The Spirit of Absinthe
Every era seems to produce a drink that’s more than a drink, an object of myth, a mirror for its age. For the fin
Talya Alsberg
New York-based tattoo artist, Talya Alsberg was just thirteen when she first considered tattooing as a profession. Her mother is an artist, so walking
Día De Los Muertos
Each autumn, communities across Mexico, California, and all over the world, turn their attention to the dead. Día de los Muertos or Day of
Ghosts in the Machine
Energetic constructs—servitors, thought-forms, egregores, tulpas—occupy a peculiar corner of the esoteric imagination. They are at once ancient and strangely modern: entities made not of
Whimsical Wonders: Lunar-Ticks
In an age when our phones tell us the exact millisecond in fourteen time zones and announce the next full moon before we’ve even
Hearing Spirits and Letting Go with Sound Healer Valianna
ValiAnna Divinee (dev-oh-nay) of Monterey helps people open up to their own hearts and souls and “to the magnificence of being a being” using
Turning of the Wheel
“I’ve been celebrating May Day with my mom since I was born,” remembered Julia, a local ecstatic dancer who describes herself as a “Joyful
Our First Print Issue of Monthly Mystic
Every town has its hidden language. Here in Monterey, it might be the way the fog rolls in, the hush of tide pools, or
Listening Between Leaves
“My nature journal is scratch paper for my conversations with nature,” Melinda Nakagawa told me, as if this were the most ordinary thing in
Horoscopes | April 20th-May 20th
This Taurus season brings a blend of grounding energies and emotional intensity. With the Sun squaring Mars in Leo and Pluto in Aquarius, expect
