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AN INTERVIEW WITH A WITCH AT YULE
09:22 Dec 25 2010
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At this time of year, we pagans like to celebrate Yule - a time from when the days start to grow longer and the nights shorter. We honour the Great Mother Goddess - bringer of new life and hope to the land. We all know someone who embodies the spirit of the Goddess, and, my closest friend here on VR is just that kinda witch. She cares for everyone she meets and helps anyone who needs it and all the time, with a great big smile on her face. She's full of fun and makes me giggle I really dont know where I'd be without her...I simply had to interview LadySnowStrixx, my favourite witch...

I wondered if LadySnowStrixx would cook me up a spell, show me how to ride her broomstick, and if she really did teach Harry Potter everything he knows...I walked up to the most beautiful little house in a magical forest where I saw eight beautiful little Nil Dragon babies, tucked up in a fleecy blanket on the doorstep...I knew I had reached.

I knocked on the door and heard the sweetest voice say "dayum Merlin, dont be such a scaredy cat!". I giggled and gave her the biggest hug I could although little Sosha got in the way and I swear, that cat was wearing blush, lipstick and the most beautiful glittery collar I had ever seen. Perhaps the cat was Cleopatra in another life!

I simply had to know, who is LadySnowStrixx?

Well actually I'm a very quiet person. I have never done well in crowds and prefer to be with my animals. I was a sickly child who spent most of her early childhood in leg braces and in the hospital having operations, so I got used to being alone. I 'm the kind of girl that when I fall in love, then I'm in love completely. I love my children and even though you can't tell sometimes I'm very softhearted and get my feelings hurt very easy. I enjoy helping people also it makes me feel needed. Being a Witch is something that just seemed to fit my life.

...and that was exactly the picture I had of my sissy, although I thought she was being terribly modest. What do witches do for fun I wanted to know?

I like to go out and walk or maybe I should say ride my broomstick right now in the woods. LOL. I always feel at home there or in my kitchen cooking or baking something.

Now, the broomstick was something I hadn't mastered at all and I hoped there would be time to fly around the forest before I set off home...just then, a big fluffy female cat came to look me over. It must have been Queen Baset because she wore an egyptian collar and seemed to be half glaring at me with her big green eyes. Baset was OBs cat and never left his side. She sat on his desk when he wrote his book and so, I figured OB was out walking in Shady Glen... Baset soon gave up. I wasn't interesting enough for her and so, with a loud purr demanded food and flicked her tail at me. Well! if that wasnt the actions of the queen of cats I don't know!

Merlin on the other hand was nowhere to be seen, but I did catch a glimpse of a very fat tail peeping out from under a huge ball of fur...LSS picked up Sosha and carried her over to the window seat, where Sosha admired her gorgeous reflection in the glass. Oh that cat was trouble I could see! As we chatted, I began to see that my sissy was quite like her cats... she wasn't pushy or loud (just like Merlin)...she was a little flirty and girly (just like Sosha)... and she was the queen of the house (just like Baset). I think if I ever loved a cat, it would be these three right there.

I really felt at home in that house. LSS had a similar taste to me, she liked nature, crafts, and books, and I could see an old leather Book of Shadows open on her little table. Now, sissy, I said, have you any witchy secrets you can share with us?

Well just general stuff really. A lot of the things you see on the internet is a bunch of hooey! You don't have to make everything you do into a big ceremony or ritual. I truly try to live as they did in the old days in regards to my magic and I do just that. Magic is not white or black as to me its all the same it really just depends on your intentions.

Wise words indeed. I wondered what sissy would be doing at Yule and if she like so many others spent all her time fussing over the preparations, buying expensive presents, and forgetting the real meaning of Yule which should be a day to bless the God and Goddess and the changing season...What does Yule mean to you? (I asked)

Well when my grandparents were alive it meant that my family were all together, and now its just time to spend with my daughter and grandchildren. My family are the most important things in the world and I need nothing else. I love the simple things at this time of year like the changing seasons and all the leaves turning, the cold crisp winds blowing. To me its a time to think about the time that's passed and things that have happened and things that I've done. I think about the next month coming and how its my oldest daughter's birthday and how she would have been 25, and I'll say a little prayer to the God and Goddess to watch over her and keep her safe. I then thank them for all they have done for me before, now and in the years to come.

You know, the more I listened to her talk, the more I vowed to be just as nice as she was. In fact, she was just as nice as that warm apple pie that was sitting on the counter. My mouth watered and I hoped I wouldn't be thought rude if I ate the entire lot, it was that good! Instead, I took a delicious slice with whipped cream and savoured every last bite. Now, that was magic on a plate! (I must get the recipe I thought, but then, I think perhaps the magic came from LSS and not the ingredients...) I asked her do you have any witchy advice or rules that you live by?

You must be kind to all people and animals and try to treat people like you want to be treated. Think before you speak - if you have a hard heart and are rude and cruel to people how can you think to be able to work with the God and Goddess? It takes kindness, humility, love, and respect of self to be able to know what they are saying to you . In other words if you cannot respect yourself and others how can you expect the God and Goddess to.

Once again, I felt humbled by her words. I don't think I had ever met a better soul in all my travels. I hoped that everyone who met my sissy took her advice to heart. As it was Yule, I had to be getting home soon to be with my own family, and so I asked her my final question: if I granted you one wish, what would it be?

Well I'm not very materialistic so I pretty much have everything I could want. I have a home, and a man who loves me completely and food in the cabinets. I have all the basics but if I could have anything I wanted there are only two things I would ever want - one would be my daughter back and the other would be to have my hip fixed so I could go out and do like I used to. Other then that everything is just like I would want it anything else we will work on together when the times comes.

I laughed at the idea my sissy wanted her hip fixed I have to say! I imagined her cavorting about on her broomstick, chasing the Nil Dragons when they grew up, and well, other things that girls need good hips for too crossed my mind at that point...ahem! I will say no more about that! Moving swiftly on, I hugged my sissy because as a mother myself, the thought of losing a child was the biggest burden to bear and I could only tell her just how sorry I was about her sad loss. That, you see, sums up LSS in a nutshell. Despite having been through hard times herself, her only thoughts are of other folks. She tends to her animals, loves her family, and draws her friends close to care for them all. I love you sissy. Have a happy Yule x

...Oh, and you'll be wanting to know if I ever got taught how to ride a broomstick? Lets just say, I tucked up my skirts, threw a leg over, pointed North and before I knew it, I was back at my desk. Will I share the secret of broomstick riding with you? Nope, you gotta be a real witch for that, and you gotta know where Shady Glen is.

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