Breaking Rules this Samhain
a love letter to rule followers & boundary-pushers alike
✨ My books will be opening for December 2022 and January 2023✨
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Hello my sweet friend. It’s Samhain!
The final harvest festival on the Wheel of the Year, also known as the Witch’s New Year. It’s the time we venture into the darkness to commune with the spirits, the ancestors, and the visions of our past, present & future selves. It’s where we play, feast, reflect, listen, set intentions, make magic, slow down, and rest.
This Samhain, I’m planting seeds for my next creative endeavor—a queer rom-com novel slash love letter to New York City that I’ll be drafting over the next 30 days as a part of National Novel Writing Month (NanoWriMo).
But first, I’m reflecting on my truly incredible harvest this season.
My book is out in the world, living its beautiful life, and my initial marketing and release obligations are complete.
All of my loved ones gathered together in my neighborhood to celebrate said book, and it was delicious and emotional and healed bits and pieces of me that I didn’t know still needed soothing.
I finished a story that I’ve been writing privately over the last couple of months, which turned out to be an incredible training experience for NanoWriMo.
Even the core idea for my new novel is based on a kernel of a story that I’ve been writing and rewriting for years, waiting for the right perspective, the right cast of characters, and even the right “me” to write it.
(Writer pals: Don’t delete your shit! You never know when it’s going to become useful, even if you hate it in the moment.)
The other week, I went to see Dan Layus in concert. His music is my church, and this show was largely to share the album of instrumental piano music that he wrote and recorded during the pandemic. Listening to him play, I couldn’t help but think about all of the past versions of me who were touched by his artistry, and how we’ve grown together to this point where I now write books to his newest endeavor.
I also thought about his vast and diverse body of work—the folk-rock music he’s made with his band, Augustana, the solo album of blues music that had the coolest of twangs, and now, this album of classical music that still tells a story as clearly as his music with lyrics. And of course, I couldn’t help but notice his need to thank everyone for humoring his latest project, and how the bits of gratitude that felt more like an apology tugged at my heartstrings.
In one of their recent installments of Monday Monday, writer (and much, much more) Marlee Grace shared about the importance and freedom of switching mediums. They encourage us to focus less on less, to fling ourselves proudly into all of the directions that interest us, and to release the notions that you must be one particular thing in order to find fulfillment and recognition.
It’s with that freedom of creative spirit that I’m approaching Samhain. Join me?
Samhain is absolutely associated with Death with a capital D, which means that you may also need to lay to rest all of the people who you thought you would be, all the lives you thought you’d live, and all of the narratives you still carry around “shoulds” and “woulds.” I’m not saying this to ask you to walk away from anything that you’re still striving for. Everything that’s working gets to stay.
I’m saying this to support your liberation from anything that’s not propelling you further into your gorgeous life.
Toss out the rules, yes, even the ones you love to follow. Create deliberate change and surrender to the shake-ups that are out of your control. Make trash magic, even though that might mean your craft is literal or figurative garbage sometimes. Court your muses and devote yourself to their inspirations. Write or work from what’s healed. Drink your own kool-aid and take a sober look in the mirror.
Embrace all that you are, and all that lights you up, exactly as it exists right now.
Light a candle for all that you were, and all that enriched your life up until this point, and allow yourself to feel fully into that process.
Then, rest. Permission yourself to imbibe in the natural invitations of this time.