People who walk in spiritual truth don’t need to prove it. Too often conviction gets mistaken for truth and dogma disguises itself as justice. But those rooted in sacred defiance know how to hold space for complexity. In this episode we move beyond surface-level activism and ask: are you a spiritual warrior?

 

Through the symbolism of the Strength card, you’ll discover how quiet endurance and inner alignment reflect true power. We explore the tension that arises when your spiritual path disrupts comfort—yours or others’—and offer a self-assessment to help you discern: are you aligned with the spiritual warrior archetype, or are you performing and projecting?

 

You’ll also hear why Moonstone is the perfect crystal ally for this path, and receive a step-by-step ritual to anchor your intentions with clarity, compassion, and courage.

 

YOU WILL LEARN:

 

✨ What defines a true spiritual warrior

✨ The essence of sacred defiance

✨ Why holding space for discomfort, paradox, and growth is necessary for spiritual integrity

✨ A ritual to create an intention jar that supports your path with purpose.

 

This episode is especially relevant if you’re engaged in healing work, advocacy, or spiritual leadership—and want to do so with integrity and discernment. Listen now to explore what it truly means to be a Spiritual Warrior.

 

00:00 Introduction to the Crystal Self Healer Podcast

00:40 The Spiritual Warrior’s Path

01:40 Understanding Sacred Defiance

03:50 The Strength Card and Its Significance

05:17 Balancing Change and Harm

08:06 Self-Reflection Questions for Spiritual Warriors

10:05 Moonstone: The Crystal for Spiritual Warriors

12:00 Creating Your Intention Jar Ritual

13:36 Join the Charmed Community

15:12 Conclusion and Next Steps

 

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Episode #68 – Are you a Spiritual Warrior?

Introduction to the Crystal Self Healer Podcast

Welcome to the Crystal Self Healer podcast. I’m Corissa Weaver. On this podcast, we blend the magic of crystals with the science of psychology to help you break free from chaos, ditch the overwhelm, and master your emotions so you can have more energy, get more done and feel better every day. Get ready to unlock your intuition and restore your true power as we cover how you can transform your life using crystals and self-awareness.

Are you ready to get started? Alright, let’s go.

The Spiritual Warrior’s Path

If you’ve spent any time in the spiritual or witchy spaces, you’ve no doubt invoked the phrase for the highest good with harm to none.

It’s a beautiful sentiment and a powerful guiding principle.

Whether you’re truly walking the path of the spiritual warrior or not will dictate how you proceed.

When your work is to move and shift energy, whether it be through crystal work, spell work, or championing spiritual and social justice, you will wrestle with when you are ushering in change that can cause harm to someone else.

Throughout history, there have been so-called crusaders who have done everything in their power to bring about a change they believe in, regardless of the negative implications.

In the military world, they call it collateral damage, and that can be a really uncomfortable realization to sit with.

Understanding Sacred Defiance

There is a fine line you walk when you engage in sacred defiance. When you choose to speak up, push back, or shift the energy of a system, a belief, or a collective wound.

The real question being addressed here today is, are you a spiritual warrior?

By the end of this episode, you’ll have what you need to see if you are on a path of social and spiritual justice, or if you are a spiritual warrior in name only.

The spiritual warrior is one who confronts, protects or upholds sacred truths, often in the face of great difficulty or danger. This identity is driven by purpose and alignment with something larger than the self.

Not every warrior is fighting for justice, and not every person invoking the divine is aligned with sacred truth.

All too often when people set out on projects around social justice, they are approaching it from a position of enforcing others to comply with their will or personal morals.

The focus is on the fight, the willful application of pressure or force to bring about a certain reality. This alone will bring about resistance.

To be a spiritual warrior means becoming an embodied match for the world experience or movement you want to create.

Living in alignment with the world you’re here to build, not just reacting to the one you are resisting.

Sacred defiance is not coming from a place of fear, hate, or control, but from deep alignment with truth, dignity, and divine justice.

It’s not passive.

It’s not about pretending darkness isn’t there.

