Tarot’s Fool walks in rhythm with the Zodiac, traveling from Aries to Taurus during April. Tarot relies on a compendium of resources that all operate in sync designed to assist us in sorting out our dai...

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The Fool travels deep into the dark forest seeking cover from prying eyes. But how will The Fool communicate while eluding constant internet surveillance? Bogna Konior, author of The Dark Forest Th...

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Pulling the Death card out of a Tarot deck is more than disconcerting; it sets my spidey sense on fire. Saturday morning at five, I pulled card XIII. Not long after, I read that the US had att...

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There’s a quiet myth baked into comedy—and culture more broadly—that great disruptors have to self-immolate at their peak. That burning out is noble. That becoming unbearable is the cost of brilliance. ...

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I just read a substack newsletter that helped me see how different the news feeds are that each of us gets. Here’s a link Because the poster is a member of a 12-step program, she and her partner conc...

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The Aurora Consurgens is the mystical space of magic between the shades that linger between the darkness and the rising sun. Where there is no now. Only a space where the alchemist fashions their soulwor...

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Starting the New Year with a Tarot draw can be fun, exciting, and frightening. Tarot is a many faceted technique: divination, dream work, soul-making, a portal to active imagination, and guidance. If you...

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America is burning with a fever we keep pretending is just a seasonal bug. It’s not. It’s terminal. Violence isn’t an anomaly in this country—it’s the liturgy. Guns are our sacrament. Blood is our offeri...

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For Those Who’ve Left the Church but Still Crave a Benediction Let’s be honest—if most modern worship music makes your soul want to rupture from boredom or burst into flames from its cringey theology, y...

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Across the week, if I draw the same card twice, I pay attention. When I draw it consecutive days; my spidey antennae starts sparking. While the Chariot isn’t a bad card, it does send a direct message: th...

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In our polarized society different sides are getting our information from different sources and they just don’t agree. Plus, the “mainstream media” is declining, and people are starting to not pay atten...

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Tarot has a few cards that are disturbing. Death is one, obviously. The Three of Swords are piercing a heart. There are Ten Swords stuck in the back of someone lying face down. On Monday, I drew the Towe...

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If we’re trying to heal the politics in our country, one of our obstacles is fake news. We disagree about what’s true. As someone I know put it, we used to know it was true if Walter Cronkite said it, n...

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We live in a time where words travel faster than ever. A single statement made on television or online can ripple through society with consequences we can’t always predict—or worse, consequences we can ...

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We need to talk about Charlie Kirk, especially if you’re a Christian. And what I’ve got to say is probably not what you’re expecting. Because this isn’t about defending him. And it’s not about tearing h...

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Once upon a time, we believed in things. We believed in truth. We believed in justice. We believed in heroes—ones who didn’t need branding deals or side hustles to justify their capes. But that world’s ...

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History is dangerous. Not because it tells us where we’ve been, but because it has the audacity to remind us who we really are. That’s why Glenn Beck and PragerU are teaming up to produce their own AP H...

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“Less Prozac, more protein.” That’s the sermon now. Not from a pulpit, but from the stage of the Young Women’s Leadership Summit — a Turning Point USA shindig for trad-curious TikTok evangelicals trying...

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“Flat top intervention / Bringing home the new invention / See it there in pieces on the ground…” The Goo Goo Dolls may not be topping the charts anymore, but “Flat Top” nailed something we still haven’...

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Trigger warning: Sexual assault, sex trafficking When Simon the Pharisee invited Jesus to dine with him in Luke’s gospel the writer tells the reader that a sinful woman showed up unannounced to...

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This week the White House posted a meme with Donald Trump’s head replacing the actor playing Superman in the new film of the same name. The post was altered to read: THE SYMBOL OF HOPE. TRUTH. JUS...

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You won’t find Tupac Shakur in your church’s stained-glass window collection. No halo. No white robes. No sanitized, King James-approved soundbites. He swore too much, smoked too often, and wasn’t inter...

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The Guilt-Tipped Handcuffs of Religious Upbringing Growing up in a religious home means you’re given a roadmap for life—and it usually dead-ends at a church steeple. You’re handed a Bible before you ...

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I think part of the problem in our relationships is that our expectations about relationships may be faulty. We expect there to be no conflict; we want everyone to agree on everything. That’s a fanta...

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A remaster of the 2011 game, “Warhammer 40K: Space Marine” has come out as the “Master Crafted Edition” and while I was playing through it, I kept thinking about the Warhammer fa...

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Early June has been the season for new game reveals for over two decades. After the collapse of E3, Geoff Keighley has taken up the torch with his own show, Summer Games Fest. It’s always been...

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On a sweltering June day in Central California, high schoolers gathered for the California State High School Track and Field Championships. There was laughter, selfies, hugs – just kids being kids...

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Or: How to Stop Doomscrolling and Start Doing Something Useful Welcome to another installment of “Earth is Still on Fire and No One’s in Charge.” Let’s talk survival skills — not the kind that requ...

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When loyalty trumps leadership, the Constitution isn’t far behind. You may have missed it. Between the never-ending election circus and whatever viral outrage the algorithm’s pushing (book bans, drag...

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The conversation around “Clair Obscur” has blown up for bigger reasons than it just being a great game. It’s a great game that harkens back to the golden age of JRPGs in a way that eve...

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A young woman is declared brain dead—but Georgia law refuses to let her rest. Her body remains on life support, not for her, but for the fetus she carries. The Handmaid’s Tale was just a story, right...

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The older that I get the more of a conspiracy theorist I think I am becoming. Whatever could I mean? I am beginning to believe that there is an active conspiracy to exclude Black women from any economic...

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Congratulations, citizen!You’ve just woken up in the soft launch of America’s fascist rebrand—same flag, different flavor. The slogans are still freedom-y, the fonts still patriotic, but the vibe? Oh, t...

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A critical part of growing and learning as humans is distinguishing between our beliefs (what we think), our behaviors (what we do), and our identities (who we are). Making this distinction can keep us ...

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A New Pope Has Been Chosen—And Evangelicals Are Already Big Mad The bells rang out from St. Peter’s Basilica, signaling a moment of transition, of hope, of change. A new pope has been chosen. B...

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As we face an uncertain future in the United States, a recent episode of the Heretic Happy Hour podcast delved into the troubling implications of the incoming administration and how individual...

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