Over the years, many witches have told their tales of awakening in memoir form. While the backgrounds and settings of these narratives are all richly unique, what they share is a theme of reclaiming one's power by embarking on an underworld journey that ultimately releases them to eschew cultural pressures and tap into their own […]

My eyes linger on the train window, the landscape a blur that brings the promise of the unknown, the possibility that something hidden might be found. It’s the waterfall, spotted in a moving car, a brief break between trees revealing a vista. A blink or you’ll miss it. Something out there even when all signs point to bleakness. This landscape […]