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There’s an I in wild, too

May 20, 2021 / by Katie Vie / Leave a Comment

It's only 8:30 in the morning and already I'm outnumbered. Besides squirrels and chipmunks, I'm usually I'm the only mammal around. But not today. This morning, as dawn was painting the sky a chicory-blue and the cardinals were chirping away, I walked around outside. I usually spend …

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Goodbye, Priestess! Hello….

March 12, 2020 / by Katie Vie / Leave a Comment

This week, we're abandoning ship. We're clearing off the altars, pausing the anointing practices, and kissing The Priestess archetype goodbye. Why? Did something happen? Are we mad? Did this mystical shit stop working? Nah. In The Mystical Year, we have a practice that is a bit …

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Why I Saw The Bobcat But Not The Whale

June 6, 2019 / by Katie Vie / Leave a Comment

In 2012,  my man (who back then I called The Pirate in our blog, The Pirate & The Mermaid) and I rode through the Canadian Maritimes on a motorcycle. We were always on a coast, either Lake Erie, the great St Lawrence river, or the mighty Atlantic. On our way back south, we stayed in …

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Walking with The Queen

June 26, 2017 / by Katie Vie / Leave a Comment

The Queen gets a bad rap. Let's clear that up. When I sit in the Anointing Temple with people, The Queen often takes the most explanation, or even convincing. She's one of the most difficult Archetypes to understand because of the many versions of queen in our culture. The associations we have for …

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The Healing Room | The Tantrika

May 7, 2017 / by Katie Vie / Leave a Comment

The Healing Room is where I share the beautiful stories of people putting Archetype Anointing Oils into practice. A letter from Jodi: "Six years ago I began using The Tantrika after a painful divorce. It helped me heal the long term emotional trauma from that relationship. As my healing deepened, …

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