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  “Making” friends, as always

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  Unsure if anyone is in or going to be in LA or planning a trip to Joshua Tree this fall but we’re doing an insane $45/$65/$95 flash day for Friday the 13th in November at Unfurl Collective AND I have some availability coming up in Los Angeles at Angel Kisses Studio November 7th (limited) and am right now planning my other LA dates for November. If you’d like something medieval, folkloric, or intuitive and custom I’d love to draw on my training and framework to develop something beautifully dar...

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  From Thee Grimoire Who’s cool enough for a maggot tattoo? Be honest

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  The rain is divine. We needed this.

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  I had fun with this. All handpoked chalice from my Sympathetic Symbols book.

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  I see a lot of stuff on here (well, less lately since I feel like it’s been quite quiet on this server for a while) about how there is nothing unsafe about witchcraft or any pagan/neopagan practice and that anyone trying to tell you otherwise is some kind of fearmongering grifter. I’ve taken a long, long time to mull over various perspectives on this and have begun to realize a few reasons why I find I just can’t agree with this: 1) Any spiritual practice: be it any Abrahamic religion, any ado...

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  Super silly but some tattooers were mean to me on the internet today and for some reason it’s bothering me. How do we walk the line of humility when we have to perform for profit? How can we acknowledge our own lack and garner support rather than backlash? Social media is just not the place, but how are other artists who are also on mainstream social navigating imposter syndrome, negative feedback, and just generally a culture very geared towards conflict when it happens?

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  I just released something, that I honestly wasn’t expecting to have time to wrap up. What if we honor not just the idea of bodily death: the beloved dead, the ancestral line, etc — but of metaphorical death, too, this season? What if we consider the times in which we are experiencing death, and how those times are the ones we truly are the closest to something that Christian language has allowed us to imagine is “beyond” (but which is truly existing all around us, always, just like everything...

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  Continuation of this rework today, freehand tree to cover the odd lotus-esque sigil and somewhat messy handpoked roots I’d done a very long time ago. The root mass is full of eyes, which will be made clearer and highlighted with some white next time, and the tree itself is now healed but still too shiny to keep working on but will be shaded heavier next time. And then it will be done! For someone else I could have knocked this out all at once, but I value my spine and so I’ve been taking this in...

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  Yesterday I had the good fortune of bringing to life a custom piece for a fellow denizen of the Fediverse (a fedizen?) at Unfurl Collective in Yucca Valley. He flew down from the Bay Area for this, for which I am eternally grateful. The symbolism is personal, and I won’t expound here, but it’s all in there.

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  Going to be selling the Ranch. I can go into the decision making framework another time but for now! If anyone has a bunch of cash and wants to continue the dream let us know!

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  A full page from the Grimoire : set up to become a ritual to cultivate clairvoyance in one’s dreams I’ve set the book up so the entire page and everything on it is tattoo-able with some compositional adjustments to flow on a given body part, but the primary image is what’s really “meant” to be tattooed. The incantation, which some pages don’t have but most do, is set to be a guide for creating a ritual for the specific spell once the sigil itself is embedded and the page ripped out. The incant...

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  We actually went out the other day and interfaced with the world in that way, which we hadn't done in ages. We danced, which was exciting. I met new people, which was also wonderful. I then spent a large portion of yesterday recovering alone in my bedroom because the world is extremely stimulating and I'm very much not used to it yet! I'm working on a few larger scale tattoo projects, one has one session done and another to go, one is booked for LA in October, another is just begin...

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  Definitely would love to hold more space for your dreams and synchronous occurrences! Still booking these and would love to hear about what you're sitting with 🖤 https://sigillosacro.com #Dreams #Readings #Pagan #Witch

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  A portion of the Santa Ana river trail runs very close to our new house, and I went on my first run in almost a year there yesterday, and found it also runs under this beautiful historic railroad bridge. Hoping next time I remember to bring something to take photos with, it's truly incredible. There's actually running water, which in California this time of year is... hard to find, and there are SO many kinds of plants, including some of the most incredibly enormous Datura blooms I'v...

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  Today I got a little bit of painting done in the Grimoire, and am hoping to be a little less blocked to work on a brief writing project this evening. I also enlisted the offspring in packing help today, which was relatively successful considering. Which, for the record, it's a LOT easier to move if you're not emptying your entire house. I don't envy future us getting the rest of our stuff out of here to actually make repairs but that's a future us problem and hope...

