My guest today is spiritual pioneer, Phyllis Curott. Phyllis is an attorney, writer and one of America’s first public Witches. Her five international best-selling books have been published in 14 languages, making her the most widely published Wiccan author. An outspoken advocate in the courts and media, she handled or consulted on groundbreaking cases securing the legal rights of Witches. New York Magazine has called her teaching on Witchcraft the culture’s “next big idea” and Time Magazine has published her as one of America’s leading thinkers. Phyllis continues to write, teach, and lecture internationally on the embodied spiritual wisdom of Mother Earth, Nature’s “secret magic” and why the world needs its Witches.   In this episode we dived into why the world needs Witches, exploring the importance of the Sacred and how to connect to spirit more deeply to create a magical life - as well as understanding how we can practically harness energy to manifest magic in the world.   What You’ll Learn from this Episode:   This show was such a delight - Phylis is one powerful woman. My takeaways are: We all get tapped on the shoulder by Spirit (aka the Sacred) at at some point - the question is whether we are paying attention and whether we are willing to turn around a look at that The world is full of magic. We know that when we're children were playing in it and participating in it - but often we lose that sense, so we need to reconnect to it The word Wicca means “wise one” - a “seer of the Sacred” - this is one who knows the Spirit world and knows that Spirit is embodied in creation In the modern revival of Witchcraft, there are very patriarchal ideas that the Divine is someplace else - it’s all about Spirit, rather than Spirit embodied - the reason the world needs her Witches is because everyone has the gift of sight, but we’re also here to embody it in this world. Spirit takes form through life and creation - that’s how you make magic - you bring the flow of energy into form. We are connected to everything - and we can discover that by going out into the wild - into nature. And that’s where you’ll drop back into your heart - which is the best place to create from. The best thing to do is ask: “what do I need to know?” And to create from there   Resources and things that we spoke about:   Phyllis’ Website Phyllis’ Facebook Phyllis’ Instagram Phyllis’ Twitter Phyllis’ YouTube   Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know! If you loved it, there’s a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don’t miss it! Thank you,     Nicole xox

We have a special bonus episode for you this week to celebrate our 1 Year Secret Witch Show Birthday! On the show today, Nicole is honoured to be exploring a topic close to her heart - how magical women can begin to heal from Chronic Fatigue by allowing their fullest expression of soul to begin to express itself. She shares her own journey of healing and invites you into seeing the possibility for you to begin to heal yourselves, and move from hope into belief that it is possible for you. What’s the alternative? In this episode Nicole explores how CFS is a symptom of our soul being suppressed - and what’s the deeper cause of this, as well as exploring how the body tries to wake us up. She invites you into deeper enquiry and reflection so that you can continue to take aligned action to begin your own deeply healing journey. What You’ll Learn from this Episode:   Chronic Fatigue is a common expression of the Secret Witch - yet there can be some resistance to the Witch archetype in women who are here to learn to heal themselves Often women who do have CFS will be where Nicole once was; in hope that there’s some way of healing, but not yet fully in their possibility - and it is the work of soul and magic that helps you to cultivate the belief in your own power and magical healing We live in a society that values Masculine ways of being - linear solutions, forcing, pushing, doing, knowing, keeping up with time, and being busy - and yet the Witch is a deeply Feminine being; this is why she often has CFS - fitting into a world that doesn’t suit her The deepest creation of CFS comes from our soul suppression; it takes so much energy to suppress ourselves from being who we really are - and the healing lies in our soul’s expression We need to go into deeper enquiry to see the shadow fears creating CFS - and we must go there with complete love, so love is on the most important first steps to healing It is often our shadowy, fearful patterns of being the good girl, seeking approval, rescuing others, and feeling unworthy, shameful, or guilty.  These things can keep us from allowing ourselves to listen to the call of soul - and it’s in these patterns that our bodies begin to send symptoms to wake us up.   Nicole invites you to consider the costs and benefits of continuing to suppress your soul and to choose to begin to take small steps to liberate yourself for deep healing. It is important to choose this consciously as the path of soul is often a journey that isn’t easy - but it’s the only journey that is so worth it.   Resources and things that we spoke about:   Secret Witch Circle Facebook group Manifesting with the Moon Burning Woman - Lucy H Pearce Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know! If you loved it, there’s a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don’t miss it! Thank you,   Nicole xox

