The rhythm of researching and querying holds all the fascination, endorphins, and residual scarring of picking a scab. It's a habit I easily fall into but without more than surface level ambition driving it can turn into a haphazard, oozing mess.

I function as an asterisk in the limbic system.

Where Ostara is the time of light’s arrival, Beltane is what grows from its warmth.

The power of keeping the runes relevant in a modern context doesn’t lie in changing their meaning to suit our contemporary purposes but in finding how their layers of meaning still apply to everyday life.

If you don't hate your darlings a little by the time they go to press, you haven't edited them enough.

Editing is the very edge of your knowledge forced to grow--a test you can't cheat on.

A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses.

At its heart shamanism is an ouroboros that, regardless ofcultural or religious trappings that have crowded its path, whatremains its critically profound gift to the present lies in itssimplistic roots of the past.

All Things are in constant relationship, and shamanic journey is the choice to put one’s self in direct contact and concert with that relationship.

Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.