What do I mean when I say that I’m a witch? It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has faith, that is a difficult thing to explain even to themselves. We take faith for granite when it is a mainstream religion like Christianity and Judaism, even Buddhism. These things have specific doctrines that [...]
Category: Spirit & Craft
What is a Seeker & How To Protect Yourself If You Are One
I am a seeker I am a seeker and I know that some people just rolled their eyes at that phrase. But it truly is what I am. I am a person that seeks out information and meaning. I love reading about alternative religions, cultures, and ways of knowing. I didn’t know there was a [...]
Building an Idea Museum
What is an Idea Museum? I love the concept of an idea museum partly because I am a collector. Don’t get me wrong when I say Collector. I’m not a hoarder by any means. In fact, I am a huge minimalist. Every six months I go through my closet to make sure that I don’t [...]
How to be an artists when you didn’t feel artistic
Being artistic is…hard. Admitting that I’m artistic is harder. I come from from a family of highly talented people. My brother works for Lucas Films, my cousin is a fashion guru and gothic goddess, my other cousin is a baker that can decorate a cupcake and make you think that it's art of weed (Whichever [...]
Don’t ‘Manifest’ this year
Why Manifesting and the Trends around it are utter Bull Shit Before you go around saying that I’m a negative person, I’m really not. Of course I believe in energies and being positive but the currents trends around the word “manifesting” is almost as nauseating as the word “Tribe”. I’m not going to talk about [...]
Learning to be Alone. NOT Lonely
I am a strange kind of person. I am pretty social when I am around people. I like making people laugh and being with people but I also like being alone. I should change that. I need to be alone sometimes. I don’t like being around people constantly and if I’m around a group for [...]
What is the Evil Eye?
You know what I'm talking about. The three blue circles are probably something that you have seen in a lot of beads and jewelry. I wear this symbol a lot actually. It is a meaningful symbol both because of where my family is from (Calabraia Italy) and because I am a woman. Both of the [...]
How to be creative AND productive
These two are not mutually exclusive! Start with Passion. A lot of people view themselves as ‘artists’ in terms of making their living from art. But let’s be real, in our modern world how realistic is that? I purposefully got an office job because cooking all the time was creatively draining, along with physically draining. [...]
Five Pillars of Creativity
Creativity is not something that comes easily, as many artists and creatives will tell you. It is rare that a creator, be it a painter, a writer or anything else is just constantly bubbling with ideas that can actually be transformed into something physical. I came up against the dreaded writer's block a lot including [...]
Smudging 101
Cleansing your space & yourself for the New Year Note that this is a smoke ritual, one of smudging. Smudging can be problematic and as an environmentalist I know that there are very common smudging's which are endangered from over harvesting such as White Sage and Palo Santo as a biproduct of the wellness movement [...]
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