The Great Quickening: Forging the Healing Flame

By Katrina Rasbold

The crossroads is not merely a place of meeting, learning, and magic. It is also a place of decisive power.

For too long, the magical community has been told to “keep the peace” or retreat into private practice while the world outside bleeds. We have been sold a diluted version of spirituality that is, in truth, toxic positivity, that asks us to simply “vibrate higher” while the soil is poisoned and the collective psyche is fractured by calculated cruelty.

Enough of that. We are not here to bypass the darkness; we are here to transmute it. We are the darkness and we rule those shadows.

As Witches, energy workers, and practitioners of the Arts, our connection to Gaia is not some kind of sentimental hobby. It is a sacred biological and spiritual pact. When the Earth comes under siege from mercenary greed and systemic ignorance, it is our mandate to respond—not with platitudes, but with power. We must respond in our way and in the way that conveys our greatest power. We must do what we do best.

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The Working: Healing Gaia from the Root Up

This is a call to solidarity. Our objective must be to weave a web of intention that is stronger than the “normalcy” of exploitation, hatred, and persecution. What I envision is a two-fold strike of restoration:

1. The Core Infusion: We direct our collective ritual focus directly into the heart of the Earth. This isn’t a “get well soon” card for the planet. It is a massive, grounded infusion of primordial vitality meant to bolster the Earth’s own immune system. It means digging deep into ourselves to find our primal wisdom while simultaneously calling on our most actualized selves, calling all that power to meet in the middle in our solar plexus, creating a powerful energy infusion. For that matter, since we are energy workers and Witches and we know that time is bendy, let’s reach far, far head in time to who we will ultimately be and access power that we do not yet have in this current frame of our life movie.

2. The Human Permeation: As Gaia heals, that energy flows upward through the soles of every human foot, to those who are working for our goal and those who are not, to those who are even unaware that we are doing the work. We must enchant the very ground people walk upon so that they cannot help but inhale the frequency of restoration, healing, connectedness, and highest purpose. As we send our healing, regenerative energy down to the core of Gaia, She pushes it back up to every person on the planet. Whatever Higher Power we acknowledge will give us as much energy as we are willing and able to channel to this cause.

The Flame of Discernment

In doing this, we seed every inhabitant of this planet with a Healing Flame. This is not the flickering candle of “toxic positivity.” This is the searing heat of the Forge.

This flame is intended to:

• Cure Ignorance: Acting as a cognitive solvent for the propaganda and “mercenary poison” that keeps us divided and therefore, infinitely vulnerable. Certainly, every truth is subjective but let this flame burn away the propaganda that supports the biases that cause so much harm and disadvantage to the masses.

• Incinerate Cruelty: Making it energetically uncomfortable—even painful—to act out of malice, hatred, prejudice, or self-serving greed. Let the fire of awareness burn strong and find its way into even the most determined, stalwart, and sociopathic of abusers, showing them their wretchedness and flooding them with shame and regret. This force immediate transmutes into an urgent force of accountability and reparation.

• Illuminate Common Sense: Restoring the basic, grounded wisdom that was and is sacrificed on the altar of profit and oppression. Return the validity of true science – whatever that may be – and activate the spark of critical and progressive thinking.

When we stand together in this intention, we create a powerful field of resistance. We refuse to accept the current state of continuing decay as inevitable. By refusing to consent to, ignore, or worse, support the poison, we must instead fuel the fire of compassion and kindness. This can shift the gravity of what is possible.

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Standing in Solidarity

To my fellow Witches and energy workers: we must not mistake kindness for weakness. It takes a terrifying amount of strength to remain compassionate and loving in a world that rewards the cold-hearted, the ruthless, and the cruel. It takes a master of energy to hold a vision of a healed Earth when the headlines scream destruction and assure us we are helpless to the onslaught of what is happening right in front of us.

We are the immune system of the planet. When we sync our pulses, the normalization of toxicity begins to fail. The mercenaries and the power-hungry thrive on our exhaustion and our isolation. When we stand at the crossroads together, empowered and immovable, their influence withers.

 Carry your flame, people. Do not let it be extinguished by the cynicism that wants to define our age. Your magic is the antidote and together, our magic is the cure. Your resolve is the shield and our combined power is the impenetrable force that will protect the heart of humanity’s spirit. Your kindness is the weapon and our love and compassion is what detonates the A-bomb of healing.

The Earth remembers us. It is time we reminded the human part of the world who we are. We are the Witches who will heal the world and it starts with nothing less than knowing without doubt that we can. 

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