Author: Beth Maiden

“Dear Data”

Exploring and sharing the secret parts of ourselves (an ongoing project between my friend and I rooted in Emergent Strategy and Octavia Butler's Parables novels).

Unpacking the white supremacy in my shop curation

My white gaze undeniably determines what I do and don't stock. It's time to change this.

Choice Every Moment

New year collage 2020

Altar | Calan Gaeaf, reaching for the Moon

The Witch of Wands reaches up to the Moon. Her fire is her signal, an invitation to magic. She stands tall, reaching high.

Untitled (Mother)

sea, ever changing, ever constant.
what do you know about mother?

you cannot know mother.

The Story of the Nether Largie Stanes

"Mooooooon!" Earth would call up into the darkness. "Gealllaaaach! Come down here and talk with me.

The Fucking Feminine

For the full moon in Pisces.

Feed the soil, not the plant

Creating and supporting healthy, diverse, nourishing conditions for my business to grow in.

Then I danced

Twenty seconds in the wave came up through my body
I was sobbing
moved through it
breathed through it

I threw the weirdest shapes
got out of my head
let my body lead

ES-periments

This month I am experimenting with:
* Overcoming nice girl conditioning
* DESIRE / dance
* Zero fucks

Altar | Full moon, lunar eclipse, the spaces between structure & freedom

the space between/
balance of/
shift back and forth between
structure and freedom. commitment and spontaneity.
Doing the work, seeing it through, and still being open to what’s new and exciting.

Altar | Summer Solstice, showing up for desire is a daily practice

An altar to witness my commitment to self in an anxious, stuck-feeling moment.

Defining Capitalism

Literally, we are having our ‘selves’ sold back to us.

Moon stones oracle

a reminder of
constant flux, and you
a seed
a planet
an ocean
a husk
they are waymarkers on your path

Altar | Imbolc, new moon, first shoots of spring

May I allow what is incubating within me
the time and space
to come forth slowly,
in its own way.

Wheel of Moons

A poster to celebrate the full and new moons of the wheel of the year in 2019.

Liberation spell

Liberation

is life
without shame.

Liberation

is knowing
in our bodies
that we are enough.

Tarot & Altar | New year, new year

Keep it spacious, grounded in intention and mystery, and led by desire.

Tarot | Seeds of 2019

It is midwinter. The trees are bare, there is little green among the greys and the browns.
There are seeds, hidden, unseen, in the cold, damp earth.

Altar | Winter Solstice. Process, Pause.

Let us be here, now, in this moment. Nothing more.

Let us be present.

Email vs doing my own thing

Nothing so scary or vulnerable as taking hold of my own life, its minutes, its days, and forging my own path.

Slow Commerce

Loving my work and getting properly paid is the only way I know to run a sustainable business.

Because the world owes me nothing

In response to this, I made this. Lyrics to Joyful Girl, by Ani DiFranco (1996).

My name is Beth, and I am a workaholic

I say it with a smile but I do not say it lightly.

The Roman Steps

I close my eyes and take in the stillness.
Everything is so still
and everything is in flux.

Altar | Centring desire, full moon in Taurus

Can I listen?

Can I learn to listen?

“What would it look like, to centre desire?”

Fear of Space

I am so used to resting my identity on output.

100 ways to build a feminist online tarot shop

Part to-do list, part manifesto.

Fractals

Altar | Autumn Equinox, waxing moon, the lessons of my year

the season is shifting. Wind blowing in the trees. Windows open, cool and dark. Awakening. Autumn calls.
What have you learned this year?