Join me in re-enchanting the world, starting with your own life. I believe we are all made for magic, for pleasure, for play, and for love. Each month I send out a love note with tips and suggestions for rooting deeper into magic, and updates on my magical offerings. I am here to support you in rooting into divine love and embodied magic, so that you can reclaim your full power as a magical human being and create the magical life you choose, if you wish.
The Sacred Body - musings, workshops, and a new single!
From Dr. Halo QuinNotes of Love & Magic |
Hello dear ones, SCROLL DOWN FOR LINKS TO TONIGHT'S WORKSHOP AND MY NEW SONG! I'm home from Dragonrise Witchcamp and catching up, neck deep in preparations for Thereby Hangs a Tale - a storytelling show I'm developing with Milly Jackdaw, exploring some of the motifs and themes that flow through folktales, myths, and Shakespeare! Catch us on Sunday 17th September at the Willow Globe Theatre in Wales: Check out their website for tickets. But I am working on being present consistently (something my ADHD brain struggles with), and keeping in touch each month, so here I am, with news, and some thoughts. ~~~ Sometimes I wonder why I do the things I do, why do I take the risk of talking openly about taboo topics, of teaching on things that many people not only dismiss, but look at with suspicion? It's healthy to check in with yourself, to wonder sometimes, and remembering the WHY helps with showing up in devotion, but the answer, for me, is simple. I know this is important. The very fact that the response I get from folk is mixed shows that this beautiful, wonderful, healing work of being whole, of being all of ourselves despite the pressure from the world to split and hide and repress our creative selves, divinely rising from pleasure, of truly enjoying this precious time embodied on earth - the fact that the response to that is suspicion just shows me that speaking openly is needed. It is natural to seek pleasure, to give and receive love, to be present with each other. It is your birthright, simply by the fact that you are alive, to know yourself as whole and worthy of pleasure and play and love. My magical practice is what has kept me healing, moving towards kindness and delight. Every day that I breathe in Love, dance with my gods, sing to the fair folk and spirits who walk with me, is a day that I open to the magic in the world which is wonder and possibility. When I pull out my tarot cards, I listen and hear, and discover that I am not alone, there is guidance there. When I light a candle to bridge the worlds, when I pour my offerings, I give and receive, and discover that I am supported, I am in community. When I pull on the threads, untangle the knots of Wyrd in a spellworking, or nudge the flow of life further toward beauty, balance, and delight, I feel into what is true and what is possible, and I discover that I am a part of the web and the weaving. Magic isn't just about the tools to heal, to stay centred in the chaos, to grow, to create change. It is also about the connection, the remembering that we are part of the community of beings and the flow of energies. We are not separate from the world. This is why I offer the classes that I do, why I show up for weekly livestreams and share as the gods inspire me, why I offer up meditations on Divine Love and embodiment, and why I gently share the reminder that our bodies, including our sexual natures, are part of this whole gift that is life. When you allow yourself to be present with all of your parts, with your embodied self, and allow yourself to feel that pleasure, that desire, that love moving in the body, then healing happens. You begin to reclaim your capacity to find pleasure, to create, to be content. It isn't always an easy path, and there are many reasons we might shy away from this work of integration within ourselves, and so we move softly, in the Crimson Coven, with Love. Always, always, coming back to reclaiming our own bodies as our temples, as divine spaces, however they are, in all their pleasure and pain, freedoms and limitations, blessings and challenges. If the Divine is immanent, if the God/dess is present in all things, including the earth, then our bodies are Sacred too. And this is why I do what I do. Why I share stories and write books and make music and write erotica and offer classes and show up as all my self. Even when it raises eyebrows. To remind all with ears to hear that there is beauty and possibility in the world, that remembering your wholeness is possible, that you are divine, in all your parts, and that you too are part of that community which is magic, weaving and woven and wondrous. Thank you for showing up with me. I hope you enjoy my offerings, and that they help you remember what your truest heart already knows... You are here for more pleasure, play, magic, and love than you can even imagine. ~~~ Out Today! "Her Body, The Temple"- forged in devotion and ritual, and inspired by the poetry of Crowley, my second song invokes the Goddess Babalon in the 7 directions, calls Her in, and reminds us that our bodies are divine, and the divine is embodied. And on that theme...And a whole weekend of witchery!The early bird tickets have been released for the weekend long online conference "Season of the Witch"* On Friday 6th October I'm presenting on "Dancing with The Lover: solo sexual magic." Get 20% off your early bird ticket for the whole event by Monday 4th September by using the code CROW20 at checkout.
