Favorite time of day?
I love the deep middle of the night, midnight to 5am. The world is so silent, the stars sparkle so clearly, the air is so crisp in your lungs. It's intoxicating. I don't see it as much as I used to, but it's without a doubt my favorite.

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Biggest learning experience you've ever had?
Death has always been the greatest teacher to me. Deaths of those close to me, deaths of my selves, having to confront my own potential death when sick with cancer. Every time I've had to look death in the eye I've learned something new and it has forced me to answer for who I am. Nothing has made me certain I'm strong enough for anything than facing death repeatedly so boldly. 

 

What are 3 things do you use most in your practice?
Music, art supplies, candles.

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Favorite thing to celebrate?
I've been caring less and less about holidays and sabbats as time goes on. I love celebrating things just the same, but I just want to celebrate whatever day it is that my friends can get together. I want to celebrate the anniversaries of weddings and births that changed my life. I want to celebrate the shift of the seasons as I feel them coming, not so much as to when they're 'supposed to be' celebrated.

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What's inspiring you right now?
I'm currently inspired by the idea of fun and joy. The last almost three years just annihilated me mentally, physically, and emotionally. I spent so much time in bed doing absolutely nothing that now I just want to do what's going to bring me joy. I want to play and explore and learn and have fun. It feels like the first time my whole motivation have been joy and I'm excited to see where that brings me.

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What books do you enjoy?
I love all books. My library proudly boasts books in every category of the dewey decimal system. Historical studies, smutty fiction, mathematical proofs, cultural studies, true crime, other languages, I will take any and all books.

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Favorite occult show?
The Haunting of Hill House and The Fall of the House of Usher are two shows to which I've been continually returning. I think both of these shows explore the concepts of family, death, legacy, and meaning in ways that are truly so beautiful and terrifying. Personally, I find these topics to be ones everyone should face, and art is a comforting way to explore these topics when it's hard to face them for yourself.

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What music is most played in your rotation right now?
Memoir of a Sparklemuffin by Suki Waterhouse is my fucking jam currently. Taylor Swift and Andrew McMahon never waiver from my playlists. There's such a weird variety that fills everything else.

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Best thing that's happened to you this year?
I survived cancer that the entire medical establishment refused to believe I had. That was something...​

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What's the strangest thing you've ever experienced?
Over the summer I had a dream so tangible and real I woke up the next morning so entirely certain of the experience I just lived I believed in magic more when waking up than when I had gone to sleep the night before. Then I talked to Kristen and we found out we had the same exact dreams together. It was incredible and, again, left me more certain of magic than I had been minutes before.

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If you could grab a coffee with a deity, who would it be and why?
I would like to sit and have a coffee date with Hera and Nisaba. Hera is a dear matriarch who I feel so cared for and cherished by regularly that I will always take a chance to hear from her. I think inviting Nisaba we could have some lovely coffee and bread and solve most of the worlds problems in one sitting.

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If you passed on to the other side, what signs would you send your loved ones?
I'll be there for the deepest, darkest, quietest, snowiest nights. I'll be the first thought to make my loved ones laugh when they were certain they never would again. I'll be the urge pushing them to do something more luxurious than strictly necessary.

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What's one philosophy you live by?
"There are greater things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespeare.

While there are a lot of different philosophies I hold close, this quote from Shakespeare is the simplest and truest that I  base everything else on. There is more than we can possibly know, understand, and dream up in the universe.

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What's the best way that you get to rest?
Trying to find ways to rest more than just laying in bed. Art of any form works best.

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If you could have a familiar, what would they be?
A bat or a snake, but my pup Marie has been a loyal familiar for more than fifteen years now.

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Do you have any superstitions you follow?
Always throwing salt over my shoulder. I wore a bit of red on my wedding day like many Sicilian brides.

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Do you have any unique senses?
I have a lot of forms of synesthesia, but the weirdest is that I don’t have a sense of smell, but still get synesthesia from smelling things. I get no scent, but I can feel the texture of what I’m smelling in my lungs.

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What are 5 books that are close to your heart? 
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, The Death of Ivan Ilyitch by Leo Tolstoy, and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.