REAL STORIES | E. Katherine Bates and the World She Could Not See
In Seen and Unseen, E. Katherine Bates recorded a world of séances, prophetic dreams, psychic phenomena and encounters she believed suggested something existed beyond ordinary perception.
REAL STORIES | Julian of Norwich and the Sixteen Visions That Changed Her Life
In 1373, Julian of Norwich believed she was dying when she experienced sixteen extraordinary visions. Her account of divine love, sacred motherhood and the unseen became one of history’s most enduring records of female mysticism.
“Summer” by Edith Wharton
Originally published in 1917, Summer is Edith Wharton's only novel centered on the emotional awakening of a young woman. In this featured excerpt, readers are invited into a timeless story of longing, identity, freedom, and the quiet courage it takes to become oneself.
Why Women Need Celebration More Than Self-Improvement
For generations, women have been told there is always another version of themselves waiting to be achieved. As June and the Summer Solstice approach, perhaps the greater lesson is not self-improvement, but self-recognition. A reflection on celebration, femininity, and the ancient wisdom of honoring who we already are.
When the Body Starts Screaming: May, Beltane, and the Female Cost of Ignored Pain
For centuries women have been taught to distrust this connection. Female discomfort has long been trivialized, romanticized, or pathologized. A woman in pain was dramatic. A woman emotionally perceptive was unstable. A woman highly sensitive to her environment was irrational. A woman whose body reacted visibly to stress was hysterical. We know the historical language well because women who listened too closely - to cycles, herbs, dreams, blood, intuition, weather, and the unseen shifts in atmosphere - were often the women pushed to the margins and called witches. Photo by Leo Gilmant
The Woman Who Followed the Sound: An April Folk Story of the Green World
This piece (written by editor-in-chief, Epifania Arriagada) draws from early Celtic folklore and seasonal traditions surrounding Beltane, a time when the boundary between worlds was believed to thin and the earth itself became more perceptible to those attuned to it. Through the story of a woman who follows an unseen call beyond her village, it explores transformation not as spectacle, but as a quiet shift in perception, presence, and relationship to the living world. Rooted in historical belief and oral tradition, the narrative reflects on spring as a moment of initiation, where the body remembers what the mind has yet to understand.
Behind my eye, there is a hidden universe. A place where light folds in on itself like silk. It’s a kind of velvet void, ancient and sentient. It hums with the songs of all things unseen. I used to think half of me had gone missing—but no, half of me simply went elsewhere. That part of me began listening instead of looking. Feeling instead of chasing. Knowing instead of seeing.
They call it blindness. I call it witchcraft.
Zora Neale Hurston and the Magic of Folklore: The Woman Who Preserved Hoodoo Traditions
Long before spiritual traditions like rootwork, hoodoo, and ancestral folk practices were discussed openly in books or academic spaces, one woman was quietly documenting them with care and respect. While much of the world dismissed these traditions as superstition, she recognized them as something else entirely: cultural knowledge.
The Woman Who Figured Out the Secret to Immortality
Explore how writer Joyce Carol Oates reveals a different kind of immortality through storytelling, legacy, and the enduring power of literature.
Behind My Eye: A Spell for the Half-Light
I have never truly spoken about what it’s like to be legally blind. Maybe because language feels too small to carry it. It’s not just about sight; it’s about initiation. One day, you wake up inside a dimming world, and it feels like being sealed in a dark room where the walls breathe and the light switch refuses to exist. You wait for the return of what was lost, until you realize-
the darkness isn’t punishment.
It’s a portal.
When Love Demands Too Much: The Grief I Buried Beneath His
What happens when you’re left to grieve not only the person,
but the weight of carrying everything they could not?
Today began in light, but it ended in shadow.
Facebook — that tireless archivist of memory — unearthed ghosts I had tried to lay to rest.
A photograph of him appeared, then a reminder of his late mother.
Her words to me surfaced, like spirits rising through water.
When the Walls Come Down
There is a strange magic in the moment before collapse.
Everyone else runs when the old towers begin to sway.
But some of us — the ones with ash on our hands and fire in our veins — stay.
We do not run from the dust; we inhale it. We let it mark us.
We hold up our hands like lanterns, we press record, we take pictures. We witness.
"The Truth About Empaths No One Talks About (From Empath Diaries)
The strongest and most talented empaths, on the contrary, grew up in narcissistic families where they were underestimated, their abilities devalued, where they were not heard, silenced and where no one understood them.
Article written by © yourrrr_soul Photo by Hasnain Babar
Real Life Integration: The Everyday Witch
There is a truth many of us avoid saying out loud.
We are all witches in one way or another.
Some of us live fully in the craft with candles, herbs, sigils, covens, moon charts, and altar rooms that look like museums of inherited magic. Some of us are wild witches who practice in the quiet and the unseen. And many of us fall somewhere along that spectrum, moving back and forth depending on the season of our lives.
When You’re a Girl on a Twin Flame Journey
“Twin flames aren’t just a fairy tale. For a girl on this journey, pain is real, invisible battles are constant, and the ultimate lesson is learning to love yourself.”
Self-love is the magic that heals the deepest wounds.
Do You Know What It Means to Be a Girl on a Twin Flame Journey?
I Picked Him Up Today…
I picked him up today. I didn’t think it would hit me so hard. The drive there felt ordinary: red lights, traffic, even passing his old apartment. It was more sad than gut-wrenching. But when I pulled in, I froze. I couldn’t go inside. I didn’t want to see the tchotchkes. I didn’t want to see the cards. And I absolutely didn’t want him in my car. Not because I didn’t want to be with him, but because I did.
‘Mercy’ by Stephanie Alvarez
Stephanie Alvarez is a poet whose work dwells in the borderlands of grief, transformation, and desire. Her writing does not shy away from darkness—instead, it inhabits it fully, letting readers witness how pain splinters and reshapes the soul. What sets her apart is the way she threads resilience through despair, allowing even the heaviest words to carry a strange and haunting beauty.
The Petal’s Guidance
Kat Robinson is a writer, photographer, and model based out of Phoenix, Arizona. Her writing explores the quiet resilience of nature, feminine transformation, and the art of blooming through adversity. Whether behind the lens or on the page, she captures the beauty of becoming.