Let the magic catch you
you don't need to be fearless. take the leap.
Hello beautiful community,
It’s been some time since we last spoke. I’ve been away, busy, experiencing this delightful life of mine! Making love to my misfortunes, spinning gold from dust, and paving a path that’s truly worth living.
Recently, I’ve come to understand that joy doesn’t arrive when everything is perfect. It arrives when we decide to alchemize our pain. That’s when my magic is at its strongest.
Contrary to what some might think, I’m not a glass-half-full kind of person. Yes, I’m bubbly. I laugh a lot. I dance, I smile. But that’s not because life has always been kind. It’s because I know what happens when we let despair take the wheel. I know how heavy it gets when we forget that we are still in control of our own story.
The truth is: we hold on to our pain far longer than it wants to stay. Pain is not here to make a home inside us. It’s here to pass through. To transform. To become a golden light for someone else to follow.
We are alchemists by nature, whether we realize it or not. We are always shaping what hurts into something new. Not with swords and shields, but with poems, prayers, and fresh beginnings.
Lately, I’ve been meditating on The Magician card.
In tarot, there’s a story called The Fool’s Journey, a symbolic path of self-discovery that unfolds through 22 archetypal cards known as the Major Arcana. It begins with The Fool, numbered zero. The Fool represents innocence, wonder, and the courage to leap into the unknown without knowing what comes next. Each subsequent card represents a person he meets on his journey towards enlightenment. The first card he meets is The Magician…
I imagine The Fool leaping from the cliff with full trust and no plan. For a moment, it feels like the end—like he’ll crash into the rocks below. But before he falls too far, he lands in an ancient, electric energetic field, rather than someone’s arms. That’s the work of The Magician.
The Magician doesn’t save The Fool with muscle or might, but with presence. With a knowing that bends reality, and a quiet command of the elements around him. Before The Fool even realizes it, he’s standing again. A candle flickers between them. The Magician lifts it, and the flame dances. Small, but alive.
That fire is Qi, known in Chinese medicine as our fundamental life force, or vital energy, that flows through all people, nature, and the universe. This fire can light a room, or fade into smoke… It all depends on how we tend to it.
Before The Fool can ask questions, he sees four tools laid out before him: a wand, a cup, a sword, and a pentacle. Everything he needs to begin.
And The Magician says:
You’ve had it in you all along.
Use your gifts wisely.
Create something that matters.
We are all The Fool sometimes—leaping into the unknown, unsure if we’ll survive. But magic meets us mid-air, if we let it. And when it does, we remember: we are stronger than our fears. Our Qi can never die. It only waits to be awakened and transformed.
So go ahead. Write the poem that’s been waiting. Sing the song only you can hear. Spirit gave you everything you need the moment you arrived.
You don’t need to be fearless.
You just need to leap.
The magic will catch you.
A special mix for you…
Music is the sound of our our souls dancing with Spirit. That’s why it moves us so deeply. I’ve been playing around with DJ-ing lately, and it’s opened up a whole new portal for creativity for me.
This mix came together while I was reflecting on everything in this piece; trusting the unknown, catching your own fall, finding the spark again. Let the sounds move through you as you write, stretch, dream, or leap!
Take the leap.mp3
Or you can listen on my soundcloud :)
Heart-opening writing prompt
"What do I create from my pain?"
Think of a wound you carry. What wisdom has grown from it? What beauty have you made despite or because of it?