Q&A: Powerful Rituals, Comfort Food and My Advice on 'The Broom Closet'

[@tamipie]

I had an art teacher in college who worked for Walt Disney during the "Sword in the Stone". He was all business, a perfectionist. I think the inserts were more likely done by the odd rebellious artist, who were drawing the cartoons, cell by cell, it was sweatshop work, and they were great artists trying to make a living - you can imagine what they might do.

[@kelly-annmaddox]

LMAO, sooooo true! I didn't even consider that when I was answering the question! I was just dredging up everything I could think of about visuals in Disney films, hahaha!

[@BallJoinedWing]

That's how I use my poppet!! Also, I leave mine in a lil bed to off-set my chronic fatigue.

[@kelly-annmaddox]

That is a great idea!!

[@rosemarywitch9935]

That is... the cutest flipping thing I've ever heard???

[@untamedsunshine8462]

One of the most level-headed videos about this subject. If you transition to another path, bow out gracefully. If someone transitions to another path and insults you, move-on quietly. I'm thankful for my Christian background; I'm thankful for my time with Paganism; I am thankful for my spiritual Agnosticism. This type of situation is why I don't actively participate in spiritual communities. Spirituality is a PERSONAL journey and there is no need to hurt others. Be kind to others. Peace.

[@MissSorrow100]

So I have had a really rough 6 weeks just gone (break up, subsequent house move, started new job immediately upon moving) and it culminated in some minor surgery on Tuesday which was to fix a problem left by some other minor surgery last August. Phew. Busy times. So I’ve been stranded in my room post op, in pain with a broken heart utterly Nope’ing at the world today crying and reading a beloved book. But... your gentle but powerful presence through your video today got me out of bed and got me to set up my poppet for some healing work. Thank you from the bottom of the broken bits of my heart. Thank you. 🖤

[@toughlove5968]

Flaming Silver Tempest your comment tugs at my heartstrings. I did divorce, moving across the country to a city where I knew no one, and starting a new job all in one year and it was FUCKED 😂 Just wanted to reach out to you and say that you’re not alone. Big hugs to you! Be strong and be well ❤️❤️

[@kelly-annmaddox]

Sending so much love and strength to you x

[@kelly-annmaddox]

Sending so love, strength and healing your way, doll! Thanks for letting me know that my video helped in your time of need. xx

[@MissSorrow100]

Kelly-Ann Maddox it really did. Thank you so much. Much love darling. Xx

[@MissSorrow100]

Tough Love thank you. It means so much to receive your kind words. I’m just talking each day as it comes and waiting for my world to settle a little. Thank you so much. Much love to you. Xxx

[@IttyBittyCelticWitch]

I definitely agree with your point about getting caught up in perfectionism with ritual. It's something that I know I'm trying to be more and more mindful of as I practise and to allow my practise and rituals to flow more freely. It's far too easy to put off a spell because everything isn't perfect in your own mind. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts!

[@myfavourite-cutthroatrazor]

Before I even watch the vid, just want to thank my lucky stars for a Kelly Ann moment just at the right time. Ilu. 🙌

[@oliviayin6363]

Thanks for touching on the issue regarding the "broom closet". I live and work around many orthodox Christians and I'd hate to upset my interpersonal relationships with them. "I'm spiritual" seems like a polite and succinct answer that won't land you into an uncomfortable conversation with anyone. The only people I feel need to know details are people I am intimate with, otherwise its really no one's business. That being said, I've rarely ever been asked for further details, and I'm careful not to invite questions!

[@meadowrae1491]

I do the same thing, mostly. I use "Spirit" as a general term for deity. Christians have the Holy Spirit, so they tend to assume I'm referring to that. I don't have a huge problem with that because as I see it Spirit is universal, terms are regional.

