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🌿 Spirits of the Land

An exploration of the Land and its inhabitants from the animist perspective of a French artist and expatriate living in the Pacific Northwest (USA).

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Embracing Green Witchery – Working with Plant Allies

Embracing Green Witchery – Working with Plant Allies

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I have a confession to make: for the majority of my witchy practice, I’ve steered clear of any books about Green Witchery, particularly when the content is focused on giving lists of magical correspondences. I cannot comprehend for the life of me how a Living Being could be reduced to that, a series of broad and often obnoxiously repetitive properties. Not kidding, reading some of the material relating to that topic, it seems at time that basically any plant can…

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Pink Rhododendron Flower
Rhododendron Reverie – A Witch’s Journey of Discovery

Rhododendron Reverie – A Witch’s Journey of Discovery

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I’m falling in love with a new plant. New to me, at least. I’m afraid to admit that I had absolutely no idea what wonderful, gorgeous creatures rhododendrons are! Someone should have told me! Also, I just learned that Pacific Rhododendron is the designated flower of Washington State… where I’ve been living for almost 6 years! Someone. Should. Have. Told me! A lot of rhodies have established their root in my yard. Trying my best to ignore all the adorable…

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The World Card - Tarot of a Forest Witch
Earth Day Craftivism – Creating to Highlight Nature’s Beauty

Earth Day Craftivism – Creating to Highlight Nature’s Beauty

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It’s a ‘chicken or egg’ kind of question: which came first, picking up a paintbrush or falling in love with the Living World? I’m not entirely sure, but either way, what matters most is the undeniable connection between the two. As an artist whose spiritual beliefs are rooted in animism and forest witchery, I find inspiration in the land around me, in the environment in which I exist and grow. Wildlife, trees, clouds, and mushrooms… Each piece I create is…

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Slow Growth Will Happen - Reflections on Being a Transplant
Finding Home Abroad – Reflections on Being a Transplant

Finding Home Abroad – Reflections on Being a Transplant

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Spring has finally arrived, blessing the land with early blooms while gentle rain showers come to nourish them. With my recent move coinciding with the changing season (a welcome synchronicity), reflections began to sprout in my mind about what it means to live and thrive in foreign soil, in an environment different from the one in which you originally grew. My journey as an expatriate – a transplant, if you will – has been one of discovery and growth, shaped…

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Winds of Change – Relocating My Art Studio

Winds of Change – Relocating My Art Studio

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Hello my dear Wonder Seekers! I am writing to you from a completely different place, a realm embraced by the ancient guardians of the forest: Western Redcedars, Douglas Firs, and Sword Ferns. No, I don’t live in the depths of a remote woodland, but I found sanctuary in a house that definitely gives that feeling. And let me tell you, I’m absolutely enchanted by it! 2024 is a year of great changes in my life, and moving to a different…

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February Silent Vlog
Peaceful Moments of February – Silent Vlog

Peaceful Moments of February – Silent Vlog

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Hey there! I’m back filming and editing 🙂

This time I wanted to craft something a little different, and take you on a quiet and peaceful journey around the Pacific Northwest. As you may already know, I’m a French expat’ living in western Washington since 2018 and I immediately fell in love with the beauty of this area…

Moments of Winter
Moments of Winter – Pacific Northwest Magic

Moments of Winter – Pacific Northwest Magic

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Here in the Pacific Northwest where I live, the Cold Season usually hasn’t much to do with your typical Winter Fairytale. In my corner of the world, you can’t really expect the magic of a snowy shimmering landscape. White is unusual, but you can always find enchantment in the most vibrant green. Trees soaked with moss and glossy ferns popping from the leaves, leftovers from earlier months. Green is the color you’re most likely to get here, going into the…

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San Francisco
I visited San Francisco!

I visited San Francisco!

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And it was great as you’d suspect 🙂 A bit tiring though, we didn’t have much time to rest between all the different places we visited. We played it like real tourists: we took a ferry to cruise the bay under a Glorious Sun, visited different parts of the City like Chinatown and Le Castro and went to the top of Coit tower to have an overview of everything around us, we rode bikes through the Golden Gate bridge all…

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Mount Rainier - Tahoma
A Sense of Place

A Sense of Place

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I believe that ultimately […] we should take time to explore our local landscape and locate our personal places of power. That we should try to find out how to start a conversation with them. Barry Patterson – The Art of Conversation with the Genius Loci I’m currently rereading this book for the third time and, as usual, I couldn’t agree more. This particular sentence always hit me and, oddly enough, it illustrates perfectly what I’ve been up to these…

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