In today’s episode I am delighted to be exploring and creating on the very witchy topic of how to harness the art of sacred ritual to powerfully manifest magic. The sacred art of ritual is something longed for (and also feared by) the Secret Witch - it’s built into her DNA to create this way and she often feels a deep call to ritual and ceremony.   What You’ll Learn from this Episode:   Today’s episode was really illuminating of all things suppression and expression.  Here are my takeaways: As magical ones, women who resonate with the Witch archetype can often have a deep soul call to the magic of ritual, as well as a deep fear of harnessing their power via sacred ritual - and the deeper invitation is to choose to use it consciously Often the Secret Witch will have either rejected it, because of this - or dabbled in magic or played with it, rather than using it with full intention. This path - and where the real magic lies - is all about harnessing ritual magick really powerfully - as the sacred, magical art and science it really is - in a way that truly works My women will likely also fear getting it ‘wrong’ - so the deep invitation is to learn to trust your own wisdom in ritual creation - I provide three useful questions that will help you to create powerful and intentional magic via ritual - as well as some examples of ritual Ritual brings our conscious intentions to life in form, via the elements we choose to include in it - which help us embody our specific intentions; for example, if we desire to energise, we can bring that to life through using Lemon essential oil which is energising Different rituals work differently for different people; the deep invitation is to note down your ritual practices and allow yourself to witness when they work, so that you have evidence to inform your confidence.   Resources and things that we spoke about:   Secret Witch Circle - Facebook Group Manifesting with the Moon Damien Echolls - High Magick  - A Guide to the Spiritual Practices that Saved my Life on Death Row Lisa Lister - Witch Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know! If you loved it, there’s a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don’t miss it! Thank you,   Nicole xox

My guest today is the brilliant Dominic Scaffidi - and oh, did I love this magical conversation. Dominic is an ICF Master Certified Coach and partners with clients to point them to the unlimited potential of who they really are. Through accessing their own innate wisdom, clients are supported as they create a life that they love, both personally and professionally. Grounded in the teachings of Sydney Banks, he applies a deep and practical understanding of the teachings of Abraham-Hicks for how we create our own reality. Dominic and I have both walked the path of Ascension and the Three Principles, and in this unique episode, we explored a juicy debate commonly found in the worlds of Ascension and Descension: is it all Just ‘Thought’, or do we need healing to manifest magical lives? What we co-created was a beautiful synergistic expression of what healing actually is, how contrast creates healing if we stay open to it and choose it that way. We alchemised some common myths and misunderstandings around the Three Principles and Ascension paths, and explored how our bodies are central to manifesting magical lives - and the power that can be found in descending into the body to heal and alchemise its wisdom and expand into embodiment of our True magic.   What You’ll Learn from this Episode:   Today’s episode was really illuminating of all things suppression and expression.  Here are my takeaways: It can be so tempting to dismiss something we don’t agree with - e.g. the idea we may need to ‘heal’ - yet the real alchemy is found in openly going into our resistance and contrast with curiosity as to where the synergy can be found Healing is really an “expansion” - a seeing of all that is held unconsciously (in shadow) - which could be called our wounding - and expanding into the fullness that we have always been beyond our shadowy fears and doubts (aka Thought) Our work in healing, really is to catch all the places we don’t see where we are creating what we don’t want - and expand beyond that. And the Secret Witch (actually, all of us) is already creating her reality - and it’s so healing to recognise this; as we come to know this more fully, through our expansion, we become the True and fully integrated expression of our Witch Queens - creating as our divine Soul’s essence. The Witch really is a powerful symbol - a lens or an Archetypal story that acts as a mirror to reflect our true power and magic. The Witch, after all, is a powerful, wise, magical, creative force. There are really no limitations; for you to be ‘less than,’ only you are creating it (and we must go into that powerful ownership only with the utmost love and compassion for ourselves, as otherwise we won’t see it) The only place we can create magic is in our body. Dismissing our bodies, which is often done in Ascension path, innocently, devalues our experience in form; creating separation. And yet, there’s no such thing as unexpressed formless energy; Spirit and Soul are always expressing through you. If we dismiss the physical body, we dismiss our full expression; and this is how we know we need healing (or expansion) - our bodies offer us the signs - via illness, dis-ease, imbalance, etc - until we choose to expand, heal and fully express. In fact, we choose our bodies; we came here to live in our unique contrasts, because it allows us to expand (heal) into the Creator/Creatrix that you really are. And you choosing that will be healing for others on the same path as us. You wanted this life for your expansion - for the healing that is beyond the experience that restores aliveness where it was limited There is nothing to do, but there is always aligned-action to take - you are a unique expression of the Universe, and you are here for 100 years - do you think the Universe wanted to show up here physically as you for 100 years and do nothing? You are here to expand into living fully as your unique expression - as Witch Queen (who knows her power and magic) - and you get to choose to do that. You are the magic. And it does take a great level of Sovereign power to be able to fully own our innocent creation of it that we are not. This is the beauty of the path of Soul for the Secret Witch - who feels her wounding so deeply - walking the path towards her Witch Queen guides her into that power to own her creation and begin to express her fullness to become her expression of magic. And there’s a real power in having a Soul Guide who will know you are *already* a Witch Queen, along the way - until you know it yourself.   Resources and things that we spoke about:   Dominic’s website Dominic’s Facebook Group - Ask and It is Given Nicole’s Invoke Your Wild Creatrix - begins Wednesday 27th April Nicole’s Secret Witch Circle - Facebook Group Nicole’s Manifesting with the Moon Event   Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know! If you loved it, there’s a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don’t miss it! Thank you,   Nicole xox

