The Resurgence of Witches and Their Power
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Karen Joy, author of the new Lost Soul, Wise Soul.
Viva La Sorciére! Many women are now claiming their inner witch. In the past, witches were universally feared. Some historians estimate that up to 500,000 women, accused of witchcraft, were killed during previous centuries.
As a past life regressionist, I don’t doubt it. At least two dozen of my clients were marked in their past lives as being witches. None of these lives ended well. Almost all were burnt, hanged, drowned, or thrown off a cliff.
But were they really witches? Most were simply herbalists who lived alone on the fringe of their villages. They had varying psychic abilities. When villagers asked them for help, they concocted various remedies for the villagers’ ailments.
You might hope these isolated women lived long lives, respected for their wisdom. But this was not my clients’ fate. The men of the village, suspicious of their power, seized any opportunity to blame the “witch” for some perceived catastrophe. One was burnt when the men discovered she helped their wives avoid or abort pregnancies. Others were blamed for the death of someone they treated, for crop failures or cows drying up. Many did not bow to the advances or commands of the menfolk and were condemned for their insolence.
Just like they did in their past lives, most of my clients possessed psychic gifts, but were afraid to use them. In the past lives, they’d been true to themselves and died for it. The terror they experienced when the villagers lynched them bled into their current lives, paralysing their ability to step fully into their power.
During the regressions, their spirit guides explained the purpose of these past lives. They were designed to build inner strength. As the guides pointed out, the so-called witches had been authentic, dispensing assistance to others. They were persecuted and killed for doing nothing more than being true to themselves.
Now my clients could acknowledge how brave they’d been to act authentically at a time when being true to oneself was not only unwelcome but perilous. The fact that they died underlined their inner strength and courage.
Fortunately, we are living in an era where diversity is valued. With their new perspective on the past, my clients could step confidently into their power and begin using their exceptional gifts.
I see the revival of witchcraft in our current time as a reassertion of the power of women. Powerful women in the past were ostracised as “witches,” even when they were helping their persecutors. Reclaiming female power in this way makes sense, especially when so many women were unfairly and brutally condemned as witches in the past.
My book, Lost Soul, Wise Soul: How Challenging Past Lives Shape Our Future, explores how many of us carry debilitating traumas from the past, and how these traumas can be reviewed, resolved and repurposed.
Our thanks to Karen for her guest post! For more from Karen Joy, read her article “10 Signs of Unresolved Past Lives.”
