“Amy, you look tired,” I said to my friend.

“I didn’t get a good night’s sleep,” she said. “My bad memories kept me up all night. I feel like they kept vomiting in my mind. All the pain I have endured throughout my life.”

This began an extended conversation.

And, I have three insights for you.

1. Realize that a memory is not solid like titanium.

Scientists have uncovered that each time we go back to a memory it is malleable. It is soft like gold is soft. Each time we access our memories they change a little. The neurons are modified.

It’s like you have a filing cabinet. You pull out the drawer and grab a file folder. Your viewing the “file” changes it. Then you put it back into the drawer.

For example, Susan has a bad memory of being bullied by her brother—when they were kids. But then she can choose to remember that experience as a first step to her becoming strong. She turned to her parents and asked for karate lessons. Soon, with new skills, she defended herself. Her brother realized that he was now at a disadvantage. (Go, Susan!)

So, she can view her childhood memory as that first step. Then the memory loses its “bad power.”

2. Begin the transformation of a memory.

I have some memories that bring up terrible feelings. I have started a process. When a bad memory comes up, I think (or say out loud): “Thank you, I heard you. I have learned the lesson from this. I am taking steps forward beyond this now.”

This process helps me with certain memories. [Other memories may require professional help.]

3. Pray to the Goddess for guidance.

Here is a prayer:

Goddess, help me see,
How I can change my memories.
Take me gently in Your arms,
Mold my memories so I’m not alarmed.
Hold me safe and hold me true,
I can grow stronger and hold faith, too.
Give me peace so I may be,
Completely calm,
So Mote It Be.

May these insights support your journey.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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Someone I know, Lori, said that she had been targeted by mean girls in high school. This just about destroyed her self-esteem. It still bothers her today. She’d like to leave the corporate world and start her own business. But she feels shackled by her fears. She says that she does self-sabotage.

I reflected on this. It does not help to deny an earlier chapter of life. Still, we do not want to be a slave to the past.

I have three insights for you.

1. Identify the thought patterns that shackle you to the past.

Do you have certain painful thought patterns that started in your childhood or teen years?

Are these thoughts like the noise of a chainsaw?

Being bullied as a child, I experience echoes of ideas including “stupid, ugly, can’t do anything right.”

It’s garbage! But it comes up in my thoughts. Having clinical depression symptoms just makes this situation worse.

At least, I can see that there are times when I am free of those damn thoughts.

Identifying the terrible, negative thought patterns is the first step to healing.

2. Pick a new vision.

What would you rather have in this new chapter of life?

It takes effort to expand your awareness. What could be better in your new chapter of life?

Is there something new you would like to experience?

Is it time to seek a new circle of friends?

Realize that life has chapters.

A simple example is: a chapter in your life included when you could not ride a bicycle. Then later you could ride a bicycle. Something changed.

Learning to ride a bicycle probably included some scrapes and bruises.

Doing new things may require some bumps and difficulties.

Still, I invite you to pick a new vision.

3. Ask the Goddess for support to help you let go.

If you’re going to release yourself from shackles and stop being a slave to the past, you must do something different. Something new. At times, it may appear too hard to do.

Call out to the Gods and seek Their support.

A Prayer

God and Goddess,
Give me the strength to release the shackles
To the past that holds me back.
Help me see my truth.
Of how I am in Your eyes.
Give me the strength to live this truth.
Help me discover the serenity of this truth.
So Mote It Be.

May these insights support your path.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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“You were bullied?” my friend, Kassie, asked.

“Yes. Mercilessly,” I replied. My memories of this still cause me pain.
However, those experiences have given me great compassion for those who suffer.
The Goddess called me to know pain and to develop compassion.

I have three insights for you about Answering the Goddess’s Call.

1. The call may include pain.

The Goddess called me to experience pain and to develop compassion.

Are you experiencing some form of pain now? Is it possible that the Goddess is calling you to know certain things even though the path is painful?

