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Today, Aries Ritual Craft Set
The set includes: Book, Candle, Journal & Pen, Sticker Sheet, & Tarot Bookmark
Handcrafted & curated items evocative of Kalie Pead’s poetry, this set creates an immersive experience for indulging in poetic ritual while reading Today, Aries. Step into the wild ethereal with a candle, sweet & floral while reading Today, Aries. Use the tarot bookmark to mark your place, upright or reversed. Generate your own poetic readings from Kalie’s tarot & poetry generator & record them (& your musings) in the journal, decorated in stickers reminiscent of the many dimensions of this prismatic collection.
“Illuminated Variant” Soy Wax Candle by Marvel + Moon
Comes in a 3oz tin
A fragrance of duality, where the darkest night has turned / dawn is coming home. This candle opens with a bright, deceptive sweetness, like honey / mixed in the milky way, reminiscent of limoncello & honeysuckle. The burn quickly shifts, drawing you into the shadow spotlight of lily's narcotic heart, a floral descent mirroring Persephone between the depths & pomegranates . Finally, the base brings in a grounding patchouli, an echo of black cats sprouting from shadows & the pull rivulets split / earthed by a barren vessel. It’s a scent of contrasts: light & dark, sweetness & earth, life & the mysteries that lie beneath, where the void speaks through & the dead summoned from within linger .
SCENT NOTES: Limoncello. Lily of the Valley. Wild Honeysuckle. Patchouli.
ADORNMENTS: Glitter moons & stars.
Bookmark, Journal, Pen, & Stickers can be used to go along with the included ritual for reading & post-reading meditation, as well as in conjunction with the use of the poetry generator.
QUOTES ABOUT THE BOOK:
“I'm emerging from a palm/turned into a garden”. In a moment and on a planet teeming with extinction, it is strengthening to be reminded that there are moments beyond our moment, angles of survival cosmic in scope. Kalie Pead's Today, Aries opens up ancient vistas of possibility with the ease of a card flipping over to show the future's face. An elegant and surprising work.
—Joyelle McSweeney, author of Death Styles
Today, Aries reminds readers to practice. By delicately placing ritual between beauty & fun Kalie Pead offers the world an open invitation to practice investigating inwards “as if the future is a game / until there are no cards left.” Of course, one doesn’t have to come to Today, Aries with more than a minimal understanding of Tarot. The imagery pulled from the cards—or rather by the cards—offer universal experiences beyond spiritual practices. Many passages continue to grow past the notions of tarot & project. In a world where diversity once again spins adversity it is lucky we have books like Today, Aries to shepherd us through tactful practiced reflections. As Kalie Pead offers: “this is not hometown / it’s okay to build a goodbye.”
—RJ Ingram, author of The Autobiography of Nancy Drew
