"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.

"Whatever we choose, in the midst of our MfL, will have a deeper impact. And that's why the deepest work is to stay impeccable in our devotion to soul."

~ Nicole Barton

The journey to Soul isn't an easy one. I say this, time and time again, and still, many times my women don't believe me. And when it gets tough, I often have clients project: "this is so easy for you".

“It is from the tender, powerful and brave place of self love, that we can start to live more fully.”

~ Brigit Anna McNeil

Since my deeper devotion to my own medicine - channelling the Remedies of the Wild - I'm slowly (which is a pace I have to consciously choose, given my Secret Witch's temptation to rush) having more and more revealed…

“It is from the tender, powerful and brave place of self love, that we can start to live more fully.”

~ Brigit Anna McNeil

Recently I led my Feminine Mystery circle in a way that deeply honoured my Feminine cycle, by ceremonially wearing my sacred blood on my forehead.

"I'm seeing how my channelling of the remedies is becoming stronger and stronger. I am increasingly triggering and activating those around me, deeper and deeper, with the energetic medicine they need to be healed, just through my being."

~ Nicole Barton

In the last few weeks I've come to see really clearly how my gift is to be a channel for the Remedies of the Wild.

“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.

“Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don’t pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.”

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

It can be so tempting to plaster over our wounds. I have been there, perhaps more times than I can count, whether it was by directly numbing my emotions, when I was living out of alignment in my old relationship…

"The very essence of the Feminine is LOVE and TRUTH - not aggressive rebellion, or armouring by playing dress up as a Goddess."

~ Nicole Barton

One of the objections I notice in some women drawn to Invoke Your Feminine Mystery is that they've previously felt they've already done a lot of work with Feminine embodiment before.

In fact, often, whilst many of my women come to me dismissing their Feminine body and her signals entirely and not feeling feminine at all, I notice these particular women can often have reached a point where they've done so much work on themselves…

"Every woman who heals herself helps heal all the women who came before her and all those who will come after.”

~ Dr Christiane Northrup

The Feminine calls to women in various Mysterious ways - often, ways that don’t resemble a call to the Feminine at all. You see, the Feminine, on initial glance, feels to be a glamorous path full of roses, beauty, magic, love and softness - and she is in her embodied fullness; but her initial call - well, that’s very different.

Often, my women don’t actually know they’re being called by the Feminine, let alone which archetype is calling them specifically. And so, recently, I have been exploring the various magical, Mysterious Feminine Archetypes of the Witch - and how they might each call to us during the Feminine lifecycle - in a mini series of short videos.

“Nature loves courage. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”

~Terrance McKenna

Stress, fear, doubt and shame were always big things for my Secret Witch, who didn't know her own power. I'd feel frequently overwhelmed, live in fear, and often not see my needs, let alone meet them, leaving me burning out. I often felt trapped in a mundane life, always hoping that one day I'd fix myself.

"The Alchemy available in gathering women to begin to heal wounds and own their power and magic is huge."

~Nicole Barton

There's a deep alchemy in the work we do in circle here at Team Secret Witch - especially in the unique space we are creating, which has a particularly rare flavour of all being welcome, along with an initiation into owning your power and magic. I know this because I am held myself in these sorts of rare spaces, and I feel the potency of this way of being, in comparison to other circles I've...

"It's time, now, to fully honour my devotion, consciously. I don't know what Medicine for my Liberation this will bring, but there's really no other way for me to be."

~Nicole Barton

Last week I was in a Sovereign circle and I was feeling frustrated with myself for not feeling like I was magical (in a very Secret Witch way). As each woman shared, I began to alchemise what was coming up for me in each of their shares, and I began to open to more being revealed.

"Love yourself. Even the most wild and crazy parts."

~Lisa Lister

Incense is such a delight to my body. It actually has none of the healing, therapeutic chemical properties of essential oils, but it definitely stimulates my limbic system and triggers happy, relaxed memories of being in Bali.

As part of my morning ritual, I often have a long bath surrounded by incense and essential oils. That and a mix of yoga, meditation, visualisation, spell casting, energy healing and journalling, depending what my Soul/body needs each day. I'm learning more and more to listen into the call of my body.

“Once you set that spark of hope, possibility and desire alight, there's no stopping the magic it will begin to create.”

~ Nicole Barton

This morning I went to my tree and asked "what do my women need, right now?" And I heard "for you to be with them in hopefulness".

I've been thinking about how the gateway to my work is often "hope." Often when my women first begin to walk the path they will have experienced some depths of darkness that have had them feel deep in hopelessness - ill health…

“That's what this path is all about- learning to love yourself enough to be able to tend these fears and choose your Soul, choose your magic and choose to create life in ways that are in deep alignment for you. And all of it is a choice.”

~ Nicole Barton

Paradoxically, all the fears that have the Secret Witch (who doesn't know her own power and magic) lean away from deepening into the path are #alltheways that it will benefit her in the long run. The first hurdle is usually that my magical women think they're just not even good enough to participate…