Magickal musings
Dispatches from a lifelong habit of asking too many questions about strange and wonderful things.
August 17, 2026
Noise isn’t just kids yelling or traffic outside. Not in today’s world, especially. Noise is anything that repeatedly commands your attention before you have chosen to give it. Think about the sheer amount of noise your brain has to process each day. How many notifications appear on your phone screen? How many pieces of content […]
August 14, 2026
By now, we should all know that life is not black and white. The world operates in gray areas. This isn’t always the most satisfying truth for our minds, which love a juicy, dramatic story. When it comes to making changes in our lives, we often believe we need to prove that something or someone […]
August 12, 2026
Judgments are rigid. Their goal is to become open-and-shut cases: the investigation ends, the bad guy is brought to justice, and the fourteenth straight episode of SVU you just binged wraps up in a neat little bow. But as much as SVU imitates life (yikes), real life rarely rolls the credits where an episode ends. […]
Field notes for a magickal life
THE CAIRN
A cairn is a stack of stones marking a hiking trail, offering reassurance that you're still on the right path. Each week, you'll get updates on the latest symposiums across the channels, plus practices to try, ideas to ponder, rabbit holes to wander down, and other bits of practical magic for the strange experience of being alive.
YOUR WEEKLY MAGICKAL MUSING
THE CAIRN
A cairn is a stack of stones marking a hiking trail, offering reassurance that you're still on the right path. Each week, you'll get updates on the latest symposiums across the channels, plus practices to try, ideas to ponder, rabbit holes to wander down, and other bits of practical magic for the strange experience of being alive.