[@gaynorfairy8040]

Hi Kelly-Ann, I really enjoyed the chat n yay for being vegan!!! Love n light gaynor xxx

[@AnyaEsma]

I'm totally with you about the broomcloset - there's nothing dishonest about not talking about your beliefs to random people. Going from one extreme ("You always have to hide that you're a witch for your safety") to the other extreme ("You are not allowed to hide you're a witch if you're serious") does not make you a "better" witch, I think. The Middle Way and all that :D

[@not-the-body]

26:17 I need this entire sentence on a shirt, mug & journal LOL 🤣♡

[@Hagoracle]

Great video🖤🌹🖤 really enjoyed what you had to say. Loved the advice on the broom closet. I’m a much older witch and learned a long time ago that people really had no tolerance for my beliefs or practice. I still get grief from my sister who is a devoted Christian - I smile it off. Loved this video. 🙏

[@kelly-annmaddox]

You know, I think that a lot of the ability to 'smile it off' does seem to come with years. Lots of peeps learn how to artfully choose their battles, and they also realise that the distaste of a friend or family member is not personal and this realisation seems to allow a seasoned practitioner to let go of their desire to say something or stand their ground. I wouldn't say that this is always the case, but often.. And I really admire that growth and self-sturdiness.

[@carmmen1384]

Love your videos. And your hair looks absolutely gorgeous!

[@TheStitchinWitch]

I LOVE that you showed off your makeup on your channel, I have been really getting into it lately, after I feel like I have healed a lot of my old "I'm ugly and I'm not worth it" relationship I had with makeup before. Honestly, I think it is so cool you showed it off. Also I have the same blusher compact and I pronounce it Elf too lol.

[@meadowrae1491]

This was just the bit of magic I needed this morning. Thank you~

[@MrSamisue27]

I pulled 3 cards for myself earlier. I pulled death, reversed sun and reversed king of cups. It was so spot on. Never ceases to amaze me.

[@MrSamisue27]

Do you eat nutritional flakes? I love it so much i eat spoonfuls out of the bag!

[@cherie9928]

💙🍀Thank-you Kelly!😄I've been a subscriber a long time now.💞Love your videos!👍Brightest Blessings💚

[@catherine03021981]

Love these videos. Thank you very much

[@NinasFibreArt]

Olives stuffed with garlic and jalapeño sound the bomb! I have to try them 😍 My girls weren’t into Disney films when they were little, so I never had to think about any of this . . . 😅 phew. I’m hoping to make my first poppet doll. Have you made a video about this?

[@AgathaVonKatt]

I am so with you on the olives stuffed with garlic and jalapeños! So good - I'm addicted! I thought I was the only one...😀

[@ErisElizabeth]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who wouldn't mind if you happened to include another cooking segment or perhaps makeup videos... hehe! Especially quinoa on toast? I need to see this? lol!

[@JessicaandtheMoon]

Disney! I've started a blogpost about "hidden" images of the goddess in Disney movies, especially looking at what is happening post Walt, but it's taking a while :D No!! Burning all the tarot decks. Eek!!! Great questions and great answers. Especially that spread question

[@HollarMoonMountain]

I'm feeling I do need to delicately have this conversation. I've been married to my husband for 25 years. He is Christian by faith,both have gone to church here and there but neither of us were particularly religeous. I've always felt different and like I never quite fit. He himself looks outside the box.. we lost a daughter to cancer in 2010 which changed us both drastically. He knows and supports my reiki,he knows I use tarot/oracle he tells ppl I read the stars. I put my crystals out in the full moon (with his crystal bracelet I made). My books are out in the open..none specifically say witch or wicca or anything on them...i growcsage and sage our housr,sometimes he asks me to...outside having penacles in the house or saying the word witch I'm out in the open. I want to introduce more of this side to my daughtet,though I want her to be free to make up her own mind...but I want to show,speak more open about it b/c it is having such a positive effect especially as I've started spellwork..i know it's long...thank you for input😚

[@Periwinkle9876]

Although not my fav, I too would save the Rider Waite. Goddness Bless...

[@rachael2180]

Trash fire LOL. Right?! I find that diverging from set meanings helps a great deal with reading convoluted spreads. When in doubt, I journal & then the answer comes through or a revisit makes sense in hindsight. (Basically, what you said.)

