Not being "judged" is a desire that I have. I can spend vast amounts of time not leaving the house but when I do, if I feel the eyes of judgment peering out from others, I never want to leave the house again. I don't get lonely in the life I lead today but KZread is a huge part of my network of like-minded people to share with.

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

I don't let it bother me. Judgment is about the person judging, not me!

@MinouMinet

27 күн бұрын

Yeah, I get it. Being judged is a loss of privacy and usually not even true, ignoring it helps. But like you, I love my sanctuary of a home!

@carriegrice

27 күн бұрын

@@MinouMinet I hate how it effects my family.

@MinouMinet

27 күн бұрын

@@carriegrice I’m am sorry, hope it somehow works out for you and everyone finds a balance that works.

@carriegrice

27 күн бұрын

@@MinouMinet no worries!! I love being here and sharing this space!!!

Yes!!!! I live in the United States in the Northeast Georgia Appalachian mountains and the Bible belt. So it very hard to find others like myself. Blessed Be. 😊😊

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

💫🥰💫

@SandWitch-y6m

25 күн бұрын

I watch those Bible belt people, I feel for you. Luckily magic is not bound by distance, time, location.

@carriegrice

24 күн бұрын

@@pamelasavage5157 I live in Mississippi!!!

@naturalwitchery

Күн бұрын

Great sentiment!

April!! This is so me. I never fit in anywhere, not in my family (I was the 'black sheep'), not with my friends, not at a work place. In my healing journey, I have learned that it is vital & necessary to have very few but quality people in one's life than to have many low value people in our lives -- low value meaning energy suckers, negative nellies, etc. But I do get lonely, even knowing that quality over quantity is more important. I LOVE your videos!!! This one was SO needed. THANK YOU 🦋🐝🌻🌱🌿💞💚🤎💛🧡❤💙 --Tess

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

Welcome fellow black sheep 😂🤣😂

I was once in that place Go back to the merry go round and don’t ask for help as you have all the answers within you is what the wisdom of the time was offered… Wishing you find your way soon

“Gathering those Sparkles & putting them in our cup 😭😭”💖

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

Hold those sparkles close!

Ahhh this cancer new moon. Feeling real lonely too. I’d love a commune type of living to knock on a door at 2 am and get a hug.

@Feribrat99

Ай бұрын

that is truth too hear as well, was up at 3 am and brain would not shut off, would have been nice to have THAT friend to have or better to be that friend to another as well.

@naturalwitchery

Ай бұрын

This moon has me thinking about how to create more community...

@emmamertens2634

24 күн бұрын

Oh the New Moon in Cancer! Wow. Was a hermit for a few days at home with by beautiful cat. It's so important to have community. ❤

@emmamertens2634

24 күн бұрын

Whoops...MY beautiful cat 🐈 😻

@StephTucker-hc8px

24 күн бұрын

Honest to goodness. I've been all over the place emotionally atm.

Always…. In Australia we are few and far between, I am a learner with noone to learn from unless its online…. The group sounds great except Im on the other side of the world sound asleep while you are all awake :)

@heidijay5902

Ай бұрын

Same as you! I’m in Australia, & new to the craft too. I have met a few other witches, but I don’t know of many where I am.

@Feribrat99

Ай бұрын

I am in Florida in the US and it is not any easier over here. Seems the only ones you can find are the Big Name Witches and they are not what you would hope they would be either, they are flawed humans as well no matter how famous they may be. The best with I ever met here was a sweet practical woman who was on NPR radio for many years and she was a blast. Got to meet her a few years before she died. Her Name was Margot Adler. She was the real deal as a human and a Witch.

@naturalwitchery

Ай бұрын

I've done some classes where I've timed it for 6am in Australia. I'll think about this.....

@naturalwitchery

Ай бұрын

We are all human. I am flawed, just like everyone 💫💫💫💫

@AlahnaAnset

28 күн бұрын

Im in rural Western Australia......Ive always walked alone but it would be nice to know where all the Aussie witches are......

Looked for a groups situation for over 40 years now and not a good fit anywhere, so I get it. I tried out various groups, but they were more about making me forget who I am and becoming who they wanted me to be For Them. There is more power over action out there than one would hope to find. many of the women were a bit on the bitter side of the scale of how they treated other humans, a bit mad at the world at times and mean spirited. I also am not a liberal but more practical and conservative in my take on the world so I was a bit of the outsider anyways. I am fine with critters and being solitary now days but I am lonely many times just for the connections that friends used to be for me. I think People have forgotten HOW to be a friend to someone, they have shifted more towards are you useful to me or not rather than to just be a friend who has your back like you have theirs. I have had many mentors and they were fine but never got "initiated'" into any tradition as none of them really fit either. Bits and pieces of many ways fit better than ever being able to say 'this is it'. My first mentor was a woman down the street from me and she was a rock hound and had a magical garden with Geodes as big as I was out in her garden. Mrs. Greth and I used to go over there a lot. she was a simple practical woman and she was the BEST human I have ever met to this day, she had no agenda and recognized a lonely kid and fed me lots of time just being in her presence. If you are lucky you have one or two in your life that showed you the way.

