Today is All Saints’ Day. Here is an excerpt from the All Saints’ and Souls’ issue: Across Mexico, on November 1st, people celebrate the folk saint of Santa Muerte, Our Lady of Holy Death. She is associated with people who work dangerous jobs at night, like taxi drivers, police, and sex workers, and they invoke […]
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Mozart’s Requiem
In the All Saints’ and Souls’ issue I recommended Mozart’s Requiem, specifically the Dies Irae. I actually recommend listening to the whole thing, as this composition is one of the most beautiful and powerful songs I’ve ever heard. A requiem is a musical composition for the mass of the dead (missa pro defunctis). The name, Requiem, comes […]
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Here, on the Hag Stone Journal blog I will probably write more casually and personally about the ways I am connecting to and creating magic and sacred in my daily life, as well as what I think I am getting out of my practices and why I think it is valuable.
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