How To Be Unpopular / Thoughts on Fear
A good way to be unpopular is to suggest people check in with the ways Fear is working them— especially in times where there seems to be valid excuses everywhere for fear-as-default.
I am not immune.
I'm often tongue-tied just when Truth wishes to tumble from my lips.
My inner-protectors have a field day when I get big ideas about what’s possible, or when I decide— yes: I’m going to make or be or say that thing… the one that scares me.
The wounded places in my own life to which Fear latches itself can feel like a daunting pull on my focus.
Fear is guaranteed to de-form us when we live in a socio-economic and spiritual cultural model which fully depends on people being afraid.
So the question is not whether Fear, but how~
Will we apprentice to Fear as a wise, old Winter Hag, there to ferry us through crucial moments of our self-becoming for a fair price? The one who de-forms our smallness?
Or will we open the door to a machiavellian Devil whose deepest desire is to make our very way-of-belonging to the world Fear-based? Whose gimmick is "buy now, pay later"? The one who de-forms our largesse?
I choose apprenticeship.
Especially when I've got some good magic brewing.
Especially when I'm incubating something beautiful, important and dear to me~
Like the delicate quickening of the first months of the year, when things are gestating, developing, tenderly coming into being~ be most vigilant then. Choose apprenticeship.
tending modern fear in a
sacred, mystical atmosphere:
In my Wild Becoming Immersion, a core part of our work together is to help you apprentice to those icy but life-giving Goddesses of Fear while dismantling altars you’ve built to fear-devils you no longer wish to worship.