Edge Witchery

The Witch lives on the Edges.  

Even if she resides in the center of the city, if he stands at the center of the Circle, or they often seem to be the center of attention -- our natural place is at the Edge.

From the Edges, we observe -- our fellow humans, the turning of the seasons, the activity of birds and wild things and domesticated beings. From the Edges, we listen -- for the raspy caw of the Crow, the whispering of Other-Beings, the infant’s laughter, the lover’s cry.  From the Edges, we sense -- the tide turning, a storm coming, friends falling in love, a long lost friend returning, a death approaching.  At the Edges, we read the signs and omens, the energetic patterns and the future. At the Edges, we remember our own Center.

The Edge Witch Apprenticeship is a 13 month excursion around, beneath and beyond the Edges of things. We explore the liminalities where shadow and light play, where love and hate vie, where passion and apathy co-exist, and where the spiritual realms intersect with the physical.

To know the Edge, one must also explore the center. To stand in the center, one must be exquisitely aware of those places where our boundaries end and another’s begin.

We will meet in a private, virtual, online space once per month weeks for Teaching and Discussion. There will be suggested reading assignments, but the real emphasis of this Apprenticeship is experiential. 

During our thirteen months together, we’ll explore and name our own Edges as well as how to protect them, make them more permeable or intense based upon our need in any given moment.  We’ll learn to expand and extend our Edges -- becoming large and taking up space. We’ll become acutely aware of when our Edges are too malleable or altogether non-existent.

Once we gain a certain comfort in our own physical and etheric skin, we’ll move on to explore the Edges of our consciousness -- softening or opening them so as to See that which most do not, and to Read the patterns, signs and omens in the world around us without cards, runes or other divination systems. Witches must be capable of relying upon and trusting our own Knowing.

One who is Self-Aware, and aware of what lies outside the Self, is ready to begin weaving their own Vision into being. 

One might even deign to weave larger patterns so as to benefit loved ones, communities, the natural and Other worlds as well as the false-world manufactured by those who worship greed, jealousy, war and power-over as their gods.

 

 

This Apprenticeship is not Feri Training, although all I do and am and Teach is influenced by that Tradition. This Apprenticeship is not Wicca, nor is it neo-pagan eclecticism. While we will work with the power of the Moons and the Wheel of the Year, we will do so as a means of accessing pinnacles of power, slipping through thin veils, reaching into the Other Realms for wisdom, healing and power.

The Edge Witch, according to Terry Pratchett, deals with the edges of things--ANY edges where boundaries apply: The edge between life and death, light and dark, good and evil, right and left, night and day, youth and maturity, autumn and winter, sorrow and ecstasy, this world and the others.  “A Witch who describes herself as an Edge Witch, watches over and guards these edges.  They think fast because edges can shift” in the blink of an eye.  These Witches hone senses that most people never realize they have -- including other kinds of Witches.

The Witch, according to Victor Anderson, has always lived on the edges. Indeed, when fire was first domesticated, and the people would gather ‘round it for meals and ritual, discussion, song, and story. But, ”The Witch turned away from the fire and wandered into the darkness.” 

There, beyond the bounds of civilized niceties, we seek wisdom, power and healing which we bring back for the people. That wisdom, power and healing -- and the Witch hirself--is simultaneously revered and feared, respected and reviled.

We dance amid the center and beyond the edges today, as we have always done.

If you know yourself to be an Edge Witch but haven’t quite yet become comfortable with your lot, this Apprenticeship is a perfect fit for you. Likewise, if you’ve a curiosity or a talent for Seeing the Unseen, Reading Signs and Omens, Weaving and Unravelling patterns and outcomes, this Apprenticeship was designed with you in mind.  If you’re an empath, an introvert, a spirit or animal Whisperer, there is a place at the table for you, here. 

The Edge Witch Apprenticeship is a home-coming place for those who’ve suspected there are others who share our differences and similarities. It is a path leading toward trust in your own boundaries, magic, knowing, skills, and Craft.