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Recommended by Xenia Marie Ross Viray

Writing for poets who drive mail trucks. Saints who wear high heels. Train hoppers on their way to the action. Joke tellers, dreamers, & generous hearts. For writers who put their own flaws in the text. God in the window. Shadows that speak.

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

Human Stuff

By Lisa Olivera

A newsletter that explores the spiral of aliveness: the aches, the joys, and the liminal, from a therapist/writer/human.

Get At The Root

By Sanyu Estelle

An etymological, sociological, socio-cultural and philological deep dive into words, what they mean, what they meant and how we choose to use them.

an original thinker with an innovative form of curiosity.

- Xenia Marie Ross Viray

Do Good Biz

By Natalie Brite

Dispatches from the studio woods. Field notes on creativity, ecosystems, and doing work rooted in care. For conscious leaders, makers, and practitioners who know their work is more than a brand. By Natalie Brite (they/them), founder of DoGoodBiz Studio

A generous, practical, nuanced conversation about business from someone with experience and heart.

- Xenia Marie Ross Viray

Mutable Musings

By Rose Blakelock

Astrological Memoir, Forecasts, Horoscopes, and More from Rose Blakelock (aka @mutable_cross)

the writing is gorgeous, the astro is precise.

- Xenia Marie Ross Viray

Maquette

By Allison Strickland

Honoring the holy, human, beauty, and mess. A space to deepen devotion and inner knowing to make life art. I share inside my practice, philosophies, and create talismanic paintings.

poetic realism with wiggle room for magic.

- Xenia Marie Ross Viray

My Brainiac Amor

By Kathe Izzo

An unfiltered, all inclusive exploration of love, particularly love that is profound but fleeting, perhaps inappropriate or never realized ⚓ "I put my hand inside his cranium, oh we had such a brainiac-amour/ But no more, no more" Land, Patti Smith

UPROOTED

By green dreamer kaméa

exploring the socio-ecological-cultural crises of our time through heart-centered reflections, critical inquiry, and expansive conversations

Word Witch

By Kate Belew

Join me (Kate Belew) for weekly rituals, musings, and prompts for the Word Witches, spell casters of language, and creative magic makers. Here, you'll learn how to call upon and cultivate the creative magic within you.

Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter

Horoscopes, tender rants, and lyrical excitements

RE: (REGARDING)

By SIRAH M.

notes from the unseen realm. exploring where spirit meets matter through creativity. plus, resources, strategies and tools for accessing creativity and translating visions into form.

a gentle genius

- Xenia Marie Ross Viray

Words, As Fruit.

By Eniafe Isis (Words

a harvesting of reflections, thoughts and healings, from writer Ẹniafẹ isis.