Photo by: Kate Warren
This past week, The Washington Post Magazine featured me in a photo essay called “The Seekers” in an effort to showcase the countercultural movements occurring today involving consciousness and healing. In it, I was captioned as a “garden witch” in a chapter named “Spellbound” in the feature.
The term Witch is loaded and packed with layered meaning. Growing up, I viewed it as someone who was manipulative or dangerous, potentially persecuted for having done something wrong. As I’ve explored more deeply in my journey as a Truth-seeker, I’ve discovered the core of what defines a witch.
It means to embody power. As with all power, the actual power is neutral, the intention of the Witch is what makes the difference between “good” and “bad”, all subjective according to our experiences.
I now reclaim “Witch” as a liberated term. To be a Witch, you rely on your own intuition, knowledge passed down by your ancestors and the natural wisdom of the Earth and its medicine. Witches are feared because they can’t be controlled by false patriarchal systems or distracted by illusion. They are dangerous because they can’t be manipulated by disempowered societal conditioning. A Witch is a reckoning force, one which can restore a more harmonious connection to the Earth and to each other.
As the Witches wake up, the world awakens. I for one am now called a “garden witch” to the masses. I’ve never been a self-proclaimed witch; it’s a term that others have found for me, and I’m okay with that. I’m okay with being a powerful person who works with the Earth, in the dirt, and if anything about me is dirty it is my hands and feet as I tend to the soil beneath my feet.
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Your Garden Witch,
April Rameé