“She Changes Everything She Touches And Everything She Touches Changes!“(from a chant by Starhawk and Rose MayDance)

 Early on in the Priestessing Your Life training, my 13- month course in spiritual and personal empowerment, I invite the participants to do automatic writing about their relationship with change. It has always proved to be illuminating.

I offer automatic writing exercises to uncover the meaning underneath the words we use; what our unconscious mind is telling us; how the language we use serves us, or perhaps doesn’t. If we believe that our language creates our reality, we need to know what our words actually mean to us, personally.

Sometimes I ask the participants to do the exercise again later to see if their understandings have changed. 

When I introduce the writing exercise about change I frequently give examples including:

Some of us face change head on;

Some of us back into change;

Other go kicking and screaming;

Still others set an intention and move towards it;

Some of us float in the winds of change, arriving where the wind takes us and then we figure out how to fly.

There are as many ways to relate to change, as there are people to relate to it.

There is no ‘right’ way to do change, there’s only the way you do it. Perhaps it would be helpful in this time of upheaval to know your unique style with change

Automatic Writing seems to have been developed by Georgina Hyde-Lees, the wife of Irish poet W. B. Yeats, during their years living in County Clare. She opened to information from her deepest self, and probably to some spirits too, inspiration for both her own and Yeats’ poetry.

To try automatic writing, get a journal or several pieces of paper. If you are doing this by yourself, a timer is helpful. 

First, be clear about your intention. Do you want to access your deep self, your inner wisdom? Yes, you DO have this capacity. With patience.

Do you want to ask something of a deity or other unseen ally?

Whatever your intention, be clear about it.

Set your timer. Set it for an impossibly long period of time. Set it for long enough that you can write down everything your conscious mind knows about the subject and then keep on writing.

Ground and center yourself in whatever way works best for you. And begin to write. At first the things that emerge will seem familiar

And then you will hit a wall.

This is good.

When you hit the wall, however, keep on writing. Even if you write, ”this is stupid” or “I hate this” or “I don’t know what to write” or…

Keep on writing. Eventually something new will come through. Let it flow. This is the wisdom you have been looking for.

When the timer goes off, you can stop. If you want to.

Read over what you have written. Circle or underline anything new or surprising. And then think about what you now know.