Will you allow hope to guide you into the possibility of creating a soul-led life?
“Where there is hope there is possibility. Where there is possibility, there is Magic; Where there is Magic there is endless possibility.”
~ Beth Thompson
If there's one thing I've learned, as I've journeyed more deeply into soul, it's that we simply can't do this work from our heads.
From our heads, we desire logic and a step by step plan of how to get there. From our heads, we create from burden and burn out. From our heads, we allow fear to make the choices - even when we think it isn't.
From our heads, there is usually very little possibility. And the Secret Witch (who doesn't know her power and magic) often creates life from this place, unconsciously, and innocently.
And Soul doesn't work like that. For a life of Soul, women have to choose lean into hope, open our hearts, soften, lean into love and take the tender steps towards possibility. We have to drop into our bodies, learning to embody our soul, and move from there. And that is led from the heart.
This is why 'hope' is the Gateway to our work here at Team Secret Witch.
Because hope is the birthplace of belief and knowing what's possible. The 'How's', eventually, have to go out the window, and we have to fully step into hoping that it is possible for us to dream, and create all of our deepest longings.
And as we keep taking those steps, we do begin to gather evidence for the fact that we can live from soul and magic. And that kindles belief in that possibility, and eventually devotion to our deep soul path.
And that's important. Because along the descent, the entire way, we will receive many, many calls back from the modern world. It will lure us in with distraction, busyness, temptation, the illusion of certainty, self doubt; all the fears. And it may feel safe there, because it's what you've known. And if that's what you desire to choose, that's fine. But at least consider the costs of that, first.
I've seen recently how my Secret Witch can want to travel back there - and it's less and less these days, but she's still tempted by hustle and planning. Today, for example, I've felt the tug of all the "things to do", the distractions pulling for my focus, and all the things I'm juggling, in fact. It was so tempting to want to tick them off, instead of choose what was more deeply aligned for me.
And I was speaking to my own Soul Guide, who invited me into a practice of "No Demand Time" - where I sat doing nothing. Oh, the resistance - "am I worthy if I'm not creating? How can I do nothing? This is boring." But eventually, after I'd sat there for over an hour, amidst all the compelling "things to do", it was enough of a pattern interrupt to have me sink back into the Feminine. Magically, my next move was to have a bath, rather than sit at my desk over-preparing for leading a circle.
I can choose differently these days because I've enough evidence that the "forced and burdened" energetic is not the place from which dreams are created. We create our heart's longings only from the space of learning to hold the tension, stepping in, courageously and vulnerably, into new ways of being, and opening our hearts to the unknown - into the edginess of the loving, softness of Feminine creation.
And all the things in my vision are created this way. I've created so much of what was in my heart from embodying my Feminine soul more deeply. There's no other choice for me now; the resistance to put down the to do list and follow logic is less and less, as I know this isn't the way.
So, you might ask me, how do you create what you create (which is a question I get asked frequently)? And I'll tell you the truth; there's no logical or linear "Step 1, 2, 3" here - just a whole lot of magic and choosing of possibility.
If you're ready to begin to choose, we will have the next Manifesting with the Moon - our monthly Live ritual in our Secret Witch Circle sisterhood on Facebook. If you’re feeling the call to take the tender steps into this path, why not join us later in our Secret Witch Circle Facebook group, where our beautiful sisterhood of Witches gather?
if you've any questions, send me an email.
Nicole x
