a spell for reclaiming your agency when you're your own worst enemy from KP Pilley

a sneak peek into a guest grimoire

Welcome to our bonus newsletter featuring a small visual spell book crafted by a very special guest. Today’s spell is one to reclaim your agency made by Holisticism’s own social gremlin,

KP Pilley

. Happy Casting!

VISUAL SPELL, YOU SAY?

We’ve been loud and proud sigil spell creators (Digital Altars, anyone?) for many years at Holisticism HQ.

A sigil is, most simply, a visual spell.

Here’s how it works: While creating a sigil (this can be as lo-fi as symbol you draw, or as detailed as a piece of pottery or collage), you hold an intention for a desired outcome. This directed attention “charges” the visual spell, and the magic begins to do its work. Every time you catch sight of the sigil, the magic is reinforced.

Depending on your practice, you might prefer to use sigils and visual spells as a way to communicate with your unconscious mind. The abstraction of your intention allows the conscious mind to take a backseat, which ultimately means we can let something more intuitive takeover.

We publish a weekly visual spell in our Tuesday Portal, but we thought we’d query some of our favorite intuitive folks to come on the ‘stack and cast a visual spell for us.

KP’S INTENTION

A spell to reclaim your agency when you are your own worst enemy.

KP’S INSPIRATION

Today’s spell is brought to you a tarot card pull — the Eight of Swords from the Queer Tarot deck. I’ve been thinking a lot about learned helplessness and the cultural obsession with needing everything to be catered to you.

As a content strategist and terminally online person, I see some of the most out-of-pocket comments on videos like “How did you not cater this scenario to my needs exactly?!” and it’s like my sibling in christ… this video wasn’t created for EXACTLY you.

Domestic Blisters has a great TikTok on this exact issue here.

You can actually watch the video and still take something valuable away from it, even if it didn’t capture your whole scenario perfectly. OR if you get nothing from the video at all, perhaps it is time to move on.

For the spell today, I want to prescribe a little bit of the antidote. Ask yourself the question: Am I the one holding me back? Why? How do I let go? 🪞

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed. —Paulo Freire