mental-health
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We Survived the Year. That Counts as a Miracle.
🕯️ Sacred Snark Sunday: End of the Year Edition If you are reading this, congratulations.You made it. Not thriving, not ascending, not manifesting your highest timeline with perfect posture — just here. Breathing. Still listening. Still feeling. Still questioning. And… Continue reading
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✨ The Hopes and Fears of All the Years ✨
(Listening more closely this Christmas) I was listening to old Christmas songs today—the oldies, the ones that have lived in the background of a thousand Decembers—and something stopped me cold. A single line. From O Little Town of Bethlehem: “The… 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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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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