Witchcraft and our Inner Child

Witchcraft and our Inner Child: Going back to forge ahead

"The most potent muse of all is our own inner child."
~Stephen Nachmanovitch

I have said it many times, that this journey I know as Witchcraft
has likely been more of a quest to regain that in which came so
naturally as a child. Regaining what often appears to be lost to our
childhood is a journey into discovery of such enormous proportions.

Children are such a beautiful gift, they see with unhindered eyes,
they feel and express freely without concern for what society deems
natural or unnatural. They listen to Fairy tales that take them to
far away lands which continue within them long after the story ends.
They live freely in their souls and minds, they are alive with a
creativity that we as adults long to touch or even remember. They
see what we no longer see because their eyes have not clouded over
with age and time. They are indeed beautiful and without ever
knowing it or caring to know it they possess naturally and freely
what we as Witches must so often learn and fight to regain... Our
Inner Child.

Our memories, imagination and explorations into the unknown as
children are still within us, we have to learn to tap into them and
see once again through the eyes of a child. The mystery, the beings
and the magic that once came so naturally to us is still alive
within us, it is a sleeping giant and to rouse it from it's slumber
is to awaken our spirit to a whole new world. A world unhindered by
the restraints of time, the programming of society and the fear of
the unknown. When we have the blessing of touching those moments, we
have within our grasp one of the greatest gifts we could ever hope
to receive. The world opens up, as does our soul and then we realize
in the simplicity of the moment that the grand secret of
understanding has been right in front of us and within us all along,
all we had to do was awaken it.

Magic lives and our inner child can be awakened... Rouse it and you
will see the magic that resides in all places and you will know that
to understand about the Witch within us, we must watch the children
and learn from them.

Some say live in the present but sometimes I think, we must go back
before we can go forward.

Magic is everywhere all we have to do is open our eyes to see it.