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ramblings of a runcible witch (AKA Madeline Claire Franklin)

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  • Total Eclipse of the (Natal) Chart

    I’m fascinated by astrology. I don’t know if I “believe” in it–certainly, I’ve found myself reading about retrogrades and transits and trines and what they all mean based on what planet is what degree, where, and thought “oh, that’s why my life is a mess!” But I’ve also regularly read my horoscope for ages now […]

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    November 11, 2022
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  • La Roue de la Fortune

    I’ve been trying to write about my Hermit Year for a while now, but true to the vibe of the Hermit card, it all feels too visible for my liking. It was A Year, to be sure. There were all the usual hermity things: turning inward, solitude, soul-searching. I spent a lot of energy on […]

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    April 15, 2022
    Uncategorized
    agent, career, mad woman literary agency, Publishing, tarot year, wheel of fortune, writing
  • Boundaries, Boundaries, Boundaries: My Hermit Year

    Yeah, so it’s been more than a whole-ass year again. But it was my Hermit year, so the radio silence makes sense this time! Last time I posted I was winding down from my Strength Year and into my Hermit Year. Interestingly enough, the Hermit is also my life path card (in numerology, my life […]

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    April 11, 2022
    Uncategorized
    boundaries, healing, health, hermit, Runcible Witchery, tarot year
  • Strength Without Hands to Smite: My ‘Strength’ Year

    Strength Without Hands to Smite: My ‘Strength’ Year

    I had the above quote hand written on marigold construction paper, cut out, and sealed with tape on the cover of my first real “writer’s notebook.” I’ve never read the rest of the poem (or is it a ballad?). I saw the quote in a Vampire RPG book that I never actually learned how to […]

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    March 6, 2021
    Uncategorized
    2020, ac swinburne, boundaries, chariot, healing, hermit, mycotoxicosis, mycotoxin illness, strength, tarot
  • the long version

    It’s that time again when I come back to my blog after almost a year away because I now have something to write about! Because I can’t remember (more on that in a moment) what I’ve written on here and don’t feel like re-reading to find out, I’m going to assume I haven’t talked at […]

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    February 23, 2021
    Uncategorized
    health, mycotoxin illness, treatment
  • When The Sun Breaks

    The sun is out today. It’s 33 degrees Fahrenheit in Buffalo, New York, with a wind chill that would make you think it’s the dead of winter. It is winter, still…but only for two more weeks. Tonight we change the clocks again–spring forward, as it were–losing an hour of sleep but suddenly gaining an hour […]

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    March 7, 2020
    musings
    grief, grieving, Lando, loss
  • The Moonlit Path

    The Moonlit Path

    So you’ve found yourself on a moonlit, earth-based, goddess loving, soul-searching, self-empowering path. Now what?

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    February 18, 2020
    Advice, musings, Runcible Witchery, The Poppet and the Lune
    ask yourself, questions, the moonlit path
  • The Only Love Spell You Will Ever Need

    The Only Love Spell You Will Ever Need

    Prepare yourself for the romance of a lifetime!

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    February 13, 2020
    Advice, musings, Runcible Witchery, spells
    love spell, Runcible Witchery
  • Welcome, Witches!

    Welcome, Witches!

    Dear New Witches: Welcome to the wild and wonderful world of witchcraft!

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    February 11, 2020
    Advice, feminism, musings, random, Runcible Witchery
    magic, new witches, newbies, welcome, witchcraft
  • My Chariot Year

    My Chariot Year

    If you’re unfamiliar with what this means, think: numerology and tarot had a baby. Then Google “what’s my tarot card personal year.”

