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May 2025: The Junk Journal

Happy May! Happy May Day! Happy Beltane! The beginning of May always seems to pack an energetic punch and this year is no different. I have lots of goodies for you

On a personal note, I started chemotherapy yesterday to treat my long-awaited diagnosis of Nodular Lymphocyte Predominant Hodgkins Lymphoma. It’s rare, but curable, and my doctor is hopeful I will see remission before my treatment regimen is over! This is a huge leap from meeting a palliative care team in December. For the first time in six months, a future—my future—is starting to take shape. Praise everything!

Three is the magic number, so of course I received three magical affirmations from the universe to hold me throughout the day:

A neighborhood crow friend, who we lovingly named Sheryl, dropped a single, perfect black feather on my (covered) front porch!

My contributor copy of Tarot In Other Words (out May 6th, but pre-orders make the world go ‘round), which includes an essay I wrote called “Queerness Has No Timeline,” arrived in the mail...

…as did my official acceptance into a Master’s graduate school program! More on this later, but wooo baby, I am so excited! Fall 2025!

Some day soon, I’m going to write about my outpatient experience like I did my inpatient experience, but for now, I want to extend another huge thank you for supporting my life and my work. It’s kept me alive and connected, far and wide, while enduring the hardest moments of my life thus far.

Thank you. I love you. Thank you.

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Photo by Estée Janssens on UnsplashMAY 2025: THE JUNK JOURNAL

On a recent trip to my parent’s house, I decided to take my high school journal home with me. It’s a medium-sized, hardback, lime green sucker, with a pink and white striped sash that loops around a pair of metal buckles to keep it closed tight, safe from prying eyes. Inside, intentionally compiled around my teenage hot takes about celebrities like Paris Hilton and Hilary Duff, and adolescent yearnings for my best friend’s boyfriend (I KNOW, I KNOW), are collages of pictures from magazines, print-outs of my favorite quotes and song lyrics, tickets from concerts I’d been to, or plane trips taken, birthday cards from friends, and more.

It’s not the first junk journal I’d ever made and it certainly wouldn’t be the last. A leather-bound tome I started working on in college had the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism next to Tyler Knott Gregson poems, and Cosmopolitan’s “25 Ways to Boost Your Kissing Game!” alongside a pencil sketch I made of a perfume advertisement that featured a model’s bust with a big bow on her head. My most recent complilations are mostly just messy writings in spiralbound notebooks, but I’ve never been able to be normal when it comes to tossing Octavia E. Butler quotes and errant musings on the latest cast of Love Island UK on the same page.

Here, in May 2025, I think I’d like to start a new junk journal from scratch.

In the May forecast of Call Your Coven, I share about May’s ruling number 5, and how when added to our 9-year of 2025 it becomes 14. In the Thoth tarot, illustrated by Lady Frieda Harris, the fourteenth card of the Major Arcana is renamed “Art,” and it is in this space I encourage us to find solace, regain our strengths, and express our truest selves this month.

Also called a “Commonplace book,” a junk journal is a method of knowledge compiling. It’s very Hierophant—the tarot card that aligns with May’s root number of 5—the act of compiling your own Bible, so to speak. A personal refuge for pep talks, reminders from Spirit, records of memories, thoughts, ideas, and inspirations, and more, let your commonplace-junk-journal-book be made again and again and again through words, pictures, drawings, found and recycled materials, and more!

This month, let’s lose ourselves in its creation, and find ourselves in its pages.

Five Quotes to Jot Down for May

Five is the act of gathering! It’s also a number of freedom and liberation, and with fascism fighting around the globe, those topics are of extreme relevance.

“[Freedom is an] unending present practice . . . a process by which you develop a practice for being unavailable for servitude.” — Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint.

“Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.” — Coretta Scott King

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.” —Jean-Paul Sartre

“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who makes things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.” — Nietzsche

“A will to live without rejecting anything of life.” — Albert Camus

Five Questions to Reflect On in May

Five is also a reflective energy. For only when we are able to accept what is are we then in a position of true agency and able to make change.

In what ways you are currently undergoing an alchemical transformation?

How have you grown or changed since the beginning of the year?

What bardo states are you still stuck in and cycling through?

What creative actions could you take to break free from whatever is binding you?

How could a particular artistic movement or practice offer your liberation some flair?

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MAY DAY! IT’S BELTANE!

05/01/2025

5+1+2+0+2+5 = 15/6

Whether or not you’re lighting bonfires or dancing around poles wrapped in ribbons, make some room for raucous joy today! Even if—no, especially if your motivations are purely out of spite. Make a righteous noise! Raise your arms towards the sun! Laugh in the face of despair! Drop off a bag of clothes at a donation site! Have a dialolgue with a bird! Bake cookies for the kids next door! Put on your favorite song and imagine the choreography you would slay if you knew how to dance! Whatever you do, for the love of all that is good and holy, find a moment of silly, sacred determination towards goodness (kindness, whole-heartedness, community) and love. Be love.

