WITCH SPEAK APRIL 2018:
Paul Wonner (American, 1920-2008): Flowers, Watches, Dark Day; 1991.
Right use of power is love made visible. Right use of power is of love, by love, and for love and how you create your world and your life. For a Park person to not use their power was considered flat-out irresponsible, evil even, depending on who you talked to, because that’s how you ended up living somebody else’s life, or letting somebody else run yours, or maybe both. If Park people believed in sin, not using your power woulda been number one. Genesis 2: The Passion of Emma Ray Earle by Kat Manaan
Hello my darlings!
It’s so good to be writing this, even though I'm a little late getting it out. I really miss when I'm not in touch with the Goddess Heal Community on a regular basis and I appreciate all y'all's emails and phone calls. It's been a long, long time since I wrote a newsletter. As most of you know I wrote a weekly card for almost two years, but once I moved here to the Hudson Valley, work and time took on new meaning and I had to give it up. As of this moment, I am able to begin to write my monthly newsletters again. Yay! Yes, I am reduced to hyperbole!
I can’t quite believe it’s April already. The first three months of 2018 were some of the hardest I’ve ever lived. I found this to be true for almost all of my inner circle, and my beloved clients, old and new. The energetic re-wiring of the planet, and its inhabitants, began in earnest in January. What wasn’t working became obvious and the ensuring panic/fear/dis-ease began to thread its way through everyone's being. For some of you the feelings were sharp, apparent; for others the feelings were cloaked in apathy.
The words, “I don’t know what I’m going to do yet, but I am willing to do what is best for my deepest and highest good,” invite the Divine into your life. It is eminently sane to know when behavior and/or a way of living is not working. Desire for change lives underneath that. Witches say, “Desire cracks opens the gate, if you’re ready it will take you through.”
So many times when something isn’t working, you think there’s something wrong with you. There’s nothing wrong with you; clearly though, there’s some kind of behavior that you’re engaged in that’s causing you discomfort. People will twist 36 ways from Sunday to avoid change, but we know when need to. Behavior that’s causing you discomfort is rooted in a wound; the behavior is protecting the wound. This is why change is so painful, because we have dredge up the wound and come face to face with what's caused it. It’s rarely us. People have a thing about blame, but blame is part of healing; it’s not permanent (except in teenagers) and a stage you have to go through on the way to owning your side of the street. Compassion is not about owning another person’s side of the street. Somewhere along the lines compassion has come to mean letting people walk all over you; that's not compassion, that's masochism.
Given the intensity of the energies right now, rewiring isn’t so much an option as it is a necessity. Here’s a little outline for re-wiring that may be of benefit to you.
To continue to beat ourselves to a pulp is useless and of no benefit to anyone, except those who have power over you. Know that the harder it is to change, the more intricately woven the finding-fault-behavior is with your defense mechanisms. We have defense mechanisms for a reason, we could not have survived without our defense mechanisms. Our defense mechanisms protect our hearts, our souls, and our talents from the not-so-nice other. The reason defense mechanisms turn on you is because you're growing/evolving according the sacred writings on your soul, and they're keeping you small. On some level you had to keep pieces of you, or all of you small, to survive. Healthy defense mechanisms give you space to uncover, become, and live from your most authentic self.
In witchcraft there is no split between spirit and the flesh. One is not better than the other — one is not evil and the other good. When we are taught to view body and all her feelings as "less then" the spiritual, we are set up for battle with our own selves. Human contains humanity. To devalue and belittle what is human destroys humanity. Spirit animates the flesh and Spirit needs the embodied, (in – body) experience to evolve. One without the other is incomplete; one without the other is imbalanced.
