Starting a new Journey

Hello Witches!

Megan here from Pentacle Pursuits. I wanted to start a new means of having an outlet to express myself, since the written word is something I personally love to explore. I also wanted a means of reaching my audience without the need for social media, as I’m coming to learn that I dislike it. The persona it incites everyone to put on removes the compassion and community it claims to bolster. When it comes down to it, we are all only human, and to set that aside for the sake of marketing seems inauthentic to who I am as a person.

Which brings me to the topic at hand. Authenticity.

What does it mean to be your authentic self? To live life through your own lens, versus the expectations of others that we choose to wear.

I think it means being honest about your content of character, and granting yourself the space to have difficult conversations within. One has to be willing to look at the hardest portrait we will ever face, a mirror. Until then, I don’t think anyone can genuinely be themselves. I can honestly say that until May of 2023 I don’t think I was allowing myself to look in my own proverbial mirror. To see who I had been running away from would surely be devastating…. and yet I was still there. How funny that my business is centered in grounding others and tethering themselves to their present selves, yet I could not find the courage to do the same. I did eventually get there, though, and since then I have been reorienting to myself in my own authenticity.

Some say it’s being un-apologetically you. I don’t think that is true, though. To be unapologetic is to remove fault in making mistakes, which is to deny our humanity in messing up. We all mess up. I mess up. Even the Magician messes up. What sets us apart in authenticity is being able to own our mistakes, apologize to those we’ve harmed along the way, and then move forward by doing different. That - to me - marks true growth.

The flower does not bloom in the shade of a misdirected leaf, but instead twists itself to face the sun and truly allows itself to keep on going. It will shed the leaf that didn’t work, and keep trying to get bigger and better. The flower doesn’t give up on a cloudy day, it still moves and strives for a different tomorrow. We can all learn to be like the flower, slow, but trusting in itself to continue to the next day; Unknowing that one day it will be appreciated for its beauty in totality. This is authenticity.

Much like the flower, I am learning how to grow. My misdirected leaves have lead me to a higher vantage point. I am looking into the sun, and photosynthesizing the best I can.

I hope you’ll do the same, and what a glorious community garden we’ll become.

- Megan