Greetings – here’s to a peaceful and prosperous 2024 to you and your loved ones! It’s been a quiet, reflective wintering (as usual!) for this desert dweller.I’ve been in a space of embodied witnessing of the horrors unfolding in Palestine as the people of that land continue to be devoured by the terrorism of settler colonialism.Alongside writing, much of my work of late has been somatically guiding some of my clients through a process of unwinding and working with the heavy…
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Letters from Luna – Summer 2023
Posted on August 9, 2023Hello friend, A gentle belated supermoon in Aquarius to you! Here’s luna in all her glory at 5::45am this morning, the recommended dog-hiking window during summer months in the desert. We’ve had thunderstorms and a small amount of much-needed rain in parts of this high desert region. It’s that time of year that has become known as fire season in California, and this year is no different. The York Fire, which has been raging in the Mojave National Preserve for…
Greetings from a mind-meltingly hot desert, after a deep hibernation period, we’re excited to announce that Luna Arcana’s issue 6 is out. This issue is a whole new experience, completely self-funded, with no ads. It’s an exploration of the nuanced experiences around the threat to wilderness and ecological grief – and making space for grief in particular as a necessary portal towards understanding, evolution and transformation. The cover art is by the brilliant and prolific Zara Kand. Zara is a London…
Trusting that the entry into winter (the season of retreating into a bowl of nourishing, hearty soup!) here in the northern hemisphere is going peacefully for you. It seems that many of the conversations I’ve been a part of recently have been expressing a desire to go slow, to not get swept away by the toxic GMO of relentless doing which is at odds with the organic slowness + stillness of the season. For my part, I’ve been enjoying the…
Belated Autumnal Equinox greetings to you! After an unexpected, grief-induced pause over the summer, Luna Arcana’s issue 6 is back in production. We have an awesome cover painting by a tremendously talented Joshua Tree -based painter whom we’ll be telling you more about soon. And over the coming weeks, Letters from Luna will be featuring contributors to our next issue in these missives, so you can get a sampling of what’s in store, and start exploring their work + creations. Today, I…
We’re partnering with the Joshua Tree Retreat Center again to bring the magickal powerhouse, @damienechols and his wife, Lorri Davis back to Joshua Tree for a weekend retreat to celebrate their beautiful new book RITUAL, published by @soundstrue From 2-4 September we’ll be diving into an immersive experience of magick rituals guided by Damien + Lorri focusing on developing and working with your own natural connection to the energy of the universe, and ritualizing your life. There are only 100…
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Letters from Luna: On Animism + Anthropomorphism
Posted on May 9, 2022by Rohini Walker Since the desert took me in almost a decade ago, I’ve been shedding layer after layer of ill-fitting beliefs lurking within me that were not of my conscious choosing; distorted value systems and their attendant powers to make meaning and create realities instilled in me by family, culture and society, who for the most part did not consciously choose these for themselves either. Over the past couple of years, this shedding of decrepit old inner operating systems, and…
by Rohini Walker The days of dwindling light are officially upon us here in the northern hemisphere. I write to you from a gusty Mojave high desert, where the cooling temperatures are greedily welcomed after another merciless and revelatory summer. We have just exited the season of the ancient Egyptian goddess, Ma’at – symbolized by the scales of Libra, the constellation in which the sun was recently in residence – and are well on our way towards the renewal of death, the…
INVOKING ANGEL INTELLIGENCES:THE ROYAL SCIENCE A weekend immersion into the foundational practices of Magick & Meditation Friday, Sept. 17 through Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021 + Friday 7pm: Talk & Book Signing by Damien Echols $40Includes a signed copy of Damien’s new book, Angels & Archangels + Saturday & Sunday: In-person retreat $400 (not including accommodation + food) + Saturday & Sunday: Livestream + Recording $200 Call: 760.469.9764 Rooms also available. Space is limited to 50 students. Friday Night Talk 7PM: Damien…
