Spiral Alchemy

Tag: Creativity

  • Nurturing the Creator Within: Exploring “The Mother” Oracle Card

    Nurturing the Creator Within: Exploring “The Mother” Oracle Card

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    Have you ever considered that you hold the power within to create, nurture, and transform not just your life but the way you perceive yourself? When I was designing this oracle card, I was thinking about the Spiral Alchemy Oracle Deck’s overarching theme of self-discovery and inner wisdom. This brought up some feelings about where…

  • Our Dance

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    Let’s talk about it. Let’s not talk about it. broken wings, slamming doors, fighting words. a pretty package in the sun, a glass house under moon…

  • Nurturing Your Inner Child: Insights from Angel Gabriel

    Nurturing Your Inner Child: Insights from Angel Gabriel

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    Embark on a journey of self-discovery with Angel Gabriel as your guide. Explore the power of reconnecting with your inner child, finding solace in solitude, and embracing the magic within you. Ready to unlock the secrets of your soul? Let’s dive in!…

  • Blurry Memories

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    Blizzard road. Red lights paving the way. Pretending to be asleep when we park outside the house. Papa carries my limp body to bed. He smells like cigarettes, pine, and honey…

  • Writing Freely From the Heart

    Writing Freely From the Heart

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    At dusk, when the neighbors’ lights turn on, you can hear football in the living room and smell dinner on the table. They’re laughing about something you’ll never know, but it feels like you’re there. I take comfort in walking past the intimate moments of someone else’s life. It’s like I’m home even when I…

  • A Look Inside My Grimoire

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    Mariana Rodrigues Cabral
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    A Piece of Me From my insides you will find a tenderness so sweet it rots the marrow of my bones. Saudades for all that was and all that could be, Tendons full of music, bursting, waiting to dance. I can feel your heart. I can see your spirit. When the wind cries, when the…

  • make it better

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    Mariana Rodrigues Cabral
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    ungrounded, unmotivated, unmoving. walking in squares and hitting dead ends just to repeat it again. i don’t know what’s happened to me or to my dearest. all tangled in electric knots, in mounds of pity and I wish to whoever’s god that I could start over try on a new avatar leave it behind without…

  • look at the stars…

    look at the stars…

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    Mariana Rodrigues Cabral
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    I’ve always been enamored with the sky. I’ve looked up to the stars and to the moon for answers in moments of crisis and felt held by the infiniteness of our universe more times than I can count. I think of the stars as a reminder of how connected we are to something far greater…

  • Never Alone

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    Mariana Rodrigues Cabral
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    don’t fear quiet and wish for filled spaces. your head doesn’t have to be hell if you use it well. solitude can be solace, emptiness whole. in the presence of everything you’re never alone…

  • Let Go

    Let Go

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    Mariana Rodrigues Cabral
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    “There’s beauty in the breakdown.” From the time I was about ten years old, Imogen Heap’s lyrics have taken life’s most difficult concepts and translated them in a way that makes sense. The quote above is from an electronic group called Frou Frou, and I listened to every song in their “Details” album until they…