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🕯️ Oracle & Lantern, Vol. 18
Descent and Renewal: A Scorpio New Moon Rite There’s a hush that arrives just before Scorpio’s darkness opens.Not a silence of absence — but of presence.A deep, low hum from the underworld of the self, where the bones of what… Continue reading
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🌕 Mythic Mondays · Vol. XI
Penelope and the Loom 🧵 The Thread Between Waiting and Becoming Every night she unravels what the daylight demanded.Every dawn, she begins again — a woman both faithful and defiant, holding the loom as if it were a prayer she… Continue reading
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Sacred Snark Sunday · Vol. 17
The Sacred Art of Doing Nothing Chaos has had enough airtime—let’s hear it for stillness and snacks. 🕯️ Prelude to the Pause We live in a world that praises productivity as if the gods themselves award gold stars for burnout.… Continue reading
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🌿 The Sacred Art of Slowing Down
A Saturday Reflection on Rest for the Nervous System There are days when the body doesn’t ask for more healing — it asks for less doing.When the nervous system hums like an overworked instrument, the music of the soul can’t… Continue reading
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🐾 Thirsty for Truth, Vol. V
Trying to Meditate with a Cat Let’s be honest: I didn’t choose the monk life. The monk life (with fur and murder mittens) chose me. This morning I sat down, spine long, candles lit, breath like ocean waves… and within… Continue reading
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🕳 A Council of Gods Within · XI
The Gate of Hades (The Second House) 🌒 Beneath the Horizon Before light can rise, it must remember where it came from.In the ancient star-maps, the Second House was not a place of mere possessions or coin, but a descent… Continue reading
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🌕 Oracle & Lantern Vol. 17 — The Mid-Month Mirror
When reflection becomes revelation. The midpoint of the month hums with quiet electricity — a threshold between what has unfolded and what still calls your name. This is the lantern moment: not the start, not the finish, but the flicker… Continue reading
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🌒 The Rebel Who Sang the Dead Awake
They say Orpheus descended for love, but perhaps it was for truth.He carried no sword, no shield — only the trembling instrument of his soul. While others begged the gods for favor, he dared to charm them into stillness. Even… Continue reading
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Sacred Snark Sunday, Vol. 16 — Energetic Boundaries Are Not Customer Service Policies
You are not a 24-hour spiritual help desk.You do not owe anyone an apology for not picking up their emotional phone call while you were mid-ritual, mid-healing, or mid-nap. Somewhere along the enlightenment highway, too many of us got handed… Continue reading
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🌩️ The Earth Trembles Awake
Uranus Returns to Taurus — November 8, 2025 When the cosmic bolt re-enters the sign of the Bull, the heavens remind us that even the earth must tremble to grow. Uranus, the liberator and awakener, slips retrograde back into Taurus… Continue reading
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