I wish you a wonderful winter season.
May you get enough rest.
May you get enough fun.
May you stay true to yourself.
May the hearth fire burn bright within your home and your heart.
May the Divine love that flows through the World Tree embrace you, empower you, heal you.
May you know the beauty that you are and the beauty that is the dark winter months.
Blessed be.
Updated December 2023.
Letters to Santa—Yule Magic Wishes
A simple holiday ritual for children of all ages.
Back story: I’m a nomad shaman, traveling astrally as a shamanic guide. Come late fall, I retreat to the North Pole, where I continue my work as a long-distance guide, and also help in Santa’s workshop as one of his elves. End of backstory.
One of my Yule elf jobs is to relay your wishes to Santa.
Here’s how to send Santa your wish. In the comment field all the way at the bottom of the page, make a wish or wishes to Santa. He’s a “jolly elf.” So he has the magic to grant your heart’s desires.
I will give Santa your comment!
And remember: He knows if you’ve been naughty or nice, so be a good girl or boy or gender-marvel or faerie or wolf or rabbit or dragon or girl-boy-gender-marvel-faerie-wolf-rabbit-dragon or whatever you are. Eat your veggies and play nice with others. I can’t wait to see your wish, and I promise not to get too proud about Santa giving me this big job.
People’s letters to Santa in previous years have been heartwarming. If you want to enjoy them, wishes from 2022 back to 2015 are in the comment fields below. And check out ones from earlier years by clicking here.
Mystical Pagan Yule fun is the best!
A Sacred Marketplace is available only from the author:
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Book Description:
A Sacred Marketplace:
Sell without Selling Out or Burning Out.
Mysticism + Marketing = Sales.
Marketing tips from best-selling author, spiritual guide, and solopreneur Francesca De Grandis.
From the book: “Imagine earning a living doing what you love for clients you love. Imagine your big-hearted joy creates sales, automatically making our culture more ethical, serene, and giving. It’s an economy based in love.”
This lyrical ebook helps make that vision your reality. You’ll market with your own style, in a relaxed self-caring way. Spirit will guide you in a business that becomes sacred space. Your inner blocks to marketing and prosperity will heal.
With marketing advice for both newbies and successful marketers, Francesca’s spiritually-based little guide gives more value than seminars that cost $1000s. And you’re spared years of heartbreaking dead ends.
Francesca’s strategies work in any part of your marketing process—social media marketing, face-to-face sales, phone sales, email marketing, and more.
Artists, coaches, and you, A Sacred Marketplace informs you as a heartfelt entrepreneur and shares a philosophy that informs your entire life. Support yourself—the whole you.
Francesca De Grandis AKA Outlaw Bunny—spiritual teacher, humorist, mystic genius, best-selling author of the classic Be a Goddess!, innovator, artist, and super independent marketer. Renaissance woman. Busy elf.
Acclaim:
“I have always found Francesca to possess a rare combination of creativity and marketing savvy … What is most impressive is her fundamental humanity, her determination to make a difference in the world—and to do it with spirit, wit, and insight.”—Mark Chimsky, Editor in Chief of Books, Sellers Publishing
“Her insightful research in anthropology led to her innovative work in the modalities of spiritual healing.”—S.S. Kush, Professor of Anthropology
“Francesca De Grandis is genius—she develops cutting edge methodologies in mysticism, marketing, art, and more. A thought leader in marketing and everything else she’s devoted herself to. She’s the real deal, often copied, never equaled. De Grandis innovates with style and integrity, in both the corporate and indie worlds.”—Beverly Macy, author, The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing
“Francesca teaches us what we already know but are too stressed out and spread around to remember. So she helped me see the ability to market was already in me.”—Julie Harrington
“Francesca sees the world through the eyes of a wise spiritual master, a sadhu, a shaman.”—Donna Henes, author The Queen of My Self
Have you rejected parts of yourself? E.g., child, Goddess, God, fattie, loser, quitter, matriarch, whiner, sissy, artist, sorceress? Place those parts of you on the throne. Bow down before them.
Star-Filled Faerie Blessings:
I’m excited to announce a new service.
In traditional native culture, each person was taken care of by her tribe’s shaman. My mother trained me to do this work from childhood, as part of the family’s shamanic tradition going back hundreds of years.
