Having your Wits about you!

The wits, or "White Wits" as they are also known, are awesome entities that can do much for a person. The wits can be on the lookout for you, contact the friends in the high places, and protect you from many things, and that is why it is good to have your wits about you.

In Sanctuary, you can check on the condition of your wits, and improve their health and happiness.

Having your wits about you!

In the hard, wits are obviously invisible. In Sanctuary, they are not and you can check in on the health and happiness - or even the presence! - of your own personal wits.

So! Let's have a wits wellness visit right now.

How many wits do you have?

How close or far away are they?

How do they appear?

What can you do to make your wits happier?

Do that right now, whatever it takes.

People's wits can be dishevelled, black, undernourished, crazy and even appear demonic in nature - that shows that they are highly stressed and need immediate loving attention.

When your wits are in fantastic health, glowing with happiness and you have your wits about you, life becomes better for everyone concerned.

A couple of additional tips.

1. You can send additional wits to people who need them. I often do this, especially when a person is distraught, alone, or under attack.

2. Wits are protective in nature, and really, REALLY useful in negative energy situations, or when one has to deal with very low energy people.

Look after your wits - and your wits will take care of you!

 
Silvia Hartmann, 2019

Today, the wits turned up ... in the Game of Goblins! :-)

The Game of Goblins!

1. I heard a story about goblins in Africa recently. In a village in Zimbabwe, a factory owner wasn’t paying his workers enough, and one night, the goblins apparently thrashed his factory. He started paying better, and the goblins disappeared.

2. People laughed at the story, calling it superstition, but I wasn’t so quick to judge. It reminded me of a morning long ago when my son was two. I found him on the kitchen counter, chocolate biscuit in hand, crumbs everywhere, and a big grin. “What’s happening here?” I asked. “The robber did it!” he said. That day, the robber moved into our house.

3 In that African village, everyone knew it wasn’t really goblins—just like everyone in my house knew it wasn’t really the robber. The workers were angry, and the “goblins” got the point across. My son was hungry, and the “robber” covered for him. Everyone was in on the game.

4. The effect was remarkable—no screaming, no shouting, not that time or so many times after. Who took my car keys? Who drank all the milk? Who left the door open? The robber did it. It worked like a charm, keeping the peace in a way that felt almost magical.

5. During the Second World War, fighter pilots blamed gremlins for mechanical failures instead of pointing fingers at the mechanics. It kept them focused on their common goal—surviving and winning the war—without breaking the team apart.

6. Goblins are useful. Here in the West, we don’t have them, so it’s always just us to blame. Social media post flops? It’s your fault. Shame, shame, shame. But what if it wasn’t your fault—or because people hate you? What if it was the goblins instead? Try it with any personal failure—job rejection, burnt dinner, missed deadline. Blame the goblins. Feel that instant relief?

7. Now, what if goblin-induced failure isn’t because they’re nasty little critters trying to trip you up? What if they’re just telling you you’re off your path? Goblins show up when something’s not right—like that factory owner ignoring his workers, or me not getting up when my 2 year old asked for breakfast. Why are the goblins here? That’s the question to ask.

8: If we have goblins in our lives, what about helpful entities? What if goblins are just the grumbly version of beings that help rather than hinder? What if they’re stressed-out helpers, trying to point the way when we’ve missed the earlier exit signs?

9: There’s a pattern in folklore, and we can map it on the SUE Scale—my way of measuring experience from -10 (total stress) to +10 (pure capability), with 0 as neutral. Goblins live at -10 to -1, stirring trouble to signal problems. Brownies, like my cleaning elves who wash dishes for peas, sit at +1 to +3—they help, but you’ve got to pay. But where’s the +10 version of these entities? The ones who help without being paid, without being asked, without needing rituals? They’re missing!

10. That’s where the wits come in! You’ve heard the phrase “have your wits about you,” and we don’t want to lose our wits, do we? Wits are my +10 friends—white,  birds circling your head, bringing inspiration and joy without needing peas or prayers. Just knowing they’re there, ready to surprise you with a spark, changes the game of goblins entirely.

11. There’s more to life—you know there is. Accept your wits, embrace them, and have fun with the beautiful mind you were given. Next time the goblins kick off in your reality, let your wits lift you up with a laugh, a new idea - or a miracle.

 Silvia Hartmann 2025