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There’s a Method to the Madness

Since any it’s an eclipse, I follow the old-school idea that you shouldn’t do too much heavy duty magical working during this time. According to older philosophies, eclipses block spell work. But I have been working on my alchemist corner and covering my walls with charts like a mad woman. But there’s a method to the madness. Just like William Faulkner who wrote the outline for The Sound and the Fury on his walls or scientists who cover walls of chalkboards with mathematical equations, I built my astrology clock and mapped out the Tree of Life so that I have my charts big and ready to interact with in my tiny study. I also build a simple altar (I did all of this one handed because I broke my arm!). But my only intention is that some flower seeds that I planted around the neighborhood in little patches of overgrown weeds down allies and in the park grow and bloom and make my neighborhood prettier.

What did you do for a full moon?

The next issue of Magdalena Tarot Magazine is almost ready.I broke my arm a week and a half ago and was in and out of the hospital for a bit. My graphic designer got a staph infection so please keep him in your thoughts/prayers/healing meditations! some unforeseen illnesses have pushed back the timeline but we’re almost ready for to release Issue 1: The Magician. Looking forward to sharing it with you! Blessings for your eclipse!

Here is a #sneakpeek of the initial #sketch my artist se...

Here is a #sneakpeek of the initial #sketch my artist sent me of the line work for #TheWorld card for the first installment of #wherethereisnonight in#magdalenatarotnagazine. I have the finished line work now and it is EXACTLY what I wanted and I’m a little intimidated now that I am officially the colorist of the project.

I just spent a good 2 hours working on #coloring my custom #tarotcard for the first chapter of my novel and I am beat … I broke my arm and now my art director is helping me wrap up all the writing for the next issue of the magazine. But the coloring is still on me.

My artist who did the line work is classically trained and I’m sitting here looking at my work like “Ok, so why did I decide to not get that degree in illustration again?” Idk if I can do this …

I started first with illustration markers but they drowned out a lot of my artist’s delicate line work so I switched to #coloredpencil

That was a way better choice but I feel like I still drowned out some line work on my POC

I’ve spent a lot of time practicing how to color different skin tones because I think every #artist should know that but I think I went too dark in some shadows

The good news is I can print the card and color it again and again but I feel like if I stick with what i’m doing and come back to it tomorrow I’ll get a good result. I’m just wiped out from sitting up for so long since I’m still running a fever

But look at me … I’m becoming a #graphicnovel #colorist like I wanted to be all along …

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Building Your Astrology Clock with Magdalena Tarot Part II Filmed 5/9/2021

Welcome to Part II of Building Your Astrology Clock (in case you missed Part I, watch the video here). Today we wrap up building out astrology clocks. This was filmed on May 9, 2021 so it serves as a point of reference going forward from that date. I’ll show you where to put the planets on you cam keep track of their movements with me as we travel through the stars and into the future!

Where There is No Night: The Last Moments Before Dusk Cover Reveal

One part of Magdalena Tarot Magazine is serializing The Last Moments Before Dusk in the back of each issue. I’ve been really tight lipped with sharing anything about the art going on behind the scenes. But since I released the character designs in the first issue of Magdalena Tarot Magazine, I wanted to share the cover design with you!

The cover features the 3 main characters. Meet the characters and get an overview of who they are in the first issue of Magdalena Tarot Magazine Issue 0: The Fool.

The Last Moments before dusk is a cyber punk myth based in 2035 and explores the mystical themes of illumination, alchemical marriage and the hidden goddess by personifying concepts found in Qabalah.

Sneak Peek of the Cover of Magdalena Tarot Magazine Issue 1: The Magician

It’s sneak peek time! Here’s a sneak peek of the cover of Magdalena Tarot Magazine Issue 1: TheMagician due out when the Sun enters Gemini 2021! Bellawillow’s beautiful photography, her interpretation of The Magician card, is featured on the front cover. The issue will feature an in depth lesson on The Magician card and a feature interview with Athena Sylvers about the sacredness in drag. We’ll also finish building our astrology clock and I’ll share my predictions for the month of Gemini with you. I’ll also tell you about what I learned during Full Moon in Scorpio. And last but not least, you’ll get the first installment of Where There is No Night: The Last Moments Before Dusj complete with it’s own original Tarot card.

Don’t miss this next issue!

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NEW Ripped Lace T-Shirts!

