My thoughts of "The Wiccan Rede"
By Iriseyes
The Wiccan Rede in essence to me is a set of beliefs and guidelines that were created for us Wiccans to follow with all the love and trust that we can give. We have to love and trust this completely in order for us to be able to say we are Wiccan.
To fully understand "And harm none do as you will", means you have to take the statement apart and look at it thru your eyes to harm is totally against my set of beliefs unless it means I have to defend myself or those who are in my family. When you are attacked "Harm None" does not apply. You must be able to defend yourself against attacks by humans and animals. . Harming none applies to the air we breathe to the dirt under our feet and everything in-between because everything has deities spirit
When we eat we are harming animals to an extent but it is for our survival. Many feel that you must not harm anything but how can eat if you believe that, I do not try to judge anyone's beliefs as I feel that is wrong to do, but say you're a vegetarian cause you feel that you cannot harm animals but what some do not realize is plants are also living beings as well, so this debate will go on for as long as humans roam the earth.
To harm for the sake of harming is unforgivable in my set of beliefs, to just pick the wings off of butterflies to take them is really uncalled for they can find plenty that are already dead to take the wings for a display. To kick a dog or any other animal for that matter, in anger to show dominance over it or to kick it around makes me want to kick the owners in return for their hateful attitude. This type of animal abuse really burns me to the bone and to show for this type of behavior or animal shelters are becoming so full of animals that they are putting the animals down this makes me so sad to see this on television. I really feel an eye for an eye sometimes and I think sometimes that is justification in the part of an angry person. As I am writing this also we must look at an animal attack, one must be able to defend their self's from attacks without feeling the guilt of possibly killing or hurting the attacking animal. If your neighbor's dog is biting you or one of your children human nature kicks in and tries to stop the attack in any means necessary as well as using any force possible to stop the activity. If this animal dies as a result of this I feel you are not held accountable and are justified by defending you or one of your family members.
In life I feel we must give and take in order to function as civil people. We cannot accept and receive the deities and the elements of the earth if we are not willing to give back or even give forward as we keep on taking. Taking in our world has gotten us pollution of our waters and our air, destroyed lands and many different forms of diseases and we are raping Mother Earth. Not only are we raping Mother Earth but we have begun to rape Father Sky and are starting to rape the universe we live in.
In life we pay for what we do and if I could just cause a ripple effect in changing the way we treat each other I have done my part in changing the way we as humans view our Mother and each other. If one person can change but one life, just think if ten people could change ten life's and so on before long the humans are working together to make our universe and home a wonderful and pollution free environment.