Very well said, this may remind others of their trials of growth and the path which brought them to where they are today...and may help those who are presently going through something similar....One of the Wiccan witches that I spent a lot of time with as actually an Italian Strega Witch. It ran strong in the women in her family. Before I met her I had little in the way of fine control and probably not much in the way of direction. She was the second of two guides that I have had that helped me to come to terms with my life. The first saved me. I was not able to shield or deal with what I was feeling. I, at times when I was young, couldn't separate what were my feelings and what were not my feelings. As I look back now I see a lot of things differently.
Without shields or understanding when my mom went through the change and had a hysterectomy she was emotionally PMS for several years. I was doing puberty and my sensitivity was growing. It came hairline close to killing me. My opinion and the general consensus was that I was crazy. Nothing seemed t help. Finally, after three hellified years, I met my first guide. It was so strange. He was a 70 something Methodist Minister and WITCH and I was a stupid lost 17-year-old teetering on the edge of insanity. In his special way, he pulled my mind together and explained to me what was happening. just having someone tell me that I wasn't crazy was pretty refreshing. The clairvoyance I had become comfortable with but I didn't understand and couldn't control my empathetic senses.
He taught me how to still my mind and how to separate what I felt truly from what I felt empathetically. When I did this I guess shields just spontaneously happened. As time passed they became stronger and then I learned how to peak through them without letting what I found to become a part of me.
He was an amazing man that drew together so many things and made them into a single blended faith. He had no problem putting his paranormal together with his religious faiths. Do no harm lest it returns to you threefold is just another way of saying do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Jesus was a son of God and a very powerful witch. He taught me that the true power of a witch is in their love. If you only allow your actions to be ruled by love your strength will grow.
Dark Witches have lost their way and allowed anger, resentment, and greed to twist them. They can no longer do good. He also told me that they could never harm me as long as I refused to allow them to anger me and offered them only love and pity. He was right. When I met evil he tried to reach me. He would have liked to anger me or offend me. I recognized in him what he was and just smiled and laughed at his efforts and wished that I could remove his pain. You could see his frustration. He was a very unpleasant man.
I wish that we would come out of our dark ages. Children need to be watched and prepared for the possibility that they may have abilities. Their lives would be so much better if they could receive guidance before they were forced to deal with it with no understanding. In a lot of cases like mine, I think that the dark can easily find root in the pain and misery. I was fortunate. It left scars on my mind and body but didn't destroy me as it could have.