Featured Practitioner: "Darkness is the Catalyst Toward Your Higher Calling"
/Mina Reyes, Deaf Shadow Priestess, shares her own story of coming to be. She breaks down the walls to show us how the reality of how moving forward isn’t always a pretty ride.
It all began 6 years ago on the day I gave birth to my daughter. I wasn't just giving birth to my baby--I was also giving birth to myself. This rebirth initiated me into a long dark night of the soul for the next four years. No, it was not postpartum depression. It was the rite of passage that prepared me for an ancient role I've recently embraced.
My life immediately changed like any new mother; however, as I stepped into a new role as a mother, my friendships vanished, including some family members and relationships. All of the sudden, I was standing by myself in the middle of the desert with no emotional support system in sight. This experience depressed me and I became reclusive which was strange because I used to be confident and outgoing before I had my daughter.
It was also a time when I dived deeply into exploring my spirituality and found my spiritual abilities to communicate with spirits and reading tarot as a Psychic and tarot reader. It was a homecoming and a relief that I wasn't crazy for hearing voices for a long time. I had high hopes that being a psychic would make me happy again and it did for a short time, but with access to the ethers, you see a lot of things you don't like. (When you've embarked upon a spiritual journey, your consciousness expands and the veil has become translucent to the point where you see the unconscious parts of you that had been the mastermind to my melancholy reality.)
For the next two good years, I was self-wallowing and in constant pain. My sense of worthiness was non-existent. I gave my power away to men sexually. It was an eye-opening view into the pain that I unconsciously held in my failed relationships, friendships, and importantly, myself that shaped my life up to this point. I honestly didn’t think I could see the light again or get out of this mental space I was in. The pain felt like a cold and hard mountain to climb.
I kept asking God what was the meaning of this lesson. "Why am I suffering? Why am I in darkness? I am serving your people, and yet I am not happy. Why!?"
SPIRITUAL JOURNEY IS NONLINEAR
Besides building my side business as a Psychic/Tarot Reading, I was also working at my 9-5 job as an instructional assistant. Frankly, I wasn't happy being invisible, underpaid, and overworked. As I built a client base becoming someone that people came to for healing and readings, I was still feeling out of alignment. It made me feel empty and scared because I didn’t want to go back to that space where I was depressed. Fears got the best of me and I spent a lot of time overanalyzing, overthinking, and micromanaging everything.
There came a pivot point in my life where emotional satisfaction was lacking and frustration became a monster, which affected how I served in my business and lived my life. It is no coincidence that in 2019, I hit a massive wall in my business as a psychic, not making money at all, AND also was severely burnt out at my instructional assistant position at the same time. Everything in my life was falling apart.
That was when I made a bold choice—to quit my job and become a full-time psychic—for the sake of my mental health and inner peace because I could not continue living like this.
Then, it dawned on me that I've held onto the tethering to the darkness for too long--the one where you're in constant survival mode, scraping money, getting taken advantage of energetically, and clogging your vessel with settling for less.
Later that summer, I was in spiritual recovery. It was very uncomfortable to peel off the conditioning while also feeling the weight of building a new reality since I left the job security at a school system.
SHADOW WORK
When I thought I had done major inner work, it was only a tip of the iceberg that I explored because there was a stubborn manifestation wall that I could not break through for a long time. When I declared that I would no longer work for anyone else, but to only follow my soul’s path, the Universe asked me to show up fully--every day, unapologetically. It also asked for full devotion to my soul and be seen as wholesome.
To be honest, I knew what the Universe really meant and I dreaded it.
The blockages, hitting walls, and frustrations I was experiencing were clues that I had not appropriately dealt with my shadows. In fact, it asked me to face my shadows. Ironically, it was what my soul was craving.
A deep connection with the higher-self was missing. That prompted me to reach out to a High Priestess on my birthday for support and guidance turning my gifts into a flourishing business. By then, I had to step away from my business and social media for a month to do the shadow work, recalibrate, reconnect, and re-remember my soul purpose.
Doing the shadow work revealed a harsh truth; the tower I was clinging onto for dear life was crumbling down. It was causing me constant pain because I couldn’t let go and transform like in true Scorpio fashion.
My High Priestess guided me to create a stronger and intact foundation to support my work as a conduit and tap into my magick. Under her support and guidance, I was finally feeling at peace with myself.
“The pain was no longer my enemy and became the medicine...”
Then, the light opened up in the darkness. A profound realization came to me.
The pain, sufferings, and long dark night of the soul was all part of my divine plan because it was aligning me to my ancient and authentic higher calling as a Shadow Priestess. The pain was no longer my enemy and became the medicine to liberate others from their minds and assist them into their hearts toward the most authentic space in their life.
This article was written by the ever-so-gifted, Mina Reyes. Get a 1-1 session with her or sign-up for newsletter!
Mina Reyes (MinasMessagesForTheSoul)
Mina Reyes is a Deaf Shadow Priestess, spiritual mentor, liberator, paradigm shifter, and mystic writer that supports people to reclaim their innate power through shadow work and to aligns with their higher calling.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Services with a focus in Mental Health Counseling. Mina's work centers shadow work, soul-guided alignment, self-love, and practical magic approach to life through channeling, ancient wisdom, and Akashic Records. She is a stay-at-home mom serving brilliant souls all over the world remotely.
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