The Witch Within: A Journey of Reclaiming Your Power
If you follow me on social media, you may have noticed that I've been a bit quiet lately. I have been taking a step back over the retrograde season to reassess and reevaluate my business and how I show up in it. I’ll be sharing more about the insights and revelations that have come up for me over the last few weeks below.
The more I’ve expanded the window of tolerance in my nervous system, the more comfortable I have become with the natural pauses and still-periods that come with life and business. The more comfortable you are to pause and reassess, the more opportunities you have to course correct and step back into alignment, which not only allows you to thrive but allows your business to grow to.
Taking a step back to breathe, allow and receive, felt more easeful than ever and has allowed me to reattune to my purpose and how I serve in my business. Despite the barrage of ‘advice’ being thrown at us business owners to constantly show up for social media, to beat the algorithm, to demonstrate consistency to those ‘watching’ us, I believe the pause is where the magic happens.
And you know what, I’m just not here for this shit anymore. That’s one of the many truths that came up during this retrograde cycle. A deep, unwavering certainty that I don’t give a damn about dancing to a patriarchal song, showing up in my business in the same way I’m expected to show up in my corporate job.
That’s not why I created my business. I didn’t create this business to play by patriarchal-capitalist rules, and fall down the same rabbit hole of pushing, hustling, burnout and exhaustion that I witness in the corporate sector.
This truth, is deeply and inherently linked to another truth that bubbled inside me: that I can no longer compartmentalise how I show up in my business.
I have to do this in my corporate job, given the culture of the business I work in, but the point of running my own business is to have a space to be authentically myself, and serve the women who are drawn to the work that I share because it resonates for them, and their truth.
Showing up as half of myself wasn’t serving anyone, least of all myself. So, if you’re still here and still listening, then I invite you to wander deeper with me. I intend to do business my way, in my truth, following my cycles.
Standing on the other side of the retrograde Season and on the Cusp of Eclipse Season, I feel like the energies are ripe for a change. As I made space for soul-truths and insights to be revealed to me, I took my time exploring the feelings, thoughts and following the inklings without judgment to see where they would lead.
And where it has led is to this moment, this ‘Season’ of ‘Reclaiming the Witch’. The link between where we stand now in society, and the persecution of witches is interlinked and interwoven. The nervous system work I do is deeply connected to unravelling the wounds inflicted on us as we exist within a paradigm that has shamed and persecuted the woman who stands in all her glorious power.
The word ‘Witch’ has been making a revival in pop culture. ‘WitchTok’ is as hot a topic as TayTay’s love-life and more and more people jumping on the #witchaesthetic bandwagon. It’s mystical, beautiful, empowering, magical…so I understand the draw. To me, however, reclaiming the Witch’ isn’t a trend to jump on and off like a fad diet.
As a 90s teen I grew up with shows like Charmed and The Craft, and that was the first sip I had of the magical witch’s brew. That enticing first flirtation with spells and magic. And whilst that started me on this journey, the journey itself goes so much deeper than sitting in a circle with my friends whispering “light as a feather, stiff as a board”.
To reclaim Witch is to reclaim the essence of who I am.
To me a witch is a woman who lives by the cycles, the Seasons of the Earth, the cycles of the Moon. A witch is a woman who pays deep reverence to the movement of her body in attunement with the Earth, the planets and the Seasons.
She is a woman who heals generational trauma and cuts the cords of the toxic patterns binding her lineage to unhealthy patterns. She is a woman who is reclaiming her connection to her body, respecting her own needs, values and standing in her power with grace and compassion.
A Witch is a Rebel. A warrior. A beacon of Truth. A light bearer. A wisdom keeper. A woman who walks in both the Shadow and the Light. The Persephones’ of the World - both Goddess of Spring and Queen of the Underworld.
A witch is a Woman In Total Communion with Herself.
And even as I share this, I still feel the weight of the word and I don’t claim it lightly or flippantly. ‘Witch’ is still a dangerous term, fraught with stigma, suspicion, envy, mockery.
It’s a term that has weight, and history. Millions of (mostly) women were mutilated, tortured, ostracised and even killed by neighbours, lovers, community who used ‘Witch’ as an epithet to harm. Even today, the UN Human Rights Council warns of the growing pandemic that continues to allow innocent women and children to be tortured, mutilated and even murdered for being ‘a witch’.
So, whilst some of us have the privilege of wearing the badge proudly in rebellion to the patriarchal suppression of womanhood, it’s important to recognise that in many places in the world, being branded a witch is still a death sentence. And what’s important to understand is that these people are not in fact witches. Neither were the millions killed during the witch hunts. They never claimed to be witches, they never practiced magic.
My reclamation of ‘Witch’ goes beyond making a political statement, it’s also about reclaiming the core of who I am and how I serve.
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