[@QueenOfShovels]

"this is a trash fire" haahaa! I love that! Awesome video! Very helpful information, thank you! 🤗

[@arlinejernigan]

I would love for you to talk about relationships/ partnerships, and how to navigate and balance time and space between spending time with your partner, and exploring personal creative expression work, devotion and other friendships. I don't know how to form that as a question, but it is something that I would like to hear about.

[@kendraroser7138]

I'm so glad to have stumbled upon you. Your energy makes me so happy and I'm a tarot newbie and vegan as well so I love your videos. Also that you say fuck a bunch like me😂

[@valerenta]

I really appreciate your answer about the broom closet. I'm a lesbian, and I had a lot of trauma around my own coming out, and I haven't felt the same anxiety about not "coming out" as a witch to my very conservative Christian family. It seems like there's so much rhetoric in the witchy community that one isn't a "real" witch unless one lives openly as a pagan, wearing a huge ass pentagram necklace or something lol, but my spiritual practice is sacred and private--not secret, but not for them, as you say. I'm not going to put myself in a position to defend myself to people who will never understand that part of myself. It's very very different than hiding my sexuality from my parents, and I kind of hate the term "broom closet," tbh.

[@Myomi1988]

I loved your insight as always ( I normally don't comment but you're always inspire me) You mentioned in other videos that you plan your magick according to the moon phase. I sometimes have a hard time with that concept. It doesn't really click with me. What is your opinion on magickal workings independent from the moon? Do you know of any ressoures that talk about this? I always feel that separating magick form the moon phases is a big no-no, at least that's what I get from the books I've read. Thank you for your awsome work. Many Blessings

[@ChezzaOuttaNowhere]

You know what's interesting? I'm not gonna lie, i do wonder how much of an impact things like Fantasia and The Worst Witch affected my path. Dont know if spoke to something spiritually in me or if it was more of an influence. I think about that sometimes.

[@kelly-annmaddox]

Oh man, yes, those kinds of things influenced me big time and I am not afraid of it. :D Fantasia, hug? Soooo cool! Bloody LOVED that film!

[@jacquelynwhite472]

Greetings! I have a question for you... First I must say that I have just recently discovered your posts and I feel such a draw to them. Something about your energy is magnetizing. Watching your videos has been such a support to me in many ways. First off, it really resonated with me when you mentioned in another video about being "naturally Pagan" or "organically Pagan". I love that, and that is exactly how I have felt all my life. I've always been one of those dreamer children, the ones who get lost in the idea of a magical world full of enchanted forests, hidden mushroom rings that could take you off into the faery realm, deep still pools full of secrets and mysteries... druids and witches and healers. Gods and goddesses... A "dreamer". Anyway, getting to my point (I ramble too much!) My question is this: what advice do you have for those who are "new" to the pagan traditions, who are finally wanting to embrace those traditions as a way of life and spirituality? And, what advice do you have about/for giving up that idea of a "one true god" and such? Letting go of that damn feeling of guilt that the Abrahamic Religions inspire? What advice do you have for those who are ready to shed those very same notions and want so much to enter the faith of their heart? I don't want to feel guilty for believing what feels right to me, and I don't want to be stuck in this notion of there being something wrong with me, or that I am DOING something wrong. I want to let those Christian-like concepts go finally (thought I've always fought against the tethers), and be who I've always know I am. For instance, though I am a grown ass woman, when my mother discovered I own a tarot deck, she literally told me that I am going to bring/invite evil spirits and distruction into my home, and fuck up my life, my children's lives, and my marriage. Sweet isn't she? Anyway. Any advice you have that might help would be awesome. Any books or any info would be great too. I just feel I am finally on the brink of really diving into and embracing my spirituality but these issues have been so drilled into my head that I don't know how to "un-learn" them or let them go finally. Like I feel guilty for not wanting to be bound by guilt! Fucked up, crazy web it weaves. Thank you for listening to my ramblings. Blessings.

