Happy Full Moon! Today’s Moon is in Virgo, opposite the Sun in Pisces, so it’s the perfect time to talk about the interplay between the more meticulous, industrious approach of Virgo with the dreamier, come-what-may flow of Pisces. In my late 20s I learned web design (shout out to SitePoint, whose books taught me everything …
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This is my premium newsletter where we’ll be exploring all things magic + psychology… …specifically with the aim of helping us all cut through fear, procrastination, confusion, and other potholes littering the road to a life well lived, so we can spend less time tripping and more time living. We’re kicking things off this month with a …
When I was eight, I wrote a book called Monkey and Me about the adventures I had with my (imaginary) pet monkey. I remember illustrating the chapter pages with these little drawings, and I can still see the one of a tiny jump rope with bright yellow handles. Monkey and I–sorry, Monkey and me–were jumping rope in …
I’m pretty obsessed with the creative process–how it works, what gets in the way, and how creativity overlaps with magic. In recent months, I’ve been deliberately creating space for my unconscious to seep into my writing (and my other art), and today, on the New Moon in Pisces, I want to share how I use …
I recently read a book called Purple Crayons: The Art of Drawing a Life by Ross Ellenhorn, and it summed up magic in a way that I can’t imagine improving upon. Well, okay: the author is actually referring to the process of playing, but let’s see what happens when we swap magic for play: To …
Hands down, the most-used tool in my magical repertoire is something called the Inner Sanctuary. In a nutshell, your Inner Sanctuary is your home base on the astral, a place that you can visit in meditation and dreams. Why go to your Sanctuary? Where do I even begin! Here are just a few super awesome …
This is part of the Mystical Journey series. If you’re new to the journey, you can begin here. Why, hello there. Come on in, make yourself comfy. I’m your friendly narrator, here to help make sense of things. Coral reefs, magical keys, bizarre dreams. There’s a lot to take in! You might be wondering what …
This is part of the Mystical Journey series. If you’re new to the journey, you can begin here. Turns out, your experience in the coral reef was different from mine. Instead of seeing Another You, like the alternate version of Me I stumbled upon in the sleeping nook, you crawled up a carpeted set of …
This is part of the Mystical Journey series. If you’re new to the journey, you can begin here. We crawl out of the cube, reemerging in the forest of columns to brush off our pants as we stand, and you roll a kink from your shoulders. Where to next, I wonder? Something crunches underfoot as …
This is part of the Mystical Journey series. If you’re new to the journey, you can begin here. What if there was a Bureau of Interconnected Meaning, a way to piece together the story of your life, identifying major plot points and the domino of events that made them inevitable, and just as curious, glimpsing …
