Daily Inspiration
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Historical Mirrors: Hannah Arendt — Thinking as a Moral Act 🕯️🧠
Some figures in history don’t descend into the depths of the psyche through visions or dreams — they arrive there through thinking. Not abstract thinking. Not cleverness. But the kind of thinking that refuses numbness, refuses slogans, and refuses the… Continue reading
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✨ The Hopes and Fears of All the Years ✨
(Listening more closely this Christmas) I was listening to old Christmas songs today—the oldies, the ones that have lived in the background of a thousand Decembers—and something stopped me cold. A single line. From O Little Town of Bethlehem: “The… Continue reading
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Mythic Mondays: Odin: The Masculine Who Kneels to Know 🐦⬛🗝️
When we speak of the masculine in myth, we’re often handed a narrow script: conquest, dominance, certainty, the hero who never doubts. But Odin—the All-Father, the Wanderer, the one-eyed god of wisdom—fractures that story completely. Odin is not powerful because… Continue reading
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Sacred Snark Sunday: Your Nervous System Is Not a Moral Failure 😌🌀
Somewhere along the way, we were sold a very strange lie. That if we were really healed,really evolved,really spiritual… we would be calm at all times, grateful under pressure, and capable of “holding space” while our insides were actively on… Continue reading
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✨🕯️🌒 Beyond and Becoming: Transcendence & Transformation
There are moments on the path when the language itself asks to be listened to more carefully.Not because the words are complicated—but because they are alive. Two such words that often get braided together in spiritual spaces are transcendence and… Continue reading
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🪞 Historical Mirrors:
Simone Weil — When the Mirror Refuses Comfort Some mirrors do not reflect beauty.They do not reassure.They do not console. Some mirrors strip the soul bare. Simone Weil (1909–1943) was a philosopher, mystic, laborer, activist, and reluctant saint whose life… Continue reading
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Thirsty Thursday ✨On Community, Gently Held
Community doesn’t always look like a circle of people holding hands under the same sky, although it definitely can! Sometimes it looks like a shared silence.A familiar name you don’t have to explain yourself to.A comment left weeks later that… Continue reading
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🌑 The Sagittarius New Moon at the Galactic Center
27°–28° Sagittarius | A Compass, Not a Command This New Moon arrives at 28°24′ Sagittarius, on Friday, December 19th. It is standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Galactic Center at 27° Sagittarius—a point not of instruction, but of origin. The place where… Continue reading
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Ereshkigal: Queen of the Unlit Truths
🌑 Mythic Mondays There are goddesses who guide us toward the light—and then there are those who wait for us when the light fails. Ereshkigal does not chase, persuade, or rescue.She receives. In the ancient Sumerian imagination, Ereshkigal is the… Continue reading
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🌿 Living the Questions
My spiritual practice today looks very different than it once did. It’s less about believing something and more about experiencing—less about adopting ideas and more about listening, embodying, and discerning what actually aligns at the soul level. What some might… Continue reading
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