When I tell people I’m a Witch, I get one of two reactions. One of them being curiosity & excitement, because they’ve found a kindred spirit and translates to, “Cool, we’re all in, Sis.” The other reaction is a shrewd gaze and a snarky comment… this morning’s latter reaction was brought to me by a middle-aged white male coworker, asking if I “dance around my campground with candles” in my spare time. OK, fair enough - the trope holds up - but I don’t do it where I live. I do it where nobody can find me. I conduct my Rituals in a safe space with other women who seek the same healing and embodiment of Power.
(Not a representation of my Ritual, but I do love a Black Candle BDE Banishing Spell moment)
There’s this line from Malleus Maleficarum, “Where there are many women there are many witches.”
That’s right, Motherfu**er. When we, as women, realize & alchemize our internal power, we can harness it to dismantle archetypes & infrastructures that have taken centuries to build, by people with far less imaginations. We don’t need a Bible or a Priest. We can literally go to the Dollar Store and gather items for a Ritual that invokes more Power than a Latin Mass at the Vatican.
My own journey has led to how I chose the name of my business. In the past few months, I’d written lists on lists of potential names, until I stumbled across the term, “Magical Thinking.” It’s a concept used by psychologists to explain a common behavior exhibited by children: they believe their intentions have the ability to influence the world and effect other people’s behavior patterns around them. It’s a belief system that insinuates: if you set an intention, your outcome will be that your “ask” will effect change in the world. Light a candle and someone will heal.
Here’s the beauty about Witchcraft - it’s not transactional.
The more I read up on “Magical Thinking,” the more I grew both infuriated and also amused. On one hand, those of science & religion have a point - who are we to believe that one self-created action can affect global change? On the other hand, I’ve seen it firsthand that one person can create monumental change. Just one action, one light of a candle, one flick of a wrist, one push of a button and the world can transform forever.
I choose to apply that inherent knowledge to what energy I’m putting into the world at this point in my life. I’ve historically manifested my wildest dreams for decades. To give an example, I grew up in an environment where nobody had any formal education nor knowledge of the outside world beyond our zip code. I alchemized that experience into a college education and a 20-year career in the television industry that provided me the opportunity to travel the world. I was one of the youngest female showrunners in Los Angeles during my time in Unscripted TV. Ten of those 20 years was spent in charge of a team of creatives, working 90-hour weeks and milking myself to the last ounce until I realized it just wasn’t worth it anymore.
Then two years ago, my life changed forever. My 37-year-old little brother, Sean, passed away in January 2021. It devastated me. It shook up and changed my entire life. But it also woke me up to the abilities I’d been ignoring my entire existence. I’ll be writing more about them in future posts, but in Death, Sean has shown me that we’re much more than who we appear to be on the surface. His departure sparked every ounce of Intuition in me, and I've been rebuilding myself from the ground up with the Magick, Mediumship abilities and Inner Power I hadn't tapped into since I was a child. After my healing journey, I'm finally ready to share it with the world.
(My brother, Sean, was the best man at my wedding)
Here’s what I’ve come to realize:
I’m a Witch.
I’m an Empath & Intuitive.
I’m a Psychic.
I’m a Medium.
I'm a Rune Thrower & Tarot Reader.
I’m a Magickal Thinker.
So, skip to my reason for this very first blog. When I lost my brother, so many pieces of me died with him. But it also lit the candle that would navigate my Highest Purpose: I’m meant to explore my abilities as a Witch to the fullest extent - and I’m meant to teach others around me how they can embody the same abilities. Even if they’re not comfortable with the word, “Witch,” because of its negative historical reference, I’m meant to connect with women who are coming into their Greatest Good or Highest Purpose. My mission is pass on my knowledge and give them the tools they need for their own Craft.
This is why I chose the term, “Magickal Thinking” for my shoppe - the word “Magical” insinuates that superstition is involved. But the embodiment and full meaning of “Magick” is a comprehension that we all have something in us that is inexplicably beautiful.
It’s funny - when you actually google “Magick,” all that comes up is “Archaic spelling of Magic.” And when you look up “Magic,” the definition is “the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces.” It goes on to use the words “Tricks, entertainment, conjuring, unusual…” and so forth. Yuck.
But then, there’s another description if you keep digging - “an ancient praxis rooted in sacred rituals, spiritual divinations and cultural lineage with an intention to invoke, manipulate, or otherwise manifest supernatural forces, beings or entities in the natural, incarnate world…”
OK, now we’re talking.
What people are starting to realize is that Magick - in and of itself - cannot be contained; it can’t be marginalized, it can’t be demonized as it has been in the past.
What women are starting to realize is that we no longer need validation that we’re Powerful and that our Abilities are Limitless. We’re coming to learn that it comes from within. So - that said, welcome to Magickal Thinking.
With my business in its virtual form, I’ll be uniting sole practitioners, baby witches and people interested in the esoteric with beautiful antique items for their Altars and for their powerful Rituals. When I go Brick & Mortar, I’ll continue to unite practitioners with their divinatory items but it will also become a space for learning, healing and growing. It will evolve into a Sanctuary for Magick.
In this space, nobody will ever tell us that our Intentions are child-like and “Magical.” Some of us will discover our Inner Power, others will realize Power in their lineage. Will we dance around with candles in our hands? Oh yeah. Will that action create and effect change in the world? Abso-fucking-lutely.
I have no skin in this game other than to dismantle systems before us so we can return to the very core of who we are. Unapologetically powerful human beings who don’t need a hierarchy to know they alone can create change in their existence. How will we do it?
Magickal Thinking.
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