As a child, what superpowers did you wish you had?
Have any of them manifested? Maybe in ways you didn’t anticipate?
All children have access to that innocent, unfiltered connection with magic and the Divine. This was me all over. As a kiddo, I knew that animals could talk, and that stones and plants had magic powers. I knew that all the spirits and deities I learned about in mythology were real. The stories I most enjoyed reading were fantastical, magical interpretations of the world, usually told through an epic journey of self-discovery and actualization of the protagonist.
When I was 10, I broke my arm and practiced surrounding the wound in brilliant light so it would heal more quickly. When I was 12, my childhood dog was diagnosed with diabetes, and I practiced putting my hands on her, sending colored light into her body.
Michelle Hawk at age 5 with her first puppy.
I still have an old journal from when I was about 13. On the first page I had written a list of “superpowers” I wanted to have. It included:
Being able to talk to animals (and hear them)
Take on an animal shape
Make plant medicine
Read people’s minds/telepathy
Healing people and animals
Flying
Time travel
Communicating with other worlds
I didn’t grow up learning about healing and magic as part of my everyday awareness, but I was lucky because my parents never told me to stop “making things up” or that the way I saw the world wasn’t real.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the case for a lot of people. It seems much more common that our young, magical kiddo selves get shut down, told “no,” put into little boxes and forced into the horrible choice between remaining true to our purest essence and being accepted by our families and communities.
But that magical kiddo with a wish list of superpowers is still inside you. That part of you that speaks the language of innocence and Spirit, the part of you that instinctively knows how to make an offering to the Fairies, the part of you that dreams of befriending Dragons and studying with a wizard in the forest. The part of you that communes easily and fluently with the Divine and with your highest self never goes away.
That list of superpowers from your inner magical kiddo isn’t so much a list of “I wish I could”s, but more a list of “I want to remember how to”s, because it comes from that truest part of your pure essence. Your wisdom is trying to guide you home to yourself.
Take a look again at my wish list of superpowers. That list I made as a young teenager is entirely Shamanic and magical practices: energetic communication, shapeshifting, healing, astral travel and channeling. In other words, all of those are practices that I have grown into and studied on my spiritual path since 2003. They were all things that I already knew how to do, and my magical kiddo self was simply reminding me that I could. (Flying and Time Travel are less literal than young Michelle intended, but I think we can count it.)
Maybe you don’t have a list written down from your childhood, but I invite you to revisit the fantastical desires of your magical kiddo self:
What “superpowers” did you wish you had as a child?
As you continue on your spiritual path, how are those “superpowers” manifesting? (It may or may not be obvious.)
Does your inner magical kiddo self have any messages or reminders for you about your abilities and your relationship to magic?
If your magical kiddo self were to direct the course of your practice and training, what would they want you to do next?
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