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What My Love Candle Taught Me About Worthiness | Geechee Mama

What My Love Candle Taught Me About Worthiness

I have set a lot of love lights over the years, for myself and for women I love, and the same lesson keeps arriving before the wax even pools: the candle works on the road between you and love, and it cannot work on the part of you that does not believe love should arrive. Worthiness is the first ingredient, and nobody sells it.

The petition tells on you

Listen to how a woman words her love petition and you will hear exactly where she stands with herself. Somebody, anybody, whoever will have me is a petition written from the floor. The work honors specificity, and specificity requires believing you are allowed to want what you want. A petition that names real qualities, spoken by a woman who expects to be answered, is half the work done before the match strikes.

Sweep your own porch first

The tradition orders it plainly: cleanse, then draw. That is practical, because old residue clings, and it is also spiritual arithmetic, because you cannot pour into a vessel that is full of somebody who left. A spiritual bath takes the old off. If the ending never fully ended, Cut & Clear work closes that door so a new one can matter.

The candle in the mirror

This is why Walk In the Room sits in our love section right next to Pull Up. One draws love toward you. The other reminds you who love would be arriving to meet. Plenty of women think they need the first candle when the work actually starts with the second, and the ones who burn them in that order tend to write me the best emails.

Worthiness is a practice

It is built the way everything in this tradition is built: on a rhythm. The bath on a schedule. The light tended. The petition spoken out loud in your own voice until your voice stops apologizing for it. Love work done from worthiness draws different, because it is not begging the road to open. It is standing in the road like you belong there.

Stand like you belong there. The worthiness teachings go out on the email list, at the bottom of this page.

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