Are you curious about the mystical world of witchcraft? If so, you don’t want to miss MysticMag‘s exclusive interview with Mystic Harmony Rose, in which we delve into her intriguing journey through mysticism, exploring her witches mentorship program, shamanic healing sessions, captivating retreats, and the evolution of the modern-day perspective on witches versus the historical view. Join us on this enchanting exploration of the mystical arts.
How did you get into mysticism? What was your journey like?
Mysticism came to me through Yoga. I was always a seeker. I was raised religiously in a Mormon family, with a lot of women who had what I would call witchy tendencies. When I left the Mormon church, I started seeking to find out what it was that I believed in. After going to every church in town, I realized that I did not believe in any church, so I went back to my witchy roots, to that draw I always had when I was young.
That led me to yoga, as I had some health issues. Yoga became an integral part of my life, but I still continued being a seeker. One day, in one of the yoga classes, my teacher said, “The only thing the mystic knows is that the mystic knows nothing at all.” I loved that, and it stuck with me. It made me realize that it was ok to search out and continue seeking that transcendent truth. Meditation in yoga became a significant part of my daily life and my quest to find out what my own truth was.
Can you share a few details about your Witches Mentorship?
My witches mentorship is structured to meet the individual’s level. For beginners, which is who I often work with, we start with learning protective rituals. We delve into opening a circle of empowerment and protection by invoking the elements and deities as protectors. We learn to connect with the elements of the natural world – earth, air, fire, water, and spirit. Then, we cover how the modern perception of witches compared to the historical view of a witch. We aim to ensure that they understand the term “witch” and how its meaning has evolved to its present form.
Then we go into spell-crafting, honoring the wheel of the year and seasonal changes, as well as how those cause changes in our bodies. These initial sessions, typically 3 sessions, provide a fundamental grounding, creating a solid foundation for their journey, and then we can expand from there if they want to continue.
Can you walk me through an Intuitive Shamanic Healing Session?
In a shamanic healing session, I will have my client lie down on a massage table and close their eyes, and I’ll often cover them with blankets. A shamanic session is rooted in a lot of sounds, and I also incorporate a bit of hypnotherapy into it. That helps me guide the client into a very transcendent, mediative, state. From there, I start working with the person’s ancestors, spirit guides, and their energetic field. I use different instruments during a session, like rattles, drums, and singing bowls, alongside specific hand movements and breathwork, to clear the energy around their body, which they may be carrying from their everyday life, their past life, etc.
What is the Priestess Path?
The Priestess Path is an online course that I teach. It’s a path of leadership and service for the divine feminine. To me, this means being in service of the goddess or the divine mother. That’s always going to look like a path of leadership and service to the awakening of divine feminine.
This weaves into my offering as a womb priestess. My service is offering womb healing and a path of healing the repressed Divine feminine in women. That spans across all my work, whether it’s through witches mentorship, priestess path, my retreats, or even the shamanic healing. It’s always centered around that awakening of the divine femininity, healing the wounds that are passed intergenerationally through women and carried in our womb space.
We go from working with the natural world in what I call the first temple and making a magickal medicine cabinet to the goddess temple, which is connecting to our creator, the Divine Mother. From there, we go into inner child healing and working with healing your inner child, which then leads into the temple of womb healing. You learn to do some womb healing techniques that you can do at home for yourself. Then we go into connecting with the elements to start being able to manifest in your own world. That involves a lot of meditation and activation with the different elements that we use in our magickal work.
What are your retreats like?
I have two different retreats that I hold every year. One is called “Wild Woman.” This one is heavily focused on healing the womb. It involves a lot of nature and outdoor activities. We do womb healing for the entire group. We also do Yin Yoga and get into the deep tissues of the body that hold trauma. Then, we work our way into a yes/no meditation. In this meditation, we learn what our “yes” and “no” feel like in our bodies and how we do or don’t express these feelings into the world. After this self-exploration, we move into womb healing sessions. These sessions include a 13th rite of the womb ceremony which is part of the 10 rites of the Munay-Ki. We do that healing ceremony at every retreat.
At each retreat, we also have an herbalist who educates us about plants used as medicinal teas. We also work with crystals and do spellwork. There are a lot of sharing circles and sisterhood involved. We learn how to come together as women in a healthy, non-competitive, non-judgmental way, and learn to love and support one another, which helps us move through our everyday life in a healthier way. This experience helps us reconnect with our wild roots and our essential connection to the Earth because, in our modern world, we often become disconnected from the Earth. However, the earth is a mirror of our divine feminine essence in all humans. Going into nature and connecting with the dirt and the soil, meditating outdoors, and interacting with plants, their spirits, the sun, the moon, and the changing seasons helps us recognize how our bodies also move through these natural cycles and changes. Instead of remaining overly connected to the concrete world, high-rise buildings, and corporate jobs, we are coming home to who we really are as souls in human bodies. The retreat promotes learning and personal growth.
The second retreat that we hold every year is called “Practical Magick.” It is my personal favorite. Named after the movie “Practical Magick,” this retreat is really fun and focuses on what I took from that movie, which relates to sisterhood, owning your magick, and understanding what your magick is in the world. At each retreat, we recreate the “Midnight Margaritas” scene where they make midnight margaritas. However, our version doesn’t include tequila. Instead, we use a kava kava tincture, which is non-alcoholic. Well, every tincture has a little bit of alcohol, but it’s minimal. We gather around a kitchen table, dance, drink our margaritas, and sing, creating a joyful atmosphere.
In addition to that, as well as the sharing circles that we always have, the retreat heavily focuses on spell crafting, learning about spell jars, and creating a book of shadows. This year, we made our own brooms to realize why brooms were so sacred and seen as part of the witches’ magickal tools. This is not only because women of the past, primarily in the home, used tools like brooms, but they had to make those brooms, and it wasn’t an easy task. So, you connect to the elements that the broom is made of, like the wood of the handle and the broomcorn. You’re connecting to the elements of earth and air. As you do that, your own intention goes into that broom. It becomes a sacred tool to you, not just a broom you’d buy at Home Depot for cleaning your house.
There are many things we learn about the witch at these retreats. For example, we wear witch’s hats, and we learn why witches are often depicted wearing them. We also learn why witches are often portrayed with a green face, even though it’s not a positive image. The history of the green face traces back to the torture and pain inflicted upon women accused of being witches. They were often imprisoned, beaten, and emerged looking very different from when they went in.
The witch’s hat was, on the other hand, originally part of paganism, during efforts to suppress it. When pagans were persecuted by the Roman emperors, many of their husbands were killed, leaving the wives alone. To survive without husbands, these women would make beer, which is the origin of witches’ brew. They stood on street corners with cauldrons, brewing and selling beer, and wore tall, pointy hats to be visible in the crowds. This history is far more complex than that, but things like that really help us understand who these women who were accused of being witches actually were.
I also wish to point out that our retreats don’t follow the practices of Wicca, which is a religion of witchcraft. I respect their beliefs, but I personally do not adopt any religion, even if it’s the religion of witchcraft, so I consider myself a solitary witch, and I bring that aspect to our Practical Magick retreats. I do want to allow women to come together as a sisterhood, similar to a coven you might find in Wicca. Solitary witches do not form covens, so this retreat gives them a unique opportunity to experience the collective power of women coming together and doing magickal work over four or five days.
To learn more about Harmony and her work, you can visit www.mysticharmonyrose.com
