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What Kind of World Do We Want?

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I have been trying for weeks to assemble my thoughts into something worthy of writing here, in this space. I have found it difficult for so many reasons. My imposter syndrome has often gotten the better of me, by forcing my brain to think that I had nothing of value to share, that I am not enough. However, my heart is at a breaking point, beyond anything I thought possible before, and I’d like to share this with you today. This will be a departure from my typical writing, so please forgive me for derailing from the usual track. That track just doesn’t feel as important as it was before.

For those of you who are newer to the blog, I have lived in the Southwestern United States for about half my life. The other half, has been spent in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. My house is near downtown Minneapolis. To say that I am scared for my family- my husband and kids- would be an understatement. But I am so proud of my community. Regardless of political affiliation or views, I deeply believe that we can all agree that what is happening at the hands of the US government is not ok. It’s not normal, moral, just, legal in most cases, or humane. They are attacking us. Minneapolis is no exception. They are conducting raids, violent suppression, and worse, all over the country as I type these words.

I have been digging deep into my fragile psyche to find some spiritual balm for the hurt, and I seem to be coming up empty. There is no salve that will quiet this burning inside my chest. I am so angry and deeply saddened by the tragedies that are unfolding this very minute across the country. Families torn apart, communities rallying together to protect their vulnerable neighbors, citizens being gunned down in front of onlookers, the federal government vilifying the helpers. It is a world I have never known in my lifetime. Many of us have not experienced this. 

As Americans, we are generally safe from this type of tyranny. I acknowledge this privilege. I am equally aware that many of my neighbors and community members have not had that luxury. Many of my classmates growing up were refugees from Cambodia and Laos, of the Hmong ethnic group, where they fled their homelands to relocate in the frozen state of Minnesota. Many of our neighbors are from various African countries: Somalia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Nigeria- who again fled war and famine, to be welcomed by the true melting pot of Minnesota. This area of the nation was settled first by the Native Peoples: Dakota (Sioux) & Anishinaabe (Chippewa, Ojibwe), and then by French fur trappers, as well as immigrants from Scandinavia- the same that called Canada home. 

Minnesota is a melting pot, where all the people bring their heritage and their ingredients, to take care of the larger community. It has not always been peaceful, nor has it always been just. It has been complicated, messy, and ever-changing. We have seen the damage to humanity when lives are snuffed out too soon. When the light of our collective conscience has been dimmed. 

I am proud of the community. I am proud of Minnesota. I am proud of the resistance I’ve seen from all corners of the US. I sincerely hope that we do not lose it, lose the momentum, to building a better place for us all. Our systems are broken. It’s so clear to see. It is up to us to fight for the world we want to inhabit. For what all our ancestors fought for throughout the ages. What do we want to leave our descendants? Do we want to leave them a world where people who disagree can be harmed with impunity? Do we want to leave them a planet choked with poisonous air and water? Where do we draw the line? Where do we go from here?

I will leave this rambling message with one final question: When is enough, enough?

Thank you for reading.

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The Magic of Storytelling — And the Women Who Carried Our Cultures on Their Tongues

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Since the beginning of time, humans have shared stories long before we shared written language. We carved them into cave walls, whispered them into the night, and passed them through the generations like treasure. But if you look closely at the history of storytelling — really look — you’ll notice something powerful:

Women have been the ones holding the threads.

Across continents, cultures, and centuries, women have been the keepers of memory, the carriers of truth, the weavers of identity. And the magic of storytelling isn’t just about entertainment. It’s about survival, belonging, and happiness. It’s about stitching ourselves into the world.

Today, we’re going to explore the magic of storytelling through a feminine lens — not as a nostalgia piece, but as a reminder of the power that lives in our voices right now.

Storytelling Is the Oldest Form of Healing

Before we had therapists, self-help books, or mindfulness apps, we had stories.

Stories are how humans make sense of chaos. They help us stitch meaning into moments that feel senseless. They give shape to grief, language to joy, and rhythm to the in-between spaces of being human.

