Unknown Burials

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About the Cover

The yule tree in layers of morning shadow while the playful hand asks "what's this?".

Michelle Arbeeny - aimless woman in Saint Louis.

Leshachikha

The goddess Leshachikha, in Slavic pagan folklore, is said by some to have died in October and magically revived in the spring. She's traditionally the wife of the Leshy, the Slavic forest god. Just as one can in a forest, it's easy to get lost in another person. That's a burial of sorts that no one, sometimes not even the one who's lost themselves, may ever know about—unless they manage to find themselves again and reawaken. Meanwhile, their magic may lie dormant, though its influence never entirely goes away. To find the path back, you have to relearn to listen to yourself, to follow the thinnest thread of intuition and hear what your inner voice already knows.

About Margaret Schneider

I’m a third-generation artist, writer, and musician, reclaiming my maternal Russian-Ukrainian heritage, reconnecting with ancestral traditions, and making reparations for ancestral harms. My spiritual and artistic practices are intuitive, including practice of divination via everyday omens, tarot, stichomancy, scrying, and dream states.

To Learn More

More of my photography, artwork, and divination can be seen on my Instagram account at https://www.instagram.com/scaredcicada/.

Solstice Drawing by Julianne Wise

About the artist:

Julianne Wise is an artist living in St. Louis, MO. I am a multi-disciplined artist and run a small screen printing shop as well. My art involves ideas of esoteric, nature and folk art symbols. You can find more on instagram @wisejules

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