Cerridwan’s Klatch: Validation – The Realness of feeling Validated in 2022

I would like to take the opportunity to talk about validation and how it fits into our faith community and into the Craft. As a Spiritual Life Coach and Chaplain part of what my job is deals with validations. When working with a patient in the hospital or in the correctional facility it is the desire to be heard, to be seen in regards to the client’s thoughts, emotions and experiences. This is what I do. Be it in my Coven or in my day to day job. One of the things that keeps us from connecting with the self is that feeling of shame and the opposite of shame is compassion. That is done through validation. Shame is when we do not feel good about who we are. In coven I hear members say “I do not think it’s ok for me to feel this way” they may even shed tears and then apologize for the tears. This tells me they feel ashamed about the situation they are under and no magic worth its weight in energy can come from this darkness. With the Craft, we use energy and emotion (Intention) and thus part of my role as a High Priestess is to help my students through this process to know they are in a safe space to be themselves in perfect love and trust. Some childhood or inner child trauma can come out in circle and this is the beginning of outside thoughts of childhood being projected onto us and creating self doubts.

As a High Priestess my coven knows we work on feeling(s)…. That is what validation is, it is a feeling, it is an emotion. We have experiences that can become tied to emotions that cause us triggers. In coven work, I teach the craft of learning to face the blocks, the fears and break this down by validating the experience the practitioner can change the emotional trigger of fear or shame separating the emotion from the experience and what I have learned as being a High Priestess is that very few people have received validation for accomplishments. We live in a day and age that focuses on the negative and its stems from vulnerability. Again all these emotions affect the practice of Witch within their Craft and how they learn to build, sustain and maintain energy for exercise like the Cone of Power. One can not build up a healing power when one is not healed themselves. People tend to suppress their vulnerability; they are not able to communicate properly and that is detrimental to the sacred circle in group mindset work. Validation can lift the weight off the Crafter and help them build their skills in energy and emotional intention from a positive point of view that increases their chances to manifest their desires into the now. What is the greatest feeling as High Priestess is seeing my students through validation, they in turn see me and through this validation work, equal energy can be transmitted and received and this builds a strong circle of rapport and trust. For without shadow work one can never experience the inner truth of love and pure joy.