Archive • Rebel Specters • Buttondown

Before We Come Together, Acknowledging Broken Trust

November 7, 2024

With my work since 2021, I have been saying there is a place for Tarot readers (and astrologers, witches, animists, etc.) on the political left. I have been...

78 Acts of Liberation Release & Tour

August 19, 2024

Today is the last day to pre-order 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World! It’s a Moon day (Monday) and a Full Moon in Aquarius, plus the first...

Books Won't Save Us

Writing and Publishing When the Future is Uncertain (At Best) I’m from a generation that considers a book to be the preservation of something of great value,...

Resisting Digital Gentrification

Following the Met Gala, where the rich and famous paid $75,000 per ticket to see a “Sleeping Beauties” themed museum exhibit and paid unimaginable thousands...

Enjoying (Criticizing) Things

Demand Avoidance, Values, and Pleasure Sometimes I have a hard time knowing whether I dislike something just because I genuinely don’t like it, or because...

Apology for the last newsletter

This is an apology to Black readers of my newsletter for my recent post about Beyoncé. I have removed the blog post and the excerpt text in the caption of...

Leviathan: The Sea-Monster Lurking in the Depths of Our Political Subconscious

Symbols are endlessly fascinating, not least because they are so malleable -- but where we run into trouble is when the symbolic is more “real” to us than...

All Suicides Are Tactical: Alternatives to Self-Harm When There Feels Like No Other Way

February 26, 2024

I have always experienced suicide as a tactical decision, not an uncontrollable moment of passion. Not “temporary insanity.” Perhaps our society would say...

Is There Hope for Humanity?

February 13, 2024

Pluto in Aquarius and the Death of Exceptionalism Aquarius, ruled by disruptive Uranus in modern astrology, is often associated with rebellion on a personal...

Rattling Our Chains:

February 7, 2024

Haunted by a Fear of Freedom “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.” – The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. “’I...