The Path of She offers pathway home to the lost wellspring of your deepest beauty, magic and power, and that of the living, breathing Earth. This spiritual journey begins with an invitation, a call from the Dark Goddess and the longings of your soul, to wake up, rub the sleep from your eyes and become the master of your own living and dreaming. When you say yes to this call, and heed its promptings, you open the doors to the coiled powers and mysteries of life that are waiting to aid you in your awakening and return to your true essence and beauty.
When you say yes, change will come.
The Path of She emerges from the roots and mystery teachings of the Dark Goddess. When you say yes to this call you open the doors to the coiled powers and mysteries of life that will aid your awakening and return you to your true essence and beauty. When you say yes, change will come.This change is not about escaping the flesh and challenges of your mortality, or of becoming something brand new. It’s about the weaving and full embodiment of who and what you already are. The Path guides you to trust and consciously follow where your dreams and waking life lead you. It gifts you with the knowledge, skills and insights necessary to make this journey, one step, one remembering and healing, one miraculous, transformative moment at a time. It teaches you that you are magic, and your life with all its joys and sorrows, and beauty and wounding, matter. Your life is the crucible that hones your brilliance so that you can shine all the more brightly, and offer your best gifts and qualities to yourself, your loved ones and our world. It reminds you that you hold your destiny and that of our Earth home in your trembling, yearning heart. Within you resides the power to make a better, kinder, richer, saner, sustainable, joy filled world, starting with your next breath and next step, and each one afterwards.
To walk the Path is an act of boldness and bravery, to willingly, consciously take that first step outside of the world that you know, with its comforting but constricting ways, into the wider, wilder world of what else is true, what else is possible. Through these travels you can unearth and reclaim the lost treasures enmeshed in your life stories, and embrace the freedom to live from bigness of your true self and beauty.
The Dark Goddess and the sacred feminine are not new to humanity. Great Mother, Hecate, Ereshkigal, Cerridwen, Sophia, Kali Ma, She that has morphed, changing names and forms, through our human past as we dreamed and story told Her into the waking world. Though somewhere in our human unfolding we stepped off Her path and onto another, still She calls to us in the freshening, sweet winds with their scents of the changing seasons, and the gentle dawn light that follows the ebony velvet of darkest night. She reminds us that every thing cycles forever, continually, miraculously from life to death to rebirth.
In these current times of personal, political, social and environmental turmoil, the ways of the Dark Goddess can bring us hope. They remind us that we humans are not separate from Her natural laws. The peril and promise of life is that nothing, no matter how monolithic, intransigent or insurmountable in appearance, is permanent or inevitable. Not our personal tragedies, successes or habituation of attitude and behaviors. Nor our collective, encultured systems of meaning making and ordering of life. She shows us that there is another way, other choices on how we can live and dream, infused with Her life affirming and nurturing powers, and the mysteries and magic of creation and new beginnings. Even in sterile concrete environments, the slender stalks of the green world creep through and crack hardened surfaces. She reminds us that everything cycles forever, continually, miraculously from life to death to rebirth. She shows us that there are other choices about how we can live and dream, infused with Her life affirming and nurturing powers, and the mysteries and magic of creation and new beginnings.
The Path of She emerges from the mythological, archetypal roots and mystery teachings of the Dark Goddess. One of the most precious lessons She offers is that our lived, embodied stories, individually and collectively, are the raw materials of our healing and evolution. Her Tales of She teach us that we must descend fully into our matter, our life and suffering, in order to blossom into our presence and power. There is no need to evade, repress or judge what is ugly, painful and dysfunctional in our lives, because they are integral aspects of our humanity, path markers of what we have lost and what we need to heal and reclaim in our journey to wholeness. Our beauty and our wounding are intertwined, each expressions of our human nature and experience, we cannot embrace and heal one without the other. It is the grit of life, our time in the Dark Goddess’s realm of earth bound existence, that produces the shining pearl of our true beauty and power.
While the term Magic may sound strange to the modern sensibility, it is infinitely practical for those who seek personal power and transformation. Pagan and Wiccan teachings and methods offer a broader, deeper engagement of our humanity including: body, spirit and mind, and physical and energetic realities; the tools of ritual, magic, dreaming and other modes of alternative consciousness; and, an empowered, conscious recognition of the profound mysteries that underlie waking reality. Magic is a natural part of human nature and can be awakened, educated and facilitated through specific attitudes, techniques and experiences. By cultivating this aspect of our humanity we can step outside of the world as we know it, and facilitate the growth and healing to embrace and reclaim our deepest beauty and power, along with our pain and wounding, and in this process help to transform our world. Magic practices and experiences translate the profound mysteries and gifts of the Dark Goddess into concrete forms that we can embrace and inhabit.
The Path of She cultivates the practice of everyday magic, demystifying the more esoteric elements of pagan teachings and distilling them into a conceptual and practical framework for personal healing and transformation. For example Dion Fortune’s classic definition of magic,“the art of changing consciousness at will”, speaks to the magical ability of stepping into and effecting change in alternative modes of consciousness, which is a key element of a pagan tool kit. Yet this definition also applies to the everyday skill of reframing, such as the ability to take a negative or challenging experience and reframe it into a gift that cultivates self awareness, healing and skill development. Reframing is one of the most powerful tools for reclaiming and harvesting the treasures buried within the minutae of our lived experiences and personal stories.
There is no dogma and few rules with everyday magic, other than the decree to do no harm. You don’t need to be a self proclaimed witch or pagan to do this work. Your journey begins and unfolds from wherever you are in this now moment. You come to your understanding and embracing of the Path of She by your own steam, and on your own terms. Magic is something you do, that sources from and is guided by the true north of your personal wellspring of desire, power and intention. Your job is to show up, pay attention, and dance with whatever comes, in a way the feels good and right to you. There is no outside imposed right or wrong, no specified outcomes, just the experience itself and its power to change you. Though the Path of She guides you in your journey work, it is by your own choices and actions that your life and our world are transformed.