172. My Spiritual Journey and Yours

[@dgm4738]

Thank you Kelly Anne - excellent as usual - love & blessings!

[@butterflymagicwithhottea9291]

I really enjoy going back to your older videos. This one is sumptuous with the visual and reflective narrative. I can recall when it first came out and it really does not feel like SEVEN years ago! Muahs to you, lovely Kelly-Ann!

[@IndigoSpeaker]

Excellent stuff. Actually inspired me to make my next Brain Candy vid about Chaos, Paradigm and Power;) I'll be looking forward you your vids on this awesomely mind bending topic;)

[@joshtracy3544]

This past year/year-and-a-half has been full of growth and change for both me and my spiritual path. I've really began implementing the knowledge I have gained over the past three or four years, becoming less of a dabbler and more of a full-blown practicioner. I still have a lot of learning and experimenting to do however. I've slipped far away from the confines and restrictions of traditional Wicca and my path has become what I like to call freeform paganism. I still struggle occasionally with the label of witch, refering to my self as a mystic or mere pagan, although honestly much of what I do is witchcraft. Last spring I was drawn to work with the goddess hecate, a choice in diety that took me by surprise. Finally more recently I've been trying to figure out something to use as a permanent altar (I haven't had one in a couple months). I've been perusing shops trying to find the right furniture piece to utilize. I've also been drawn back into studying, working through some books again, but also reading new material specifically on Hinduism and shamanism. My path is much more pragmatic than it once was. Simultaneously it seems it takes less time and effort while also encompassing every aspect of my life. It probably has a lot to do with the change from doing what I should do to what I feel drawn to do, and listening more to those subtle urges. I hope this all was insightful. Thanks for another great video.

[@EMarie-ig6kd]

Thank you. :)

[@KatByCandlelight]

Oh my gosh...sticky buns!! Ha! I feel like my spiritual journey lately has become so much about authenticity. Coming home vs. reinventing the wheel. It HAS become a lot more personal, more of a reflection of who I am. It's a lot more FUN that way.

[@djinfreemind1966]

Working on the age old question of, "who am I?" The world tells you you are your job, accomplishments, or your relationships but that is not the center of ones being. I wrote a poem a few years ago that answers the question for me but the answer is a feeling beyond words that the words evoke. I'm working on how to solidify that into something to base my life on.

[@radiantchristina]

sticky buns..haha I like that one. My spiritual journey is in a weird place right now... I am not doing a lot of reading and research , which is something I normally do...but I am spending so much time outdoors just connecting with nature and not thinking about it all too much. I have had way too much going on in my "outer world" , as you mentioned.. and I think that has a lot to do with my journey at the moment.

[@vaughndelatte463]

I just have to say I love your channel, and I'm so glad I stumbled upon it when I did. I recently began my spiritual journey and this couldn't be a more exciting time for me! Although I just stepped up to this threshold, nothing has felt this good or this right. Ecstatic is really the only word for how I feel. I want to send some love and encouragement your way! You are brilliant.

[@bilboj1]

I feel the same. I am trying to build my spiritual practice

[@Pagyptsian]

Thank you for sharing! Was really interesting to hear of your personal journey :-) I'm going through a whole wave of change!

[@nature1053]

Thank you. Blessed Be to you as well. Syker :)

[@kelly-annmaddox]

x x x

[@kelly-annmaddox]

Ever thought about starting a channel, Syker? x

[@JoannaDeVoe]

I don't believe that you can opt out of your spiritual journey. Life itself is a spiritual journey! Especially the parts that get super challenging. But I totally get what you're saying... THANKS for sharing your path :O)

[@kelly-annmaddox]

Yeah, I never managed to opt out of it - the transpersonal stuff was still there, as I mentioned. Goddess knows, I tried! But you can't just shrug that shit off, and you know what? That's a good thing. Spirituality still held me in my darkest moments, even when I tried to shrug it off and tell it that it wasn't wanted.

[@JoannaDeVoe]

The Four Queens Right? I always find it so interesting when people say, "I am not a spiritual person". Maybe I'm wrong, and I admit that I totally could be, but from my pov, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

[@kelly-annmaddox]

***** Hehe. I can think of about twenty people I know off the top of my head who definitely don't see their lives as spiritual. Yeah, it is interesting indeed. I know that every single one of those twenty people have *definitely* had transpersonal experiences though, so the way I see it, they're still golden. That's the way it should be. If you're not fully plugged in at least 2% of the time, that's a rotten place to be.

