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Listening Between Leaves

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September 15, 2025
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“My nature journal is scratch paper for my conversations with nature,” Melinda Nakagawa told me, as if this were the most ordinary thing in the world. Not a leather-bound keepsake, not a portfolio of botanical prints—scratch paper. It’s the page you do the math on before you write the answer, the place where the crossed-out lines and the wrong turns
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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 the diverse perspectives that makes up our unique town. We thought it deserved a paper—grassroots, and stitched together from community voices and unique interests that highlight

The Spirit of Absinthe

October 30, 2025
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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 de siècle (end of the 19th century), that was absinthe, my favorite spirit! This infamous green elixir was hisotrically beloved by poets and painters, feared by
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Talya Alsberg

October 30, 2025
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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 the path of a creator and innovator was a given. She describes her upbringing as “international.” A way a being that has inspired a life without
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Día De Los Muertos

October 29, 2025
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Each autumn, communities across Mexico, California, and all over the world, turn their attention to the dead. Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, is not a single ritual but a network of gestures: an arrangement of flowers, food set out for loved ones, smoke rising from resinous
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Ghosts in the Machine

September 15, 2025
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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 flesh but of intention, sustained by focus, belief, and ritual. In an era when artificial intelligence has begun to edge into the texture of daily life,
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