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The Key to Our Collective Liberation
If you are the only one that’s doing the work on a systemic problem, it’s gonna be r-e-a-l-l-y hard to make a change. Because you can only do so much. The same is true for larger systems. And you might want to get involved in efforts to shift the system also, because you may not make the change for you at a systemic level right away, but you’re starting to make that change.
God is not Santa Claus
There is no seeking God without finding myself.What if every single day of your life you woke up in the morning with the absolute power to make your...
Welcome to Another World
Elisa Loncón, a 58 year old Mapuche woman, was elected on July 4 to be the president of the Constitutional Convention – the group of people who will...
The Magic is Back
Neoliberalism was born and dies in Chile It was never really gone, but it is now front and center, proud, visible. Not hiding. Taking it’s righteous...
Rites of passage as limits and boundaries
Left: Billie Eilish age 17, right: Billie Eilish for Vogue interview age 19I like to think that back in the day, before the industrial revolution,...
How (and why) to cast a magical circle
A circle is a psychic space where we transform the world. A circle is a sacred space where we transform ourselves. A circle is also a physical place, and can even be physically traced on the ground, and visible to the regular observer, or exclusively energetically, only visible with the mind’s eye. Most importantly, a circle is a space separate from our ordinary lives, it’s a purposefully designed container to work magic.
The day the sun didn’t rise
It’s Wednesday September 9, 2020, and the sun didn’t come out in San Francisco. Actually, it didn’t come out in the Bay Area at all. Cars are...
How a Witch Works Energy
My version of witchcraft is deeply experiential. I don’t read about it, or think about it, or talk about it, as much as I experience it. I live it....
How I Use My Altar
I have had an altar in my home for most of my adult life. The most recent incarnation of my altar is about 15 years old, it’s an Ikea coffee table...
As Within, So Without
The lovely Brian Truskowski interviewed me for his podcast “Illuminate”. In introducing myself, I found myself saying that I’m a witch, I work...
The Time for Magic
It’s time for me to teach magic. As in, formally, to aspiring witches that need guidance in bridging Earth and Fire.To those that sense Spirit, that...
What Magic Is and Isn’t
I live a very magical life and I am so deeply grateful for it. A magical life is a wonderful and wonder-filled existence. It’s a life of delight, of...
50 Reasons Why I Work Magic
Why do I work magic? Well, there are literally countless reasons, but let’s start with 50, off the top of my head, in no particular order: I work...
The Liberation in Discomfort
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be uncomfortable and why folks are so terrified of the idea. The illusion of certainty (even if the...
On Transforming Toxic Relationships
Not that long ago, I was in a relationship that was not good for me. It was not good for me before I left it, but I guess I had to stay for as long as I stayed to make sure that it wasn’t gonna get any better,
Two Magical Powers for Evil Times
Because the times demand it, I’ve been very focused on the sociopolitical situation in the US for the last few weeks. These are atrocious, scary,...
Witchy Tips to Talk About Race with your Racist Loved Ones
I believe that change happens from the inside out, and from the outside in, that we need systemic transformations as much as personal evolution,...
Three Anti-Racism Spells for non-Black Muggles
Magic is appealing to many people because it sounds like a free pass, like all the gain with none of the pain, like instant gratification. And it...
The Language of Genocide
George Floyd was assassinated by Minneapolis police for no damn good reason. I personally believe there’s very very very rarely a good reason to...
Why Go Back to the US?
On May 15, 2020, I posted on social media: THREE years ago today I moved back to SF from Australia. I cannot believe I'm gonna say this but it was...
Better Than You
Amongst all the violence and bullshit going on in the world, specifically in the US, it’s hard to know where to put my attention. Black people have...
Productivity: Personal & Political
I’ve been thinking a whole lot about productivity recently. For one, it seems to be in the ether - given the pandemic, people are trying to figure...
A Witch’s Inner Work
In the time of Covid, there’s been a lot of discussion about what “work” actually is. Many men (mostly men, anyway), who weren’t able to...
The Gift in the Economic Crash
As I have mentioned before, the economy is a collective hallucination. Given the world came to a halt and the majority of people on the planet are...
Who has the Power and Authority?
