What is Taoist Wicca?

Few can deny that we live in a society governed by a cracked cultural mirror filled with flawed assumptions and unreasonable expectations that puts us in a near constant state of "fight or flight." This pressure is causing an epidemic of stress, stress-related illnesses, and low self-esteem costing us millions in health costs, lost wages, productivity, and most importantly, robbing us of a sense of well-being as well as the joy and meaning in life.

Taoist Wicca was developed as a seasonal self-coaching and ritual calendar system to address these issues. The practice of Taoist Wicca takes you on a spiritual journey through a calendar year to manage stress, and boost self-esteem, while building community and refining life skills such as: setting intentions, making and keeping commitments, goal-setting, cultivating self-love, practicing accountability, embracing your shadows, focusing on gratitude, and making peace with loss and death. This practice can help you challenge this fractured mirror, reclaim your divinity, and find the magick in each moment, while manifesting your dreams.

The ancients used the seasons to grow food. We can use this same seasonal wisdom for healing, gentle introspection, and building community. Taoist Wicca is a healing and self-improvement system based on the holistic, cross-cultural similarities between Taoism, the Hindu Chakra system, and the ancient agricultural calendar used in Wicca.

Taoist Wicca encourages gentle introspection to guide your choices, help you better see your patterns, and shift them when necessary. You can add this seasonal introspection and hypnotic ritual practice to your existing spirituality, work with the archetypes, or focus on the qualities you want to invoke that will enhance your personal balance and help you manifest the life you want.

Each of us is a hero on a quest to reveal the inner truth that would collectively, and personally, empower us. You may not grow a garden, but each of us must still cultivate ourselves and offer our potential for the collective good of our family, community, and planet

No prior faith is required; just suspend "disbelief" and run the experiment!

The Hypothesis of Taoist Wicca

As a Certified Massage Therapist, Reiki Master Teacher, and Hypnotherapist, I have observed that people who had nothing to do with Wicca would come through my healing practice with physical and emotional issues relating to the Chakras with the same themes as the upcoming or recently passed, Wiccan holiday (sabbat)!

I hypothesized that the seasons are hardwired into our psyches inspiriring us to do

particular, introspective, emotional work as the yearly cycle unfolds. In this way, the seasons offer us windows into the psyche and the hidden connections between the body, mind, and spirit, stress and illness, ourselves, each other, and the natural world.

How Taoist Wicca Developed

With a background in medical anthropology and a degree in Holistic Health, I was deeply concerned about the rising epidemic of stress, stress-related illnesses, and chronic low self-esteem. I was also fascinated by how the ancients used rituals for healing, yet ritual is nearly absent from our modern culture.

Although rituals were used with vastly different belief systems, the ritual process has been used by numerous cultures worldwide for 99% of human existence in conjunction with a wholistic (holistic) worldview of infinite connection.

I posited that there had to be something powerful and practical about the ritual process to produce meaningful results, despite vastly different belief systems!

Could the ritual process be a creative means of managing stress and meeting our needs for balance, belonging and empowerment, currently absent from our culture?
Why is ritual virtually absent from modern culture?
Could the use of ritual be an underutilized healing tool?
Could this ancient wisdom be the key to shifting many of our personal and cultural ills?
Could group rituals be a positive tool for building community and addressing the rising health crises of stress and loneliness with their damaging impacts on health?