Archive - Starlight and Strategy

An ending is a beginning is an ending is a beginning

All things come to completion. Completion is not the same as perfection. The World card makes space for mistakes, flaws, contradictions, difficulties. I…

Nov 27, 2023 •

October 2023

August 2023

Sacred technologies

Whose technologies, and why? I am not more evolved than the echinacea that blooms every year in the same spot in my garden, not more evolved than the…

Aug 1, 2023 •

June 2023

Conjuring queer and trans survival

*A spell for safety in a hostile world* In today’s political environment where anti-trans hostility threatens the lives and wellbeing of trans and…

Jun 4, 2023 •

May 2023

Poetry as Spellcasting

Serpent blessings and spirit language | Years in the making, this book is ready to be blessed with fingers and pencil marks, graced with smoke, water…

May 5, 2023 •

April 2023

What I learned in loving and caring for Barley | The day Barley died, the crows were everywhere. Some hours after the kind and gentle vet came to help…

Apr 6, 2023 •

March 2023

“While I’m On This Journey, Hold My Hand”

Writing toward the end of this world with Destiny Hemphill. I met Destiny Hemphill in 2019 over a bowl of noodles in Seattle’s International District…

Mar 7, 2023 •

February 2023

Speaking with spirits, within and without

There’s a particular tree that dances with grace next to the path I often walk next to the Neponset river. This tree caught my attention months ago and…

Feb 5, 2023 •

November 2022

“You are born knowing how to make the sounds of your heart”

I was once a celestial being, and becoming human meant that everything that I knew about the universe had to be taken away by the touch of an angel’s…

Nov 8, 2022 •

October 2022

“It’s a good story because it’s a story of victory”

"The United States in its current form was not inevitable," says Kung Li Sun. "Writing this book convinced me it wasn’t even all that probable. And so…

Oct 9, 2022 •

August 2022

Discomfort as teacher, time as abundance

Living through times of dissolution, of the crumbling and tearing down of harmful, violent systems, is painful in so many ways. I’m finding that it’s…

Aug 12, 2022 •

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