Falling in love with fate, even as a practitioner. #astrology #witchcraft

Announcement I'm very excited about! After a hiatus, I'm open for new clients. I offer traditional #natal and #horary reading along with consultations targeted to more specific techniques such as electional #astrology, rectification, and more. Visit the new site to learn more and to book!

Why I think witches, magicians, and the rest of our heathen ilk should rethink the reading list. #witchsky #occultsky

Between Halloween and Solstice is a time for more questions than answers, which I feel this post is. #witchcraft #witchsky #occultsky

Hot takes off the griddle? Or more from the deep freeze? #witchsky #occultsky

Why is #witchcraft an #art? Magicians, #AI, and Kandinsky.

I don't think Sisyphus is happy.

DnD caster classes and modern occultists. Match made in heaven, really. #witchsky #occultsky #dnd

So many scholars on Neoplatonism, theurgy, etc. don't write in English. There are also palpable differences between how Italian, Spanish, French, and other scholars interpret and talk about these things than anglos. Excited to delve into these. Warning: a few are in Italian! ##witchsky #occultsky

Anytime anyone in #witchcraft or the #occult gets too serious, they should be forced to read Charles Portis' Master of Atlantis. #witchsky #occultsky

Is #initiation a comedy or a tragedy? #witchcraft really plays with both. A love letter to #dionysus and to high school #theater teachers. #witchsky #occultsky

A bit of a journey describing how my mother visiting a snake handling church made me feel about #witchcraft and whether or not it is "palatable." #witchsky #occultsky

Following rabbits to circles and lodges filled with Thelemites and Witches. #witchsky #occultsky

The real question is, do you use the Marseilles or Rider-Waite numbering for Strength and Justice? #witchsky #occultsky

Here way too early but excited to hear John Waters set the world to right! Oh, this holy filth. 🙏

This one has been brewing for a while. When you hang out with the magical types but are married to a Buddhist, you have a lot of interesting convos. #witchsky #occultsky

They're not even using dogwhistles anymore. It's just a constant, blaring bullhorn at this point. 😑

New CV update. 1988-current. Lunar daemon of antiquity. References available upon request.

just imagine working at microsofft and thinking “let’s spend billions, steal a load of intellectual property, and destroy the planet to make an interface to write bad essays” rather than “let’s update MS Word so users can comment on footnotes”

The Myanmar news is devastating. Given the tense political issues there, a tip: check if you have any Theravada sanghas near you. More likely to find Burmese diaspora communities with direct connections there. Even Thai and Lao sanghas may have Burmese connections or members.

They benefit from despondency. Every half-baked empire claims to be eternal. They are not.

So much God-talk in European philosophy and psychoanalysis is riddled with anxiety and formed around crisis. But...what if God-talk is relaxing? What does our God-talk's vocabulary betray about our worries and irritations? #witchsky #occultsky

Preparing to work the Equinox rites! To the return, the renewal, and the ever cyclic and pulsing heart of the Mysteries. #witchsky

This time of year, my backyard gets so many birds. Recently, I watched two blue jays chase off a stray cat and then this morning a cardinal stayed for a long time while I finished my coffee. And of course, the crows come often and are very conversational. It's all lovely prep for the Equinox Sabbat.

Round 2, inspired by some excellent talks with coven members and friends about Witchcraft, science, and belief. #witchsky #occultsky

Neutrality never interests me. Make your choice. I think a lot of T.S Eliot's line: "The only hope, or else despair / Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- / To be redeemed from fire by fire."

I'm really missing certain things from having a way to connect with other witches, occultists, and seekers, so I'm starting on substack! I'm not sure how the social media landscape is gonna change, but I'm up to experiment. Have a look at my first post and subscribe (free)! #witchsky #occultsky

On women's day, I'm feeling so much gratitude for a religious community full of incredible priestesses. E.B. and C.E. and C.S., and Val who passed into the ecstasy of the Goddess, and Maxine who forged new paths, holding and tending the flame for us. So much love. #witchsky #witchcraft #occultsky

Someone right now is "uniting with Christ's suffering" by giving up Reese's cups for a little over a month while simultaneously spreading hate and invective against immigrants and poor folks. Happy Ash Wednesday! Enjoy those fish frys, hon.

Posted mostly in jest. We all fall into the habits of our communities. 🖤 #witchsky #occultsky

"The Ancient Mysteries must remain as a sealed book to the reader unless he can realize that the divine loves, and can be loved by, the human, and that ecstatic union with divine forces is possible here and now." - Charles Seymour

Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book per day (it's okay to skip days if you're really busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge #Witchsky

A lot of people into #occult or #witchcraft praxis can benefit from traditional theology readings. Liturgical theology can absolutely make you better at ritual. Contemplative sacramental works like Balthasar's can open up magic in new ways. The mystics give language to unitive experience.

Movies you've watched more than six times, GIFs only.

Most of those in my life involved in #witchcraft or #occult practice can at least agree with the Christians (liturgical ones at least) on one thing: the lingering smell of candle wax and resin incense really does something to you.

Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book per day (it's okay to skip days if you're really busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge #Witchsky

Posting Varo for the #witchsky esoteric book feed makes me think how influential artists are in my #witchcraft and #occult life. Some of my best magical inspirations come from Hilma af Klint, Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun and others. Authors are not the only teachers of magic.

Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book per day (it's okay to skip days if you're really busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge #Witchsky

One of the reasons I don't like calling #magic or #witchcraft "spicy psychology" is the reduction of praxis to personal betterment wrenched out of spiritual work. It's like when men get obsessed with Ayn Rand or Peterson. Sure, they might lift weights or eat better. But they go rancid quickly.

New season of #Yellowjackets has given me a new favorite thing to call someone. "Goop sorceress." Amazing.

Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book per day (it's okay to skip days if you're really busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge #Witchsky

Go through the briars. Tend to one another's scratches. Invoke the one with fire on His brow. Find your Will and do it. And then dance, as defiant as errant children. Eat soft white cheeses and drink heavy, leggy wines on the days they fast. All this do until Her queendom comes. #witchsky

Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book per day (it's okay to skip days if you're really busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge #Witchsky

I go back and forth a lot on #Crowley but his letter on death, Liber CVI, might be one of my favorite #occult pieces that touches on grief. It's as purple as prose can get and I kinda like it. Occult perspectives on grief are rare and as a rule awful. This one still speaks to me.

Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book per day (it's okay to skip days if you're really busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge #Witchsky

My guides were told by your guides that I should rethink all this theurgy and enter my manifest era. They sound hip, so I'm considering it. #witchsky #occultsky

Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book per day (it's okay to skip days if you're really busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge #Witchsky

In students, the greatest thing is hunger. For more #magic. More #witchcraft. More knowledge. If we come to every tap with a full cup, what can we expect to even get, really? We have to be willing to drink new wine. #witchsky #coven

Been thinking a lot about the role of narrative and liturgy in #witchcraft. Some of it is inspired by Sarah Iles Johnston and Tanya Luhrmann's work. The power of myth and liturgy is not a rote, mechanical call and response between human and divine. (1/4)