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  Some of the paintings in the grimoire are based off of some of the woodblock prints that are in Agrippa's "Three Books of Occult Philosophy" and to be honest I've had such a bone to pick with Agrippa about this entire book but some of these prints are just incredible. If someone books "the Sun" spell I'll be able to share the photo here, and I really hope that happens if not tomorrow then quite soon.

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  Does anyone have any good book recommendations specifically for European folklore or even folklore symbol reference material? I have this idea to twist the typical Halloween flash into All Hallow's Eve/Samhain flash by creating images of the actual folkloric origins of the "typical" Halloween imagery. For instance, I think if I remember correctly the Jack-O-Lantern comes from some story about a turnip and a lump of coal and the wielder needing to walk about with it to...

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  So quite honestly I try not to come here very much lately because I lack the bandwidth to set up the filters for the consistent stream of horrific political things flowing down my timeline regardless of that I *have* filters for things like US Politics (unless I just filter for "US" which would be potentially effective but too broad) and I also lack the bandwidth to genuinely engage with the folks I want to engage with because that means, usually, scrolling through a timeline f...

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  🖤 It's happening! Finally the details are confirmed and I can share this thing I've been working on for a while -- I'll be hosting an Ancestral Sigil Making workshop on Sunday, October 18th at Brewja Elixir in Joshua Tree. We'll be working within a communal setting using a somatic method to pull two sigils: one made by us, that we will burn at the end to leave behind. One made by another attendee as we make theirs to carry ancestral wisdom forward into the season, marked with ja...

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  I just released my piece on spiritual bypassing, but we're still working on some kinks to the website so it doesn't look like it's updated live to the new site yet. Folks who are subscribed: let me know what the reading experience is like. Does it show up in the new site? Does it render in the old? Does it break? If you're not subscribed but want to read it, I'll hopefully have an updated link for you soon!

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  You know my writing is never AI because AI could not go on so many tangents and create so many intentional run on sentences. However, as someone who has pretty much always used emdashes very liberally... well, you know. It's a good excuse to try to practice using more apt punctuation throughout 😅

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  Also, the new website is up (Starlight is designing it) and while we have a little bit of work to do, adding some images here and there, it looks really nice. You should check it out if you want! It does a better job than I've been able to do previously of summarizing how all of these potentially separate-seeming things I do are actually intrinsically related to one another.

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  Star is building me a legit website but uh, there's some downtime right now if anyone has tried to access anything. Should be resolved soon!

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  I have a very complicated relationship with my solar aspect right now. That's a lot to unpack, so I won't, but in the kind of more worldly consideration of this: I feel like prior summers have not felt so hard. It's possible that the fact that it got *so* hot so early this year has just extended the discomfort beyond the duration I can normally happily tolerate it, or that in prior years we've been wrapped up in the relationships with folks staying here and so our own physiolog...

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  RE: https://climatejustice.social/@rancholibertad/116944347497011525 It's funny because this paradigm of being questioned for what our qualifications are at the Ranch, as though we aren't proving pretty significantly that our research and lived experience is foundationally enough and extremely valuable, is the opposite of what I'm met with in response to some of my writing here on esoteric topics. Where with ecological topics folks are like "you literally cannot think about t...

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  I briefly mentioned this before but this is the new page of offerings -- you can also view them on my website. Let me make you something powerful for your altar, craft you a sigil to work into your practice! I'm also offering readings: Dreams are incredible tools for magical work. We literally experience our astral body in dreams, and when we learn to ask for specific answers they often reveal themselves to us. Even when we don't ask, sometimes something particularly important nags at...

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  Putting myself out there more than maybe ever in my life and receiving mostly radio silence in return like "I only need one yes! Just one!" But at the end of the day, I'm a bit overflowing with gratitude right now. It's been *really* nice to have this time without Star working, it's been *really* nice to have more time to do my own work again, and yes we're very stretched on funds still and will be for the forseeable future (until I get that one yes!) but money is not...

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  There is truly no real dichotomy between the "material" and the "spiritual". Everything Is, at different wavelengths, so to speak. Some things are more quickly accessible with our kind of named bodily sense perception: the table in front of us, the person sitting next to us, the concept of the people on this website that we know are speaking to us. However, that doesn't make you or the table or the person sitting next to us any more "real" or "existent&quot...

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  Show of hands, who's down for a piece on spiritual bypassing?