I haven’t spoken much about religious or spiritual matters here, focusing instead on popular culture and politics.
But I am a religious and spiritual person: I’m a practicing witch, meaning I worship nature and different deities, and use spells to connect with them and to affect change within the world.
Today, for the first time in a long time, I felt drawn to my craft in more than a rote way, and crafted a spell to sever ties with a person who abused me in the past, to end a spell I had cast on them in the hopes of preventing them from doing future harm.
Warning: below the Read More is a story about sexual assault.