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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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🌿✨Thoughtful Thursday — A Small Pause
There’s something about Thursdays that feels like the hush right before a door opens — not quite the end of the week, not quite the beginning. Just a quiet, steady inhale. Today, let’s honor that in-between space. Take a moment… 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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Mystic Mondays, Vol. 13
Persephone — The Descent, The Return, and The Self That Learns to Walk Between Every soul eventually meets Persephone. Not as a mythological figure —but as an interior presence. She is that part of us that learns:🌑 how to move… Continue reading
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Sacred Snark Sunday, Vol. 19
“Shadow Work, Now With Extra Sparkle and Sarcasm” Oh beloved friends, gather close:It is the Sunday after the collective chaos of food comas, family feuds, bargain-hunting, and the existential crisis of seeing yourself reflected in the Target checkout camera. Tonight’s… Continue reading
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Historical Mirrors, Vol. 18
Proclus of Athens — The Soul That Remembers Its Own Light There are thinkers whose minds become ladders — not merely across ideas, but between worlds. Proclus of Athens, the 5th-century Neoplatonist, mapped a cosmology of consciousness that did not… Continue reading
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🥤 Thirsty for Truth Thursday, Vol. 7
“Gratitude vs. Performative Thankfulness — or: Stop Thanking the Sweet Potatoes for Your Trauma” Let’s talk about gratitude. Not the kind you write on a chalkboard in perfect cursive so you can post it on social media with the caption✨“So… Continue reading
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🔱 Council of Gods Within — Vol. 5
Juno: Keeper of Sacred Vows, Guardian of the Bound Heart We often speak of love as though it is simply a feeling —the warmth of affection, the spark of romance,the intoxication of attraction. But there is a deeper current —a… 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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Historical Mirrors, Vol. 17
🔥 The Centaur’s Laugh: Alexandra David-Néel as a Sagittarian Mirror Sagittarius season always blows in like a warm wind after a long night — not polite, not quiet, but alive. This is the month when truth stops whispering and starts… Continue reading
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