🔮 THE RED WITCH READING #12: When You Believe Fate Can’t Be Fought

This reading comes from “King Canute”, writing from Wrexham.
A screen name chosen carefully — and tellingly.

His message is simple, and heavy with resignation:

“No matter what I do, nothing changes.
Bad things happen.
I can’t get ahead.
You can’t hold back the waves.”

He likes history.
He knows the story of King Canute — the ruler who sat before the sea to show his courtiers that even kings cannot command the tide.

But the Red Witch notices something crucial.

He’s living inside the metaphor.

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The Red Witch Speaks:

“Canute did not surrender to fate.
He mocked those who believed power meant obedience from the world.”

She says fatalism is often mistaken for wisdom.
It feels mature.
World-weary.
Realistic.

But it quietly robs you of agency.

“You are not the man facing the tide,” she says.
“You are the man who stood up afterward.”

The Red Witch reminds him of another figure — Hereward the Wake.
An outlaw.
A rebel.
A thorn in the side of power.

Yes, he lost in the end — if you read history narrowly.
But in myth, in place-names, in memory, he never truly vanished.
East Anglia still whispers his name.

“He did not command the waves,” she says.
“He learned where to stand, when to strike, and how to endure.”

She suggests something deceptively simple — but powerful.

Change the name.
Change the mask.
Change the stance.

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🜂 The Practice — “Change the Banner”

For the next month:

Rename yourself — privately or publicly — as Saxon Rebel.

Not as fantasy.
As psychological re-orientation.

Each time you feel the phrase “nothing can be done” arise, replace it with:

“This wave can’t be stopped — but I can choose how I meet it.”

Then take one small, defiant action — however modest.

Not to win.
But to refuse collapse.

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🜃 Reflection

Fate is not a wall.
It is weather.

You don’t defeat it by commanding the sea.
You defeat it by learning how to move — stubbornly, intelligently, and without surrender.

The Red Witch does not promise victory.
She promises dignity, movement, and the return of inner momentum.

Sometimes that’s enough to change everything.

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