Laura Tempest Zakroff > Quotes

“Sometimes change happens not because you move but because you refused to be moved.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft

“Witchcraft is dangerous because it makes us think critically. It asks us to consider all of the angles, to defy and dispel illusions—or create them. It is the tapping into the power within. It is the harnessing of the power without. It is a triumph of personal will and a celebration of essence.

Witchcraft is dangerous because it is the tool of the subversive, the downtrodden, the disillusioned, and the disenfranchised. It gives voice to those who have been silenced, eyes to the blinded, sound to those whose ears were covered, and hands and legs to those who could not move.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft

“I believe there is a difference between doing service and being a servant.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft

“If the k in magic(K) gives you hives, take an allergy pill and move onward to focus on more important things.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Sigil Witchery: A Witch's Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols

“All bodies are autonomous. If we wish to be respected, we must respect both ourselves and others, regardless of color, gender, age, ability, sexual orientation, etc. Respect includes acknowledging a person’s right to live their life and make healthy choices. Respect does not include violating others’ rights through our actions or words.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft

“Magick isn’t an outside force, mystically waiting around to do your bidding. Magick is the energy of things you set into motion—in your environment and most especially in yourself.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft

“The point of myth is to inspire us to find our own truths and craft our own stories, build our own myths and practices, and give us principles to use as a guide. And that, dear folks, is no fiction.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft

“In the last two decades I’ve used my work to explore the space where magick and art intersect, and see how it actively influences my path as a Witch.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Sigil Witchery: A Witch's Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols

“you need to take care of you, or else you’re not going to accomplish much. You need to meet your own expectations first and foremost.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft

“True wisdom is expressed not by seeing how complex you can make the material but by how well you are able to make it accessible for others to grasp.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft

“Ideas for Daily Ritual Focusing on a daily intention while making your morning brew Honoring your body during a morning or evening bath/shower Observing life in your neighborhood while walking the dog Pulling a tarot or oracle card, rune, or bone every day Working in the garden for fifteen minutes Anointing yourself with an oil or perfume to focus your day A nightly gratitude meditation”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Anatomy of a Witch: A Map to the Magical Body

“Philosophies that chastise the disempowered for using tactics that are unpleasant are an instrumental part of the system which seeks to suppress all displays of opposition, not just those that are violent or dangerous.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, The New Aradia: A Witch's Handbook to Magical Resistance

“From the east and to the west, an arching oval without rest.
From the north and to the south, close around me and all about.
From above and so below, follow with me wherev’r I go.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Sigil Witchery: A Witch's Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols

“You can factor in the initial intention all you want, but at the end of the day there will be an array of “positive” and “negative” outcomes to any action, and how the whole situation is viewed depends on the perspective of society’s mirror at that given moment.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft

“Radicals can make waves, but it takes a steady hand to inspire, build, and guide a boat so that it may weather the actual storm.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft

“you are able to recognize the divine within, it can in turn improve your relationship with deities and other spiritual beings. You will see them mirrored in yourself and vice versa. Recognition dispels unhealthy myths and allows you to grow in new ways. This is why it’s so important for folks to be able to see images of divinity that reflect their own gender, skin color, sexuality, and other defining characteristics. Representation matters because it allows you to find the divine within.”
― Laura Tempest Zakroff, Anatomy of a Witch: A Map to the Magical Body