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an @aredotna mood board in honor of eclosion

channel sources: SELF COMPASSION, prayer, Being Human, Gathering Flowers, amor, agency, heavy color, txt, embodiment, weaving, Theory of Play, Somatic ideas, think about it, lifelong earthside trip, map, optimysticism, brain development, love, i want to keep this, life by @moontwerk

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a month ago

I made these art-inspired tarot spreads from last fall to this spring and I just remembered that they exist.

All of the fragments of actual paintings are photos I took at a @gladwellprojects exhibition. All other art is from periodicals and newspapers from the 60s-90s in the Freedom Archives.

#tarotspreads #tarot #abstractart #religiousart #spiritualityofcolor by @moontwerk

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2 months ago

There are so many shades of Black and I’ve lived with many of them. I’ll be posting much more about my experiences with #vitiligo and #colorism and #misogynoir from vastly different perspectives given my unique experiences with changing skin colors.

I’ve lived with vitiligo for 20 years and it’s still a trip. Every day. My skin changes every single day in different places and it’s a truly surreal experience. And my “light skinned” experience isn’t a mixed one or a multiracial one. It’s a Black one. (Though, of course, many mixed and multiracial ones are Black, too!) I’m just making it clear that it’s a unique experience to live so long and have your life shaped by being dark-skinned and unambiguously Black and then suddenly lose your melanin against your will. I’m not alone in this! And still, even amongst Black people with vitiligo our experiences can vary so much based on countless factors. I’m sharing more about mine.

Sometimes people say “you talk about this all the time” or “it’s like this is your whole personality.” Well, it’s a really extreme experience to live through every day in an anti-Black world! Being able to say I LOVE MY SKIN is a big deal. A huge deal. And if you don’t get that, well, whatever. Scroll away. Unfollow. Whatever lol.

Ok! Bye for now 🖤

Text from slides in comments! by @moontwerk

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8 months ago

the makings of holy plumules: these are #poems of mine /inspired by my own poem / an @aredotna channel of mine called “the makings of holy plumules” is where this little play space lives / #fragments / in conversation with myself / looking back at this is in an interesting experience / time travel / #reflecting on how much my relationship to #desire is changing / how my relationship to myself is changing / myself as concept / myself as evolving parts / “my” “self” as a being part of a larger #sharedplanetaryhomebody / breaking down / settling as homecoming / settling in the way volcanic ecosystems become fertile grounds by @moontwerk

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#shadow #play in the #garden with #plantkin and #chalk by @moontwerk

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8 hours ago

The bittersweet pain of longing for and holding and BEING the Motherlands from afar. Plain text that reads: I pray for my relatives descended from displaced and enslaved Indigenous Africans to embrace and honor our complex relationships to sacred Lands that our ancestors stewarded on Turtle Island. We exist beyond the settler-Native binary on these stolen Lands and our Indigeneity looks, feels, and manifests differently than our Turtle Island kin. May we remember our power. May we (re)claim our magic. May we listen for and feel the boundless wisdom of our unique histories. by @moontwerk

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Thankful I woke up today. Plain text on black background that reads:

Guiding Promise-Wishes for Grounding
Jesi V. Rocki Taylor

May I speak ceremony
May I move with the will of my prayers
May I be a portal for gratitude
May I live as a conduit of compassion
May I witness boundless realities
May I feel our interconnection perpetually
May I meet uncertainty with presence
May I respond to stress with gentleness
May I honor the sacredness of all breathing
May I infuse my actions with my values
May I transform anger into purposeful action
May I surrender any need to control outcomes
May I lovingly rewrite harmful self-narratives
May I softly unfurl into uncertainty by @moontwerk

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3 days ago

hard posting for the people in the back 📌

im not suggesting everyone in the world should join us over here at @khalilfriends

as a matter of fact i think it's best for people in general to organize with people they know and trust, form close tight knit affinity groups with your friends. not based solely on political ideology, or even physical proximity

i naturally came to be in a part of khalilsfriends after going through my own bouts of bullshit emotional manipulation in 2018, and overall disillusionment with nyc organizing (the nail in the coffin for me was summer of 2020, iykyk).