(*)affiliate links ~~~ If you enjoyed my offerings today, if they inspired you at all, do please consider sharing this with a friend who might enjoy it too. Let's spread love and magic through the world! Blue Pisces Supermoon blessings to you all, dreamers and magic weavers and practical creatures alike. (And yes, while technically the Blue Moon as the second full moon in a calendar month is apparently a relatively new thing, with little historical import, it makes me happy to play with this cultural piece of wonder, and I hope it brings you joy too!) ~~~ In delight, ~ Halo Quin x PS: Tomorrow is Bandcamp Friday, which means that if you enjoy my music, it is a great day to buy a copy from there! (On Bandcamp Fridays all proceeds go straight to the artist, which is very cool of them. Support your favourite musicians there!)
Events and OfferingsWeekly Livestreams at the Crimson Coven Collective, including talks, meditations, and interviews. Join the Crimson Coven Collective. Don't forget that if you join as a Patron at Apprentice Level you'll get access to all the monthly workshops below included automatically, plus access to the library of previous classes and 50% off the longer retreats. The next retreat is Radiance, Presence, and Power this Sunday! RETREAT: Radiance, Power, and Presence (New date): Sunday 3rd September '23 - 6-9pm BST (UK time)Re-light your self love through courting Divine Love and the magic of the land. Details here. (And you can book at 25% off at that link as a thank you for your support!) Upcoming Workshops & Retreats:
Find more upcoming happenings here. BooksPeruse my books, including Crimson Craft, a queer friendly introduction to working with sexual magic in your witchy practice, exploring healing through ritual, sexual spellcasting, and Divine Love. Music |
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Halo Quin
author, storyteller, singer-songwriter, witch
Join me in re-enchanting the world, starting with your own life. I believe we are all made for magic, for pleasure, for play, and for love. Each month I send out a love note with tips and suggestions for rooting deeper into magic, and updates on my magical offerings. I am here to support you in rooting into divine love and embodied magic, so that you can reclaim your full power as a magical human being and create the magical life you choose, if you wish.
From Dr. Halo Quin Notes of Love & Magic (Join The Enchanted Academy for monthly classes, meditations, & more here!) Hello lovelies! There's always a lot I want to share with you each month so I'm trying a tweak to the format... I'm too excited to tell you this later though... this weekend my writing was featured in The Wild Hunt! On ADHD and Ritual... you can read it here! Whee! Right here's the new format... highlights, then some musings, then all the class details! ~~~THIS MONTH'S...
From Dr. Halo Quin Notes of Love & Magic (Join The Enchanted Academy for monthly classes, meditations, & more here!) Hello lovelies! We are fast approaching the Equinox... which in my part of the world means spring is in the air! And this month has swept by rather speedily, so my apologies for the delay in sending this. Last weekend was the Goblin Masquerade and I was rather wrapped up in event related things, and then recovering this week, so thank you for your patience at this slightly...
From Dr. Halo Quin Notes of Love & Magic (Join The Enchanted Academy for monthly classes, meditations, & more here!) Hello dear ones, Imbolc (and Lammas) Blessings, may inspiration flow easily for you! I've just submitted the finished manuscript for my next book - Storytelling for Magic - which should be out in about a year's time. I can't wait to share it with you so here's an extract! (scroll down for upcoming classes and events) ~~~ STORYTELLING FOR MAGIC ~~~ The Bard, the Skald, the Poet;...