Chokae'

03/01/2026

New Year’s Day at the Tounché Global Consciousness Summit (Alegría Festival). Spent part of the first day of 2026 on a panel about
“The Sacred Duty of Elders: Keeping Hope Alive”… which, if you know me, is hilarious!
(Papawitch don’t do “duty” and definitely don’t fk with “hope”) 🤣

But that’s what made it good. Grateful to Swaady Martin for trusting me to show up as I am and for gathering people who actually wanted to think, not just feel inspired from a bunch of old people on display telling stories. Chats, challenges, and a little chaos. Fun.

Love
Papawitch

02/01/2026

The first full moon of 2026 arrives January 3rd as a Supermoon. So close, bright, and impossible to ignore.
Something shifts when the year’s initiatory moon rises.
Wolf Moon energy sets the trajectory for everything that follows.

How you meet this lunar moment determines your movement through twelve cycles ahead.
Tonight’s protection becomes the foundation sustaining you through every season.

Your howl under this moon calls in the pack carrying you through winter.

January 3rd offers a rare and beautiful opportunity to work with amplified lunar energy at the exact moment when 2026 is still forming itself.
Participation in that formation becomes available to you.

Intention anchors into matter through ceremony.
Clarity, ritual, and community across time zones support your choosing.

Three live Zoom ritual circles:
🕗 8:00 PM UK time
🕗 8:00 PM Eastern time🕗 8:00 PM Pacific time

Each circle delivers a complete, guided ceremonial experience… candle magic, sigil work, circle casting, call and response, guided journey, and the collective howl announcing your presence to the year ahead.
Participation is what this moon demands.
Showing up is what this moon rewards.

Direct message me for Zoom link and participation details.
The first moon of 2026 waits for you to claim your place in it.

With love,
Papawitch

30/12/2025

Hogmanay arrives as a quiet hinge in time, where firelight carries memory and the land leans in to listen.
The he turning year is greeted through flame, shared warmth, honest food, and the old courtesy of first footing.
Bread rests on the altar as a reminder of sustenance already earned through effort and patience.
Salt holds the wisdom of preservation, protection, and the sea’s long memory.
Coal and flame speak of warmth carried forward, ember to ember, home to home.
Whisky offers spirit and hospitality, a bold courage poured into a small glass.
Stone steadies the moment so every step across this threshold lands with intention.
Wind moves through the scene as an unseen witness, carrying prayers outward into the dark.
Presence matters here more than spectacle.
Tomorrow opens because attention already stands at the gate.

Love Papawitch

24/12/2025

Here’s what I ordered vs. what I got! 🤣
Needed a pinch of mugwort for my winter solstice ritual…candle dressing, tea, a little smudge.

Ordered what I thought was a modest amount.
A tub’s worth arrived! Like I was prepping for the apocalypse or starting a small mugwort distribution business.

My friend (bless him) delivered it and watched my face cycle through confusion, surprise, and hysterical laughter.
I assured him he did nothing wrong. I was just processing the sheer volume of herb now in my possession.

Did my ritual, used about a saucer’s worth, and sat staring at what remained: roughly enough mugwort to smudge the whole village!

This morning I woke up with a random thought: I wonder if mugwort repels mosquitoes?
(Context: I live surrounded by rice fields. The mosquitoes here are relentless, organized, possibly unionized.)
Looked it up. Turns out mugwort is legendary for repelling mosquitoes! Burned as a smudge OR rubbed on skin, fresh or dried. Who knew?

I’ve been desperately seeking a non-chemical mosquito solution for weeks.
The universe heard me and sent a tub of it!

There are no accidents. Just occasionally, very aggressive generosity from the cosmos. 🤣

Love
Papawitch

21/12/2025

Cheers! , thank you for showing up and sharing the circle with such care and presence during our online ritual.
Your time, attention, and willingness to drop in brought warmth to a season shaped by stillness and turning.

To All…
As the winter solstice settles in, may what feels complete loosen its grip and drift away with respect.

Alongside that release, may the skills, strengths, and hard won wisdom already living in you receive steady nourishment and room to grow.

Somewhere between the breath you took this morning and the one you are taking now, may you recognize yourself as already in motion toward the life you envision.

From this quiet hinge of the year, may clarity feel practical, hope feel grounded, and direction feel close at hand.

Love,
Papawitch

20/12/2025

This year the New Moon and the Winter Solstice fall on the same day, a convergence we will not see again until 2044, and it opens the powerful doorway … a moment worth meeting with intention.

Sat Dec 20 at 12 Noon Pacific Time I’m holding a ritual online that gives space to clear what feels heavy or finished and to choose what you actually want to carry forward as the light returns.

This gathering blends New Moon intention, Solstice turning, and Yule energy in a way that feels grounding, honest, and deeply supportive.

You’ll move forward feeling steadier, clearer, and more connected to yourself after work like this.

A sense of celebration runs through it too, because endings and beginnings deserve to be marked.

I’d love for you to be there if this feels like something your body or spirit could use right now.

Participation Details are simple to get, just leave a comment or send me a direct message for info and the Zoom Link.

Passing this along to someone who might enjoy joining us is always welcome.

Love
Papawitch

18/12/2025

In 2020, lockdown life in Bali brought Peeky into my world.
Connection sparked instantly, a realness that settles in the chest without needing explanation.
Every meeting since carries the same affection, untouched by time or distance.
Love shows up fully each time, familiar and steady, exactly where it belongs.
Sharing moments together continues to be one of life’s quiet certainties.

Love
Papawitch

15/12/2025

Most mornings begin with a quiet headcount, eyes drifting to the router where my little regular likes to perch like he pays rent.

Some days his seat stays empty, which usually means he found a better lounge elsewhere around the bungalow.

Today delivered a full jump scare when I lifted something on the altar and found a mama frog posted up, calm as could be, clearly mid rest.

Surprise passed, curiosity settled in, and the space stayed hers since it felt chosen and comfortable.

Living out here in the middle of a rice paddy flips the script completely, since belonging runs the other direction and I quietly join their family rather than the other way around.

Love
Papawitch

15/12/2025

14/12/2025

Here on this planet, extremes walk side by side every single day.

Some humans move through life carrying cruelty, hunger for harm, hate, and a willingness to fracture anything they touch.

Others step forward with generosity, care, courage, love, and an instinct to protect what feels fragile or sacred.

Every moment becomes a crossroads shaped by choice.

Each action reveals how someone decides to inhabit their body, their power, and their responsibility to the collective.

Between shadow and light stretches a wide human spectrum where accountability, intention, and presence decide who we become.

Love
Papawitch