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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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👩🏼‍🏫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
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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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January 2026 Transits
January 2026 Transits — A Month to Observe, Not Rush 🌑✨ January opens the year with a kind of quiet insistence.Not loud. Not dramatic for drama’s sake.But layered. Sequential. Intentional. What you’ll notice immediately in these transits is density.Conjunctions stacking.… 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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✨🕯️🌒 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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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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🌿 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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✨ Soft-Bound Saturdays — Rest as a Sacred Rhythm
Some Saturdays arrive like a quiet threshold, the kind you don’t notice until you’ve crossed it — warm mug in hand, the body exhaling a little deeper, the spirit leaning into its own edges with curiosity rather than urgency. This… Continue reading
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