Be A Goddess: Lesson Five

Merry Meet and Welcome to you magickal souls!!!!

It's time for me to cover the fifth lesson within "Be A Goddess" by Francesca De Grandis, which was titled "A Child Dancing in the Rain" and a sub-title of "Primordial Celebration of Power".

It started with a cleansing ritual that was meant to be before doing any kind of ritual. I quite like these kinds of rituals because I always end up feeling lighter. Whether it's due to me releasing my worries and cares or just doing something that I enjoy, I love this feeling after doing cleansing rituals.

While prayer was used as part of the cleansing, I don't feel as averse to this as I used to. It was something that I would associate with one particular religion but I understand that it can take a different form for my own beliefs. It was mentioned that I could make a simple request of the Goddess (and the God) to remove the blocks that I see, instead of doing some long and elaborate kind of prayer.

This lesson tapped into a kind of primitive spirituality which is a direct connection to nature and power through methodical personal interaction with Nature herself. This was likened to being in a chemistry lab or a physicist where experiments are done but then observed from an objective point of view. I have to bring my passion to my research and interact with the world in order to experience it rather than just observe it - kind of like my love of thunderstorms as I love to go outside in the rain to get wet and be part of it rather than just watch from within my warm dry home.

It was reiterated that humans are a part of nature and aren't outside of it, which is something that I think a lot of the world has forgotten and disconnected from. We are meant to be part of everything that happens rather than be "objective" and not connected to what happens. This is something that I have had to unlearn and re-learn in my own life as various childhood traumas affected me and as I have healed those wounds, I experience life as much as I am able to. By that, I mean that I am fully involved with my whole being so that I can understand every aspect.

There were a lot of cautions and warnings against attempting processes and/or lessons, spells, or rituals too soon within my personal training. But this didn't scare me as Francesca wrote that she thought it might. Instead, I felt like I had the choice as to whether I would continue or be afraid and walk away. Fear has a place in the world but it shouldn't be the reason why I don't do something that I could actually accomplish.

So I shouldn't let fear get in the way of me being a Witch because I should find joy in natural moments, like I do with storms. I should approach those moments with the utmost respect and true pleasure, like a child dancing in the rain. Of course, some powers (or moments) should be shown respect and caution, but it should mean that I am deathly afraid to even attempt a ritual, spell or lesson.

There was a Ritual for Beauty and Plenty given and my experience of it was that it wasn't meant to be about vanity. It was supposed to be a celebration of my Self, the love I have for myself and the Gods. Through all of this, love becomes an invocation to abundance in general because there is positivity and gratitude present at the same time.

Francesca ended this lesson with a caution that magic and rituals shouldn't be a substitute for counselling or therapy, even if they can work in conjunction, which has been my personal experience. There are many blocks that each person can have and sometimes we need help to heal them or even just release them. So while this particular Lesson was filled with cautions meant to instil a gentle fear, none of those cautions were meant to become a deterrent. This is because as a human and even just as part of Nature, I am curious and so are many of you.

We are all meant to just do and try things without going completely overboard and overwhelming ourselves. So I will keep doing this and exploring what I am capable of, weaving my own kind of poetry through it all.

I hope this inspires you to acquire your own copy of "Be A Goddess".

Peace and love to all!!!!