Let us be generous with ourselves.Let us rest well and wisely. Let us listen to the yearning in our souls. Let us leave space for wonder and space for delight. Let us create and nurture wide margins for magic in our lives. Let us trust the call we feel. Let it lead us to leap in the direction of desire.
Welcome to this week’s Rituals of Returning newsletter! This issue is short as we are traveling this week and the shop is closed. We will reopen on September 2 and our special edition Mabon kits will drop on September 4th! I hope you enjoy a sweet pause to deepen into this week’s resources. I am also taking a full Cauldron Week off of social media. The only place I will be active online until September 4th is in the Quips section of the Goddess Magic Mystery School. Despite being closed, I still wanted to squeeze one last newsletter into August to give you a free Tiny Summer Poems booklet that I wrote, inspired by the #tinysummerpoem challenge hosted by Beth Kempton. I hope you enjoy it!
Tiny Summer Poems, Booklet Layout
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This week's magic:
10 minute video: Pele’s Fire—Anger and Desire.
Note: September’s Ally video will become available on September 6th. Our herbal allies are nettle and nasturtium and our animal ally is the fox.
Other new videos:
11 minutes: June prayerbook flip-through
6 minutes: Back to the Roots flip-through
7 minutes: We’Moon 2027 unboxing
and, just for fun—I was featured in Patreon’s “what does a Quip sound like?” reel on Instagram.
Resource Reminders:
Our popular Back to the Root free series is still available:
Make sure to check out the collection where all of the free posts are available.
And, you can still grab your welcome kit with beautiful journals and customizable covers.
Intro audio about the Goddess Magic Mystery School
I’ve started to add our monthly activation replay videos for this year’s #30DaysofGoddess practice to the homepage! Scroll past the “2026 Practice Updates” section to access the videos. Note: Live monthly activations are available to any member of the Goddess Magic Mystery School Patreon community free and paid both!
FREE class:
forty week Intro to Goddess Studies class!
Gift a Goddess Magic membership to a friend!
Life’s Bits and Pieces:
In each year,some things flourishand some things finish.Be patient with yourselfas you listento your own life.
August and early fall offer powerful invitations into both reviewing and renewing. What are you inviting to become real?
In this month’s Simple and Sacred live circle, I read one of my poems from 365 Days of Goddess and then offered this invitation: Tonight’s candle lighting invites you to consider what is bubbling up from that cauldron of dreams. What are you inviting to become real?
We named: contentment, harmony, acceptance, creativity, aligned action, listening to intuition, finishing books, speaking up, slowing down. After each, I offered the benediction: May it become real.
I share this now with the wider circle present here in the the Rituals of Returning newsletter. What are you inviting to become real?
Feel free to share yours in the comments, or whisper it into a candle flame tonight.
Pele’s Fire
Reminder: May you follow the call of your desires, dance with all your feelings, and keep living your magic.
Note: expanded edition with practices and printable companion cards is here.
Questions to consider:
How are you in touch with the molten, fierce aspect of your life—that deep inner heart, that core beneath distraction, division, worry, and concern?
What is the fierce, molten core of your life right now?
What is your relationship with your own anger?
How have you been taught to handle anger (and how does gender socialization impact it)?
What is your heart’s true desire?
How can you more intentionally listen to the rhythms of your heart and breath, your own “internal drumming”?
What dreams are you ready to extend your arms to embrace?
Affirmations
I extend my arms to embrace my dreams.
I embrace my own passion.
I dance to the rhythms of my life.
I take action to manifest my heart’s desire.
I choose and change.
It is now that we rememberwe are here to be in love with living,not to exist for productionor performanceor to pleasethe electronic rectanglesof approval and discordthat we carry with us through our days.Here, now,curled in a green cocoonof becoming,we remember how it feelsto treasure our place on this earth,raindrops sprinkling our shouldersand starshine in our eyes,feet planted on the earth,arms lifted toward the moon.This is what is sacred now,being alive in the real.
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