Deepen Your Intuition by Building a Personal Intuitive Language

If you're reading this, you likely already have a relationship with your intuition, but what happens when you're ready to go past gut feelings? So much of what's available online and in books skim the surface of what it means to be in touch with your intuition. 

As global changes continue to stir and we move deeper into unknown times, having a robust relationship with your intuition will help you navigate these times. 

Knowing your gut feelings is essential, but it's just the tip of the iceberg when working with your intuition. Is it time to deepen your intuition into a full-fledged intuitive language? 

Working with an intuitive language is something many mediums rely on, but don't let this scare you away. You do not have to be a medium to utilize this essential intuitive skill. I've created a system to make crafting your intuitive language accessible, whether you're just getting started or already have a well-honed intuition. 

In this blog, you'll learn:

• What an intuitive language is 

• How building your own can help deepen your ability to navigate life and relationships with your guides and magical allies

• How to start creating your unique, intuitive language

• An example of what an intuitive language can look like in real life

Do you already know you want to go deeper and learn practices to create your intuitive language? Explore my in-depth workshop, Building an Intuitive Language in the Craft Your Own Magic Circle membership here to access the class, or grab a drop-in class pass to attend live and get the replay here. 

What is an Intuitive Language?

A personal, intuitive language lets you dialogue intuitively with your spirit (higher self, oversoul, whatever term you prefer), spirit guides, magical allies, ancestors, deities, etc. But keep your mind wide open. I'm using words like "language" and "dialogue" here as metaphors. Communicating with your intuitive language will differ from chatting with your bestie. 

Having an intuitive language is unlike learning French or Spanish; I can't just teach you my language. Building your intuitive language will be unique because we each receive and process intuitive information uniquely and have different associations with feelings and images. Sure, some people might have a similar language to you, but it's like a fingerprint; yours is unique. 

An intuitive language enables you to go beyond binary "yes" and "no" dialogue with your intuition. While establishing a “yes” and “no” communication is an integral part of the process I lay out for you here, adding additional vocabulary is also essential.

Having an intuitive language allows you to decipher the subtleties of intuitive communication more clearly and accurately. 

While building your intuitive language will help you navigate life, the goal isn't to utilize it as a spiritual vending machine. Having an intuitive language doesn't mean you'll suddenly know how to navigate every moment of life perfectly. Even with a robust, intuitive language, aspects of your life and this world will remain in flux in ways that won't allow you to gain definitive advice. Some details will always belong to the Great Mystery of life. 

I'll share an example of my intuitive language later in this post, but for it to make more sense first, let's cover why you'd want to do this and how to get started creating your intuitive language. 

Why Create an Intuitive Language? 

Creating your unique intuitive language isn't just about gaining insights about how to navigate your life. It's about knowing yourself better and understanding the depth of variety in which intuition can express itself (in yourself and others). But it goes beyond this. 

Creating a unique, intuitive language allows you to form genuine and reciprocal relationships with your closest magical and spiritual allies. 

Think about some of your closest relationships, friends, family, or animal beloveds. What's your communication like with them? You probably have a deep rapport with them, perhaps even unique ways you communicate that only happen between you and that beloved. 

When you focus on your ability to communicate with your spiritual and magical allies, your relationship naturally deepens. 

By learning how to communicate better via intuition, you create an environment that leads to deeper relationships, creating a cyclical loop of understanding and deepening. 

When you communicate intuitively regularly with your closest spiritual and magical allies, it will come naturally to you, and your ability to understand your intuition will happen more automatically. 

5 Steps to Build Your Unique Intuitive Language

When building your unique intuitive language, understanding how intuition manifests in your body (subtle and physical) and how it feels is key. You might already have a great foundation with this. If so, great, skip to step two! If not, start with step one below to learn more about the "clairs".

