Virgo New Moon Reading

Virgo New Moon Reading

I pulled a few cards for our lunar month ahead, friends. I hope this resonates. Make sure you’re receiving the museletter (or you can join

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Happy as Lazzaro and the fool archetype

The Fool

I watched the weird and wonderful little film, Happy as Lazzaro, the other night centered around a simple-minded farmhand named Lazzaro. Lazzaro embodies the archetype

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Judy Chicago artwork "In the Beginning" 1982

Mother of Us All

Oh, mother. Is there a more complex, complicated figure in our lives? Who else is more pivotal, more revered, reviled, scapegoated and projected upon than

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Themes of the Year

A belated but jubilantly Happy New Year to you, friends. This year (2+0+2+3) moves us from the relational, “other-oriented” six to the mysteriously mighty seven. There is

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Quiet Answers

Happy Equinox, friends. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere the interiority of night is closing in now, shrouding the sun’s light, that outward

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William Blake watercolour Teach These Souls to Fly, 1796

Applied Mythology

Artist Malika Ali Harding wrote a great article recently for Puttylike on her interests in “woo woo” practices and her experience working with this woo

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Image of Andy from The Shawshank Redemption newly free standing in the rain

Go Soft

“Emotional numbing” is a psychological phenomenon that can develop when we witness ongoing trauma – near-daily mass shootings, for example, or years-long pandemics, or when

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Richard Avedon photo of James Baldwin

James Baldwin on Freedom

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the

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The Lovers card Pagan Otherworlds Tarot

Your New Year Forecast

2022 reduces to the number 6: a number of compassion in the Kabbalist tradition, a number correlating with our intuition (the sixth spiritual body) in the Tantric tradition, and

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