#witch author

At the collective level, this is an invitation to practice the world we wish to see in the current landscape. Yes, resist the onslaught of oppression, but measure our success not just by what we stop, but by how many of us feel, and can say:

I am living a life I don't regret

A life that will resonate with my ancestors, and with as many generations forward as I can imagine.

I am attending to the crises of my time with my best self,

I am of communities that are doing our collective best

to honor our ancestors and all humans to come."

I just wanted to update you all, since I've been kind of absent from blogging lately. I've got some exciting plans for the summer!

First of all, as you may have noticed, I have a new website. The WordPress blog just felt a little bit dated, so I decided to do something a bit more modern. The old blog is still up, but it is strictly an archive now.

I'm also offering tarot readings online for the first time! You can book a reading on the website, or on Etsy. I'll be using the Queer Tarot for all of my readings.

AND, I have a merch store now! You can get T-shirts, tank tops, hoodies, and tote bags in two different fat-positive witchy designs, in sizes ranging from XS to 5XL. You can also get Canvas prints of my art! I have big plans for the store -- I've got several designs that I'm currently testing, and I have something special planned for Pride Month in June.

On a more personal note, this is the last week of my undergrad. As of the day of this post, I've taken all but one of my final exams for my last semester. Hopefully this means more free time and more spoons for the things I actually enjoy doing.

And the biggest news: I'm working on a second book! I'm about 1/5 of the way through the first draft, and my goal is to finish the first draft this summer, edit in the fall, and hopefully start submitting to publishers by the end of the year. I had a really positive experience self-publishing my first book and would absolutely self-publish again, but I feel like this new project would do better as a collaboration with a pagan publishing house.

The new book looks at the connection between witchcraft and social activism, specifically the ways race, gender, sexuality, and social class interact with our magical practices and the historic connection between witchcraft and marginalized identities. If you've ever wanted to read a witchcraft book that quotes Karl Marx, this one is for you.

Because I am currently living and breathing antiracism, queer theory, postmodern feminism, and disability justice as I do research for this next book, some of those topics will probably make their way onto this blog. On the other hand, I'll definitely need breaks from reading and writing about how capitalism is killing us, so I'll probably also use this blog and my YouTube channel as a place for lighter subject matter and discussions.

I’ve already got something simmering with a major Pagan publisher

But while I wait on that I’m working on a new project and the layout is nuts:

9 chapters

x 9 meditations per chapter 

x 9 rituals per chapter

x 9 spells per chapter

=One hell of a book

Since Three Hands Press hasn’t made a fuckin peep since December 15th, this is the latest from Amazon.

March 15th release date

The Green Mysteries by Daniel Schulke

I passed the first Big Round Number in the writing of my witchy novel on Friday, and gave myself the day off yesterday to make sure I avoid chronic illness crash. So of course my IBS played up in the early hours of this morning and it took me hours to get back to sleep, and then it was time to get up and feed the cats. 😩

Today I’ve had to do some housework because we are seriously behind - J has been in a very low place for a couple of months and to top that off he’s caught a cold/flu-ey thing from the one person he’s been socialising with.

I am going to do some writing this afternoon, though, because tomorrow we have to get up early (for us) and go to the city, and I don’t know if I’ll have the energy to do anything Tuesday, then Wednesday J has two appointments at the medical centre ~2 hours apart and since I’m his driver/carer I go with him, so unless I get my writing done Wednesday morning I might not get to it Wednesday either. The joys of trying to have routine while being chronically exhausted. Woo! 😄😄😅🙃

wise men have gathered rings of smoke on their feet speckles of heat to open the earth with bare teeth

deep and deep a hollow grave or an open womb chuckled like an oyster but gave no pearl only thunder roared from beneath

then women came with scars of flame their bodies covered with fallen leaves and hair colored like autumn grain they sung the man to sleep