4/29/20018 - Workshop: Rituals, Spells and Ceremonies

4/29/20018 – Workshop: Rituals, Spells and Ceremonies

Come to my Rituals, Spells and Ceremonies workshop! Ritual and ceremony can help us feel grounded, focus our energy, effect positive change in our lives, and connect us to our spiritual purpose.  Many people, however, feel intimidated when trying to craft a ritual of their own. We worry that we’re doing it wrong or that we’re leaving out something important. We’d like to invite our friends over…

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Hey Everyone! Super excited to be leading the Q & A with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky after the screening @hammer_museum tomorrow night. Come early if you want to get a seat. And let me know if you have any burning questions you want to ask el maestros. See you there! #Jodorowksy #PschoMagic #EndlessPoetry #Magic #Ritual #Cinema #HammerMuseum #ElTopo #TheHolyMountain #Tarot #Dune #PascALEjandro (at Hammer Museum)

Just off the top of my head, three Haitians: . Bendson Louima - physician and founder of Médecins Sans Frontières . Jean-Michel Basquiat - one of the 20th century's most celebrated American artists . Roxane Gay - best-selling author and cultural commentator. Her father, born in Haiti, is a civil engineer who built the Eisenhower tunnel in Colorado and subway lines in New York and Washington D.C. . Just because Trump can't recognize the extraordinary contributions of immigrants, expats, and people from countries he's probably never even been to, doesn't mean that we as a nation should be deprived of them. . Just go home, Trump. Get back in your tower and go home. I'd take the contributions of these folks over yours any day. . ... and this isn't even to mention all the folks who probably WOULD be making tremendous literary/scientific/and civil contributions if they weren't having to waste all their energy fighting to stay alive under industrial capitalism. . Trump, we banish you. Be gone! . #notmypresident #haitianswelcome #resist #immigrantswelcome #gohometrump #shameonyou #persist #humanrights #civilrights #thisisnotnormal (at The White House)

So thrilled to announce... . ... I just sold my book, "Initiated: The Wayward Girl's Guide to Becoming a Witch" to Grand Central, a division of Hachette Publishing Group! Hooray! . Thanks to my power agent, seeress Adriann Ranta Zurhellen at Foundry... . ...and my power editor, sorceress Maddie Caldwell (@maddiecalls) at at Grand Central... . ... to the power spirits in my spell bag whom I've been feeding high quality oils for the past year and who have SERIOUSLY been working overtime... . ...and thanks to my coven of power witch BFFs who built me altars and lit me candles and encouraged me when I cried and worried and struggled and questioned myself... . ...Thanks all of you for helping me keep my fires burning. . Thanks to my ancestors, my spirits, my family, and most especially, my mother - the first and wisest witch in my life. . What means the most to me is that now I'll get a chance to take all the straw that made up my early life and spin it into mystical gold. . Words are like wands, they can take suffering and struggle and transform them into meaning and magic. . Get ready world, the witches are coming for you! Victory to the Goddess! . #LiteraryWitchcraft #BibbityBobbityBook #MagicWorks #VictoryToTheGoddess #GrandCentralPublishing #BookDeal #Reading #Books #Healing #HealingMagic #Ancestors #Angels #Guides #Spells #BFFs #Initiated #Grimoire #Witch #Oracle #Tarot #Coven #Labyrinth #Memoir #Magic #Manifesto (at Heaven)

Tarot 101: Today at 2pm . Walk ins welcome. . Join me from 2-5pm for a workshop on working with Tarot. . Tarot is a centuries old system of divination that helps you find answers to your most burning questions, cultivate personal empowerment, plan for future developments, gain insight into your current situation and create the life you want for yourself! . Speaking through the language of the unconscious, the tarot uses images, symbols and stories to illuminate underlying patterns at work in your life and offers possibilities for transformation. . Come learn the basics of this historic method for bring clarity and insight in this 3-hour introductory workshop. . Get a firm understanding of what the tarot is, how it works, and will be able to give a simple reading to a friend. . Bring your tarot cards if you have some, otherwise decks will be available to purchase at the class. . What To Bring: . Your tarot deck (to purchase one at the event, email [email protected] immediately after you register so that we can make sure there are enough the day of the event). A notebook and pen or pencil to take notes . . . #tarot #tarot101 #tarotworkshop #divination #seasonofthewitch #believeinypurownmagic #witchywoman #oracleofLA #lightonlotus #lolyoga (at Light On Lotus Yoga)

This one is going out to anyone who’s having trouble letting go. . A few years ago when I was going through my divorce this album literally save my life. . I’d drive around LA listening to it on full blast in my shitty little car. I’d listen to it so loud the speakers would buzz and the bumper, which was only held on with duct tape anyway, would flap in the breeze. . There’s something magical about “All Things Must Pass” that reaches you in your darkest parts and helps pull you up. . Music changes you on a molecular level - infuses each cell with the power of the Universal Hum. I’m not the only person who’s had this experience listening to this album. It’s a thing. Highly recommend. . Now I’ve got a new car, new love, new house. Things live, they die, we rise again. Thanks for the reminder, George Harrison. . #music #musictherapy #oracle #witchcraft #dailyoracle #healing #highlyrecommend #musicsavedmylife #allthingsmustpass #GeorgeHarrison #BestBeatle #recommendations #musiclovers #universalhum #oracleofla (at Amoeba Music)

