It’s Friday! Let’s Fuck Shit Up Together!
Happy Friday, lovely! It’s time to fuck some shit up!
Twice a month, in accordance with the lunar cycles, we gather in circle here and in your inbox for a salaciously good time. We talk reclaiming what has always been ours via ritualized practices and hexing shitty politicians. For those of you who love to receive the self-care tips, the sex tips, and the business tips, those will be in separate posts in a revised format.
Why? Because I want to combine everything in my varied background to offer my highest and greatest good to you. Take what resonates. Leave the rest.
✨ SPELL
Because this newsletter is sent out in conjunction with the lunar cycles, this segment offers you a moon ritual. Prior to all the stuff listed above, I studied art history as a way to develop an understanding of world religions. Since childhood, I’ve been on a spiritual journey to develop my own relationship to the divine. In no way do I have any interest in telling you what to believe or not believe. That’s for you. It’s personal. And for me, it’s cyclical. My spiritual practices have changed my relationship to time in such a beautiful way that I want to offer you a bit of that shift here by recognizing the cycles of the moon in order to hand you an opportunity to incorporate cyclical time into your experience of life. I work with many spiritual mentors, and ritualized practices are incorporated into the foundation of Project Reclamation—our equity-centered membership community—as well as the Reclamation Weekend retreats I host. And when you joined this email list, you received a Reclamation ritual from me. Again, I don’t care what you believe in or don’t believe in. Paying attention to the moon will help repair your relationship with time, which capitalism has fucked up for all of us. If you’d like to dive deeper into esoteric spirituality, though, keep your eyes peeled on your inbox for some fun stuff I’ve got coming up. 😉
We’re still in eclipse season, which the astrologers say is chaotic and unpredictable. So, rather than a ritual for the New Moon in Libra occurring on Wednesday, October 2, I’m simply going to offer you some journal prompts to help you focus inward on the Libran themes of beauty, love, and justice.
✨What does beauty mean to you, and how do you incorporate it into your life?
✨What are some outdated beauty patterns that may be useful to release?
✨What/who do you love without condition?
✨How can you open yourself up to receiving more love?
✨What aspects of your life have been feeling unjust, and how can you balance the scales more toward justice?
✨How do you tend to show up for justice in your life?
✊ HEX
Politics is a not-so-secret passion of mine. I used to run a couple of political organizations here in Kansas City and lobby at the state level in Missouri with Planned Parenthood. The 2016 election is what led me into coaching after I lost my mind and a therapist told me I had “excellent coping skills” because I was focusing all my time and energy on political volunteerism. And in this segment, we might get a little petty. But we’ll always be aiming to reclaim our power from the cis-heteronormative, puritanical, white supremacist patriarchy we currently live under in this hellscape of climate change and late-stage capitalism. Here, I’ll offer suggestions on candidates to donate to, people to follow, podcasts to subscribe to, and answer the question of WHO ARE WE HEXING? (Josh Hawley is always on that list.)
There are so many folks we could put on this list today.
In North Carolina, for example, there are two of them I’d love to hex: Mark Robinson, the self-proclaimed “Black Nazi” running for Governor, and Michele Morrow, the homeschool mom who proudly filmed herself at the January 6th insurrection running for Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Trump’s bullshit about how he’s going to be women’s “protector” easily lands him back on my hex list. And hexing Vance prior to the upcoming VP debate seems valuable.
But who I want to draw into focus today is actually Missouri Governor Mike Parson. (No, there’s no S at the end of his name. It’s Parson. Not Parsons.)
Let’s step back in time for a moment to 2018 when he first assumed this position. He wasn’t initially elected. He was serving as Lieutenant Governor to Eric Greitens (who made Missouri a “right to work” state, was funded by LOADS of dark money, and was forced out of office after felony charges revolving around a sex scandal) and became Governor by default.
Then, because Missouri is such a low voter-turnout state and those who do vote often just like to keep things the same because “it’s fine” and they don’t know what the fuck is going on, whoever makes it into office tends to stay in office, Parson was actually elected Governor in 2020.
He’s done a lot of shitty things, including but not limited to signing the legislation for Missouri to be the first in the nation to adopt a “trigger ban,” effectively putting an all-out ban on abortion the moment Roe was overturned.
But this week he’s getting hexed for the death of Marcellus Williams, who was serving a sentence for a 1998 murder, and there are questions that have arisen about his conviction. I will not tell you how to think about the death penalty overall, nor will I presume guilt or innocence in this situation. I will, however, state that the concept of state-sanctioned killing existing for anyone for whom there is the slightest possibility of inconclusiveness is absurd.
If you follow me on social media and engage with my stories on either Instagram or Facebook, you may have seen my request for a moment of silence on Tuesday evening when his execution took place. And I’d like to ask for another moment of silence now.
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If you have the means, please donate to the campaign of Crystal Quade. She’s the woman running to unseat Parson for Missouri Governor in November.
*This segment is not intended to promote harm to anyone in any way. I don’t hex people in real life. ✊
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That’s it for this week, lovely! I appreciate you offering me space in your day. And I look forward to seeing you fuck some shit up today! ❤️🔥
-xoxo-
Keli
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Maybe life coaching has felt out of reach for you in the past, as it’s often relegated to those hoarding enough wealth to be bored. But self-discovery doesn’t actually come in Tiffany boxes, and it is my goal to make healing and growth accessible to everyone.
Inside this space, we’re committed to reclaiming our bodies, our time, our joy, and our lives from all the cultural conditioning that has left us feeling less than. And we’re doing it in a vibrant, supportive community that is truly open to everyone who shares these values. (Though cis-het white Christian men may struggle a bit.)
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