FIVE FIVE (NINE)

05/05/2025

5+5+2+0+2+5 = 19, 1+9 = 10, 1+0 = 1

Today is a day for truly committing to the bit! Kidding, maybe. But seriously, what is your bit? What do you want? When you close your eyes, and you really let yourself think about it (or ramble about it to a friend, stranger, or bar/bud-tender), and you start to get that fuzzy feeling in your chest, and your hands get itchy, and then ack—woah, when did it get so bright in here?—and it feels so goddamn foolish, after everything you’ve been through, to want this like this, without any evidence that it could happen... THAT. Get to that place. Stay in that place!!! Let the sun shine its light onto your deepest desires. And then spin that wheel, baby. Do something to make it happen. You deserve to get what you truly want. Unburden yourself. Be a dreamer. But get to it. No one’s gonna do it for you.

FULL MOON IN SCORPIO

05/12/2025

5+1+2+2+0+2+5 = 17/8

Last month’s new moon in Libra fell on a 16/7 day, and gave us the opportunity to lick our wounds and bury our proverbial dead after eclipse season. This month, the dark moon in Scorpio could drag us back under for another dance with the devil, or it could offer us a chance to rise from the ashes of our former lives. Or both. (Always both.) This is an intense moment for sure. One of literal and figurative shedding. Find out what makes you feel even the slightest bit better, more hopeful, more comfortable, more empowered, more in touch with pleasure, and do that. If there’s literally nothing, baby, you are not alone there either. Perhaps just put yourself to bed for this whole lunation. You were never going to get it all done today anyway. Onwards.

NEW MOON IN GEMINI

05/26/2025

5+2+6+2+0+2+5 = 22/4

Well, hello more synchronicities! This is the second new moon in a row that has landed on a 22/4 date! On the new moon in Taurus last month, we romanticized the quiet sit spot, dreaming and scheming and planting in the dark. This month, it’s time to tend to our gardens. Picture a tomato plant growing up and around a metal scaffold. What kinds of structural support do your seedlings need? Does everyone have enough room to grow? Are there any weeds, fast-growing grasses, or invasive species usurping resources from your intended plantings? If you’re not yet seeing growth, perhaps just a mantra will do: If you build it, they will come.

I would love to hear from you! Sending you love, comfort and protection in May.

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Week #18: April 28-May 4, 2025

Welcome to week eighteen, another threshold, this time between April and May. The moon is new in Taurus, and things are indeed starting to shift.

Before we get into this week’s food for thought, I want to shout-out three offerings to know about:

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🎧 CALL YOUR COVEN IS ALL NEW FOR MAY 🎧 — Goblin mode activate. In this forecast, we talk about the state of the world, the flare and fizzle energy of May, major new astrological activity coming our way, and so much more. Also, we accidentally call each other out, so if you also feel attacked, you’re in good company.

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Week #17: April 21-27

Welcome to the seventeenth week of the year, but in many ways, it’s the first. Just ask Mars, which finally moved into Leo, whose ruler the Sun is now luxuriating in fecund Taurus. Ahh, feels nice !

2025 has already been full-on and all-consuming, but in so many ways it’s also been murky and slow-moving—like some sort of horrifying purgatory. But He is Risen (or whatever 😉) and so shall we! I think we’re owed a resurrection! A turning of the cosmic leaf! A breather and a break; a chaise and a cornucopia of cherries and cheese. Amen.

In the spirit of ease and nurturing, this week’s forecast is on the house! May it delight and serve. And of course if you’d like to further say thank you, you can subscribe to be a paid pal. Snag forecasts 4x/month for less than a cup of coffee!

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They’re especially helpful because in a 9 collective year, every single daily, weekly, and monthly number is amplified. Due to the fact that 9 can essentially be canceled out in any reduction calculation it appears in (truly, try some out, i.e. 1+9 = 10, 1+0 = 1), every core number this year becomes more of itself. Magnified, and polarized. Embodying both sides of the coin at the same time.

Meaning for this week…

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🥚: The Egg - Symbols of (Our) Time
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🌀: SPIRALING THROUGH THE WISDOM YEAR

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Seventeen is a number of consciously wading through muddy waters, embracing the mysterious and the mundane as co-teachers in this life experience, and daring to drink the sweet poison of snake medicine—to risk it all in hopes of being rewarded with regeneration.

Last week, my friends and I started a Lord of the Rings re-watch. Extended Editions, duh. At the point in the movie where Frodo finally crosses the threshold between the Shire and the road ahead, the group chat kicked off with truly upsetting truths about how he will never be the same again. The Frodo that embarks is not the Frodo who will one day returns home. A pity, the self that must be shed in order to fulfill one’s sacred duty. Horrible, the wounds one must endure, and the trials one must overcome, to make it to the end of the mission.

