Rituals for the Overwhelmed
A Venus Day Love List for Friday May 9, 2025 + Full Moon Invite
Below you’ll find a few fun things for Friday that I want to share with you. If you enjoy them, share them with your friends or give this post a like! ❤️ Happy Venus Day!
REMINDER: Full Moon in Scorpio Ritual this Monday
What I love about Scorpio energy is that it helps us clean out all the gunk. This Monday at 6pm I’m holding a ritual for the Full Flower Moon in Scorpio. We will be doing purification rituals to clear out the conditioning of the dominant culture and access our authentic self. If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, this one’s for you! Join us for the ritual or watch the replay.
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Wooly Mammoths Ate These Acorns
Have I mentioned that my dissertation for my PhD program is about how rituals can forge and transform our relationship to the biosphere? To narrow the scope I’ve been focusing on rituals related to trees as interventions against deforestation. Last quarter in my Curating Cultures class I had the opportunity to collaborate on an artwork with the Brazilian artist’s collective Jardim Miriam Arte Club for the Construction Occupation show at the Fowler Museum. My contribution was a drawing of an acorn from the Jurupa Oak, a California tree that’s the third oldest living being on earth (now under threat by developers). I talk about the process in the 6 minute clip below and I think you’ll enjoy hearing about it. I’m so excited to share it with you!
Feeling lost? This video featuring the poet David Whyte helped me so much last week…
Heeding the call of our intuition often demands that we wander off the path cut for us by convention. To find our way we have to leave the certain path and begin to forge our own. But that experience can be scary and disorienting, lonely and fraught with uncertainties. If you can relate, you might want to check out this video:
A new and better way to get books…
I love ordering my books at bookshop.org. You get to select your local bookshop and the profits from your order go directly to them. They have AMAZING curated book lists; it’s like having your own librarian who shows you all the cool stuff, like an older sibling who introduces you to punk rock and existentialism. Bookshop.org helps me feel good about my book buying addiction because I can support local bookstores instead of Scamazon. It took me a minute to make the shift, but I feel so good about it! Now I just have to find an alternative to Spotify and I’ll be golden.
Podcast I’m Enjoying: Second Nature (the Commons)
I admit that lately I’ve had the blues. This quarter at UCLA has been indescribably grueling. The hardest part is FOR SURE the commute, 3 hours a day, four days a week. It’s the bumper to bumper traffic that makes me question all my decisions in life. Enter Second Nature. It’s an environmental podcast, but the hook is that it’s mostly upbeat. Sitting in traffic nearly breaks me, but listening to this podcast helps me feel hopeful. I especially loved the community gardens episode!
Join Living Systems!
My dear friend Leah Garza is offering a year long course called Living Systems. It’s all about decoloniality, ecology, and liberation. I’ve taken it and highly recommend it! Of the course she says:
If places of critical thinking are going away, we need alternative spaces in which to think together. We need Living Systems. We need private spaces to think and ask questions that might get us in trouble in the “real world”. We need places to dream and imagine with impunity or fear of consequence, not simply because it feels good, but because our collective imaginings and dreams will be the only thing that resuscitates us and pulls us through this dark time.