It’s time to change the narrative - and embrace the Feminine and her magic.
- Nicole Barton
We must have the courage to welcome ALL - passionate rebel and imperfections, especially.
- Nicole Barton
I've become a woman who knows how to devote to the life I long for, even amidst the inevitable challenges along the way.
- Nicole Barton
“My point is, it was only the "deep work" of real healing that helped me to own my inner Creatrix and learn to claim my feminine soft-power to create life differently and own my healing gifts. Before that, I felt powerless. Learning to *heal my power* was absolutely VITAL in helping me manifest life differently - and create a magical life as a healer.”
- Nicole Barton
Before I entered 'the work' I was living a busy, chaotic, mundane life, that I felt trapped in. I hear many of the women who feel the call to the 'deep work' of becoming a healer feeling the same, whilst simultaneously feeling that 'the work' is also 'non-essential' and 'self-indulgent". Both ideas which can stop us fully choosing it.
“I no longer suffer with any of the 'incurable' health challenges I had - no paralysed face, no chronic fatigue, no endometriosis, no chronic cystitis, no diabetes, no thyroid issues. Instead, the healing work has me energised, vital, and healthy. To me, that makes this the most *vital* and essential work of all. And the least selfish - because now I'm able to help others walk the same path and heal themselves, and go onto helping others the same way.”
- Nicole Barton
One of the things that came up for me - and that I hear come up for many women feeling - in the call of soul to the 'deep work' of becoming a healer is the idea that it's 'non-essential' and 'self-indulgent". Both ideas which can (innocently) stop us fully choosing it.
"Because I'd not claimed my Feminine power during the various precious initiations I'd been invited into along my path, I'd entered unconsciously - without really considering what it meant to be a woman"
~ Nicole Barton
Mothers' Day a few days ago had me reflecting on how when I became a Mama to my beautiful Lily, I had absolutely no idea that it was going to be the transformational portal it was into the death to old parts of me and an initiation into me reclaiming my power.
"Every word we speak is a spell."
~ Lisa Lister
I've quoted this before and heard it many times - and, at a certain point in life, I came to see and understood this more deeply - especially in my 3P journey as I began to see how powerful thought was in creating our lives. It is so true: we are speaking our lives to life - that makes sense.
"Being soft and open, courageous, vulnerable and allowing our hearts to lead is the exact medicine we need to create magical lives."
~ Nicole Barton
The Secret Witch (aka a woman who doesn't know her power and magic) really beats herself up; she often feels a great shame about her dull-feeling life, and has a really big sense that she is not enough for the life that she dreams about. She doubts herself - and often doesn’t trust others, either, leaving her in protection mode - like an armadillo - more often than not.
“Wild Creatrix's first initiation is into the reminder of woman's power to create. This is the very power we were born with - after all, we have wombs which quite literally birth magic."
~ Nicole Barton
Most Secret Witches arrive here to this path not knowing that they are already creating. "But why would I create this?" they might ask, referring to the way they've been innocently and unconsciously creating everything they *don't* want.
“The benefit of devotion is the full aliveness found in the fullest expression of our Soul. The cost is our discomfort, the benefit is we find ourselves.”
~ Nicole Barton
This morning I went for an early morning walk in my devotion to Soul, Magic and the Feminine. It was raining as I got out of bed. I haven't got a rain mac for this rainy weather that is waterproof. I hadn't thought about what would happen in my devotion to early morning walks if it was raining. And so, I found myself feeling the resistance in my body to going out in the rain. Tension, heaviness, and excuses galore.
“It may be the first day of your life, the prime of youth or several decades in, when Medicine Woman calls you. She crept in… when you… pushed too hard just one time too many.”
- Lucy Pearce
Back when I had Chronic Fatigue, when I was age 10, I had no idea I was being initiated into magic. I had little idea of any of what was going on, really - I was too young, though I do remember the various holistic healing techniques we explored, and the haunting call of the Doctors "there nothing you can do to heal from this yuppy flu."
The more courage and vulnerability we have on this journey, the deeper we can embody the Witchy fullness of our Souls ~ Nicole Barton
I’ve been sitting in a women’s circle myself for the last few months, with some magical, powerful women - all coaches need their own space for expansion, and so my own deepening was into the Feminine, which I had experienced some resistance to (much like I explored the resistance many of my own women have to the word ‘Witch’ in my last blog). Where there’s resistance, there’s also usually gold - which is really what we are here exploring this this blog post today, as it’s all about embracing the darkness.
“For me, magick is love. Whenever you bring in Divine light to manifest one thing or the other in the world, what you’re actually doing is pulling in love. ~ Damien Echols
I adore this because it points to the critical interweaving of spirit and soul that I share along the journey to liberating your Wild Witch - when we co-create magic, we are ultimately calling in Divine love through our human Soul. Ultimately, that’s what magic really is; a manifestation of *love* itself. Wow……..
“Witch wound: a deep-seated fear of being your fullest expression of self in case you are burned at the stake.” ~ Nicole Barton
Mmm, we are releasing this blog on the run up to Full Moon so, given September’s Secret Witch Circle Facebook Group theme of ‘Rewilding’, it feels like a great time to offer some support around how getting out in the wild can offer you deep healing for your witch wound…….
“Your power only feels absent because it has been felt so deeply in every fibre of your being - and it’s still there.” ~ Nicole Barton
This month, in August, our theme in the Secret Witch Circle Facebook group is all about opening to your power - and it has occurred to me that usually, it is often a surprise to many of the women I work with how almightily powerful they really are…
“Without our bodies, our Souls would not have anywhere to dance...” ~ Nicole Barton
I've been in some of the most powerful work of my life recently - the work of reclaiming parts of me that I had pushed into the darkness – and that uncovering has shed much light (and darkness!) on my work and how I support others in liberating themselves.
“You do not have to be good. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” ~ Mary Oliver
Fear is something inbuilt to us; it’s evident throughout nature in the way animals instinctively respond to danger, and it operates just the same in us. And yet, whilst it’s such a primal and natural piece of our cycle of wisdom…
“We are all formless energy, dancing as form.” ~ Dicken Bettinger
For many years now, I’ve been an advocate for what feels very truth to me – the idea that there is ‘nothing to do’ to find peace, joy and happiness. I can see so clearly that it is ingrained in our very essence that we are already everything that we might seek outside of ourselves for. But what if we can still choose to dance as whatever we long to create?
“Cells upon cells are just intelligently collecting and arranging themselves into a new human being, urging our bodies to adapt, and this offers us a real-life, living proof that truly anything is possible.” ~Nicole Barton
It wasn’t until the first week of lockdown that panic started to set in. I’m not usually one to look outside of this moment right now - for this is the only time we really ever have - but there’s something about being 5 months pregnant during Covid-19 that has felt, at times, more turbulent and overwhelming than usual.
“Being in love isn’t really about the hearts and flowers of Valentine’s day; this is a very ‘outside-in’ way of looking at love.” ~Nicole Barton
When we get too attached to this consumerism-driven celebration, not being in a relationship can leave us feeling alone. Feeling that love had disappeared is some of the deepest suffering I’ve experienced – but it also taught me a lot; I saw that if we just look a little deeper, we can see something different.
“I hadn’t known it, but all I had really ever needed was nothing more than someone to hold my hand and deeply listen.” ~ Nicole Barton
About 5 years ago, I was deeply suffering in a life that didn’t feel like it was my own, but felt more as if it were a bad dream. I remember feeling a sense of hopelessness, and much of the time it manifested as anger.
