Sasha Moss - From the Feminine

04/05/2026

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“In archetypal lore there is the idea that if one prepares a special psychic place, then the being, the creative force, the soul source, will hear of it, sense its way into it, and inhabit that place.”

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

There are times in life when the outer world is chaotic , fractured, and utterly exhausting. In such times, it becomes holy work to make a place within ourselves that is protected from the noise.

A psychic place.
A hidden room of the soul.
A wild and inward sanctuary.

This place does not need to be grand. It may be made of simple things: a candle lit at dusk, a page in a journal, a chair by the window, a whispered prayer, a walk beneath trees, a favorite pen and journal and a few moments of quiet with a Cupid tea in which you return to yourself. What matters is that it is prepared with devotion, with tenderness, with intention. Of course that you actually take the time to do it.

For when we make such a place, something ancient in us begins to stir.

The soul remembers the way back again. The creative force finds an opening. The spark that seemed nearly extinguished reveals itself to still be alive.

To create this protected inner place is not indulgence nor escape. It is medicine, and a form of remembering. A way of returning to one’s wild nature, one’s gifts, one’s deep and untamed source.

Especially in times like these, we must make spaces that can hold our spirit gently.
Spaces where what is most true in us can breathe. Where we remember what it is to possess joy and wonder again.
Spaces where the soul feels welcome enough to enter and remain.

It’s a conscious effort that simply requires us to close our eyes and remember what moves us from within. Music, art, books. Creating, journaling - the things that bring you closer to you and keeping that alive.

Remembering our medicine through our gifts, now more than ever

This is part of our sacred work now: to prepare a place beautiful enough, quiet enough, and true enough that the soul feels safe to come back.

A place where creativity can find us again.
A place where grief can sit without shame.
A place where the spark can be gently fed.

a refuge for our holy,

and to tend it until we become a living fire.

(May the fires burn bright for you today, and may magic find you wherever you are)

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“Kairos”
Mixed Media
2025

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03/05/2026

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“Stop gaslighting yourself into thinking you’re lazy, when you’re really exhausted AF from the trauma and grief you’ve endured.”

- Dr. Jen via Twitter

Rest. Buy yourself flowers. Eat fresh fruit (the brain runs on glucose). Take a walk. Focus on taking in only those things which awaken your soul. Soak in a tub filled with flower petals, essential oils and mineral salts. Have a weekend blackout on all things media. Surround yourself with the provocation of all things sensual; soft, decadent fabrics, whatever moves your Spirit; music that you love, scents that enthrall you, books that feed your enthusiasm, beautiful art.

FILL YOUR LIFE AND SOUL WITH BEAUTY

Just for this week, be the bee settling on all of the best flowers.

Love yourself deeply, and remember who and what you really are.

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"Ophelia"
Mixed Media
2022

30/04/2026

17/04/2026

Great specifics in this response 💯

Welcome to another . As always, I hope you'll share your own advice and wisdom; my thoughts are in the article.

A reader asks…

I've heard several stories from women now about how men they dated that seemed really nice and onboard with their beliefs early on later turned out to be conservative with very anti-feminist beliefs.

Apparently, these men were just nodding along to whatever their partners were saying about politics and their own beliefs until much later. This scares me.

How can I check for a man's actual beliefs? How can I tell he's not just nodding along to keep me around because he knows I wouldn't agree with him otherwise? Finding out a man I thought I had a lot in common with or agreed on core values with has been lying about his beliefs and secretly doesn't respect me or my beliefs at all is such a horror nightmare scenario to me.

Read my answer at
https://zawn.substack.com/publish/post/192610931

26/03/2026

Thank you to my wonderful RAWA colleagues who put me forward for this opportunity, and those who supported me (through the freak outs 😜) along the way 🌸

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12/03/2026

The link is now available 😍 ‘The Power of Women’s Circles: Conversations of Becoming and Unbecoming’ 💕 Link in comments

09/03/2026

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My religion is other women.

This isn’t tongue in cheek.

My religion congregates around a fire, in a cramped room we booked to talk, in an idling car for way too long, in someone’s living room, in the cold, because there’s more to say and hear.

There is a spark of divinity I know to look for
when she says something she’s never said out loud before. There is a spiritual rumble in the dehydrated voices of women who aren’t used to saying so much.

When I hear another woman articulate something I’ve never been able to, that’s the voice of my god speaking to me. It's ancient, forbidden knowledge, and it fills my body with my self.

There’s power in our warm red blood.

~ Lane Lloyd

Art by

08/03/2026

08/03/2026

Happy International Women’s Day!

Thank you to the many circles of women, professionally and personally, who have been part of my formation and allowed me to do what I love … who have inspired, led, loved and championed me … as leaders, mentors, colleagues, teachers, friends, daughters and mothers.

Every day this work becomes more and more important and non-negotiable.

https://youtu.be/7RLTcTARUbw?si=JBNJXgvIRdaL4Mh2

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02/03/2026

Quiet quitting …

Marriage is a huge gamble. And when women lose, they lose big. Men can abuse them, kill them, weaponize the family court system against them for years. And most bystanders will tell them to keep trying, to keep going to therapy, to keep asking what they can do differently until it’s too late.

Most women come to feminist consciousness too late. By then, they’re already married. And they may have spent years being gaslit, thinking that if they just communicate better or make more lists or become more deserving, their husbands will treat them like human beings who matter.

They won’t.

The truth in most heterosexual marriages is that he is never going to change. Men are taught not to view women as people, to prioritize their desires above others’ basic needs, and to never sacrifice for women. This is why they make the same arguments and excuses, and why the behaviors of sexist men are all so similar. If your husband relaxes while you work, systematically ignores your needs, demeans your body, emotionally abuses you, mistreats your children, or engages in other acts of abuse and unkindness, rest assured that he has swallowed patriarchal indoctrination whole. He will not change until he wants to—and as long as he is able to keep reaping the benefits of patriarchy, he won’t want to change.

Every moment spend pleading with him, every hour spent in couples therapy, every hopeless page you read of Fair Play is time you have wasted on someone who doesn’t deserve it. You can’t save your marriage. You cannot convince someone wearing a blindfold to see your humanity.

I’ve advised women for a long time that, if they can’t leave, they should quiet quit—either as a bridge to leaving or as a way of buckling down and dealing until a door out opens.

Quiet quitting is a worst-case scenario, not the solution to every bad marriage. If you can find any way at all to leave, you should.

If you need time to save money, or to build your case, or for your kids to grow up, consider emotionally exiting until a physical exit becomes possible.

https://zawn.substack.com/p/quiet-quitting-101-how-to-emotionally-c54