daily life
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🎈 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
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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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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
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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
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🌑 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
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🎆 New Year’s Eve: Between the Last Spark and the First Breath
There is something tender about New Year’s Eve.Not loud—despite the fireworks.Not frantic—despite the countdowns. It’s a liminal night. A pause between exhale and inhale.The year behind us still humming in our bones, the year ahead not yet asking anything of… Continue reading
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We Survived the Year. That Counts as a Miracle.
🕯️ Sacred Snark Sunday: End of the Year Edition If you are reading this, congratulations.You made it. Not thriving, not ascending, not manifesting your highest timeline with perfect posture — just here. Breathing. Still listening. Still feeling. Still questioning. And… Continue reading
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✨🕯️Sacred Counterparts: Marguerite Porete & Jakob Böhme 🔥🌑
There are mystics who speak about God.And then there are mystics who speak from inside the rupture where language fails. Marguerite Porete and Jakob Böhme never met, never read one another, and never belonged to the same spiritual moment —… 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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🌿 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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