Clear the mental static.
A ritual for mental spaciousness before February begins.
✨ 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 for Clear Thought
Supplies:
Paper
Breath
Steps:
Write down the three thoughts looping the loudest this week.
Under each, write: This is a thought, not a mandate.
Exhale sharply three times. Once for each thought.
Fold the paper and place it somewhere out of sight.
This is how we clear mental space without pretending we’re thoughtless beings:
We acknowledge. We breathe. We set it down.
✊ 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.
Our Voices Are the Spell
This week, before we hex anything else, we pause to say this clearly:
What you did mattered.
People called their reps.
People sent emails.
People refused to stay quiet and “hope for the best.”
And because of that pressure, a DHS funding bill that would have further empowered harm was stalled. Not because those in power suddenly grew a conscience, but because collective refusal works.
So today, we lift up our voices, and we hex the lie that’s been fed to us for decades:
The lie that we’ll be safer if we’re quiet.
The lie that keeping our heads down will protect us.
The lie that silence equals security.
We hex that thinking.
Because what actually keeps us safer is coordination.
It’s numbers.
It’s organizing.
It’s knowing that when one voice is easy to ignore, thousands are not.
We bless the shift that’s happening. From isolation to alignment.
From private fear to public pressure.
From “don’t make waves” to “we make change.”
And yes. ICE is still on the hex list.
So is the entire system that upholds it, funds it, and shields it from accountability.
We hex the machinery that depends on people feeling alone.
We hex the bureaucracy that counts on exhaustion to do its work for it.
We hex every version of power that only functions when we’re silent.
May our voices keep rising.
May coordination become instinct.
May we remember in our bodies that speaking together is not reckless.
It’s protective.
Because we are not safer when we disappear.
We are safer when we show up together.
If this moment reminded you that your voice matters, here’s how to keep that momentum without burning out:
Get closer to where you live.
That might mean:
Learning who’s already organizing in your neighborhood
Showing up to a local meeting, mutual aid effort, or community space
Introducing yourself to the people on your block
Asking, “What does support look like here?” instead of waiting for a national call to action
Authoritarian systems rely on distance and isolation.
Community is what disrupts that. Not all at once, but steadily. Sustainably.
You don’t have to do everything.
You don’t have to become an expert.
You just have to not disappear.
Local connection is how we turn moments like this into something durable.
That’s how we keep each other safer.
With breath and bandwidth,
Keli Lyn Jewel
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