It is about engaging from spiritual sovereignty for yourself and others, instead of reactivity.

The Strength Card and Its Significance

The card inspiration for this episode is strength in the energy to call in placement from a crystal and tarot forecast reading inside the Charmed Community. Generally, the strength card is reflective of situations or moments where management and endurance are required.

Think of those moments where you need to dig deep to pull through or be resolute and determined enough to stand the test of time.

So while we see a woman standing over a lion comfortably managing the jaws of the wild beast of a lion, she’s clothed in a white dress, a symbol of innocence and purity. Around her is bright yellow, a symbol of enlightenment and the willpower of the solar plexus chakra.

She has a serene look on her face all the while managing and enduring the traits of the lion. And the lion is fully under her control as depicted by the tail between the legs.

Finally, the divinely aligned power is reflected in the infinity symbol above the head of the woman. The strength of a spiritual warrior is infinite, reminding us that the path of the warrior is eternal and inward as much as outward.

Balancing Change and Harm

But how do you balance when the change you’re ushering in does create harm? What happens when standing in your truth means someone else’s comfort or even their power has to be disrupted?

Spiritual justice may indeed be hurtful to someone, and you may or may not be aware of it.

Don’t think for a moment that when you’re working towards spiritual justice that someone who interacts with your work won’t have cognitive dissonance or feel hurt as a result from your work.

There is nothing more painful than to see how you’ve been responsible for the very things you fight against.

Nothing more difficult than realizing when you’ve been wrong, or where your beliefs have caused harm.

But the fact that someone is hurt should not stop you from being a spiritual warrior.

The difference is that when your work is spiritually aligned, there is no intentional harm, only the harm of seeing what you were previously working so hard to not see.

Spiritual justice, true aligned justice, honors, dignity free will, collective care, and the sacred interconnectedness of all beings. It is not built on exclusion, domination, or scapegoating.

It doesn’t require the dehumanization of others to affirm a point.

It doesn’t weaponize morality or cherry pick spiritual law to justify cruelty.

How you answer a single question will tell you everything you need to know. Are you aligned with love, truth, sovereignty, and free will?

If your answer is no, then the role of spiritual warrior may be more costume than calling for you.

This answer indicates you may be confusing spiritual warrior for a distortion of sacred defiance.

If you weaponize belief to justify control, dominance, or exclusion.

If your service to the divine reinforces harm, especially toward marginalized or vulnerable populations, you may want to reevaluate your work.

An aligned spiritual warrior by contrast, remains accountable to something greater than doctrine: the spirit of love, liberation, dignity, and interconnectedness.

They examine their own biases.

They evolve.

They listen as much as they speak.

And they understand that right action without relationship is not spiritual, it’s theater.

Self-Reflection Questions for Spiritual Warriors

So go grab a paper and pen and answer the following yes/no questions.

Do you honor the autonomy and spiritual agency of others, even when their choices differ from yours?

Do you seek justice in ways that uplift rather than humiliate or dehumanize?

Do you stay curious when challenged, instead of becoming defensive or righteous?

Do you live by spiritual values without needing everyone else to agree or comply?

Can you discern the difference between sacred truth and inherited dogma?

Do you recognize how pain, trauma, or privilege might be shaping your convictions?

Do you lead with humility, even when you feel convicted by spirit?

Are you open to evolving your understanding of the highest good?

If you answered mostly yes, you may be aligned, but check for dogma or rigidity.

If you answered mostly no, there’s room for growth and exploration of where your beliefs are causing unintended harm.

If your answers came mostly with a but, you are walking the spiritual warrior’s path: rooted, discerning, and awake to the paradox of this thing we call life.

And to bring it back to the invocation at the outstart, for me, I now say for the highest good, with no intentional harm to any.

That way the intention behind my work holds true to the power depicted in the strength card, steeped in purity and enlightenment. Not just my own, but for the collective, so we can all heal and progress along our journey.

Moonstone: The Crystal for Spiritual Warriors

To support you as a spiritual warrior, I’m going to offer Moonstone as a crystal to work with, and here’s why.