1. Understanding your dominant "clairs"

This will give you a place to focus when learning what intuition feels like in your body. Think clairsentience (clear feeling), clairvoyance (clear seeing), clairaudience (clear hearing), etc. Check out a past blog post where I break these down in greater detail here. While the clairs aren't the only way to understand how intuitive information lands in your body, it's a great starting point. 

2. Practice noticing how your intuition shows up and feels in your body 

Understanding your clairs points you toward where and what to pay attention to. Practicing listening, feeling, seeing, and knowing how your intuition shows up makes sensing it more automatic. Like learning any language, understanding how these sensations arrive in your body without spending a lot of time questioning is part of the process. Think of this step as an intuitive bootcamp. At this point, what's most important is recognizing how intuition feels in your body instead of focusing on how accurate you are. Building up your accuracy comes later. 

Here are some simple ways to start weaving intuitive practices into your day. Lean into your most dominant clair sense for each one. 

• Tune into your intuition each morning to ask for any insights or guidance for the day.

• The next time you need to make a decision that won't have a long-lasting or serious consequence (like deciding which direction to walk or what to have for dinner), check in with your intuition.

• Practice pulling tarot or oracle cards for yourself or others, and don't rely on the guidebook. 

• Tune into your intuition each night before bed to ask if there's anything you missed during your day that would be important to know.
  

3. Create a “yes” and “no” communication system

Once you understand what your intuition feels like in your body, start practicing a simple "yes"/"no communication system with your intuition to begin strengthening your communication muscles. I share some simple techniques for this in my book, Craft Your Own Magic, and will also share them in the Building an Intuitive Language workshop here. Essentially, you'll need to discern what an intuitive "yes" vs "no" is like in your body; again, this will be different for everyone. 

4. Form relationships with your guides, ancestors, or magical allies

To practice any language, having someone or something to communicate with will be helpful. Now, it's time to build a relationship with a spirit guide, magical ally (plant, tree, crystal, etc.), God, Goddess, or ancestor. If this sounds like a big leap from step three, grab my free guided journey to connect with a spirit guide here to get started. Start practicing your "yes" and "no" communication with a being of your choice and notice how it feels in your body.

5. Incorporate an inner circle of correspondences to form your intuitive vocabulary 

Moving your intuitive language beyond a "yes" and "no" system will require understanding what I call your "inner circle" of spiritual and magical allies. For some, myself included, these are the four elements and four cardinal directions. Feel free to borrow my inner circle if you're not sure what yours is yet, and don't worry; you can always change it later. 

Your inner circle is the birthplace of your intuitive vocabulary. Understanding how each energy in your inner circle appears in your body creates your intuitive vocabulary. For example, suppose you're getting to know a new plant, and you receive an intuitive insight that reminds you of something in your inner circle that aligns with themes of openness and curiosity. In that case, that plant is likely sharing that its energy is one of openness and curiosity.

Apply the same intuitive communication principles in the previous steps to incorporate your inner circle of correspondences into your intuitive language. 

Want more guidance? I share practices and a more in-depth look at this step in my workshop Building an Intuitive Language here, which you can also access in my membership here. 

Keep reading for an example of how I utilized my intuitive language in a recent experience. 

What an Intuitive Language Can Look Like in Action

Here's an example of how working with my intuitive language has been helpful recently. I sensed a need to build some quiet time to journey, a practice of spiritually traveling to different planes of existence and times. This initial nudge is what people often refer to as the gut feeling. My intuition got my attention. 

Here's where my unique intuitive language starts to come into play. Leaning on my intuitive language enabled me to discern what the journey was about, so I could decide if it was something I wanted to do. 

Based on the feelings in my body that I associate with the element of earth, I could tell the need to journey was rooted in something ancestral. In my practice, I associate the ancestral realms with the cardinal direction north and the earth element. 

I also saw pink roses in my mind, indicating that this ancestral journey pertained to my mother line because I associate pink roses with my mother line. 

I could also sense an intense fire energy around this invitation to connect with ancestors in my mother line. Coming up on a full moon in Leo, I knew fire would likely be very present, and the messages I needed to receive were likely quite intense. 

