Lex Ritchie

Not into weekly newsletters? You can opt-out of the weekly newsletter without removing yourself from other updates HERE! Hey, Reader! I’ve had chaos and power and order on the brain lately. Maybe it’s Tuesday’s Scorpion Full Moon. Maybe it’s Eclipse season, or Jupiter’s recent conjunction Uranus, or maybe it’s just *gestures to indicate the current state of the world*... And I think these questions of power and order are particularly important ones for those of us who seek a new paradigm, a...

Not into weekly newsletters? You can opt-out of the weekly newsletter without removing yourself from other updates HERE! Hey, Reader! Next week I am running Cultivating Connection, a free experience of springtime spiritwork to help you create or strengthen your relationship to the earth. And that has my thoughts turning to what it means to be in relationship with the other-than-human, with earth, with spirit. A big part of the way I think about these sort of relationships is that these...

Not into weekly newsletters? You can opt-out of the weekly newsletter without removing yourself from other updates HERE! Hey, Reader! The dandelions are coming up and I'm planning on making some dandelion muffins this week which means I need to share my annual ode, love letter, song of soulful devotion to to these amazing flowers. Dandelion was perhaps my first true plant friend. I remember having so much joy seeing this plant as a child. Watching it turn its sunny face up to the sky and soak...

Not into weekly newsletters? You can opt-out of the weekly newsletter without removing yourself from other updates HERE! Hey, Reader! Last Monday, on the day of the Lunar Eclipse in Libra, I made a trip to leave some flowers and some prayers a nearby memorial that recognizes a worksite tragedy. The radical ancestors - both of my own lineage and of the collective - have been loud lately so I wanted to take some time and make sure I let them know they were being heard. The memorial I visited...

Not into weekly newsletters? You can opt-out of the weekly newsletter without removing yourself from other updates HERE! Hey, Reader! Eclipse season is always a good time to do some deep cleaning and organzing. Sometimes that means deep cleaning your house - which I will always defend as a deeply magical practice. Sometimes it’s energetic. Sometimes, as it was for me this week, it’s digital! I took some time to clean up and organize about 4 years worth of notes on my Notes app this week....

Not into weekly newsletters? You can opt-out of the weekly newsletter without removing yourself from other updates HERE! Hey, Reader! Back in February, I opened up my books for Relational Rose readings - readings that zeroed in on spiritual connection & relationship with spirits. It's the first time I've offered something so explicitly animist, so explicitly rooted in my work as a spiritworker and it really clarified something for me: I don’t approach tarot as a tarot reader. I approach tarot...

Not into weekly newsletters? You can opt-out of the weekly newsletter without removing yourself from other updates HERE! Hey, Reader! Health is a contentious topic these days. For-profit healthcare is out of reach for many and it often doesn’t meet the needs of those who can access it. A quarter of American are disabled. The ongoing pandemic and the neglect of it by those in power jeopardizes public health. In times like these, what’s a chronically ill witch to do? Something I have been...

Not into weekly newsletters? You can opt-out of the weekly newsletter without removing yourself from other updates HERE! Hey, Reader! Let’s talk about little bit about love today. I originally wrote this email on Leap Day, as we were leaving the month of February. I was thinking about Valentine’s Day and the depths of winter, how Aquarius season is in opposition to Leo season and the height of summer, and how this season might be understood as an antipode of vitality that make’s Valentine’s...

Hey, Reader! Today I wanna talk about The Empress card and a new framework I've been turning over in my head this week. Dionysus is offering me a framework for a genderqueer & liberatory understanding of The Empress that I am finding to be full of potential. And more than this framework being something that I just came up with, it is actually supported by the original mythos. Which I think is cool AS FUCK! (Obviously not that there's anything wrong with personal gnosis! Y'all know I love just...