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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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✨ 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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✨🕯️🌒 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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🌑 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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The Cozy Cauldron Cup: A Healthy Hot Chocolate That Loves You Back
Seasonal Nourishment for Soft Mornings & Slow Evenings There’s something alchemical about wrapping your hands around a warm mug — especially when that mug holds a potion that tastes decadent and secretly supports your body. Today’s offering is my favorite… 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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The Seven Tears of the Soul
Al-Ghazali, Consciousness, and the Initiatory Language of Weeping There are many forms of language — speech, symbol, gesture, proximity —but the mystics knew there was a language deeper than words:the language of tears. The Sufi master Abu Hamid al-Ghazali taught… Continue reading
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🌑 Oracle & Lantern — Vol. 19
Grief at the Table: A Week of Thanks-Giving There are some seasons of life where “gratitude” doesn’t float easily off the tongue like the scents of cinnamon and clove. Sometimes the word catches in the throat, heavy with memory, thick… Continue reading
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