witchy woman

Mothers usually have little time to themselves when their children are very young. We have to work around our child-rearing time to practice our craft.

Here are some quick rituals to do while the baby is asleep or relaxed:

Put the baby in a stroller and go to the park. Relax in nature; breathe in deeply and ask the trees and the wind to soothe you.

Buy or harvest nontoxic flowers that resonate with your intention. Make a small bouquet and place them on your altar.

While taking a shower, use a floral or herbal scented cleansing soap and / or shampoo that resonates with your wish (mint for wealth or energy; rose for love or beauty etc). Focus on the intention while cleaning yourself.

Before bathing your child, bless the water and pray that it shields your baby from harm and illness.

Sprinkle blessed floral water (or gem water or holy water) in the four corners of your baby's room---and at all thresholds and windows---for spiritual protection.

Groom yourself and wear attractive clothes every day, even when staying in. Do not wear sweat pants, shabby t-shirts etc. If you are convalescing from childbirth, wear neat matching pajamas or soft pretty nightgowns. This will attract wellness and positivity. As you brush your hair and get dressed, say beauty and health affirmations.

Close your eyes and touch your solar plexus. Pray for positivity and good energy to enter into your Being.

Dab perfume behind each ear and wear a piece of crystal jewelry to lift your energy.

Place a mini book of psalms under your child's mattress for spiritual protection.

Massage your baby and gently stretch the child's arms and legs as you pray for good health, strength, happiness, and a long good life for them.

Wear a Mother Goddess / Mother Creatrix necklace (or rose quartz jewelry). Or buy a small Venus of Willendorf replica statue to place on your altar to help bring positive vibrations about motherhood into your space.

Make up a lullaby (that is a prayer for goodness) to sing to your child. Its intention will cover and bless your infant.

Do small watercolors, sketches, or other handicrafts while your baby is resting or calm.

Decorate your child's nursery with intentional symbols or objects that set a tone for happiness and love.

Say a quick prayer over your breasts or bottle before feeding the baby to bless the child with nourishment and supportive energy.

Draw sigils or symbols in the air with a wand or the index finger of your dominant hand. The Air element will work to bring about your desire. Quietly chant or speak the wish as you trace the symbol.

The Goddess of Sacred Sex.

The history of Lilith is much older than Adam and the Genesis creation myth. The earliest recorded stories of Lilith appear in ancient Sumerian texts around 3000 BCE where she is known as the hand maiden of the great Goddess Inanna, “Queen of Heaven” who presided over sacred sexual rites. In the temples of Inanna, the holy women were known as qadishtu, sacred priestesses who were able to mediate the divine sexual gifts of the goddess with the men who came to worship. As Inanna’s handmaiden, Lilith was a beautiful young woman, the ‘hand of Inanna’ who gathered the men from the streets and brought them to the temple for holy rites.

And so Lilith as demon succubus actually began her recorded history as a beautiful seductive young woman, approaching men to take them to Inanna’s holy temple for an experience that reflected the liberal freedom of sexual attitudes and practices of Goddess worship.

What happens to Lilith next mirrors the rise of patriarchy from around 2500 BCE where the Goddess’ vast empire was attacked at its very core, her inner temple of sacred sexual love. In order for patriarchy to achieve this overthrow, it had to discredit and suppress the sacred sexual rites of Goddess religion, severing the people from its power. This was achieved by the systematic demonizing of women’s sexual energy and their ability to mediate the divinity of the Goddess. Over the ensuing centuries Lilith, the young handmaiden of Inanna, came to represent everything that was dangerous and evil in the sexual realm, focusing men’s most dreaded fears around the power of the sexual female.

Lilith now assumes the form upon which the Hebrew legends were developed and where she is assigned a central place in Jewish demonology. In the early part of the first millennium BCE the Hebrew exile into Canaan and later Babylon, saw patriarchy needing to subdue the female worship of the Fertility Goddess Anath (a later incarnation of Inanna and Ishtar), whose holy rites allowed worshippers prenuptial sexual freedoms which were altogether in conflict with Hebraic traditions. The prophets denounced the practices of the Israelite women, citing Lilith as a sexually demonic example of what this kind of worship was encouraging. For the Hebrew men and their religion in exile to survive, it was imperative that the women be programmed to be submissive and bound to the interests of family, men and society. A key imperative in proving one’s maleness also resided in the ability to father children, so any threat to a man’s potency and his progeny needed to be suppressed. Because Lilith and her roots in Goddess worship signified a sexually independent woman who had control over pregnancy and infancy, her demonizing was essential to the survival of the Jewish race.

And so Lilith’s fall from grace as the beautiful hand maiden representing the liberated sexuality of the goddess temples, to the feared demoness of Hebraic tradition, enters the 21st century quite reinvented.

Lilith has thrown off the shackles of demoness and assumed almost heroine proportions to a modern female audience who is eager to explore the sexual shadow. Women are done with the Christian model of femininity they have been sold for millennia and are exploring a much larger palette of opportunities to express themselves. It is safe once again for women to access the full power and spectrum of their sexuality, spread their wings like Lilith and explore the shadow to see what it holds and in doing so, create healing for the long standing wounded feminine. Lilith is the new pin up girl for female sexual emancipation and just as she preceded Eve in the original marital bed, she now heals the shadow feminine by marrying the light as depicted in the sacredness of Eve, and births a new archetype of the divine feminine, one that is powerful enough to heal herself and forgive the masculine.

1. How can I manifest xyz?

Affirm.

2. I’ve been doing xyz, and my manifestation isn’t here yet. What should Ido?

Failure usually comes from not living in the end, limiting beliefs and seeking validation from the 3d.

3. What does living in the end mean?

Living in the end means thinking as if you have your desire, closing your mind to any other outcome beside your desired outcome, and thinking as if your desire is a fact.

4. Can I manifest xyz?

Yes, you can manifest anything you want. Nothing is off the table.

5. How often should I affirm?

Anytime you want. Just anytime you think of your desire, and that’s fine.

6. Manifesting is so hard for me. What should I do?

Manifesting isn’t hard. It’s an easy, fun experience. Change your mindset and see your world blossom.

7. Can I manifest before a specific date?

Yes.

8. Can I manifest for other people?

Yes.

9. Can I change my appearance with manifesting?

Yes.

10. Do I have to believe in order to manifest?

No, but it definitely helps.

11. What is self concept?

The assumption/perception of yourself. It’s very important to have a good self concept, it’ll definitely help you in terms of manifesting.

12. Do I have to affirm for self concept?

No, but I think you should. It’ll help a lot. You can change your self concepts through affirmations.

13. Can I manifest for more than one thing?

Yes.

14. What’s a SP?

Specific person. Usually a crush or romantic interest.

15. Should I listen to subliminals?

If you want to, go for it! They’re not necessary to manifest, however.

16. How long does it take to manifest?

Depends on you.

17. Does manifesting actually work?

Yes. Manifesting has changed my life forever.

18. What is the fastest way to manifest?

Knowing & trusting that your desire is yours. That’s it. There’s no magical technique.

19. What is a mental diet?

A mental diet is way of monitoring your thoughts, so you can benefit from them as thoughts create your reality. So that includes not letting negative thoughts spiral, and flipping negative thoughts into positive thoughts.

20. Do I have to affirm 24/7?

No. Just a couple of times a day and you’re good.

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