An experience I'd be interested in opinions on..
A Wiccan love of mine has decided to move on from relationship with me.
She's been Wiccan for decades, part of an active local coven (headed by someone who is apparently a Wiccan celebrity)
Agreed to have a leave taking ritual in order to ease the transition.
On Brigid's feast Eve, we met at her house.
Each wrote affirmations on the back of a picture of us, printed on your basic printer paper. She folded hers quickly into fourths. Declined to share her affirmations. So I did the same.
She set up what I understand to be a sacred circle. Fire, water, etc. Consecrated to Brigid. Included a lit Brigid's candle and a plate to drop our burned affirmations on.
We read a couple things each. Including the (garderian?) invocation.
She held her folded affirmations over the Brigid candle, the edge caught fire.
When she withdrew it from the flame, it went out immediately.
She tried again and again, same result.
Put it down on the plate and started trying with a pack of paper matches, scorching her fingers. The paper would not burn.
She said something about how "maybe the paper is fireproof"
Her singed affirmations sitting on the plate, I put mine to the flame. They caught immediately. I had to drop my flaming paper on hers to avoid being burned. My paper burned completely.
To complete her burning, she had to singe hers inch by inch over the Brigid's candle.
They never actually caught fire.
Stunned by what I had witnessed, we took the ashes outside to scatter them.
I left without further discussion, staggered by what I saw.
I'm a lifetime agnostic and rationalist. Educated, widely read and experienced. I've had an extremely varied and interesting life. I have no prejudice against believers. In fact, I've always wished for magic and spirits to be real. But at 51, I have seen zero evidence. Until this.
What else could this have been but a non corporeal intelligence intervening in our physical reality?
Was Brigid present?
What was she saying?
Was I just a bystander?
A Wiccan love of mine has decided to move on from relationship with me.
She's been Wiccan for decades, part of an active local coven (headed by someone who is apparently a Wiccan celebrity)
Agreed to have a leave taking ritual in order to ease the transition.
On Brigid's feast Eve, we met at her house.
Each wrote affirmations on the back of a picture of us, printed on your basic printer paper. She folded hers quickly into fourths. Declined to share her affirmations. So I did the same.
She set up what I understand to be a sacred circle. Fire, water, etc. Consecrated to Brigid. Included a lit Brigid's candle and a plate to drop our burned affirmations on.
We read a couple things each. Including the (garderian?) invocation.
She held her folded affirmations over the Brigid candle, the edge caught fire.
When she withdrew it from the flame, it went out immediately.
She tried again and again, same result.
Put it down on the plate and started trying with a pack of paper matches, scorching her fingers. The paper would not burn.
She said something about how "maybe the paper is fireproof"
Her singed affirmations sitting on the plate, I put mine to the flame. They caught immediately. I had to drop my flaming paper on hers to avoid being burned. My paper burned completely.
To complete her burning, she had to singe hers inch by inch over the Brigid's candle.
They never actually caught fire.
Stunned by what I had witnessed, we took the ashes outside to scatter them.
I left without further discussion, staggered by what I saw.
I'm a lifetime agnostic and rationalist. Educated, widely read and experienced. I've had an extremely varied and interesting life. I have no prejudice against believers. In fact, I've always wished for magic and spirits to be real. But at 51, I have seen zero evidence. Until this.
What else could this have been but a non corporeal intelligence intervening in our physical reality?
Was Brigid present?
What was she saying?
Was I just a bystander?
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