GRANNY’S GYPSY MAGICK

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Soror Mystica

GRANNY’S GYPSY MAGICK

Now that you have experienced the power of the Tarot, are you ready to explore the fantastical world of magick? Leave your old life behind in favor of a new cosmic awareness. Once you learn how to read the signs you will never want to go back. You will see magick at work all around you and use it to achieve your goals. You may already be practicing magick without realizing it. THE POWER LIES WITHIN YOU. This is what Granny’s Gypsy Magick is all about.

My magickal gypsy witch name is Soror Mystica which means ‘mystical sister’ and harkens back to the witches known as The Sisters of the Mystic Rose (the Mystic Rose is another name for the Virgin Mary). The Mystic Rose was an ancient cult of magickal women devoted to the caretaking of the abused, maimed and abandoned. They were Amazons who specialized in the mystical arts. For those astrologically-minded, I am Sagittarius the Archer born on the Winter Solstice Eve with Gemini rising and my moon in Aries, right on the cusp of Capricorn.

I traced my maternal heritage to over 100 years of authentic gypsy magick and discovered my roots in old Transylvania, in Ober Metzenseifen and Uber Metzenseifen, a village both in and at the base of the Carpathian Mountains about a hundred miles away from Dracula’s castle. This explained my preoccupation with Dracula. The family name of Schuerger means ‘dances with the devil’. I also uncovered that in each generation there were fortunetellers, either readers of the Tarot or of the tea leaves. In fact, if there was no woman in the family who prophesied, the men married one.

On the paternal side I found 86 years of funeral home directors. Caretakers of the dead. On dad’s side was the dead, on mom’s side the undead. The family name of Ziehm means ‘world fame and land glory’ which is borne out by the international healthcare equipment manufacturer, Ziehm Instrumentarium, located in Helsinki, Finland. No surprise there. I researched the Norse mythology of my father’s side and found the German Viking tradition of naming all my ancestors by their proper name in the proper order to assume their power. I also discovered my great great great grandfather from Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) was my namesake. My birth name means ‘Christian’ and that was his name.

The true origin of the Ziehm name, however, is quite ancient, predating the birth of Christ by many centuries. It was mainly introduced into the different Christian countries by the Knights Templar crusaders of the 12th century on their return from their many attempts to free the Holy Land from the Muslims. The name Ziehm derives from the biblical and Hebrew personal name Shimon, and in many vernacular versions of the Old Testament the name is usually rendered as Simeon or Simon. Simon Magus (Simon the Magician) of the 1st century was a Samaritan sorcerer. According to The Bible he became a commanding personality in Samaria through his wizardry.

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