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Why We Keep Looking Up: The Aurora Effect
In times of uncertainty, whether socially, politically, and/or emotionally, people look for frameworks that make internal experience feel legible. Astrology and celestial language offer something powerful: pattern without confrontation. Explanation without blame. Meaning without demand.
Cerissa Leese
7 days ago3 min read


Empire, Fear, and Myth
Witch hunts were never about witches. They were about fear looking for a body. When societies face instability such as economic strain, environmental disruption, or political unrest, they search for meaning quickly. And when meaning is rushed, it becomes myth. When myth is repeated enough, it becomes doctrine. When doctrine is enforced, it becomes control.
That pattern did not die with the gallows.
Cerissa Leese
Jan 73 min read


Why So Many People Are Turning Toward Witchcraft Right Now
Something is happening right now. And it isn’t about aesthetics, trends, or social media algorithms, even though those are where it’s most visible. It’s about disorientation.
Cerissa Leese
Dec 31, 20253 min read


Before the Word "Witch" Ever Existed
The witch trials didn't create the witch. They created the word as a weapon. Centuries of systematic persecution built on fear, power, and the deliberate targeting of women who refused to forget what they knew.
Cerissa Leese
Dec 24, 20252 min read


When Belief Becomes Dangerous: A Brief History of Religious Persecution
Religious persecution is not just a historical event. It is a recurring response to difference.
Understanding this history matters because it helps us recognize when fear is being recycled and when ancient anxieties are dressed up as modern concern. It reminds us that resilience often looks quiet, ordinary, and adaptive rather than defiant.
Cerissa Leese
Dec 17, 20253 min read


The First Witch: Pre-Accusation Magic
Before the word witch ever existed, there were women and men who listened more closely than others. Not to spirits, not to omens, not to imagined forces—but to the land, to the body, to the breath of the seasons. They lived in a world without clocks or electric noise, without the hum that keeps the modern mind distracted.
Cerissa Leese
Dec 6, 20254 min read


I never meant to show the witch side of myself so openly
consider this an invitation: remember what you’ve always known. Trust your instincts. Weave magic into your days, whether by candlelight or in the soil beneath your nails. Break bread with the old ways that never truly left us, and carry them forward—in the small moments, in the wild ones, in the quiet revolutions of the heart. Let the old ways rise again.
Cerissa Leese
Jul 2, 20253 min read
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