Light & Quirk

03/29/2026

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT PAMELA COLMAN SMITH

You've seen her work. You've probably held it in your hands. Every time someone shuffles a Rider-Waite deck, the most widely used Tarot deck on the planet, they are handling her art. With over 100 million copies in circulation, her imagery literally defines what most people picture when they picture Tarot. The Fool. The High Priestess. The Tower. All her.

Her name wasn't on the box.
She was paid a flat fee, described in her own words as "a big job for very little cash" with no copyright, no royalties, no credit. The deck was named after the publisher (Rider) and the man who commissioned her (Waite). She got a monogram hidden in the corner of every single card. That was it.

She was a British woman who spent her formative years in Jamaica, absorbing Afro-Jamaican folklore, spirituality, and storytelling traditions that visibly shaped the soul of those cards. She was a mystic, an occultist, a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. She brought her whole self to 78 illustrations in six months. She also wrote two collections of Jamaican folk tales, illustrated books, ran a press that centered women writers, and made art for the women's suffrage movement.

She died in 1951, penniless and in obscurity. Her belongings auctioned off to pay her debts.

The Tarot community has slowly started calling it what it always should've been called: the Rider-Waite-SMITH deck because erasure is a choice, but so is correction.
Say her name. Pamela Colman Smith.

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03/29/2026

getting up, doing stuff from the time you get up til you go to bed, spending money you'd rather not, all while living on this hellscape we call Earth which has new piles of nonsense and s*t everyday... motivation might feel as scarce as $2.00 gas. so let's try to help each other get motivated.

03/28/2026

all of my blends can be used as tea or for
smõkīng. I offer them in cones or loose leaf.
I've temporarily taken down my ordering site
bc I'm so mad at fees I wanna spit, so l'm in
the process of finding a new app/platform. Feel free to DM me if you're interested! $4-7/piece, spice optional.

03/25/2026

03/22/2026

Crooked Manifestations

So you think you fkd up your manifestations, huh? They didn't quite come in like you *expected*?

Has your unhealed shadow redirected your manifestation rather than simply blocking it?

Crooked Manifestation, as a concept, draws from shadow work, law of attraction and other universal laws, and energetic alignment (peep Carl Jung's work sometime) all established frameworks with deep roots. What's mine, and now OURS, is this specific mechanism: unhealed material doesn't just block what you're calling in. It redirects it. The concept has lineage. The framework is ours for the healing. 🕯️➕🥸✨

03/22/2026

Most people use alchemy and transmutation
like they're the same word. They're not, and the
difference actually matters for your healing journey
Alchemy is the whole practice. It's the ancient
system of transformation that works on BOTH the
physical and the spiritual. It's the container.

Transmutation is the act. It's the specific moment
when one thing becomes another:

fear -> love
grief -> wisdom
trauma-> power

That's transmutation. And it lives inside alchemy.
So when people say, "I'm doing the alchemical
work," they mean they've committed to the whole
practice. When something actually shifts inside
of us? That's the transmutation happening in real
time.

This is why shadow work isn't just "feeling your
feelings." It's a full alchemical process with
transmutation as the goal. You're not just sitting in
the lead. You're turning it into gold,
Which one are you currently in -- the practice
(alchemy) or the active shift (transmutation)? 🧚🏽‍♀️✨

03/21/2026

Integrating freedom means unlearning the cage. We out here doing the work 🕯️🌿

01/18/2026

I've been in survival and recovery mode for 16 months post hurricane.

Now I'm in spiritual, business, and creative mode again, FINALLY 😮‍💨

As such, coming very, very soon, after I finish up the testing phase, the newest member of Light & Quirk's aligned spiritual merch...

Revamped herbal smoke/tea blends, and Apothecookies™
Eat, inhale, manifest — tiny edible rituals in every box 🪄🍪🌿

Cookies made with Black-sourced herbs, high quality organic ingredients, edible flowers, and beautiful intentions.
Not necessarily for snacking, but I'm not the boss of you so... 👀

Pre-orders and special requests available soon
More details to come 🩷✨

01/18/2026

It's apparently Light & Quirk's 4th year on Facebook, so what better time to pop out and show 🥷🏽🥷🏽
Let's see what levels of abundance and tomfoolery this year brings 🪄✨

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12/04/2025

Stay posted... We're creeping outta the woodwork around here... ✨

05/14/2025

✨🌟 Happy Full Moon in Scorpio 🌟✨

This is a cord cutting ritual I decided to do this full moon as Scorpio loves the things of emotion and mysticism.

The orange candle represents the initiating energy. In the video, we can see that the orange candle was ready for business. It reached the cord first, its flame increased when it reached the cord, as expected, and it regained its composure once the cord was burned. The blue candle, on the other hand, seemed to throw a fit as it burned, indicating that it really wasn't prepared to have to process this ending. There may be factors such as codependency, grief, or trauma effecting blue candle's emotional processing abilities, particularly as we see that once blue candle "calms down", its flame is smaller than when it started and seems to be in a different energy than before the flame hit the cord.

Rituals such as this can confirm or deny where we are in energetic processing and healing. It is also a way to connect to our Spirit Squads and gain a bit of intuitive insight.

Here's to you being able to heal and process a bit more in your own journey this full moon 🥂✨

04/30/2025

New Moon reading for ENTREPRENEURS & CREATIVES ✨
TL; DR: Mini entrepreneurial guidance session complete with links to grant opportunities in the comments

✨In the spirit of new moon time, this is a reading for the entrepreneurial and creative collective. New moons are a beautiful time to realign your goals, start new ones, and generally manifest. Most belief systems acknowledge the new moon phase as a time of birth, rebirth, and growth.

Read every slide that jives with what you do or want to do. And if it don't apply, let it fly 🧚 Also, my inbox is open for quick questions or chats.

👉🏽FEEL FREE TO SHARE, particularly for/to those who could use a shot at grant money through the links in the comments.
Now go continue being amazing!
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