The Witch Wound: What It Is & How to Heal

Healing the Witch Wound

Does speaking your truth feel deeply unsafe? Does being authentically seen by others feel threatening? Do you dim your own light, shrink yourself, and hide your gifts? Do you doubt and diminish your emotions and intuition? Do you often feel like you are both “too much” and “not enough” for society?

You may carry the age-old spiritual trauma known as the Witch Wound.

What Is the Witch Wound?

The Witch Wound is an inherited, collective trauma that is rooted in the dark history of the Burning Times, and that manifests as a fear of being seen, speaking up, and stepping into your full magic and power.

During the Burning Times, tens of thousands of innocent women and men were imprisoned, tortured, and executed in the most inhuman and brutal of ways: burning, beheading, drowning, hanging.

Those accused who escaped execution were exiled from their communities, stripped of their status, and pushed out of their vocations.

Some of these victims were healers, midwives, wise women and men, and diviners who served their communities; others were simply people who were too outspoken, too old, too rich, too poor, too beautiful, or too ugly.

All of them were victims of patriarchy, capitalism, imperialism, and religious tyranny.

Our ancestors who survived these dark times carried the memory of these events not just in their minds, but also in their bodies.

Their fear, their shame, their grief, their survival instincts have been passed down through the ages, and now live on in our blood and bones.

This is the legacy of the Witch Wound.

It exists on both a soul level and a DNA level.

Yet it also exists on a societal and cultural level.

Even today, the toxic binds of patriarchy, capitalism, imperialism, and religious tyranny restrict self-expression.

These oppressive systems dictate which lifestyles, professions, hobbies, interests, bodies, clothes, and hairstyles are “acceptable” and “worthy,” and which are not.

They favor those in power and attempt to shame those who fall into the category of “The Other.”

Witches, of course, have always been the ultimate Other.

Witches — those who claim their Earth-given birthrights of spirituality and magic, and who use their power to create change in their inner and outer worlds — have never been the ones we should fear.

It has always been the men wielding the torches.

It is time for witches to stop hiding their magic and reclaim their power.