‘I’m a Christian turned witch – buddies ditched me and pray for my salvation’

A girl has shared her expertise of dealing with prejudice and discrimination after she swapped Christianity for witchcraft.

Cassie Brooks, 40, from Tennessee, US, had devoted her life to the church, working as an assistant pastor and volunteering as a missionary.

However, she discovered herself drawn to the supernatural whereas researching for a youngsters’s ebook she was writing, and the totems, crystals and spirit guides she found impressed her to embrace witchcraft.

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Cassie, who now works as an accounting analyst, has opened up about her journey.

She recalled: “I was raised a Southern Baptist and my family was at church every time the doors opened. There was no dancing, no drinking and no cussing. It was a fire and brimstone type teaching of Christianity. It was definitely not acceptable to be queer or sexual or to be seen.”

Now, Cassie overtly identifies as a witch in her private {and professional} life, hoping to problem the bias and negativity usually related to the time period.

However, this resolution led to lots of her previous buddies distancing themselves from her, with some even praying for her salvation from ‘the prospect of hell’.

She admitted: “I actually had a book publisher turn me away because I publicly said I was a witch.”

At work, Cassie celebrates completely different holidays than her colleagues and retains crops and crystals at her desk. For her, being a witch ‘is so simple as lighting a candle or blowing one out’.

Her observe of witchcraft contains yoga, speaking to her crops or animals, utilizing important oils or cooking with them.

“Sometimes it’s reading tarot cards for guidance or saying a prayer or affirmation over my son,” she stated. “It’s listening to my favorite songs on repeat or just sitting exterior underneath the moon. I all the time had an ordinary and guidelines to comply with and a field that I match myself into completely.

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“There was a lot of guilt I felt at times and denied who I was for a long time. Coming out of the closet at 40 wasn’t easy, much less acknowledging that as part of my own truths after a lifetime of believing it was sinful and wrong.

“It’s allowed me to step exterior of that field and uncover who I’m with out another person telling me who I’m or ought to be.”

Cassie concluded: “I’m nonetheless a ‘good lady’ and have a coronary heart for my group and serving to others, however now I advocate for marginalised communities just like the Pagan and witchy communities, in addition to the LBGTQ ones.”