Spiritual Self and Doing the Work

It's great to blog for Witch Basket once again! I did have a small blog back in the beginning (around summer 2006) and for awhile I blogged on both MySpace and Covenspace. While I enjoyed the people I met through both social networking websites, I wanted to concentrate on other aspects of my home, work, and Spirituality, and closed both of those profiles. Yet now, as summer winds down, I find myself drawn to posting here for the purpose of connecting and reconnecting with Witch Basket customers, friends, family, and other Spiritual Seekers.

Lately my thoughts have been drawn to growing my Spirituality and also my habit (and preference) to practice as a solitary versus finding a group of like-minded individuals that I can celebrate with, or work with for a common goal (magick or mundane). I do believe that many of us are solitaries - for various reasons. Some are not out of the broomcloset, some are still trying to define who they are. And still others just prefer to walk their Spiritual Paths alone. And that's ok too.

I do believe, however, that your Spiritual Self is worth the work - and by that I mean worth the work of either doing it all yourself, or doing the work to find like minds as you practice your beliefs. You are, after all, a Spirit. This "meat suit" (I borrowed that phrase from life coach James Ray) is not all that you are. You are more than what you see.

Imagine that you are carrying a lit candle down a long and breezy hallway. Your purpose is to get that candle from one end of the hall to the other without letting the flame burn out or be wiped out by the wind. You would take great pains to protect that flame as you moved forward towards your goal, shielding it when necessary, and then holding it up to light the way when the corners of the hall are too dark to see the next step. Your Spirit is like that candle's flame, and sometimes it is work to grow your Spiritual Self. But it is worth it. At the end of the hall is the next great experience - whatever that may be.

So while I myself fret over the "should I keep on with my candle and my Solitary Path, or join in with others who are moving in the same direction?" debate that continues in my human head, I encourage you to consider the flame of your own Spirit - solitary or not - and decide if you are truly caring for it as you should be. Are you slipping on some of your work?

With Best Blessings!