Sometimes, we are on fire spiritually, and feel a deep connection with everything. Then there are times we feel nothing, and cannot hear the voices of spirits, guides, or any deities. Find out what to do during these times of spiritual emptiness and how to climb out of it.
Sometimes, your spirit is as light as air, you hear the voices of your gods and guides, and you feel a deep connection with every living entity there is. These times can make you feel so alive and connected- but the trouble is, these times don’t always last and sometimes you find yourself feeling empty, disconnected, and alone spiritually. Join Mysticsense to find out about these times of barrenness, or spiritual silence. Find out what that means, how it feels, and how to know it’s happening. You won’t be stuck forever though, because we have easy ways to transition out of it. Sometimes, spirit goes silent, and you can feel completely empty. Read on to find out how to change that.
What is Spiritual Silence?
Spiritual silence, also called spiritual emptiness, and spiritual barrenness is when you feel empty spiritually. Sometimes, you are questioning your faith during especially confusing times. Sometimes, you have reached out to your faith community and felt betrayed, and it makes you feel alone. Sometimes the voice of your personal goddess or god goes silent, and you feel like you have been set adrift in a sea of spiritual nothingness. Your spirit guides may go silent too. You can also receive guidance, but it doesn’t make any sense to you.
Spiritual silence can happen when things are going your way or even in the worst of times. It doesn’t seem like any one thing triggers it. It doesn’t seem like one thing resolves it either. It can happen for a short time, and pass quickly, or hang on for a long time, and feel like it will swallow you forever. It can make you pause, and ponder things or plunge you into an inner darkness. Read about those dark times and getting through them here: Dealing with Dark Times Spiritually
How Does Spiritual Silence Feel?
How spiritual silence feels depends on you. For some people, it is a necessary break and brings about solitude and peace. When you have felt bogged down or overwhelmed by a crazy amount of spiritual energy that is sucking you dry, a pause and spiritual silence can be your saving grace. It can bring you the quiet and time to go into yourself that you need. Sometimes you want to listen to your own voice and shutting out all other voices is helpful. This spiritual silence is therapeutic and it feels very good.
Sometimes spiritual silence feels like you've been abandoned. You feel like you are lost and without guidance. You feel like you are alone and forgotten. You might even feel unloved and wonder if you ever belonged to any spiritual guides at all. You might question all the spiritual experiences that you have had in the past, wondering if you were imagining them. You might even feel like you have to go on a major quest, searching for your goddess or god, but it’s not that difficult. Learn how to find them here: Dear God, Who Are You? Finding Your Deity
Signs You Feel Spiritually Empty
Signs of spiritual emptiness can be confusing. They might seem like things that don't have to do with spirituality, but they really do. You can feel the deepest feeling of aloneness you've ever felt when you're spiritually empty. You can also feel uninspired and lack hope. You can feel completely helpless in life and even question the meaning of your very existence.
You Feel Alone
When you feel spiritually connected with others and hear the guiding voices of spirits and deities, you can feel so connected with everyone and everything around you. When you feel no spiritual connection to anything and feel completely alone in the world in every way, that's an indication that you feel a spiritual emptiness. That feeling can be indicated when you feel like nobody understands your spiritual experiences or can explain them to you. That can also be indicated when you don't feel any form of connection, emotionally or otherwise.
You’re Uninspired
Feeling completely uninspired in life is another sign of spiritual disconnection or emptiness. When you don't feel inspired to spiritually open yourself to learning or connecting, that's a sign that you are spiritually uninspired. When you can't see the magic in small things like the feeling of warmth on your face from sunlight on a cold day or the laughter of children, that's an indication that you feel uninspired spiritually. When you're not inspired to walk your spiritual path or experience the magic around you, that's a sign that you feel spiritually uninspired. Maybe some spells and prayers for spirituality and love can help with that. Read about them here: Spells and Prayers for Love and Spirituality
You Feel Helpless
A feeling of helplessness can be an indication that you feel spiritually disconnected. When you feel like you have no control over your own spirituality and you feel at the mercy of some unseen forces, it can indicate a spiritual disconnect. If you had previously been able to count on spirit guides, your goddess or god, or even human teachers to help you spiritually, and those voices go silent and you don't feel their support, you can feel like there's no help for you and that you can't help yourself.
You Lack Hope
The feeling of helplessness can make you lack hope that things will get better spiritually. You can completely give up when you feel this way. You may look back on times when you didn't believe in giving up under any circumstances and wonder why you ever felt that way. You might see other people who are full of hope and think they're delusional during these times. You might also miss feeling hopeful and hope and pray that you feel that way again at some point in the future. Hope is different than blind faith, which is never a good idea. Find out why here: Faith Over Fear? Why Not to Believe Blindly
You Question Things
During these spiritually empty times, you can question spirituality at all and wonder why you ever bothered with it. You can question whether spirits and gods and goddesses even exist and even if they do, whether they bring meaning into relationships with people or not. You can question your own beliefs, the path you have been walking, and even question the very meaning of life itself. Don't worry if that happens though, because some people have said during these times of greatest doubt have come the greatest breakthroughs in their faith.
Will It Ever End?
