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Healing Your Inner Teenager with Magic

September 16, 2026
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On Healing the Inner Child “Of pain…and beautiful times we had” When we address wounds of our past, we often talk about healing the inner child. We think of our smallest, most vulnerable selves and the earliest harms we experienced. This is important work, and I think we may neglect another young self—our inner teenager. […]
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Does Memoir Have to be True?

September 11, 2026
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In a world where truth, fact, and reality are as fraught as the plotline of a thriller, memoirists must establish trust with their intended readers. It may sound straightforward in theory, but differing interpretations of what exactly a ‘memoir’ is can sometimes challenge a writer’s credibility. Where some readers might expect a personal account to […]
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Gothic Retellings For Adults

September 3, 2026
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Since its literary inception in 1764 with the publication of The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, the Gothic genre has never truly left us. Beyond its dark atmosphere, Gothic stories have become identifiable in our culture through elements like domestic spaces that become prisons, the metonymy of horror, female characters in distress, ancient prophecies, […]
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August 2026 Horoscope

August 26, 2026
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The Gardener and the Devoted “Any conscious change is by definition magick.” In the Northern Hemisphere, as August dissolves into September, we move closer to the harvest season. You don’t receive the harvest through a single act of spontaneous planting, and suddenly, BOOM! A food forest! You spend months germinating, cultivating, pruning, tending, defending, watering, […]
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Witchcraft and Politics 101

August 26, 2026
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Those who found themselves on Twitter in early 2017 might remember the small, yet vocal witch movement to cast spells to “bind Trump” from harming Americans. Over the course of months, they agreed to partake in rituals in sync with the full moon. Even singer Lana Del Rey participated in the ritual. Around the time […]
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What Do New Age Healing Practices Do?

August 13, 2026
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Ever since René Descartes declared the mind and body separate in the 17th century, Cartesian dualism has dominated Western understandings of the human corpus for centuries.1 Biomedicine today is largely navigated through empirical research and the scientific method, modes of inquiry that have given us pharmaceutical drugs, public hygiene laws, and surgical breakthroughs. These discoveries […]
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