I listen to the podcast Strange Magic, which Amanda Yates Garcia co-hosts, as soon as it airs each week. I went into this book familiar with her background, practices, and conversational voice. Still, I didn’t read it right away, and was a bit nervous to read it at all, because the last few memoirs I’ve…
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Writer. Tarot reader. Artist. Venusian woods-witch.
Lughnassadh lethargy and ancestral disconnect
Happy new moon in Leo; happy Mercury station; happy post-eclipse season; happy Lughnassadh! Today is meant to be full of fiery, Martial, Leo energy, but I am not feeling it. I spent the morning feeling unfocused, and sometime in the afternoon, my physical and mental energy simply left all at once. I wanted to have…
Read MoreBook review: Miss Wondersmith’s Guide to Fairytale Gatherings
I follow Miss Wondersmith’s blog, support her on Patreon, and always look forward to her contributions in Enchanted Living Magazine. In an age when many creative people are that accessible, sometimes books can be a letdown, feeling like a rehash of their other material. That was not the case here at all. In her other…
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The Hermit’s journey, part one
You are the Hermit. You’ve been in this Arcanum for at least a year, though you’re not counting. You meditate, scrawl notes with berry juice and spindly twigs that hurt to use, forage what little food you eat. You are lean, but not physically very strong. That is not what this Arcanum is about. After…
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Crawling back from The Moon beneath a New Moon in Pisces
February was The Moon, and it really did a number on me. I know a lot of people fear or struggle with this card, which leads you into the darkest places of your unconscious. Personally, I normally love it. I love darkness, depths, and the realms of mystery. This February, however, was not about underworldly…
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Eclipsed by moon blood; stumbling through Shadow
People talk about transforming their menstrual cycles from a thing of shame to a thing of power through lunar blood magick. I’ve never had the luxury of feeling shame around my period. They’re far too brutal to endure in a society-based world without explaining to people. I did keep my first one a secret, but…
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Tarot reading: last quarter moon, January 13
This weekend we saw the last quarter moon before what is likely to be an epic, bloody, eclipsed, super full moon. Big movements are on the horizon. The questions in this reading are a combination of the prompts from the Many Moons planner by Modern Women and Briana Saussy’s Astro Rx 2019. The deck is…
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Death is a nurse log
I’ve always felt really comfortable with the Death card. I started learning tarot around the turn of the millennium. By that time, it seemed like every resource made sure to open Death descriptions with some variation of, The Death card is not about death. Or, The Death card does not mean you will die. The…
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A guided visualization for reclaiming your energy
Quick repeat disclaimer: I haven’t been able to make links show as a different color in my current website theme. If you think something might have linked content, it probably does; move your mouse over it to see. This guided visualization was inspired by my yoga teacher. During a class last year, she said (somewhat…
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Tarot reading: Last quarter moon, December 2018
This spread and prompt are from the final moon phase of the final edition of the Many Moons Workbook by Modern Women (run/edited/primarily authored/compiled by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener). I paraphrased/shortened some of the prompt language. I don’t like to do a reading where I pull specific cards to start, thereby removing them from the possible…
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