Witch: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic.

by Lisa Lister

you can, because the soles of your feet are one of three convergence points on the body for your seventy-two thousand nerve fibres. When you place bare feet on the ground, each of those nerve fibres connects with the pulse of Mumma Earth and conducts electromagnetic energy through your body. Take in a breath; and on the exhale, send your roots down into Mumma Earth. Then, on the next inhale, feel her energy come right back up at you and into your womb. Do this for three to five powerful breaths. Then let her move you. Let her be your guide. As you move to the rhythm of your own flow, ask, ‘What do I really want? What is my desire?’ This will probably bring ‘stuff’ up for you: ‘I can’t trust my desire.’ ‘I mess up.’ ‘I get greedy.’ ‘I want nice things – car/house/money.’ Allow any emotion that needs to be witnessed to be fully felt and seen – scream, cry, laugh, sob – and then journal and process what’s come up for you. I do this process in each phase of my menstrual cycle, but you can do it at the full moon, or the

Just know that the more you practise connecting with Shakti, the more you’ll be able to trus...

It’s safe for you to unravel. If it doesn’t feel safe for you, join my online SHE coven: details are in the resources section at the back of the book. All of us need – more than anything – to have safe, courageous places, spaces and containers in which it feels safe for us to unravel. Places, spaces and containers where we can start to practise exploring the light AND the dark with other women.

When we acknowledge our shadow, it’s wise, self-healing and healthy.

Know that as a woman, your shadow holds all the keys to what keeps you small and holds you back.

It’s NOT your fault. I repeat, it’s NOT YOUR FAULT.

And the thing is, a woman’s body is THE only barometer she’ll EVER need in order to FEEL what’s real and true.

Right now, what’s your body story?

The Eve Stain

The Eve Stain happens to everyone – men and women – but particularly women. It’s the stain of sin, which is essentially shame. It comes in the way we’re looked at and talked about. It’s what’s assumed about us as women.

It sticks in our psyches because we’re not initiated into our power at menarche. It sticks because our bleeding years aren’t celebrated as the unfolding of our cyclic powers and feminine wisdom. It sticks because childbirth isn’t seen as ...

And it sticks because, when we stop bleeding, we’re told that we’re surplus to requirements; when actually, we’re women who no longer need to unfold and unfurl. We are sovereigns. We are queen...

It won’t tell you that your one-way ticket to bliss involves entering life through your senses, and attuning yourself to what is. Why? Because pleasure is yet another thing Patriarchy has systematically separated us from. That’s how the distorted, masculine energy took over the planet: by subduing, turning off, turning down and making us distrust and feel ashamed of our own desires.

Claim YOUR pleasure.

Self-Sourcing ‘All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.’ – DOREEN VALIENTE

Pleasure shows itself to me in many forms: a hot bath, salted caramel raw chocolate, a delicious orgasm, having my nails painted, cuddles, belly dancing, fresh flowers, dry body brushing, silence, big redwood trees, swimming in the ocean, a massage, eating figs, SHE Flow yoga, listening to boy ba...

Self-sourcing will liberate you.

THE CHARMED AND DANGEROUS SPRITZER

This Charmed and Dangerous Spritzer was one of the first mists I ever sold as The SASSY Sorceress. Use this essence to remember your essence. What you’ll need: Distilled water or 100-proof vodka 9 drops ginger essential oil 9 drops orange essential oil 7 drops cinnamon essential oil 11 drops lavender essential oil 13 drops bergamot essential oil Glass spray bottle

Loving on me is the greatest magic I can create. It doesn’t matter whether I’m: … buying myself a crystal rose quartz yoni wand to bring myself to orgasm … making an essence that anchors me into my truth … taking time to create whole, nourishing food instead of ordering a take away … finding a massage therapist who understands the complexity of my tilted pelvis and hyper-flexibility … rescheduling an appointment because I’m on Day 28 of my menstrual cycle … or organizing my finances so I know what I’m earning and what I’m spending

You are worthy of calling in what you need, want and desire. Just so you know.

SOURCE YOURSELF

Make a list of all the things that you want, need and desire. Look at all the ways that you could make it possible to receive, allow or make them available in your life. Pick one item a week (actually, you can pick as many as you want; but if you’re new to receiving and accepting, one is plenty to begin with), and actively make it happen without guilt or apology. You’re a creatrix, and it’s your birthright to self-source. You’ve got this.

Let’s dare to be the Sorceress – SHE Who Is Charmed, Dangerous and Not Afraid of the Dark – without fear of repercussion. Let’s silence the voices that say we’re drawing far too much attention to ourselves, that we’re taking up too much space, or that we’ll be abandoned because we shine too fucking bright. Let’s live a life undone.

You are a Sorceress.

Witch, we walk in fire, because we ARE the fire.

The thing they used to destroy us during the ‘witch craze’ is the very thing that will wake us now. We are Shakti, we are the destroyer, we are the nurturer, we are kundalini rising, and we are the light in the dark. Become a living fire of transformation. Feel. The. Burn.

ALL OF IT. That work? It starts and ends with you, BTW. Remember all the parts of your wild and feminine nature that have been placed in the dark. Reconnect with Mumma Nature, your body and truth. Reclaim what’s rightfully yours, starting with your menstrual cycle, and declare that shit sacred. Revere it all. The mess, the truth, the polarities, the paradoxes, the Mystery and EVERYTHING in between.

When each and every woman feels the burn in this way – when she stirs this remembrance, reconnection, reclamation and reverence in the heat and flames of her cauldron – alchemy occurs. She heals. She heals her personal wounds and those of the collective. She takes responsibility for her nourishment, pleasure, boundaries and desires. She becomes self-sourced and can re-source the Earth, because she knows that what she stands on is what she stands for. She wakes. Fully.

Witch: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic.

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