🐓💀🔥 Baba Yaga- she’s an intimidating, cranky, high-performing witch. With her impossible tasks and her fence posts of glowing skulls she reminds us that many things worth having don’t come easily, ad there is absolutely nothing wrong with setting boundaries that are loud and clear

I think of how she is a powerful reminder of DISCERNMENT. Of “cutting through the chaff” and not being swayed or distracted by fluff. She rewards the worthy but equally gifts justice to those who deserve to learn hard lessons.

I also think about how she is a bad-tempered old hag who likes to be left alone in her forest and I think to myself…

In your practice?

🐓Initiation rituals — entering a new phase of life, shedding an old identity

💀Shadow work — facing what you’ve been avoiding

🔥Setting fierce boundaries — she’s a good ally when you need to stop people-pleasing

🐓Death/rebirth workings — endings that need to happen before something new can grow

💀Seeking hard-won wisdom — she rewards effort and honesty, not flattery

Why I love her so much:

🔥She has no patience for false sweetness — come to her direct, plain-spoken, and willing to do the work she sets you.