@naturalwitchery

Ай бұрын

I so agree with so much of what you said. It's becoming the lost art of friendship!

@westcoastwitcheryshop

Ай бұрын

People have forgotten "HOW" to be a friend. I totally agree.

@MinouMinet

27 күн бұрын

Interestingly, I am a liberal and feel just as you do. I thought it was about getting older and was surprised at how disinterested people are to be friends, always thought older would promise an embracing. Not so, but I think it isn’t age, I think society has changed and guardedness took over what used to be an easier going society. Trust is earned and not given, like it used to be. Rightly so I believe. Society is morphing and we have to redefine ‘friends’, a new frontier. Sure didn’t expect this, but accept it. Finding new ways, lots of magical ways, done in love and peace, will define the fore coming new norm!

@naturalwitchery

Күн бұрын

I love that you said, "done in love and peace.' YES!

@naturalwitchery

Күн бұрын

TRUTH

I do hear you. And value you for what you are doing for people of the Craft.

@naturalwitchery

Ай бұрын

Thanks

Thank you for this.. I live on a small island in Thailand, and it is known for young people parties.. As an older lady, and a witch , I am invisible and there is no-one here to group with..

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

You must be in southern Thailand? Sending you a hug across the waters 💫

I have always been a solitary practitioner, as was my mother and her mother. I discovered early on that the more "social" witches want to reenact scenes from The Craft or some other nonsense or they want to feed off of your magic. Now, as a crone, I found my power of invisibility kicked in because no one sees me; not family nor strangers. At times I am fine with that; most of the time, in fact. However it is very lonely at times and even a crushing loneliness. If I follow my heart and disappear into the dark forest to grow herbs for medicine and dance with the forest creatures by the fire no one, NO ONE would notice me gone until they needed something....I prefer Cryptids over humans any day.

@naturalwitchery

27 күн бұрын

There is a freedom to disappearing as a woman....

Than you so much! I really needed this timely reminder to be grateful and start where I am with whatever I have and just trust things are happening as they should.

@naturalwitchery

28 күн бұрын

Yay 🙌 Gratitude is such an amazing gift to ourselves

I think so many of us can relate to this. Ive been though it a few times in my path. lovely video !

@naturalwitchery

27 күн бұрын

Thank Cara💕

never fitted in...get this totally

@naturalwitchery

27 күн бұрын

You fit here!

I did not get my Hogwarts letter. 😞But there are such awesome, beautifully unique, friendly, fun, eclectic women and men out there who've become my "community" via KZread ....I'm grateful. I'm a little less lonely....❤

@naturalwitchery

25 күн бұрын

(smiling) 🌟🥰🌟

This is definitely a lonely path. My girlfriend is a Christian and she gets to go to church and pray with her family but I don’t do these things so I just sit by myself on Sundays. I go outside in my backyard and garden but that only takes 5-30 min. I wish pagans had a “church”

@naturalwitchery

27 күн бұрын

Hug

I have felt like this in the past but am grateful to have found my own path. I am lucky to live in a place where I can express this. We are having a Witches Revival weekend near the place where people were sentenced to death for being accused of witchcraft.( The Pendle Witches) There is a lot of healing and tolerance here .

@naturalwitchery

27 күн бұрын

That is so beautiful

Yes, you hit that on the head. I want to learn. I'm reading, studying, doing, making, creating, gardening, receiving the spirits of the universe, but I want more knowledge and community.

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

🥰💫🥰

It's funny you touched on this topic. I've been feeling a need to connect with other magickal people in real life. I don't really have anyone and I definitely feel many of those things that you mentioned: wanting to feel heard and seen and to connect with like-minded individuals. I actually just started writing a script that touches on this topic a bit. Thanks for the wonderful thoughts here, April! xo, Aurora

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

Awe! We should have a video chat?

So for those of you that feel like you have lost your connection to every thing here or feel like you no longer belong there are 2 videos you must see. Christina Lopes, Dark night of the soul and Why your not here to belong...these 2 videos have made a huge inspect on me.