When people are overwhelmed, they instinctively reach for stories:

  • A favorite childhood movie
  • A comforting myth
  • A spiritual teaching
  • A joke or memory
  • A prayer they learned from their grandmother

Stories calm the nervous system because they offer structure. A beginning. A middle. An end. A path through the unknown.

And this is where women historically stepped in as guides.

Women as the Carriers of Culture

In almost every ancestral culture, you’ll find the same pattern:

Women held the oral traditions.

They told the stories that taught:

  • values
  • community expectations
  • spiritual beliefs
  • the rituals of birth, love, and death
  • the lessons embedded in nature and seasons

They passed them along while braiding hair, cooking meals, grinding herbs, nursing babies, or sitting together under stars. The transmission was woven into everyday life. Not formal. Not ceremonial. Simply present.

Across the world:

  • In West African traditions, griots and griottes preserved history through song and story.
  • Indigenous grandmothers across the Americas shared creation stories and survival wisdom.
  • In Celtic cultures, women kept the lineage stories alive during times of war and displacement.
  • In Asian traditions, mothers and aunties used folktales as moral maps for children.
  • In Jewish families, women safeguarded cultural and spiritual continuity through the stories told in the home.

Everywhere we look, women ensured that culture didn’t end when times were hard.

They kept language alive when colonizers tried to erase it.

They held genealogies when written records were destroyed.

They carried spiritual traditions when practicing them openly was forbidden.

They were the living libraries.

Storytelling Is How Women Have Built Happiness, Too

It’s easy to forget this now, in an age where everything is fast, digital, and disposable. But happiness has never been a product, it’s always been a practice.

Storytelling is one of the oldest happiness practices we have.

When women gathered, they didn’t just share stories of heroes or gods. They shared:

  • how they survived heartbreak
  • how they cooked when food was scarce
  • how they found joy during hardship
  • how they soothed a crying child
  • how they learned to trust themselves again
  • how they found magic in the mundane

These weren’t just stories. They were maps of resilience.

And we still need them, maybe more than ever.

Why Storytelling Feels Magical

Storytelling activates imagination, memory, and intuition all at once. It opens the heart space. It reminds us that we are more than our to-do lists, more than our anxieties, more than our survival mode.

When you share a story — even a small one — something alchemical happens:

  1. A part of you becomes known.
  2. A part of someone else becomes understood.
  3. Connection forms where isolation used to be.

This is what magic actually is:

  • A shift in energy.
  • A softening.
  • A remembering.

This is why women’s circles, community gatherings, and spiritual spaces have always included stories. It’s how humans root into each other.

Your Story Is Part of This Lineage

You may not sit around a fire or gather the village like your ancestors did. But every story you tell, on social media, to your child, to yourself in the quiet moments, adds to the collective tapestry.

When you share truthfully, you:

  • validate someone else’s experience
  • preserve something worth remembering
  • create a moment of belonging
  • contribute to culture in real time

Your voice matters because your story is part of a continuum that stretches backward through generations of women and forward into the future.

You carry the wisdom of those who came before you.

And someone- someday- will carry pieces of your story, too.

A Gentle Invitation

As you move through this week, notice the stories you tell:

  • About your life
  • About your spiritual journey
  • About your worth
  • About your possibilities

Are they stories you want to keep?

Are they stories that nourish you?

Are they stories that reflect the woman you’re becoming?

If not, you have the power — like every woman before you — to change the narrative.

Because storytelling is not just how we remember.

It’s how we rewrite.

How we reclaim.

How we rise.

And that… is magic.

If this post resonated with you, please consider joining us at Mystic Harmony Circle, a soulful Skool community built for slow reflection, reclaiming, and aligning with yourself.

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When Grief Becomes a Mirror

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Finding Yourself in the Aftermath of a Difficult Year

There are years that feel like a slow unraveling – threads pulled loose one by one until you’re no longer sure where the original pattern even began. Maybe this past year was one of those years for you. A year that asked too much. A year that took too much. A year that left you standing in the quiet aftermath, wondering how to stitch yourself together again.

