Midwinter Shadows: Reflecting on My Death Card Year
My Death card year, plus next year’s card, and my word(s) of the year.
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!
The “How I Got My Agent” Post
There is no step-by-step path to get an agent or a book deal. It all takes a tremendous amount of luck. But if you’re not trying pretty damn hard, luck will have a very difficult time finding you.
Letters from the Island of Ambiguous Loss
Dear Ghost,
I’m writing this letter in my best attempt to exorcise you.
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…
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]