Honestly, this video has come at a really good time for me. You’ve caught me in complete autopilot!! What are my blocks? (1) I keep myself busy - endless to-do lists (not magic related) that never get done (because I don’t want to do them!) And then I tell myself I don’t have time for practice…it isn’t a priority, which it should be! (2) “Things aren’t perfect for doing this magical working”. “It isn’t the full moon on the second Thursday of the month!!!” There are a lot of ‘rules’ that don’t work for me, and I need to be myself in my magic! ( 3) Poor focus on my work-life balance…which extends to magical practice. I’m not feeling creatively inspired after the daily slog - each practice does not need to be ground breaking!!! (4) I currently live in an apartment block and, much like (2) I feel like I am not in the right environment for magic. But Urban magic is a thing and I have a park right nearby!! Gosh, writing that down is liberating! Taking up this messy magic challenge with you! Blessings 🌱

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This is encouragement to just jump out and start my KZfaq…

Yes 100% Free to flow our Magik with our Hearts. We are powerful as women and connected to all. Messy is beautiful and powerful❤❤🎉

I love this and totally get it. I've never been good at following rules, probably a result of growing up in the 60s. So the "must do's" like calling in the 4 corners, etc , never worked for me. It took me some time to realize i can do magick my own way. Eventually I knew I AM magick!From the seeds I plant in my small suburban garden to the crazy outfits I love to wear ... Magick! Yes, live our messy magick! Looking forward to hearing more on this.

For me it's plant correspondence. I've realized that my connection to my plants is all that I need in determining correspondence. There is no need to wait until I can look it all up in reference to be sure I'm using it correctly.

Haxa, YESSSS!!!! You’ve hit the nail right on the head with this video!! Thank you for addressing what I can never seem to put into words-the ‘rules’ and restrictions we impose upon ourselves that hold us back… For me, in my head, I want to honor the past by doing things ‘the right way’-but what exactly IS that?? I have beliefs about there being a best or better way to do things, and that I just don’t know what that is yet, which is why things aren’t coming to fruition. I was raised in the 70’s as well, so that is something to examine more deeply for me. As the ‘orange’ girl from class, you had me laughing, as this is another weird thing that has an unknown origin-why do I feel SO strongly about this color? LOVE the idea about a town hall on this, and any other ways to explore this topic. Nice to know I’m not the only one who thinks deeply about this subject. One of the reasons I love your channel is you give yourself more permission to do things differently, but I guess when it really comes down to it, we are always wanting more and to up our level of awareness and understanding.

Get messy! Play the drum! Forget plans and be free to find out! Challenge excepted 🎉

This is a great topic. "What is limiting my magical self?" It's same thing that limits other areas in my life. Perfectionism, based on fear that it's not going to work out. A fear of failure.

Messy magic better than no magic is an affirmation I'm using from now on. In the past year I suffered an injury that has left me disabled. My practice has been up and down. Getting back to myself now.

Yup! Afraid of my own power. Afraid of what embracing it without restrictions or doubt would feel like, and how will I function in the mundane, every day if I do? Unpacking fear over my lifetime has been challenging, but when you said it, suddenly I felt it was okay to have fear. Most videos I see never address this, so I thought I was the only one. Knowing I am not was a gift and gave me the courage to unwrap myself from it. Thank you!

I AM IN! LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS! You have made my morning, I really needed to hear this ❤️ My blocks? ME! Being a mom of three teens, and being so overwhelmed with all the "rules" and I have been feeling exactly what you are talking about in this video. In my heart, I have been feeling that I need to put aside all I have been taught and get primal, go off the grid and practice the way my raw power wants to go.

I think for me, it has definitely been a process. Starting off learning about this path through the Wiccan lense has been great. However, I am constantly evolving and changing. Dropping some things and adding others. Listening more to myself and my wants and needs rather than thinking I have to follow a certain way of doing things. Really trying to get into nature on a more primal level. When it all comes together perfectly, which is occassionally, and i feel that deep, deep connection with the elements and the magic around me, it is friggin awesome. I feel it to my core. I want to have that magical connection all the time, but I also know there is a natural ebb and flow. There will be days when it comes naturally and powerfully, and other days when life gets in the way and you have to take care of the things at hand. I've learned not to be too hard on myself. It is important though, to really try to carve out those moments and times when you can connect. Blessed Be to everyone!

(Still watching) I think the flowers on your farm sum up your whole point. They just are magical, they are present and glowing with their power. And you make such powerful and great points. Even grimores can be thought of as secretive, hiding away your feminine power. Spells to use later on, ingredients to use next season etc. Rather than just again, being present and open to the season now. Nothing against writing and keeping track, it's just what came up.

