october divination journal

initiating healing spirals

Greetings from the Hedge!

I’m Casey Zabala, intuitive witch, artist, tarot author and mother, crawling through the proverbial hedge to source magical wisdom to inspire collective re-enchantment. This “hedge” is the wild intersection of brambles, folk medicine, community care, and thorns. A traditionally psychic space, alive with spiritual remedies for all who are willing to travel to the outskirts of modern consciousness, and connect with their magic.

Divination Journals are my psychic field notes for the month ahead. Whatever is gathered and translated here is meant to activate your own intuitive ramblings through the hedge. May this support your personal witchery and re-enchantment! As always, drop your synchronicities, miracles, and intentions in the comments. Tell us, what is emerging in your wild corner of experience?

My son looks up at me as we tumble through our evening routine and asks, “mama, is that the night?” Darkness arrives earlier and earlier these days, and yes it is the night pressing in. October greets us with a familiar embrace that snuggles us back into our interior selves. The nights come early to usher us into dreaming, space for integration, slowness and rest. How does your animal body respond to this call for retreat?

October began with an owl visitor outside of my home. A great horned owl sitting across the street, on the fence above the creek, watching, arriving, witnessing. The owl’s presence is a gift and an awakening. A call to sing your sacred song into the darkness.

For this divination journal, we are invited to cultivate and co-create our intentions to anchor us as we descend into the dark season. Anchors and allies we will need, as we traverse more disruption and opportunity to adjust to a crumbling world. Below, I’ve crafted intention exercises for the Aries Full Moon (Oct 6th) and the Libra New Moon (October 20th) to support your visioning and embodiment process.

Owl’s visit also reminds us of the power of our magical practices. At this time of year between Equinox and Samhain, the spirits call out for recognition and nourishment, so that they may be willing and able allies throughout the Winter season. Return to the simple but profound acts that ground you into your magical reality. (More on this later.) This divination journal is full of suggested spells/rituals/practices to support you through the lunar stations ahead. Take what resonates, and compost the rest!

May you make your way down into the depths on the month with an awareness of your own inner shimmer to guide you through the night.

Bibliomancy: “faced with the unknown, the human imagination gets busy, finding in the dark surface of the mysterious, reflections of its own enigmas.” (Moore, Thomas. The Planets Within: The Astrological Psychology of Marsilio Ficino.)

Oct 6 — Aries Full Moon → 14°08′ Aries

Full Moon intention exercise: