Missive #1

It's a Gemini New Moon and I am itching to write anything and everything. Today was a good day, I had a Youtube interview and a podcast come out. I really loved speaking about Witchcraft and society - it's a really potent mix and everyone's viewpoints are really interesting.

I am still battling with comparison syndrome when it comes to other witches, especially successful ones that I have meet in person. Being a professional Tarot Reader for 3 years now, I have had some ups and downs. Most of the clients I have have been wonderful, the free events were definitely eye opening and collaborations I did end up doing were pretty neat.

It's just, doing this for 3 years now I thought I would get a little more traction that what I have now. I joined Facebook groups, groups about building your spiritual practice. I even reached out and tried to do more collaborations with people who resonated with me. Yet, here I am. Chipping away at what I love, going through comparison after comparison then saying stuff it. 

Look I have been meditating, journalling, working with my friends on how to not feel like this and surprise, surprise it's not straight forward. Oh goddess, how you test me. I am still working on the bitterness of other experiences as well. Like the spiritual business group that I paid a hefty amount for. The course lecturer would not provided you with the complete picture, an example that really stuck with me was sales funnels. They claimed that to created a spiritual practice you need to come from a heart centred place and the right people will gravitate towards you.

Yes, I agree with that but that doesn't mean giving up on marketing, advertising and a sales funnel to help you work out you costings. Having an undergraduate in business management it really peeved me off to hear this. Plus they did the traditional sales funnel before they switched to a heart centred one, I would have paused if they had done that at the beginning and got traction. But I know this lecturer hadn't, I was so close to screaming hypocrite!

Wow, I really needed to get that out. I definitely love a good old journal - online or not. 

Tonight I am going to pull some cards for myself on the next direction of my business and maybe do another one on how to let go of disappointment.

Let's see.