My Spiritual Path
Firstly, I hope you’re feeling healthy, happy and grounded today.
This blog has been a long time coming; for various reasons it’s been floating in my head but not making it onto the screen. But I’m here! Finally writing it, and I hope you find it of interest… I could go on all day about this stuff, so I’ve tried to summarise. If you see a topic you’d like to hear more about, just drop me a line and I’ll either answer you directly or create a future blog about it.
If you’re interested in my spiritual awakening, scroll down a little. But first I thought I’d start with the day-to-day spiritual aspects of my life.
My Spiritual beliefs and rituals
My Beliefs
It’s hard to define my beliefs in a short few sentences, but essentially, I believe in: multiple gods and goddesses, Mother Earth (Gaia), the healing power of crystals, plants, grounding and light, that I have a soul and that this soul has lived multiple lives, that everything in the universe is connected, in the law of attraction, in chakras and star seeds… and a whole lot more. I find the majority of people with the same beliefs label themselves as ‘spiritual’ … however, I would also say: I’m a pagan. Sadly, this word has picked up negative connotations, as has the word ‘witch’. Many pagans stay “in the broom closet” and never even reveal themselves. But a more open, more connected and more aware community is emerging, which is just wonderful.
My Rituals
My spiritual life includes the use of crystals, essential oils, a cauldron, divination (oracle and tarot cards), burning sage and incense, lots of candles, spellwork, manifesting, grounding (connecting to Earth), meditation, spirit guides (they’re awesome, my guides), shadow work, connecting to nature, balancing my chakras and more.
My most regular ritual follows the moon cycle:
On a New Moon, I write down all the things I’d like to have happen in the next 4 weeks. The power of the new moon (a new cycle) reinforces my intentions.
On a Full Moon, I write down all the things I want to release and let go of (things that have annoyed me, bad habits, changes I’d like to make) - and then I burn them. It’s so therapeutic (give it a go!).
My Altar
I also have an altar and I’ll share this another time. It contains: representations of each of the elements - Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Spirit… as well as crystals, a manifesting box, my cauldron, any particular oracle cards I’ve pulled and feel drawn to, and then some items for the season. So for example, in Autumn I had some gorgeous red and golden leaves I’d collected and pine cones on my altar.
The Wheel of the Year
I very much connect to nature and the changing seasons, and celebrate each of the turns of the wheel . Usually, at each ‘turn’, I’ll light candles, meditate, do a card reading, write in my journal, play some relaxing music, maybe use my cauldron and maybe bake something. I have unique items for my altar for each turn of the wheel and I give thanks for all the wonderful things in my life.
My Grimoire / Book of Shadows
This is a bit like a spiritual scrap book; check out Pinterest for 1000’s of ideas. It’s a place to collect your spiritual notes, thoughts, ideas, inspiration, rituals, recipes and whatever you fancy. Every grimoire is unique to the person creating it. Mine is a constant work in progress and I find working on it fun, therapeutic, creative and often a learning opportunity if I want to create a page on a topic I’m not so familiar with.
>> Okay, so that’s my spiritual side in a nutshell.
It is always evolving, changing, growing and my path is unique to me.
Read on if you want to hear more about my ‘awakening’….
My Spiritual awakening
Where to begin? I guess at the beginning…
As a child, I wasn’t really into religion. My parents didn’t really talk to me about it, we didn’t go to church or anything like that. However I always had a sense that there was ‘more’. I also remember feeling at a very young age that this wasn’t my first life; that I’d reincarnated. I even suspected I’d come from a different planet, in that previous life.
As a teen and in my early 20’s I was rather anti-organised religion but I still felt that there was more; more than I could see. More to this universe. I felt very much like things were connected, although I couldn’t really articulate it and didn’t take the time to explore this.
I met someone who was Pagan in my early 20’s and she introduced me to crystals, and white magic and I read a bunch of books and felt very much like I sat under the ‘pagan’ umbrella; but I kept quiet about this (as many pagans do) as there’s rather a lot of judgement and the unfounded negative association around the word ‘pagan’ and ‘witch’ didn’t sit well with the shy, desperate for people to like me Sarah that I was back in.
After a period of depression in my later 20’s, I decided to read books about Buddhism; it seemed to me that Buddhists were calm, happy, content folk and I wanted some of that. I loved everything I learned but didn’t really consider myself a Buddhist.
I collected crystals, and I manifested positive outcomes in my life via the Law of Attraction, but it wasn’t until early 2020 that I really had what I now call my spiritual awakening.
I went to an event, and meditated in a field; and during the meditaton I saw a Goddess. She had a long, thin staff and the head of a Lion. I had no clue what to make of this, but when she spoke to me, I felt filled up with unconditional love. She told me I’m a lightworker and that I’m here, in this lifetime, to help others and to raise the vibration on Earth.
I had no idea what this meant, or who she was - and of course I was sceptical about what I’d seen, was it just my own imagination?
However, I got home and googled Lightworker, and realised it is a thing. And I resonated with the descriptions so clearly, I knew it was true. ‘Raise the vibration’ is also a common term among the spiritual community and yet I’d never heard it until that day.
I told a very close friend of mine about the experience… she told me to look up Sekhmet, an Egyptian Goddess. I googled ‘Sekhmet’ and was stunned to find the image of this Goddess was exactly what I’d seen in my meditation.
Since then, I’ve really embraced my spiritual life. I consider myself a pagan, these days without so much fear of judgement. I connect to my higher self, to nature and to my spiritual team and it brings me joy, enlightenment, guidance and calm in my busy life.