Grief has a way of stripping everything down to the bone. It silences the noise, dissolves the masks, and leaves us alone with ourselves, our truth, our questions, our unmet needs, our unspoken longings. It’s uncomfortable, raw, sometimes brutally honest. But within that discomfort lives something sacred: an invitation back to authenticity.

Where Grief Meets Introspection

When life shakes us, the first instinct is often to reach for something familiar: routine, responsibility, distraction. But eventually, there comes a stillness we can’t outrun. In that stillness, we meet ourselves again.

Introspection during grief doesn’t look like tidy journaling prompts or beautifully structured epiphanies. It’s more like:

  • Sitting quietly with the ache in your chest
  • Realizing the things you used to tolerate no longer feel tolerable
  • Noticing which relationships held you, and which ones disappeared
  • Feeling exhausted by pretend versions of yourself
  • Wanting less noise, fewer expectations, and more truth

Grief changes our inner landscape. It shifts priorities, clears illusions, and sharpens our understanding of what matters. Not in a dramatic, movie-like way, but in tiny, everyday moments – choosing rest over obligation, honesty over performance, slowness over survival mode.

Authenticity Often Begins in the Ruins

It’s strange, but grief can make us more real than anything else ever could.

When the old ways of being fall apart, it becomes harder to hide behind “I’m fine.” Something in us whispers:

Be who you actually are.

Say what you actually feel.

Stop carrying what is not yours.

Authenticity isn’t about perfection. It’s about alignment. And grief, for all its heaviness, is a powerful realignment. It clears away the unnecessary and asks us to show up barefaced, imperfect, and entirely human.

You might find yourself:

  • Speaking with more honesty
  • Setting boundaries you once avoided
  • Prioritizing joy in small, quiet ways
  • Letting go of roles that drained you
  • Reclaiming parts of yourself you forgot

That internal shift is not weakness. It’s transformation.

Moving Forward With Tender Courage

If you’re reading this and nodding quietly, please know: nothing is wrong with you. You aren’t “behind.” You aren’t failing. You’re simply in a brave season of becoming.

Healing isn’t linear. Some days you’ll make tea, breathe deeply, and feel grounded. Other days you’ll stare at the laundry and wonder why everything suddenly feels heavy. Both are part of the journey. Both count.

Be gentle with the version of you that is trying to rise while still carrying the weight of what you’ve lost.

There Is Magic in Returning to Yourself

As painful as this year may have been, it’s also offering you something: a path back to your inner wisdom. A chance to hear your own voice again. A doorway into a life that feels more aligned, more intentional, and more you.

This is the quiet magic that grief leaves in its wake—not joy exactly, but truth. Not certainty, but clarity. Not perfection, but presence.

If you’re moving through this intersection of grief, introspection, and authenticity… take it slowly. Let yourself feel. Let yourself soften. Let yourself rebuild in your own time and in your own way.

And if you want a place to explore these moments more deeply, with others who are walking their own healing path, you’re warmly invited to join us inside Mystic Harmony Circle—a gentle community for connection, grounding, and rediscovering your inner voice.

You don’t have to navigate this season alone.

You deserve support, spaciousness, and a soft place to land.

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Beaver New Moon 2025- Spiritual Meaning, Ritual Recitation & New Moon Energy

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As we move into the quieting days of autumn, the skies welcome the New Moon in October — traditionally called the Beaver Moon. This year, it begins on October 21, 2025, marking the perfect time for reflection, planning, and intentional living.

Why “Beaver Moon”?

The name “Beaver Moon” dates back to early North American traditions. Indigenous communities and European settlers alike used this term to signal the time when beavers prepared for the winter by building and repairing their lodges. It was also a time when people laid in supplies and prepared for the colder season ahead. Symbolically, it’s about preparation, resourcefulness, and building foundations for the future.

The Power of the New Moon

New Moons invite us into beginnings, fresh starts, and seed planting. Unlike the illumination of the full moon, this lunar phase is about quiet intention, rest, and creating space. The Beaver Moon’s energy encourages us to consider what we’re preparing for, not just in our homes but also in our relationships, work, and inner lives.

This is an ideal moment to:

• Clear physical clutter to welcome fresh energy.