This week, do not forget that every single one of your forms is a cosmic creation that is worthy of love, devotion, pleasure, and care. You carry within your body the power of the universe, of source energy, of God. Whether you can see her between the folds of your sweet skin is between you and you (and God). Nobody makes it out of this alive. It would be a pity to add insults to your injuries.

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Photo by Sean Musil on UnsplashApril 21-27 for Your Yearly Cycle

To find your yearly cycle number, add the digits of your month and day of birth to 2025, and reduce until you reach a single digit. For example, the calculation for my birthday of July 7 looks like: 7+7+2+0+2+5 = 23, 2+3 = 5.

Please note that I reduce doubled digit numbers like 11 and 22 to their root numbers when working with yearly cycles, so please calculate and read accordingly.

Now, I’m not going to stop anyone from watching Lord of the Rings, but the below forecasts offer you another famed adventurer to spend some time with this week! Perhaps you’ll be inspired by something about the ways in which they tackle challenges? Maybe their wardrobe might have pieces you’d like to add to your own? Or their role in your life could just be to sit you down with a little bevvie and a snack, and whisk you off to a faraway place for a couple of hours. You know what they say… choose your own adventure wisely.

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Bastian from The Neverending Story — You’re flexing Main Character energy this year, and Bastian is the closest to a chosen one on this list. To avoid bullies, Bastian runs into a bookstore, only to lose himself in the world of Fantasia, and the suspiciously familiar, human savior they need in order to triumph against “The Darkness.” It’s a bit silly and dated, but it’s totally magical, and will remind you of what it’s like to be a kid again. This week, what memories want to be un-earthered, and what might make them important to access?

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Princess Buttercup and Wesley from The Princess Bride — *trumpets blare* The world is so hard and your heart is so soft! Sounds like a job for a sick day re-telling of a fairy tale of childhood lovers, separated by status, but reunited before a royal wedding! There are homoerotic sword-fights, gentle giants, and Rodents of Unusual Size! But is there a happy ending? There’s only one way to find out… Tune in this week to see what Wesley’s catchphrase (“As you wish!”) can teach you about acting selflessly (and self-sacrificially) with the ones you love!

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Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which from A Wrinkle in Time — Author Madeleine L’Engle said that her famed science fiction novel was rejected by 26 publishers before someone took a chance on it. She couldn’t blame them, it was different. Just take the three Mrs. Whatsit, Who, and Which, respectively: supernatural shapeshifters who help the book’s other trio of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin travel throughout time and space. What do these wise women offer as spiritual mentors, and how can they encourage you to connect further with your cosmic and creative core?

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Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz — “There’s no place like home” becomes a powerful spell for the farm girl who gets swept up in a tornado and dropped off in a colorful, glittering land of magic and mischief. Despite wishing to go over the rainbow, once Dorothy gets to Oz, she finds she has a lot of responsibilities on her hands! It’s hard to be a grown-up when you’d rather have the freedoms of a child, and yet, so often we don’t know how good we have it—or who we have it good with—until it’s gone. What do Dorothy’s dreams, inner turmoil, and lessons from her journey have to show you this week about your own?

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The Goonies from The Goonies — When brothers Brand and Mikey discover their family home is in jeopardy, they assemble a motley crew to follow a treasure map to where X marks the spot! Let’s just hope they can get to the loot before the bad guys do! It’s the perfect example of banding together in trials and tribulations, in hopes of changing their fates. What’s in jeopardy in your own life and what are you going to do about it? This week, let The Goonies be your guides.

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Robin Hood and Maid Marian from Robin Hood — They steal from the rich and give to the poor and they do it as equals! Maid Marian didn’t join her lover Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men in the forests outside Nottingham in the earliest tales, but before long she was sword-fighting right alongside them! What do their values, methods, and caring actions have to teach you about how to show up in your life—and this world—this week?

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Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — A heroine on both the page and the screen, Alice has been the star of plenty of adaptations and re-imaginings, but she has always remained curious, imaginative, and eager for Life. She doesn’t always know where she is, or what’s going on, but she sure is going to find out! What about her trips down the rabbit hole inspire you to take your own this week?

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Rick O’Connell and Evelyn 'Evie' Carnahan from The Mummy — Nothing says eight energy like treasure hunts, ancient tombs, and a vengeful reincarnation! Plus, Rick and Evie are a bisexy dream pairing! What can an action romp across the Sahara—and a couple of enemies/rivals to lovers—offer you this week when it comes to embodying your fullest self, going after what you want, and taking creative action in the face of mythical ordeals? This week, let it be a delight to find out.

