Breaking Generational Curses – Witchcraft, Money and Poverty Consciousness
Money is a tricky subject in the spiritual community. It elicits strong feelings and activates a lot of people’s trauma. We’ve got so many stories about the nobility of poverty and the curse of money – but have you ever stopped to question: where are these stories coming from?
I grew up poor – and one of the things I knew from a young age was that it didn’t suit me. As a teenager, I missed out on a lot of school activities because as the eldest of four kids in a single-income, working class family, we simply didn’t have money for extraneous things.
In a lot of ways, I’m grateful for that experience – it’s one of the reasons I’m so driven in my life. I know what it is to have nothing. And that’s really shaped the way I think about and approach business.
What I know from having lived a life where we were poor, and now living a life that’s comfortable is this: you can’t do your best work – you can’t fully turn up and support others – if you don’t know how you’re going to keep a roof over your head or feed your kids.
More than this: if your work is to be deeply of service to others, you deserve to be comfortable while you do it. In a different time, you would have gone to a temple and offered yourself as a Priestess. The temple would have taken care of all of your material needs – but their money would have come from rich people paying for services (prayer, oracle, healing).
So really? You’re just cutting out the middle-man.
Priestesses, healers, witches, shamans have always been taken care of by their communities. Before money, you would have been paid in cows and chickens (for the record, I would still happily accept cows and chickens as payment!) – but money as an idea was literally created because when two people wanted to trade because, say, you needed a chicken and I had one, but you didn’t have anything I needed, we started to create IOUs to swap between us and other people.
Eventually, this evolved into money.
Cash is just another form of barter.
I have something you need, you trade me for something I need.
So where did this fear of money come from?
It’s one of the many wonderful gifts given to us by the Abrahamic traditions.
Do any of these sound familiar?
“The love of money is the root of all evil.”
“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven.”
But stop and think about the context of these statements for a moment. They’re rolled out neatly in a Church service, right before you’re asked to cough up tithing money.
Do the people who preach this actually believe it?
Well, I don’t know if you’ve seen The Vatican or the giant mega-churches – but it seems to me like Christianity on all fronts only has problems with you having money in your pocket when they could be spending it on more solid gold statues of naked baby cherubs.
Regardless of whether you grew up Christian (and I didn’t! I grew up with a psychic mother and an atheist father), growing up in a Western country means that despite the fact we now (mostly) practice separation between church and state, the basis of our society is very much Catholic and Christian beliefs. This means we all have work to do to deconstruct what values are actually ours, versus what’s been imposed upon us by a religion that hypocritically has one set of rules for the people, and a different set of rules for its clergy.
I see valuing myself and making money as a form of exposure therapy to help me deconstruct the social messages I’ve heard my whole life:
That poverty is noble.
That some people are so poor, all they have is money.
That women aren’t good with money.
That wanting to be secure and take care of my family makes me a bad person.
It’s almost like society has been set up so that for women to be liked, they have to be miserable. They have to give everything to everyone else and never ask for anything in return. They have to work, do 90% of the housekeeping and child-rearing, never get fat, be quiet and subservient, never complain and martyr themselves and their needs to everyone and everything else on the planet.
In short – women are expected to sacrifice their own happiness to be deemed acceptable.
And so I say:
Fuck that.
If the cost of making other people happy, of being “likeable”, is to sacrifice everything that would bring you joy and fulfillment (and the ability to rest), what’s the point?
Why not just focus on what makes you happy?
And I’m going to hazard a guess that what makes you happy is doing the work you were called to do, being in service to your clients, while also being in a financial position that allows you to feel safe and comfortable and to give your family experiences that will delight and shape them.
Read that again.
Doesn’t that sound … reasonable?
Not “greedy”. Not “evil”.
Just – reasonable.
So I challenge you:
Defy 1,500 years of patriarchal Christian nonsense.
Deconstruct the impact it’s had on you.
Find yourself a community of women who support you to step fully into your power and to become your best self.
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