Are We Turning Life into a Moral Competition? Are we projecting our reality onto other peoples lives? I love being woke. I’ve been woke since I started reading. From a young age, I could recognize dysfunction. Maybe that’s a sign of neurodivergence, maybe it’s just curiosity sharpened early, I’m not attached to the label. What mattered was that reading opened my eyes...

When I first discovered the world of the occult; astrology, numerology, witchcraft, symbolism, all the things church folks warn you never to touch, I didn’t feel the wave of darkness or evil engulf me the way I’d been trained to expect. Instead of spirits crawling out of tarot cards or profanities hiding in birth charts, there was… curiosity. Calm, even. It felt almost...