I've known for a long time that my job is the biggest drain on my time and energy. I'm taking actions to try to remedy the situation. In the meantime, I'm embracing messy magic.

Beautiful place

I just found your channel and I’m loving binging your videos! You may not see this comment but I hope you do. I really appreciate you having so much beauty during your video. It’s so relaxing while listening to your content. Loving the way you produce your videos. As far as the questions during this video, I feel for me personally I need to use correspondences that suit me and tweak them to benefit me in particular. It’s nice to get other people’s opinions as to how to use this or that but how it feels to me is more so how I need to move forward with my magicks. I am very happy woman have been able to move beyond what we had to endure in the past. I am also a child of the 70’s and I remember there were no laws on the books that made it illegal to abuse your wife in whatever fashion you wanted to as a husband. That’s just unreal to think that even was a thing! I personally wouldn’t want to go back historically. As a woman it would really not be beneficial. I think our society desperately needs to slow down since it’s almost dizzying how fast the world moves anymore. I believe it’s from social media and just technology in general. I know that isn’t going to slow down but I feel society as a whole would greatly benefit us all the ways if we find a way to slow down even a hair. Anywho, beautiful blessings on your and your channel and I look forwards to more content down the road! ⭐️

What lovely roses you have. And beautiful chickens

Love your openness. Sounds like a 10 of wands moment.❤️❤️❤️ Thank you from someone that has always had overflowing magic, but feeling like I need book knowledge… time to just be free. Intune, insightful full embodiment. Much love

Hexa, LOVED this video!!! I have so much to think about. I have been somewhat swirling around in my practice b/c of several of the points you bring up. The RECONNECTING to Mother Earth is so vital to me, not just physically but spiritually as well. And I am so glad you said what you said. It is dead on for me. I can't try to 'perfect' my magick based on what was done then, when I need to live and practice in MY now. You are such a blessing and inspiration and a deep breath of authenticity and genuineness. THANK YOU!!!!! I will be asking myself the questions and really pondering them. I really want my magick & practice to blossom, flow and expand at all levels. I think that my biggest limiting factor is myself: I always seem to find excuses (legitimate ones & not so legitimate ones) that hold me back from really EXPERIENCING my power and my magick. You are truly an inspiration w/o being 'preachy' or pushy.

Oh yeah, my blocks are most definitely self-imposed. I resonate closely with what you’re saying here, April.

Love your video topic. I too idealise old magick and tend to think of a better more magickal spiritual self which probably will stay in my mind but won't ever become 😅 because life isn't just roses and doesn't always happen how we want it to be. That's holding me back. Maybe i'm just not that person. And my magickal self is more simple and that's how it is for me at the moment anyway. Your images and filming was beautiful. Your cat is gorgeous. Thanks for sharing. Blessed be 💚

Thank you, this is a really useful question, especially since for a moment there I thought "perhaps I've finally eliminated all the obstacles within." because compared to myself five years ago I certainly have made progress. The kind of progress where it's easy to just kinda coast by with what Ive learned, heck, I could probably be perfectly happy just where I am in my chair, not like I have any grand works on the horizon... Which is two right there, that Im seeing now that Ive clacked it out, I've always had issues being motivated when I'm comfortable and I find it easy to ignore issues that would otherwise motivate me. Living the magical life is otherwise just my normal now, I have what are essentially spells that have become habitual, like my mudra or hand symbols which I use to find things and regulate certain aspects of my mood and physical state or asking the wind about whats going onn both are very easy to do without getting negative attention so I've become accustomed to doing both any time I go out into public. I actually managed to suss out both of those by listening to my magical practioner friends and people on youtube, then trying various things until I realized that if there were actually gods and spirits etc.. then they would probably be able to expand upon the other side of things, if you will. I admit that part was a long time coming and I really was and am blessed more than anythingm, I had given up after years of nothing, life just got less and less magical until various catalysts which I realistically wouldnt know how to convey properly... But I guess messy has always been my way, so I will say it true as I can figure. Quite basically there were two things, awareness of my instinctual knowledge and the hope that there was someone on the other side who for some reason would want to talk to me. From that baseline I started to develope various habits (letting my hands do their thing and talking at the wind for instance) some of which I even maintained long after hope was gone. I will say that I truly believe there are countless paths so don't try mine hoping for success, I had quite literally given up on everything. Habits die hard though and there are persons who really appreciate it when you try to give even when you've seemingly got nothing left, plus I hadn't really understood the full extent of the concept of sacrifice and really, just the idea that someone can appreciate you so much even if don't see anything worth appreciating. I've got a much better idea of my own worth now, plus a clearer appreciation for things like sorrow as well as joy, tears and laughter like Gibran said. Anyhoo, thank you again, I hope perhaps someone will get something from my word salad bar but also I know that if no one does at all, there's still someone who always has and always will

Blocks: space snd organization

Well that was a bit of a trigger tbh. Definitely on autopilot, in my head, spinning wheels. The thing holding me back is remembering to be intentional in the things I do. Not to mention ADHD tendencies I didn't recognize as such. Wading through the muck and doing what I can. Also, a Virgo who has a problem with messy in general.

