writing with the moon: the bathhouse circuit

the first edition of a brand new offering

Hello, and welcome to the first edition of Writing with the Moon. As introduced last week, Writing with the Moon will be an offering exclusively for paid subscribers that will come out every Monday (the moon’s day), offering writing prompts and ideas for artistic input and inspiration explicitly based on the week’s moon-weather. 

Obviously, we don’t know entirely what something is until it’s here — and that’s subject to change! I’m excited to play with this format in the coming weeks, and I hope you’ll tell me what you like best. What I can tell you is that I’m excited to have a space for astro-writing that is more spacious and open to spiritual channeling and energetic, that embraces my fiction roots and this kind of storytelling and metaphor and is less focused on the nitty-gritty technicalities of planetary transits and degrees.

My creativity is here for fucking with liminality, for spiritual ritual, for connection with the Other — those seen and unseen. For Ursula K. Le Guin: “To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.” For Audre Lorde’s uses of the erotic — in community, in solidarity. For Toni Morrison openly talking about how the spirit of the daughter of the enslaved woman who inspired Beloved appeared to her on her dock one morning as she wrote.

To me, creativity (and astrology, and spirituality, for that matter) is quite simple. It’s about relationship. It’s about attention. It’s about devotion.

This week’s stories, metaphors, and writing prompts come to you in the time of the waning moon: a time focused on rest rather than generation. This week, the moon will travel through Libra, Scorpio, and into Sagittarius. That’s our backdrop. 

I hope you enjoy.