I’ve been working on relaunching my clothing line, Ripped Lace. I’m hoping to break it away from Magdalena Tower eventually but for now, my clothing line can be found in my Etsy shop. Check out my new designs in Magdalena Tower

I thought long and hard about if it was OK to put this design on a t-shirt. I studied Buddhist art in college. I also lived in Japan and practiced Buddhism and Shintoism and I still incorporate elements of the religions into my own practice. So I think it’s OK, especially because Avaloniteshvara is one of my absolute favorites with his thousand arms of compassion reaching out to embrace the world. I did the piece in neon because sometimes in deep meditation I feel illuminated or “luminescent”. This shirt is available in green, white and blue sizes S-XXL

This is a replica of a Mucha piece that I included in my book of short stories Life:It’s just a Phase available on Amazon. It is only available in white.

Your Gemini Monthly Horoscope for May – Cosmopolitan

Add these dates to your GCal: Tuesday, May 11: New Moon in Taurus Thursday, May 13: Jupiter enters Pisces Thursday, May 20: Sun enters Gemini …

Your Gemini Monthly Horoscope for May – Cosmopolitan

I’m coming on up

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Thoughts of the Rise of Cults

I debated on bringing this up here, but after learning more about the LoveHasWon cult that has been all over the news I had this sinking feeling I brushed paths with them or knew people connected to them. I looked into the story further and I found out that 4 of my Facebook friends like their page.

That, on top of an irritating anti-vaxx assault on my friends only Facebook pages, was the last straw. I threw my arms up and said, “OK, I’m ready for this conversation.”

So here it is …

People, we need to talk about cults.

That silly, anti-vaxx episode a couple of days ago struck a truth that I think we really need to recognize:

People who are searching for God in extreme belief systems are after an unattainable level of purity. Because religion is not hot right now and spiritualism is on the rise, we’re seeing a lot of people turn to cults for guidance. These people are on an existential journey to embrace a purity that was lost in primordial times.

I read mythology like there’s no tomorrow and I can use the Bible like a weapon against zealots. I’ve studied world religions all over the world. And from my personal experience examining the idea of Divinity, the uniting factor across all faiths and spiritual philosophies is that something was lost. What it is or how it was lost is defined differently, but there is this quest mankind is on to overcome nature and obtain immortality, (even if that is losing all consciousness forever — there’s still a forever in atheism too. A belief in nothing is still a belief).

The problem is, it’s easy to adulterate them quest for purity. How many of you know a QAnon or an anti-vaxxer or a Trumper or a religious zealot? It’s more common than you think. People are trying to give life meaning and connect with love because loneliness is a real thing right now. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink the Kool-Aide.

Every age has it’s cults, but the cults going mainstream again has led to some really DANGEROUS ideas floating around. You find these ideas created to essentially generate profit for the people at the top of the pyramid everywhere from chat rooms to yoga studios to your local big 3 religious center to the health food store. Militant purity is growing, and it’s not “you didn’t listen to God’s laws” anymore. It’s “You put this that or the other in your body.”

The funny thing is, Divinity has always told people about what they can and can’t put in their bodies too … so it’s like taking God out of religion but still having religious laws you follow.

So if you start finding yourself saying, “hey this sounds fishy,” say something. It’s the only way to normalize sanity.

I feel like I do this all the time and I get in hella trouble when I do. I get called a Satanist or Communist or Conservative or bully or whatever you want to call me. But I’m not afraid of speaking truths people may not want to hear. I do have a painting of Lucifer before The Fall hanging over my desk after all.

Unfortunately, people have to speak up even more when things get uncomfortable. It’s funny because this came up when o went over the reversed Magician meaning in my last Tarot video. An over zealous quest for purity can turn a quest for God into a quest for power. Knowledge is power and it’s also the greatest weapon. And the most dangerous form of knowledge is the knowledge of how to manipulate people who are looking for something.

This came up again for me in another way when I revisited the memory of a sociopath that I loved dearly until I figured out that I was loved like an object and not like a person by this individual.

I’m becoming aware because of all of this that I need to be very conscious about how I brand my services from here on out.

I did some soul searching and spent some time learning about cults tonight.

So about Magdalena Tarot:

I don’t have all the answers and I don’t want people to follow me because they think I do. But what would I call myself because I’m not really a teacher, just a helper.

Sometimes I’m just a conscious observer …

I believe there is a thin line between psychic ability, magick, psychology and philosophy. What I feel like I do is hand someone a tool kit and say “hey figure out how to use this because I want you to learn to help yourself.”

Do I believe that I have abilities no one else has? Yes, but so do you, snd so does everyone. The ability to help oneself is a unique experience abs I can’t make that experience for you but I hope that the services I provide inspire you to help yourself.

I don’t know, I’m trying to make logic snd reason cool again also help people realize that the power of your mind *is magical* and that that idea goes back to the ancient world.

I guess at the end of the day I’m probably just a diest. Lol.

Stay dedicated to the light of knowledge. You can never go wrong when you keep the lights on upstairs

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