“There's a level of deep devotion required to navigate the ups and downs of becoming the Self-Healer and Magical Guide you truly came here to be.”

~ Nicole Barton

I have been embodying and teaching 'healing' for over a decade (woah, as I share that my Archetypal Luna remedy - my inner magical wise woman - is like "yes, I'm being owned! 🔥"). You see, healing is something I've lived and breathed the lessons of. It's something, as I often say, that I've "lived into" - over my whole lifetime, actually - and it's been the place where I've had my deepest wounds (which also means as I've alchemised it, it has become my medicine for others).

“True Self-Healing is being willing to go into our wounds - into the fire - and courageously look them in the eyes, and begin to love those pieces of ourselves back to wholeness”

~ Nicole Barton

ABANDONMENT AND SCARCITY ALCHEMY IN MOTION

The path of reclaiming your unapologetic magic is not easy to walk. I've said it over and over again (I'm pretty sure everyone still thinks I'm joking 😁 likely because the work they've done before is 'Woo Lite' - see my earlier post on this).

“True Self-Healing is being willing to go into our wounds - into the fire - and courageously look them in the eyes, and begin to love those pieces of ourselves back to wholeness”

~ Nicole Barton

ABANDONMENT AND SCARCITY ALCHEMY IN MOTION

The path of reclaiming your unapologetic magic is not easy to walk. I've said it over and over again (I'm pretty sure everyone still thinks I'm joking 😁 likely because the work they've done before is 'Woo Lite' - see my earlier post on this).

“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.”

~ Clarissa Pinkola

Secretly magical healers: let's talk REAL for a moment as to why searching logically for your "niche" isn't as important as you DISCOVERING, HEALING and BECOMING your own remedy for others.

“This isn't a journey for everyone. It takes deep courage and a willingness to go into the darkness and see what wants to be loved”

~ Nicole Barton

LOVE OR DESTRUCTION.

When I first came to shadow work, I would often use it as a tool to beat myself up with for all the ways I was 'sabotaging' my soul (my magical wand became a 'beaty' stick! )

“The woman who is here to work with her 'inner witch' is here to experience the darkness of being a human fully in form, and she's here to play there, making gold from it - because she's a manifestor here on earth.”

~ Nicole Barton

FOR THE MAGICAL WOMEN WHO SUPPRESS THEMSELVES

There's an absolute rage bubbling from an experience I created yesterday, and I can feel a big angry NO in my belly to our humanness being denied. I witness within myself that more fire is wanting to be expressed…

“Fire, as an Archetypal Apothecary Remedy, is one of transformation, of burning things down so that they can be rebirthed as their real, true, full potency”

~ Nicole Barton

And only where the forest fires have sped, Scorching relentlessly the cool north lands, A sweet wild flower lifts its purple head, And, like some gentle spirit sorrow-fed, It hides the scars with almost human hands.

“If she's not healed her Witch Wound (that deep seated fear of being her full self-expression), then no matter how hard she trains in magical modalities, it's unlikely that she will ever have the courage to bring that medicine to the world fully and completely.”

~ Nicole Barton

Oh my god has my Secret Witch been having meltdowns this week over where my business is going.

“ The more unapologetically magical you can become - the more you shine who you are into the world - the more you will actually reach the hearts you are meant to, and those hearts that will love you.”

~ Nicole Barton

The path of becoming your own remedy in the world - of becoming your unapologetic magic - is not an easy path to walk. It's often one filled with tears, wounds and fear. It is one that takes deep courage and vulnerability. It's one that requires you to continue to face all the places that your heart wants to close and consciously choose to open them instead.

“If all Phosphoric Witches learned that their gifts were magical, needed and loved - if they learned they could harness their deep gifts of sensitivity and emotion powerfully, and if they learned that they weren't really that 'weird' - then they would learn to welcome all the parts of themselves that they've previously outcast, become their unique, magnificent, magical remedy for themselves, firstly - but also for the world..”

~ Nicole Barton

Have you been told that you "have magical gifts" (but you're a little bit scared of them)?

“As healers - and as any magical women who feel a call to becoming a healer - we have to learn to do the deepest work of all - and that is of dosing our own remedies and healing our own wounds, before we can dose others.”

~ Nicole Barton

One of the things I've been really witnessing recently is how Secret Witches (sensitive, open-hearted, spiritual and magical women who don't know, or suppress, their healing power) often come to learn magic with their typical wide-eyed Phosphoric enthusiasm - they usually start out really deeply called by all the healing modalities - perhaps reiki, or or aromatherapy, spirituality, or even homeopathy - or others.

“If you choose to soften, open and heal, you can heal and learn to become the most potent, beautifully sensitive, fiery, magical medicine - for yourselves, and the world.”

~ Nicole Barton

Yesterday I was reflecting on how there's a deep paradox to my Phosphoric women. I've been focused a lot recently on sharing their deep sensitivity, and how they feel everything so deeply, which can often have them in closure of their hearts.

“It is always our shadow - our suppression - that takes our life force energy and has us feel low in energy.”

~ Nicole Barton

The Secret Witch's (mine and my women's) deepest fears are often helplessness and failure. These are the ones that usually stop my women from taking aligned-action in the direction of soul. It is often what has them not choose themselves and the deep work. Their fear of losing energy by choosing into aligned-actions is a big one.

"It's often seen as a cultural taboo to be a Magical One, yet there's actually a magic and power and truth in healing ourselves. Our deep sensitivity, our magic, our capacity to heal and be medicine is a gift."

~ Nicole Barton

Since my recent shamanic healing I've been consciously working with my Ancestors a little bit more, as they had come to the healing with a lot of anger about not feeling "enough" - which makes a lot of sense, given they were Witches, likely burned at the stake.

"The real measure of whether you're ready for the path of soul is whether you're willing to keep choosing to open to love through the triggering to find the deep gold in the Truth."

~ Nicole Barton

One of the things that the Secret Witch (who doesn't know her own magic and power) struggles with is speaking her Truth and expressing what's in her heart. Often that will leave her suppressing parts of

"Your medicine is not in the tools that you have so desperately sought to fix your wounds, but in the wounds you've so desperately been avoiding."

~ Nicole Barton

Most of my women want to make an impact in the world somehow; they have a deep, burning desire to be medicine. Often with a deep desire to heal the world (and, yet, often feeling victim to their visions, too, as if they aren't possible).

"Anything, or anyone, that does not bring you alive is too small for you.”

~ David Whyte

I witness over and over again recently how my women often think that living from soul is something seperate from life. And I'd have once felt that too.

"Whilst there's shame and fear of being our magic as a medicinal one, you can also come to learn that there's a deep gift in your own deep sensitivity - that the world needs."

~ Nicole Barton

My heart always cracks wide open to my women who feel that their sensitivity and vulnerability is shameful. Especially when they are magical ones who have shut out their magic because of this shame.

“A Secret Witch isn’t a woman just playing with potions. She’s a woman who doesn’t yet know her power to create whatever she opens her heart to.”

~ Nicole Barton

There is no "push" or "force" in this journey; it is actually one of magical, energetic manifestation. And equally, that doesn't mean sitting back and doing nothing either, as most spiritual paths teach.

"To return to who you are, via the Remedies of the Wild, you'll need to be prepared to open your heart and mind wider than what is "known" and choose fully into the unknown - the unmeasurable art of magic."

~ Nicole Barton

One thing that has become apparent to me is that my women often have a love/hate relationship with magic.