The Devoted Mystic

  • 🎈 Whimsical Wacky Wednesday: In Praise of Small, Strange Joys

    Some days don’t want to be optimized.They want to be noticed. Today might be the kind of day where: There is a quiet delight in the unnecessary. Not everything needs meaning.Not every moment needs improvement.Some things exist purely to remind… Continue reading

    🎈 Whimsical Wacky Wednesday: In Praise of Small, Strange Joys
  • When the Ashes Come Home

    🌒🕯️ There are moments that don’t arrive with fireworks or fanfare.They arrive quietly.Almost casually.And yet everything inside you knows: this is exact. Yesterday, I was told I can prepare to receive my mother Gloria’s ashes. Almost a year later. 49… Continue reading

    When the Ashes Come Home
  • 🌒 When Wisdom Kneels

    Reading the Gospel of Thomas as an Initiation There are texts you study…and then there are texts that quietly begin studying you. The Gospel of Thomas feels like the latter for me. Not a gospel in the sense of doctrine… Continue reading

    🌒 When Wisdom Kneels
  • 😄🔥Sacred Snark Sunday: The Universe Is Not Mad at You. It’s Just Bad at Calendar Management.

    Let’s clear something up right out of the gate: If things feel delayed, sideways, glitchy, or mildly cursed right now, it is not because you failed a lesson, skipped a ritual, or forgot to thank Mercury properly before sending that… Continue reading

    😄🔥Sacred Snark Sunday: The Universe Is Not Mad at You. It’s Just Bad at Calendar Management.
  • Sucking the Marrow from the Bone of the Moment 🦴✨

    There are moments that ask to be managed—and moments that ask to be inhabited. This is not a post about productivity, optimization, or “making the most” of anything.This is about presence with teeth. Sucking the marrow from the bone of… Continue reading

    Sucking the Marrow from the Bone of the Moment 🦴✨
  • 🌑 When Healing Changes the Field ✨

    For a long time, I believed certain patterns in my life were simply fate. The same relational dynamics.The same sense of obligation.The same quiet pressure to manage, appease, and anticipate others — even when it cost me my own center.… Continue reading

  • 🌍 The Gravity Model of Consciousness Development

    From illumination to embodiment, from belief to participation There comes a point on the path when consciousness stops dazzling us with fireworks and starts asking something far more sobering — and far more sacred. It asks:Can you carry this? Not… Continue reading

    🌍 The Gravity Model of Consciousness Development
  • 👩🏼‍🏫Proof Enough for Me

    🪞A Reflection on Meaning, Metaphysics, and the Human Middle I don’t dismiss the metaphysical. I don’t dismiss symbols, synchronicities, or moments that feel quietly charged with something more. They have woven themselves too intimately into my lived experience for me… Continue reading

    👩🏼‍🏫Proof Enough for Me
  • A Simple Check-In

    Not everything needs to be a lesson.Not every moment needs to be alchemized into meaning. Today feels like a pause—not the kind that’s empty, but the kind that breathes. I’m noticing where I’m tired without being broken.Where I’m tender without… Continue reading

    A Simple Check-In
  • 🌑 Mythic Mondays: Hekate at the Crossroads — When Choice Becomes Consecration

    There are moments when life does not ask us what we want.It simply places us at a crossroads and waits to see whether we will recognize it as sacred. Tonight, the myth that steps forward is Hekate—not as spectacle, not… Continue reading

    🌑 Mythic Mondays: Hekate at the Crossroads — When Choice Becomes Consecration