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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
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🌑 The Threads of Fate: Spinners, Weavers, and Cutters
Mythic Mondays · Vol. 5 The Loom of Myth Across cultures, fate is not written in books or sealed in stone but woven — strand by strand, knot by knot. The loom becomes the archetypal stage, where human life is… Continue reading
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✨ Birthday Edition: Oracle & Lantern | Vol. VI✨
The Turning of the Lantern Birthdays arrive like thresholds. They remind us of the solar rhythm that has carried us around the wheel once more — the same sun that rose the day we were born now calls us into… Continue reading
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🌑 The Geometry of Becoming
New Moon in Leo | July 24, 2025A Collective–Ancestral Devotion from The Devoted Mystic The Moon disappears into the Sun’s embrace on July 24, 2025, at 2° Leo, initiating a new cycle of becoming—one not just written in the stars,… Continue reading
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Healing Through Grief: Embracing Complicated Loss
The Call that Changed Everything… February 5, 2025 I looked over at the dining table.My heart dropped, and simultaneously began to race,as my youngest son’s voiceseemed to fade into silence.A silence replaced bya once-familiar ringtone —now strangely foreign.A ghost note.A… Continue reading
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A Grandfather’s Hands
“To the One Who Built with Love” You, whom I never met—and yet, you hold me.You carved not just wood,but a vessel of memory,a hearth for healing,a shrine for the unseen. In this sacred space, I feel you.In the hush… Continue reading
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