In today’s episode I am delighted to be freestyling on the medicinal topic of how to stop suppressing your Soul and be the fullest energetic expression of yourself. This is one of those subjects that is so core to the Secret Witch - in fact, it’s why she’s called “Secret” - because she hides her full expression. In this episode I explore how any feelings of burn-out, illness, dis-ease or disconnection are often signs of Soul sickness and suppression, calling for us to listen. I illuminate some Alchemy Queendoms that explore ways the Secret Witch typically suppresses herself, along with how these can be alchemised into our gold, so that we can become the fullest expression of our gifts into the world. What You’ll Learn from this Episode:   Today’s episode was really illuminating of all things suppression and expression.  Here are my takeaways: Secret Witches often innocently and unconsciously suppress their Souls, and yet actually have a deep call to being their fullest Truth - the language of expressed Truth is my deep Soul language Our energy is taken up by shadow working hard to suppress the parts of ourselves that we feel will not gain us approval, control or security.  And yet, we are an unlimited source of energy.  If we don’t feel that, it’s likely because we are suppressing ourselves somewhere. In each of these energetic suppressed states, there is gold available for us - and I explored some of the ways that this shows up in the Secret Witch, through our Alchemy Queendoms We literally feel suppression in our bodies - we contort our bodies into being small - and that’s why the work of this path is to embody an expanded energetic of power from love When we learn to love ourselves enough to be our fullest expression in the world, this is not only medicine for ourselves, but also for others - and the effects of us being in our full energetic expression ripple love into the world Resources and things that we spoke about:   Invoke your Wild Creatrix Invoke Your Witch Queen Secret Witch Circle - Facebook Group Manifesting with the Moon   Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know! If you loved it, there’s a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don’t miss it! Thank you,   Nicole xox

My guest today is the brilliant Lucy H Pearce.  Driven by a need to create, connect and inspire, Lucy is a best-selling author of many books, including Burning Woman, Creatrix, Medicine Woman, and She of the Sea.  She is also a vibrant artist, respected publisher and editor and founder of Womancraft Publishing.  Her work focuses on self-knowledge and healing through creativity, archetypes and cyclical living. She gives voice to the soul: the spiritual, the liminal, the darkness and discomfort and the magical in the midst of the mundane. Often described as raw, authentic and life-changing, her work encourages authentic paths to self-expression and is celebrated particularly by highly sensitive and neurodivergent women.    In this episode we dived into how to engage with shadow to reclaim our power, including the power of harnessing archetypes, the importance of getting naked and returning to our truth, and how to integrate shadow in a loving way so that we can embrace our Witch Queen. What You’ll Learn from this Episode:   Well, this was my first guest who showed up naked, and I loved that so much as it was just the most beautiful embodiment of our conversation.  This show was just filled with raw natural and beautiful naked truth - my top takeaways are:     We grow up in a world where we create lessons - from our childhood experiences - that the safest way to be in life is to be the ‘good girl’ - and yet magic is created in discovering we can actually choose consciously to be ourselves It’s scary to show up naked, and there’s a lot of shame and it feels like a genuine risk - but it’s really the only way to live a life of Soul - to have our full, creative self-expression.   The main thing to know is, we can choose into showing up as ourselves (or not) consciously - that’s where the power is. At some point in life we are initiated into our power - quite often in pregnancy, which is deeply connected to our creativity - our womb is the creative cauldron of power We are taught to be scared of the dark in all ways, but it’s actually a place where we transform and what can help us is becoming familiar with the sensations and going gently There’s a real parallel between Witches and neurodivergent brains - and there’s a gift in this - but witches get really good at masking it.  Being able to mask and shapeshift  means we are also really good at embodying archetypes so that we can embrace the fullness of the Witch and be our true selves The Witch Wound is a fear of being called a Witch, but by owning ourselves as a Witch we are reclaiming the power in it.  Being a Witch is really a symbol of our Feminine power.   Resources and things that we spoke about:   Lucy’s website Lucy’s Publishing house Lucy’s Insta I am a Unicorn Blog Elaine Aron’s work  Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!    If you loved it, there’s a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don’t miss it!   Thank you,     Nicole xox