Tarot showed me the way forward when I wanted to leave my shit jobs, find a way to heal from my divorce, find love, support myself doing what I love, and develop my relationship with the Mystery Traditions. It can do this for you too. . Come learn the basics of this centuries old method for bring clarity and insight in this 3-hour introductory workshop. . By the end, you’ll know the basic history of tarot, how it works, and able to give a basic reading to yourself or a friend. $45. RSVP @lightonlotus . 👉When: Saturday 6 Jan 2018, 2pm - 5pm. . 👉Where: Light On Lotus in West LA @lightonlotus . 👉Exchange: $45 . #Tarot101 #TarotClass #LightOnLotus #MagicSchool #Divination #LearnTarot #VictoryToTheGoddess #WesternMysteryTraditions #Magic #Hermeticism #Astrology #Alchemy #DivineFemme #HighPriestess #MajorArcana #WorldCard #OracleOfLA #Justice #Workshop #Yoga #Help (at Light On Lotus Yoga)

1/6/18 Tarot Workshop At Light On Lotus

Tarot showed me the way forward when I wanted to leave my shit jobs, find a way to heal from my divorce, find love, support myself doing what I love, and develop my relationship with the Mystery Traditions. It can do this for you too. Come learn the basics of this centuries old  method for bring clarity and insight in this 3-hour introductory workshop. Speaking through the language of the…

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This year is the Justice year according to tarot numerology. . Now we have the opportunity to rebalance and reevaluate after riding the riptide of last year’s upheavals. . We need to find a happy balance between our ideals on the one hand, and what can be achieved in material reality upon the other. . With Saturn in Cap this year we have the opportunity to create lasting structures that serve Justice, whatever we understand justice to mean. . We are each responsible for bringing justice into the world through our actions. . For me, I understand justice as the creation of balance and harmony, a free and easy flow of energy that creates a healthy ecosystem. Healthy on a personal, social, and environmental level. . So the question now is, how are we going to achieve that? . The justice card in tarot is often depicted holding methods of measurement. When you write down your goals and put them on your magical altar of manifestation, make sure that they are measurable. . Consider: how will you know when you have achieved your goal? What are the incremental steps it will take to get there? . Happy 2018! May this year bring harmony and justice. Victory to the Goddess! . #justice #tarotreadersofinstagram #tarot #witchesofinstagram #witches #divination #magic #healing #witchlife #witchlifecoach #tips #crystals #capricorn #moon #adjustment #2018 (at Los Angeles, California)

Perfect gift from a friend. Selah Saterstrom's "Essays in Divinatory Poetics": . "Choose the [tarot] reader with the forked tongue, a reader able to straddle the border between inside and outside, who is able to move, unburdened, through the ouroboros, dissolving the stitches holding in tension the binary, and who can, instead, give way to the realms of uncertainty, simultaneity, contradiction, paradox, and parable." . Yes. . If you're ready for a reading like that, call me. Book me. Come here. (link in bio) . Or, if you're ready to learn to give one yourself, I will be holding a workshop on divination on January 6th @LightOnLotus -- come straddle the border with us. . #Divination #Tarot #Magic #LiteraryWitchcraft #Reading #Witchcraft #Ouroboros #Witch #Astrology #Bones #Augers #Tantra #Revelation #Celebration #Workshop (at Stories BooksandCafe)

#Winter #Mood #CrossingOver #welcome2018 #reindeer #spirit (s) ・・・ Image via @studioshamshiri (at Planet Earth)

In all the witchy how-to books they say you're supposed to keep a "Book of Shadows", a record of all your spells, ceremonies and magical workings. Months later you're supposed to revisit your spell entries to describe how they worked out. . Being the switchy witch that I am, I DO keep a Book of Shadows, but I often also include journal entries, notes about clients, notes for stories I'm working on, etc. etc. Which means I have literally hundreds of these books and it's sometimes hard to find the spells I'm looking for. . My best Christmas present this year was from my mother - her own Book of Shadows from my teenagers years. In it she describes the rituals she performed on New Moons and sabbaths; recipes for healing ointments, love potions (and for poisons!); the chants and prayers she used; and astrological events all in one place. You inspire me, Mom! . 2018 resolution... up my Book of Shadows game! Gotta be able to give those baby witches something coherent to work with when I become a crone. . #Gifts #BookOfShadows #Witchcraft #Magic #Astrology #WitchesOfInstagram #Blessed #WitchTips #Ceremony #Crystals #Healer #Moon #NewMoon #Goddess #Wisdom #Mother #Maiden #Crone #TripleGoddess #GetOrganized #ThisIsHowWeDoIt #ThanksMom (at Los Angeles, California)

