As the Gregorian year of 2023 drew to a close, I used this arbitrary marker to take stock, to glance at my process of the year, and to...

Invoking Good Things to Come Wash your face and hands. Imagine cleansing away layers of struggle, disappointment, or grief. Know that...

I'm nobody special. Not an expert on history or politics. Just a person with an autoimmune disorder and brain injury that sometimes keep...

On Fighting Tyranny at Every Turn I wrote the essay below in mid-September of 2023. This was before I heard about mass displacement and...

A Magical True Story (Content Warning: Mention of Suicide) The house was small but lovely. It was a rental, up the hill from a busy...

I'm running another Kickstarter campaign! This time for a book of magical meditations and a companion oracle deck. The book and deck are...

“It’s still a world with plums in it, my loves, and chamomile, lipstick, and cellos. It’s still a world with us in it. Find a hand and...

Sigil and Ritual Blessing a home begins with gratitude. Gratitude for what we have. A roof. Some walls. A bed. Whatever food is in the...

On Gratitude and Leveling the Playing Field A group of people gather on an assortment of chairs in a living room. A cellist tunes her...

IN MEMORY OF NTOZAKE SHANGE poetry is unavoidable connection/ some people get married/ others join the Church i carry notebooks/ so i can...

Some Magic for the Coming Year Seven Steps to manifest what you desire in the coming year: First: what is your current dominant emotional...

“Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing...

Perseverance Over the course of the next few months, I’ll be sending out sigils to help us navigate these times. These sigils can be used...

And Listening to Wasps and Bees I periodically pause, tune in, and pull a rune to ponder. Off and on lately, I’ve been getting Ansuz. It...

On Art, Joy, and Rebellion I was singing Stevie Wonder’s Master Blaster yesterday, and a friend said, “I haven’t thought about that song...

In the midst of the hustle, and the worry, and the pain, how often do you pause to breathe and feel moisture on your skin?

Gratitude comes In small doses. Ordinary encounters...

And Why I Wear a Mask Part One: I have a chronic illness. Thankfully, it's under control, or mostly, at any rate. It went undiagnosed for...

"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it." — Lloyd Alexander As a child, I was a voracious reader. Still...

On Making Connections in a Hurried World This is a meditation on gifts and the web of interaction that keeps us all connected in this...