Journeying on the Leo full moon felt aligned. The ancestor in my mother line made herself known immediately. What came up was intense, but I was prepared. Our work together resulted in ancestral healing on my mother line, and I began noticing shifts and changes within myself and my family members within days. 

Start Building Your Intuitive Language

As the example above illustrates, building an intuitive language can make connecting with your intuition easier to understand and more approachable. Other benefits include connecting with plants and crystals, performing rituals or energy work, receiving insights from your guides, and more. 

While I have dedicated years to honing my intuitive language, I did much of it alone. I do this work to help you skip over some of the trial and error I went through. How different could this world be if more people could tune into their intuition from a deeply grounded and embodied place? The potential is incredible and positive. This is why I want to see you communicating intuitively with a well-honed and robust intuitive language. 

Did you find some new avenues to navigate building your intuitive language? I hope so. If you want to dig deeper, I'd love to see you in the Craft Your Own Magic Circle, where you can access this class or get the class on its own here.

Deep care,

Cassie

Reframing Energy Clearing to Claim Energetic Accountability

You know how this story goes: light up your herb of choice or grab your selenite, wave it around, and PRESTO, the energy is clear. While this narrative is standard in many spiritual and magical spaces, it lacks the nuance and know-how to do much and can even be harmful.

Like so much floating around in spiritual, wellness, and magical spaces, the art of energy clearing has suffered tremendously at the hands of capitalism and other harmful systems.

By commodifying such a sacred practice, we've also lost its magic and subtlety.

It's not hard to look around now and see that this plane is undergoing massive transformations. Yes, it's intense right now, but this is precisely why I want you to be aware of your energetic field and fully in your power.

Instead of stopping at "I need to clear my energy," let's mine down deeper to discover what's underneath—a call to take accountability for your energy and find the gold hidden within you.

So, What is Energy Clearing?

First, it's important to note that energy clearing varies culturally and from practice to practice. If what I share doesn't resonate with your practice, that's okay. As always, come with an open mind, take what you like, and leave the rest!

Energy clearing is a vague phrase that means different things to people based on their practice and ancestry, so it's hard to define concisely. Many folks think of energy clearing as a technique to remove unwanted energy.

I prefer the phrase energy tending or maintenance because energy clearing is nuanced and usually needs to go beyond removing energy.

Does Energy Clearing Work?

The art and practice of energy clearing is absolutely a real and powerful practice. However, the need for energy clearing is often misidentified and misused. Why?

Not every uncomfortable feeling can or should be removed from your energetic field.

Of course, this isn't always the case, but it points to the truth that the cause of our discomfort is often nuanced, layered, and personal.

Think of a time when you experienced a difficult situation only to discover it was exactly what needed to happen because it clarified something, opened a new pathway, or provided a valuable lesson.

Oftentimes, what you feel inclined to clear away is an invitation to pause and go deeper, especially if it’s a sensation you find yourself wanting to clear away regularly.

Here’s the reframe: most energetic tending is energy balancing, not clearing.

The good news: real, powerful, and transformative ways to shift, balance, transmute, and clear your energy do exist.

They're not all quick fixes, and some require training or permission, but there are many things you can do to take your energetic well-being into your own hands today.

Let's get into this.

Energy Clearing vs. Balancing

In most cases, it's not a person, place, or situation causing harm to your energy; it's your response or reaction to them.

Clearing your energy or cutting cords from your field will usually do little to nothing. A more pressing and helpful approach is addressing the imbalances in your energetic field caused by your response to other people and situations.

This doesn't mean that bad actors and harmful systems don't exist. They 100% exist and cause harm on all levels, but trying to clear them away will be a constant game of whack-a-mole.

What I'm inviting in here is energetic accountability rather than an energetic blame game.

Next time you think, "So-and-so's vibes were off, so I need to clear it away." What would it feel like to approach it like this, "Wow. I had a response to so-and-so's energy. Let me investigate that."

