AlcheMystik

10/08/2025

May I live this day
Compassionate of heart,
Clear in word,
Gracious in awareness,
Courageous in thought,
Generous in love.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from 'Matins' in his books, Benedictus (Europe) and To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Cottage Window, County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

10/08/2025

you know why I love fairytales
because they tell the truth.

the story doesn’t tell us
what happened to Red
in the wolf’s belly.
it doesn’t tell us
what happened to the girl-woman
as sleep spun around her
like thorned thread.
it doesn’t tell us
what Persephone touched
in the underdark
before she rose with seeds
in her mouth.

those parts are mysteries
unique to each body,
each life,
each time a woman loses and finds
her own skin.

we both know
the subterranean
doesn’t always have a language.

sometimes we wait in the dark
like seeds that forgot spring,
like skins shed
and buried in sand,
like threads knotted
and not yet rewoven.
we wait
and wait
and do our invisible work,
unsure if it works.

sometimes the medicine tastes bitter.
sometimes it shatters us apart.
sometimes there is nothing
but the ache itself.

sometimes the soul
lays down dark passages
to unravel us
so we can re-thread ourselves
back into wholeness.

and then one day
not always with a kiss,
not always with a lover,
but maybe with the brush
of our own wild selkie skin
against our cheek,
or the tug of an ancestral thread
from beyond
we remember.
(The kiss in a fairytale
is that wild remembering soul
waking us up to something truer)

we rescue ourselves.
we cut the knot.
we stitch the torn edges.
we weave again.

and BOOM.
the loom resounds.
the chrysalis splits.
we stumble, crawl, swim,
rise winged, scarred,
and more whole than before.

not a polished “happily ever after”
but a return that looks like
where we began
and yet is utterly altered.

we stand barefoot on earth,
solid, fierce.
stitched with gold,
threaded with story,
re-membered with ancestors.
we bloom into something
the dark made possible
our scars not flaws
but the embroidery
of our true beauty.

Words: Stasha Ginsburg
The Wild Remembering

Artist: Kitty-Grimm

10/07/2025

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🌸AlcheMystik Blessings

10/05/2025

is coming in . Time to all things that you. . from deep seated trauma is here. Let the burn away the pain.

I will be doing a burn circle this weekend to honor the as I clear away from long ago.

10/04/2025

Yes it does.

A Love That Carries Us Forward

Our departed loved ones
remain with us still,
not in ways
we once knew or felt,
but in quiet, enduring ways,
in the love, the gentle strength
they leave behind.

Their love is a lantern
in the dark,
a steady pulse
within our chest,
reminding us
we are never truly alone,
even in grief.

Even in absence
they guide us,
softly, invisibly,
teaching us to endure,
to breathe,
to move forward.

For love does not end
when a life does;
it only changes shape,
becoming courage,
memory,
the strength
that holds us up
and carries us forward.

~ 'A Love That Carries Us Forward' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art 'She Rises from Ash and Memory' by Serin Alar Serin Alar

10/04/2025

I received news yesterday I didn't want. But for some reason it grounded me and I stepped into warrior mode. I know now what must be done and I will do it!

May we all pick ourselves up when necessary and move through the disappointment to find something better meant for our highest good.

10/04/2025

AlcheMystik Blessings...

anger and let the the hurt and darkness. This deck is from the 72 names of godde in Spanish. Feel free to use translator to discover more.

Personal insights....

This deck holds a very special place in my soul and was the key to an awakening.

After a moving experience walking through the Jewish Heritage museum located in the old Jewish quarter of Girona Spain, I came to the gift shop. This was the only deck left and as it wasn't in English and it wasn't open to see the cards... I was about to walk away. The shop keeper beckoned me back and said "for you I will open it so you can see the cards" .

Initially, I was drawn to the green box and the number 72, my birth year. However, once the deck was in my hands I received an immediate download and activation. What is that you ask???

It is when your body starts to tremble, not shiver or goosebumps, but full on vibrate from head to toe with an energetic current, as if light beams are shooting out of your fingers, toes, mouth and ears. If I had not had them before, I would have been very alarmed, as it is breath taking. Immediately tears formed in my eyes and I was suspended in time. My friend was next to me and I am not exactly sure what we said, but she knew I was experiencing something.

A couple of deep breaths and I was able to return to the present and return to my body.

Of course I bought the deck. Even though it is in Spanish ... I know the gist and anything I need more help on, there is Google translate.

I really love this deck and know it is key to unlocking the mysteries that were in Spain for me to recover. Yes, recover.

A past lifetime has held me there since 1349 and I have finally cleared the Karma in a massive manner, as it came with huge consequences.

This is how I live my everyday, not just food pics and people gatherings. I have always been tuned into spirit since I can remember. Prophetic dreams, knowing, gifted in the metaphysical arts such as tarot, astrology, chakras, and eventually I became a Reiki Master, Akashic records reader and much much more.

I live my life in full communion with spirit, mind and body. I walk this path as it is the only way I know how. It isn't for the faint of heart, as it will challenge and break you time and time again. But I am here for purpose and this purpose I accepted before this incarnation.

Honestly, it is how I have been able to accept John's passing. Somewhere long ago, he and I agreed to how our lives on earth would play out. He was always supposed to leave first. I was to stay behind and take care of the boys and our legacy. He is now my spiritual teacher from beyond the veil and I am the earthly student.

We lived in Girona Spain all those centuries ago, as the messages were received. It wasn't easy and I witnessed his death. It broke me and eventually I was burned for who I was. THIS is the karma I cleared.

This is me. It is a daily process to live in full communion with spirit. I do help others on occasion in private sessions. But I am not for everyone. One must be willing to sink into the deepest parts of their essence, because I will go into their darkness to discover what needs light.

Light is what heals and brings our spirits into perfection.

Much like the card suggests...light displays the darkness of our souls and it is there we can release the negative emotions that cause us pain and harm.

Step into the light and let your spirit shine.

10/03/2025

It is so hard to remember when your spouse leaves this earthly plane.

“Whatever happens, stay alive. Don't die before you're dead. Don't lose yourself, don't lose hope, don't lose direction.
Stay alive, with yourself, with every cell of your body, with every fiber of your skin.
Stay alive, learn, study, think, read, build, invent, create, speak, write, dream, design.
Stay alive, stay alive inside you, stay alive also outside, fill yourself with colors of the world, fill yourself with peace, fill yourself with hope.
Stay alive with joy.
There is only one thing you should not waste in life, and that's life itself."
~Virginia Woolf

10/01/2025

Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples, and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.

~William Martin

10/01/2025