Celebrate your Inner Witch and Cultivate Creativity
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10 Suggestions to make magic happen
October heralds in the season of magic: pumpkin pies, glowing jack-o-lanterns, and the ever-defamed, black-cloaked, ugly, wild witch and her spooky sidekick, the haunted ghost. Society, led mainly by organized religions, conjured these images to scare folks. And it worked. Witches were burned alive, and ghosts, sometimes referred to as demons, were driven from bodies in riotous rituals.
In reality, a witch is a creative practitioner who uses herbs, rituals, moon phases, and divination to connect with spiritual or ancestral energies. Rather than a terrifying demon, a ghost could simply be a spirit or an ancestor coming to connect via a dream or a vision.
But this isn’t a newsletter about ghosts and witches. It’s a newsletter about tapping into magic. And magic is creativity by another name.
How can we grow our magical, creative souls in a witchy way?
Here’s a list of 10 suggestions.
1. Become aware of all your senses and feel them, breathe them, use them.
2. Experiment. Think of the witch’s brew… she was a creative being playing with herbs and spices!
3. Create a tiny altar that could include a plant, candle, crystal or anything that represents your heart and intention.
4. Track the moon and walk in nature. Notice what surrounds you.
5. Cook intentionally and learn more about herbs and spices.
6. Journal. It’s magic in the written word. Try it.
7. Meditate. Pay attention to your dreams.
8. Light a candle to honor your ancestor and ask for their support.
9. Ask a question. Pay attention to the answer in non-linear time.
10. Gratitude: always give thanks.
This all may seem a little woo-woo for you, and that’s okay. It may not be for you. It took me years before I began tapping in, but it was always there. I loved dressing up as a witch for Halloween, including wearing a dyed green mop under a black hat (my highly creative sister’s doing, not mine). I wrote down my dreams at an early age and made my own candles. I loved creating concoctions in the kitchen, sometimes doing it outside in a, you guessed it, large black cauldron. I was a curious kid, looking for an outlet and a connection to something magical.
Don’t we all connect with this time of year in some enchanted way? The candy and costumes are a good cover, but the real thrill is the mysterious spirit. As the darkness descends, the longer nights offer us the space and energy to go inward. Rather than a time of terror, it can be a time of depth and inner growth.
I promise you this: the more you lean in, the more magic appears.
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Quotes for the Soul!
“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
“All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar, and surprising.”
“I believe that Magic is Art and Art, whether it be music, writing, sculpture or any other, is literally magic. Art, like any magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to manipulate words, to change people’s consciousness.”
“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”