The embodied experience of spirit is humanity. Humanity then is divinity expressed; the humane act, an act taken for the benefit of humanity, is divinity expressed. When we re-wire, when we take the time to become consciously aware of our very human feelings, see them in the mirror, and hold that hurting piece of ourselves who is so shamed and upset and filled with self-loathing, we are expressing our humanity; we are our most divine selves.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat x0x0x
P
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Working with April Energies: Mercury is retrograde in Aries, till April 15th. Not the best month for love and relationships. Watch your temper. Count to 10 before you reply. Learn to say, "Can I get back to you?" or "I'll have to talk to you later about this." Root a lot. Once upon a time there was someone in my life, who lived to push my buttons. A friend of mine told me to think, "Roots down, branches up," every time I ran into the person in question. What that means is I would feel roots growing out of my feet, and branches out of my shoulders reaching towards the sun. Another great idea when you're so mad you can't see straight, is to write the person's name on a piece of toilet paper and flush it. You can also write the person's name on a piece of paper, put it in a plastic bag, and then put the plastic bag in the freezer. That puts the situation on ice, until your ready to deal with it. My favorite chant when temper hits is to White Tara: OM TAR RA TOO, TAR REE RAY, SWA HA. I have written the chant as it sounds, not as it's actually spelled.
Jupiter is retrograde in Scorpio. Purify, purify, purify. Clean out your drawers, get rid of clutter. Take a hyssop bath or shower. No hyssop? Epsom salt works well too. I fine it interesting that mercury is retrograde in Aries (temper) and Jupiter is retrograde in Scorpio (purify). Sometimes your temper is your best friend; letting you know that you need to weed the garden of people sucking the life out of you.
Joy and laughter this month comes from taking a break from the seriousness of it all, and committing to playtime. Give yourself something enjoyable daily. It doesn't have to be huge. The other day the sun came out and i was so excited to see it I ran outside and stood in the sun, face turned towards the sun, for at lease 5 minutes. It felt fabulous! Remember my darlings, you are the beauty of the night and the white moon among the stars and the mysteries of the waters.
So much love, Kat
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It’s so good to be writing this, even though I'm a little late getting it out. I really miss when I'm not in touch with the Goddess Heal Community on a regular basis and I appreciate all y'all's emails and phone calls. It's been a long, long time since I wrote a newsletter. As most of you know I wrote a weekly card for almost two years, but once I moved here to the Hudson Valley, work and time took on new meaning and I had to give it up. As of this moment, I am able to begin to write my monthly newsletters again. Yay! Yes, I am reduced to hyperbole!
I can’t quite believe it’s April already. The first three months of 2018 were some of the hardest I’ve ever lived. I found this to be true for almost all of my inner circle, and my beloved clients, old and new. The energetic re-wiring of the planet, and its inhabitants, began in earnest in January. What wasn’t working became obvious and the ensuring panic/fear/dis-ease began to thread its way through everyone's being. For some of you the feelings were sharp, apparent; for others the feelings were cloaked in apathy.
The words, “I don’t know what I’m going to do yet, but I am willing to do what is best for my deepest and highest good,” invite the Divine into your life. It is eminently sane to know when behavior and/or a way of living is not working. Desire for change lives underneath that. Witches say, “Desire cracks opens the gate, if you’re ready it will take you through.”
So many times when something isn’t working, you think there’s something wrong with you. There’s nothing wrong with you; clearly though, there’s some kind of behavior that you’re engaged in that’s causing you discomfort. People will twist 36 ways from Sunday to avoid change, but we know when need to. Behavior that’s causing you discomfort is rooted in a wound; the behavior is protecting the wound. This is why change is so painful, because we have dredge up the wound and come face to face with what's caused it. It’s rarely us. People have a thing about blame, but blame is part of healing; it’s not permanent (except in teenagers) and a stage you have to go through on the way to owning your side of the street. Compassion is not about owning another person’s side of the street. Somewhere along the lines compassion has come to mean letting people walk all over you; that's not compassion, that's masochism.
Given the intensity of the energies right now, rewiring isn’t so much an option as it is a necessity. Here’s a little outline for re-wiring that may be of benefit to you.
- Identify the wound. Example: Not being good enough no matter what you do.
- Where did it come from? Example: Narcissitic, emotionally immature parents
- What’s the behavior that grew out of it? Example: Whatever makes you come up lacking in your own eyes.