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Indiana Jones from Raiders of the Lost Ark — He’s a professor! He’s an archaeologist! He’s an expert in the occult! He’s a government contractor! He’s a total heartthrob! Played by Harrison Ford in a trilogy of amazing movies (and a few recent, debatable one-offs), Indiana Jones is the perfect antidote to this current shit-show of a modern moment. Jet-set to exotic locations, find buried treasure, and punch some fucking Nazis! What more could you want in a hero?

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The Egg 🥚

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It’s almost 4/20, and this year, the highest of High Holy Days overlaps with the religious holiday of Easter, which has morphed into the secular celebration of bunnies, chicks, and hiding eggs (hard-boiled or candy-filled plastic) for kids to hunt for! But in the year of our Lord 2025, a recent nationally-representative WalletHub survey found that “47% of Americans will skip dyeing eggs this Easter due to the price of eggs.”1

In a surprising turn of events, eggs have become a hot button, political topic in the United States. In late 2024, President Donald J. Trump began to include campaign promises like bringing down the price of eggs to appeal to financially-strapped voters who believed he could deliver. Almost 100 days into his second-term, not only has Trump failed to bring down egg prices, but his implemented tariffs, along with rising inflation and a run-in with Bird Flu, have made the economical (and agricultural) situation worse. Not to mention, eggs crimes are at an all-time high! In February 2025, 100,000 eggs were stolen in Pennsylvania in a wacky heist police have still yet to solve.2

Another present-tense tie in: In the Chinese zodiac, 2025 is the Year of the Snake, a shape-shifting, slithering creature that hatches from—you guessed it—eggs!

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The Cosmic Egg with spiraling snake

The egg is one of the oldest symbols seen across cultures and traditions, representing fertility, creation, transformation, vitality and the hope of new life. It holds the entire cycle of life, death, and rebirth within it, naturally embodying the process of what’s grown in the darkness coming into the light.

Its gooey, yellow yolk invokes the creative power of the sun, as well as joy, happiness, energy, and more, and the bright white albumen (egg whites), as well as the shell-casing, symbolizes cleanliness, purity, and new beginnings. Many creation stories and myths begin in some form of Cosmic Egg (named Hiranyagarbha in Hinduism), representing the womb space from which the world, and its various creators were born.

Eggs are also a prominent item used or eaten during cultural or religious ritual. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Maori, buried their dead alongside eggs as a token of life after death. The Iranian and Persian New Year of Nowruz, the Jewish Passover Seder, and celebrations of the Vernal (Spring) Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, all include eggs as symbols of new life and rebirth. Some African countries use eggshells decoratively to denote breaking through the winter freeze and into the warmth of the spring season. And of course, Christianity adopted the egg to symbolize the resurrection of Christ on Easter.

There have also been more mundane uses of the egg throughout the ages. In her essay, The Folklore of Eggs: Their Mystical, Powerful Symbolism, avian-expert Rachel Warren Chadd writes:

“Well before the advent of Christianity, eggs were also used ritually to encourage human and agricultural fecundity. Such practices continued so that, for instance, in 17th-century France, a bride would break an egg to ensure fertility when she entered her new home, while German farmers smeared eggs, bread and flour on their ploughs in spring as they sowed their fields.”3

Speaking of fertility and reproduction, it will be interesting to track the modern symbolism of the egg, especially as countries like the United States and the United Kingdom pare back their official recognition of sex and gender to the binary of male and female. While few are debating the “one true pairing” of sperm and egg to create new biological life, nature is incredibly queer and expansive, and even human beings are born intersex, an term denoting a wide range of variations in sex characteristics that may or may not match the person’s assigned sex at birth.

As conservative, right-wing, and even fascist governments grab at power around the world, the symbol of the egg, and its connection to the female reproductive system, could start to see use in further defining gender roles and identities within the house, family, and community structure.

“The Giantess” by Leonora Carrington (1947).

So we’re not left with a trad-wife horror show, let’s wrap up by looking at the egg as a symbol in art and magic.

Artist Leonora Carrington regularly used egg imagery in her work. Her 1947 painting “The Giantess,” also knows as “The Guardian of the Egg,” would become a recurring motif throughout her life and career.

“In Down Below, a short book by Carrington recalling her memoirs from time spent in a mental institution, she describes the conception of her egg motif. ‘This morning, the idea of the egg came again to my mind and I thought that I could use it as a crystal to look at Madrid in those days of July and August 1940—for why should it not enclose my own experiences as well as the past and future history of the Universe? The egg is the macrocosm and the microcosm, the dividing line between the Big and the Small which makes it impossible to see the whole.’”4

Fellow surrealist painter Salvador Dalí also used egg imagery throughout his work to explore birth, as well as the sun and the overall cosmogony of the world.

House Fabergé, Easter Eggs. Luxury Rome.