[@jacquelynwhite472]

By the way, I have since become the proud owner of 3 additional tarot decks since my mothers lovely pep-talk. Haha

[@myfavourite-cutthroatrazor]

Just listening to you speak on the contrast between daily discipline and rule breaking, and I think one of the main reasons I'm drawn to your advice or offerings here and elsewhere is because you are a true rebel? You seem to strike uniquely like a lightening maverick in whatever task is in your hand. (It's really difficult to describe what I see without sounding trite or like I'm brown nosing...) ANYWAY, my point is, I'm trying to maintain that balance right now (always), and I'm at a point where rebellion is at a crossroads with self preservation on one side and self destruction on the other? I'd love to hear your thoughts on rebellion and discipline, if you felt like speaking to it. Always a shed load of love. 💖⚡

[@kelly-annmaddox]

This is a really good idea! I'm off on holiday from Thursday - I'll enjoy making some notes on this! And thanks for your lovely words, and for apparently understanding something that not everyone understands about me - my weird tug-of-war between The Party Head Rebel and The Organised Perfectionist! :D

[@myfavourite-cutthroatrazor]

Kelly-Ann Maddox And that tug-of-war of yours is maybe like self creation with two faces? Two heads of the same animal doing the work. Like a bickering Cerberus. (Sorry for harping on. I'm into this.)

[@annapajak5116]

Amy Leonard are you on Instagram.. thank you. X

[@myfavourite-cutthroatrazor]

Anna Pajak Hi Anna. Yep, I'm @amyleonardcreative 😘

[@palmskrymme]

Dearie: I scried a money sigil off of a found penny . Just passing that along

[@jbates725]

I just cut my hair and saved some to try and do sympathetic healing magick on. All of my spells/rituals (8, for other things) have failed so far though so...not confident to say the least. I've never made a poppit, yet. I get overwhelmed easily and have very limited access to materials. I've had an entire lifetime of severe, chronic illnesses.

[@leenbee17]

So, I'm a pretty eclectic person. I grew up fundamentalist Christian but I left the church and started Reiki. I did go back to the church as I missed the people. I recently took up tarot and love it! I still have some of my Christian beliefs and most of my friends and family are very religious. I told a couple of people about my practices and got some serious flack. I lost a friend and I may be prohibited from teaching Sunday School - still to find out. I've wanted a spiritual practice I can identify with and I feel a yearning to connect to the earth. Plus I'm drawn to the divine feminine. I thought being a christo-pagan works for me perfectly, but the issue is how. I need to do some exploring online yet it's hard to find stuff. I have this fear of religion now and don't want to join any organization, yet it's hard to know what to do. Also most of the pagan material is geared toward those who live in the northern hemisphere. I think life is full of mystery and uncertainty and in a way I miss being sure I was going the right way, but I could never go back to that. I need to feel free. I need autonomy in my spirituality. Wicca's ideas really appeal to me but I'm so scared of a religion again. I think I need to draw up my own book of shadows with my very personalised practice. Much love to you, Kelly-Ann.

[@elineeugenie5224]

take me home... yeah. 🌷

[@oracleofnight3092]

@kelly Have you, or someone you know, met your deity in their human form? Can deities even turn into humans?

[@darkstar3120]

Tsukiko Usagi great question. Following

[@chameleonarcher]

I think the Disney video you refer to may be "Donald in Mathmagic Land". We watched it in freshman year math...trippy film! There was definitely a bit in there with pentagrams on people's hands...

[@Strega_del_Corvo]

chameleonarcher I’m 99% sure that’s what she’s talking about!

[@Strega_del_Corvo]

Was the occult one Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land?

[@anandradhakaurthewanderer749]

Hi magpie! Can you put a link out for me that talks about the different type of shadow workers. I can’t find anything anywhere’s

[@tourmalinequeen5252]

Challenge: eat vegan food every time she says vegan 😍

[@pollyrussell4762]

Just started the video but have to say I think I've seen the occult mathematics video you mention. I think it's this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/nH2pqqCIjsyGiqc Cool 😂