I don't know if you all have been feeling a bit extra heavy this week, but I've been feeling pretty murky minded and a bit weighty in the body. It's been a bit of trudging through thick mud as I move through my world, both outer and inner. And, to be fair, there is a large shift I think we are all grappling with, no matter the historical precedent of such world events, that leaves us feeling a touch unmoored.   I want to speak a bit on this, to cast out a line and anchor us in the ground of...

When I originally came to the practice of gnosis, it was through the runes. This was with my teacher and beloved pagan community member Lara Veleda Vesta. I still to this day credit Lara with pushing me on my path and leading me to where I am today. If it were not for her guidance and vulnerability, I would not have such a firm foundation in relational work with the more-than-human. Lara emphasized relationship and relationship that you took point on. This wasn’t a path of someone else’s for...

Before any of my work will serve its purpose, you really must have a foundational understanding of the history and context of this most essential topic: animism!   Basically all of my work centers around the concept of animism,   but the definition of what this actually means might be lost in the muddy waters of what animism was thought to be and what animism has only recently come to be understood as through relational understanding and a reclamation of Indigenous knowledge.   IS ANIMISM A...