I quit social media in January 2023. The impact of social media on my emotional health wasn’t great. I was constantly waiting to be validated by total strangers, and this did not work well for me. So I finally let it go, deleted my apps, and waited to see what would happened.

I live in a really quiet place. I moved here about three years ago, from the heart of Silicon Valley. That place was not quiet. It was loud and buzzy. There was the constant noise of cars and the constant presence of people. I loved the weather, and I loved it when we could get out of town and go to the redwoods or to the ocean or to the chaparral. But most of my days I spent working from home in a little apartment, feeling the zing of all the energy of busy life around us.

The nights are long right now. The midpoint between autumn and winter is long past. Daylight Savings has started, and now the days are shorter and shorter and the nights longer and longer. And I find the whole rhythm of my life changing. I need more sleep now. I need heartier food. I need more alone time to read and craft and think.

One of my tried-and-true ways to get my writing inspiration going is to sit in nature and describe the world around me. What birds do I hear? What kinds of trees are around? What flowers are blooming? Sitting with nature to prompt my writing always helps me connect to my feelings and uncover topics I couldn’t have thought of otherwise.

I need a lot of variety to keep myself motivated in my ongoing writing practice. This is the writing I do when I show up regularly to the page to play with thoughts, characters, and story. It’s when I engage my inspiration with no agenda. It’s when I play around to keep my writing life active and thriving.

Have you ever felt bad because you haven’t made progress on your book, article, or essay, but you have spent long and wonderful hours writing in your journal? Have you been taught the only valid way to be a writer is to finish a writing project, and that the writing you do for play and fun has no purpose?

Have you ever wished you could finally figure out why you’r’e so blocked with your writing? Why can’t you just sit down and get words on the page? Like me, when you’re blocked, the first thing you might think is that you’re lazy, frivolous, or procrastinate too much, but I’m wondering if you’re block might be something different…something deeper…than that.

There are so many ways to define the word, magick, and every practitioner has their own unique philosophy about it. So, today, I want to tell you what I mean when I say, magick. Magick, with a k, is how you differentiate spiritual magickal practices from the theaterical, art of illusion, kind of magic.

My definition of a coven is a community of folks who do magick together to empower themselves and each other. Magick, with a k, is how you differentiate spiritual magickal practices from the theaterical, art of illusion, kind of magic.

Venus enters Leo on June 5, 2023. Learn how to empower your writing life when the planet of love enters the sign of self-expression.