The coziest little bookstore & gallery in Humboldt Park, Chicago. We are a bookstore and gallery in Pilsen, Chicago.
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We stock original art by Chicago based artists and artisans. We have a carefully curated selection of new & used books and Tarot decks. We like rare books, witchcraft, sculpture, hand poured candles, essential oil perfumes, jewelry, notebooks & cards, fancy soap, zines, stickers, artist prints, and all manner of printed and handmade objects.
Please come out for a Tarot reading from yours truly, an aura photo, spooky artwork, magic, & other magick curated by Witch Haus Alchemy at Hexe Coffee tomorrow!
This will be Natties & Patties last pop up of the season, too. Come join us on the giant picturesque patio.
I hope you're enjoying the fruits of a sweaty, warm, sunny day in October today.
I got to play tourist hooky today in Chicago, walking around Logan Square & the NW side of the city.
Tomorrow evening, I'll be reading Tarot at , please stop by!🔮🙏🍂
It's perfect for the Hextoberfest Witching Hour Night Market's third year running! With tasty foods from local faves & a slew of witches selling their wares curated by ! 🖤
This Saturday, I'll be reading Tarot alongside my favorite pop-up ladies & at strange and unusual 🖤✨️☕️
Supreme thank yous are due to both Scarlett at Hexe Coffee & Jen Den of for hosting Witching Hour Market 3.0. This market is in the third year running!!!
When I see these talented vendors, I often feel like no time has passed. In addition to being really great at their 'craft, this is such a friendly group of people.
You should come out & see all the goodies! 👀
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I love open kitchen counter service spots & .kitchen was such a great spot for lunch before heading out to read Tarot at Grand Garden a few doors down.
Liberation Kitchen has my favorite donuts in the city! They're 100% vegan & I highly recommend their pineapple donut. 🍍
Grand Garden run by Emily of .co is a special place. I feel so fortunate to have had some fulfilling Tarot sessions in a space so literally Earthy.
🌸 go see the dahlias here before they're gone!
Mission accomplished: Journey Through Tarot was a success! Thank you for the opportunity to talk about the Tarot with your patrons, .
Now for a dreamsicle & a Saturday night! 🖤
This Sunday from 11 am-2 pm, I'll be reading Tarot at Grand Garden, which is maintained by yogi flower farmer Emily Rezetko, who runs .co
Grand Garden is right by .kitchen at 2048 W. Grand Ave. The entrance is in the alley.
Come grab a pumpkin from Emily's patch 🎃 & see some still blooming October flowers!
I'll be offering 3 & 6 card mini readings. 💕
I've been out gathering supplies today at ye olde WasteShed () for a workshop with the Glenview Public Library () tomorrow!
We'll be cutting up only the most beautiful National Geographic magazines from the late 1960s to make our own Tarot cards!
This meditative workshop for folks aged teen to adult is gonna be great. I'm excited to teach on Tarot's history & design for a workshop where people will walk out with their own collage.
The Glenview Librarians have been very open to all my ideas for the workshop, and I'm excited to visit their dreamy public library.
We're calling it Journey Through Tarot.
Stay tuned for more adventures throughout the month! I hope ya'll are enjoying the finest of all months already. 🎃🖤
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice...just kidding, this is who I am all year. Thanks for seeing me,
Really loving the work of the folks at the Chicago Diner today, come thru till 4 pm!
I'm here to bribe you with a blueberry soy shake from OG veg/vegan dream . Boystown, Chicago's Chicago Diner (Meat free since 83!) is the first place I ever experienced a vegan reuben with thousand island, sauerkraut, & cheez on beautiful marble rye. They also have sweet potato fries! I'll be reading Tarot next to a giant plush Halloween spider this Sunday, Sept 29th, from 11am - 4 pm. 🕷🕸🔮
This is the tastiest event I'll be doing this fall spooky season, so come out! Up the vegan punx. This taxidermy-free witch market was all curated by Chicago Diner's ultimate host, their manager Downs. 🌈🌱🕷
Hope you enjoyed the partial lunar eclipse & full moon in Pisces last night! If you didn't, tonight's now- waning-but-almost-full moon is a sight to behold.
Did you know that many witches observe the three days surrounding the full moon as the "week" of the full moon? So, there are 3 days of peak waxing, the full moon, and then 3 days of peak waning. That said, if you didn't get your moon workings in, fear not, there's always time to tune into the moon!
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If you're looking for something, anything to get excited about after that debate, how about the Moon?
I don't know about you, but celestial bodies are getting me thru this Election Year. 🤮 it's grounding to look at something far older than the United States. 💀👌
The Harvest Moon this month will also feature a partial eclipse! And it's a Supermoon!
Thanks to for creating this fantastic infographic. 🔥
Hello, witches! Hope you are enjoying the end of summer! Summer has never really been our season, so we're thrilled that fall is very nigh. 😘🎃
Sarah will be reading Tarot at this thrilling Autumn Equinox event hosted by Steven Intermill of on September 21st at the aptly named .
