I know we do not harm anyone lest it return, but what if someone has harmed you first?
There is a very unpleasant woman in my life who seems intent on victimising me and trying to turn people against me. I have asked her why in a reasonable manner but she won't answer. I do my best to avoid and ignore her but she still upsets me and is really quite vile.
So because she's harmed me in the first place can I return it safely and if so, how.
I admit I'm finding 'and harm ye none' very difficult to maintain where this person is concerned. Any advice will be very welcome.
BB.
Silvermist x
Hi Silvermist,
I'm not a Wiccan so please indulge my reply. My belief is that whatever harm this woman is doing to you is likely to return to her anyway without you getting involved in the process so the best thing to do is just concentrate on being at peace. If you do decide to retaliate, then it will probably come back to you so you will have a situation of two people both doing each other harm and each receiving it back if you get my drift!-this IMO is how unhealthy relationship chains start! One persons child is killed, so they kill the killer.....then the killers child seeks revenge and before you know it a blood feud ensues (okay, maybe a bit dramatic but this is how these things start) and in the end it accomplishes nothing.
Perhaps it is best to just take a step back and decide what it is you want to get out of retaliation. Is it to make her stop? What if it has the opposite effect? Are you prepared to follow through to the bitter end?
My advice is to find a way to let it go (easier said than done but you asked!) maybe even send blessings and good wishes towards this woman and see what happens.At the very least, just remove yourself from her path if you can.
Love
Crystal elf
Maybe I can expand as a Wiccan 🙂
In a prior job, a not very nice man had wronged me incredibly, to the point of people thought I was a sexual pervert at work and had sexually harassed him. I was absolutely livid and I believed that coloured my opinion. I was incredibly tempted to bind him, not sure of you know but hexing originally means 'to bind to the earth' and thus let the goddess prevent him doing harm. Now a bind such as that is generally considered okay as long as your intentions are pure, but as I was so angry, I couldn't trust my emotions. I thought long and hard about it for a couple of weeks and I heard a popular addition to the Wiccan rede which didnt help matters.
"An it harm none, do what ye will. But if it harm ye, do what ye must." This was starting to sway it for me but luckily, whilst I was thinking about it, he met his own huge downfall. Now I believe karma stepped in before I had to and looking back, binding him wouldn't of been the right thing to do for me.
It's up to you what you think is the right thing to do, I still agree with the threefold law and I would rather do a protection spell for myself rather than a binding spell in future. Karma has a longer memory than we do
Blessed be
X
Karma has a longer memory than we do
Is 'Karma' a concept generally accepted by Wiccans?
Karma, threefold law. Tomato, tomato 😛 In my opinion, it's all the same thing. Law of attraction, like attracts like. You receive what you send out.
I was trying to distinguish between karma and the law of attraction but I couldn't as both involved energy which is sentient.
[edit] Sorry, realised I didn't really answer your question. The threefold law is a massively accepted part of Wicca, the only words that really govern us are from the Wiccan Rede which includes the keywords, "An if harm none, do what ye will."
So yes, whatever name you wanna call it, karma is important to us 🙂