When you feel yourself stepping into your spiritual warrior self, not the kind that needs to shout or prove, but the kind that’s rooted in truth, compassion, and clarity, Moonstone helps you move with your fear, so you can speak up, stand firm, and hold the line.

This crystal teaches you to trust your own timing. It softens the edges of urgency and lets you connect to something deeper than your reaction when your emotions start to boil, especially when you’re navigating politics, religion, family values or activism. Moonstone can hold space for your nervous system while your heart decides what’s actually worth saying.

It complements the solar plexus chakra where your sense of personal power lives. But instead of pushing your will forward, it helps you move from aligned intention. There’s no power struggle here. Moonstone reminds you that sacred strength doesn’t need to bulldoze, it knows when to speak, when to pause, and when to move in silence.

If you’re practicing emotional intelligence or healing from years of masking your sensitivity, Moonstone has your back. Keep it nearby. When you feel overwhelmed by the energy of others, when your nervous system is fried, or when you’re choosing to show up as a lightworker in a world that doesn’t always value softness.

Moonstone is the perfect crystal to support you in calling in the calm, peaceful energy of the strength card when you are stepping up to be a true spiritual warrior.

Creating Your Intention Jar Ritual

The ritual I’m going to offer today is one you can instill more of your personality in while having it maintain the strength you need as an aligned spiritual warrior.

You’ll need a little jar, incense, coarse salt, paper, black tea, a white or yellow candle, and moonstone chips.

Start by using the incense to smoke cleanse your jar.

Sit for a moment and establish your intention for this jar. Maybe something like, “Let the justice I seek, honor the autonomy and spiritual agency of others,” or some other phrase that feels right for you.

Write your intention on a piece of paper, no taller than the inside of your jar.

Now start your jar by adding a layer of salt for cleansing and purifying.

Next, add a layer of black tea for courage and strength.

Next, add some of your Moonstone chips.

Take the paper you wrote your intention on and roll it up towards you like a tiny scroll and place it in the bottle.

Feel free to add additional herbs or crystals that support your intention.

And when finished, close the jar.

Use candle wax to seal the jar closed.

You can now pop this intention jar in your purse, pocket, or leave it on your altar.

Let it remind you that your strength lies in alignment, not in domination, for the highest good, with no intentional harm to any.

Join the Charmed Community

Today’s pairing of the Strength card with Moonstone is from a recent crystal and tarot forecast inside the Charmed Community.

I invite you to join me in this free space where I share these readings weekly to help you align your energy and focus your week.

You’ll also get the opportunity to connect with others who are exploring their growth and creating change in their lives just like you.

Join us for free the link is in the show notes.

And if you’re tired of being on an emotional rollercoaster, constantly juggling everything in your life, and you want to be part of a space that holds you in your healing. A space where you could feel seen, supported, and connected, I’d love to have you join me inside the Crystal Self Healer members portal.

It’s where we go beyond the weekly guidance and we apply it to your life, equipping you with the tools, resources, and support to build your confidence in crystal healing and emotional self-care.

Inside you’ll get personalized coaching, healing sessions, rituals, and everything you need to truly empower yourself to live with more ease and alignment.

Visit my website www.threecharmedgems.com or click the link in the show notes to learn more and join me.

It’s time to stop living at the mercy of emotional triggers and start living in spiritual integrity. The Crystal Self Healer Members portal is where that shift begins. Come and find your clarity.

Conclusion and Next Steps

Today’s episode has been brought to you by Strength, Moonstone, and Sacred Defiance. May we all stand for justice that honors the sovereignty and will of others that lends itself to the highest good for all.

Blessed be, my friends.

All right, my friends, that wraps up this week’s episode. Thank you for joining me here today on the Crystal Self Healer Podcast. If you haven’t already, hit subscribe, leave a review and take the what Crystal is best for you. Quiz linked in the show notes. Join me again next week as we continue to demystify crystals, how your brain works and how you can use them so you can have more energy, get more done, and feel better every day.