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The Old Ways is a lifestyle as a path to follow....

For me  the way I live is most important. As a heathen I am a person who is willing to help others with what they need, if it's help with  advice, or a request for help with their house or to fix the car, if they need money or anything else, if I think I can help I act on it.  If I help  a friend or some one else I don't even know, they will help an other person,and that person will as well, that's how the heathen society works and gives us all a good ground to stand on.. All are different individuals, if I can give help with what I can,another use his/her ability,and so on...
One day I will recieve help when I want and need it..I'm very close to my family, the old as the young, and I never let any down, I try to keep the peace around us, and in many ways try help others understand that if they don't agree with other peoples belief, they have to accept them, all is a balance,and we all are needed to keep it.                                                    
No one gets happy by making other people to feel small ..all of us have a value as humans, from the baglady to the rich man.
And it's not all heathen/pagans who are involved in magic, some are viewers,some are students still and other practioners. I use the craft to help and heal, if someone is harming  or threatening my family or my loved ones, I can use it to get even, but that's rare.
 
I don't belive in using it to help people out, without trying other things first,but I do believe I can have it as a complement also, when it comes to protecting the enviroment and keeping our sacred places intact ,it's no use to practice only magic, the governments and the ones who try to ruin our world don't get affected by it, don't ask me why.
It is  time we all need to unite in protest and go together to engage all people to act ,and show ,that nature and the humans right to protect this is more important then money, we can live with less money, but not without our nature ,and not with destroying the playground for all living creatures on the earth.
 
So instead of fighting each other and talking bullshit, look around you, your neighbourhood, what can you do to make this a better place for all ?Where can you start ,to get a better society to live in, to see that your kids one day can  feel good and  feel as one with the nature?How are you planning to teach to them take care of it? To respect it?
 
Talk with the people who live there, start plans of action ,against what you feel and think is wrong.Go around with a list, write and post in the magazines you have in your town/city...get people to open their eyes, engage all in this..that's how you can make a difference, not with sitting on your arse,  and waiting for others to act.... it's up to you to make the changes friend!!!
 
I wish you all well and a peaceful future 

 

This was written by a dear friend of mine...a great woman, love her to bits


 

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