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Mythic Mondays | Skeleton Woman 🕸️🦋✨
There is a story that has traveled through Inuit myth, retold in many voices, and it lingers like salt on the tongue and shadow in the net. It is the story of Skeleton Woman. 🕯️ The Story She was once… Continue reading
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Rosa Mayreder: The Rebel Thinker and the Mirror of Gender’s Shadow
Historical Mirrors, Vol. XII ✨ The StoryRosa Mayreder (1858–1938) was an Austrian writer, painter, philosopher, and one of the earliest feminist voices in Central Europe. Born into a middle-class family in Vienna, she resisted the narrow confines of gender roles… Continue reading
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🍃 The Midweek Muse: A Breeze for Thursday
By the time Thursday rolls around, the week can feel heavy with lists and lingering “shoulds.” But nature whispers a different rhythm. Out the window, the wind never seems concerned about finishing anything — it just wanders, rustling leaves, carrying… Continue reading
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Rosa Luxemburg & Mirabai
Sacred Counterparts, Vol. VI 🔥 The Refusal to Be Owned Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary thinker, and Mirabai, bhakti poet-saint, stand centuries apart yet mirror each other across time. Rosa’s body was thrown into a river for daring to imagine a world… Continue reading
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September: The Threshold of Turning Leaves 🍂🕯️
Oracle & Lantern | Vol. VII 🌒Change is in the air… September carries that liminal hum — not yet the full descent into autumn but already whispering that the light is shifting. Virgo’s discernment meets Libra’s longing for balance, and… Continue reading
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✨ An Invitation into the Mythic
🌑 What Do We Mean by Mythic?The word mythic is so often mistaken for something untrue — a fairy tale, a story to dismiss. But in its original sense, mythic carries timeless truths wrapped in image, metaphor, and archetype. To… Continue reading
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“The Sacred Sock Sacrifice”
Sacred Snark Sunday, Vol. X Somewhere in the spinning drum of the dryer, a portal opens. Not to Narnia, not to enlightenment — but to the Underworld of Left Socks. 🧦✨ You swear you put in seven pairs, but only… Continue reading
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Dreaming with Depth
An Introduction to Jungian Dream Analysis Through the Soul’s Evolutionary Lens 🌑✨ 🌌 Why Dreams? Every night, the psyche speaks in symbols. Dreams are not random; they are living images that arise from the unconscious — whispering what our waking… Continue reading
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Etty Hillesum: The Garden Within the Ruins
Historical Mirrors Vol. IX “I will try to help You, God, to stop my strength ebbing away, though I cannot vouch for it in advance.” — Etty Hillesum The Quiet Bloom in the Shadow of the Camps In the summer… Continue reading
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🍃 Food for Thought: Consciousness as Virtual Reality?
What if consciousness isn’t something housed inside our bodies, but something much larger — something that experiences this world through us, like a player using an avatar in a virtual reality game? Physicist and consciousness explorer Tom Campbell, author of… Continue reading
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