Or perhaps you’ve also seen Fabergé Easter eggs, ornate pieces of collectible art that can hold both universal and personal memorabilia within. “Tsar Alexander III (1845-1894) began the Imperial tradition of commissioning Fabergé Easter eggs in the 1880s,” which continued at a speed of two a year until 1917.5 Or Pysanky eggs, which are Ukrainian-made, and “created using a wax-resist method, in which intricate designs are drawn on the eggshell with melted beeswax, and then dyed multiple times to create vibrant and striking patterns.”6

When it comes to magical crafts, eggs were a common symbol in the art of alchemy, symbolizing the transformation and purification of base metals into something more valuable. Eggs and eggshells are key ingredients in many spells, especially in African traditions carried out by Black practitioners in the American South. Oomancy, or divination by egg, has also been used by various spiritual practitioners. An egg is cracked and the albumen (egg whites) is dropped into water. Interpretations are then made from the shapes the egg whites form.7

If you’d like to read a beautiful and poetic look at the egg’s journey through the lines of the tarot, check out The Alchemical 8: Visiting the Site of So Many Ontological Cave-Ins by .

The egg is a symbol that has meant a great deal to both ancient and modern cultures, and will likely continue to grace art, magic, mystery, religion, ritual, myth, and story for years to come! No matter how you move through this spring season and its many holidays, keep an eye out for eggs!

How have you seen the egg show up? In art, culture, or even your own life? Do eggs, or any of their colors or mythic meanings, symbolize anything for you personally?

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Until next time, just keep swimming!xx, bee1

Kiernan, John S. “Easter Survey 2025.” WalletHub. 15 April 2025.

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“The heist of 100,000 eggs in Pennsylvania becomes a whodunit that police have yet to crack.” AP News. 5 February 2025.

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Chadd, Rachel Warren. “The Folklore of Eggs: Their Mystical, Powerful Symbolism.” FolkloreThursday.com. 6 October 2016.

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“The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg).” Wikiwand.com.

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Kiely, Alexandra. “What You Need to Know About Fabergé Easter Eggs.” Daily Art Magazine. 17 April 2022.

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“Unraveling The Mystery: Exploring The Symbols And Meanings Of Pysanky Eggs.” ShunSpirit.com.

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Chadd, Rachel Warren. “The Folklore of Eggs: Their Mystical, Powerful Symbolism.” FolkloreThursday.com. 6 October 2016.

Week #16: April 14-20

Welcome to week sixteen, the first week in eons where every planet is direct, the moon is full, and sweetness is available to us wherever we are.

Maybe it’s just because yesterday’s full moon was hanging out with my natal Libra moon in the 11th House of community, wishes, technology, and digital connection, but my cup feels quite full! I’m hopeful it’s treating you well too. Of course there are plenty of things that still suck big time, and not every question has its answer, but I think if we all committed to taking an honest look around our lives, we could all make a joy list of at least five things.

Shall we try it out? I’ll go first—

Our new wallpaper in the living room

Matzoh with butter

Getting cards and gifts in the mail

Hot coffee and a fresh joint

Big creative pictures starting to come together

Also worth trying is this week’s fun food for thought for the 9 Yearly Cycle! Even if you’re not in a personal 9 year, the 9 collective year, means you technically get two entries every week!

Meaning for this week…

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💰: April 2025: Spinning Straw and Story
🛒: Shop courses, spellbooks, or buy me a coffee on Gumroad
💍: Marriage By the Numbers: Planning Your Wedding Using Numerology
🎧: Call Your Coven is new! Listen to Coven Convo: Welcome to Imposter Syndrome

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Week #15: April 7-13, 2025

Welcome to week fifteen, which has the energetic makings of a tunnel—as long as we keep moving, we’ll be walking in the light at the end of it in no time.

Last week, our forecasts invited us to explore famous art movements, which was a real hit among us! Then, in The Soup™ Discord Server, a sweet swimmer shared a fun quiz to help those of us in a 5 yearly cycle align with a popular artist from our particular movement. The artist I was paired with was new to me and I had such a good time getting to know her and her work! (More below) This week, we’re going to continue our deep dives and get a little hands on.

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The weeklies are especially helpful in a 9 collective year, where every single daily, weekly, and monthly number is amplified. Due to the fact that 9 can essentially be canceled out in any reduction calculation it appears in (truly, try some out, i.e. 1+9 = 10, 1+0 = 1), every core number this year becomes more of itself. Magnified, and polarized. Embodying both sides of the coin at the same time.

Meaning for this week…

ICYMI:

💰: April 2025: Spinning Straw and Story
🎧: Call Your Coven is new! Listen to April 2025: Make Zines, Don’t Narc
🛒: Shop courses, spellbooks, or buy me a coffee on Gumroad
💍: Marriage By the Numbers: Planning Your Wedding Using Numerology

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April 2025: Spinning Straw and Story

Somehow, it is April. The fourth month of this nine year, I’m hoping April will bring some solid, sturdy energy upon which we can build. What’s taking shape?

