Children have an infinite wisdom, that adults have often lost on their journey to big personhood.

It’s been S Q U E E E E Z E D from us like a mystical orange juice, tapped off and used elsewhere.

We are so carefully shaped, molded, and formed into these neat packages of ‘yesmanship” that holding on to our Magick is harder than we’d imagine, no matter how ingrained it may be in us as children.

Some are able to retain it, all the way through, if nurtured and held to do so. Never feeling the pressure to deny, or hide it. But that is very rare, and so the timeline for many of us, is to return to it, our Magick as adults. When we take time to feed and nurture it back to life, once we have smashed the molds holding us in in our neat, tind and socially convenient boxes.

What we often miss though, is the part where we are so set in our adult ways now, that we forget to, or don’t realize we need to, reconnect with the child. That wee being who held that infinite knowledge.

The spark of our Magickal fire.

Thing is, we all have a child. Including those of us that have no will to parent. It lives deep within. Even if you never allow it out into the light anymore. It’s there.

Quietly waiting in the dark for you to reach in, welcome it into the light, and allow it to run free through the long grass of your life. Jumping, rolling, tossing glitter and drinking in the magick of every moment and joyfully sharing it with others.

It’s little the keeper of your hope. Your optimism, curiosity, tenacity and deep protector of your core truths. It’s the purest form of you there is. It’s also where your deepest desires to care for others live too. It wants to show others, how you long to be treated.

So why again are we not grabbing little us’s hand and letting them run free in our lives??

Well, those molds we bust out of… they are ingrained on levels we cannot even conceive.

And, we are WELL taught to NOT be a child. Quite often, RIGHT IN OUR CHILDHOOD.

Our innocence, free minds and hearts take up too much space.

As if being in a space where we are most receptive to love, life and learning, and with a heart and mind that is ready to ask ALL THE RIGHT QUESTIONS of the world around us, is wrong.

So we are asked (often without ever actually hearing the words, such is the power of the message) to short circuit all of that… and recoil, to just take the answers we are fed, and not overstep the carefully constructed boundaries that hold us in our boxes.

*magickal bubble touches box, and pops. We plop onto the cold hard floor of the world. Alone….and just trudge forward towards the bright lights of commerciality…following the light…

I digress.

My point is, that as adults, digging deep for our magick, when we come home to that path again, have had our inner child locked away for so long, we tend to forget, it’s waiting there, wellies at the ready with the key in their excited little hand to unlock all the secrets of the universe for us, so we can see and feel what they could, before our magickal lights went out, and the big city lights lead us astray.

And so we, as the adult, can and must use our strength and grace to MAKE space for the child. We need to show them that they CAN take up space and should.

There are myriad methods of connecting with your inner child, and I’m certain, given time on the Googles each of you could find a way that suits you both.

I encourage you with all of my heart, and with extra whoops and hopping from my own inner child, to reach inside, hold out a loving, caring, compassionate hand to yours, and get reacquainted. Learn each other. Tune in to the energy you both bring to this journey, and then allow little you, to step into your magick with you.

Ask them which herb, which stone and why? How they feel about the magick you share. Ask them anything, everything!

I was shocked to find that a good number of the practices that I was keen on, but never sat quite right with my adult mind, had very strong reactions and solid reasons as to why they didn’t work for me, from my little self.

There are reasons inner child work is used as an avenue for healing. And while I’m not looking to take you on a massive healing journey here (this is something you alone can and will embark on when it’s your time). I’m well aware that it will bring you much to process and deal with.

And so, I urge you to go easy. Be gentle. Be patient. Be everything little you needed then, now.

Keep it FUN.

Remember, this is YOU, as a CHILD. Allow yourself to love, nurture and care for that child as you would any other precious child placed in your trusting care.

Both you and your inner child are facing a very uncertain and swiftly changing world right now.

Change is hard and scary. For both adult you, and your inner child. As an adult, you may be seeing little or no hope. And as if the walls are closing in.

Little you may see so many other ways around, through and out of where you feel jammed as a biggun’. And if not, you can hold each other while you figure it out over pizza and cartoons.

What I’m saying is, when facing change, be gentle, move slowly, and take baby steps.

Ever wonder why we are suggested to do that?

Take baby steps…I feel it’s because quite often it’s the little footsteps of our inner child, that is curious enough to nudge us forward. Little feet, making great and compassion filled strides for our greater good. When adult us can only see issues.

You may have noticed myself, and the two wonderful souls, who happen to be very dear friends and my magickal sisters, (Jane, WitchSwap’s founder, and owner of Spirit and Bones, and Nicole, owner of Seedling Spiritual) encouraging a ton of inner-child play right now on Instagram.

This is because we are knee-deep in our wellies jumping in the puddles of how empowering it is to dance in the rain with our inner-child. And to fully embrace the women we are and are becoming, because of who we were, way back before we stood back from our Magick and the world snuffed out the spark of our fire.

We are seeing the deep and profound magick of watching the flames reignite.

Listening carefully to the little voice of our inner child as it guides us home to that knowing that comes from not having been here long enough, as a human to have the magick squeezed from you.

The fuel for our fire.

As we stand back and warm ourselves in this ever-growing inferno of self-knowing, love and acceptance, that comes from this most magickal and primal connection, we invite you to join us and warm your souls, lives, and magick at our fire of friendship.

And please, bring your inner-child.

My heart to yours

Trace.