This is the BEST news! I adore your writing and thinking and enchanting and have benefitted from your work on other platforms so much. As for IG, I’ll quote my daughter (then 7 years old): Goodbye and good ribbons!
Starting at the very beginning to read all your posts and meet the community. I’ve also been seeking something more after 2022...I’ve read a lot of tarot books and have listened to both your podcast incarnations and others too. What I’ve been craving is the connective tissue...the what, why, how of witchcraft today, for what we need it for today. And to help fill our hearts with joy! I believe you are a good teacher and will create a good community and that’s why I’m here. ❤️
Yay! Thank you so much, Jessica! This is exactly why I created this space. To have a place where we can reckon with why and how to do this practice TODAY, here, wherever we are. Honoring the real magic that is available to us every moment, in the world around us. So glad to be here exploring all of this with you. x
I love this so so much Amanda! Amazing amazing work 💜 and exactly what this world needs. I would love to include you in my newsletter or fond out a way to collaborate. I'm a fellow feminist witch with a fascination for etymology, mythology, poetry and have a deep desire to dismantle the systems that inhabit us as well as those outside! I'd love to connect if and when you are open. Sending you much love and keep it going 🔮✨
Hi Virginia! Thanks so much for your vote of confidence! Sounds like we're in the same soul coven. I'm excited to check out your work! I'm, unfortunately, having to pass on most collaborations at the moment – I promised myself I would until I completed my next book. But feel free to feature my work in your newsletter if you like... and I will be cheering you on from the sidelines as you go! Thank you for reaching out!
Huzzah!!!! The Real Witchy Journey! I so appreciate your honesty about the depths. Many a descent, another re-emergence to go. You are so brilliant and well-dread-- I am so excited for abmnd inspired by this new venture!🎉🙏⭐️🤯🧙
ADHD + Melusine + Federici? I almost dropped my phone! Thrilled to be a founding subscriber for your work on that trinity of interests (and so much more!). Grateful that you’re doing this work in this way. Thankful for what is and what is to come. ❤️
I love this for you (and for all of us)! I've fallen in love with Substack over the last year and I think it will be a much better platform for you to share your work.
Yes! I love how it is a platform specifically for writers. I feel very at home here. It feels more about depth and personality, rather than bling and soundbite, and so it invites a different kind of crowd. I'm loving it!
Oh my goodness! I love this Amanda. I’ve found that being on Substack has really opened my creativity and deepened my ability to focus (also an ADHD witch here). I hate Instagram and everytime I would try to make content for it I just wanted to curl up and die. And every time I pray, my Lady keeps telling me to just keep writing, to stop worrying about likes and what might go viral, and focus on what’s in my heart and what interests me and where she’s leading me. So welcom to Substack!
OMG, this!! It seems so strange that what platform you on could make a difference to how you write but it's really TRUE! I often drag my feet with Instagram because I feel like the way its set up stifles me. It's so anti-complexity... but my nature is complex! I think the lesson is that when our muse drags her feet, she has REASONS and we should LISTEN to them. Can't wait to check out YOUR substack!!
I think this is great! I am an artist and am so done with social media and the strangeness of it all. Good for you for being brave and listening to your inner calling.
This is so cool! What a journey from listening to a tarot podcast what feels like an eon ago! Thank you for making magic and connection accessible to witches far and wide xoxo. I'm off to learn about Melusine ;-).
This is the BEST news! I adore your writing and thinking and enchanting and have benefitted from your work on other platforms so much. As for IG, I’ll quote my daughter (then 7 years old): Goodbye and good ribbons!
Oh my goodness, good ribbons is RIGHT! Your daughter sounds so cute!
Love love loved your audio version so soothing and compelling 😉👍🏻✔️ Witchy too xxf
Yay! I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for the encouragement!
I love everything about this. It's so exhausting trying to figure out how to fit our magick into this world. Keep up the great work ;)
It really is tho! They don't make it easy. Oh well, more fun for us then when we burn it down. Lol. So glad you're here!
I have been waiting for this for SO LONG. So thrilled to be a part of your founding folks. Go Amanda! Can't wait for the next ritual <3
I am SOOOO glad you're here, Rachel! Your encouragement gives me strength!! xx
Starting at the very beginning to read all your posts and meet the community. I’ve also been seeking something more after 2022...I’ve read a lot of tarot books and have listened to both your podcast incarnations and others too. What I’ve been craving is the connective tissue...the what, why, how of witchcraft today, for what we need it for today. And to help fill our hearts with joy! I believe you are a good teacher and will create a good community and that’s why I’m here. ❤️
Yay! Thank you so much, Jessica! This is exactly why I created this space. To have a place where we can reckon with why and how to do this practice TODAY, here, wherever we are. Honoring the real magic that is available to us every moment, in the world around us. So glad to be here exploring all of this with you. x
Yay! So glad for this space!
