FEBRUARY 2025
January 2025 was like being on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride... But that’s okay, we are magical people; in February 2025 let’s recalibrate 4 ways:
1. Calling back scattered power – Call Back
2. Lifting ourselves back up for a new beginning – The Butterfly
3. Reconnection with an important guide – Beacon
4. Re-enchanting the feeling of being alive – Liquid Color
Enjoy!
Dream BIG, you ARE magic…
Jess
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“If we’re capable of imagining dystopias (a la Octavia Butler and her now-coming-true prediction of Parable of the Sower) we’re capable of imagining utopias.”
-Devany Amber Wolfe, Faewolfe
CALLBACK - 15 minutes
THE BUTTERFLY - 20 minutes
BEACON - 23 minutes
LIQUID COLOR - 20 minutes
“Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists generally. There is, has been, and will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It’s made up of all those who’ve consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination.”
— Wisława Szymborska
“I suppose this is how it feels to be entering the age of Aquarius. The Age of Global Weirding.
In Norse magic the wyrd is the web of fate, conceived of as a fabric, a warp and weft of interlocking threads, which becomes loose and unravels in times of collective chaos. The bad news is that, well, things feel chaotic and uncertain and stressful and humans don’t like that. The good news is that when the web of the wyrd becomes loose, new futures become possible, transformation becomes inevitable.
The questions for us now are: what do we want to transform? And, how can we stay centered amidst the high winds of global weirdness to help midwife it into being?”
- Amanda Yates-Garcia, Mystery Cult
“How can we be expected to gather the courage to do our work when faced with larger despairs such as tyranny, war, and climate catastrophe?
But this way of thinking is a lie. Because here is the truth: catastrophes are the best time to do artistic and intellectual work. Times of crisis are precisely when writing novels and histories, composing rap songs and sonatas, painting and sculpting and dancing and filming and banging on the drum set matter most. And — the humour is perverse, but it’s there — these are also the times that give us lots of material to work with.
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If the environmental considerations were out of the way, I wouldn’t care if someone used AI to generate reports no one reads or marketing copy that just has to be produced and sold. But I do care about the relentless assault of the last decades’ technological innovations on people’s ability to concentrate, think for themselves, and be surprised in the power of their own creation.
What we will need in the coming years, which will bring new, unimaginable crises (I tell you this as an East European, we know about these things), is the ability to come up with new language, new ideas, new images, new songs, hell, even new recipes. I think humanity can survive just about anything as long as it responds to chaos with creativity. But to hold on to our creativity will be a battle all on its own.”
- Irina Dumitrescu, The Process
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