[@aikitherese]

The Four Queens I agree with both of you!! I've contended for many years now, once that internal intention for understanding and growth is made, there's no going back. If nothing else, life will continue to offer opportunities for exploration and, well, the deep work! Right now, I'm just doing my best to get through this tough transition...not meditating, not doing any overt practice...but, continue to remain mindful and write and recall dreams when I can :)

[@JoannaDeVoe]

The Four Queens Word.

[@LaurenSamanthaIndieMoon]

Adore your videos! Always feel like I lean so much,I think making more *teachy* videos would be a great idea! Much love. X

[@batthoselashes]

I took a hiatus for about 16months after my trauma that I experienced. I have felt a real shift in the past month or so and have begun to get back on track. Last weekend I took my first "formal" class on the practice of witchcraft. I've been watching witchy vids here for a couple of years but I feel that I am ready to get started on a practice now. One odd thing is that I used the Thoth Tarot for quite a while and recently it stopped resonating with me. I had been feeling a pull toward the Wildwood Tarot so I finally purchased it this week and I am so surprised at how much it resonates being that it is so different from the Thoth deck. It is amazing how energies can shift like that!

[@palmskrymme]

Hello! I have a playing card read, they are rather detailed

[@tessabrady2620]

Just perfect timing as always, I love, love, love this, (also, gorgeous camera shot) but I just got to say I especially loved 'sticky buns'...best one yet :-) Tess x

[@blossomswiccapath]

thank you for sharing this with us. my path as started at 11 years old. I started at that point seeing spirits. And that's what made me question what is there other than Christianity. We were not practicing Catholicism that too much aka going to church. but I was praying for protection for those i loved every night. I made up my own prayer. at the age of 15 i saw the movie the craft and that led me to look into magic. mostly white magic. Then I discovered Wicca. I can't say I have really practice it until the age of 24. For about a year or so. And then went on discovering Buddhism, Mahayana and Tibetan, even Hinduism. And in the midst of all that I was what you would called a new age person. and last year I went back to Christianity, although not Catholicism but a very opened church called united church of Canada. Very accepting of all cultures, background, gender identity, sexual orientation. In a sense, it made me reconcile with Christianity. but at the same time, I felt that I couldn't be a christian because something was missing. I am a medium, a clairvoyant and those things are banned from this religion. Only their God can do those things and If I do, its evil. so... Slowly I came back to my own spirituality, letting aside all particular path and just followed my intuition.. which led me back to Wicca. I don't follow any lineage in particular, I am eclectic and into chaos magick, which I discovered 2 years ago.. and made so much sense to me. At the eve of my 30 year of life on this planet, I feel like I have enough baggage to embark in a solid journey of witchcraft. I don't have the feeling that i am missing something because I went on and practiced different spiritual path. I believe all religions have good things to teach us. And I think I got a lot of the good things in my bag now. It makes me very happy.

[@palmskrymme]

Have you ever been afraid of your visions? I had a couple that really scared me but over time they were teachers, that these things are actually possible to Create Myself

[@tarotbeach1714]

I grew up in Christian schools and have prayed religiously to 'god' every night (still do!!) since I was very little but I've dabbled in the occult here and there from a very young age too. Now I embrace all religions and beliefs and take what I like from each! Mostly I'm passionate about this beautiful universe which I call my 'paradise' especially the ocean and the worlds natural forces aka 'mother nature'. Now I'm studying tarot and LOVE it not for fortune telling (as Kelly-Ann says! Haha) but for a spiritual and healing too. I'm also interested in paganism and plan to study up some more on that. Pantheism too. My world is a continual spiritual journey and I find I'm happier when I'm on the journey... So hope to keep it (and ritual) in my life from here on in :) also plan to read up on some Jung too and explore dreaming a bit more as like you I have in-depth technicolor dreams every night. Much love thanks Kelly-Ann xxx

[@palmskrymme]

I love Jung. I had a dream a couple weeks ago that an ould teacher critiqued my paintings with a Jungian style, and I woke up knowing that Jung was where it was at. SO many of my favorite authors reference Jung!!

[@LoreleiLala]

Real shift. It's returning, and all sorts of things have taken place to enable that. I asked the question and it was answered. It's odd how easy it is to forget you can do that when you're in the doldrums. So I'm at that point of appreciating the beauty of it all, and how many others responded to my silent call. What you say tallies well with my more recent experience of the chaos my life took on for a period of time. Yet on one level my spirituality was a fundamental part of that. Sometimes we need to allow ourselves convalescence, or for our spirituality to hold us in its arms and rest. Fortunately I never had any religion rammed down my throat. I consider myself blessed in that. Oddly, the cause of that was one of the most evil periods in history. Sometimes good really does come out of bad. Nice to see you.