In today’s episode I am delighted to be freestyling on the magical topic of how to know what your gifts are.  Discovering our gifts is one of those things that is often approached purely by looking into the light; and yet, I share on why it is crucial to descend into the darkness of shadow to fully know our gifts intimately.   In this episode I explore why we must go into the dark to reclaim our gold, to discover our gifts from our wounds, the importance of shadow work in making our gifts conscious, and how to alchemise our shadows so that we are fully expressing and embodying our Soul - i.e. the gifts we came here to be. What You’ll Learn from this Episode:   Today’s episode was filled with goosebumps.  Here are my takeaways:   We must be willing to go into the darkness to find our gold.  As we do, we discover our gifts in our wounds. Shadow work is all about making the unconscious conscious - as we engage with our shadow, it reveals our gifts so that we can choose into expanding and embodying the fullness of our Soul There’s a difference between processing our wounds and alchemising them - alchemising them means we transform them into gold Archetypes offer us a powerful mirror to be able to find out gifts - working with the Witch is helpful to find our gold in our wounds  We are often tempted to work in our Zone of Excellence, rather than our Zone of Genius - which is really the Zone of our Soul.  Really our deepest gifts are in Soul - we must really be asking the question: who did I come here to be? Resources and things that we spoke about:   Secret Witch Circle- Facebook Group Invoke your Wild Creatrix Manifesting with the Moon  Gene Keys - Richard Rudd  Human Design (HD Profile)  Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!    If you loved it, there’s a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don’t miss it!   Thank you,        Nicole xox

My guest today is Alison Armstrong, author of The Queen’s Code.  Alison’s exploration of human behavior began in 1991, with her decision to study men to find out how she was bringing out the worst in them. And hopefully, how to bring out the best. Her success in understanding men naturally led to studying women’s behavior and making vital connections between the two. As her work evolved, Alison illuminates human characteristics that precede and express themselves regardless of gender, age and upbringing. She distinguishes normal human instincts that compel both men and women to behave in ways that contradict and undermine our own purposes, goals, values, needs and relationships.    In this episode we dived into how women innocently emasculate men - and the importance of owning what Alison calls ‘Frog Farming’, how the Queen’s Code can help us to be more in our Feminine Power from compassion, and how we can begin to cultivate a magical divine union in our relationships, instead of acting from compelled conditioning. What You’ll Learn from this Episode:   I absolutely adored this episode with Alison and I particularly loved that she is Claudia from her book the Queen’s Code - and highly recommend reading it.  My takeaways are   We make a choice as to what we want to create in life - even in our relationships - and often we unconsciously choose to emasculate men by criticising or withholding from them - because of our old beliefs that they are incompetent Men’s instincts are wired to protect and provide, but our emasculation puts them into protection mode of *themselves* before they can even get to protecting and providing for us There’s a new way available to all of us, when we become more conscious of what we are creating - and asking questions that we wouldn’t usually ask - questions from curiosity and love about what the other person needs, rather than from our assumptions Likewise, we can make deals and agreements, so that we are not living in expectations that compel the other into protect mode Relationships that work seek a balance of Focused and Open - Alison’s exploration of Masculine and Feminine polarity helps us to create balance There are some small steps you can take to create your relationship differently; one is to have your own cup overflowing by honouring yourself first, another is making you get enough sleep, and also waiting longer for men to speak and believing them.  This will have you create a new way of being. Resources and things that we spoke about:   Alison's Website The Queen's Code Book The Renaissance of Men - Will Spencer Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!    If you loved it, there’s a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don’t miss it!   Thank you,       Nicole xox

