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🌅 A Blessing for the First Day
New Year’s Day is not loud. It doesn’t demand resolutions or declarations or a polished vision board. It arrives softly, like light finding the edge of a window. It asks only that we notice we are still here. Today is… Continue reading
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🌿 Smoke, Science, and Sacred Responsibility
Rethinking Smudging in an Ethical, Earth-Honoring Way For many of us, smoke has always felt like a threshold—a visible prayer, a breath made tangible, a way of clearing not just a room, but a field. Smudging, most commonly associated with… 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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🪞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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“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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🔮 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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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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🔱 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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✨ Sagittarius Season: The Arrow, The Fire, The Leap
A Tarot Message & Ritual for the Season of Holy Expansion Sagittarius season arrives like a bright flame on the horizon—wild, expectant, and a little unruly. It is the part of the year that says:“Open the door. Step toward the… Continue reading
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