Witch Girl answers:

I think she has feelings for you. Girls want what they can't have, so in the back of her mind she will always want you regardless of what's going on in the front of her mind. If she is making so much of an effort to stay in contact with you, it's quite clear that she wants your attention.

Just be there for her and show her that you care. Girls often get embarrassed about who they like and I'm sure she doesn't want to be known as the girl who liked you, then got rejected and a few years later is still pining over you. Of course, she's going to tell people she likes someone else. That's just what girls do. I'd trust your instincts and look at the facts.

Witch Girl answers:

Here is a website that gives you an idea of what Wicca is not:

http://www.mdpagans.com/wiccaisnot.html

In your local area, you might want to look for a coven to join or other Wiccan related group. Such a group might be able to help you with the "it" you refer to and provide a better understanding of what magic really is...

Regards the "7 times" you are probably thinking of the "The Three-Fold Law", which states that whatever we do, for good or ill, will return to us magnified (x3).

Blessings!

Witch Girl answers:

Absolutely not - worshiping "Satan" is not the Wiccan Way.

Satan is a Christian concept, although the idea of evil personified is not just a Christian concept. Satan's origin probably stems from the Pagan Horned God (Although Pan is not evil).

The scare tactics of the past centuries aligning witches with devil worship and the disparaging of other pagan practices was mainly a tool to force conversions to the Christian religion and/or to have social power over a population. The use of fear continues to be used by "religions" today and other institutions such as the Republican Party in the United States.

Witches/Wiccans are peaceful people. No "sinning" in that.

Of course, as I've said before, there are black sheep in any religion. So there may be "Black Witches," who claim to be Satan followers. But they are not following the Witches Creed. Just like those Catholic priests who do 'you know what' claim to be men of God.

Witch Girl answers:

Witches are just normal people like you and I, they are not super beings. That means we can take baths...

Witches practice magic as part of their exploration of the laws of the Universe... Some practice black magic, and some white magic..

You need to stay away from the ones who practice black magic, they are only making trouble for themselves... But a person who practices white magic is doing good, for themselves and people around them..

Death comes to all of us, which for me creates these challenges (among others):

Do no harm.
Help those who ask.
Keep my awareness growing, until I translate to the life beyond this one.

We live wherever the Mother (Goddess) is...

Witch Girl answers:

For early versionof fictional witches, refer to some of the Mother Goose Rhymes as well as some of Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Anderson. Many of them were old stories that had been passed down from generation to generation of various places all over western Europe.

The most classical list of "fictional" witch ingredients is from Shakespeare's witches in Macbeth.
Visit Http://www.potw.org/archive/potw283.html for the passage.

Witch Girl answers:

It sounds like they were probably just trying to tweak you in that particular case, so maybe it's not worth bothering with them...

But it is an issue worth addressing in a larger sense, because so many people in the world cultures seem to share similar views.

First, I think it's important to try and figure out just what they think or imagine that we're claiming, when we say that magic works, or that we're witches. Often they just have a misunderstanding of what those words mean, due to their ignorance of the contemporary neopagan movement.

If they understand, for example, that Wicca is a religion, then it would be silly for them to claim that no Wiccans exist; it would be like saying no Buddhists exist. And many Wiccans also call themselves witches, because they practice magic.

So are they saying that nobody practices magic? That's clearly not true, because people in many different religions practice various kinds of magic, including witchcraft. For example, shamans in some indigenous cultures are called witches. They certainly exist, as any anthropologist can tell you. Whether or not you believe they can perform actual magic -- that is, whether magic actually works -- is a separate question.

So let's say that's their main objection: They don't think that any kind of magic works. Many people do assume that, but of course there is no proof of it. Indeed, it would be impossible even in principle to prove that magic is impossible; because it is logically impossible to prove a universal negative. (Such as: Prove that there are no purple unicorns anywhere in the cosmos. It cannot be done, even in principle.)

On the other hand, it should also be honestly admitted that magic is not easily proven, either. Most pagans today see magic as *natural* not supernatural; that means that the laws of Nature are obeyed at all times, and the way that Magic works is more like remarkable coincidences or synchronicities that "just happen" -- and not physically impossible things like flying around on broomsticks.

So their objections to magic -- and their claims that it cannot possibly exist -- where does that come from?

Mostly it comes from an UNQUESTIONED ASSUMPTION that they are making: Namely, the assumption of Philosophical Materialism.

That is the metaphysical idea that the only thing that ultimately exists in the cosmos is physics and physical stuff -- matter and energy and forces. From that philosophy, consciousness and thoughts and all subjective experience only exists as some kind of arrangement of matter and energy. It's not a bad guess to make, as a hypothesis or working assumption -- when and if you are DOING SCIENCE. Just because, when you're doing science, you're trying to figure out how Nature works, not how your mind or consciousness works. So you just fence off all discussion of consciousness, and focus on physical matter.

But that does NOT mean that physical stuff is all there is in the world, or all that can be. And it surely does not mean that everything in the world can or should be explained by science. So the philosophical assumption of Materialism is just that: an assumption. Not a fact. Not proven. Not even capable of being proven. It's just an assumption, and like all assumptions, it could be wrong. So people need to realize that materialism is only an assumption, and not a proven fact.

(And, I would say, it's an assumption that is at odds with the very fact of our own consciousness and subjective experience. Because the ONLY thing that we can know with certainty is our own consciousness. The material world may not be anything at all like we imagine it is, in reality; and indeed, that seems to be just what quantum theory and relativity theory in modern physics have shown us: that our usual experience of the physical world and our usual ideas about it, are just plain WRONG. If even the physical world is so much stranger than we ever imagined, then how can anybody actually think that they can be sure magic does not exist?)

Science is good for only a very narrow range of natural phenomena: namely, those that are repeatable and predictable, so that the laws of Nature can be tested over and over and over again, to confirm them. Science cannot explain poetry or romantic love or why roses are beautiful. Science is only good for one thing: figuring out how Nature works.

Religion is an entirely separate domain from science; and so long as those two domains remain totally separate, there is no reason for any conflicts between them. All the "conflicts" come about by people trying to use religion to explain Nature -- instead of using science for that; or else by people trying to use science to explain the meaning and purpose of life -- which is the job of religion and spirituality. So they need to be kept separate and apart.

The same thing holds for magic and science: they are two very different approaches to explaining how and why things happen. No conflict, if you keep them separate. Magic can be neither proven nor disproven; so people have a right to hold their own beliefs.
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