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[witchscauldron]

Things that are annoying me this morning:

1. People who cast spells poorly, start reaping the consquences, and then want you to send them energy/money/your firstborn. Annoyance is doubled if it's a "love spell", tripled if the person tells us their life story as well, and quadrupled if it's in some form of internet Engrish.

2. People like this: "I am a guardian with hundreds of dragons we fight a lot in the astral I am important there." And they name the "dragons" Icee, Big Red, and other assorted food names. Bonus annoyance points if they start talking about the difference between them by colour, as if it's AD&D.

3. People who believe everything they read. One would ahve thought darwinism would have caught up with them by now.

4. People who believe everything they read, go ask everyone if it's true because they're upset/confused/misunderstood, and then proceed to teach the same group of people a course on the fundamentals of Wicca.

5. People who call the CORNERS of a circle. Bonus annoyance for them if they tell me they're allowed to call them corners and not quarters if they like, because it feels right. >_<

6. Being out of candles and incense. Grr.

7. "I know who my patron Goddess is but I haven't met them yet." Annoyed on two levels: The word is "matron" when applied to a female, and how the hell does that work??

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8. Goddess Art that has all the goddesses looking like f-ing Barbie Dolls with wings and glitter. Jessica Galbreth, Jonathan Whats-his-Name. And people who say that "I saw the painting by and that's exactly the goddess I've been channelling/dreaming about/meditating with". None of my gods look like paintings or perfect people...fat, lopsided breasts, wonky teeth, scars - you name it. Our society is completely poisoned with the beauty myths the media perpetrates if we transform goddesses into dolls. Ugh. Real gods for real people I guess.

9. "Native American Spirit Guides". I bet they all look like they walked off a romance novel's cover, too. I wonder if there's as many of these guides as there are Wiccan grandmothers. :p
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Argh. I'm sure there's more, but I'll stop here. I really need my back to stop f-ing hurting and let me get a decent night's sleep.

-M.

Comments

[kettunainen.livejournal.com]

#5: Those people should be forced to take a geometry class. Last I looked, circles don't have CORNERS. Argh!

[morgandria.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. I posted somewhere:
Pet peeve: It's called Calling the Quarters, not the "Corners". Circles don't have corners.

What I got in response was:

Actually, it's also referred to as corners. Some people place candles at the 4 cardinal points of a room or sacred space, and they stand within them. They then summon the watchtowers to stand at those points and guard them during their magick ritual.....and to also lend their power to the spell. These guardians are then standing on the 4 points around the spellcaster....thus "calling the corners"

This, of course, opened a whole can of worms about people moving elemental correspondances around, and casting circles properly, and how far you can move away from the core beliefs and traditions of Wicca and still be a Wiccan.

I'm happy to let people do what they like, but when they start calling it something it's not it pisses me off.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

LOL! Most of these I can quite relate to. But I do tend to disagree on #7 - perhaps I've seen too many bad movies, but to me, the word "matron" evokes the image of the big scary woman in uniform who strip-searches you in prison, which makes it difficult for me to associate it with divinity.

On a more serious note, while I'm not generally a fan of the generic masculine, the word "patron" has a long history of being used for both male and female deities, saints, supporters of the arts, etc.The use of "matron" in that context is relatively recent and not yet very widespread. None of the meanings listed for it in the dictionary imply that sense at all, for example.

But it's basically personal preference.

[morgandria.livejournal.com]

True enough about personal preference...Maybe I'm just an English nazi.

[synthradea.livejournal.com]

English nazism is fine and dandy. So is traditional use of words such as patron. But it is a goddess centered religion I tend to agree with Morg one would think they can get their minds around a female sense of the word.