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The Blog
Active Imagination: A Practical Guide to Speaking With Your Unconscious
What is Active Imagination- and how do we use it? In this post we discuss active imagination as a process for engaging with the subconscious mind. Learn what active imagination is, some methods on how to use active imagination, and why and how it can help us connect with ourselves more deeply.
What Are Sigils? How to Make & Use Them For Healing and Manifestation
All about sigils- how to use this simple creative chaos magic practice to hack your subconscious and manifest your desires.
CARD DECKS I LOVE!
A list of oracle and tarot decks I love for intuitive readings and cartomancy!
“Witchy” Books I Love!!
A list of “witchy”, spiritual, and spiritual-adjacent books I love that have influenced and helped me develop my own practice!
How to Do a Cord Cutting Ritual for Mental Health and Self-Healing
Learn how to do a cord cutting ritual for mental health. Release bad habits, limiting beliefs, and outdated identities in this step-by-step guide.
Therapeutic Art for Shadow Work and Spiritual Self-Care: Creative Rituals Heal Where Words Can’t
Discover how therapeutic art can transform your shadow work and spiritual self-care. Learn how creative rituals help you heal, integrate your shadow, and calm your nervous system- no artistic skill required!!
The Art of Destruction: Creative Alchemy for Anger Transmutation
Unleash your fury and transmute it into creative power. This no-fluff guide to destruction-art therapy shows how smashing, scribbling, and chaos can be a radical, body-mind reset for anger. Get permission to destroy- and transform.
WILD HEALING: A GALLERY OF FERAL SELF-CARE CREATIVE HEALING PROJECTS
Discover creative shadow work and therapeutic art practices with this collection of wild, expressive projects from the Feral Self-Care Collective. Heal, explore, and transform through art.
Shadow Work Doesn’t Have to Suck: How to Make Shadow Work Fun, Playful, and Actually Doable
Shadow work doesn’t have to be heavy. Discover creative, playful shadow work practices that make deep healing fun, doable, and actually effective.
THE FERAL SELF-CARE COLLECTIVE- FALL 2025 Season Lineup!
Check out this post for the guest speaker lineup and session descriptions for the Fall 2025 season of the Feral Self-Care Collective!
A Black Moon Scrying Bath Ritual
Discover the power of the Black Moon with a bath scrying ritual. Learn what scrying is, why water is a psychic portal, and how to create your own lunar milk bath ritual!
Depth Psychology Explained for Beginners
If you’re struggling with feeling “self-aware but stuck”, and craving real, layered transformation (rather than just more insight loops)- you’re ready for depth psychology.
How to Read Oracle & Tarot Intuitively: A Step-by-Step Guide to Intuitive Cartomancy
Intuitive cartomancy means using oracle or tarot cards as tools for insight, guided by your inner voice- not necessarily memorizing traditional meanings or utilizing guidebook interpretations. Reading your cards this way allows you to bridge art and psyche, inviting you to unearth subconscious truths through imagery, color, and felt experience.
What Is Chaos Magic? A No-BS Guide to Results-Driven Spirituality
Chaos magic is a results-based spiritual system that treats belief as a tool. Emerging in the 1970s, it blends psychological experimentation with ritual to create personal change. Unlike traditional paths, chaos magicians use what works, and discard what doesn’t!
My Energy Reading Process: From Human Design to Aura Alignment
Curious about what really happens in an intuitive energy reading? Here’s the full breakdown of my approach- from gathering your Human Design chart info to decoding aura colors and using a pendulum for chakra clarity!
Secular Tarot Practice: A Beginner’s Guide to Mindful Self‑Reflection
Secular tarot practice transforms tarot from mystical fortune-telling into a powerful tool for personal insight. If you’re curious about using tarot for self-reflection without the spiritual or supernatural elements, this beginner-friendly guide will walk you through how to start a secular tarot practice that aligns with your worldview. Whether you're a skeptical witch, a nature-based practitioner, or simply looking to explore mindful tarot as a way to access your inner voice, you’re in the right place.
6 Signs You’re an Atheist Witch: Practice Magic Without Gods or Rules
Witchcraft is often equated with deities—but there's a growing spiritual path rooted in self, not gods. If you’ve ever wondered, “Am I an atheist witch?” or “Can magic thrive without belief?”, these six signs will tell you you might already be one.
SKEPTICAL MAGICK: Reconciling Science and Spirituality in Your Spiritual Practice
Science and Spirituality- Despite being a point of fascination for psychologists, scientists, philosophers (and of course, witches!) resources for the secular witch are still frustratingly scarce. And what does exist? Often leans too fluffy, too dogmatic, or full of misinformation for more grounded practitioners.
The Modern Witch and Secular Witchcraft: A Real Talk Guide
The modern witch is simply a person who uses Magic and Witchcraft as a method to direct their will to influence their circumstances and daily life experience. Someone who uses magic, mindset, and ritual to influence their circumstances and deepen their connection to self. You don’t have to be religious, spiritual, or supernatural to walk this path!
8 Creative Altar Ideas for Secular Witches (+ DIY Tips)
Are you a secular witch looking for fresh and meaningful altar ideas? Whether you're seeking a spiritual connection without religious overtones, or you're just a magical hot mess exploring your unique path, altars can be a powerful way to ground, manifest, and vibe higher!
FREEBIES FOR HEALING, GROUNDING + GETTING CLEAR
These are gifts for your healing journey. Take what serves, leave what doesn't.
THE FERAL SELF-CARE TOOLKIT
Guided meditation to awaken your wild + 3 simple quickie rituals for when you need to remember who you are beneath all the conditioning.
TRICKSTER RITUALS EMAIL SERIES
3 days of chaos magic practices for breaking through limitations and embracing your inner trickster. Perfect for when you're ready to shake things up.
SHADOW WORK STARTER GUIDE
Simple tools for befriending your inner critic without spiritual bypassing. Learn to work WITH your shadow instead of trying to fix or eliminate it.
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