Full Moon in Leo + Eclipse asks you: “How can you overcome the material circumstances obstructing the full expression of your creativity?” The Moon is the moody, swiftly changing, silvery being that pulls tide, that coaxes our physical cycles of fertility, that turns us into werewolves, that illuminates our darkest hours. Our Moon is our […]
Check out the most recent Oracle Hour with special guest, priestess and scholar Karen Tate. Listen to the show here. Rev. Dr. Karen Tate – author, teacher, speaker, radio show host and social justice activist was named one of the 13 most influential women in Goddess Spirituality and is the author of over 4 books […]
Tarot for 2017 – X Wheel Of Fortune Was it fate that Donald Trump was elected president? Some of my friends say that if he hadn’t been elected people wouldn’t be nearly as galvanized as they are now. Maybe horrors like Trump appear to wake us up and shake us out of our complacency. Some […]
What do writers and witches have in common? They both appear on the OtherPpl Podcast with Brad Listi. Tune in to the recent episode wherein Brad and I discussed: how one becomes a witch, magical techniques to get that book deal, the best place to spot fairies, what’s wrong with the porn industry and what […]
Witches or Witch-curious folks! Check out my recent piece in CARLA on the power of witchcraft in the Los Angeles art world. “More and more frequently we’re seeing contemporary artists utilize the methodologies of witchcraft in their practice, largely because, by its very nature, witchcraft is a political and creative act commanding power back into […]
So honored and thrilled to be a part of artist Lara Schitnger’s two day program at the Hammer Museum on Sunday. Swing by, everyone! I will be giving a lecture on the practices of contemporary witchcraft. Following that, I will lead a closing ceremony created in collaboration with Lara to activate her Suffragette City sculptures. […]
Join me on Halloween for a guided ceremony to connect with your ancestors, release yourself from karmic bondage and gain clarity about future goals. Throughout the world, rituals are used at this time of year to honor the cycles of life, heal ancestral wounds, and to honor and communicate with departed loved ones. During this […]
So, if you’re just tuning in, I was describing my time in Amsterdam at 20 years old. Broke, friendless, in the freezing cold, with the school that I’d gone there to attend boarded up and empty. I didn’t know it then, but I was about to begin a crash course in magic. My magical apprenticeship […]
In my last post, we left off in San Francisco. I was a 19-year-old stripper with a passion for dance, a prescription for psych meds, and a desire to see the world. I’d just had a dream where a tarot wielding magician told me to go to Amsterdam. With $2,000 saved up, I bought a one-way […]
Wendy C. Ortiz, therapist, and author of three books, wrote her first chapbook in the 2nd grade. She always considered herself a writer. But when she was 13, just in junior high, she was seduced by her English teacher, drawn into a years long abusive relationship with him that didn’t end until she graduated high […]