Firstly, if you are a paid subscriber and seeing this please go to the Booking Page and get on my schedule for October and November. This will be your last chance to get a tarot reading with me. December is my hibernation month. I put this at the beginning of the Newsletter in hopes that if you read this you wont miss out. Don’t worry— The Monthly subscription prices have already been adjusted to reflect this.
If you are still reading, I think it’s important to reintroduce myself. Hi! My name is Hues and I am a 30 (almost 31) year old writer living in Appalachia. I hold a Bachelor’s in English with a focus in Creative Writing, and a Master’s of Fine Arts in Popular Fiction Writing and Publishing. I am also what most people would call a witch.
However, that is not the label I would apply to myself—if I were one to really care about labels. You see a witch is a person who practices witchcraft—a sympathetic magical practice, and while I do have a background in witchcraft, I am not a practicing witch. And yes, in the modern context there are many different types of witches they are all still confined within the magical connection to the relation between objects. I—on the other hand— deal with stories. With the myths made by and for us. The Energetic threads that bind our spirits to the tapestry of legacy. That is to say ones Fortune.
Fortune here meaning the combination of one’s Lot (where they begin) and one’s Fate (where they end), existing somewhere in between. I specialize in the wording of one’s Fortune. The Spirtual Contract and its interpretation, and the ability to overwrite, void, and end those contracts. This is done particularly through the subconscious work, even more specifically the rewiring of that subconscious through the creation of an external energy source to call upon. However, I will get into that further at a later date. For now, let’s simply say— I am a Fortuneteller.
I began this journey of reading Fortune’s for the neighborhood by using the divination skill of cartomancy. I favored Tarot, and Playing Cards myself. However, as I have developed my skill as Fortuneteller I have come to find that these tools are not sufficient for the work, and that I have been masquerading my skill with simple parlor magic. When my storytelling skill, and my esoteric learnings are better served coldly and calculatedly—as lessons.
But before I realized that I took on a wide variety of clients 1-to-1 and found that I despite enjoying the work I felt awkward, understimulated and further drained. This was because my speciality was being thwarted by the capitalistic practice known as a job. Reading Tarot had become my job, and I showed up out of the need for coin rather than a desire to apply the skill that I had spent twenty years honing.
I also found many of my clients over the years were seeking spiritual counsel for psychological problems not spiritual. And I am not a specialist in psychology even if I have a mild interest in the work. That being said these same clients—though a different variety— were also seeking the knowledge and lessons of witchcraft.
I will pause here to say that I am a spiritualist and esotericist by nature, though my entry into being a folk magic practitioner began with Buddhism and Silver Ravenwolf before becoming a practicing Solomonic magician and eventual witch. So it is not that I do not have the knowledge to share but rather that those lessons should be learned from those who still practice such faiths with their whole being and heart. I am simply not one of them.
My practice as a folk magician even if I wanted to teach it to another is a convergence of birthright closed practices that I was taught and told only to share with those from my bloodline. If I don’t have children these Cunning Chthonic practices will die with me, as they should. And that is exactly why I do not and will not teach witchcraft.
This will not deter me however from speaking on the crossroads between my special interests which like Lots, Fate, and Fortune seem to often run in the same circles. And as such, I have come to realize that truly providing learning for others is my calling but not in the form of mentorship but rather in the form of conversation. Written conversation that explores on an intellectual level the centerpoint of storytelling. This is what I call sentencecraft— the literal and figurative magic of words and the results they create.
Which is to say that I—like a monk—will be devoting the rest of my life to a life of study and creating content for the learn-ed mind to consume and draw their own conclusions from. I have always been called to a life of service— My Part of Fortune in Virgo and Chiron in Virgo demands it— and as such have always desired to be a resource for others. But not a resource from which to draw from, but rather a reference.
And so— when I brought all of this in my Autism Evaluation, I was obviously diagnosed with Level 1 Autism, and ADHD (combined type). Wherein the conversation that followed also confirmed based on my diagnostic criteria that I am in fact more me in groups, and better in a crowd. Which to me was the final feather on the scale, my heart is free knowing that I do not have to mask anymore.
What does this mean for you, neighbor? It simply means that all readings will be in livestreams, or collectives. More articles for your reading pleasure, writing workshops once a month, and courses for your learning.
TLDR; I am Autistic, and groups are better. Also— I am not a witch, I am a fortuneteller.
With Love,
Hues
The Neighborhood Fortuneteller.
In the words not my own (but its Nikki Minaj words to Keke Palmer) that came to mind as i finished reading your post, it popped up and resonated in my mind, "nobody knows what it's like when we turn off the lights and we gotta be by ourselves, so you do whatever you need to do to be good with you". Soooo... Hues our neighborhood fortuneteller, you do what you gotta do, to be good with you! Sending good vibes your way. Cheers, Jen