Why Morgan Le Fay Is Every Witch’s Spirit Guide.
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How do you remember Morgan le Fay?
Chances are that you remember her as the mysterious, sexy bad-gal sorceress from the Arthurian courts.
Sorcery, seduction and the scent of magic. That’s Morgan le Fay’s legacy.
In the Arthurian stories, she was the poster girl for Magic. Something about her fearless commitment to her craft excites us. Her ability to shape-shift and enchant her world rivets us. And what’s the core of that?
She isn’t afraid to be powerful.
What is a witch, after all? What is a sorceress? She’s a powerful woman, emphasis on the power-full. She has mastery of her destiny: her life happens on her terms, by her choice.
She decides what she wants, and then claims it.
That is the magic of the witch: a woman who is unafraid of her bold desire.
Ironically, for many years, society has been very afraid of a woman’s bold desire. It’s chaotic and untidy if we have all these women wanting things all over the place, feeling all the feelings, demanding better than the scraps they were given.
So a lot of us have been trained out of feeling our bold desire, our raw feelings, our seductive longings, purely because it’s been inconvenient for the people in charge for so long.
Those people in charge? They just didn’t realize how much female desire and power could transform their lives for the better.
Right now in history, women are experiencing a re-witching.
We are reclaiming our bodies and souls. We are choosing to say No to relationships that do not fulfill us. We are demanding for our voices to be heard. We are claiming our power like never before. We are remembering how we are innately powerful and worthy, and making powerful choices at every level of our lives.
As we are called back to our own power, we hear the siren’s song of our desire, and try to navigate our way towards it through the slippery coves and past the perilously rocky pitfalls of our habitual, internalized thoughts of what it means to be a woman with power.
Morgan le Fay was undoubtedly the most powerful and active witch in the Arthurian stories, but she was not a good witch. She has been recast again and again as selfish, cruel, mean, manipulative, power-hungry, and too damn sexual for her own good.
Is this just? Probably not. It just suited patriarchy’s agenda that a powerful, independent woman is portrayed as evil, because it’s been invested in the women-as-property paradigm for so long.
In modern times, we have been so trained to believe that it’s important to be liked by everyone and make their lives easier — that’s what good girls are supposed to do, right? Good Girls are happy with what they are given. We are told that it is selfish to want more, that we should be happy with less, that our needs and desires are not important or reliable.
This is where us innate witches get tripped up. We can’t be both the Good Girl and the Witch. The Good Girl intrinsically gives her power away to others. The Witch wears hers proudly like a crown.
So much of our nasty witchy goodness lies outside of what society thinks we should act like as women, and much of the path feels as if we are working against some unwritten, unspoken code of how we should be. It’s a scary place, because women who step out of the mold of being good and into their own power are still demonized today.
Today, so many covert nasty witches are bravely standing up, speaking out and claiming themselves as strong and powerful.
Women are re-witching. They are putting their desires at the forefront of their priorities. They are listening to the rhythms of the moon, the stillness of the night sky, the scent of the earth after the rain. They are sinking back into flow with the cycles of the feminine earth — watching their menstrual cycle, honoring their ebb and flow of emotions, knowing that life is not linear.
Morgan le Fay watches over this re-witching and smiles. She’s the Patroness of Witches, the one who teaches us about power and truth, and she knows that to reclaim our power we have to be bold. To care a little more about our truth, and a little less about how uncomfortable we make other people feel.
The path of the Witch is one of constantly uncovering your inner truth — what is real and what is not; what you want and what you don’t; what you stand for and what you won’t. Morgana as Mistress of the Mysteries stands at the gate of magic, inviting us to walk in and dance the dance of power, truth and desire. She asks us to be bold, to peer behind the curtain of what is hidden, and divine what we see there.
Do you hear her whisper?
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Demelza Hillier is a priestess, an artist, a dancer, a performer, and an ecstatic devotee of Morgan le Fay and Venus. She runs online Priestess Mystery schools, curates Goddess-soaked retreats in Glastonbury Avalon, and runs mermaid e-courses to help people unleash and play with their wild inner mermaid. In her world, bubble baths are an absolute necessity, fine lingerie is a mandate from Venus, and sexy trashy vampire TV is to be enjoyed indulgently. You can learn more about her work and get free presents and e-courses at her website, pop on over and say Hi on Facebook, or join her online mermaid coven.
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