Hi Reader,
If you’ve ever scrolled over spirituality on Instagram or witchiness on Tiktok, you’ve probably noticed a trend.
So much “love and light.”
High vibes only (insert all the emojis here).
Positive thoughts = positive life.
And sure, there's some truth in that. Your thoughts do shape your experience. Your vibration matters. But also, if that’s all it took, we’d have world peace by now and I’d be drinking coconut water on the beach instead of fighting fascism writing to you about how to work real magic.
What you won’t hear in most spiritual spaces, especially online, but you do need to know if you want to actually work magic that changes your life:
“Negativity” isn’t the problem.
It’s the key.
Magic, the real kind, the kind that shifts realities and calls back your power, requires more than affirmations and rose quartz. It demands that you face the parts of yourself you’ve buried.
Your shadow.
The anger you weren’t allowed to express. (Like when you smiled in the meeting while someone took credit for your work, then laid in bed, seething at 2am).
The jealousy you swore you’d outgrown. (Like when you clapped for your friend’s win, but deep down you felt it was unfair that it’s never your turn).
The shame you tried to laugh off so no one would see it still hurts. (Like when someone mocked your accent, even though it stung).
All of the messy, uncomfortable, raw, “not spiritual” stuff. That is the fuel for the alchemy. Because there is no regeneration without decay first.
When you try to skip that part with “good vibes only”...
…you cast spells from your fear instead of your truth,
…you repeat patterns under the illusion that you’ve “healed”,
…you stay stuck, confused about why your manifestations don’t manifest…
…and you’re not where you wanna be, or getting what you wanna get.
What I teach every bruja-in-training at Bruja School is this:
Your magic gets powerful when it gets honest.
When YOU get honest.
When it includes your rage and your grace.
When it flows through your tears, not just your vacation photo dumps.
When you stop trying to banish your shadows and instead ask them what they’ve been trying to teach you.
You don’t need to fix yourself to be powerful.
You need to come home to yourself.
All of you.
That’s what integration looks like. It’s the opposite of spiritual bypassing. It’s taking the time to sit with your discomfort, not as something to be conquered or avoided, but as something sacred. Something alive. Something trying to reconnect you to your whole self.
Your power doesn’t live in the polished version of you.
It lives in your complexity.
The part of you that can hold contradiction.
The part of you that remembers you are both divine and human.
The part of you that knows healing isn’t about getting rid of anything—it’s about reclaiming everything.
So if you’ve been feeling like you’re doing “all the things” and it’s still not working… if your rituals feel flat or your magic feels stalled… I want to gently ask:
What are you still afraid to look at?
What part of you is waiting to be let in?
Your shadows aren’t here to sabotage you. They’re here to remind you of your wholeness. They are your magic, waiting for a seat at the altar.
So this week, don’t just cleanse your space. Don’t just pull your cards.
Get courageous.
Ask: What part of me have I labeled unworthy of magic?
And then: What happens when I bless that part?
Because I promise you: when you embrace the full spectrum of who you are—your doubt, your brilliance, your wounds, your wisdom—that’s when everything shifts.
That’s when your magic becomes undeniable.
And that’s when you remember: you were never broken. You don’t need to be fixed.
Just be, completely.
Courage, truth, and infinite love,
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I don’t believe in magic, but I know that it works!
Magic is not a belief system, it’s a practice that works. Don’t believe me? Come try it out. If it doesn’t work, you lose nothing. But if it does… your dream life is about to begin!
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“El poder está en la acción.”
— Maritza Schafer