What you started is still finding its shape.
A ritual for early momentum and a little turbulence in love.
Three days ago, the New Moon in Cancer asked you to plant something rooted in safety and emotional truth rather than ambition or urgency.
Now we're in the waxing crescent. The moon is just beginning to show itself again, still thin, still fragile, still finding its shape. Whatever you planted on the New Moon doesn't have form yet. That's not a problem. That's exactly where it should be.
There's also some friction in the sky this week. Venus squares Uranus, which tends to stir up sudden disruptions in love and connection. So you may experience some unexpected conflict, surprising honesty, or relationships that ask for change faster than you're ready to give it.
Don't panic if something feels unsettled. Early growth often looks like instability before it looks like progress.
✨ SPELL
Even when the moon isn’t new or full, we don’t have to wait for a “special” sky to practice reclaiming ourselves.
Ritual isn’t about the calendar—it’s about interrupting the grind, reorienting to what matters, and reminding yourself you’re not just here to produce.
Here’s a ritual for this week, aligned with the current zodiacal season. Minimal supplies. Maximum reclamation.
Tending the New Shape
A waxing crescent ritual for protecting what's just beginning.
Supplies:
A small plant, or a seed if you have one, or simply your two open hands
Steps:
If you have a plant or seed, hold it gently. If not, hold your own hands open in your lap.
Say: "This is still becoming. I don't need it to be finished."
Take three slow breaths.
If something in a relationship feels unsettled this week, return to this phrase before reacting: "What's true can survive a little friction."
This is not a week for forcing clarity. It's a week for tending what's tender.
✊ 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.
An Organization That Murders People In The Streets Should Not Exist
I want to say something simple and I want to say it plainly, without qualifications, without footnotes, without the hedging that turns a moral statement into a policy debate:
An organization that murders people in the streets should not exist.
Full stop.
This week, two more people were killed by ICE agents.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed on July 7 in Houston. He was a homebuilder. He had lived in the United States for more than 35 years. He had no criminal record. He was close to finishing the long process of obtaining legal status. He was driving a white van. ICE agents not wearing body cameras shot him because his van resembled the target's vehicle. He was not the intended target. ICE confirmed this afterward.
Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was shot and killed on July 13 in Biddeford, Maine. He was 26 years old. He was Colombian. He was authorized to work in the United States. He was also not the intended target. Federal officials confirmed this. The agent who shot him has not been named. When a reporter asked for the agent's name, a DHS spokesperson said, "I will never share an officer's name."
Never.
I want you to hold that word. Never.
Not "we're reviewing the policy." Not "we'll consider transparency measures." Never. As a statement of permanent institutional intent.
Now. I know what happens next in this conversation because it happens every time.
Someone says, "But he wasn't who they were after.”
Someone says, "But he had legal status.”
Someone says, "But he was a citizen.”
Someone says, "But he had no criminal record.”
Someone says, "But he had lived here for 35 years.”
And I understand the impulse. These details feel like they should matter. They feel like they change something.
They don't.
Because the moment we accept "but he wasn't who they were after" as a relevant distinction, we have accepted that it would be acceptable to murder someone who was who they were after. We have accepted that if Lorenzo had been undocumented and if Johan had not had work authorization, the killing would be justified. We have accepted that human life is contingent on paperwork. On status. On whether the right people decided you were the right target.
No.
The Wall Street Journal identified more than a dozen incidents between July 2025 and January 2026 in which federal immigration officers fired at people inside vehicles. The explanation used, repeatedly, across case after case: the person weaponized their vehicle by driving it.
Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot outside Chicago after dropping a child at daycare.
Ruben Ray Martinez was a US citizen shot while driving in March 2025.
Renée Good was shot in Minneapolis in January. She was a US citizen. A lesbian. A mother. A poet.
Jaime Alanis, a farmworker, died falling from a greenhouse roof during an immigration operation.
Seventeen Mexican citizens have died in ICE-related incidents since Trump's second term began. Fourteen in custody. Three in operations.
This is not a series of mistakes. This is a pattern. And a pattern has a cause.
The cause is an organization that has been given lethal authority, no accountability, no body cameras in at least some of its operations, a policy of never naming the agents who pull the trigger, and a mandate to operate with urgency and aggression in communities where people are already terrified.
An organization like that will kill people. It was always going to kill people. It is killing people.
And the answer is not better training. The answer is not body cameras, though we should demand them. The answer is not more oversight, though we should demand that too.
The answer is that an organization that murders people in the streets should not exist.
This is not a radical position. It is the only morally coherent one available.
So today we hex ICE.
Not the policy around ICE.
Not the leadership of ICE.
Not the specific agent who killed Lorenzo or the specific agent who killed Johan, though they should be named and they should be held accountable.
ICE itself.
The institution.
The mandate.
The existence.
We hex the "I will never share an officer's name."
We hex the policy of no body cameras.
We hex the "weaponized her vehicle" justification that has been used so many times it has become a template.
We hex the seventeen deaths and the counting.
We hex the administration that gave this organization its mandate and calls the results enforcement.
We hex every politician who has responded to these killings with "thoughts and prayers" and "we need more information" and "let's wait for the investigation."
The investigation is the pattern. The pattern is the answer. An organization that murders people in the streets should not exist.
🔥 On Moral Clarity
"But he wasn't the target" is not a defense. It is a confession that you believe there are acceptable targets.
There aren't.
And if you feel called out by this, I invite you to sit with it and ask yourself who the acceptable targets are. And why you think they’re acceptable targets.
📞 Action
Call your senators and representatives at 202-224-3121 and demand:
Full body camera requirements for all ICE operations, with footage released within 72 hours of any use of force.
Independent investigation of every ICE killing, conducted outside DHS.
The public naming of every agent involved in a killing.
And if you want to support organizations doing direct legal and humanitarian work:
RAICES at raicestexas.org
National Immigration Law Center at nilc.org
FIEL Houston at fielhouston.org — the organization on the ground in Lorenzo's community.
With patience for what's still forming,
Keli Lyn Jewel
PS: If old relational patterns are flaring up under this Venus-Uranus friction and you want support working through it, The Deep End offers 1:1 space for exactly that kind of complexity.
