Slow down. Your thoughts want a word with you.
A ritual for entering Mercury retrograde with clarity instead of chaos.
Mercury just hit the brakes, which means your mind will try to rewrite, re-evaluate, and re-route everything at once.
Most people panic.
You don’t need to.
Retrogrades aren’t breakdowns.
They’re audits.
Before this one gets loud, let’s align your mind with your body so the revisions feel like support, not sabotage.
✨ 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.
Air + Earth for Mental Grounding
Supplies:
A heavy object (book, mug, stone)
Paper + pen
Steps:
Write the three thoughts looping hardest this week.
Place the heavy object on top of the paper.
Say: I give these thoughts a place to land.
Leave them there for the rest of the day.
This isn’t avoidance. It’s containment.
Your brain deserves boundaries, too.
✊ 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.
Against the Fear That Hides Behind Laughter
This week, we hex cowardice disguised as neutrality, the kind that laughs along with dismissive treatment instead of standing up to it.
After both the U.S. men’s and women’s hockey teams took gold at the Olympics, a moment of celebration became a spotlight on how gendered power still shows up, even in supposedly “unifying” spaces. President Trump called the men’s team and made a snide remark about inviting the women’s team. It was a comment that Team USA women’s captain Hilary Knight rightly called a “distasteful joke.” The men’s team reaction — laughter and silence — revealed something more than surprise; it showed a lack of courageous pushback in real time. This isn’t just misogyny. It isn’t just patriarchy. It’s cowardice.
Meanwhile, others did show up with clarity and celebration:
Flavor Flav invited the U.S. women’s team to a real event honoring their achievement. A choice of support over optics.
Some players later reflected that they should have reacted differently. A rare and honest acknowledgment.
The women’s team dined, by invitation, with Stanley Tucci in Milan. Celebration without qualifiers. Respect without flinching.
So today we hex the kind of cowardice that:
lets dismissive remarks go unchallenged,
treats misogyny as “a joke” rather than inequality built into power,
colludes silently instead of standing up loudly when it matters.
The reason this matters isn’t just one moment in hockey. Academic and survey data show that gender bias (including subtle and systemic patterns of misogyny) remains pervasive. Close to 90 % of people, regardless of gender, hold some bias against women that translates into invisible barriers in leadership and opportunity. And while outright misogynistic attitudes vary with definition and context, many studies find that a large majority of societies still endorse gendered expectations or stereotypes that disadvantage women. Which is part of why public refusal to challenge casual misogyny matters so much.
So we hex:
🔥 The silence that shields sexist assumptions.
🔥 The “boys will be boys” shrug when misogyny shows its face.
🔥 The social reflex that fears calling bullshit more than it fears inequality.
And we bless something stronger:
✨ Men who refuse to laugh at exclusion.
✨ Men who speak out against power wielded through bias.
✨ Men who see a woman’s victory and stand with it instead of shrinking beside it.
Because the problem isn’t just misogyny. It’s fear of confronting it, even when it’s right in front of us.
📞 Action — Courage in Voice, Courage in Choice
If you’re moved by this:
👉 Call your representatives and demand stronger enforcement of gender equity in sports funding, pay, and representation. Because inequality isn’t only social. It’s structural.
👉 Support organizations that promote men’s allyship and gender justice education, teaching people not just to stop being sexist, but to actively stand against it.
You don’t have to be perfect.
You just have to stop laughing at the joke and start calling it out.
With breath, structure, and a little retrograde respect,
Keli Lyn Jewel
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