Start what your body has already chosen.
A ritual for igniting what wants to begin.
Today’s Aries New Moon is not subtle.
This is ignition energy.
Direction energy.
“Stop negotiating with your own desire” energy.
Your body already knows what wants to begin.
This ritual simply helps you catch up.
✨ SPELL
This ritual isn’t about belief. It’s about repair.
Capitalism has broken your relationship to time—flattened your rhythms, punished your rest, and convinced you every moment must be productive.
The moon disagrees.
Each new and full moon, I’ll hand you a small ritual. Not to “manifest” or optimize, but to reattune your body to a different pace. One that honors cycles, not calendars.
Pay attention to the moon. It’s not aesthetic—it’s antidote.
Fire for Initiation
(a ritual for stepping into what’s next without apology)
Supplies:
A candle
One sentence of truth
Steps:
Light your candle.
Speak one sentence that begins with:
I’m ready to…Cup your hands around the flame (not close enough to burn) and say:
I choose the beginning that already chose me.Blow out the candle to seal the choice.
You don’t need certainty. You only need direction. Aries will handle the rest.
✊ HEX
You don’t need a rundown of the headlines. You’re living them. Whether you’re in the U.S. or just suffering under its ripple effects, the harm is real—and relentless.
This isn’t catharsis. It’s counter-spell.
Each HEX is a ritual of refusal—a channel for holy rage, spiritual disruption, and deliberate, directed dissent.
Here’s who we’re targeting. And what to do about it.
62 Million
I have spent the last 48 hours at a loss for words, but filled with a level of rage, mortification, horror, and complete lack of surprise I’ve never experienced. It has felt like wanting to simultaneously scream and vomit, while knowing that neither would change anything. Because what we’re up against is so much bigger than any one person’s reaction can possibly touch.
In February 2026 — the shortest month of the year — a website called Motherless.com had 62 million visitors.
Motherless hosts more than 20,000 videos of women being filmed without their knowledge while unconscious. The content is organized with tags like #passedout and #eyecheck. That last one refers to men lifting the closed eyelids of sedated women on camera to document that they are fully unconscious before assaulting them.
Inside the communities built around this content, men share techniques for drugging their partners. They share which drugs exit the body fastest so that by the time a survivor wakes up, registers that something happened, and gets to a hospital, the toxicological window has already closed. They livestream assaults for $20. They pay in cryptocurrency. They share evasion tactics the way other people share recipes.
A French lawmaker who was herself drugged and assaulted by a former senator called these communities "an online rape academy, where every subject is taught."
That is not a dramatic phrase. That is an accurate description.
The site's founder, Joshua Lange, has operated largely without consequence, shielded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. This is legislation written in 1996, before anyone imagined it would be used to protect a platform whose entire architecture is built around the organization and distribution of sexual violence against women.
When the UK regulator investigated, they didn't look at the content. They checked whether the paperwork had been filed correctly. The paperwork was filed correctly. The investigation closed. The videos stayed.
I want you to hold that for a moment.
More than 20,000 videos of women being raped in their sleep. A fine for inadequate age verification. That is the complete record of legal consequences.
62 million visitors in February. The shortest month of the year.
I keep coming back to that number because it will not let me go.
62 million is not a fringe. 62 million is not a few bad actors. 62 million is a culture.
And that culture did not appear from nowhere.
It was built by platforms that profit from the organization of harm and call it free speech. It was built by legal architecture designed to protect innovation, which instead protects exploitation. It was built by a world that has always treated women's bodies as available, accessible, and consequence-free. It was built by the same logic that says a woman's worth is located in her body and her body is not fully her own.
It is the same logic we have been hexing all year.
Wearing a different mask. In a different interface. With 62 million visitors in the shortest month of the year.
So today we hex the ecosystem.
We hex the founder who built the architecture and called it neutral. We hex the legal shields that protect profit over personhood. We hex the platform logic that treats "anything legal" as a moral position. We hex the 62 million who showed up, clicked, watched, and went back to their lives. We hex the culture that produces men who want this in the first place. The one that starts long before anyone opens a browser, in the way we teach boys that women are objects, that consent is a technicality, that dominance is desire.
We hex the whole thing. Root and branch. Platform and user. Law and culture. All of it.
Because none of it exists in isolation. None of it is one bad actor. None of it is fixable by taking down one website while leaving the soil intact.
This is what patriarchy looks like when it has a broadband connection and legal cover.
And we are naming it. All of it. Today.
🔥 On Bearing Witness
You are allowed to not be okay about this. You are allowed to feel it fully before you figure out what to do with it. Numbness is not strength. Feeling this is not weakness. It is the correct response to something that is actually this bad.
📞 Action
If you want to do something with this energy beyond the hex:
Call your representatives and demand reform of Section 230 that removes legal protection from platforms that knowingly host content documenting sexual violence.
Support RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization, and local rape crisis centers in your area.
If you or someone you know has experienced drug-facilitated sexual assault, RAINN's hotline is 1-800-656-4673.
With the heat of a clean beginning and the rage of a thousand suns,
Keli Lyn Jewel
PS: If you want deep, high-touch support for the parts of you that are emerging (especially the ones you’ve kept quiet… you know what they are), The Deep End is open. If the New Moon sparked something big, this is where we go beneath it.
