La Via or La Via Vecchia is also known as Stregoneria, or Italian witchcraft and folk magic.
La Via means owning my own knowing. Feeling the currents of life, glimpsing moments of non-physical reality, and feeling my own power to affect those currents. It means an ongoing conversation with all I am deeply connected to – animals, plants, rocks, soil, spirits of unnamed myriad, my ancestors. It means when I care for my sheep, I don’t see ignorant hulks of meat and wool. I look into their eyes and I see them meeting me there. With intelligence and emotion. We speak without words. To me, witchcraft is a way of life in which we remind ourselves daily of the miracle and magic of being alive. Seeing the numinal within the mundane. In a dance of love, connection, and agency with the rest of creation.