Spiritual silence is like any other experience in life, it's temporary. Whether it lasts a long time or for a short period of time is the question. If you're enjoying your spiritual silence, you might hope that it never ends. If your own voice becomes your spiritual guide during this time, that spiritual silence will be short lived indeed. If you are waiting on guidance from an outside source, it will end when your guides decide to start speaking to you again. If your spiritual silence hurts, you will probably worry that it won't ever end, but it will. Personal magic can help you transform yourself- and when you change, your life changes. Read more here: Using Personal Transformation Magic
Why Does It Happen?
Spiritual emptiness can happen for a lot of different reasons. For one, it can happen when communication is happening, but you’re somehow not hearing it. You may be getting messages, but they make no sense, and that can make you feel disconnected. Spiritual emptiness can happen when you have gone through a terrible time, and nothing is making anything better. When unfair things are happening, and nothing stops it, you can feel abandoned and left to suffer unjustly. You can feel misunderstood, and that can make your spiritual connection with people you feel do not care to listen feel broken.
One especially difficult time spiritual emptiness can happen is when difficulties arise, and you seek guidance or support and you just can’t find it. You can pray, give sacrifices, do magic, and get no results during this time. It can make you question your entire relationship with your higher power and this can make you feel completely alone in life. This happens sometimes, because your higher power has faith in you to handle a difficult situation on your own- even if you think you can’t. That does not mean they abandoned you- they are just giving you space to handle things your own way. Read about embracing the Mother Goddess here: Embracing Divine Feminine Spirituality
What to Do About Spiritual Emptiness
Spiritual emptiness can happen to any of us. When you find yourself stuck in a spiritual rut, what should you do? Aside from hanging in there, waiting for the spiritual dry spell to pass, there is plenty you can do. You can pray, listen in different ways than usual, or get active in trying to solve whatever issues are at hand. You can review lessons learned in the past to see if you already have the answers, and most of all- trust yourself.
Pray
Prayer just means talking to a goddess or a god. If they have stopped talking to you, then you can initiate conversation and talk to them. In your prayers, you can ask them to start speaking again. You can ask them to reveal themselves through dreams, the wise words of others, or through your scriptures. Prayer is not a one way conversation. The gods and goddesses speak back- but prayer initiates that conversation on your end. One goddess who speaks when you pray to her is the Cailleach and you can read about her here: The Great Celtic Goddess of Winter
Listen Differently
Sometimes, messages come the same way for a long time. When it feels like the messages have stopped, have they really, or are they coming to you in different ways than usual? If your usual human guide does not have the answers, has someone else offered wisdom you can consider? Maybe the answers came from them this time. If you get no good vibes off a new love interest, is love hiding from you, or is your intuition telling you that they are not the one? If one spirit animal seems absent, is it because they stopped speaking or because another spirit animal has the answers? Just because answers don’t come the usual way doesn’t mean they are absent.
Get Active
If your goddess isn;t taking care of psychic protection for you this time, do it yourself. If your spirit guide cannot guide you, trust your own intuition this time. If your usual magic is not working- try another kind. If sending prayers out gets no results, find a way on the mundane level to get your own results. Sometimes, we are helped and guided and other times, we are called to do for ourselves and that is why spirits and deities go silent. You have the power to make a big difference and you can read how here: The Fine Art of Making a Difference
Remember Past Lessons
If you’re not finding answers to new problems, maybe they are not new problems. Maybe they are problems you have dealt with before, and your spirits and deities want you to remember how they taught you to solve these problems. If open communication helped with misunderstandings before, try that again and it will probably work. If you’re stuck in another toxic relationship, the way out before may be the same way out now. If you found a good resource with answers, maybe instead of asking for a new resource, you should consult that one again. Sometimes, new situations call for new answers, but sometimes, you know them already.
Trust Yourself
If your higher power has enough faith that you can handle things, so they have stepped away temporarily, then you should definitely have faith in yourself. You have handled every difficult situation in life so far. What makes you think you can’t do it again? With every challenge you meet, every difficulty you overcome, and every step you take to self-improvement, you become better. Nobody is more qualified to live your life than you are. Your gods, guides, and advisors know this. Now, you need to have the faith in yourself like they have in you. Do you know how to manifest your higher self? Find out here: Your Holy Guardian Angel: The Higher Self
Hang In There
Sometimes you pray, listen every way you can think of, try to solve every problem multiple different ways, remember all you have learned, and believe in yourself- and none of it gets you out of that nasty feeling of spiritual emptiness you are struggling with. During those times, the only thing you can do is wait. You are stuck in this experience for some reason, and you may never discover a deeper reason for it, but you’re stuck all the same. You are going to have to experience it. While you’re going through it, journal about all you see, feel, and learn. One day, you will get through it, and look back and discover you experienced a spiritual breakthrough.
Spiritual barrenness is when you feel lost, alone, and like no spiritual connection is available. It can happen because you feel betrayed by spiritual brethren or because the powers that be trust you to handle something without their intervention. That feeling won’t last forever though. You can pray, try to solve your own spiritual dilemmas, and have faith in yourself to do it. During the times when we feel spiritual openness and connection, it makes us thrive and grow. Even in times of spiritual emptiness , that is possible. Just believe in yourself. You’ve got this.
If you’re feeling lost, and empty spiritually, you don’t have to go through it all alone. We are here for you all day every day, so get a reading started with us now.
