Cultivate Deeper Intimacy In Relationships With Magick

May is the perfect time to cultivate deeper intimacy in relationships with magick, my friend. 

In the Pagan and Witchcraft communities, May is the time of Beltane. Beltane celebrates the Goddess (Sacred Feminine) and the God (Divine Masculine) coming together to create life through sexual/creative communion.  

The Goddess and the God are aspects of you. They represent the feminine and masculine within (if you are gender fluid think of the Divine Masculine as Kinetic Energy and the Sacred Feminine as Potential Energy). Through integration, you bring these two parts of yourself into Oneness and activate your creative nature. There are no walls or barriers between these energies.  They are sovereign and self-aware. Fully conscious of their magick and the artistry it forges in life.  Their relationship is free and the depth of their intimacy is boundless.

Commit To Integrate Deeper Intimacy In Relationships With Magick

Ever hear the phrase: “As within – so without”?

It speaks of the nature of Universal consciousness. “Within” means your relationship with yourself.  “Without” means your relationship with the world.

Thus, if you master your relationship with yourself, you master your relationships in the world.

Integration is mastering relationships.  Accept your feminine and masculine natures with love and acceptance. Let them come together to create a profound level of self-intimacy.  Allow your feminine to do her work and let your masculine do his. They will magnetize you to relationships that serve and draw you into deeper communion with your own desire. These aspects call you to act without fear and commit to your pleasure.

What would it look and feel like to be in communion with your feminine nature? The Sacred Feminine represents boundless potential.  She is the fertile womb, primed to nurture your greatest desires.  How would honoring her change how you express yourself in the physical world?

Ask yourself the same question about your masculine nature. The Divine Masculine represents boundless drive.  He is passionate and kinetic, primed to activate your epic dreams. How would honoring him change how you express yourself in the physical world?

Sit with these energies. Notice how they support each other.  Write your feedback in a journal or record voice notes on your phone as you move through this practice.

4 Magickal Techniques To Cultivate Intimacy

Yoga

The body is a good place to start if you’d like to cultivate deeper intimacy with yourself.  It expresses your feminine nature and your masculine nature.  Connect to it and nurture a more powerful relationship with yourself.  Discover and explore the landscape of your body to understand your unique energy.   

Yoga is a perfect practice in which to begin cultivating deeper intimacy with yourself. It is an ancient bodywork (body, mind and spirit, really) practice that focuses on breath and physical postures and can include chanting, meditation, and singing. All of these activities help clear and stimulate your energy centers. Yoga is a perfect way to heal and strengthen your innate energy, which is the root of your magickal power.

Bodywork is about knowing yourself.  Accepting yourself.  Loving yourself and all your parts. 

Meditation

Meditation supports powerful creativity and magick. It is the means through which we are able to enter liminal space, the place where our magick begins. Liminal space is the entry point to which all magick and energy manipulation can occur.

Through meditation we are then able to properly center, ground and psychically shield ourselves. It is the starting point for pretty much all of our magickal workings. In the stillness we are able to recieve messages from both within and from beyond, accessing that which is buried deep inside, and downloaded form the Divine.

The health and well being attributes mediation offers are too numerous to mention here, however, one attribute worth noting is how it helps to enable cultivating a Divine relationship with ourselves.

Journaling

Use journaling practices, affirmation exercises, or mindset techniques to concentrate your energy on your epic desires. From scientific geniuses to thoughtful artists — and everyone in between — keeping a journal can be a beneficial self-care practice. In fact, journaling can help you to achieve goals, track your progress and growth, gain self-confidence, improve your writing skills (which improves your spell-writing skills!), reduces stress and anxiety (your personal energy is everything when it comes to your magick), and find inspiration.

More than anything, a dedicated journaling practice can help you cultivate deeper intimacy in all your relationships with others and especially, yourself.

Spell work

Working with Venus on Fridays can offer a huge boost in fostering intimacy in your life, both with yourself and with others, whether you wish to attract friends, business partners, romantic partners, or just to love and appreciate yourself more.

Each Friday, during Venus’ hour (if possible), light a green candle on your altar and thank Venus for all the love and relationships you have in your life with yourself and with others. Then ask Venus to not only continue, but to increase these blessings. Leave upon your altar an offering of chocolate, a pink rose, or 7 drops of rose essential oil (placed in your lit green candle away from the wick). Make this an ongoing practice each Friday until you feel it is time to stop.

Working with Venus is one of the best magickal ways to cultivate deeper intimacy in all your relationships with both yourself and others.

In conclusion…

At first glance you may think that spell work is obvious, but that yoga, meditation and journaling have nothing to do with magick and Witchcraft. Nothing could be further from the truth! That is because each of these practices is an energy work practice, and doing any kind of energy work will aid you in building your ‘magickal muscles’. Everything is energy, and magick is the conscious manipulation of it. Working with any method that will help to clear and strengthen your energy will have profound affects not only on your overall magickal power, but equally important, your ability to cultivate deeper intimacy in your relationships with others, and especially, yourself!

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