefully make the move a little less labor intensive we are having a Moving Sale! Lots of wonderful items have been reduced from 20-75%. The sale runs until May 25^th ‘cause that’s when Raven’s Flight gets wrapped, boxed and hauled to the new space. So please….for the sake of all those helping us move…..shop, shop, shop! As an added incentive all those reading this blog can take another 5% off Moving Sale items and almost anything else you purchase[i], just use the promo code MOVE5 at check out.

Blessings

Raven Womack

Raven's Flight The Magickal Apothecary

www.ravensflight.net

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[i] Some items that were already on sale might not be eligible for the extra discount, but most are.

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