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Letters from Luna – Summer 2023

Posted on August 9, 2023

Hello 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…

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Issue 6 – Upgraded Print Quality

Posted on July 24, 2023

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…

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Wintering, and other stories

Posted on December 6, 2022

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…

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Autumn updates + the story of Goddess

Posted on October 5, 2022

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…

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Letters from Luna: On Animism + Anthropomorphism

Posted on May 9, 2022

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All Roads Lead to Joy

Posted on March 21, 2022

by 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…

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The Feather of Ma’at

Posted on October 28, 2021

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…

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Letters from Luna – The Migration of Memory, Part II

Posted on March 23, 2021

by Rohini Walker Click here The Migration of Memory, Part I It’s the in-between time here in the Mojave high desert, as winter shapeshifts into spring. Calm, sunny days are peppered with winds so wild, it’s a wonder the house doesn’t end up in some other, other-worldly faraway. On days like this from my remote spot, the wide vistas swirl with haboob-like dust devils, and eyes smart and sting if you have to venture outdoors for some outlandish reason. Today is one of…

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Letters from Luna – The Daemon’s Vision: Continued Excursions into Soul-Making

Posted on February 1, 2021

by Rohini Walker In a previous installment of Letters from Luna, we began some initial explorations into the nature of the soul – what Mary Oliver described as the ‘Third Self’, and James Hillman, borrowing from the ancient Greeks, called the ‘daimon’ or ‘daemon.’ This is – for me and for countless others who place inestimable worth on a commitment of intimacy with what is mysterious, ever-changing, and vastly precious within us – a tireless topic. It is to live within a state of gossamer…

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Letters from luna: A word on the wyrd

Posted on January 18, 2021

by Rohini Walker A gentle summation of the year 2020, and – in here the U.S. – these first weeks of 2021, would be highly, deeply weird. We’re living in strange times. Yet, for those of us who have been paying attention for preceding years, decades even, and who recognize the cyclical, ever-in-flux nature of the universe, this weird, troubling moment in humanity’s story is unavoidably necessary. Radical change needs powerful pattern interrupts. It needs the seething underbelly of a…

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