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rachael stephen ✦

🔥 working with Calcifer, my magickal paradigm & more

Published 9 months ago • 2 min read

wed 6 sep

hey, hi, hello!

this letter comes to you from a tired and sore babe who hit new personal records in the gym (squats and barbell row if you’re curious - i’m proud! it’s satisfying after working my way back up after illness) and then went back to muay thai (for the first time in months) the day after. we were doing clinch stuff at the end so my weird inner arm bruises are being kept company by my neck pain 😂

but the only thing i love more than being sore after the gym/boxing is complaining about it, so it all works out.

otherwise it’s all been about getting prepped for teaching CC again next week and catching up on the Witcher season 3 (everyone says it’s terrible but i’m having a great time??).

✦ what’s inside Constellation Clarity?

CC is still open, and if you’ve been wondering what the hell it is, here’s a quick primer. Constellation Clarity is the course where i teach a life-organisation system which helps save your sanity, lighten both your workload and mental load and generally conquer chaos and overwhelm.

if you always feel like you have too many projects, never keep up with recurring tasks and have trouble deciding what to do when, it might be perfect for you.

it’s an intensive, binge-mode class taught over two days, and we cover A LOT.

we go big and then we do, in fact, go home.

here are the sections we go through:

  1. Containers: why they’re powerful, and there are more ways to use them than you think
  2. the Garden: the six domains, sorting what’s on your mind into them
  3. the Graph: the three states a domain can be in, and how to find balance between them
  4. the Cultivators: the four key types of activity, including tasks, projects, routines & the mysterious fourth cultivator
  5. the Dashboard: creating one pen-and-paper hub to house all of the above without overloading yourself
  6. Using the Dashboard: how to tackle actually doing the things you planned, keeping your dashboard fresh and motivating
“thank you rachael! that felt like therapy… so good!”
— kind words from CC student rachel dunaway

we’re open for another…

Count down to 2023-09-12T16:00:00.000Z

✦ the channel

the replay of our live Q&A is up now on youtube :) check it out for chill chats about magickal paradigms, working with Calcifer as a fictional archetype, organising a home with ADHD and leaving social media.

✺ Q&A with a creative witch

✦ the journal

guess what arrived?! my loot from the Stillfleet kickstarter 🥰 Wythe also very kindly included a couple of extra things i hadn’t ordered - the Rain Thieves adventure module (maybe me and Pete will finally run a game??) and some pins, one of which is already on my backpack.

after playing Stillfleet for a few years now and seeing all the behind the scenes and draft chapters of the core rulebook on patreon etc, it’s so cool to finally see it all come together in the flesh.

Stillfleet is one of those rare games where the source material is wacky and funny enough that just reading the damn rulebook is actually enjoyable even for someone as allergic to lore as i am. so i’m excited to dive into this!

✦ the almanac

  • EARLY AUTUMN / N. hemisphere
    • 🌰 foraging, bramble, apple, elderberry, conkers
    • 🍎 back to school, fresher’s week, fresh stationary & a new academic year
    • 🍂 leaves begin to turn, temperature cools, sweater weather
  • 🌓 WANING MOON / winding down, completion, releasing

as we’re in the last stretch of the enrollment period for Constellation Clarity, you’ll be hearing from me a little more often in the next few days - but jsyk, i never send letters which only promote an offering and have no other content (anymore). so even if CC isn’t for you, i hope you’ll enjoy the extra letters 🥰

take care,

rachael stephen ✦

hello, cinnamon bun ✦ i’m rachael, your friendly neighbourhood Creative Witch. there’s nothing i love more than venturing into The Woods on a creative mission, and coming back to my village (that’s you!) to share the stories, systems and spells i’ve picked up along the way.

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