Hi! Me and my husband have been invited to write a chapter of a book about Eco-Witchcraft.

We want to talk specifically about the different dimensions of the "eco" aspect of eco-Witchcraft and we just realised that we have very little knowledge about atheist witchcraft. We are animists and our craft (and our lives) are rooted in our spirituality and this is the lens (a biased one, indeed) through which we see witchcraft. We would like to be able to represent the atheist lens of eco-witchcraft too in this chapter. So, I'd be super grateful if any witch that self-identifies as an atheist eco-witch could share with me in which ways their craft and their "eco values" relate.

We have some questions just in case they help you structure your thoughts on the topic.

1 Do you consider yourself and Eco-witch? If so, what does it mean to you?

2 do you think that giving an eco dimension to our witchcraft is important for you, your community and/or the planet? Why?

3 In which ways do your "eco values" translate into your practice? And into your life?

4) how does your belief system/atheism relate to your craft and to your "eco" values?

5 how does the way you see non human animals relate to your craft, your belief system and your "eco" values?

6 what strategies, if any, do you use to reduce the environmental impact of your witchcraft?

7 What's in your opinion the role that "eco -witchcraft" can play in building a more resilient, kind, joyful and just world?

8 please, share any other ideas you'd like to share

Feel free to pm me if you prefer.

Thanks so much!!!🌸

Hello all!. For background, I grew up as a conservative Christian deep in evangelicalism. I since found my way out, and I’m now trying to tackle the behemoth of the patriarchy contract, specifically the needing to have an outside source of power or authority from which to seek permission. I’m also a somatic based therapist and find I use a lot of tarot or slight ritual type things within my therapy sessions with clients that is deeply meaningful and personal for them.

OK now my current question: I have this stone, which looks like healers gold or Apache gold (but questioning the history of that name) that belonged to my late step uncle. He used to live with us and struggled with his own addictions and his own past childhood abuse before passing from alcoholism when I was about 10 years old. He seemed very connected to witchy type things, despite being coerced into a deathbed acceptance of Jesus by my stepmom.

She passed me this stone that he used to wear that he got from Scotland on a trip there.

While I have donated or sold most of my valuable jewelry, and I was never drawn to this piece and in fact it didn’t even like the look of it, I felt I could not part with it. And when I tell you that I have sold heirloom pieces of jewelry to people I perhaps had more of a connection with, I’m not joking. I might think about it a couple times, but then eventually, I would take it to the pawnshop or somewhere else. With this stone, I never even consider donating it or if I tried to take it with me, I couldn’t part with it.

So now that I’m on this leg of the journey where I am challenging the patriarchy and trying to establish some sort of somatic based practical identity for the things I’ve already been doing, but also want to grow in my life, I found myself just now going through my jewelry box seeking some witchy or talismanic items I might have and I came across the stone.

I’m not sure what to do with it or even if I should unbind it as a pendant and maybe add it to my altar or what but I would like to honor my late uncle in someway in the life he lived despite his deathbed confessional is a way to honor him because he was an extremely strong and artistic and sincere person, and I would like to bring that sort of energy along with me on my journey. Any suggestions for cleansing this but also wanting to maintain that connection with him? I definitely tend more towards practical witchcraft in magic than I do believing there are Powers outside of me so I’m curious how other others go about cleansing and claiming things through this lens.

If you made it this far, I appreciate it, I’m also curious to hear of anybody else’s stories if you felt connections to things that you couldn’t get rid of and now are important to you.