✨ Winter Solstice Blessings ✨ Tomorrow night marks the longest night of the year, the perfect pause to rest, reflect, and welcome the slow return of light. In my latest blog, I dive deep into the history of Yule, explore solstice traditions from around the world like Yalda, and share ways both witches and muggles can honour this sacred time. Plus, there’s an art journal prompt and a simple DIY oracle card spread to help you connect with the season’s energy. So grab a cuppa or maybe a mulled wine, light your candles, and join me in marking this magical turning of the wheel. The next chapter of my Monthly Musings Journal comes out next week and don’t forget to check Facebook for the next Cycles of Craft update for Solstice and Cancer Season. Link in bio 🔗

A new era for my blog writing. Working on the Special Edition Blog for the Winter Solstice. Keep an eye out for it later today.

✨ Witchy Little Things: The Dreaming Threshold ✨ Dreams are threshold places, soft, liminal spaces where waking meets the unseen. They’re not just stories our minds tell while we sleep, they’re messages, symbols, echoes of something deeper. When I feel out of step with my creative rhythm, I don’t push. I pause. I rest with intention and let my dreams hold the thread. Sometimes I tuck a crystal under my pillow. Sometimes I whisper a question into the dark. And in the morning, I write down whatever lingers, a colour, a feeling, a flicker of something just out of reach. It’s not about decoding or making sense. It’s about honouring the quiet places where wisdom lives. Dreams remind us that our inner worlds are always moving, even when we feel still. 💫 Witch Tip: Try placing a small crystal, charm, or sigil near your bed tonight. Before sleep, set an intention, an invitation to the dreaming space. In the morning, gently jot down what arrived. Let it speak to you in its own time. ✨ A note on the imagery: As a disabled artist, I use AI-generated images to help bring my vision to life when creating or photographing my own work isn’t physically possible. It’s one of the tools I use to make my practice more accessible, turning limitations into creative magic.

✨ Not All That Glitters… ✨ We’re surrounded by signs and symbols, blue ticks, clean aesthetics, curated vulnerability that whisper “this is what success looks like,” or “this is what safety feels like.” But not everything is what it seems. 🔹 The blue tick on Instagram? Once a marker of authenticity, now just a paid subscription. It won’t stop you from being hacked. It doesn’t make your work more worthy. 🔹 The “clean girl” aesthetic? Marketed as natural and effortless, but rooted in privilege, money, and hours of unseen labour. 🔹 Manifestation content? Sometimes it skips over systemic barriers and sells magical thinking as personal failure. 🔹 Mass-mined crystals? Marketed as healing tools, yet often sourced in ways that harm the earth and exploit children for labour. 🔹 Wellness trends? Packaged as self-care, but sold at a premium, when what many of us need is affordable housing, time to rest, and access to care. 🔹 “Authenticity” online? Often a performance crafted for algorithms, even when it feels real. 🔹 Tokenistic accessibility? Like a ramp with nowhere to go. An accessible toilet that’s blocked with chairs or a checkbox that forgets lived experience. 🔹 Body-positive campaigns? That still leave disabled, curvy, older, or trans bodies out of the picture. These things aren’t evil, but they are illusions, and illusions have power when we mistake them for truth. As an artist and a witch, I’ve learned to look deeper. To trust the felt over the flashy. To remember that real protection comes from grounding, boundaries, and being aware, not a blue badge or an algorithm boost. Not all protection spells are wrapped in incense. Some are in your password settings, your discernment, and your choice to walk away from the illusion. ✨ Real magic is in meaning, not marketing. ✨ Real safety is in awareness, not aesthetic. ✨ Real power is knowing the difference. Stay grounded. Stay awake. Look twice.

✨ Witchy Little Things: Rest as Ritual, Rest as Resistance ✨ What if rest wasn’t something you earned, but something you honoured? Not a reward, but a rite. A sacred act. A spell of softness in a world that worships exhaustion. Rest is ritual. Lighting a candle and curling up with tea. Letting your body follow its own rhythm. Saying no when your soul whispers for stillness. These are all spells, quiet ones, tender ones, that say: I choose to care for myself. For those of us who live in bodies that ache, who navigate chronic illness, disability, or burnout, rest isn’t a luxury. It’s lifeblood. And it’s powerful. Because in a culture that constantly pushes us to produce, choosing to rest is radical. Rest becomes resistance. A refusal to be consumed. I’ve been in a season of enforced slowing, not by choice, but by necessity. And yet in that stillness, I’ve found unexpected magic. The kind that only rises when we stop running. The kind that whispers through warm cups of tea, through long naps and unread books, through simply being. 🕯 Art Witch Tip: Try building a small ritual around your rest. Wrap yourself in a blanket like it’s a cloak of protection. Infuse your tea with a whispered intention. Let your journal hold your fatigue with gentleness. Rest doesn’t have to be passive, it can be deeply intentional. This season, I’m not pushing. I’m listening. To my body. To the earth. To the pauses between things. Because that’s where the magic lives. 📷 Image created with AI — I sometimes use these tools to support my creative practice due to the physical limitations of my disability. It’s one of the ways I stay connected to visual storytelling when I can’t always create by hand.

🌕 Full Moon in Sagittarius | June 11, 5:43pm AEST 🔥 Firelight in the dark season 🔥 This full moon invites bold release, truth-telling, and a reclaiming of your inner compass. It’s a powerful moment to let go of old beliefs and step into a deeper truth, especially as Jupiter shifts from quick-thinking Gemini into emotional, moon-ruled Cancer. ✨ What are you ready to release? ✨ What truth feels freeing, wild, and yours? I’ve shared a full Cycles of Craft deep dive over on my Facebook page, including a DIY oracle spread + journal prompt to guide your ritual. Come have a read 💫 📷 Image created with AI — I sometimes use these tools to support my creative practice due to the physical limitations of my disability. It’s one of the ways I stay connected to visual storytelling when I can’t always create by hand.

✨ Jupiter in Cancer | Cycles of Craft ✨ June 9 – June 30 Big shift incoming, and it’s got that deep nesting, soul-tending, heart-rooted vibe. Jupiter, planet of growth + expansion, is moving into the watery sign of Cancer, and this one hits home. Literally. Here’s what’s stirring under this transit: • Inner expansion through care, comfort + intuition • A pull toward ancestry, memory + emotional truth • Nesting energy: home updates, altars, sacred corners • Creating space that feels like safety + belonging • Softening the hustle — growing gently, from the roots up For me? Perfect timing. I’m moving into my new forever home this weekend, a space that will hold my studio, my rituals, and my rest. Couldn’t be more aligned with this cosmic shift. ✨ Want the full astrology download? I’ve shared a deep-dive over on Facebook @ Ange’s Studio — link in bio 🔗 🖼️ A note on imagery: Some images I use are AI-generated. As a disabled artist, these tools help me bring my visual ideas to life when pain or access makes it hard to create by hand. They’re still part of my magic, just conjured a little differently. With love from the threshold.