Growing up in isolation and abuse meant I spent most of my time in nature , books and an ever deepening inner world . This was the seed of my identity as a witch. This was also the seed of loneliness . I feel you ❤

@naturalwitchery

10 күн бұрын

There is so much complexity in what you shared. Thank you for letting us in on such a deeply personal place. 💕

Thank you for this! It’s been a lifetime search for me.

@naturalwitchery

Ай бұрын

I feel you!

I love the idea of this initiative. Having a community for learning is important. Topics I would love to see covered: 1) Using playing cards / tarot for rituals 2) Warding, protection 3) Discerning light/dark beings 4) The importance of faith in craft

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

Oooo Number 4 is the most intriguing of all. Thank you for the great ideas!

Great video. I can certainly relate as have never felt worthy or enough. It's lovely to think of inclusion but mental struggles prevent that. I wish you well for.your new venture.

I am so There! ❤ It would be wonderful to find my Nevermore.

@naturalwitchery

28 күн бұрын

🥰🥰🥰

I would absolutely enjoy a monthly witchy prompting ! I was just thinking about starting something like that with a friend of mine. (I acknowledge how lucky I am to know one person who also identifies as a magickal practitioner. ❤)

@naturalwitchery

22 күн бұрын

Lucky indeed!

I am so happy your channel found me today. 😊 thank you

@naturalwitchery

28 күн бұрын

Welcome!! I am glad you are here

I was thinking this today, and you came on, I needed to hear this, thank you ❤

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

You are so welcome 🤗 The YOUniverse is always on time....

Great video! (Your editing is sweet) Getting in service is such a useful tool. It truly helps me get out of my head and realign with my greater purpose. It also teaches the gift of giving and many other things once I am plugged all the way in. Kindness and generosity really do go a long way. xo

@naturalwitchery

28 күн бұрын

I so agree 💯

Thank you, so encouraging!

@naturalwitchery

27 күн бұрын

You are so welcome!

Wonderful insight.

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

Thanks Sam

❤ very inspirational. Thank you

@naturalwitchery

Ай бұрын

So glad!💫💫💫

Thank you - I loved this video 🖤🌞📿

@naturalwitchery

27 күн бұрын

Thanks Caroline.

April I really appreciate you so much ❤️ you are an absolute blessing! You nailed what I have been feeling. I am all in! I love your idea

@naturalwitchery

Ай бұрын

I'm so glad!

I needed to see this video. Oh classes sound like such great fun. I hope you do start them.

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

I hope so too!

Grateful for you, April!

@naturalwitchery

28 күн бұрын

Thanks Marcia!

Love this, subscribed! I relate to your wonderful messages completely, tho I do not feel witch or coven is in my desire to belong. Doesn’t matter, we relate on all the other things you mentioned, wonderful shares and thoughts. I am interested in your sign up, but will watch a couple more videos to get to know you and your subscribers. Thank you so much, excited for this refreshing and relatable channel of life inspirations.

@naturalwitchery

27 күн бұрын

Welcome aboard! I look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you for this

@naturalwitchery

22 күн бұрын

You're so welcome!

You look and sound timeless in the best way possible ✨😮🫶🏼

@naturalwitchery

27 күн бұрын

Wow, that a great compliment. Thank you for your kind words 💕

I’m in! Tired of hiding in a small Christian town here in California. The people I’ve me so far feel like wanna-be’s, egotistical or fake. I walked away from 3 groups. Tried to start my own only to deal with the above mentioned types of women. So, solitary it is ……😕

@naturalwitchery

21 күн бұрын

I feel you. Real connection is tricky...💕

I resonate with this. I'd like to sign up for your newsletter for notifications of classes.😊

@naturalwitchery

27 күн бұрын

Great! I look forward to hearing from you💕

It is 9:15 P.M. here in San Antonio Texas and I’m watching your video. Yes I do understand and long for my Sisters and Brothers of the craft. It is lonely at times. Your video is received with So! Much respect and appreciation. A witchy brew to us all and I take a deep breath and exhale with gratitude. Goddess Bless! 🌛🌕🌜

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

Goddess bless! Sharing breath with you and a smile 😊

I would absolutely love if you did an online group! I will sign up and thank you♥️ Blessed Be

@naturalwitchery

28 күн бұрын

🥰🥰🥰

April!! This video came at the perfect time for me. Having always felt 'out of place' even among people I know well, it is a very lonely place. And being new on my path, only four years in, I am still trying to find my true self, my magickal & powerful self. The only place I feel truly me and truly embraced is when I am out in Nature, surrounded by Mother Earth's beauty & abundance. Learning with others along the road, on this journey with them would be so wonderful. There aren't many groups here, and sadly, most you have to buy in to attend. I love the monthly gathering idea!! I'll have to think on it and get back on some ideas. THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!!! --Tess

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

The joy is in the journey of finding yourself....

