5 Delights To Start Your Week
Books, Offerings, and Sacred Tools
Inside: A few delicious things to make your life better as you start the week.
Pilgrimage: Hermit Year Workshop Series
When I attend to the teachings of the cards of the year, I feel more on track with my life. Choices feel easier. My tasks feel clearer. Studying the cards of the year brings me comfort and guidance.
This year, I’m excited to share my card of the year techniques with you in this 3-session workshop series. We will practice working with our own cards of the year, and our collective cards of the year, to help us focus our attention and clear our path for progress in 2025.
You’ll also get workshops on setting up a Book of Shadows to record your progress for the year, AND a workshop on orienting yourself towards growth and calling in spiritual support.
To find out more, click here.
Don’t forget to mark your calendar for our first session CRAFTING YOUR 2025 BOOK OF SHADOWS, on Winter Solstice 12/21/24, 11am PST. (If you can’t be there, you’ll get a replay)
You can purchase the workshop series on its own here, OR GET THE WORKSHOPS FREE with the cost of your yearly membership to Mystery Cult by clicking the link below.
*Scholarships available for those in financial need. Email us at guardian@oracleoflosangeles.com for more info.
Win Condition - A thrilling Sci Fi Read
I’m so proud of the achievement of dear Mystery Culter, Libby Schultz, who wrote this incredible sci fi novel, Win Condition. Libby is a queer woman of color and an insider in the crypto industry. Her novel is set in a future world run by an AI gaming oligarchy: tt’s the Hunger Games meets Hackers, with a queer central plotline! Give your crypto cousin a copy of this gripping sci fi thriller for Christmas and shake his world up a bit!
Altar Healing Drum - Sacred and Ethical
I’m in love with my new hand-made frame drum by Teagan at Altar Healing. I’d been looking for a new frame drum for a long time, I’d even been corresponding with a traditional drum-maker in Germany but I just couldn’t find the right fit. Finally, I ran into Teagan at the Witchcraft and Folklore Fest in Salem, and I knew that I’d found my drum maker. She made mine in ceremony and consecrated it on Mabon. Every time I work with it I feel pulled into deeper layers of trance. My Spirits love to dance to it!
Find out more about Teagan’s drums here or follow her on Substack at Altar of Stars.
Tarot for Creative Spirits - calling all tarot lovers!
This beautiful workbook includes journaling and creative prompts for every card in the Tarot. Each page offers you the opportunity to connect with the energy of each archetype from a personal perspective. Makes an incredible gift for creative folks who want to take a deeper dive into the esoteric arts.
Mystery Culters get a 15% discount (expires February 29, 2025).
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Grab a copy of the workbook or find out more here.
Reading Group on Weds 12/11/24, 6pm: David Graeber’s Possibilities
I’m so excited to finally get to share this text with you, since Graeber was so foundational to my becoming the witch I am today. In the chapter we’re reading, Graeber discusses how our contemporary, relentless obsession with work is rooted in religion (Calvinism), and how that religiousity determines power dynamics even within our most intimate relationships. Fundamentally, the work of witchcraft is to liberate ourselves (and all beings) from the curse of supremacy culture, so this text is required reading! Can’t wait to discuss it with you! Text and study questions in the subscriber section below.
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