The Spiritual Audit
spiritual alignment series - energy hygiene + spiritual protection
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“We are being called —urgently, fiercely —to get in shape and prepare. Not just in body and mind, but in spirit and energy. The forces moving through this world are not here to play. If we want to sustain, protect, and create change, we need to be in right relation with ourselves, our magic, our ancestors, our communities, and this living Earth.”
This is the opening to our Seasonal Spiritual Alignment Series, a journey that shifts with each season to reflect a different spiritual focus. This summer, we’re diving deep into energy hygiene and spiritual protection.
The Spiritual Audit is our first post of the series, and it’s the foundation we need to move forward —honestly, clearly, and in deep alignment with our spirit.
To learn more about the series, read here.
If you’re new to this space and wondering who I am, start here.
Let’s be real: the Spiritual Audit isn’t designed to be comfortable. I know many of us resist or push back against deep introspection but we can’t build a solid spiritual life or practice without first calling out the illusions, the bullshit, the misalignments. We need to get honest.
Magic is not an aesthetic. It is Indigenous. It is our birthright. It is embedded into all that exists. Yes —real power, true gifts, heightened intuition, they are very real. And those who walk with their gifts, who truly embody them, know that power doesn’t come from tools or aesthetics. It doesn’t live in spells or full-moon rituals. It’s woven into our being.
And if we don’t get honest about our connection to all that is, if we stay disconnected, performative, or out of alignment, we cannot embody our calling. We won’t be able to come back to ourselves when things get harder, darker, and uncertain.
Decolonizing magic and spirituality is vital. It’s about reclaiming our connection, our relationship to our bodies, our spirits, our ancestors, the land, our truth. Decolonizing simply means returning to origin. To the truth before it was stolen, sold, diluted, distorted, and turned into an aesthetic, a trend, a marketable identity.
So we begin here. In a space where we tell the truth. Where we lay it all out to be seen, felt, witnessed.
What does spirituality truly mean to you?
Is it even present?
This audit will help you gain clarity and figure out exactly where you are and where you want (and need) to be.
Since the spiritual audit is primarily about introspection, writing, and witnessing, I created a downloadable PDF to make it easier to return to and work through.
If possible, keep a dedicated journal or writing space where you can collect everything in one place.
We’ll have two weeks before the next post, which will focus on an Energy Audit.
Before then, I’m opening a thread in the chat group on July 16 for Q&A + support around the spiritual audit. The thread will stay open until July 18 so everyone has time to check in, and I’ll be responding throughout those three days.
You can find the chat room below:
The Spiritual Audit isn’t about getting it right. It’s about getting honest.
Your spiritual practice should feel like home —not a performance, not a checklist, not another thing you feel bad about forgetting. This audit is not here to shame you or pressure you into being or doing more. It’s here to help you tell the truth about what’s working, what feels misaligned, and what’s calling you back. It’s a space to reflect on what your spiritual practice actually is —not what you want it to look like on paper, but what it feels like in your bones.
You don’t need to have it all figured out. You just need to stay in conversation with your spirit. Let your practice evolve with you. Let it be imperfect. Let it be honest.
You’re not doing this to look spiritual, you’re doing this to be with yourself, your ancestors, your values, your sacred path.
Let’s begin…
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