A tribe member would regularly receive blessings from her shaman, through a five-day ritual to bring well being—e.g., prosperity, peace, and protection. The shaman chose a propitious time in nature and performed the five-day blessing, empowered by this special time.
I’ll do this ceremony for you, once a month, for six months, starting October.
Every shaman has their favorite times in nature. I love the witchy powers that come forth when there’s less moonlight. Night stars!
Every month has a New Moon—a night when no moon appears above. About five days before and after this, the moon shows far less than half its full sphere, revealing only a bright narrow sliver.
I’ll choose five consecutive days, from this dozen or so darker days of the month, to do the five-day ceremony. During it, you receive
* a healing and empowerment of your spirit,
a healing and strengthening of your body,
* good luck overall in your life.
The blessing shapes itself to your needs. It’s not intrusive, controlling, or otherwise “off.” I can’t know what’s right for you. Only you and your Gods fully comprehend you. My magic supports your unique being, adapting to your essence as it manifests moment to moment.
It’s easy to receive this blessing. You don’t have to do a thing. I do the work for you!
If you like doing magic for yourself, my work has the added benefit of supporting yours—even if you’re a magical master. My past life memory is, doing these rituals when a tribe had more than one shaman, I would bless them as well; we are all tribe.
You deserve high quality support and ongoing loving care:
Choose a six-month subscription, with easy, automatic monthly payments of $130.
Payments appear on the credit card associated with your PayPal account. Use the Subscribe button below.
I encourage you: Open to long-term support. Imagine the improvement in your life from a half year of ceremonies. Imagine star-filled Faerie Blessings for six months. In fact, subscribe and receive an additional magic each month:
During every five-day ceremony, I’ll create a mystical document you receive as a PDF by email. This page, which you can put it in your Book of Shadows, is not run-of-the-mill Paganism seen over and over online. It’s my channeled material—eg prayers or insights—relevant to the five-day blessing.
In the same vein, there’s no clip art. The page is ornamented by full-color art I paint in trance, which blesses the page.
Spirit tells me that your opening to ongoing succor—AKA subscribing for six months—helps energize the documents, so they function as talismans for you. The effort I put into the pages, plus your commitment to the six-month blessing, generates sacred artifacts—digital style: Each of the six pages is a talisman that increases your star-filled Faerie blessings, bringing further well-being and success, with no effort on your part. You don’t even have to print a page for its power to work!
I retain full copyright of my art and writing. Sharing the material without permission from its creator is prohibited by law; it is also bad mojo.
I always tell you by email when the ritual will start. If you need more info, can’t afford payment, or need reduced payment, phone me: 814.337.2490. I also am open to trade. No refunds but, if for some reason you must drop out, cancel your subscription, and I won’t expect further payments.
Enrollment deadline: October 2.
Special Note: The five-day rite does not pollute Gaia through the manufacture of lots of objects. Mind you, using magical tools can be powerful, and I make altar tools myself. But capitalist “Pagans” try to sell sell sell us a endless stream of stuff stuff stuff, by implying that littering our lives with purchases makes us “real” Pagans. Acquiring a magnitude of “stuff” doesn’t produce a magnitude of power.
Instead, you receive nothing but straight ahead pure magic from me! Magic like you might’ve dreamt of as a child or hoped for in wild fantasies. Be with me in this magic.
A shamanic blessing does not substitute for medical care by a physician, psychiatric counseling, or other therapeutic treatment. Participants are personally responsible for the consequences of their voluntary participation. This spiritual treatment is extraordinarily effective, but may not work for some individuals.
Hiya, I’m excited to have finalized the book’s cover so I can share it with you:
Though untrained as an artist, I felt compelled to do the cover’s art and overall design. I wanted to put my heart in this book, every way possible.
The manuscript is dear to me. Its shamanic approach to the marketplace will help people do what they love for a living. The text also shows how professional self-fulfillment inherently helps build an economy no longer based in war and hate but in love and community service. I’m over the top happy: together, we can work toward creating a world of beauty, moral decency, and human dignity.