• Reassess what is truly necessary and let go of distractions.

• Strengthen connections with those around you through mindful communication.

• Align your goals with your authentic self.

Ritual Recitation

To work with this Beaver Moon New Moon, try this simple practice:

1. Find a quiet place in your home where you feel safe and at peace.

2. Light a candle, close your eyes, and breathe deeply.

3. Speak aloud the following words, letting them resonate in your heart:

✨ “I am clearing space in my home, my mind, and my spirit for positive changes.

I balance things I want and need, with those of others effortlessly.

My relationships are stronger because we communicate better every day.

I am working toward harmony in every step I take, while also living my authentic self.

Opportunities abound but my intuition pulls me toward the ones that are right for me in this season.”

Repeat this recitation as often as needed during this lunar cycle to anchor your intentions.

Closing Thoughts

The Beaver Moon teaches us that preparation is power. By honoring this New Moon, you align with nature’s rhythm of balance, harmony, and readiness. Allow this lunar energy to guide you toward building strong foundations for the months ahead.

For more insight into the moon phases check out:

➡️ Farmer’s Almanac – Full Moon Names & Meanings

For deeper connection to rituals and community, please consider joining Mystic Harmony Circle.

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Why Witchcraft, Tarot, and Spellwork Are Experiencing a Powerful Resurgence

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In recent years, there’s been a noticeable rise in the popularity of witchcraft practices—tarot reading, spellcasting, moon rituals, and ancestral connection. What might feel like a “sudden” resurgence is, in truth, part of a historical rhythm: when traditional systems falter, people turn toward spiritual practices that offer meaning, empowerment, and community.

A Pattern Across Time

Throughout history, whenever societies faced upheaval—wars, political unrest, economic collapse—people often turned to alternative systems of wisdom. Ronald Hutton, in The Triumph of the Moon (1999), shows how modern Pagan witchcraft re-emerged in the 20th century during times of cultural upheaval. Similarly, sociologist Boris Gershman found in his study of witchcraft beliefs across 95 countries that such practices are most common in areas where institutional trust is weak and communities turn inward for resilience (PNAS Nexus, 2022).

We are living through a similar cycle now. Climate change, systemic inequality, and the breakdown of traditional institutions have left many searching for new anchors of safety. Witchcraft, tarot, and energy work offer not just answers, but also agency in uncertain times.

Inner and Ancestral Knowledge

For many, this revival isn’t about “trendiness” at all—it’s about reconnecting with generational knowledge. Silvia Federici reminds us in Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women (2018) that these practices often preserved knowledge about healing, herbs, and resistance during periods of systemic control. Rediscovering them today can feel like reclaiming a birthright.

Tarot cards, for example, aren’t just tools for fortune-telling; they serve as mirrors for self-reflection, inviting people to look inward when the outside world feels unstable. (If you’d like to explore this further, check out my post on How Intuition, Self-Confidence & Happiness Work Together.)

Building New Communities

One of the most beautiful aspects of this resurgence is the creation of supportive spiritual communities. From online circles to neighborhood covens, people are forming networks that prioritize healing, empowerment, and shared wisdom. As anthropologist Susan Greenwood notes in Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld (2000), ritual and magic often serve as tools of belonging and identity, especially when mainstream structures feel alienating.

These spaces often feel safer and more authentic than traditional institutions because they center lived experience, intuition, and mutual respect.

Why It Matters Now

The return of witchcraft practices is not simply about casting spells or drawing cards—it’s a cultural reawakening. It reminds us that humans have always turned to both the mystical and the practical in times of uncertainty. By reconnecting with these traditions, we’re not just seeking guidance; we’re building resilience, reclaiming power, and finding each other again.

✨ Whether you’re just curious about tarot or deep in your spiritual practice, this resurgence is an invitation: to explore your inner wisdom, connect with your roots, and participate in a movement that blends the ancient with the modern.

👉 Curious to explore tarot and witchcraft practices more deeply? Join the free Mystic Harmony Circle community on Skool, where we share ancestral wisdom, rituals, and spiritual support in a safe and empowering space.

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