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Planetary Worship, Theurgy, and True Love

In my post on my spiritual set up, I briefly mentioned that I work with the planetary spirits. Basically, what this means is that I have divine relationships with deities who go by the names and carry the traditional associations/domains of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn

Apollo, Aegis, and Lessons in Divine Relationships

Recently, I saw on Instagram that Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day was "aegis." The first image defined the word as "protection, guidance, sponsorship" as granted by a larger entity or individual. That's my relationship with Apollo, I thought. There is a popular

Relating to Others As A Spiritual Person

Back in New Jersey, I did not tell most people that I was spiritual. Between my parents' inability to support my creativity throughout my life and my now former spouse's disdain toward the metaphysical, I got the message that the things most important to me were the

The Blessing of Knowing Reincarnation

I am writing this in a moment of frustration, which not the the place I expected to blog this from. As I have briefly mentioned before, reincarnation has played a foundational role in my spiritual development. I have known that I am a being who has lived countless lives since

How to Practice Magic When You're Inconsistent

Maybe I'm just fated to be a cosmic weirdo even among other cosmic weirdos. A big reason I named this blog what I did, with the About angle that I have up as of this writing, is that I feel like a lot of occultists including those who

The Spirituality of My Gender Awakening

I realized that I wasn't cis a week before my 31st birthday, which was exactly 6 months to the day I started writing this article. I now identify as an androgynous person, both male and female. On the most basic level, it is already difficult to carve out

My Cosmology: "Fruit Born of Separation"

March 2023. Acrylic. I made this painting almost immediately after the THC-induced trip I referred to in my Tracking Saturn Through A Lifetime blogpost. To preface, I am the lightest of weights you will ever meet in your life. I rarely drink and when I do I am tipsy halfway