In studying and working with Shamanism as of late, I have discovered the correlation between Shamanism and Wicca.

So, what happened? The marvelous thing about shamanism, is its universality, shared practices, the use of steady, percussive rhythm, the sacred circle, the honoring of the four directions, the relationship with medicine, plants, the reverence for the Earth, the understanding of animals as guides and teachers, the cultivation of spiritual practices that alter consciousness and perception and enable us to enter realms of spirit, to work with healing spirits, to work with forms of deity, to work with spirits of place, to work with the spirits of plants, of animals, to work with the spirits of the elements, to work with our ancestors. There is magic in the natural world. There is magic within each of us. That magic is the flow of this divinity, of this grace, of this energy, of this sacredness, and it binds all things together. It's a sensibility, and it's a capacity for living in richer, deeper, fuller ways, a sensibility to the presence of the sacred, your ability to interact with it, your ability to work with it, and to transform your life in ways that are healing and nourishing and enriching and enchanting. The things that you suspected as a child are true

When we say the word “witch” we can't help but have that reaction of fear, of anxiety, of nervous laughter, of stereotypes of Hansel and Gretel and this crazy figure in the woods who's going to eat children. But we also have a sense of something else. We have a sense of something that's been hidden from us, some magic, some wildness, some refusal to live according to the rules of society, free spiritedness of someone who lives in the woods, in the Wild Woods, who lives outside of social constraints and limitations and definitions, of someone who speaks to animals and knows the magical powers of plants, who knows how to heal, who knows how to birth babies!

When I discovered what witchcraft was really all about, when I discovered the Goddess behind the mask of the hideous hag, when I discovered that this was actually our Euro-Indigenous wisdom tradition, I came out of the broom closet. I've watched it grow from a deeply misunderstood spirituality, not even a spirituality, just deeply misunderstood, hidden in the back of a very dusty broom closet, disguised by hundreds of years of negative stereotypes into what is now the fastest growing spirituality in the United States, Britain, and it’s growing across The world!!!