In today’s episode I am delighted to be freestyling on the important conversation about why our wounds are “not just a thought” - and how we can harness our wounded feelings as alchemists.  This is something that often understandably comes up as resistance for many women who have come to this path from the path of ascension.   In this episode I explore my own path into Soul as the next breadcrumb from my 3P journey, sharing how valuable Spiritual ascension can be when in co-creation with Soul, as well as explaining how we can heal our wounds and discover our gold from within them - the unique gifts that make us medicine for the world. What You’ll Learn from this Episode:   Walking an Ascension path is incredibly valuable for us to come to deeply know that we are part of a greater natural intelligence - whether God, Divinity, Spirit, Love, Nature or whatever your label is for that And still, there is a deeper breadcrumb to follow to expand into the wholeness of who you are - in order to become the fullness of your Soul  When we dismiss our thoughts as illusions we simultaneously push them into shadow, making them unconscious - and from there they indirectly rule our lives without us knowing Instead, if we look directly at them, with love, and allow ourselves to fully *feel* our wounds deeply in our bodies, we can choose to alchemise them from shadow and liberate them; and this allows us to discover and step more fully into the unique gifts our Soul came here to be If we ignore our wounds, we also ignore our bodies, our desires and our gifts - and we can only create a magical life by looking here.  This is the path of a Witch Queen, who consciously chooses to go into the darkness and alchemise it into her gold - and she does this in co-creation between Spirit and Soul We can alchemise our shadow by Opening, Devoting to choosing a new way, and Noticing it as the first step into choosing to change it Epigenetics explains why our wounds are literally in our DNA - and therefore in our cells, passed down from our ancestors - and how dismissing this as ‘just thought’ is not as helpful, and how we have the capacity to change it We literally came here to experience the wounding we have - so that we could become our medicine for the rest of the world.  Will you choose to be yours? Resources and things that we spoke about:   Are you called to Invoke your Wild Creatrix?: https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/invoke-your-wild-creatrix Come and join our Sisterhood: https://www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch   Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!    If you loved it, there’s a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don’t miss it!   Thank you,   Nicole xox

On the Secret Witch Show today is Michaela Boehm.  Michaela travels and teaches internationally as an expert in intimacy, relationship and sexuality. A gifted speaker and counselor, her unique body of work centers around the intersection of intimacy and embodiment. Her work with celebrity couples has been featured in international print publications, TV programs and online talk shows, including Netflix Series [UN] WELL and Love, Sex and Goop.  Michaela is author of The Wild Woman’s Way and creator of The Non-Linear Movement Method®, a somatic release modality which utilizes principles of trauma therapy, polyvagal theory and movement for nervous system regulation.    In this episode we dive into how the Wild Woman archetype helps us more fully understand the power of the Witch, exploring the role of pleasure in magical life-creation and understanding ways to unlock pleasure via intimacy and embodiment, and the importance of polarity in relationship. What You’ll Learn from this Episode:   The Wild Woman Archetype is a hugely important aspect of the Witch - centred around the deep connection we have to nature and our bodies and the rhythms and cycles in both In the past, our intuition was valued as a survival tool - it is a natural genius of our body, felt through our sensual perception Sensual perception is not a requirement in today’s society, but it is crucial that we choose it if we want to create pleasurable, juicy, alive-feeling, magical lives Pleasure is our birthright - but we have to choose it and be devoted to it - bringing our five senses alive through practices of awareness - firstly cultivating background pleasure and then being able to receive external pleasure There may be trauma hidden in our bodies that needs cleansing - and we can trust our wisdom to know how to release this Non-linear movement is the best route to cleansing and reconnecting to our bodies - which is movement that is unorganised - for example, free form movement or dancing Pleasure is different and unique for everyone - and Michaela’s book offers some excellent hacks for how we can integrate pleasure into our lives in simple, easy ways. Polarity is important in relationships to create deeper intimacy and pleasure - and this simply means we need “opposites” - one person to Go, and one person to Flow. Resources and things that we spoke about:   Michaela’s 12 Facets of the Feminine - https://www.michaelaboehm.com/shop/  Sex, Love and Goop - https://www.netflix.com/watch/81320744?source=35&trackId=254743534  Will Smith book - Chapter 19, Surrender, by Michaela Boehm - https://willthebook.com/    Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!    If you loved it, there’s a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don’t miss it!   Thank you,           Nicole xox