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Welcome! I’m Kayla. My purpose and my passion in life is to serve the world through magic, creativity, ritual and enchantment.

“My heart is afraid it will have to suffer,” s

“My heart is afraid it will have to suffer,” said the boy.

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams because every second of the search is an encounter with God.

When I have been truly searching for my treasure every hour has been luminous because every hour has been a part of the dream. When I have been truly searching for my treasure I discover things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible to achieve.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits them. Unfortunately very few follow the path laid out for them. They just go along and see the world as a threatening place, and because they do, the world does indeed turn out to be a threatening place. We, their hearts, speak more and more softly for we don’t want people to suffer because they don’t follow their hearts.”

“Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams?” asked the boy.

“Because that’s what makes hearts suffer most, and hearts don’t like to suffer.”

“What you still need to know is this: Before a dream is realized, the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. That’s the point, as we say in the desert, that one dies of thirst just as the palm trees have appeared on the horizon. Every search begins with beginner’s luck and ends with being severely tested. The darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”

- From The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Images 1-6: Me
Image 7: Phoenix, unknown
Image 8: Johfra Bosschart, The Vision of Hermes Trismegistus (1972)

“Your vision will become clear only when you can

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung

#eyeofhorus #horus

“We are will and wonder Bound to recall, remembe

“We are will and wonder
Bound to recall, remember
We are born of one breath, one word
We are all one spark, sun becoming” - @toolmusic
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#AnotherworldOctober Days 5 & 6- Words and Tools (and some Tool ;)

#AnotherWorldOctober Day 4: Door/Dwelling/Portal

#AnotherWorldOctober Day 4: Door/Dwelling/Portal

~The Japanese Torii~ ⛩

The torii is a gate that stands at the entrance to the sacred space around a Japanese Shinto shrine. The torii signals that you are about to transition from the mundane world to the sacred. When passing through the gate, it is customary to walk on either side, as the center is reserved for the kami, or the gods, to pass through. It is also common to bow before and after passing through the gate.

Day 3: Favorite films of the season: 🧛🏻 Int

Day 3: Favorite films of the season:

🧛🏻 Interview with the Vampire
🕯 Practical Magic
🔮 The Craft
🎃 Hocus Pocus
👻 Beetlejuice
💀 Nightmare Before Christmas

#AnotherworldOctober #interviewwiththevampire

Day 2 of #AnotherWorldOctober: Vintage Halloween

Day 2 of #AnotherWorldOctober: Vintage Halloween

Today’s post highlights what some consider the original science fiction novelist, Mary Shelley, author of the gothic horror novel Frankenstein. Frankenstein—more specifically, the monster—has always tugged at the tendrils of my heart, for its universal themes of alienation, otherness, prejudice, and the existential nature of life and death.

My favorite, memorable representations of the monster are:
- (slide 2) the 1931 & 1935 films starring Boris Karloff as the monster (Frankenstein & Bride of Frankenstein) and
- (slide 3) the incredibly heart-wrenching performance by Rory Kinnear, who plays the creature in one of my favorite TV shows, Penny Dreadful.

I admire Mary’s ability to transform her personal pain of tragedy, heartbreak, and loss—the loss of her mother when she was a baby, a painful relationship with her stepmother, and debilitating anxiety and depression—into a story that has inspired generations, serving as a touchstone for those who have been similarly ‘othered’.

Mary continued to endure tragedy after Frankenstein’s publication in 1818, when she was only 20 years old. Her husband, Percy Shelley drowned when she was 24. And only one of her five children lived to adulthood.

Yet, she continued to write, going on to complete six more novels, essays and other works.

Mary turned lead into metaphorical gold, the alchemy of which still remains, over two centuries later.

That’s what meaningful art does—it captivates the senses and remains in our hearts & minds long after our first encounter.

#VintageHalloween #FrankensteinsMonster #MaryShelley #Frankenstein

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