When learn musically, I needed my playing cards to invoke songspells. … Every songspell serving as a small meditation paving the best way for our new progress and holding house for our greatest potentialities to satisfy us.
I’m a sound witch.
A xXgrandmacoreXx, queer, femme non-binary, and disabled sound witch creating sound-based rituals that honor belonging in every of our personal distinctive identities. A lot of my witchcraft facilities on crafting and casting songspells, which I outline as intentions holding house for dream prospects that manifest transformation by the method of deep listening. I like the best way sound can transport us, a portal into our interior landscapes and knowledge, a possibility to be taught to pay attention extra deeply to ourselves. As a part of my sound rituals, I like setting an intention, translating that intention into music by assigning letters of the alphabet various intervals of pitch and rhythm, and providing the ensuing songspell as a meditation to shift intentions into motion. When casting songspells, my instruments are my voice, an orchestra of toy devices to rival a playpen, dwell digital processing in MaxMSP, and dwell coding in TidalCycles.
My present femme non-binary type was molded by a lifelong actuality of firmly detesting socially-acceptable gender roles – gender roles constructed to maintain laborers aplenty for capitalist wealth accumulation, gender roles as a way of management that separate us from the fluidity of nature and the huge spectrum of chance that exists for us if we open to it. Therapeutic from the systemic and intimate trauma that inevitably permeates these socially-acceptable gender roles is an enterprise that winds its method into the guts of my sound witch workings.
I’ve all the time been in tune with the therapeutic energy of sound.
It’s drawn me in from my youngest days and whispered lyrics and melodies, dissonant harmonies, and rhythmic juxtapositions that I’ve listened to, introduced forth, been healed by, and supplied sonically to others over 10 years of self-booked DIY excursions all through North America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia. Solely a lot later, throughout my Saturn Return, did I come to the therapeutic energy of tarot. Within the midst of pretty extreme each day existential panic assaults introduced on by complicated PTSD, studying tarot introduced me again into my physique. Studying tarot introduced me again into relationship with my very own self-trust.
Quickly after starting my work with the tarot, I began to dream of bringing collectively sound and divining therapeutic modalities in an oracle deck. I needed my deck to share assets to assist us collectively and personally address, deconstruct, and bypass the hurt we encounter. And I needed every card to supply a simple visible map for sound-making, the sort of map for frolicsome sound-making that’s accessible to all of us no matter formal musical coaching. When learn musically, I needed my playing cards to invoke songspells. These songspells would root us into the assets surfaced by the playing cards for us. Every songspell serving as a small meditation paving the best way for our new progress and holding house for our greatest potentialities to satisfy us.
Dream in hand, I spent many a morning in a follow of automated writing.
I referred to as within the universe to share knowledge for the great of the collective and in a trance, let that knowledge circulate by me. Many extra afternoons, when my psoriatic arthritis wasn’t flaring so badly, I spent dipping my calligraphy pen in ink, shaping assets in card type. After even many extra days/weeks/months of digitally coloring every card and gathering the end result of my automated writing for print, the Sacrosanct Oracle//Composition Deck and Guidebook had been lastly pulled from the ether and into this world.
My Sacrosanct Oracle//Composition Deck is a group of resource-based oracle playing cards that double as graphic musical scores. Composed to uphold folx of marginalized gender identities, the playing cards provide house to evaluate, entry, domesticate, declare, and share assets to dismantle the binary, gender-based cultural conditioning of patriarchal energy buildings as we forge our personal paths ahead. The deck holds 50 hand-drawn and digitally coloured oracle//composition playing cards measuring 3.5” x 5.75” and an altar card that includes a spell for synchronicity. An accompanying 108-page, hand-written and risograph-printed guidebook presents strategies for resourcing your self and musically studying the playing cards to invoke songspells. Accessing music as transformative self-care by the Sacrosanct Oracle//Composition Deck requires solely a mechanism for producing sound and connection to experimentation and play.
When you’re excited by exploring music as transformative self-care and supporting my sound witch workings, I welcome you to Bewitch Yourself with me by booking a virtual offering. You can even purchase my Sacrosanct Oracle//Composition Deck by my Bandcamp web page.
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