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The Call from SHE, the divine feminine.
The Call to rise, fully rooted, in the truth of who we are. The Call that asks us to trust ourselves.
Far from being about practising the dark arts, the modern witch movement is all about female empowerment.
The witch is waking.
‘Why do you think women are fearful to speak out, to be heard and to fully express themselves?’ My answer? It’s because we’re fearful of the witch inside each and every one of us.
The witch is a woman fully in her power.
She’s in touch with the dark. She knows how to be the witness, how to let things go and how to follow her own counsel. Most importan...
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Either way, know this: calling yourself a witch is a big-ass responsibility.
We carry the stories of women who were persecuted, burned, drowned, tortured and silenced because of their power; and we carry it in our very DNA.
Instead, it’s about being a woman who can recognize, navigate, claim, trust and use her Goddess-given powers of creativity and manifestation, her vision, her intuition and foresight, her rhythms and cyclic nature and her ability to experience FULLY the dark to serve the light. And she does it to heal not only herself, but her family, her community and ultimately, the world.
I don’t write books to tell you how you ‘should’ do things, I write them to spark a fire of recognition and remembrance in your body.
I also, rather controversially, call in Mary Magdalene and Kali Ma as my coven sister witches.
To me, the essence of a witch is someone who trusts their inner authority and uses their own personal magic to navigate and negotiate the environment they currently find themselves in.
You don’t need an intermediary to connect with source and your inner wisdom. Simply put your feet on Mumma Earth, get still or create a prayer or incantation.
Infuse your bath water with three small cups of Himalayan bath salt, the rose quartz, the rosemary sprigs, a few drops of your sacred water, the rose petals and five or six drops of the rose absolute oil. Anoint the candle with the rose absolute oil, then light it. Lower yourself into the water, and visualize it cleansing you of all negative vibes. Know that these energies are flowing from your physical, mental
You see, I carry the wounds and scars of lifetimes of being burned and persecuted. It shows up as shame, fear, guilt and anxiety (and another gazillion variations on that theme).
Being a witch is remembering. It’s the GREAT remembering. It’s the remembering of who you were before you forgot.
A witch is an unapologetic woman. She alchemizes experiences and emotions. She’s a woman with power, agency and sovereignty… and she has it on HER terms. She creates and manifests. She is self-sourced. She freely communes with Nature/Spirit/God/dess/choose-your-own-semantics without needing a go-between. Being a witch is being a woman in her power. It’s being someone who trusts her inner authority, and doesn’t look outside herself for validation and/or approval. It’s being someone who uses her own personal magic to navigate and negotiate the environment she currently finds herself in.
Our work, the work of the witch, is to make it safe to be powerful again.
I totally disconnected from my female body. I lived my life from the neck up, operating and making decisions from my head. I lived life like a dude because that option seemed much easier than having to deal with being a woman who was never seen or heard.
We never fully allow ourselves to go ALL THE WAY. We hold back, rein it in and tame our true nature in any given moment, just in case we get judged/shamed/accused based on who we are in THAT particular moment.
You can never claim back your power by being less of yourself, or by squeezing yourself tight enough to fit inside the narrow box marked ‘100% approved.’
We absolutely need to embrace, rather than reject, the idea of power in order to claim our fullness and our true expression in the world as women.
My spiritual orientation is eclectic, and what I share draws upon all the teachings that have formed my magical relationship with reality. My style of magical working – and my relationship with magic in general – is intuitive.
An offshoot of Gardnerian witchcraft, Alexandrian witchcraft focuses strongly on training. It emphasizes areas that are more generally associated with ceremonial magic, such as Qabalah and Angelic Magic.
dowsing for water, ley lines and energy vortexes.
In fact, in Iceland, it’s a recognized state religion.
Odin: the god who gifted us with a divine nature. He’s the one-eyed god, who traded his eye for wisdom, then hung on the World Tree to learn the mysteries of magic and the runes.
They work with the elements, the Ancient Ones and nature. Followers are usually healers who work with plants, stones, flowers, trees, the elemental people, the gnomes and the fairies.
Most Dianic covens worship the Goddess exclusively (Diana and Artemis are the most common manifestations), and most today are still women-only.
Z Budapest, badass witch, declared Dianic Witchcraft to be ‘Wimmin’s Religion’. She founded The Women’s Spirituality Forum in 1986, and is dedicated to bringing Goddess and feminist consciousness to the mainstream.
The Gardnerian system marks spiritual progress using a series of initiatory rites, and is based on gender bi-polarity, which means that all things are divided into masculine/feminine opposites.
Roma talents in divination and spellcraft have always been much in demand; and despite the Gypsy holocaust (which the Roma called ‘The Devouring’), Romani shuvihani still maintain their magic.
Charge of the Goddess, a poetic invocation of the Goddess that is used in almost all Wiccan and many other Pagan ceremonies across the world today.
‘An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will’.
The Threefold Law: this states that any good you do will return to you threefold in this lifetime. Likewise, any harm you do will return to you threefold as well.
Don’t trust all the books. Don’t even trust this book – or trust me, either. Trust yourself.
Get still – ideally in nature
Follow your urges.
Tell the truth
Listen to your body.
Pick up a crystal, or an item of jewellery or clothing. Does your energy go up, or does it go down? Start to practise this with people, places and items. Tune in to each thing, and then tell yourself the truth.
Don’t lie to yourself.
Step beyond fear
Another trick is to ask myself, ‘What’s the worst that can happen?’
Words have power
When we name our fears, we can begin to witness and overcome them.
Be kind (but take no shit)
The way of the witch means there are no coincidences.
It IS safe for me to be powerful. It IS safe for me to be in my power.