Thank you, Amanda!
Merry Meet, Witches! 💟
So glad you're here, Sarah!!
I love this so so much Amanda! Amazing amazing work 💜 and exactly what this world needs. I would love to include you in my newsletter or fond out a way to collaborate. I'm a fellow feminist witch with a fascination for etymology, mythology, poetry and have a deep desire to dismantle the systems that inhabit us as well as those outside! I'd love to connect if and when you are open. Sending you much love and keep it going 🔮✨
Hi Virginia! Thanks so much for your vote of confidence! Sounds like we're in the same soul coven. I'm excited to check out your work! I'm, unfortunately, having to pass on most collaborations at the moment – I promised myself I would until I completed my next book. But feel free to feature my work in your newsletter if you like... and I will be cheering you on from the sidelines as you go! Thank you for reaching out!
Thankyou! I definitely will :) here is a link to my newsletter: https://virginiavigliar.substack.com/ much love and good luck with the book!
Yay! Thank you!!
Huzzah!!!! The Real Witchy Journey! I so appreciate your honesty about the depths. Many a descent, another re-emergence to go. You are so brilliant and well-dread-- I am so excited for abmnd inspired by this new venture!🎉🙏⭐️🤯🧙
Yay! And I am so thrilled to have you hear! The underworld becomes beautiful when we have our witches with us and feel safe. xo
ADHD + Melusine + Federici? I almost dropped my phone! Thrilled to be a founding subscriber for your work on that trinity of interests (and so much more!). Grateful that you’re doing this work in this way. Thankful for what is and what is to come. ❤️
And OMG I almost dropped MY phone to know someone who loves all those things as much as I do is joining me for the adventure! xxo
I love this for you (and for all of us)! I've fallen in love with Substack over the last year and I think it will be a much better platform for you to share your work.
Yes! I love how it is a platform specifically for writers. I feel very at home here. It feels more about depth and personality, rather than bling and soundbite, and so it invites a different kind of crowd. I'm loving it!
Oh my goodness! I love this Amanda. I’ve found that being on Substack has really opened my creativity and deepened my ability to focus (also an ADHD witch here). I hate Instagram and everytime I would try to make content for it I just wanted to curl up and die. And every time I pray, my Lady keeps telling me to just keep writing, to stop worrying about likes and what might go viral, and focus on what’s in my heart and what interests me and where she’s leading me. So welcom to Substack!
OMG, this!! It seems so strange that what platform you on could make a difference to how you write but it's really TRUE! I often drag my feet with Instagram because I feel like the way its set up stifles me. It's so anti-complexity... but my nature is complex! I think the lesson is that when our muse drags her feet, she has REASONS and we should LISTEN to them. Can't wait to check out YOUR substack!!
I think this is great! I am an artist and am so done with social media and the strangeness of it all. Good for you for being brave and listening to your inner calling.
High five! Substack feels way more cozy. So glad you're here with us!
I’m so excited for this, Amanda! It’s a privilege to support your important work.
And it's an HONOR to have you here. I'm so excited for this space and feel so lucky to have you!
To Those Who Poison the Water
John Shane
Since you have not listened
to reason, and you do not hear
the voice of the people
clearly raised against
the folly of your action,
what hope is there
that you will hear
the cry of the Earth?
The tongueless song of water
echoes in your veins,
your flesh, your bones,
the rain speaks to you,
and streams and rivers sing
When the mind is still,
one may hear these things:
the voices of the thousand
life forms of the earth, the sky,
those that live above the surface
of the water and those
that live below
And when the mind is still,
one may know how all live
in subtle balance
in the flow
A mind that spins cannot
know the unity of all things,
and when such minds wield power
they do more damage
by the hour
Tampering with things
half understood
they bring evil where
they seek to do good
In my dark dream
I hear the creature terror
of all that will suffer
from these man-made errors:
fish and snake,
bullfrog and dragonfly,
bee and bird, beetle and toad,
I hear them all, I give them voice,
that you may hear their wordless cry
Wrigglers and scamperers,
crawlers and creepers,
the winged and the whiskered,
the feathered and the finned,
I hear them crying in this winter wind,
calling to you to stop this madness,
now, before it’s too late:
what you are doing to the natural world
will kill, and maim, and mutilate
Let your mind be silent,
even for a moment,
and you will know
that no thing is separate
from another
What kind of creature
has the right
to put poison
in the bloodstream
of all others?
© John Shane
Substack: The Way Of The Poet
This is so cool! What a journey from listening to a tarot podcast what feels like an eon ago! Thank you for making magic and connection accessible to witches far and wide xoxo. I'm off to learn about Melusine ;-).
YOU Inspire! YOU Inspire! YOU Inspire! You take action and Huzzah! <3