- How does the behavior make you feel? Example: Shame
- Action – Go to the mirror. See what the shamed girl/boy in the mirror. What does she/he look like. Put your arms around her/him. Hold her/him, rock her/him, love her’him. Tell her/him he/she’s all right and you’ll never leave her/him.
- Say the following prayer: “Lady (or whatever you call your Higher Power) I give you all that I am, and all that I will ever be. Help me to open myself to your love and to allow your love to heal my wounds. Divine will be mine, divine will through mine. So mote it.
- Then say to yourself in the mirror: “I forgive myself everything, knowing I did the best I could with what I knew at the time. I love you ____ (your name in the blank) beyond all reason. The Lady’s love flows through me, and from me, to all those around me. So mote it be.”
To continue to beat ourselves to a pulp is useless and of no benefit to anyone, except those who have power over you. Know that the harder it is to change, the more intricately woven the finding-fault-behavior is with your defense mechanisms. We have defense mechanisms for a reason, we could not have survived without our defense mechanisms. Our defense mechanisms protect our hearts, our souls, and our talents from the not-so-nice other. The reason defense mechanisms turn on you is because you're growing/evolving according the sacred writings on your soul, and they're keeping you small. On some level you had to keep pieces of you, or all of you small, to survive. Healthy defense mechanisms give you space to uncover, become, and live from your most authentic self.
In witchcraft there is no split between spirit and the flesh. One is not better than the other — one is not evil and the other good. When we are taught to view body and all her feelings as "less then" the spiritual, we are set up for battle with our own selves. Human contains humanity. To devalue and belittle what is human destroys humanity. Spirit animates the flesh and Spirit needs the embodied, (in – body) experience to evolve. One without the other is incomplete; one without the other is imbalanced.
The embodied experience of spirit is humanity. Humanity then is divinity expressed; the humane act, an act taken for the benefit of humanity, is divinity expressed. When we re-wire, when we take the time to become consciously aware of our very human feelings, see them in the mirror, and hold that hurting piece of ourselves who is so shamed and upset and filled with self-loathing, we are expressing our humanity; we are our most divine selves.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat x0x0x
P
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Working with April Energies: Mercury is retrograde in Aries, till April 15th. Not the best month for love and relationships. Watch your temper. Count to 10 before you reply. Learn to say, "Can I get back to you?" or "I'll have to talk to you later about this." Root a lot. Once upon a time there was someone in my life, who lived to push my buttons. A friend of mine told me to think, "Roots down, branches up," every time I ran into the person in question. What that means is I would feel roots growing out of my feet, and branches out of my shoulders reaching towards the sun. Another great idea when you're so mad you can't see straight, is to write the person's name on a piece of toilet paper and flush it. You can also write the person's name on a piece of paper, put it in a plastic bag, and then put the plastic bag in the freezer. That puts the situation on ice, until your ready to deal with it. My favorite chant when temper hits is to White Tara: OM TAR RA TOO, TAR REE RAY, SWA HA. I have written the chant as it sounds, not as it's actually spelled.
Jupiter is retrograde in Scorpio. Purify, purify, purify. Clean out your drawers, get rid of clutter. Take a hyssop bath or shower. No hyssop? Epsom salt works well too. I fine it interesting that mercury is retrograde in Aries (temper) and Jupiter is retrograde in Scorpio (purify). Sometimes your temper is your best friend; letting you know that you need to weed the garden of people sucking the life out of you.
Joy and laughter this month comes from taking a break from the seriousness of it all, and committing to playtime. Give yourself something enjoyable daily. It doesn't have to be huge. The other day the sun came out and i was so excited to see it I ran outside and stood in the sun, face turned towards the sun, for at lease 5 minutes. It felt fabulous! Remember my darlings, you are the beauty of the night and the white moon among the stars and the mysteries of the waters.
So much love, Kat
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Landon Mackenzie (Canadian, b. 1954): Circle of Willis, 2006.
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