Looking backwards to go forwards—I want to highlight a huge thing that happened (to me) in March, but haven’t yet addressed here.

On March 20, 2025—a 14/5 day of sudden ruptures and Temperance as Art, which I wrote about in the week ahead forecast for Week #14—The Atlantic published an articl by technology journalist Alex Reiser with the headline, “The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem.”

It started like this:

When employees at Meta started developing their flagship AI model, Llama 3, they faced a simple ethical question. The program would need to be trained on a huge amount of high-quality writing to be competitive with products such as ChatGPT, and acquiring all of that text legally could take time. Should they just pirate it instead?

The answer? No, they shouldn’t. Obviously. But they did.

As the day went on, more and more of my friends, colleagues, peers, teachers, and favorite writers joined the chorus of those whose work was on LibGen—one of the biggest collections of pirated materials on the web, containing more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers—and therefore in the possession of Meta, who torrented the site’s data.

And yes, my book was stolen by Meta, and Mark Zuckerberg, to train their AI.

my bluesky statement: booooo i want my book stolen by poor kids & baby witches without access, NOT ICKY BILLIONAIRE AI MONSTROSITIES

The court cases will go on for years to come, and it’s hard to not feel hopeless about the future when entire industries of people are at risk of being eliminated by rich boys and their toys. But then I spend time with people interested in my numerology work, or my longtime bestie texts me about our Book of the Month selections, or I crack another storyline in my current fiction project, or someone tags me in a picture of my book, and I think,

We will endure.

We always have .

PS. If you are looking for The Witch’s Book of Numbers at almost the five-finger, LibGen discount, the Kindle version is only $0.99. The paperback’s on sale too!

ICYMI:

🗓️: Week #14: March 31-April 6, 2025
🛒: Shop courses, spellbooks, or buy me a coffee on Gumroad
💍: Marriage By the Numbers: Planning Your Wedding Using Numerology
🎧: Call Your Coven is new! Listen to April 2025: Make Zines, Don’t Narc

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Photo by Kier in Sight Archives on UnsplashAPRIL 2025: SPINNING STRAW AND STORY

Do you remember the Grimm Fairy Tale of Rumpelstiltskin?

The story goes something like this:

A miller, trying to raise his own status, publicly boasts about the beauty of his daughter, as well as her ability to spin straw into gold. The only problem? That last bit’s a lie. She can’t spin straw into shit. But the King hears of her gifts and wants to see them in action, so he takes the miller’s daughter to his castle, and locks her in a room with piles of a straw and a spindle. If the room is devoid of gold by the morning, she will lose her life.

Night falls, and the miller’s daughter laments her predicament. Suddenly, an imp appears! For the small price of her beaded necklace—and then the next night, her jeweled ring—he can perform the miracle everyone’s waiting for. She agrees, handing over her prized possessions. On the third night, the King promises to marry the miller’s daughter if she can transform the largest room of straw yet. When the hobgoblin returns, the girl has nothing left to give. so they look to the future. The firstborn prince is to be his.

The King makes a Queen of the miller’s daughter! Soon, she is with child, and then the fateful night arrives—the night where the mini-magician comes to claim his prize. Desperate to keep her child, the Queen tries to strike a bargain. She’s given three days time to discover the name of the one who has helped her fool the kingdom and its King.

The Queen uses the power of the crown to search high and low for the true identity of her secret helper. On the third, and final night, she takes to the woods where she has heard tale of a childlike creature dancing around a fire and singing. Sure enough, there he is, and under an illusive sense of solitude, he reveals his name through song!

When they meet again the next morning, the Queen tosses out a couple of decoy names, and the little lad thinks he’s won! But then, she reveals the name she heard from his own lips—Rumpelstiltskin! He can’t believe he’s been bested, but the Queen has won! Her child is safe, her kingdom secured, and Rumpelstiltskin runs to the woods, empty handed and wgoically wounded, never to be seen or heard of again.

Art by Anne Anderson for Grimm’s Fairy Tales (London and Glasgow 1922)

There’s so much juicy symbolism, not to mention number magic, in this story, and while I’m surprised to see it step foward for us this month, it makes total sense. Story, myth, allegory, metaphor, archetype—these constructs hold keys to understanding the values and ethics of a culture. And as I wrote in Welcome to 2025, a Nine Collective Year “2025 could have us reconsidering the ways in which we tell the stories of who we are, what we believe in, and how we choose to chronicle those records.”

There are a million ways to read a story, so perhaps you’d like to spend the first few weeks of April exploring how words bend and twist depending on who’s perspective you’re occupying.

