the sexy unique scam of "cortisol face"
and more!
Welcome to our weekly newsletter full of little portals to guide you to alternate universes. I’m Michelle Pellizzon Lipsitz, your cosmic tour guide and the head witch in charge at Holisticism.
Today’s email includes:
the cortisol industrial complex
how to write as an indie artist
visual spells 🐆🚶🚋
IN THE ETHER
📚 READ Books: "Remedios Varo, Encuentros"
A quick look into the symbolism of surrealist artist, Remedios Varo. If you’ve ever looked at her work and thought “wait is that The Tower?!” you were correct!
💻 WATCH CONSPIRACY | contrapoints
We actually have never more back than when a new contrapoints video drops.
💭 TRY Call for Submissions: THE UNPOSTED (zine, issue 01)
A printed zine of the digital realm is taking submissions and I am so excited to submit my hyper-specific meme I made to send to one singular person
💻 WATCH Weekly Garboscope
Get the week’s vibe prognosis from a deeply Canadian man throwing garbage out his window. My favorite kind of scrying.
📚 READ The Cortisol Pyramid Scheme
The language surrounding the cortisol conversation is dangerous in the way that it suggests everybody is in some sort of hormonal imbalance which is fundamentally untrue.
🎟️ ATTEND How To Write So People Pay Attention
A free workshop on writing to get seen (and funded/accepted/featured) as an artisté with our fave, Courtney Romano.
📚 READ Inside The Weird-Ass Cult Adam Driver's Connected To
Weird-ass cult? Why yes I will!
🔎 EXPLORE Are.na Board of the Week — frameworks by Roger Dario
baseball hotdog guy voice FRAMEWORKS, GET YA FRAME WORKS HEYRUH
VOID STATES
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If you got…
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Ready-But-Stuck Void —
If you are Chillin’ —
THE NORTH NODE
We’re ending Q1 with our gorge closing ceremony. See u there? Be square?
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“What are your practices for embodying and encountering wonder?”
The Twelfth House Podcast
Get a peek at our Twelfth House+ content here.
a spell for seeing your frequency word with Kate Van Horn
We’ve been loud and proud sigil spell creators (Digital Altars, anyone?) for many years at Holisticism HQ.
TH+ Audio Course: More Lore Less Bore — How to Grow Your Audience and Sell Your Products
Over the past few months, the Holisticism subscriber list grew by 900 people. Like, in literally two months. Not because I cracked some mysterious algorithm code or finally achieved inbox zero (lol forever), but because we started telling the real story of what we believe and why it matters.
VISUAL SPELLS
IT AIN'T THAT DEEP ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I leave you with this:
rip good for u(?) you would have loved the cortisol face trend/scam
Highly recommend the book Alchemy of a Blackbird for a fictional take on Remedios Varos plus the history of tarot!! Last month in Mexico City I went to the modern art museum just to see some of her works after reading it!