I have two main interests in life: making my life better, and making everyone else’s life better. Yes, I come first, cause if I’m doing like shit...
On Transitions and Transformations
For over three weeks now, the only people I’ve seen in person are my partner and folks at the grocery store. The recession in the US is now official...
On Being OK
Over two weeks ago, Bay Area residents were asked to please stay in their homes as much as possible in an effort to curve the global pandemic that...
Akashic Records
I spent some time last week working with my Akashic Records, just because having a look at everything that ever was, is, and will be, since before...
Lockdown
Yesterday, the Bay Area went into lockdown in an attempt to slow down the coronavirus pandemic. For someone who grew up in a place with actual, real...
El miedo al miedo
Ayer tuve la suerte de estar en Chile para el #8M, la marcha celebrando el día internacional de la mujer. Fue increíble participar en el evento. A...
Belonging with My Human
There is a man in my life. I like everything about him, except for his freezing cold feet that startle the shit out of me when I accidentally...
Ekeko
I am so super incredibly busy right now. I have to deliver a huge paper to a client this Friday. It’s not actually due til Monday but I want to...
AI Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself
My business partner and I went to Redwood City last Tuesday and Wednesday to attend Startup Grind, which is a techbro fest from hell, where...
A Cup of Concrete
I spent last week with a group of Australians working on some strategy to help restore the world’s ecosystems. It was a complete privilege to do...
On What Might Work
Tonight I went and saw a dear friend of mine perform in “Butterfly Effect”, a dance show about climate change, activism, and how a diverse community...
It wasn’t peace, it was silence.
As I wrote about here, Chile is going through a really interesting process of trying to figure out how to reinvent itself in a way that most of its...
Language, Action, and Human Rights, v1
I’m no Bible scholar, but I do know that a whole lot of the psyche of the industrialized West is immersed in the Judeo-Christian myth, or mythology,...
Las Tesis points out the Naked Patriarchy
I tried to remember how I first came across this and I can’t tell. I looked through my Whatsapp threads but I found nothing that was a direct link...
2020
I love me a new year. As an Aries, the idea of a fresh start is what I’m all about. The blank page. The cleanliness of not having messed up yet. The...
Once more for the back: we’re all in it together
Santiago de Chile exploded into the most intense expression of social unrest it’s seen in probably ever. The city is literally up in flames, roads...
Botox is the new black: On Vanity and Resistance
I’m a middle-aged (44 to be exact), Latina, single, straight, cis woman. All these things have mattered when it comes to my relationship with my...
The Tech Bubble
As you know, the economy is a collective hallucination. It is not a natural occurrence that we have no control over, it is agreed-upon...
Fear vs. Intuition
“How do we distinguish between fear and intuition?” My friend texted me this question the other day, with no context and no further detail. Rather...
Tarot 101: you doing you, not “predicting the future”
For those of you not lucky enough to have been immersed in the beauty and magic of the Tarot since you can remember, here is a brief introduction to...
Trolling the trolls
For the last couple of years, I’ve made it a habit to call out, to varying degrees of “publicly”, all white and/or all male spaces, specifically...
On Magic and Science
For the last few weeks, I have noticed that pretty consistently, things that I think of come to pass. I did notice such a phenomenon as a child and...
Short-term Memory
A month ago, in the middle of July, I was in Aylesford, Kent, in England, teaching a leadership training for social justice leaders. It was a dream...
The Revolution of Insanity
One of my besties is certifiably insane. As in, not having “bouts of depression”, or “panic attacks”, though that is certainly a part of it (and...
This is what middle-aged looks like
I have felt absolutely middle aged this week. Which should not be surprising considering that I am in fact 44 years old, which is pretty much...
The unbearable uncertainty of being – and of fighting fascism.
I talked to my brother the other day who is still looking for a job in his hometown of Melbourne, Australia. It’s starting to get to the point where...
Impossible Love
I am surfing the edge between a psychiatric diagnosis and the next step towards spiritual enlightenment. Everything is going so incredibly well, and...
What’s the worst thing that could happen
For the past two weeks I’ve watched in horror as the new regime implements unconstitutional decrees and is led (and I use that term loosely) by a...
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