✨ Life is more fun when you believe in magic…
My friends often text me and ask,
“Collette… what’s happening with the planets right now? Because this week has been chaos.”
I’ve always been the one people call when life feels a little cosmic, a little confusing, or just a little too loud. I don’t pretend to have all the answers, but I do offer perspective, curiosity, and just enough woo-woo to make the universe feel a little less overwhelming.
So I thought… why not offer that same energy here?
This corner of my website is a metaphysical noticeboard of sorts. A place for celestial musings, hopeful headlines, grounding resources, and stories that remind us we’re not alone in the chaos.
In a world where the news can feel heavy and anxiety-inducing, I want this space to feel lighter. Softer. A little enchanted.
And if Mercury is in retrograde, we’ll survive it together.
Songs that calm my nervous system:
Strawberry Wine - Noah Khan
Self Control - Frank Ocean
Malibu - Miley Cyrus
In Happy News!
Sir David Attenborough officially celebrated his 100th birthday on may 8th 2026. The legendary naturalist and broadcaster marked his centennial milestone with global tributes, including a star-studded gala concert at the Royal Albert Hall, attended by the prince of Wales.
The Story of Persephone
This month’s tarot card brings to mind the goddess Persephone.
Her story, in short, is about a young woman who descends into darkness. She not only faces death, but marries him and returns from the Underworld as its queen.
This is a woman who lost everything. Her clothes, her jewels, her light. And in that darkness, she was made new. Stronger. Divine.
People who resonate with Persephone often move through seasons of withdrawal and rebirth. They feel pulled toward both the light and the shadow, constantly learning how to hold space for each within themselves.
Persephone is closely associated with the planets Pluto and Venus, the planets of shadow and love, respectively. Her story is about what it truly means to hold space for the darkest parts of ourselves while still making room for love, beauty, and hope.
She is proof that transformation is not the opposite of beauty. It is what deepens it.
I find myself thinking of Persephone whenever I need to remember that the changes we wish to see in ourselves, and in this world, often require sacrifice. Sometimes transformation asks us to lose something first, whether it be time, money, comfort, or even the people who wish to keep us small and hidden in the dark.
The journey is not easy, but it is not impossible. And it is never in vain.
Card of the Month
Death
I pulled a card for the collective, and I got the Death card.
I think when this card shows up in a reading, we are conditioned to fear what “death” means because we are conditioned to fear change itself. I was nervous to even post this on my website because I want this to be a place of hope and whimsy, not fear. But I respect the cards as they fall, always. So here we are, collectively afraid of something we do not truly understand.
Death has appeared so often in my own readings that I’ve had to learn how to sit with it. And it took years for me to realize that Death does not always arrive as the Grim Reaper. It does not always mean loss. More often, it means transformation.
That realization does not make it any less frightening. But for some, perhaps it brings relief.
The thing you have been dreading is finally over.
You can bury it. You can mourn it. You can step away from it. Because you survived the thing that once terrified you, and now you are changed because of it.
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about change — what it truly means to become something new, someone new. I’ve been thinking about caterpillars and what it must feel like inside the chrysalis: dark, damp, silent. I wonder if they feel fear right before they grow their wings. Right before their entire existence changes forever.
If we all stayed the same, if we never dared to grow, to change, or to sit with the pain we spend so much time trying to avoid — then we would never reach the next version of ourselves. We would remain frozen in one place, waiting for the Grim Reaper to carry us somewhere we’ve been taught to believe is even worse than this.
But I do not think death is like that.
And I do not think it is something we were meant to fear.
I think this card asks us to release the things causing us pain. I think it is the universe reminding us that something new is waiting just beyond the horizon. That this ending, this loss, this transformation, only serves to make the soil more fertile for what comes next.
Death reminds us that nothing lasts forever — not grief, not fear, not even the versions of ourselves we have outgrown.
And if we are willing to face the darkness, we are always being given the chance to become new again.