Very inspiring! I enjoy having my thinker stirred. Thank you!

8 minutes in: I’m still a relatively new practitioner and so still reading and listening and learning a LOT. I get the impression from other practitioners that I really need to pay more attention to the moon phases and do the prescribed things during the right phases. But in day to day life I lose track of what phase the moon is in, and I think “Dark! I missed it!” But intuitively I think that actually it’s ok, and I can still do whatever magic I feel like I need to do despite the moon phase. Anywho, I like the premise of this post!

I definitely have fears that hold me back. Self-doubt What if I'm not Magick 😢 I also long for a tribe in my area

Thanks so much for this affirmative video. 74 and embracing the mess.

Maybe my starting point, before discovering what is holding me back is what is magic? What does that word mean to me? Great video, lots to ponder and beautiful garden 😊

Your video is an excellent description of how my year has been...messy. But it's been a good messy. I think this year has been more magical for me than I have experienced in a long while. And the point had been to discover my true personal power but doing things my way.

So intresting! I have spent many, many years doing magic without calling it that and not really knowing that is what I was doing just going with gut instinct and then about 5 years ago I realized that it was magic and have spent hours upon hours learning from books and videos and trying to do what I've always done with more labels and tools and it's been frustrating. This is very freeing to me! While I will continue to learn and watch, I want to trust myself more to just be me and do what I know to be what's the right way to do things. I appreciate the comment about the color magic as I have always used that and it doesn't correspond to what I read and will now use what I know works for me! I'm a crone but one that keeps learning and growing. Challange accepted!

Wow what a beautiful video! Thank you for helping me reflect ! Ur questions are so thought provoking gosh! The “things” that we do as women to keep ourselves busy is so true! I’m now asking myself what “self busyness“ am I doing? I’m waiting for my own private space to be built. We recently bought a home with land and sold our other home where I did have a private space and was able to do so much quiet and no interruptions. Now I have constant noise and interruptions from adult kids to spouse and two labradors.! I too, am looking in the past and looking in books and not using my own creativity because I don’t have to just think. I’m blessed that I still have my adult children around, but my goodness my family takes so much time and I have to carve out more time for me to just sit and be quiet, and unwrap myself and unravel myself. Good grief.

My block: doubting myself. Afraid I started practicing too late in life (I’m 71, just started actively last September).

100 % yes

Where is that ? it's a beautiful place! 💕 Thank you for addressing messy magic🎉

Rewatching the video. It is hitting with new perspective after just one day!! This is REALLY an amazing video. It hits me to the bone, I have been so worried on doing it right, w/o feeling that I am truly experiencing the full expression of my own magick. If that makes any sense. I will try to join this challenge. I will likely watch it again. All the info in this video would be greatly appreciated to have as reference in some type of written form, even if just briefly. I will look forward to your newsletter!! Truly a wonderful video💞💞

Oh your bleeding heart is just gorgeous❣️❣️❣️❣️

I have so much love for this video. I never worried about being alone on my journey. having said that, I found myself myself always wondering if I was 'doing' it right or wrong. It just amazes me how one person's words in a video can open the eyes of the heart to the real messiness of the world and the beautiful messiness of our magic. I took more value from this video than you can possibly imagine and I truly appreciated you sharing. We all have magic. I believe that! I think a small lack of confidence and faith in oneself is possibly what holds one back. But heck, being intentionally messy is allowing and forgiving, and is something that can push the dial towards creativity. Have I said, I really love this video ? I am blessed to live on land in Ontario Canada, where I can practice and cultivate my love of herbal's in my magic. When our summers seem so short, it is the harvesting of these beauties that gives me so much joy in my magic during the colder months of the year. This may be a little off-topic, but it is the joy that I feel when I'm practicing, which is basically every day in some little way, albeit, messy, wild and soul filling.

Love this!

😜💚😌 challenge accepted!

What a wonderful video. I *_had_* to subscribe 🙏🏾♥️

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Gerald (@tarotstache) encouraged me to give this a watch and I am so glad he did. This is so true (and I haven't finished watching it yet. The idea here takes me back to when I first started and didn't have the blockers in place that you collect and gather over the years and decades of practicing and learning. Back then it was raw desire and intention to just do and be magickal. This is inspiring. I have been recognizing the blockers recently for me, and this is helping further push me to acknowledge them and discard them... or atleast learn to work within them. Fantastic video!