November and Other Liminal States
Finishing drafts and crying into my PSL.
The Inescapable Symbolism of the Seasons
Where I’m at in my Death Card Year.
Magical Escapades, Personal Journeys, Celestial Transits, Etcetera
First, a little housekeeping: I have finally figured out how to enable subscriber preferences on Mail Chimp! Currently the default mode is that everyone on my mailing list gets everything I ever send out, which means both “newsletter” type things AND my very occasional blog posts. Click HERE and select which topics you’re interested in […]
Get Flipped: My Hanged Man Year
I don’t generally do end of the year recaps or new year new me resolutions, but I do do (hehe) an annual tarot year recap and reflection. I do these somewhat randomly in the first quarter of the year because tarot years actually have influence for more than a year (about 18 months, though the energy peaks around your birthday) and technically you can be in two tarot years at once. But anyway, since this past tarot year is thoroughly waning and the new tarot year is waxing, January is as good a time as any to reflect!
A Contradiction in Visibility
Please read my books and remember my name but also please do not perceive me.
A Huge Life Moment in Several Parts/Updates, to be Posted Long After The Events Therein
This post was written between January 8 – 25, 2023, but could not be posted due to industry secrecy. Read on to see how I processed *finally* selling my first novel.
Let the Bodies Hit the
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an American woman in possession of a body must be trying to change it.
“A bit monstrous.”
Compared to men, women are immature, deficient, deformed; they are even a bit monstrous. — Aristotle (more like AristLOL)
The Tyranny of Shame
A few weeks ago, I spent about 9 hours in an emergency room trying to figure out whether or not I was having a heart attack.
Rabbit Hole Round-Up
Here are the interesting things I’ve hyper-focused on over the last few weeks:
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 and, frankly, it rarely seems to apply…
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 play, but I loved the quote immediately. I think part of why I never read the rest of the ballad is because I was afraid it would suck, or the context would take away some of deep resonance of these four lines—at least the resonance they have inside of me…
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 […]
The Moonlit Path
So you’ve found yourself on a moonlit, earth-based, goddess loving, soul-searching, self-empowering path. Now what?
The Only Love Spell You Will Ever Need
Prepare yourself for the romance of a lifetime!
Welcome, Witches!
Dear New Witches: Welcome to the wild and wonderful world of witchcraft!
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.”
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]