My friend, Fred, said, “I didn’t know what grief was until one of my friends committed suicide. Then I knew real grief.”

So, the Goddess calls us to be deeper as human beings. Sometimes, the path calls for enduring pain.

2. Let go of unnecessary suffering.

The Goddess doesn’t want her children to suffer unnecessarily. She gave us good reasoning skills.

My friend, Kassie, makes good choices. Her father is abusive. She limits her time around him. She does attend certain important family functions. She knows that her father will give her trouble.

She attends because she is deciding her own path.

She limits how often she talks about her father. Why? She is choosing to guard herself and her friends from unnecessary suffering.

The Goddess wants us to answer Her call. She wants us to use the gifts she gave us…our magick.

You can use this gift to stop unnecessary suffering. By doing magick, divination, and more. Using the gifts She has given, we can move beyond unnecessary suffering.

3. The act of doing is all about celebration.

Sometimes we have personal thoughts like: “I’ll be happy when I write the novel, and it’s a bestseller.”

“Expression is the Celebration.” – Tom Marcoux, author

From this quote, I realize that the act of living and creating is an important part of the process.

The Goddess calls us to get involved, express ourselves, and fully live our personal path.

For example, I make witchy crafts at home. I knit and do other forms of art and crafts. From oils to stained glass, I love to express myself.

What do you do to express the divine within you?

How can you devote some time and effort this week to express yourself and the creativity that Goddess placed in you?

May these insights support your path.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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Merry Meet,
Have you noticed so many people who are upside down? They don’t have any idea about compassion and strength that the Goddess describes. I remember The Goddess’s words “I give peace and freedom…My love is poured upon the earth…Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honour and humility, mirth and reverence within you.” (from The Charge of the Goddess, The Goddess speaking – written by Doreen Valiente).

These people are toxic. They drain our precious energy. Have you found that you don’t feel you have the energy to do a proper ritual or even just get your projects done?
Something that helps me is this course about handling toxic people and raising your personal confidence. It’s called “Success Secrets: Confidence and Skills to Handle Toxic People.” (Disclosure: Tom edits some material for me on this blog.)

We, Wiccans, know that words can have magick to them. In “Success Secrets,” Tom teaches his “Instant Reframe” to release stress. He also teaches “How to Escape a Trance and Get What You Want” and a lot more.

Let’s all take good care of ourselves and each other.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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“From seed to redwood tree,” I replied to my friend, Alicia.

Alicia constantly feels bad for not doing ritual and meditation every day. Alicia felt if she couldn’t do her practice perfectly, she couldn’t do it at all. This type of perfectionism kept her in a form of paralysis.

1. Remember “From seed to redwood tree.”

The great redwood tree develops from a tiny seed.

So many things start with something small. Alicia can take small steps forward.

“Trip seven times, get up eight times” – Japanese Proverb

Managing to meditate once a week is better than nothing. Start small.

Keep pure your highest ideal; strive ever toward it; let naught stop you or turn you aside.  – The Goddess in The Charge of the Goddess — as written by Doreen Valiente

The Goddess invites us to keep going.

2. Observe that some scars diminish over time.

My husband has a scar on his left arm. A metal door at work tore a hole in his arm. It got badly infected. After some time to heal, the scar is beginning to fade.

See the process from the Goddess’s point of view. She knows that you have divinity in you.

She knows that you’re on a path of growing and adjusting.

My point is that what seems like it may never heal may take a significant amount of time.

Still, we can blossom from where we are.

3. Ask Goddess for her help.

It’s important to move beyond “It doesn’t matter what I do.”

Take a small action. Moving forward is what matters. It all counts.

Here is a supportive prayer.

A Prayer

Goddess help me see my path clearly.
Guide me ever forward.
Let me learn my lessons.
Help me grow in my practice.
So Mote It Be.

May these insights support your path.

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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Many Solstice blessings to all our readers at The Hidden Children of the Goddess. 

Blessed Be,
Moonwater

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