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• Post #4289005

  🖤 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...

• Post #4182829

  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!

• Post #4129261

  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 😅

• Post #4118683

  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.

• Post #4074582

  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!

• Post #4071728

  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...

• Post #4003252

  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...

• Post #3990864

  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...

• Post #3970298

  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...

• Post #3876645

  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...

• Post #3800428

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

• Post #3796201

  As a side rant: I'm floored that SO MANY folks with art degrees want to be tattooists. Why? Why? It's like getting a business degree to be a stipper -- you'll be a great salesperson, sure, but it's a shitty job with no benefits, it tanks when the economy tanks, and it destroys your body long-term. I tattoo and make things for people because I have no education. Because I learned to draw from ex-cons, and grew up idolizing the resident tattooist for the gang all of my neighbors...

• Post #3794511

  So it's probably important that we have at least one more year of a corporate job floating us so that we can get some things paid off before we fully rely on my work and the Ranch to keep us going, but it's been kind of blissful having Star and I both focused on the Ranch, the kids, and my also having more time to work on art and the creative but still monetary endeavors such as fulfilling shop orders and marketing readings and such. Part of me just kind of hopes something takes off soon...

• Post #3746846

  RE: https://pagan.plus/@harebones/116898271917835684 I hard agree with this. Divination is a tool, and if we're really good we can sometimes see the shifting pathways and possibilities before us or the person we're reading for. Whilst there may be something we're all marching towards, a programmed purpose or what-have-you, there are many many ways to get there and the debate of whether or not we have choice is rife with insistence on being able to make a 0 or 1 assertion forgetting...

• Post #3730911

  I have the opportunity to give a class at a local venue, and even have someone help me advertise it. I want to tie together our conception of Practice as well as something pragmatically related to land stewardship, but I'm trying hard to nail down exactly how to frame this. Something like (not as a title for the class, just to name the concept): - Stewardship through Practice and Practice through Stewardship - Learning the rhythms of the land to reconnect with oneself and place in the whol...

• Post #3707631

  Another thing in the pipeline right now, which is maybe ~2-3 months away from finishing if the insects are doing their job (I'm going to go out and check right now when I'm done typing this) is a boar skull with tusks intact. I'm open to keeping it, BUT I offered a very, very long time ago custom skull mounts so if anyone IS interested I can send pictures of its progress and we can discuss adornment or leaving it natural and mounting hardware etc etc and price since this one is worth...

• Post #3700362

  RE: https://pagan.plus/@Siiin/116886414330162624 This has been COVERED thank you so much, truly. We cannot wait until we're in a position to return all of the support we've received 🖤 Thank you all.

• Post #3660590

  Per the urgent mutual aid post from the Ranch, here's the update on my end: The short of it, without getting too into the situation, is that we will not be getting paid and we are now two technically unemployed people. With already not having gotten paid for two weeks, and three kids to feed, this is a bit stressful, and there are significant income gaps we need to fill, now. While I'll be looking for local jobs as well to fill these gaps, and my partner is likewise looking for more...

• Post #3619975

  Some of the older newsletters on my site are getting a few random clicks from folks on the internet these days, and it reminded me that since I'm new to some of you here again, some of these are useful to better understand what it is I do if that's something you care to understand. In the article it says I've yet to take money for a tattoo, that point is now somewhat outdated as I have had one paid opportunity, and am continuously figuring out this space of being compensated for my...

• Post #3477838

  One booking so far in LA for July for a very small piece -- would love to stack it with another, so if you're on the fence let me know!

• Post #3456010

  Long Beach trip in a couple of weeks, very excited to work with this new artist. Have a big session with a dear client booked soon after that here at the studio at the Ranch, and we're anticipating probably a few sessions will be needed for that piece. By maybe August, before we start breeding and planting at the Ranch, I will have some time to travel to LA or San Diego areas to tattoo if anyone is located there and is interested. Emails are currently open! I've posted this before but...

• Post #3429119

  My kid got this comic from the library called "Punk Taco" and superficially it's cute and kind of leftist and clearly has a coded play on Trump-as-nemesis kind of plotline. But then there's this kind of played-off joke where the punk taco main character meets this refugee alien who tells him his name "poopoo padoo" or something that the author intentionally made silly. The main character goes "That clearly won't work, I'll call you Phillip." And...

• Post #3378959

  I truly cannot think of a good reason to curse or hex someone or something as opposed to enacting a positive working instead. I see this topic come up from time to time and the discussion always feels so immature. Of course sometimes people do horrible things! Working from anger is even very valid, but it must be controlled. Acting in the moments of blind rage before processing and pulling apart a situation will rarely get you what you really want -- let alone what you need. Someone does someth...

• Post #3077802

  I realized as I was doing my planning today that my newsletter this month is actually going to center around Solstice rites and delving a little deeper into ways we work with the land. This will tease the writeup on fertility magick I'd like to do, and then in July I'll release the writeup on Gods as Representations of Forces, which is good because that one is going to take quite a bit of researching and double-checking memory on comparable religion type things and felt a bit out...

• Post #3077801

  Just released my solstice contemplations: https://sigillosacro.com/as-the-wheel-turns-summer-solstice-contemplations/ How is this season showing up in your ecosystem? I know many of us are dealing with unstable weather in one form or another: how does that impact the way you celebrate the Solstice this time around? #Solstice #Summer #Climate #Pagan #Witch

• Post #3077800

  *oooold* things may be coming out of the archives because now I have a computer that can handle downloading photos and videos from storage. It's nice to have these little artifacts back again. #Ritual #Pagan #Occult #Sigils #Witchcraft

• Post #3077799

  That moment in Practice where things click and the decisions you've been grappling with come into focus. Ahhhh! The direction is clear.

• Post #3062770

  Quite frankly more of you need to spend some time just staring into the floor and it shows

• Post #3058858

  Some of my clients are on journeys they don't understand. I recall pulling cards for a client before we did her channeling session and the result was *loudly* "there are two paths and one leads to your alignment with Will directly, and the other will test and push you because it will be the result of attempting to avoid failure at all costs". Our channeling session said much the same, with the ancestors actually hemming and hawing over whether or not she could even handle the truth...

• Post #2808925

  Speak through me, Lunatics and heretics of my ancestry Speak through me, Lovers of barefoot wilderness and running away Speak through me, Feral fawn raised in dirt-floor cabin tamed once yet wild as your garden, Sheep tenders and agents of death, Those who fled on ships to immigrant shores Speak through me with dripping black pitch and the breaking of bread Of all you've seen, and all you know now #PerformanceArt #Incantations #Witch #Rituals #Ancestors #Invocation