[@kelly-annmaddox]

It is indeed weird how easy it is to forget that you can ask and receive an answer. I am often reminded of this after forgetting - just like mindfulness, one forgets to remember until one remembers not to forget. Appreciating the beauty of it all is certainly the core of what I do and am always doing. 'All the rest is painted bread', as Frida Kahlo used to say. We do often feel that we have abandoned our spirituality when we're not actively *doing* something about it. But that needn't be true. As you said, sometimes it allows us to rest. It never actually goes anywhere. I love that you had freedom and openness too, and that you can see the link between that and the tragedy of the past.

[@lillianmorgancbc]

I was introduced to chaos magic and so i googled Austin Spare and found him to be very interesting.Something i am further investigating.I am waiting for a couple of books now. I like what Austin had to say about chaos magick and i resonate with the belief system.It seemed to me something was missing from the path i was following and it had become stagnant.I very well might discover that this is a path that i can go a little further or practice without having to have these god or goddesses that i am not resonating with.It is interesting to say the least so i am waiting for Austins book now and lets see.But i had clicked on to your channel today for a reason and this could be the connection.I am usually guided. I don't find the pagan community to be supportive.I find they are competitive and click within a small group.So this could be the answer for me.

[@robinwunder1277]

I feel like I'm stop and go with the practical aspect of my spirituality. Right now I am on the go. Lol. I am a very introverted person not with my beliefs I'm very passionate I can talk for hours on theories of magic/spirItuality itself but I in ritual because I started last year new path. I know when I first started my craft I was all about Wicca but but I had a bad experience with a group of people who I was started to practice with and it put me off of my spirituality all together not long after that I had my eldest daughter and by my second daughter first year of her life my other half we lost everything and found are selves in a new state starting over. And that's when my spirit/personal deity came to me with my animals by her side and said basically stop this mess and return to your studies. And because of that I started to slowly practice and reform by beliefs and listen to other take on magic. Currently my f focus has been on the shadow map you done for me last fall. And of course tarot but I been really loving my sacred path and medicine cards. My because I have a great connectio to ths particular spirit my magic has been become very native American shamanic in flavor. I'm glad to hear your opening up on your own personal flavor of magic.

[@keeelane]

i did some work with tarot cards where i'd just try to intuitively pick a card that would best describe my life situation...this like gnawing sensation that follows me all the time. so all i got is the hanged man. i'm stuck, frustated and angry. i try to will it out but that doesn't really work...i guess it's kind of emotional constipation that i just have to sift thru.

[@nikkinubs]

I'm in a stagnant place with my practice. As in my knowledge is not really being put into practice. I want to practice magick but I really struggle to know where I should put my energy. A mentor of mine would always ask me what kind of thing (spell or ritual) that I'd want to do but when I'd come up with something I would think about it and then disregard it and it wouldn't seem like it would be something worth doing for some reason. I guess I just don't know what to focus on, what kind of magick is the most effective, what the potentials are... I have managed to rationalise magick for myself though, I can see how it's woven into daily life.. but I guess I just don't know what the next step should really be for me personally. I'm interested to hear your approaches though and appreciate you taking the risk to be open about this side of your life - it is inspiring :).

[@palmskrymme]

I recommend using sigils!!! It really works!! you can scry them!!

[@nature1053]

I think that's very sweet that you should want to get to know me better. I hadn't plan on making videos anytime soon. But feel free to PM me with any question you may want to know about me. I'd be more than happy to try to answer them for you. Blessed Be! Syker :)

[@tarotbeach1714]

Sticky buns or bums ;)

[@midtheory232323]

I feel very lost on my path and not sure where I would like to go. I'm not a ritual type of person, more interested in magick with out religion. Idk very confused

[@kelly-annmaddox]

Have you been practicing magick? How have you found it?

[@palmskrymme]

making wishes might be a good place to start, also, maybe writing down energy blocks as prompts

[@eskiemax5133]

Hi! What book of text is that in this video?

[@kelly-annmaddox]

Book of the Witch Moon by Michael W. Ford. :)

[@shannonjohnson970]

ummm.....do u do readings?

[@palmskrymme]

I found an app for reading Rider-Waite, it pulls you a card every day

[@nature1053]

LOL. Can't say as I have love. Why do you ask?

[@kelly-annmaddox]

I'm intrigued. :) You've been responding to my videos since forever and you seem to watch a lot of the same YT content as me. I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to get to know you.

[@JoannaDeVoe]

The Four Queens You would be getting to know a wonderful person! He's a shy one publicly, but an absolute sweetheart!