{"id":10505,"date":"2020-02-19T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10505"},"modified":"2020-02-27T20:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T03:58:14","slug":"wicca-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/02\/19\/wicca-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicca Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2020\/03\/witchcraft-juliet-diaz\/605518\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)\"><em>from The Atlantic<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Witchcraft Is on the Rise<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans\u2019 interest in spell-casting tends to wax as instability rises and trust in establishment ideas plummets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/bianca-bosker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">BIANCA BOSKER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"She&#039;s a witch!\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zrzMhU_4m-g?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Juliet diaz\u00a0said she was having trouble not listening to my thoughts. \u201cSorry, I kind of read into your head a little bit,\u201d she told me when, for the third time that August afternoon, she answered one of my (admittedly not unpredictable) questions about her witchcraft seconds before I\u2019d had a chance to ask it. She was drinking a homemade \u201cgrounding\u201d tea in her apartment in a converted Victorian home in Jersey City, New Jersey, under a dream catcher and within sight of what appeared to be a human skull. We were surrounded by nearly 400 houseplants, the earthy smell of incense, and, according to Diaz, several of my ancestral spirit guides, who had followed me in. \u201cYou actually have a nun,\u201d Diaz informed me. \u201cI don\u2019t know where she comes from, and I\u2019m not going to ask her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diaz describes herself as a seer capable of reading auras and connecting with \u201cthe other side\u201d; a plant whisperer who can communicate with her succulents; and one in a long line of healers in her family, which traces its roots to Cuba and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:u_nXXM0Sh_sJ:https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/history\/2019\/10\/meet-survivors-taino-tribe-paper-genocide\/+&amp;cd=2&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">the indigenous Ta\u00edno people<\/a>, who settled in parts of the Caribbean. She is also a professional witch: Diaz sells anointing oils and \u201cintention infused\u201d body products in her online store, instructs more than 8,900 witches enrolled in her online school, and leads witchy workshops that promise to leave attendees \u201cfeeling magical af!\u201d In 2018, Diaz, the author of the best-selling book\u00a0<em>Witchery: Embrace the Witch Within<\/em>, earned more than half a million dollars from her magic work and was named Best Witch\u2014yes, there are rankings\u2014by\u00a0<em>Spirit Guides Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now 38 years old, Diaz remembers that when she was growing up, her family\u2019s spellwork felt taboo. But over the past few years, witchcraft, long viewed with suspicion and even hostility, has transmuted into a mainstream phenomenon. The coven is the new squad: There are sea witches, city witches, cottage witches, kitchen witches, and influencer witches, who share recipes for moon water or dreamy photos of altars bathed in candlelight. There are witches living in Winnipeg and Indiana, San Francisco and Dubai; hosting moon rituals in Manhattan\u2019s public parks and selling $11.99 hangover cures that \u201cadjust the vibration of alcohol so that it doesn\u2019t add extra density and energetic \u2018weight\u2019 to your aura.\u201d A 2014 Pew Research Center report suggested that the United States\u2019 adult population of pagans and Wiccans was about 730,000\u2014on par with the number of Unitarians. But Wicca represents just one among many approaches to witchery, and not all witches consider themselves pagan or Wiccan. These days, Diaz told me, \u201ceveryone calls themselves witches.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2020\/03\/witchcraft-juliet-diaz\/605518\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at The Atlantic<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Atlantic Why Witchcraft Is on the Rise Americans\u2019 interest in spell-casting tends to wax as instability rises and trust in establishment ideas plummets. by BIANCA BOSKER Juliet diaz\u00a0said she was having trouble not listening to my thoughts. \u201cSorry, I kind of read into your head a little bit,\u201d she told me when, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}