After years of work, the manuscript was supposed to be published late 2013. There was only about a month’s work left to be done on the manuscript. Then there was a big delay, and I only could get back to work on the project recently. But now I finally finished the manuscript. Here’s a photo right after completing the last edit:
Rather than getting tangled with a profit-hungry corporation, I’m trying to walk my talk regarding the book’s philosophy, by formatting the manuscript into an e-book myself. It’s a big learning curve for me, for two reasons. 1) I’ve never done this before. 2) Being print disabled, most of my leisure reading relies on audiobooks, so I haven’t read tons of e-books. I want to do this job right for you, which leads me to a question:
What format e-book do you want this book to be: PDF, ePub, or mobi? I’m not asking what you think other people read, because I already have statistics for that. I don’t make decisions based only on statistics—I care about you as an individual. What format do you read? Put your preference in the comment field below, or tell me in social media if that works better for you. Though not sure I can accommodate everyone’s preferences, I am going to really try.
I expect the book to be available in a few weeks. Stay tuned for more info.
Love, peace, and self-fulfillment to you,
Francesca De Grandis
Have you ever noticed how the first line of many female artists’ mini biography is mention of the male artist who influenced her? That does not tend to happen in male bios. Their first line usually states their most important accomplishment. Apparently, what’s most important about a woman is whatever man she happened to stand next to.
The same dismissal of genius and innovation happens to women authors, philosophers, inventors, and so on.
I wonder how often the woman in question was the actual influence and was robbed of credit so men could be the ones to profit from her innovations. I believe it happened a lot. In any case, our society, by rote of sexist biographical structure, dismisses and hides the innovative brilliance of many women.
There are incredibly fine minds in advertising, people using their amazing talents to bastardize innovative political and social movements into “If you want to be free and express yourself, buy this dress that everyone else will also wear!” I wish these people, with all their mental prowess, could get paid to market world peace.
—from Share My Insanity: It Improves Everything
Homespun, but Boldly Elegant
I’ve got five new brooches, made from scraps.
There’s something spiritually earthy when you upcycle to create beauty.
The above T-shirt flower is my variation on this tutorial: http://prairiepatch.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-make-fabric-flowers.html
Do try the original variation as well. When you make flowers with cloth other than tshirts, following that blog’s instructions, the “petals” have fabulously ragged edges. I love them and made a handful. Here is one:
Here is another:
After making a few like that, I couldn’t stop, LOL. So I came up with my variation. It goes in a totally different direction, using T-shirts scraps, instead of fabrics that will “rag.”
T-shirt material rolls, creating a very different effect—still homespun, but boldly elegant, if you choose the right palette and center piece. Note that most “petals” curl lengthwise, and a few at the other edge:
Its center is a beautiful brass piece from Vintage Jewelry Supplies.
I’m wearing my tshirt blossom as I type, love it so much.
If you catch the bug I did, and can’t stop making cloth flowers, here’s another variation: When dyeing clothing for myself, I tossed a ragged flower into the dye, so it would match my outfit.
The flower had different fabrics types and colors, which I wanted to peek through the dye. So I removed the flower from the dye sooner than I did the clothing. A more thorough dye job might have obscured fabric variation.
Check it out (I could not manage a photo that shows the different fabrics very well, sorry):
As an experiment, I ironed the dyed flower, which is kind of ironic, because the beauty of these flowers is their mussed up look. But that particular flower looked better to me ironed.
I sewed jewelry pins to all the backs. Instead, you could sew a flower to a hat or a blouse. Also, I’ve seen a lot of shabby chic flowers sewn around a neckline or hemline for an opulent Lagenlook.
There are endless ways to use these gorgeous, inexpensive, and easy to make adornments. And homemade adornment is innately magical.
After hurting someone, I might cut myself some slack, if there were mitigating circumstances.
Hopefully, I make sincere efforts to never repeat the injurious offense, while simultaneously being compassionate to myself.
However, when someone hurts me, it’s easy to attribute the worst possible motive, and therefore condemn that person, in a wrongful fit of moral superiority. Compassion has fled.
So I usually try to cut people who wrong me some slack. I’m not saying I’ll be a doormat, but that condemning someone tends to only fuel hostility and wrongdoing.
Compassion bestows dignity, allowing someone to recognize and cease their wrongful action.
Condemnation fosters conflict.
Compassion nurtures mutual understanding and positive change.