for a long time i felt ostracized, but still yearning for a place to direct my energy and make a real difference. eventually i found people who felt the same way i did, we found affinity based on a shared set of skills, values and desires that just happened to work well together. needless to say its been a learning experience for me and i wouldn't be the bad bitch i am today had this not happened, in fact the bad bitch was already in me and just waiting to make her debut 💅🏽

this is a whole ass coven, apothecary, mixing studio and support group for tired angry forlon moms punks queers and femmes just as much as it is a mutual aid collective for our dear friend khalil 🖤

khalilsfriends is always here if you're looking for that kind of place, either to take part in, support or simply take inspiration from: on what solidarity can look like without masters, when you take matters into your own hands guided by ancestral divination, alchemy and pure will power 🪄 by @moontwerk

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3 days ago

#alive by @moontwerk

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4 days ago

Please excuse the tired mom aesthetic 😅 but it is #indigenouspeoplesday and I’ve spent all day out in the sun with my kiddo ☀️

Just wanted to update y’all about some upcoming ceremonies and gatherings, starting with:

👻🌱Sunday OCT 25 at 1pm - Our second annual Ghostoria Park Plant Walk & Altar Build! Join us for a spooky haunted plant walk and learn the colonial history - and history of resistance - of Astoria Park, led by @doll.herbalism! After we walk, we’ll build an altar together, sing to Aymara resistance fighter and martyr Bartolina Sisa, and drink warm spiced chicha morada together. Suggested donation $45, with $25-$75 sliding scale.

❤️‍🔥🫂Monday OCT 26 at 6pm-7:30 EST - Our first Khalil’s Friends Community Mental Health Virtual Meet Up for WhatsApp from members. We’ll discuss themes of grief and gratitude while living through polycrisis, channeling sacred rage into solidarity and movement work, and how to shake off despair and learned helplessness to keep showing up for our people. It’s $20-$50 to join the WhatsApp community group, which offers monthly mental health check ins like this. If the date/time doesn’t work for you, considering sending a donation anyway, and I’ll send you a personalized spiritual self-care care package with items from our Sweets & Spells apothecary. Space is limited; Venmo @janisxluna with your donation and “10/26 donation for Khalil” in the note.

💃✨Sunday NOV 1 Calling All Souls - @moontwerk and @janisxluna will be hosting our second Tea Ceremony & Movement Salon at @luxuriatelab. Since we land so close to Halloween/Day of the Dead/All Soul’s Day, the theme of November’s salon is ancestral veneration. Build an altar with us, and bring a photo of an ancestor and an offering. We’ll be serving herbal teas that support dream work, getting to know plants that help us connect to our ancestors, engaging in a communal guided meditation, and then dancing before the altar as an offering of sensuous aliveness to ask for the blessing of those who have passed on.

As always, 100% of what we raise from our ceremonies and gatherings is donated to the Zeyaras’ survival fund. We hope y by @moontwerk

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4 days ago

I made this under the #newmoon and it’s inspired by a session with my new therapist (who I met with during the new moon) and a week of immersing myself in Vedanā studies for one of my #seminary courses.

The #embroidery binding is #imperfect and cute, like me.

I loved cutting the fabric and the meditative experience of switching ink pads and cleaning the stamps between each letter.

These affirmations and reminders are so inspiring and grounding for. Maybe they’ll be helpful for you in some way, too. by @moontwerk

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6 days ago

here’s a mood board for how this new moon has me feeling.

@aredotna channel sources: words, softgraphs, home, sometimes i am soft, a tender love letter, to be alone with you, friendship, questions to ask on a first date, higher path lower path, absurdism, idk, transforming trauma, mood, let there be, practice, yes, the body as ear, are we in love?, creative directions, moon by @moontwerk

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