12 Days of Yule: Day 8 – Warding for Winter
“Let only what serves life enter here.” Yule marks the threshold between dark and light—but the 8th Day draws us deeper into a di [...]
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12, 2025
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11, 2025
The Eternal Partnership Between Sacrifice & Gratitude
In the old ways, sacrifice and gratitude were two halves of the same act—an exchange between humans and the unseen world, between ancestors and descendants, between truth and discomfort—and owning it with courage.
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10, 2025
Why I Wrote Witches’ Brews: Reclaiming the Ancestral Wisdom That Lives in Our Bones
A love letter to the plants, the grandmothers, and the deep remembering. The plants have taught me that for every ailment, there i [...]
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10, 2025
Rooted Diversity: Honoring the Land-Based Cultures That Shaped Us
We celebrate diversity across the globe—but often forget the small towns, villages, and ancestral lands where it all began. This p [...]
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10, 2025
🐾 Honoring Our Animal Beloved Dead at Samhain
How to include your furry family in ancestor season rituals + folklore on pets as psychopomps. We lost our kitten, Olive, t [...]
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09, 2025
You Can’t Appropriate Your Own Ancestral Culture
A reflection on reclamation, grief, and remembering our way home. You can't appropriate your ancestral culture. Let that land. Th [...]
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09, 2025
The Importance of Ritual in Modern Life
For millennia, ritual has been the container through which we mark change — a way to embody transitions so we don’t have to carry them alone. But in modern life, many of these rituals have been lost, silenced, or left behind.
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08, 2025
Figs & Ferragosto: Savoring the Sweetest Days of Summer in Italy
Ferragosto has ancient roots, beginning with Emperor Augustus in 18 BCE as Feriae Augusti—a state-sanctioned rest after the harvest. Today, it’s still a national holiday in Italy, falling on August 15th, and it’s the heart of the summer’s slow season.
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07, 2025
The Magic of Animist Travel
Sacred travel isn’t about escape—it’s about relationship. Long before I ever stepped on a plane for my first big adventure, I was [...]
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06, 2025
L’Acqua di San Giovanni: A Midsummer Blessing from the Old Ways
L'Acqua di San Giovanni Every year, on the eve of June 23rd, as twilight kisses the longest days of the year, Italians across t [...]
