Confessions of a Witch Girl: Venom & Light
I have had a lot of people ask me what the significance is of my branding name, Venom and Light. I figure my blog is as perfect place as any to explain the concepts behind this dynamic, and contradictory name. I will also explore the dichotomy of the human condition, why I believe that each of us contain halves to one fully integrated whole.
Venom is poison. It is the compound found within a snakes mouth, at the end of a bees stinger, and in some cases in the words we speak to eachother and ourselves.
It has the capacity to leave its recipient immobile, severely disabled, or even dead.
Such a compound is both terrifying and powerful. It is terrifying in its potential for harm, for destruction. It is powerful for the same reasons.
Just as the snake, we too contain venom. We spit it at eachother, at society. We direct it like wounded animals, on to those around us we feel threatened by, smaller than, or diminished through.
We allow its power to leave our bodies freely, without much consideration of the damage it could cause.
But our venom is not something we should hide. It is of us, and so it does contain a deep, meaningful and creative power. Just as the goddess Kali is known for her hand in death and destruction, so that change can begin, that something new can be birthed in the place of something old. So too does our venom serve a creative, though destructive purpose.
If handled properly.
Our venom only becomes poison when we refuse to see its creative potential. When we use it for only harm instead of the pilot light for the flames meant to burn what no longer serves you, to the ground.
We must integrate this sacred venom from within the pits of our souls, we must see it for the sacred alchemical process that it can instigate.
It must be revered, but also loved.
This is the reason I have chosen venom and light for the name of my company and podcast.
Yes we can value our light worker qualities, yes we can shine and rays in to the World, focusing on how you, happiness, kindness. But so too must we honour our venom, and see it for the sacred calling it too must answer.
If we can learn to honour both aspects of ourselves, to allow them to work in tandem with the flow and cycles of our lives and our destinies, we can then truly step in to our most abundant, fulfilling, and sacred potentials.
