Fiends Collective

OKAY I know that I really don’t use this account or business ever anymore because basically I as am my business BUT I wanted to let y’all know in as many places as possible that ANOTHER ROUND OF THE ARTISTS WAY IS HAPPENING NOVEMBER 5TH

Be there. This is ur sign. Love you!!!!!

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OK this post is a long time coming so bear with me :)

This year has been a fu**in JOURNEY! All of fiends has been, but truly nothing is as humbling, frustrating, patience cultivating and heart aching than going through healing. Whatever the healing is, why ever it may have come about.

The truth is that I started this business out of a place of ego, and I continue it from that place as well right now. When you are unbecoming - regaining energy again - you essentially become the last tangible thing you were. A community, a shop, a spiritual service provider…. It all gets melted down and I have found myself clutching onto the last pieces of solid “something” as these months have passed.

The truth is, though (a truth I’ve recognized many times) that fiends did what it was here to do, which is build community.

Now I wonder about the difference between MY work as Forest, and the work of fiends. The only thing I can still see is the name, a brand.

And I honestly don’t need a brand to feel worthy of doing my work anymore. I feel so deeply grateful for fiends and the many roles it’s played. And I also know that trying to fix or figure it out is actually the last distraction keeping me from actually doing my work which is to create and connect with YOU.

So, as of now, fiends will remain a community space but no longer be a business endeavour. I will operate my business and services under and whatever else I continue to create, and fiends will be for those spiritual and mystic and seeking to connect and know we are here.

Continued in comments 👇🏽

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Catch me at again this Thursday and next Thursday! This time I’ll be there til 6 :)

If you want a full reading on those days just send me a message and we can sort out the details!

I’ll also have bath salts, books, crystals, and a couple other goodies with me for sale as well :)

I have the machine so all payments types are accepted at these events 🤍

Even if you don’t want a reading fauna is a beautiful place to come hang out for a bit! It smells v good and the people are nice and the vibes are groovy.

Ok love u all and looking forward to seeing ya!

If you know me well, you know I rearranged at least one thing a day. Mostly recently we moved the studio/office to the basement which has a private entrance and lots of space for all the activities. There are actually more windows down here than the ~first home office~ and direct access to some lovely outdoor nooks that are designed to feel safe and ethereal for things like the Akashic records!

There is a tender lil outside space with a set up for reading in the sunshine on really nice days surrounded by herbs and candles and precious lil details, there is an office area, a little creative space with a sink and really just so much room for connection and creativity and community.

Things continue to shift and evolve; just as we do. This us your permission to keep growing and changing and being even when it feels like you can barely remember where you started and can’t seem to catch a glimpse of where you’re going.

The reminder is to be right here, right now, in your current needs and wants and desires and know even if they aren’t forever they are a portal into understanding yourself.

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Tbh it’s really easy to get caught up in things like hours worked and worth as a creator and whatever the f**k but really, when it comes down to it, I would do what I do for free if all my needs were met. And I want you to feel that way about what you do too, which is one of the reasons this is a profound experience.

The Artists Way is a transformation. It is a spell, a ritual, truly a portal into a truer version of ourselves and our lives.

All I ask, truly, is that if you sign up you are devoted. It doesn’t mean it’ll be perfect or easy, but it means you recognize that by being here that you are an essential part of the experience and that you treat yourself as such.

Read about it on the website, watch the IGTVs about it, send me an email @ [email protected] if any questions aren’t answered and just know your donation can be your devotion :)

If u know you are ready to start with us this Sunday then send me an email saying PORTAL SIGN UP 🕊✨

xoxoxo

The artists way summer season starts this weekend! Sunday is our first check-in :)

If you’re curious the info is on our website!

I’ve been off IG for my brain space but if you have questions or curiosities please send us an email or check out the portal page for all the details ✨🕊

This hits pretty hard as I’ve been reflecting on what fiends is, what it will be, what I need to be to do that and who I actually want to be.

What’s the most important thing there?

Who I want to be. Obviously.

More thoughts in the comments 👇🏽

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Sweetest photos by my OG coffee and tarot in the sunshine friend 🤍

Years ago I was doing this at atomic cafe in proskates, just slinging coffees and reading cards and it feels full circle but in a Fibonacci sequence kind of way ya know?

Catch me here with books, crystal collections, readings and some herbal smoking wands 😘

Some pages energy for a Venusian Friday and with the moon in Libra (Friday and Libra are ruled by Venus 😎)

This is sort of what my inner dialogue has felt like the past little while, and the “venturing out” is actually more of a venturing into myself as I feel I’ve been seated in a little cabin puttering around on the edge of out there and in here for a few months now.

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Honestly, I feel so scared to launch the new collection.

These past few months have totally dissolved all of the things I felt I was working towards; and while it showed me in so many ways my truest intentions succeeded and were met, it still didn’t make parts of the unbecoming less painful or tedious.

Right now I honestly don’t know what fiends is or is becoming. All I know is that it has been a great gift, a wonderful ambition, a notion that has kept me afloat amongst these very tumultuous years as well as sometimes felt like a waterlogged thing to drag to shore with me.

I’ve been working a lot on myself; of feeling proud of what I’ve done personally and professionally. Humbled by what I’m not and curious about what else I don’t really know. I’ve been opened to more possibility within myself and what I actually want to feel, not just what I offer. I want what motivates me to be aligned with what I’m doing. I want to move with more patience and less urgency.

Unbecoming is totally goopy and you become whatever the last thing you really see is. It’s a kind of slow, moving backwards that I feel a mercury retrograde well represents and when you actually surrender there is this realization that it is all totally different and that the primal energy of it all exists and can become anything once again.

I feel like I’ve been rebirthing not just fiends, but myself. I actually feel more as if I’ve been reabsorbing fiends back into Forest which is it’s own unique grieving as much as it is becoming.

So, I’m no longer making any commitments about what will always be here or what it will always look like; instead I offer you the tenderness of having a place to watch the perpetual blooming procession of a thing.

Thanks for being here, or also not being here too if that’s what is needed, and I hope you can give yourself the grace of becoming once again 💖

Lil pop-up at fauna sugaring today 🤩

I’ll be here from 10-4 to give you mini readings, offer some books and just generally hang out!

Come find some reprieve on this rainy morning (I heard the sun is making an appearance this afternoon hehe) and some guidance as we prepare to spiral into mercury retrograde on the 10th

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