mental-health
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Mythic Mondays: Odin: The Masculine Who Kneels to Know 🐦⬛🗝️
When we speak of the masculine in myth, we’re often handed a narrow script: conquest, dominance, certainty, the hero who never doubts. But Odin—the All-Father, the Wanderer, the one-eyed god of wisdom—fractures that story completely. Odin is not powerful because… Continue reading
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Sacred Snark Sunday: Your Nervous System Is Not a Moral Failure 😌🌀
Somewhere along the way, we were sold a very strange lie. That if we were really healed,really evolved,really spiritual… we would be calm at all times, grateful under pressure, and capable of “holding space” while our insides were actively on… 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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🌑 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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Ereshkigal: Queen of the Unlit Truths
🌑 Mythic Mondays There are goddesses who guide us toward the light—and then there are those who wait for us when the light fails. Ereshkigal does not chase, persuade, or rescue.She receives. In the ancient Sumerian imagination, Ereshkigal is the… 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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🪞12/12 — The Mirror That Knows You
There are moments when time stops pretending it’s neutral. 12.12 is one of those moments. Not because it’s trendy.Not because it’s “lucky.”But because 12 is a language the psyche already speaks. Twelve zodiac signs circling consciousness.Twelve disciples as disciplined facets… Continue reading
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Neptune Stations Direct at 29° Pisces
The Last Breath of the Ocean Before the Fire There is a moment — just before dawn breaks — when the whole world holds its breath.Neptune stationing direct at 29° of Pisces, the final degree of the zodiac, feels exactly… Continue reading
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“Bless This Mess (But Also Maybe Clean It)”
Sacred Snark Sunday · Vol. 20 There’s a spiritual fantasy many of us buy into—the idea that enlightenment will finally descend the moment our home looks like a minimalist retreat curated by a Virgo ascendant with unlimited shelf space. But… Continue reading
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