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When the inner Sage begins to stir, most people expect clarity, confidence, and purpose. But what rises first is often fear. A deep, ancient fear. A fear that doesn’t match your current life. A fear that makes no logical sense.
This is the Witch Wound — the inherited memory of centuries where intuitive women, healers, midwives, seers, and medicine carriers were punished for their gifts. Lisa Lister speaks of this with such clarity: the Witch Wound is not just personal trauma — it’s collective memory woven into the nervous system of every woman who carries spiritual sight.
We may not consciously remember the persecution… but our bodies do. Our bones do. Our lineage does.
So when your Sage begins to awaken, when your gifts turn back on, when your intuition sharpens and your voice grows stronger, the first reaction is often: “Is it safe to be seen this way?” “Will people think I’m crazy?” “What if I say the wrong thing… what if I’m too much… what if I’m judged?”
This fear does not mean you’re broken. It means you’re remembering.
The Witch Wound shows up as:
• fear of speaking your truth
• fear of being judged or misunderstood
• fear of sharing intuitive gifts
• fear of being “too much”
• fear of visibility
• fear of your own power
• fear of standing out in your family or community
These fears come not from your present moment, but from the body’s instinct to protect you from past harm — even harm you weren’t alive to witness. This is ancestral memory, collective trauma, and soul-level remembering rising to be healed.
Awakening lights up the same pathways that were once punished. No wonder the fear rushes in.
From a Sage’s perspective, the “witch” was never the enemy. In shamanic traditions, the word once meant wise one — the healer, the herbalist, the midwife, the bone-knower, the dream-walker, the bridge between worlds. A witch was simply someone who could see, sense, feel, and know what others could not. She carried medicine, intuition, and sight. The world didn’t fear witches; it feared women who remembered their power.
And so the Witch Wound became a generational silencing — the fear of being seen, the collapse of the voice, the shrinking of the soul, the hiding of the gifts. This wound lives in the nervous system of intuitive women, passed down through centuries. When your inner Sage begins to awaken, that buried fear rises to the surface because it’s finally ready to be witnessed, soothed, and released. Your awakening is not reopening the wound — it is lifting it.
You are not here to hide. You are not here to shrink. You are not here to apologize for your gifts. You are the descendant of every woman who whispered her magic in secret so you could speak yours out loud. The Witch Wound rises not to stop you — but to show you where freedom is waiting.
Your inner Sage says: “You are safe now. You can speak now. You can remember now.”
What your ancestors hid, you are here to reclaim.
If you feel the Witch Wound stirring in your awakening, one of the most powerful resources I can recommend is Witch by Lisa Lister. Her work beautifully articulates the history, trauma, and reclamation of the witch identity — not as a stereotype, but as a birthright of intuition, power, and self-remembrance. This book is a permission slip to rise, to reclaim your voice, and to understand that what you’re feeling has deep roots and deeper purpose. It’s a companion for any woman remembering her magic and stepping back into her inner Sage.
May the fear you feel become the doorway. May the memory you carry become a lantern. May the Sage within you rise with clarity, courage, and breath. You are not here to be silenced — you are here to help the world remember. Your awakening is not a threat — it is a return.