And Now For The Hard Part
I don’t care how passionate you are or how committed you are to your craft, doing the work is hard. At least for me it is and I struggle sometimes to fully engage in my daily practice.
Even though I love the inner journey, the feeling that comes when we reach other states of consciousness, the feeling of energy pulsing and moving through my body, I still will rationalize a million reasons why I’m either too tired from a long day at work, too into whatever movie is on TV or too distracted by the invitations of friends.
Does that make me a bad Witch? Not a chance. And here lies to deepest secret of the Craft. (Are you ready?) I’m not the one doing the revealing, others have written these very words too: All Witches struggle to do the work.
After all, we are human. More human than most. That’s the blessing and the curse of deepening your connectedness with your inner being. As we sit quietly, aligning out triple soul, communing the our Gods, we learn to encounter ourselves in very primal ways.
Jung wrote wrote once that: “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.”
But we face our soul. We interact with it and work on those edges where others won’t go as they passionately work to live outside themselves, never having to face who they are. It is easier this way, right?
Sure, but that would be a betrayal of our path and our responsibilities to ourselves. Our goal, as Victor Anderson so beautifully put it, is to become more ourselves. “To become more human.”
When looked at this way, doing the work shouldn’t be hard at all. But still, it is.
Post script: It has come to my attention that the time spent sitting here writing for this may also be seen as a form of distraction. Perhaps.