(This was sent out to my mailing list on the August Blue Moon.)

Sometimes I wonder why I do the things I do, why do I take the risk of talking openly about taboo topics, of teaching on things that many people not only dismiss, but look at with suspicion?

It’s healthy to check in with yourself, to wonder sometimes, and remembering the WHY helps with showing up in devotion, but the answer, for me, is simple.

I know this is important.

The very fact that the response I get from folk is mixed shows that this beautiful, wonderful, healing work of being whole, of being all of ourselves despite the pressure from the world to split and hide and repress our creative selves, divinely rising from pleasure, of truly enjoying this precious time embodied on earth – the fact that the response to that is suspicion just shows me that speaking openly is needed.

It is natural to seek pleasure, to give and receive love, to be present with each other.

It is natural to seek pleasure, to give and receive love, to be present with each other.

It is your birthright, simply by the fact that you are alive, to know yourself as whole and worthy of pleasure and play and love.

My magical practice is what has kept me healing, moving towards kindness and delight. Every day that I breathe in Love, dance with my gods, sing to the fair folk and spirits who walk with me, is a day that I open to the magic in the world which is wonder and possibility.

When I pull out my tarot cards, I listen and hear, and discover that I am not alone, there is guidance there.

When I light a candle to bridge the worlds, when I pour my offerings, I give and receive, and discover that I am supported, I am in community.

When I pull on the threads, untangle the knots of Wyrd in a spellworking, or nudge the flow of life further toward beauty, balance, and delight, I feel into what is true and what is possible, and I discover that I am a part of the web and the weaving.

Magic isn’t just about the tools to heal, to stay centred in the chaos, to grow, to create change. It is also about the connection, the remembering that we are part of the community of beings and the flow of energies. We are not separate from the world.

Magic isn’t just about the tools to heal, to stay centred in the chaos, to grow, to create change. It is also about the connection, the remembering that we are part of the community of beings and the flow of energies. We are not separate from the world.

This is why I offer the classes that I do, why I show up for weekly livestreams and share as the gods inspire me, why I offer up meditations on Divine Love and embodiment, and why I gently share the reminder that our bodies, including our sexual natures, are part of this whole gift that is life.

When you allow yourself to be present with all of your parts, with your embodied self, and allow yourself to feel that pleasure, that desire, that love moving in the body, then healing happens.

You begin to reclaim your capacity to find pleasure, to create, to be content. It isn’t always an easy path, and there are many reasons we might shy away from this work of integration within ourselves, and so we move softly, in the Crimson Coven, with Love.

Always, always, coming back to reclaiming our own bodies as our temples, as divine spaces, however they are, in all their pleasure and pain, freedoms and limitations, blessings and challenges.

Always, always, coming back to reclaiming our own bodies as our temples, as divine spaces, however they are, in all their pleasure and pain, freedoms and limitations, blessings and challenges.

If the Divine is immanent, if the God/dess is present in all things, including the earth, then our bodies are Sacred too.

And this is why I do what I do.

Why I share stories and write books and make music and write erotica and offer classes and show up as all my self.

Even when it raises eyebrows.

To remind all with hearts to hear that there is beauty and possibility in the world, that remembering your wholeness is possible, that you are divine, in all your parts, and that you too are part of that community which is magic, weaving and woven and wondrous.

Thank you for showing up with me.

I hope you enjoy my offerings, and that they help you remember what your truest heart already knows…

You are here for more pleasure, play, magic, and love than you can even imagine.