How does one live a healthy, abundant life within the impossible economy, without succumbing to the dreaded “victim mentality”? Or worse “scarcity mentality”?! These have become bad words in the pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps world of entrepreneurs and personal growth. But goddamit every goddess needs her day as a bog witch. Look ya’ll, Innana got dismembered by her own sister. Persephone was abducted, and worse. Lilith got exiled. Sekmet went into a blood-drunk rage. And Mary Magdalene lost the love of her life, her station, and then had to flee her homeland. 

The story of the feminine is long, dark, bright and unpredictable. It can handle the taboo words of victim and scarcity mentality. It’s been handling all the other taboos for 5000 years or more (Eve chuckles). I’m telling this to myself: you’re not wrong when you feel like you’ll never make enough money to provide for a family. This does mean it’s true. (I’ve checked in with Wonder Woman Witch when she’s ovulating and she’s absolutely certain you’re winning life). It’s just that you’re not wrong for feeling the weight of scarcity, and the oppression of victim identity in a broken economic system, built on a societal/political arrangement that values the masculine, hierarchy, capitalism, and oppression of peoples, plants and animals over basic rights. You’re not wrong to wallow for a minute, even if you are aware of your privilege. Even if you are aware of how good you have it. Sometimes, perspective isn’t enough, because sometimes the bog witch get’s her period on a Sunday in January and decides that instead of marketing her next course because she needs to pay rent (pulls hair out), she is going to sink into said bog and mutter untruths like: “you will never be loved.” “You should get a real job.” “You’ll never have a family.” “You’re so bad at budgeting, if people found out you’d probably loose all your friends and any future partners.” “You’re addicted to work and you’ll never meet someone because you work too much.” “You can’t take time off-how dare you-the list!-how will you manage as a single mother-are you fooling yourself?”

I took the day off.

Ok 80% of the day.

I played ukulele.

I know that this is space mostly for beekeeping intel and inspiration, but I also know that there are a lot of your using this space to run your business. It is not formulaic and it’s not just a mindset. Yes, learning good habits, lifestyle hacks, and mindfulness can and does improve your business, but not with a blind eye turned away from the darker sides of this little capitalist “anybody can be a millionaire” attitude. Lilith will have none of that. The bog witch will suck the marrow right out of your morning mantra. It happens. She has a purpose too. She is not interested in your success stories. She is going to march you into her hut on chicken legs and fatten you up, because this hustling situation you’ve been praising yourself for, is a whole big bag of hot air as far as she’s concerned. She is going to compost you. Don’t worry, Arianrhod will descend from her spinning crystal castle in a few days and extend a hand of positive inspiration, so you might as well climb on into the oven and let the witch cook you. 

Toodaloo.