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    February 6, 2020
    musings, Runcible Witchery, tarot
    numerology, strength, tarot, the chariot, witchcraft
  • Beginnings, Endings, All the Same

    I love this time of year. Not just Autumn, which is definitely THE most magical time of the year (sorry xmass), but September specifically. There’s something utterly transcendant about the end of summer meeting the beginning of fall: the heat making way for wind and rain; the sunflowers yielding to the deep purples and gold […]

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    September 23, 2019
    musings, Runcible Witchery
    beginnings, jewish, jewitch, media fast, new moon, new year, rosh hashanah, the artist’s way
  • September Vibes

    Every September I go through some kind of deep rejuvination. Instead of winding down with the summer and the sun, my energy and productivity all seem to ramp up, nearly effortlessly. These days my thoughts are clearer, my intentions purer, my moods more balanced. Part of this might be because I’ve been acutely focused on […]

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    September 4, 2019
    musings, Runcible Witchery, writing
    artist dates, creativity, julia cameron, magic, morning pages, Runcible Witchery, self care, self love, september, TAW, the artist’s way, truer words podcast, witchcraft
  • Gratias Ago

    It’s that time of year again! American folklore aside (there are other people who have written about the history of Thanksgiving in America that know a lot more and have said everything much more eloquently than I can), the idea of a holiday for giving thanks is as old as any of the harvest festivals […]

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    November 21, 2018
    musings, Runcible Witchery
    gratitude, tgivins, thanksgiving, wheel of life
  • November Rain

    Woops, missed a month there. I ain’t gonna apologize though because I was out there living my best life: An amazing writing retreat in Ocean City with several of my VCFA classmates (writing, researching, swimming in the ocean, watching the sun rise and set, watching dolphins frolic along the coast, unexpectedly dancing the night away, […]

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    November 15, 2018
    random, Runcible Witchery
    astrology, mars, mercury, november, retrograde, venus
  • Don’t Fear the Retrograde

    I’ve always been aware of if not “into” astrology, ever since I was a kid (early runcible witch tendencies I guess). Like moon phases, I don’t think planetary alignments and natal charts can control how our lives shape up, but I do think there is something about the moon and the planets that seems to influence our […]

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    October 5, 2018
    feminism, Runcible Witchery
    astrology, feminism, misogyny, retrograde, venus
  • 5 Minutes a Day Keeps the Self-Loathing Away!

    I suppose I should have made this post earlier in the month, but I generally forget that people might be interested in anything I’m doing/have to say because #internalizedselfdeprication (but I’ve been working on that!). But a funny thing happens when you start giving yourself permission to speak from the heart regardless of who might/not hear […]

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    October 4, 2018
    writing
    5for31challenge
  • Volcano.

    I have spent the last two weeks typing out furious comments on Facebook, then deleting those comments because they don’t add anything to the conversation but merely spew my magmatic rage all over the internet. I’ve also written this post several times and deleted it because it’s just me asking “why?” over and over and over again. […]

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    September 28, 2018
    feminism
    anger, emotions, feminism, kavanaugh, politics, rape, sexual assault
  • She Who Controls the Spice Controls the Universe

    AS MANY OF YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW, Dune by Frank Herbert (and the three sequels) is one of my favorite books of all time. It has a lot of stuff going on that’s worth loving (and a few problematic things but that’s for another conversation), but one of the main things that drew me to it was […]

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    September 13, 2018
    musings, psychology
    emotional intelligence, just-world fallacy, just-world hypothesis, psychology, victim blaming
  • The Language of Dreams

    Since I’m being my authentic runcible witchy self on here, I wanted to talk about something that has been on my mind a lot the past few weeks: dreams. Years ago I saw a popular blogger at a literary agency post an article about dream sequences in fiction. Her #hottake was that if your novel […]

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    August 31, 2018
    Runcible Witchery, writing
    dreaming, dreams, google dream generator, hot take
  • Rise of the Runcible Witch

    As some of you may know, my parents met in a religious cult. I won’t get into which one, but they were out of it by the time I was in kindergarten. Did it influence me and my brothers? Of course. But it was less of an influence from the cult itself, and more of an […]

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    August 24, 2018
    Runcible Witchery
    magic, paganism, runcible, Runcible Witchery, runicble witchcraft, spirituality, witch, witchcraft, witchery, witches
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