Catch her reading cards from 5-8 pm. 🔮👌
The vendor list is out of control, with pop ups from friends at ,
& . High witch summit, indeed.
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From The Buckland Museum of Witchcraft:
We have tons of great events coming up, the first of which will be in Chicago on September 21st. Join us for Dreams In The Witch House, the 3 year anniversary of Illuminated Brew Works and the launch party for our collaboration beer, The Buckland Bock!
Food, bands, music, vendors, diviners, and fun for all. Starts at 2pm and goes until late night.
https://www.ibw-chicago.com/
From the Illuminated Brew Works press release:
For our 3 Year Anniversary Party we've got a fantastic day of odds & ends, vendor pop-ups, tarot readers, food, big puppets and music!
Don't worry, the DUNK TANK will be back and in action with plenty of prizes to win as well.
In addition to several very RARE beer pours, we're releasing our collaboration BOCK that we made with our friends at THE BUCKLAND MUSEUM OF WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK in Cleveland, OH.
Vendors & Tarot Readers will be running from 2pm - 6pm.
Steven Intermill & Toni Rotonda from The Buckland Museum of Witchcraft & Magick will be giving a short talk on the museum and some of the incredible pieces they have on exhibit at 7pm.
Starting at 9:30pm we've got a full night of music featuring:
BECOME DEATH, DRUUNA & COMA!
Here's our list of vendors so far:
The Buckland Museum of Witchcraft & Magick
Sideshow Gallery
Alchemy Arts
Malliway Brothers
Grave Face
Aeriz!
Bucket O Blood Books & Records
Metal Edge Records
Chicago Pyro Shop 3D Printing & Engraving
Gary Augustyn sculptures
Black Pisces Screen Printing
Walk-up Tarot Readings Provided by:
Emerald Acorn
Michael Herkes
Sarah Luczko/
My cover story for just landed!
Back at the tail end of February, I volunteered the putting up tents in Humboldt Park with my friend Natalie and 20 or so other volunteers. At the time, I thought I'd be writing a short article about The Orange Tent Project's critical work in providing sturdy tents to people living unhoused in Chicago for StreetWise, a street paper and social services center in Chicago.
After talking to people who are living at the tent encampment at Humboldt Park, I became curious about what necessary social services are provided at the park site. While permanent housing is essential for long-term survival, in the short term, a network of providers such as The Night Ministry, The Salvation Army, Thresholds, and other organizations provide hot meals, medical care, blankets, and other essentials to people who prefer living in the park to staying at an overcrowded shelter. This network of care is meticulously maintained through the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services and macro social work non-profit All Chicago.
Over the span of a few months of interviews and various drafts, this article has bloomed into a cover story & 6 page article for .
StreetWise Magazine is a street paper sold on Chicago city streets by vendors who have experienced homelessness and/or joblessness. Please visit your local StreetWise vendor today, if you live on Chicago! Most vendors sell the paper in Lakeview, Uptown, and the Loop. It will be on sale from now until July 9th, and the dual cover edition of this week's magazine has Nascar on the front cover, with my article taking the back cover. :)
If you want a copy of this paper, please feel free to DM me. I'm happy to send along an e-copy to you, too! All I ask is that you make a $3+ donation to StreetWise.
Special thanks to StreetWise editor Suzanne Hanney and everyone at StreetWise for their support.
The many CTA voyages of this gifted succulent. 🌱 only broke off one leaf in transport (which will be planted). Thank you to all who came out & & for having me there today.
Summertime vibes are building as we're only about a month out from the Summer Solstice -- the longest day of the year!
Find out what kind of summer you've been building up to a 3 card reading this Saturday, May 18th from 10am - 2pm at Necessary Coffee, Printer's Row. !
Also, I have a habit of reading any card(s) that jump out of the deck in a shuffle, if it happens -- at no added cost, sometimes the spirits wanna have their own say, too.
Visual artist & mystic will be there showing her paintings -- we'll go as summery and spooky as you wanna get. The native Floridian in me loves some good swamp witch humidity. 🌞🔮🤙
Favorite workhorse deck by
Here I am playing tourist at . Perhaps you've been to their coffee shop in Logan Square? I gotta say, I think I may like their Printer's Row location even more.
I'll be reading Tarot here on Saturday, May 18th from 10 am - 2 pm. If Mommy Dearest Day last Sunday made you exhausted, consider this your treat-yourself opportunity. 🖤💐
Smartly designed staggered furniture that allows you to sit whichever way you choose? Thank you. Sailor moon sodas? I couldn't resist. (It was hard to toss out the can.) Great art & local wares? Phew. Not to mention, who doesn't need a coffee on Saturday morning.
Absolute bonus: Legendary Chicago bookstore is on the same block? 😍📚 Be still, my nerdy Tarot reader heart.
