journaling
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🌑 When Healing Changes the Field ✨
For a long time, I believed certain patterns in my life were simply fate. The same relational dynamics.The same sense of obligation.The same quiet pressure to manage, appease, and anticipate others — even when it cost me my own center.… Continue reading
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🌍 The Gravity Model of Consciousness Development
From illumination to embodiment, from belief to participation There comes a point on the path when consciousness stops dazzling us with fireworks and starts asking something far more sobering — and far more sacred. It asks:Can you carry this? 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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✨🕯️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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✨🕯️🌒 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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🪞 Historical Mirrors:
Simone Weil — When the Mirror Refuses Comfort Some mirrors do not reflect beauty.They do not reassure.They do not console. Some mirrors strip the soul bare. Simone Weil (1909–1943) was a philosopher, mystic, laborer, activist, and reluctant saint whose life… Continue reading
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🔮 Oracle & Lantern — Vol. 20
“December’s Lamp: A Year of Becoming” This final month of 2025 isn’t just the closure of a calendar year — it’s a corridor. The old self walks beside the current self.The regrets walk beside the victories.The wounds walk beside the… 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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🕯️ 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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