Life Changes Personal

Growing Into a Name

Four years ago, I had what I describe as a dedication ritual. It wasn’t intentional or planned on my part. My partner took me to a place that is very energetically entwined with the elements and with magic in general, and while there, beings spoke to me and guided me through a rebirth of sorts. I consider this the beginning of my study and following the path of witchcraft. During this process, the beings told…

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Spiritual Bypassing

“You created being abused. You should examine why you chose to create that.” “If you aren’t healing, it’s because you don’t want to heal. You enjoy feeling this way. You like the attention.” “Don’t talk to me about those issues. Those don’t affect me. I choose to believe only in light and love, and you should believe that way too.” “Anger just lowers your vibration and makes bad things happen. You shouldn’t feel anger. Just…

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Above All, Harm None

So much information is circulating right now about COVID-19, medications, vaccines, and the like. You see it on the news and on social media. Maybe you hear it from friends or family members. Some of it is accurate. Some is not. Some is true, and some is blatantly false. The problem with the inaccurate or false information is that it has the potential to cause harm. Think about the claims from the so-called leader of…

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Life Changes

What To Say?

In the past week, our world has changed drastically. I’m not going to enumerate the changes, because if you have access to any news source at all, you already know. I’ve had trouble focusing on accomplishing tasks for the past week and a half, since I started seeing news about colleges sending students home. One of those colleges was my daughter’s, and helping her navigate that massive change and the effects it might have on…

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Channeling Personal

I Didn’t Like Channeling

When I started learning channeling, it scared me. My mentor practiced trance channeling, in which he entered a trance state and allowed his guide to speak through him, and that was what he taught me. But I’d been in too many situations in my life where I wasn’t allowed to be in control of my own body, and trance channeling sounded like just one more way of not having control. I was also afraid that…

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Energy Healing Personal

Imposter Syndrome Happens

I started learning Chios Energy Healing after the first time I had a Chios healing session, which I blogged about recently. After I’d trained a bit, it was time to start *doing* Chios sessions. This was not as easy as I’d thought it would be. I didn’t have a lot of confidence in my skills. I knew I was a good healer; I’d been told things since childhood that indicated it. But actually doing a…

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Channeling Personal

Non-Imaginary Friends

A man I befriended in 2005 taught me a lot of things. Chios Energy Healing was one of them, as I blogged about last week. That was a little weird for me, and I wasn’t sure it would work, but it was a lot easier to accept than channeling. Since I was a very young child, I’ve had imaginary friends–except that when I was small, before I learned to be careful of what I said…

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What Will People Think?

I used to create stories constantly. Before I even learned how to write, I made up stories to tell to people, on the occasions when I could get people to listen. Then I learned how to make those funny little squiggles people call “letters” and started putting my stories on paper. Big mistake. Kids at school saw my stories and made fun of them. One of my worst memories–which, given the amount of bullying I…

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Channeling

Listen to Yourself

In all the things I’ve been writing lately about channeling, I realized I’ve forgotten one very important point. Your guides–or my guides, or the guides of anyone else who might channel for you–know a lot more than humans do. There’s no question about that. They have access to more knowledge and wisdom than we have, and they’re happy to share that with us if we ask. But no matter how much they know, you aren’t…

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