spirituality
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Rosa Mayreder: The Rebel Thinker and the Mirror of Gender’s Shadow
Historical Mirrors, Vol. XII ✨ The StoryRosa Mayreder (1858–1938) was an Austrian writer, painter, philosopher, and one of the earliest feminist voices in Central Europe. Born into a middle-class family in Vienna, she resisted the narrow confines of gender roles… Continue reading
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🍃 The Midweek Muse: A Breeze for Thursday
By the time Thursday rolls around, the week can feel heavy with lists and lingering “shoulds.” But nature whispers a different rhythm. Out the window, the wind never seems concerned about finishing anything — it just wanders, rustling leaves, carrying… Continue reading
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Rosa Luxemburg & Mirabai
Sacred Counterparts, Vol. VI 🔥 The Refusal to Be Owned Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary thinker, and Mirabai, bhakti poet-saint, stand centuries apart yet mirror each other across time. Rosa’s body was thrown into a river for daring to imagine a world… Continue reading
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September: The Threshold of Turning Leaves 🍂🕯️
Oracle & Lantern | Vol. VII 🌒Change is in the air… September carries that liminal hum — not yet the full descent into autumn but already whispering that the light is shifting. Virgo’s discernment meets Libra’s longing for balance, and… Continue reading
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✨ An Invitation into the Mythic
🌑 What Do We Mean by Mythic?The word mythic is so often mistaken for something untrue — a fairy tale, a story to dismiss. But in its original sense, mythic carries timeless truths wrapped in image, metaphor, and archetype. To… Continue reading
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Etty Hillesum: The Garden Within the Ruins
Historical Mirrors Vol. IX “I will try to help You, God, to stop my strength ebbing away, though I cannot vouch for it in advance.” — Etty Hillesum The Quiet Bloom in the Shadow of the Camps In the summer… Continue reading
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Flame and Silence: The Mystical Journey of Porete and Eckhart
Sacred Counterparts Vol. V 🔥 When Mystics Walk Too Close to the Flame There are some voices that cannot be tamed by doctrine, no matter how fiercely the church tried to bind them. In the 14th century, Marguerite Porete and… Continue reading
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✨ Birthday Edition: Oracle & Lantern | Vol. VI✨
The Turning of the Lantern Birthdays arrive like thresholds. They remind us of the solar rhythm that has carried us around the wheel once more — the same sun that rose the day we were born now calls us into… Continue reading
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🌕 Dancing with Transformation: How to Recognize When You’re Flowing, Not Fighting
There are seasons when transformation feels like an unwelcome storm — we brace, we resist, we try to hold the roof on with our bare hands. And then, there are the moments when we realize we’re not fighting the wind… Continue reading
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Artemisia Gentileschi & Claude Cahun: Embodied Defiance & the Redefinition of Self
Sacred Counterparts IV —When the Self Refuses to Be Erased In one hand, a brush dripping with the ochres and crimsons of defiance; in the other, a shutter capturing a gaze no one could quite pin down.Centuries apart, Artemisia Gentileschi… Continue reading
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