#Decklust | Witchy wonderfulness for deep winter

Hey you.

It’s winter alright. December, mis Rhagfyr in Welsh, has landed with vibrant frosty mornings and a hotter, woolier scarf. A cathartic sobbing sing, a bundled-up seashore picnic, an outpouring of grief, flashes of sunshine that reduce to the center in the easiest manner.

Tremendous particular presents

Wish to ship a extremely particular present to a extremely particular individual? For those who’ve purchased from LRT earlier than you’ll know we wrap your goodies fantastically in tissue and brown paper, and embody postcards, tarot playing cards and different cute additions – to not point out the perennial coronary heart stickers. We love hand-writing your private notecards, too!

There’s no additional cost for gifting – simply depart a be aware at checkout in the event you’f like us to incorporate a card, and we’ll make it tremendous particular and ship it direct to the one you love 🙂

* WHAT’S NEW *

Motherwitch

Oh my. Flying our manner nonetheless sizzling from the press comes Natasha Khan (aka Bat For Lashes)’s attractive oracle, suffused with the vitality of the darkish female, the divine hag, the artistic power deep inside you. (I’m additionally having fun with the 70s vibes.) Can’t wait to snuggle up with this deck and a pot of mugwort tea. Accessible to order now – delivery subsequent week as quickly as they land.

Many Moons Lunar Planners

As all the time these have flown out, however we nonetheless have a handful left in inventory! Many Moons is an expensive, chunky diary-come-astro-almanac crammed with rituals and reflections from a various collective of rad witches, with loads of house in your personal planning, dreaming and reflecting.

Future Ancestor Tarot

Alexa Villanueva’s lovely tarot is sort of monochrome…save for the true foliage, labored subtly into these pictures painted in sumi ink. A really, very particular deck.

“Slowly, I observed the extra I painted, the lighter the burden of grief felt with every stroke. On my piece of paper, the form of a praying girl started to kind. In entrance of her, a small grave. However I knew one thing was lacking… one thing that resembled life. … I went exterior, discovered a stem with two leaves, and knew immediately that this was the lacking piece.”

Goodbye, Hele!

I really can’t imagine I’m scripting this and I’m undecided what to say. After six (SIX!!) years, LRT’s beloved assistant Hele, aka Finest Store Particular person Eva, is shifting on. It’s proper for her, it’s proper for me, and so it have to be – however that doesn’t make it simple. As you’ll know in the event you’ve ever emailed with a query or concern – Hele is the very best.

She’s shared a message to you all here – do take a learn ?

Goodbye*, beloved Hele! Thanks from the underside of my coronary heart for six years of large LOLs, box-shuffling, tech-wrangling and actual, true witnessing and help within the crucible that’s creating and working a small enterprise. I really like you.

* Hele is my closest pal, my neighbour and my fam! So for me, not a lot a goodbye as the tip of a beautiful period.

Bits & Bobs

• The Last Fool is a tarot-themed movie by Ernest Anenome, for use in dialogues countering the rise of far-right extremism and hate. It’s crowdfunding now!
• The Game of Life… but make it Queer.
• Impressed to write down your personal private essays? Mar Grace has a class for that, beginning very quickly. Speaking of non-public essays, here’s one I love, by my outdated pal Rudy J Graves.
• Charlie Burgess has simply began Queerly Devoted, a e-newsletter exploring devotion to queerness.
• For those who’re an skilled facilitator focused on non-canonical, feminist efficiency/artwork, take a look at the School of Disobedience.
• ‘Tis the time of yr to look at Sorry We Missed You and remind your self of every thing that’s fallacious with the gig economic system. There’s no such factor as free delivery, pals! Somebody is all the time paying.

Free Palestine! ??

A ceasefire can’t finish the heartbreak, it gained’t finish the insufferable lack of Palestinian and Jewish lives. The genocide we’re witnessing is rooted in decades old, British-initiated occupation and the false narrative that for Israelis to be protected, Palestinians have to be unsafe.

Some sources:

Right here is my Offended Excessive Priestess. Typically all of the grief and rage appears like an excessive amount of to bear – the grief and rage of our divided world, the grief and rage I carry in my very own physique. Is grief and rage the brand new regular? Or is it simply that we’re lastly studying learn how to speak about it? Offended HP has been holding an area for me to get near my anger, to discover, expertise and transfer it. It helps rather a lot.
Large like to you, pal. Keep heat, keep current, breathe deeply, pull a card in the event you want one. Keep in mind you’re excellent, entire and sufficient, simply as you’re.

LOVE,

Beth x

PS, subsequent yr’s garlic says hello 🙂