Lisa Lister Quotes

I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the Earth is sacred; and that women and women’s bodies are an expression of that sacred being.’ – STARHAWK I

And remember: a witch, first and foremost, is a woman in her power.

A witch is a wise woman aligned with the Earth, a healer. It’s a word that demands destigmatization at this crucial time in the planet’s history when we desperately need the medicine of the feminine to rise and rebalance humanity and the Earth.’ – SARAH DURHAM WILSON Being

Witch, we walk in fire, because we ARE the fire.

Woman is by nature a witch, healer, shaman and medicine healer.’ - CHUKCHEE PROVERB

The way of the witch means there are no coincidences.

It’s being someone who trusts her inner authority, and doesn’t look outside herself for validation and/or approval. It’s being someone who uses her own personal magic to navigate and negotiate the environment she currently finds herself in.

Instead, it’s about being a woman who can recognize, navigate, claim, trust and use her Goddess-given powers of creativity and manifestation, her vision, her intuition and foresight, her rhythms and cyclic nature and her ability to experience FULLY the dark to serve the light. And she does it to heal not only herself, but her family, her community and ultimately, the world. Forget

me, the essence of a witch is someone who trusts their inner authority and uses their own personal magic to navigate and negotiate the environment they currently find themselves in.

There was a time when women totally honoured and celebrated their monthly cycles. For real. It was the cycle that moved a woman from girl, through to mother, through to wise woman, through to crone. Back

I had to negotiate the world from THAT place: the loss, the pain, and being plunged into the depths of perpetual darkness, thinking I’d never return. More importantly, I didn’t want to return, having felt like I’d been thrown into the flames, submerged underwater AND been buried alive all at the same time. But guess what? I didn’t burn. I didn’t drown. I didn’t suffocate. I DID die though. I died to who and what I no longer was. But with EVERY initiation, I was also reborn a little bit more powerful then the time before.

But developing your witch powers is not so much about predicting lottery numbers or knowing which tarot card means what. Instead, it’s about enhancing your sensitivity and response towards both random thoughts and direct, loaded truth bombs. It’s knowing what’s for you and what’s for other people, and learning how to make sense of emotional changes within your body.

Stop being an adrenalin junkie. Yes, I’m talking to you Miss I-can-do-everything-and-I-can-do-it-faster-and-better-than-you. Slow down. Delegate. Your new motto is Rest is Radical. Why? When you survive on adrenalin, you really are surviving, not thriving. Yes, we no longer live in caves, but our bodies haven’t changed, so when your train is late or you have a hectic day at work, your body responds by going into fight or flight mode. It’s the modern-day equivalent of encountering a saber-tooth tiger.

We need to make it safe for each other, not by calling each other out and finger pointing, but by calling each other in.

One of the most beautiful things I feel right now, is that you see these amazing, empowered women who are stepping up and really reminding us young men, and men in general, that our role is to let the women lead. And yet, we’re their protectors, and we stand side by side; but the women are supposed to lead with their hearts.’ – NAHKO BEAR, LEAD SINGER OF NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE, SPEAKING ABOUT THE INDIGENOUS WOMEN LEADERS AT STANDING ROCK It

Far from being about practising the dark arts, the modern witch movement is all about female empowerment. Women

Gypsies in their traditional dress immerse the statue in the ocean, taking all the problems that petitioners brought her out to sea.

Doreen was a badass.

… What would the cosmetic surgery industry do if women embraced the unchanging beauty within them, instead of obsessing about the ever-changing patriarchal representations of external beauty?

we too can, with intention, sing (and dance and drum) back our wildness.

The way our mumma treated herself is the way she treated us and this becomes how we think about ourselves deep in our core.

Read Tsultrim Allione, Feeding Your Demons Louise Hay, The Power Is Within You C.J. Johnson, Wombology Monica Sjoo and Barbara, Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother Marianne Williamson, A Woman’s Worth