For collective, Gregorian example: If March was Rumpelstiltskin, it offered to spin our straw into gold. For a price, which means our business is unfinished, and soon March will come to collect (and perhaps offer a riddle as a bargain?). In that case, in April, we must be the resourceful miller’s daughter turned Queen, who sneaks into the forest late at night to find the imp, snag his signature, and protect what she long ago promised to give up. Who can blame us for the decisions we made when we were fighting for our very lives??? We did what we had to do.

From another collective, capitalist perspective, Rumpelstiltskin was simply exchanging his magical labor for trinkets and first-born children. Why shouldn’t he receive what’s his? It was the desperate daughter who’d agreed! But shifting the focus again shows it was the miller himself, the girl’s father, who had made the first bad business deal. He’d promised something he knew he could not deliver, and sold his daughter’s life for a lie.

And the King—the 4-ruled Emperor—should he not share some responsibility? Where is his royal accountability? It was he who was so greedy of gain that he would test and innocent woman, night after night, under penalty of Death, playing God in pursuit of gold and glory. Had he not created these cruel conditions, had he not coveted both coin and child, perhaps his people could’ve known peace.

In that case, let us, and April, be the daughter, who was plucked from her bed! Stolen against her will, based on a fable, and forced to perform miracles OR ELSE. Death had already made claim to her when she offered up her child. She had no reason to believe she would make it through the week, let alone the nine-plus months it would take to grow the goblin’s gift. We do what we must to survive.

And, let us hold space for the one who did the spinning, who made the money for those who sit on the throne, who perhaps shouldn’t have been so naive as to believe himself alone, and safe to reveal his most valuable asset… but who ultimately walked away empty-handed, his long-promised reward lost to those with power, resource, and influence.

There’s a wealth of riches in this story, which should keep us busy for a few weeks, if not the whole month. Commit to seeing things from all (four) sides.

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NOTABLE NUMEROLOGY IN APRIL Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

FOUR FOUR (NINE)

04/04/2025

4+4+2+0+2+5 = 17/8

When the act and art of sustenance is co-opted and controlled, returning to a more innate rhythm, bringing us into relationship with both sustaining and releasing, may feel unnatural at first. This is a moment for deep trust and jet-black, bottom-of-the-well hope. Being held feels like a trap when you’ve been dropped by so many systems and structures of support, and let down by those who were meant to help you rise. Spend some time with the stars tonight. (If you can’t see even one star in your current habitat, close your eyes and imagine a vast field of pitch-dark velvet and glittering gemstones. You are dust and desire, and destined to dazzle.

FULL MOON IN LIBRA

04/12/2025

4+1+2+2+0+2+5 = 16/7

Not only have you survived eclipse season, but you’ve now seen the ending of the Aries/Libra eclipse axis we’ve been subject to since April of 2023. That’s two whole years of shaking up whichever house Aries and Libra rule in your chart. Perhaps you’ve even seen a tumbling or a crumbling? Take stock here, while the moon is in gentle, balanced and balancing Libra. Scan your scars. Were the wounds surface cracks or serious splits? What needs more attention and care? What might be ready to expose to the elements once again? Pay attention to which number energies rule those houses. What does that add to the obituary?

NEW MOON IN TAURUS

04/27/2025

4+2+7+2+0+2+5 = 22/4

I recently finished a 22/4-ruled yearly cycle and was struck to discover that some tarot readers consider The Fool to be the 22nd card of the Major Arcana. I love the idea of The Fool as both the zero, void space, and also a sense of back-at-the-beginning-but-with-some-mastery-now of the doubled-digit twenty-two. Today, four energy reminds us that we need spaces to dream and scheme, rest and recover, ideate and be inspired. etc, etc. Romanticize the quiet sit spot. Give yourself the gift of luxurious, indulgent, pleasureable silence. Wherever this is for you, whatever it looks like, release all expectations of outcome. Feel your inner fool waking up in its proverbial womb. See what’s waiting for you in the dark.

Until next time, just keep swimming!xx, bee

Week #14: March 31-April 6, 2025

Welcome to the fourteenth week of the year, which will welcome April, the four month. If this week has you asking, where the hell did March go? , you’re not alone!

Even though I have no idea where March went, it sure was busy around here! Be sure to go through the archives so you don’t miss a single podcast episode, weekly forecast, or other post and offering made in the last month.

Now, we’re into the new zodiacal year, the moon is waxing, eclipse season is coming to an end, and we’re on our way towards some of 2025’s most auspicious astrology! So it’s no surprise that this week wants us to get a little creative before we make any big decisions about how to approach this new chapter of our lives.

ICYMI:

🌟: THE POOL, as published in The Rebis: The Star
🛒: Shop courses, spellbooks, or buy me a coffee on Gumroad
💍: Marriage By the Numbers: Planning Your Wedding Using Numerology
🎧: Call Your Coven is new! Listen to April 2025: Make Zines, Don’t Narc

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Week #13: March 24-30, 2025

Welcome to the thirteenth week of the year, witches. If weeks were years, we’d be ready for adulthood in the eyes of the Lord!