I would like to said i just alone all my life never fit anywhere never feel happy at all😢😢😢

@naturalwitchery

27 күн бұрын

Hug

I would love to learn more, but I would also love to mentor. We are all teachers and students at the same time. So happy that the Universe put this video in my path at just the right time. Count me in!

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

You are so right. That's why I try to make my classes interactive. We truly are ALL teachers!

Were you at Mountain Rose Herbs? Oooh I love their stuffs 🧙

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

I was!

This popped up at just the right time for me. I have always been a solo practitioner - none of my friends on same or even similar path - would be nice to have like minded folks to chat with. Interested in your courses. Think I am signed up for newsletter but haven't gotten anything in a while? Will sign up again.

@naturalwitchery

Ай бұрын

It's been since Solstice that I sent a letter out. Maybe check your spam?

There are literally thousands of practitioners in the craft and yet so many practice alone. I do my own thing and keep to myself and don’t seek out the company of others as it seems there’s this competition of sorts at play and let’s compare each others tools or practice to either seem more “witchy” or “occult” and the dogma of right and wrong, accepted and unacceptable behaviors or this belief that might is right or they have generational validity. Why can’t people who practice just appreciate each other?

@naturalwitchery

20 күн бұрын

I concur. Competition comes from insecurity. Let us enjoy each other and grow 🪴

Its that wanting and longing for a community. It bugs me that the community I want is so scattered. A group of my friends and I want to live on a property with each other and create a community around us. A lot of us want that.

@naturalwitchery

28 күн бұрын

💫💫💫💫

@naturalwitchery

28 күн бұрын

I dream of this too Draven

I would love to be a part of if this ❤

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

Yay!

The class sounds great. Most of the ones I find only focus on the beginning, who, what, and why . I already know that. This sounds like more involved in actually working your craft, is that right?

@naturalwitchery

28 күн бұрын

Yes The principle will be to give you a sound card for implementing, refining and directing your practice through several different ideas every month. I'll announce more later...

It's so hard yes I would love to be a part of a community I'm learning but want desperately to find a coven especially since I'm in Utah. 😢

@naturalwitchery

27 күн бұрын

Hugs 🫂

I agree with this. I am looking into starting Reiki as well as stepping seriously into Herbalism, with a nod to my ancestral African side. So, once my surgery is done, I will look seriously into Reiki healing for myself. Then, herbalism THEN, even going back to school to finish degrees and the like.

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

This sounds amazing. You go! Make those dreams happen💫

I think your idea for monthly classes is a lovely idea. If I were part of it, I’d like prompts on shadow work.

@naturalwitchery

Ай бұрын

I've been thinking the same ❤️

@gypsywolf2061

29 күн бұрын

@@naturalwitchery it’s one thing I struggle with even though I have been practicing over 20 years. I’m more than willing to do the work, I just don’t always know how to do it and u are probably well versed in such things.

@naturalwitchery

Күн бұрын

I am a bumbling fool just like the rest of us! I have my ways and I am always expanding. Having a group might be a way for us to really share and learn techniques we may have never encountered!

Thanks for this. If you are "new agey" at all, given the right wing Christian vibe in this country you can and often do feel very isolated. As to class themes: communicating and honoring other life forms i.e. plants and animals, medication and why it's essential, I Ching, dream travel experiences, Edgar Cayce and channeling. Etc.

@naturalwitchery

27 күн бұрын

Thanks for all the great ideas!

I’ve been lonely in the crab since I came out of the broom closet, strangely, it was more social when I was in the broom closet. I miss being in the coven.

@naturalwitchery

28 күн бұрын

Hugs 🤗

It's hard to find fellow witchy people in Decatur Indiana. It's a Lil religious town. And we can't keep a metaphysical shop longer than a year. Wish I had a least one person to connect with.

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

Small towns can be rough that way....

When my coven broke up I was so angry and bitter I stopped practicing altogether for a while. I feel like I poured everything into that group and was left with nothing. Not sure I want to try again.

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

Life throws us so many curve balls. I hope your time alone has taught you much😀

In addition to what you discussed (which very much has it's place), might I suggest adding the encouragement to people to grow into emotional resiliency--and emotional maturity. The exaggerated need to be "seen" is a product of insecurity, doubts about one's self-worth, and lingering aspects of psychological adolescence. Learning to live without an over-need of external validation not only brings about peace--but it balances our relationships so that we are neither burdensome nor being burdened.

