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Maritza Schafer

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Your spiritual practice is a gym membership

Hi Reader, I want to tell you something that might sting for about four seconds and then feel like the biggest relief of your year. Your spiritual practices aren't working because they're not practices yet. They're learnings. And learnings look almost exactly like practices from the outside, which is why so many of us are walking around confused, exhausted, and secretly wondering what's wrong with us. Here's what I mean. People come to me and they say, I've done the work. And they have....

Maritza Schafer walking along a wooded forest path in a red and black lace duster, bright red earrings, smiling among sunlit trees

Hi Reader, I wanna tell you about a student of mine who cast a spell recently, to meet her life partner before her birthday (and her birthday was, like, three weeks out). From my perspective, she was in no position to have a life partner that she would actually be happy with. Her relationship with herself wasn't super healthy, and so by extension, she was gonna be attracting the kind of person that wasn't gonna be super healthy 'cause it was gonna match her. Her energy was coming from a...

A white door nearly hidden by overgrown greenery, symbolizing the back door approach to feeling stuck

Here’s something that sounds like a riddle but is actually incredibly practical: The solution has nothing to do with the problem. Think about the different aspects of yourself: Your mind: your thoughts and beliefs.Your heart: your emotions and feelings.Your body: your physical state and the actions you take.Your spirit: your energy and connection to something larger. When you’re trying to change one of these aspects of yourself, the easiest way in is often through the back door. What I mean...

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You've seen the posts. If it doesn't feel good, it's not in flow. If it's hard, it's not meant for you. You can make this much money without doing this and without doing that. Yup. And a pony. Horse Vectors by Vecteezy I, as a witch, believe that life is organized around paradox. And what I mean by paradox is contradictory things that are true at the same time. I believe that life is fucking fantastic. It's filled with joy, with pleasure, with beauty, with fun, with love. And it's also filled...

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I’ve been noticing a trend on social media where people talk about how to get what you want. And they say that beyond the manifestation, the vision board, the meditation, the affirmations, making a change is about identity. It goes something like: become the person who already has what you want. How does the woman who's completely satisfied in her relationship think, feel, behave, desire?What does the business owner who's actually thriving act like?The career person landing the promotions and...

A woman with long curly dark hair stands in a lichen-covered orchard, wearing a black dress with a red floral pattern, resting her hands on a gnarled, moss-covered tree branch and looking off to the side.

Someone wrote in with a question I want to answer publicly, because I guarantee you're not the only one sitting with it. She said: I have noticed that when I think of something, it is appearing in my reality the same day or at the very least within a week. It's freaking me out because I don’t understand how I am doing this and I don’t understand what this ability is called. Here's my read, right up front: She's not doing this. This is happening to her. Not the same thing. I get why this...

Maritza Schafer with arms raised in celebration on a shore, with turquoise lake and snow-capped mountains in the background.

I asked you all last week what's stressing you out, and unsurprisingly, money came up, over and over. Money is one of the most stressful things a person deals with, and believe it or not, it's not really about how much you have. People who are barely making it worry about money. Obviously. But people with a lot of money worry about it too. They fight about it with their family. They feel disconnected from most of the world because their reality doesn't match anyone else's. A billionaire is...

A wildflower crown laid flat on a weathered wooden surface, woven from fresh herbs and greenery and dotted with blooms in yellow, orange, red, white, and purple, including calendula, daisies, and small violet flowers.

Last weekend was solstice, and for those of you that don't know, it's the magical holiday when days are the longest in the northern hemisphere, and nights are the longest south of the equator. I did a magical ritual with a witch that I've been celebrating solstices with for the last 20 years. We're dear, dear friends, but very different people. She has a deep artistic bent, and loves crafts. She always has beads and glue and goo and weird paints. I…don’t. When she texted me last week to say,...

Screenshot of a New York Times app showing the breaking news headline: "Elon Musk Becomes World's First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading"

This week Elon Musk became the first trillionaire in human history. A trillionaire. I don't actually understand what that means. A million dollars I can kind of understand. A billion dollars already feels fake. A trillion dollars is just a word. My brain can't hold it. I don't think the human brain evolved to comprehend numbers that large. What I do understand is that it's evidence we're doing something very, very wrong. One of the stories I was told growing up is that people work, contribute...

Maritza holding a Tower tarot card in front of her face, standing in front of a bookshelf filled with books and spiritual objects.

There are three magical axioms I live by and that all of my students in Liberation Magic get to learn. Today, I want to share a really deep concept embedded in one of them. The axiom goes: speaking truth is the path to liberation. While it sounds kind of grandiose (and it can absolutely be applied to vast societal change, as in ‘speaking truth to power’), what's more practical for most people in their everyday lives is the ability to admit their own truth to themselves, and then speak it....