essays

essays

reflection pieces & personal essays
Feb
27
the grove

last call for the grove — and some new tarot spreads too

today, make something weird. drink some water. take your meds. and keep going, even if it's slow.
7 min read
Feb
23
two of cups from the lumina tarot

two of cups & creative devotion

what matters is that you let yourself fall in love with making things that spring entirely from your own heart, and that you keep doing it.
10 min read
Feb
03
photograph of a waterfall and river rapids surrounded by rocks and stone

so you want to feel better

what does it look like on the other side? what happens when we actually do the challenging work of learning how to navigate our collective grief?
7 min read
Feb
01
image of an estuary: fresh water river flowing into the sea, surrounded by dark ground with mountains and sky behind

february 2026: two of cups // when two waters converge

what is your heart trying to tell you? what are you ready to embrace? what are you swimming through, and what are you moving towards?
12 min read
Jan
27
river styx

so you're afraid of your grief.

grief is tangled up in love, in connection, in what we value. at its core, grief is a response and a reaction to loss — and we don't grieve things that we don't love, that we aren't connected to, that we don't value.
7 min read
Jan
25
so you're eager to find your flow

so you're eager to find your flow

i cherish my grief for the truths it offers, for the values it reflects, for the depths of emotion that it connects me with. my grief is a reminder that i still care, that i still listen, that i still hope for a bigger, brighter world. my grief means that i'm still alive.
11 min read
Jan
24
so you're hovering at the surface

so you're hovering at the surface

no matter how your grief may feel, no matter what your grief may crave, no matter what your grief might be trying to tell you, there's a tarot card for that, a story for that, a cycle for that.
11 min read
Jan
23
sunlight streaming through the surface of the water, from the perspective of below the waves

so you're underwater & overwhelmed

once you start to treat your grief like a gift instead of a burden, once you allow your grief to whisper what it needs, you can let your grief teach you how to envision a more hopeful, beautiful kind of future — not only for yourself, but for the collective.
11 min read
Jan
18
photograph of dam filled with rapidly moving water

so your cup is overflowing with grief

i know that talking about grief isn't sexy — but grief is the ultimate misfit, the ultimate rebel. grief has so much to teach us, if we're willing to learn how to listen.
9 min read
Jan
07
devils & fools: year of the wheel

the numerology of 2026

hello, friends, and welcome again to 2026. on the heels of 2025, an intensive and often disruptive year of emergence,
11 min read