@naturalwitchery

28 күн бұрын

I think you just did 💫💫💫💫

@macylouwho1187

28 күн бұрын

I’ve never met a single person in real life who wasn’t glad to have at least a little attention or be noticed in a positive light. This is a very human thing, most are not exempt from it. You describe a very rare person indeed who can be THAT enlightened/mature. I don’t even know a single old person who fits that description, because even at that age people liked to be noticed, appreciated, talked to about the wisdom that they have obtained etc. They like attention. People like praise. It’s a very rare one that doesn’t.

@MinouMinet

27 күн бұрын

@@macylouwho1187 Well, sincere praise has it’s place. For the giver and receiver!

I feel lost sometimes. Im 38. Nearly all my family has passed on. I have no female friends and the only men who take interest in me want to use me. Ive got my very autistic son who will likely never have kids and live a lonely life himself. I live in a small Tennessee town with a Christian college in it. Ive never fit in and couldn't make myself pretend to believe in Christianity. I was drawn to witchcraft because of my love of nature. Idk how to be a witch though. Seems like there are few unifrom beliefs among youtube witches.

@naturalwitchery

27 күн бұрын

Maybe your witchery is natural and comes from the heart. Witch is just a label. Just be you. Change is constant. You never know what is around the corner.... Don't give up on living life fully ❤️

I’m here comment family. 🌹🧚🏻🍂I feel lonely very much so.

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

We are never alone 🥰

Yep, somedays I accompany my sister to church, and I can sometimes sense and feel that sisterhood vibe they got going on. Though they're all about Christ, which is fine. I respect that, it's just not my thing, I want a similar vibe with other Pagans. Though when I actually do meet with other pagans, guess what. They all believe and practice different things. So it still feels... off. Have you even seen that movie the Wicker Man, remake. I always thought it was kind of cool how it was a community like that or even the movie the Village. I think to be honest, I think that's the only way to combat that kind of thing, is that people have to make the sacrifice, move and start something like that.

@naturalwitchery

20 күн бұрын

I have never seen it and my husband always talks about that movie! Maybe I'll find that and watch it...

Good morning April, I would love online Zoom class. Have you also considered a retreat , perhaps in Oregon? I'm Gen Z, and intuition tells me many of your subscribers are, too. Growing up in Oregon, my grandpa would come visit. He shared his stories. I gained so much wisdom from these stories. He even put them on tape to remember. He gave so much of himself. However, my Mother, has dementia and is in Eldercare. I visit her regularly. It makes me so sad, that our elders used to share knowledge and now it's the complete opposite. Have you seen this trend? I feel we don't have the same channels that our ancestors had to gain wisdom. 🪄🧙‍♂️🧝‍♀️

@naturalwitchery

29 күн бұрын

Gen z? Was that a typo? I have been thinking of a retreat here!

This really hit home for me. I'm in small town Kansas, and I know there must be others. But trying to connect is so hard. Sometimes, it feels like I'm screaming into the void. This video came to me at perfect time. I've really been struggling with this a lot lately. I'm sorry we all have to experience this, but It's nice to know I'm not alone.

@naturalwitchery

28 күн бұрын

You definitely are NOT alone!

I left a big city where I wished for but didn't find a coven. Now I live in outside the US in a country where I barely speak the language and my chances of finding or making one are even slimmer. I crave a circle of friends. My whole life is centered around my spiritual practices, studying and writing, and the only thing it lacks is community.

@naturalwitchery

28 күн бұрын

Hugs 🤗

I had lost my connection to witchy people in 2018. No matter what I did groups I joined pub moots I went to it seemed like I was invisible and not apart of this world. I kept trying to figure out what was wrong with me. I am clairvoyant intuitive deep empath with INFJ traits. I can channel direct messages on paper from the other side. I always wanted to be a bridge to spirit to help with loved one connect to there family . I been told buy energy workers and readers I am meant to be a light worker to help with frequency work. How can I do that when there is no one for me to help? I have just become so frustrated I just have shut down. finding the information about Christina lopes 3 days ago now I understand.

@naturalwitchery

28 күн бұрын

We can do the work FOR the collective by doing the work on ourselves. We are not separated from one another. As you raise your vibration you help others. Just keep believing and loving, while rasing your vibe. People will come into your life at the right times to learn from and for you to give to!

I don't know .... let me review the past 21 years in world history. Even without any effort by me whatsoever.

How's Godbe? Who are the black sheep now?