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Socially engaged spiritual care at the crossroads of Buddhism and witchcraft.

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  1. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    Buddhism Is a School of Magic (opens the original)

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    This week the light and the dark are in balance for the second time this year, but the darkness is gaining instead of waning this time. In Greece this was the season of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Initiates fasted, walked the Sacred Way to Eleusis, drank the kykeon, and entered the Telesterion after dark. The rite has stayed secret for nearly two thousand years, but we know the frame—Demeter’s grief, Hekate’s witness, Persephone’s descent and return, grain that goes under the ground and comes up a

  2. Issue · Aug 18, 2026

    Sad Face/Brave Face (opens the original)

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    It’s been six weeks since I wrote anything and the muse isn’t musing, so I turned off subscriptions. But I wanted to share where I’ve been putting my energy instead of just ghosting, partly because I think it might be relatable, and partly to vent.I’ve been losing my shit IRL.In the year and a half since “Trump: Part Deux,” I’ve been trying to hold a balance between the energetic frequency I think a co-regulating environment for an infant requires, and the urgent call to do something. Mothering

  3. Issue · Jul 4, 2026

    From the Ocean to the River (opens the original)

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    My mom, like a lot of moms, is really into ancestry. For years it was mostly Swedish parishes, farm records, the satisfying specificity of knowing exactly which region our people came from (fun fact: the same as Ikea!). Safe territory. Vikings and peasants. I love that for us.But there is this teeny tiny percentage of our ancestry that goes back to the before the American Revolution. And after years of happily tracing our Swedish roots, she finally got around to it.But before I tell you what she

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