magical thinking

Grief and enchantment with the world are not mutually exclusive. Rage and enchantment are not mutually exclusive. Our sense of possibility and magic can swell as our hearts shatter

Grief is a portal, an altared state, through which we can come to experience more magical understandings of this world and ourselves, as we realize our immersion in a world that is multidimensional, mysterious, animate, always changing.

“ Enchantment is just the measure of the quality of our attention.

The violence of colonialism and capitalism has always sought to erase the inherent value of the world. Empire continues targeting those with deep and wide understandings of kinship, uprooting people from the lands they love, destroying their olive groves, using weapons of sexual and gender violence, and mass murdering those who resist. Our collecti... See more

Our enchantment is a form of nourishment. Our enchantment is medicine. Even experiencing just a few moments of this world’s beauty can reorient us. Our enchantment resources us, nourishes our capacity to hold complexity, and to respond creatively to activation and heartbreak. When we are able to sense ourselves and the world as full of magic, even ... See more

The Witch is not easy to define or categorise. She’s an idea, a figure, a myth, an archetype, and a reality with her own transgressive epistemology. She thereby serves to shift perception and understanding, or at least invites such shifts, which many believe are essential today as ways to get out of our collective stuckness, and escape our ‘solipsi

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And, for all the criticisms (some fair, some not) I’ve seen levied at this space by non-believers, I’ve seen, with my own eyes, magic being made nearly every day — through refreshed optimism, through hard work done fast, through groups coming together to do what individuals alone cannot.

I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.