The Evolution of Maiden Magick
It’s backwards, it’s weird, and it’s definitely nowhere near it’s final form.
9-ish months ago I created Maiden Magick. I'd love to say it was to help people in a way that had helped me so much (and eventually, that became true) but that's not why I started it.
My husband (the best example of a human being I’ve ever known, despite constantly leaving his murder boots out for me to trip on) has been working twelve to fifteen-hour days, five-plus days a week since he was a teenager.
As you are probably aware, we live on planet bullshit where we have to pay to exist. Where there’s never enough money, plus taxes, inflation, greed, tariffs and all that garbage. Let me be so real: Maiden Magick started as a plan to make money. To ease his workload. To buy back some of his time. To pay bills.
If you asked me when it started, or where I got the ideas that eventually became… all of “this,” I would honestly tell you that as far as I know, I woke up one day, opened my MacBook, and 6 months later randomly, I was like whoa wtf just happened. I have no idea when I made a decision to start doing this (still barely know what ‘this’ even is) and it just seems to keep evolving. For months it’s just kept pouring out of me. Now it’s evolved to (I think) the point my subconscious was apparently trying to guide me to all along. Sharing my experience, sharing an idea and hoping that it might help well… anyone really.
Now here I am, in whatever the heck month I'm in, planning to write an actual book, with a full-blown case of imposter syndrome, still not able to keep up with myself, while simultaneously working on 1,726 plans with 12 archetypes and a dream way bigger than I seem to ever know what to do with, and praying that I’m not the bad kind of delusional.
I pretty much hopped on board, threw that fucker in reverse at full speed, until I’d circled alllll the way back around and arrived at the starting point. All I can say is… this does not surprise me, about me, in the least.
Here's the thing nobody tells you about building something: it WILL teach you things about yourself that you didn't plan to learn and maybe more than, frankly, you ever really wanted to learn (coding, website building, and other boring useful junk). I signed up to make some money and get my husband home earlier. I did not sign up for sharing my personal development arc. And yet… here we are.
For way too much of my life I was led to believe that I could not trust myself, that I lacked common sense, that there was something fundamentally wrong with me. Even after being removed from those beliefs, I had been so conditioned that I continued to carry that voice with me. Still to this day, I sometimes struggle to see when that little sonuva bitch is going to creep up on me.
Maiden Magick has taught and continues to teach me so much. As much as I’m hoping to help anyone else, it’s been helping me immensely to create it (I swear the universe is just obnoxious with its lessons sometimes). Lately I’ve been learning, again, about trusting myself, my intuition, and my inner gang (who've been screaming at me from the sidelines while watching me fly backward at full speed, fixating on fonts).
This last month has been full of big decisions, big moves, and some even bigger problems I did not expect. I was again given an opportunity to practice listening to my intuition and taught (once again) a nice little lesson that the rose-colored glasses I apparently always somehow keep finding on my face have NO place with business partners. And, just because I have lines I would never think to cross, does not mean there aren’t others out there tapdancing all over them.
That being said, I feel good going into this month. I feel grounded and exhausted, but also stronger and confident in my clarity. I’m glad to be letting go of what doesn’t serve Maiden Magick, glad to have the opportunities to learn these lessons. And DEFINITELY glad (and still in shock), to have so many people read my weird ramblings, and like them enough to decide they want more.
Ya weirdos…
You’re the best!
Thank you so much for being a part of Maiden Magick. There’s no way it would be magickal without you!
(Take the compliment, don’t make it weird)
♥
Elle
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