Solstice is around the corner, and every year, without fail, I celebrate on the 21st of December (or June). Is that the exact moment the Solstice hits? Not always. Do I care? Absolutely not. It’s funny because I’m incredibly precise about the exact moment the full or new moon peaks. But with Solstice, I’ve never bothered with the astronomical exactness. I choose the 21st out of pure habit, and honestly…it just makes me happy. So that’s the day my magic happens. This year, my ritual will...
7 days ago • 3 min read
Let me tell you something I wish more people would say out loud: The idea that you just need to “heal your money wounds” and poof, you’ll suddenly become a millionaire, is absolute, unfiltered bullshit. It is. I’m not denying the truth that many of us have had to do deep internal work around money, safety, comfort, survival mode, and all the emotional noise that lives under our bank accounts. I’ve had to do that work too. It mattered. It changed me. It changed the way I move and the amount of...
14 days ago • 2 min read
I know that many people are kind of weary (to not say scared) of witches. But I didn’t expect someone planted firmly in the middle of woo-woo-land to feel that way. I was talking with someone about potentially coming on her podcast, which is all about magic and intuition and past-life readings and Akashic Records, you know, nothing that seems too mainstream in my opinion, but what do I know. She seemed lovely, thoughtful, smart, and genuinely trying to bring something meaningful into the...
21 days ago • 3 min read
Like many people, particularly people in the Western Hemisphere, and especially women, I'm usually not super excited about getting old. I'm particularly aware of sunspots on my hands, looser skin on my face, and as of recently, some aches and pains that need more care than I care to give it. But as this is the week of Thanksgiving, I'm definitely grateful for getting older, because the alternative? Yeah. Hard pass. Not my time. I’m grateful for every year I get.And the older I get, the more I...
28 days ago • 2 min read
My partner Jeff and I have been going to this Rueda de Casino dance class for over a year and a half now. If you’ve never done it, imagine salsa… but with a whole circle of people, constantly rotating partners, moving as one organism, barely catching your breath before you’re spun into the next hold. It’s joyful chaos. The first time we saw it, we were like:Absolutely not.We came here to learn how to salsa, not audition for a Latin dance flash mob. But we stayed.Because the teachers are...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
The fact that I teach about the cycles of life—how everything is born, grows, dies, and is reborn— doesn’t mean I always remember it in my own daily life. Human nature is funny that way.We forget so we can remember.We stumble, not because we’re bad at this, but because remembering is part of the curriculum of being human. Case in point:I know that I can’t harvest from a seed I just planted.I know that fruit takes time to grow.And still, when I plant the seed, part of me wants the fruit three...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
This Halloween, like many Halloweens, I didn’t celebrate in the way most people do, with costumes, candy, or parties. Last year, I was home with a few witches, deep in ritual, when a little kid knocked on the door yelling, “Trick or treat!” We froze. I looked around at my sisters and said, “It’s gonna have to be trick… because I’m a really bad witch and I have nothing prepared.” We laughed, but the truth is, Halloween for me tends to be a working day. A time when the veil thins and spirits...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
When I teach my students how to cast spells, I always begin with one simple question: What do you want? What do you actually want to see happen in your life?What would make you feel happy, fulfilled, like, yes, this is it? That’s where the spell begins. But here’s what usually happens: as soon as they start naming their desire, the mind jumps in with a loud “But how?” How could that possibly happen? How would I afford it? How would it ever come together? And I’m like — well, yeah.If you could...
2 months ago • 2 min read
I got an email the other day from a student wondering if Liberation Magic could help with limiting beliefs. In general, people think of limiting beliefs as things we hold to be true (and may or may not be), but that get in our way of moving towards our dreams. And while that’s true, these beliefs are not a bad thing. A limiting belief almost always starts out as a survival spell.It was a small act of magic you cast long ago to stay safe.To protect your heart.To make sense of a world that...
2 months ago • 2 min read