Maybe after investigating a response to another person, you discover a wound within yourself that doesn’t require energy clearing but requires the soothing aid of water, or the grounding safety of earth to bring you back into a place of balance. (side note: eternal perfect balance isn’t the goal either, it’s the awareness of when you’re off balance and knowing how to come back.)

This approach requires accountability, time, possibly outside support, boundaries, and honest introspection.

When you focus on taking accountability for your energy, you get to identify the parts of you that need tending, better understand your energy, and work with it in ways that allow you to claim your personal power, and not the gross power over kind, but power with.

When you prioritize being aware of your energy and balancing it, it keeps you in your power.

Any good magician or healer knows that facing their shadows is necessary for healing or transformation to occur. Attempting to clear away every uncomfortable feeling won't work and skips over potential gold within you.

When to Use Energy Clearing

You might be wondering if energy clearing has a place. It does, and it's a practice I utilize with myself and others.

Energy clearing works wonders for residual energy, the energy you pick up in busy places, or maybe an old house with a lot of sticky energy hanging around. It can also work for entity removals and exorcisms, but these are very involved practices requiring training and/or permission.

Energy clearing won't help with the habitual personal, ancestral, and societal patterns that may have deep grooves in your energetic field or the soul lessons you might need to walk through.

Keep reading to understand more about the 4 key energy maintenance concepts I lean on in my energy maintenance practice with myself and clients.

4 Key Energy Maintenance Concepts

The good news is that countless energy maintenance methods and techniques are available, and you don't have to do it alone. Maybe the tips I share here will be enough to get you started. Or, you decide to take my Reframing Energy Clearing class here or work with me or someone else one-on-one.

An energy worker or healer can bring light to these things and begin the energetic balancing process. However, experiencing long-lasting energy healing will require honest introspection, which can take time, and sometimes, multi-pronged support (this is why I stopped offering single energy work sessions). To receive lasting results from energy work (outside of the rare Mary Magdalene, Buddha, and Jesus situations) requires an in-depth and honest process.

I approach the practice of energy maintenance through the lens of the four elements (earth, air, fire, and water), which provides common ground for many practices and is the lens from which I work.

Here are four key concepts to help you understand the basics of performing regular energy tending.

1. Assess what types of energies are present, e.g., residual, collective, personal, ancestral, etc.

2. Identify how each energy present best corresponds with an element (earth, air, fire, water)

3. Determine what approach is needed, e.g., clearing, balancing, transmuting, protecting, etc.

4. Build or utilize reciprocal and ethical relationships with practices to carry out the needed approach(es)

Energy Clearing is One of Many Tools

Considering these four key energy maintenance concepts, it makes sense that a simple wave of a selenite wand might not always do the trick when tending to your energy body. (Side note: this is 100% not a dig at selenite. Selenite is AMAZING, especially regarding energy work, but there are helpful steps that can make working with it more reciprocal and effective.)

The next time you reach for the herbal wand or crystal for a quick energy cleanse, pause, take a breath, and see if anything else wants your attention or if a different approach would better support you.

You deserve better than playing the energetic blame games. It's time to take full accountability for your energy, and I want to see you fully in your power.

Thank you for being here! If you enjoyed this post, share it with someone else who might enjoy it, or get in touch and let me know your thoughts. Join the Reframing Energy Clearing class here, and I’d love to see you in the Craft Your Own Magic Membership, where you’ll find monthly classes and much more.

Deep care,

Cassie

New Moon in Aquarius Visioning Ritual

Welcome to this new moon in Aquarius. A fixed air sign, Aquarius encourages radical, innovative, and authentic ways of being. This energy, paired with the new moon, invites you to explore how your most radical and authentic self wants to be honored now. 

Looking at the moon’s phases holistically adds even more insight to this lunation. In the previous new moon of Capricorn, you were asked to get curious about creating structure and stability. A question to consider with the last new moon in mind is, “What does authentic expression look and feel like when moving from a place of stability?” 

