Re-remembering to be Thankful or seeing the Elephant in the Room

These few days leading up to Mabon all this thinking about thanking for the harvest of the world and in our lives was annoying me, for in my personal life I am frustrated by pressing money problems that are paramount in my thoughts.
Thanks to some fellow witches and thanks to listening to a blogtalk radio show about Mabon I realized my short-sightedness. I was focusing on some of the harvest of the Earth, forgetting all the gifts of all the elements including Spirit! 

Duh! I was so stressed that I didn't realize my other blessings! And I have read a few books about thankfulness!

In Air we have the blessings of knowledge, of education, of learning, of imagination and creativity.
With Fire we receive the blessings of courage, of protection, of passion, of sex and of purpose
In Water we find the blessings of love, of compassion, of friendships, and of purification
In Earth we do no only discover financial prosperity, but also health, stability and calm among other things
In Spirit we find the blessings of the Divine, our spiritual growth and prosperity


I also read a quote from Epicurus that gave me food for thought: “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

While most of us love to desire what I have not, there's a lot to be said for just sitting back and be thankful and appreciating what we already have. Without wanting things, or experiences or feelings these things would never have been ours, but without thankfulness enjoyment and more things and experience and feelings we want will never be ours.
As stated in another much more recent quote: “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough”
 Oprah Winfrey

I am no Buddhist who is just content with things as they are, I am a Witch, and creating is part of my purpose in life, but I realize that a great part of this creation has to do with happiness and contentment as well, and without thankfulness and appreciation we won't be happy in the present which is the time that most matters.

In witchcraft it also makes sense to be thankful, since that's how the Principle of Vibration (renamed the law of attraction) works, by attracting more of the same of what we are feeling. If we want more things we will attract wanting more things and never being satisfied. If we are thankful and appreciative we will attract more things to be thankful for and appreciative of. 

If when wanting more things we feel like we already have them and we feel the feelings we would feel if we already had them then we attract them.

It's all about the feelings in the end. It's useless to say "I am thankful for (insert thing or experience or feeling here)" if we do not feel it in our heart. Words have power, but only when they are backed up by the fuel of our feelings.

How do you feel thankful truly thankful? Re-remember a time when you had received what you wanted and you were thankful for it, or remember a time when you witnessed something amazing like a wonderful sunset or thunderstorm or a particularly moving song or speech and feel the feelings of thankfulness and appreciation you felt. Use these to power up your words and to kindle the fire of thankfulness and appreciation in your heart until it becomes alive and roaring again, until you feel alive and full of happiness and passion again.

There are two books I feel to recommend that have personally helped me in the past : Feel it Real by Denise Coates and  the 15 Minute Miracle by Jacquelyn Aldana. 
The first is about the power of the feelings in your life and what the "law of Attraction" is really about and is chock-full of exercises , and the second is an an amazing exercise in thankfulness and in attracting what you want. You can check them out clicking below. I am so amazed that these two books are not more popular!


Blessed Thankful Mabon everyone!

What is this blog about?

A Wise Woman and witch told me once that it is time for us to declare ourselves Wise Women without waiting years to do so.
I am not there yet, I don't feel ready to declare myself a Wise Woman, but on the other hand that is what I aspire to be.


Wise Women were sought after in the old times to help and heal, to see through the veil to the other side, to walk both worlds and co-create with Divinity and to provide a spiritual dimension and perspective to life. 
They were covering the roles of Witches, Healers and Priestesses at the same time, recognizing that these seemingly different roles are closely linked together.

This is what I will attempt to do in this blog.
I am a Wiccan Witch, I have been Pagan since the age of 13 years old, when I was reading one of my first books, HedgeWitch by Rae Beth and I realized that this is what I was. I am 37 now and I have studied Witchcraft ever since, although the ups and downs of life didn't make it possible or easy sometimes.
I have been interested in Healing for a long time, and my path led me to study different modalities. The ones I value the most are definitely the BodyTalk System and EFT, as well as color therapy. In the end all there is to Healing (and to Magick for that matter) is consciousness and energy directed through intent, with the help of a structure that the left brain can understand, and these modalities provide that.
The role of Priestess is something that I am developing. For me this is a fundamental piece of being a Wise Woman. To me being a priestess means honoring and conversing with Deities and working with them. To me Divinity is One, male and female, and at the same time Two, God and Goddess separately. It seems a paradox, but the universe thrives on apparent paradoxes. The God and the Goddess inhabit every cell, every atom, every subatomic particle of this vast universe and of all the universes in existence. This means that every being is made of Divine energy.

What am I driving at? That while acknowledging the Great Mother and the Great Father I am a polytheist and an animist. I believe that everything in nature has consciousness from a rock to an elephant, from a thunderstorm to the Earth and the Sun, and this includes all the energy beings that we can't normally see, like spirits and Deities. And deities have their own separate and distinct personality and individuality, although they recognize and work more in alignment with the Divine in everything.

Some people may argue that all Deities are aspects of the Diamond of the ultimate Divine. I believe they are that, in the same way that each one of us humans are aspects of this Diamond, but in the same way that each of us is unique and each of has has a personality and a separate existence as well, so do the Deities. 

Deities interact and change us on many levels that are interrelated. The differences between this levels is most of the time semantics and mostly depend on the degree of awareness we have or are expressing. One can relate to the Deities as archetypes, as psychological constructs, as creation of the imagination or as actual Beings, but all these levels, as all of creation is, are separate and intertwined at the same time, and it is undeniable that the different Deities we honor and work with have definite different effects on our psyche, on our emotions, on our energy body and on our spirit and even on our physical body.

Blessed Be,

Antonella