We had a very Merry and powerful Solstice Ceremony @otherwild last night. Our magic was lost to the night, our magic was lost to the night, to fall and rise again, to die and be reborn in 2018, stronger, wiser, and dedicated to the intersectional feminist uprising. Victory to the Goddess! . Glorious plant magick for the altar by @krystalchang . Glorious images by moi, @krystalchang , @salimasees and @seasonofthewitch_la . Some of the glorious text adapted from @starhawk . #magic #ceremony #witchcraft #solstice #hellodarknessmyoldfriend #hellosunshine #ritual #healing #blessings #otherwild #starhawk #witchcommunion #witchcommunity #wintersolstice #priestess #greenery #rebirth

Solstice Ceremony - Thursday Night at Otherwild! . 2017 was a hard one for many of us. . In addition to the political and environmental challenges we've faced, many of us have also been through break ups, lost loved ones or beloved pets, faced illness, job loss, or other forms of upheaval. . Thursday Night's Solstice Ritual at Otherwild will help you: . 🌲 Be more grounded and clear moving into the New Year. . 🌲Heal from some of the losses you may have experienced in 2017 . 🌲Get strong in your goals for Saturn in Capricorn. . 🌲Feel more confidence in your witchiness. . AND there will be super festive wreath-art made by the illustrious Krystal Chang. . Join me! 👉 When: 7-9pm, Thursday December 21, 2017. . 👉Where: @Otherwild, 1768 N. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles CA 90027 . 👉How Much: $40 . RSVP to otherwild.com, or to get more details. . #Event #Ceremony #Solstice #Ritual #OracleOfLosAngeles #Magic #Witchcraft #Healing #Intentions #Resolutions #Saturn #Transformation #OtherwildLA #Grounding #Capricorn #Confidence #WitchesOfInstagram #HealersOfInstagram (at Otherwild)

USES OF RITUAL (+ Solstice Events) . Ritual grounds us. We use tools, objects, incantation, movement, scent, to bring us back into material reality. . Ritual and ceremony are a way of marking time. We step outside of ordinary reality and into a theater of the sacred. By doing so, we have the opportunity to re-create our lives. . I have two Solstice rituals coming up. If you're feeling disoriented, exhausted, confused, or are just ready to reboot for the new year, come out and practice these rituals of transformation with me. . Seattle - 12/15/17 - 7-9pm - East West Bookshop @EastWestBookshop . Los Angeles - 12/21/17 - 7-9pm - Otherwild @otherwildLA . #Ritual #Healing #Solstice #Ceremony #Magic #Witchcraft #Yule #Transformation #Intuition #Regeneration #WitchTips #Spirit #Astrology #EverydayMagic #Seattle #LosAngeles #Events #WorkshopsSeattle ... Artwork by @imperfectionist_design (at Seattle, Washington)

MERCURY IN RETRO UPDATE . Mercury is totally laughing at the plans I made for the retrograde. . I was all set to retrofit my life, go through old files, flesh out old research. But instead I've been spending hours a day on hold, being disconnected by customer service representatives, then told I can't apply for Covered CA because I'm on Medicare - which isn't true. . I’ll be like, "I'm going to do my most important thing, just as soon as I check my emails." Then it will take me two hours to check my emails because my password has inexplicably stopped working. . Where is the lesson in all this? What's your damage, Mercury? . My takeaway: whatever thing is getting in your way rn is the very thing that you're supposed to banish, even more than the boxes of old stuff, or the emails you were supposed to sort through. . What's REALLY getting in our way is our old PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR. . Turns out, my habit of checking my emails before I do that important thing is causing me more problems than the clutter in my inbox. . I can see Saturn in Capricorn waving at us in the distance. Thus, the lessons of this Mercury in retro are turning out to be Saturnine in nature. . Saturn is saying: Don't get distracted by the details (as Mercury, ruler of Virgo is want to do), when it's really the patterns that are the problem. . If you find yourself getting thwarted by Mercury in retro, as I have, when you hit peak stress ask yourself, "What is the larger pattern at work here? How can I fix it?" ... ... Image thanks to @melaniefrome . ... #Mercury #MercuryInRetrograde #AstrologyTips #LOL #MakeTheGodsLaugh #Patterns #Astrology #Saturn #Sagittarius #WitchTips #WitchLifeCoach #DailyOracle #Magic #Passwords #SecretCodes #Details #Virgo #BadHabits #GoodHabits #Productivity #FML #GoHiking #Bathtime (at Los Angeles, California)

UPCOMING EVENTS: SEATTLE + LA . Seattle, Join me for a Solstice Ritual on Dec 15th at East West Bookshop (check out their events page for details). You can also book a private session with me on the 16th for divination or healing. . LA! On the 21st I will be performing that same Solstice Ritual at Otherwild in Los Feliz! Check out their events page for more details. . Ritual helps us to celebrate, grieve, process, let go, and create space in our lives for new growth. Join me if you can! . @eastwestbookshop @otherwild . Events #Magic #Solstice #Witchcraft #Seattle #EastWest #Otherwild #Winter #LetGo #Rejuvenate #Heal #Transform (at East West Bookshop)