Themes for the Aquarius New Moon

Themes: Radical thinking, innovation, authenticity, not settling, curiosity, and visioning new ways of being. 

Element: Air

Modality: Fixed

Quote: “The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

Learn more about the essence of Aquarius here. 

Aquarius New Moon Visioning Ritual

The quote from Ursula K. Le Guin perfectly encapsulates the necessity of your imagination. The intention of this ritual is to encourage imaginative and innovative visioning for yourself, your family, your community, and the world to help yourself and others remember the infinite possibilities available to us all. 

This is a very open-ended ritual to help you access a state of visioning. The ideal time to perform this ritual is the day before the new moon, on the new moon, or the day after the new moon. 

As with any ritual, take what you like, leave what you don’t, and modify what you want to change. This is your ritual. 

You’ll need: 

• 25-60 minutes of quiet and uninterrupted time

• Paper and pen

• Drumming recording or music that helps you relax

• Optional: herbal smoke or incense (mugwort, vervain, and lavender are great options for this ritual)

• Optional: purple candle (any color will work if purple is unavailable)

• Optional: a crystal that helps you feel connected to your third eye or ability to vision (amethyst, fluorite, howlite, charoite, or quartz are great options)

Steps: 

1. Gather your materials and prepare yourself, your space, and your music. Preparing yourself and your space might involve energetically cleansing yourself and your space and casting a circle. 

2. Determine an intention and short phrase for your new moon visioning. This could be something like, “I imagine new worlds rooted in collective care and well-being.”, “I imagine a life rooted in authenticity, creativity, joy, and care.”, or “I envision a community focused on abundance, joy, and equality.”

3. If you’re working with a candle, herbs, or crystals, arrange them in a way that feels good to you. If you’re unsure, ask the crystals and herbs where they want to go or how they want to be a part of your ritual. An example might be placing your candle on your altar dressed with any herbs you’re working with and the crystal in your hand. 

4. If working with a candle, light your candle and state your intention. Ensure your candle is in a fire-proof dish in a safe space. 

5. Turn on your steady drumbeat music and begin to settle in. Learn more about the science of drumming and reaching altered states of consciousness here. It is also fine if you prefer a different kind of relaxing music. 

6. Sit or lie down and ground yourself. This might look like imagining roots growing from the base of your spine to connect with the earth or doing a round of box breath. 

7. State your intention again, close your eyes, and allow the drumbeat or music to wash over you. 

8. Focus on your third eye, perhaps even imagine it expanding or opening as you begin to vision based on your intention. Allow your mind to imagine and visualize a life, community, or world based on your intention. 

9. Vision for as long as you like anywhere from 20-60 minutes is ideal. 

10. When you feel ready to come to a close, slowly come back to your body by rolling to one side or placing your hands on your body. Open your eyes slowly and look around the room. I also like to have some tea and a snack ready to help me ground back into my body. 

11. With your journal, write or draw anything that came to you in your visioning time. Consider placing a note or a drawing on your altar or sacred space for the moon cycle as a reminder to move towards this vision. 

12. Express gratitude to any guides, plants, and crystals who assisted you in this visioning process. Release your circle if you cast one. 

Bring Your Vision into Your Life and the World

It can be helpful to schedule some processing time after your visioning. As the moon moves farther into the waxing phase, consider taking some time to reflect on your visioning. Here are some questions to consider as you reflect. 

• What parts of your Aquarius new moon visioning that stood out to you the most? 

• What parts seemed unrealistic or even impossible? 

• What parts excited you the most? 

• How might you begin taking action toward some of these visions?

After the new moon in Aquarius comes the full moon in Leo. The fiery and playful energy of a full moon in Leo can help you act on your visions, even the ones that might seem far-fetched.

May this new moon in Aquarius grant you the imagination to explore what authentic expression means to you and how it might better your community and the world. Blessed be.