by Arden Leigh | Feb 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
It turns out leading with nervous system regulation is especially difficult when you’re repatterning a fawn response and the person your body wants to fawn to is dysregulated. Your body will have you convinced that the best thing to do is to match their energy and let...
by Arden Leigh | Feb 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’m glad to say there are more people in my networks defending Madonna than shaming her, and I stand with them in that I feel it’s insipid and inappropriate to blast a woman for exercising autonomy over her looks and essentially engaging a coping mechanism in an...
by Arden Leigh | Feb 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Throughout my life I have relied on a sense of being understood to feel safe. It’s served me well – it’s given me a capacity for breaking down and understanding things and explaining them to others in ways they are likely to grok, even when I’m under immense...
by Arden Leigh | Dec 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
It was Soren Kierkegaard who said, “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” The power of hindsight is incredible. Only then it seems can we reflect on the choices we made, realizing where and when we made a wrong (or right)...
by Arden Leigh | Dec 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
In 2017 in the midst of what I would later come to know as my repatterning journey, I did ten ayahuasca ceremonies in the space of five months. The shaman facilitating knew I was a singer and had asked me to sing during that first weekend, and I’d agreed. I even...
by Arden Leigh | Oct 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Can you make a hypersigil by accident? In this video I talk about noticing when my songs are coming true even when I’ve written them as fictional creations without specific magickal intent – and I get the opinions of seasoned magicians like Grant Morrison,...
by Arden Leigh | Sep 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
The world is constantly evolving, ever-emergent. I used to feel like I couldn’t keep up on the hamster wheel, like nothing I created made it far enough or withstood the test of time to keep me afloat beyond a few months to a year. Then I started feeling like I had to...
by Arden Leigh | Sep 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Every so often in magick or spirituality communities I’ll hear a person say something about “most people they encounter being NPCs” (non-playable characters). I assume that for them, saying this confers them a sense of superiority over others, whom they presume are...
by Arden Leigh | Sep 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
The more powerful we become, the greater our need for ethics. And the more we work on our ethics, the more we integrate our shadow, and the more powerful we become, meaning we need to do this work again every time we level up. Many folks these days are taking a fast...
by Arden Leigh | Sep 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
A couple things have shifted in my relationship to magick recently in ways I am still learning to navigate. Oftentimes I observe something we tend to do when we’re on a rapid growth path, which is that in the effort not to rest on our laurels, we take for granted how...
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