OK, I admit it: “I am addicted to the television series, "Charmed.” I watched it from the beginning in 1998 to the end of production in 2006. I own all eight seasons on DVD and have watched those from season one, disc one to season eight, disc six several times. In fact, I am currently watching them again. I am on season six, disc two when the Magic School is discovered. Anyway, I first started watching the show for three reasons, Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano and witchcraft. Stop! Don’t click away from this article because I used the word witchcraft, please open your mind and read on.

I use to watch “Little House on the Prairie”, I loved the messages, the morals, the family love that the show brought into my life. Eventually, I learned to appreciate the people who portrayed the characters in the show. The art of acting, this show was the first one that I felt the characters portrayed were actually real people. I could feel the emotions of the characters, from the acting, through the dialogue, through the make-believe world of television; if they cried, I cried, if they laughed, I laughed, when they showed love, I felt love. Anyway, Shannen Doherty was on that show. She played Laura Ingalls niece by marriage to ‘Manly’ Wilder, Jenny. It was a short time on the show, but for some reason, I remembered her.

Alyssa Milano was that cute, smart mouth daughter of Tony Micelli (Tony Danza), Samantha aka: Sam on “Who’s the Boss.” I enjoyed her energy on the show and although it was all written for her, she always delivered the perfect line to make me laugh or smile.

Now, for the witchcraft, I had dabbled in it in high school with a couple friends, but after a while, I felt it was wrong. Not that witchcraft was wrong, but in the way my one friend was ‘using’ it. I started to feel very uncomfortable with it all, so I distanced myself from it. But, that did not stop my curiosity. I let it go, but would read whatever I could find about it and tried to learn more on my own, in secret. I learned that there was so much involved with witchcraft and that a person needed to be really careful, that I again decided to let it go. Then along comes this television series with my favorite two female actresses and a subject that has intrigued me for years. How could I not watch it?

From the start, I was hooked, not because of the actresses or because of the witchcraft, but because of the messages; the teachings of right from wrong, the consequences of our actions, of family bonding and of the messages of love, hope and dreams. That is why, when I am feeling a bit ‘lost’ in my life, I watch Charmed again and again: To remember to not give in to the wickedness of reality, but to give myself up to the love of the universe, of the cosmic forces that want reality to be loving and not wicked, to the Spirit.

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