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Misty, snowy mountains that evoke a sense of softness and calm

Winter: Between Life and Death

Winter – a season where just about everything is reduced and barren, bitten down to the bone. Belonging to the Crone, the season’s energy speaks with ruthless honesty; the once flattering light of Summer no longer seduces, the excuses we make due to being too comfortable no longer hold up. Much like Jupiter is Spring/Summer because we say “yes” freely,

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Mimi Young, animist spirit medium, walks in front of a blurred yule tree

The Spirits of the Season

The scents have returned, bringing with them the same dreams and symbols. We do not wish to be understood as a form of conquest, they tell me. The magick is that you smell us at all; the awareness that you sense our presence is what we seek. We speak slowly yet intensely, hearts lost in each other, tenacious old lovers,

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Mimi Young wearing a beige sweater and light blue jeans with arms wrapped around her torso, looks into camera

Hunger

What this year of the Tiger has made known in my flesh, in my bones, is that my hunger is a hunger for myself, and that the hunger itself is worth savouring.  I only get to be me in this life. My soul is the same soul as my other lives and my previous lives, but this is my one

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An artfully superimposed image of peonies and a woman in a dress dancing outdoors

Why Fragrance is An Unbreakable Spell

Scent is given priority in our bodies Our bodies and the sensory systems it relies on, is always taking in information. Scent is a form of the data that comes in, and is prioritized over other information put through the nervous system. This is because the olfactory nerve was the first cranial nerve to develop in an evolutionary sense, and

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An artistically blurred image of woman walking in nature, giving a serene and connected feeling

Animism Is Not Poetry

Language was not invented by humans. Humans’ capacity to communicate and speak comes directly from the Land herself. When I say that Rain and Ocean, Grasses and Vines, Frogs and Spiders, Engines and Teapots have voices, I am not being poetic or communicating with metaphors. To say these beings are voiceless, uncommunicative, or even mute is to deny their consciousness

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Taiwanese woman with long black hair folds hands and looks at the camera

How I Define Spirituality

Before you read more, I wanted to share a few things first: How I define spirituality:Inner transformation AND outer change. How I define magick:The exploration of likely and unlikely connections, awakening and mobilization of these connections, and uniting these Seen and Unseen energies towards renewal and regeneration. How I define a coven:A communal space for the consideration and cultivation of

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Misty, snowy mountains that evoke a sense of softness and calm

Winter: Between Life and Death

Winter – a season where just about everything is reduced and barren, bitten down to the bone. Belonging to the Crone, the season’s energy speaks with ruthless honesty; the once flattering light of Summer no longer seduces, the excuses we make due to being too comfortable no longer hold up. Much like Jupiter is Spring/Summer because we say “yes” freely,

Read More »
Mimi Young, animist spirit medium, walks in front of a blurred yule tree

The Spirits of the Season

The scents have returned, bringing with them the same dreams and symbols. We do not wish to be understood as a form of conquest, they tell me. The magick is that you smell us at all; the awareness that you sense our presence is what we seek. We speak slowly yet intensely, hearts lost in each other, tenacious old lovers,

Read More »
Mimi Young wearing a beige sweater and light blue jeans with arms wrapped around her torso, looks into camera

Hunger

What this year of the Tiger has made known in my flesh, in my bones, is that my hunger is a hunger for myself, and that the hunger itself is worth savouring.  I only get to be me in this life. My soul is the same soul as my other lives and my previous lives, but this is my one

Read More »
An artfully superimposed image of peonies and a woman in a dress dancing outdoors

Why Fragrance is An Unbreakable Spell

Scent is given priority in our bodies Our bodies and the sensory systems it relies on, is always taking in information. Scent is a form of the data that comes in, and is prioritized over other information put through the nervous system. This is because the olfactory nerve was the first cranial nerve to develop in an evolutionary sense, and

Read More »
An artistically blurred image of woman walking in nature, giving a serene and connected feeling

Animism Is Not Poetry

Language was not invented by humans. Humans’ capacity to communicate and speak comes directly from the Land herself. When I say that Rain and Ocean, Grasses and Vines, Frogs and Spiders, Engines and Teapots have voices, I am not being poetic or communicating with metaphors. To say these beings are voiceless, uncommunicative, or even mute is to deny their consciousness

Read More »
Taiwanese woman with long black hair folds hands and looks at the camera

How I Define Spirituality

Before you read more, I wanted to share a few things first: How I define spirituality:Inner transformation AND outer change. How I define magick:The exploration of likely and unlikely connections, awakening and mobilization of these connections, and uniting these Seen and Unseen energies towards renewal and regeneration. How I define a coven:A communal space for the consideration and cultivation of

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