I have tossed a ton of stuff at you in the last week—THE POOL, a piece of dystopian flash fiction previously published in The Rebis: The Star, A New Day Dawns: Tarot insights for the Spring Equinox 2025, and finally an interview on the new book Witch Blood Rising with author Asa West. I hope that each of these offerings brings delight and things to think about, and that this week brings a quiet moment for you to catch up if you haven’t yet gotten to gobble them up!

In addition to another eclipse this week, there are some major invitations into silence and stillness. We may be in a new zodiacal year now, and in fire-ruled Aries season, but the moon is waning, and will soon disappear from the sky. The vibes will shift soon, so if you need to take the remainder of the month to vanish from sight, you’ll be in good, lunar company.

ICYMI:

🔥: Witch Blood Rising with Asa West
🌄: A New Day Dawns: Tarot insights for the Spring Equinox 2025
🎟️: NumHERology, Mixology, and Thai Gastronomy (Next Weekend!)
💍: Marriage By the Numbers: Planning Your Wedding Using Numerology

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Week #13 Photo by Chris Linnett on Unsplash

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Witch Blood Rising with Asa West

What’s up, swimmers?! This is the second and final conversation I’m bringing you this month, and while Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling: Divining with Tarot, Palmistry, Tea Leaves, and More and my chat with Jezmina Von Thiele and Paulina Stevens were perfect for Pisces season, we’re in Aries fire now, baby!!

I am so psyched for you to listen to this chat I had with Asa West, the author of the recently released Witch Blood Rising: Awaken Your Magic in a Modern World. Asa is a native Angeleno, and it was heartening to connect with her after January’s fires, and talk about the changing landscape, common misconceptions, and rich history of the City of Angels.

We really run the gamut though—Come for Hollywood’s favorite witches, stay for Loki as a queer, neurodivergent, shapeshifting hottie!

Another TOTALLY GORGEOUS COVER by Sky Peck Designs (who also did the cover for The Witch’s Book of Numbers!!)

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Asa West is the author of The Witch’s Kin and Five Principles of Green Witchcraft, and her work has appeared in The Offing, Joyland, Gods&Radicals, and other publications. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been covering feminism and media since 2007 under the name Julia Glassman. As a journalist for The Mary Sue and other outlets, she covers everything from Marvel movies to folk horror—and, of course, all things witchy.

In Witch Blood Rising: Awaken Your Magic in a Modern World, Asa tells the story of how she became a witch and learned to find magic in the world around her. It starts with the story of receiving her witch name, and bobs and weaves through folk tales, myths, notes on the craft, the histories and practices of deity worship and other spirit relationships, and more!

But don’t take it from just me! , author of Initiated: Memoir of a Witch and , wrote, “This book is a call to action: tend to the embers of witchcraft burning within you. Enchantment is the fire that can and will transform the world.”

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Asa has the most calming presence and speaks so beautifully about so many topics. She embodies so many incredible qualities, and cares so deeply about life, land, and story. In a chaotic time of climate change and clashes between capitalism and care, Asa is a perfect and gentle guide back into your body, your spirit, your home, and your practices. She is available for virtual tarot readings.

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Some of my favorite topics from the episode include:

On gatekeeping the title of witch: “Honestly, I have found myself guilty of that in the past. Like, I've had to step back from, you know, realizing like, Oh no, wait a minute. I'm not—I'm not protecting anything here. I'm just gatekeeping. You know? …[It] takes some conscious effort to realize we don't actually own this word. There's no membership card that people have to get in the mail. Like, anyone can claim this word for themselves.”

On the acceleration of climate change’s timeline: “[O]ne thing that I've been thinking about just over and over again with these fires is how when I was a kid, you know, climate change was measured in like decades, right? …And I feel like the timescale has just accelerated in this really terrifying way… So before we knew it, we were now measuring climate change in years… And in January, when the fires broke out, I thought now we're measuring climate change in months… And it's so tragic. We've had my entire life to stop this, to do something about this, and nothing was done, right? And now half of Los Angeles burned down.”

On the ancient Bee Priestesses and their Queen Bees: “[T]hese orders of priestesses were kind of compared to bees because of the virtues of bees,

right? …And I started learning about bees themselves... how the hive was organized. I started learning about the role of the queen, right? We call her the queen and it makes us think like, oh, she commands all the other bees, right? But in actuality, she's set aside just because her role is very, very specialized. She kind of trades in her ability to fly and her freedom of movement for her ability to reproduce and then she just spends the rest of her life just laying eggs, laying eggs, laying eggs.”

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Until next time, just keep swimming!xx, bee