Denigrating the independence of women? Condescension toward POCs? Mocking a beautiful sincere infectious laugh? If that's the best oppo you've got, then great. Keep it up. 👍 She's powerful enough to take it. And he's showing the weakness of his own hand.

Will I see you at ConVocation 2025? 🙏🥰 Link for more info and registration: convocation.org

The Etteilla Tarot art project continues. Nine of Swords work-in-progress. About the deck: benebellwen.com/etteilla-tarot/

Rambling on "trad wives" and "girl bosses" while sharing my art process for drawing the Etteilla Eight and Nine of Swords. benebellwen.com/2024/08/02/ett…

I was just thinking today how if I went back in time to meet my ancestors from a millennium ago without any of my 21st century tools, they'd be like holy hell she's so incompetent.

Chris Brennan is the coolest. Loved chatting with him on I Ching and astrology. 🙏💞

On the Baopuzi, which I'm positing as the most influential grimoire on Taoist ritual magic and mysticism. I also cover the Nine Character Liu Jia Secret Mantra. youtu.be/EKNmX9UQLhM?si…

From my Etteilla Tarot. Saint Hildegard of Bingen is ft. on one of the cards. Thought I'd share just the illustration, without the Key captions. Lower third ft. a page from the Wiesbaden Codex. May seeing this on your feed today bring a calming hallowed moment with the divine.

The Five of Swords. In the SKT, I had drawn the battle between Hector and Achilles. Here, an engraving of Aurelian was already pictured in the lower third of the historical Etteillas, so expanded on that for Aurelian vs. Zenobia. benebellwen.com/2024/09/25/fiv…

Do you have a skill that AI cannot replicate? Eg, emotional intelligence, empathy, nunchi 눈치. Original ideation, truly novel ideas, creative leaps that sidestep logic and rationalism. Many fear what AI means for their jobs. But the mystic who is prepared to adapt will be fine.

The most accurate evidence of wisdom and humility is knowing when to keep silence. And I say that as someone who never seems to know when to shut my mouth.

Nothing like people not from your culture and tradition telling you that your educational videos about your own culture and tradition are wrong. Because it differs from what their white dude lama said (who also charged $1,000 for them to hear him say it). 🙄🧿

Dad thought he lost his phone so I called the restaurant asking if maybe they found an iPhone. They asked for a description of the party and I literally said, Two parents and a kid. Then quickly corrected myself, Sorry, I mean an adult kid. Somehow around my parents I regress. 😳

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Toast rice grains and dried ginseng slices until aromatic, then pound into a superfine powder via mortar and pestle. Takes about 90 minutes of pounding. This is both skincare and makeup. It's what I wear everyday + what I use for a face mask (with aloe vera) every night.

A general must think with a scholar’s mind, A scholar must strike when the moment’s aligned. 將軍者，士之心也 士者將之枝體也 -- From Liu Xiang’s Garden of Persuasions 說苑, circa 206 – 9 BC

Hubby and I are now at that age where the language that Gen Z Chinese and Taiwanese kids speak is like trying to decipher Pre-Qin Classical Chinese.... You are using words we understand in concept, but you are stringing them in an order and context that makes no sense.

This video lecture is on what happens when we die, from a Mahayana Buddhist perspective. The content is sourced from the notes I took during a 1999 lecture I attended in Taiwan at FGS (佛光山). youtu.be/9sTGtQOQPG4

How Do We Reclaim Space? Challenging the Disproportionate Visibility of White Male Scholars in Indigenous Spiritual Practices benebellwen.com/2025/03/03/how…

Let’s time travel and step into the mystical lineage of the Neolithic Wu 巫 shamans that laid the foundation for Taoist 道 mysticism. This video lecture explores the birth of Taoist magic and the enduring legacy of Wu shamanism. youtu.be/i4z4HoSyQDw?si…