The central theme of my personal work with my lineages since October 7 has been making the choice to be wielders of miracles, instead of the familiar identity of eternal victims. On the collective level, I can feel this theme throughout the lineage of the Jewish collective, which doesn’t mean that there were no miracles, …
Years ago I taught basic witchcraft, but today I’m more interested in going deeper with aspects of ritual working or magical living once people have got some basics. In that context, I’m thinking about invocation, coming into communion with beings of greater spiritual power than we possess on our own. And – not exclusively, but …
Not long ago I read Naomi Klein’s most recent book, Doppelganger. While I didn’t agree with everything, but one insight there I found eye-opening, and it will stay with me for a long time. It is that there is a distinction between preserving the memory of traumatic events, and preserving the trauma. Again, there is …
Difficult times are when we most need support. So of course, at the beginning of October I immediately turned to my ancestors, with whom I have been working for several years, who have already gone through a process of healing and who helped so much in the ritual work last summer in Europe. I discovered …
