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Full moon through trees.

Full moon blessings.

Dehumanization is always the first step to oppression.

Queue union organizer Ai-Jen Poo.

The game's afoot and Klaus and Marsha are back with another cozy mystery filled with more color than a drag queen's makeup box!
Check out the latest Pride Street cozy corgi mystery on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tho...

#booksky 📚💙 #lgbtq

War is Nothing But War I have nothing To say About war… (Drones fly) Except it is always Most devastating To those (Bombs shriek) Simply trying To live. It is always Most profitable To those (Tanks roll) With the least To lose.

Reprise of a poem I wrote 4 years ago:

I have nothing
To say
About war…
(Drones fly)
Except it is always
Most devastating
To those
(Bombs shriek)
Simply trying
To live…

two corgi dogs are running on a treadmill . Alt: two corgi dogs are running on a treadmill .

The corgis are coming!

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A Camellia flower fallen on a sidewalk.

“Listening enriches life. Noticing helps ground us in place. De-centering ourselves for a moment deepens our connections.”

My latest newsletter is on the practice of listening: thorncoyle.kit.com/posts/and-so...

As you prepare your breakfast, think of others (do not forget the pigeon’s food). As you conduct your wars, think of others (do not forget those who seek peace). As you pay your water bill, think of others (those who are nursed by clouds). As you return home, to your home, think of others (do not forget the people of the camps). As you sleep and count the stars, think of others (those who have nowhere to sleep). As you liberate yourself in metaphor, think of others (those who have lost the right to speak). As you think of others far away, think of yourself (say: “If only I were a candle in the dark”). Poem set over an image of hands cupping a candle — Mahmoud Darwish

As you prepare your breakfast, think of others
(do not forget the pigeon’s food).
As you conduct your wars, think of others
(do not forget those who seek peace).

— Mahmoud Darwish

#poetry

Waxing gibbous moon in day sky.

Hello, friend!

#moon

Nurul Amin Shah Alam should be alive today.

Malcolm X in suit, tie, and glasses, seated and relaxed, gesturing in conversation. Quote text: “I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation.” — el Hajj Malik el-Shabazz / Malcolm X

“I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation.”

— el Hajj Malik el-Shabazz / Malcolm X

#BlackHistoryMonth

I was just alerted to this group in Kansas that could use donations: lgbtqks.org/donate/

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.

They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

GO DONATE.

tcpipeline.org

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

A rose hip with green leaves growing out of a chain link fence

We will tear down your cages until all whom we love are free.

#photography

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks.

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The You Are the Spell Oracle Card this week is the Two of Bees:

Protect your light, but shine on anyway.

I don’t really follow awards, but Sinners is such a rich, astonishingly gorgeous film. It deserves all the awards: acting, directing, set design, music, cinematography…

Looking down from an airplane on snow capped mountains, land, clouds, a stripe of sunset.

Yesterday’s view:

A continent.
No strife,
Just land being land
Mountains being mountains
Clouds being clouds
Sky being sky.

A book page starting “I am magic…” talking about the magic of creativity.

“I am magic.”

My latest newsletter is about the power of magical connections: thorncoyle.kit.com/posts/though...

Digital collage. Old photo of Dubois, a thin, dapper Black man in suit and bow tie. Quote text reads: “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” — W.E.B. Dubois

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
— W.E.B. Dubois

It’s my favorite magical conference (that’s held indoors).

Freya!

A hotel coffee table with a statue, a stone, a rune bag and other small objects.

Hotel altars…

digital collage: Fannie Lou Hamer, a Black woman in 1960s dress and hair, speaking on bullhorn microphone. Quote text overlaid. Color and pattern all around.

"There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people."

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Black boots with orange soles standing on the distinctive Portland airport carpet.

Off to meet up with a host of magical people at the Sacred Space/ Between the Worlds conference!

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I was a library kid, and am now a library adult. Libraries help strengthen communities.

And as an author, I’m thrilled when people request my books at their library. Shout out to @multcolib.bsky.social whose librarians have championed my Pride Street series.

A simple, small painting of a poppy flower on a piece of white painted wood, nailed high up on a utility pole.

This is your sign that random acts of human creativity still matter.

Cover of a black book with magical symbols on it, titled Evolutionary Witchcraft by T. Thorn Coyle

Cover of a black book with magical symbols on it, titled Stars of Power by T. Thorn Coyle

Just received the new, revised edition of @thorncoyle.bsky.social ’s Evolutionary Witchcraft, as well as the brand-new Stars of Power. I read EW during my hiatus from magic in the early 2000’s, and look forward to diving back in.