Also, if anyone can remind me of what this animal in the mural is called again, please comment below. 🙏
Much love to my NYC friends for painting their town in memoriam. I don't have a personal Steve Albini story, but his presence is definitely in the air of every Chicago record shop & is in the polluted carp-filled water that we Chicagoans drink, along with the forever chemicals, birth control, and anti-depressants.
Praise be to Steve Albini for permanently melting my mind with In Utereo. Along with the heavy hitters, he was truly a man of the people at the mixer, recording so many local musicians over the years, with equal love for tiny acts to a 50 foot Queenie like PJ Harvey.
I went out to the Humboldt Park public library today & was stunned by the amount of offerings they had for the taking in the library's free seed library. 🌱
Go check it out! I took the peas, but everything else is still there. They have a lot of seed packets of native plants available from the Field Museum. There was also a ton of literature on planting seasons and bad/good garden insects from . And it seemed like some neighbors dropped off a few of their own heirloom & organic seeds. Everything I saw seemed to be GMO-free!
This is perfect planting weather for sprouting your seeds, too. What a well-timed tiny but mighty section next to the library's HEPA filter. 🌞
Something fun's in the works for mid June!
Arianna & I will be planning a book club this summer. We'll be reading a few books over a few months & meeting in Humboldt Park over a potluck picnic.
You're welcome to join in! We're still hashing out the nitty gritty details, so please stay tuned.
We'll be reading locally written books with socially focused bent for this series.
If there's anything you're particularly keen to read that is a non-fiction read, novel, or poetry book by a Chicago-based author, please feel free to DM us or email at space.oddities.chicago AT gmail.com
We have some ideas brewing, but we're also open to the power of suggestion! 🌞
Dear friends, what are you doing this Saturday at 6 pm? I'll be at DiscarDisco 's annual trash fashion show and fundraiser at the ever so posh Chicago Athletic Association (), which overlooks Millenium Park in the Loop.
I suggest that you join me, if you want to see some jaw dropping runway fashion looks made by local Chicago designers. There is some stiff competition brewing between designers this year, and all looks are made with upcycled reused materials. If you haven't bought a ticket, they still have a few general admission & VIP tickets left. Please check out their insta for more info! 🌈
I love that the fashion designers participating in this show must create their runway look from a mystery box of materials from creative reuse center/art thrift store, The WasteShed. This really levels the playing field. While there are useful vintage fabrics in the box, they do stick a lot of weird whatsits in there, too. 🤪
Judges (carefully chosen from Chicago's art and fashion scene) will pick their favorite look. As you can see from the 3 winning garments from last year -- shown on the flyer, there are so many different designers competing in this competition.
If competitive events give you hives like me, fear not. Really, this event is just a great excuse to come together to celebrate art, drink cocktails, get a photo, and support Humboldt Park non-profit, The WasteShed. (They also have a store in Evanston now, too, but we're partial to Humboldt.)
I went last year, and I had a great time. I'm happy to be headed back again for round 2.
Hope to see you on Saturday! 🥂
The eclipse is niiiiiiigh. Here's some info from on the time of the eclipse for folks who are in Chicago.
Hope you have your own celebrations for the eclipse planned, even if it may just be taking a 15 min break from work to step outside.
Chicago will see 93.9% of the totality of the eclipse at 2:07 pm, which is still an A+ in eclipse visibility to me.
Witches, rejoice! I hope you make the most of this new, new moon for bringing magic to your practices & loved ones. 🌞🌚
I wanted to start off this post with a thank you to Downs, who manages the Boystown & their fantastic staff for inviting me & other local artists to the Spring Artists Market two weekends ago.
Unknown to me, took a set of very journalistic photos documenting the end of the day readings.
What is a Tarot reading? More specifically, what is Tarot reading at a pop up art market? It's not therapy. But it is a good chance to have a conversation with a stranger about life and your future, which should not be undervalued. It's an experience that you can squeeze in for 20 or 30 minutes in between browsing some art or meeting a friend for lunch. These 20 minutes of taking a load off can feel really expansive. Have you ever seen the Jim Jarmusch movie Coffee & Ci******es? I think of how these small experiences can take up some huge emotional space.
A pop up Tarot reading presents an incubator space where you are encouraged to lower your guard and bounce ideas around. Where do you want to go next? Where are you already going next, anyway? Sometimes you are the one driving your experience & sometimes you're a passenger on a larger ride. The more I read Tarot in community settings, the more I understand how the web of collective experiences makes up our individual choices.
The cards are a starting point for this larger discussion. Sure, they're pretty, but they're just paper cards. They're a diving board for going past their more standardized meanings, they're a gateway for the conversation you can have.
I don't read Tarot much for myself anymore, I prefer to get my readings from friends or other professionals where I can bounce my ideas around to other people, and they can surprise me with a different perspective in this shared exercise. If there is magic in a reading, it's often just this connection.
Want a reading? My books are open & I'll be filling my calendar with more events this summer, starting in May. Look me up! Or someone like me. I believe in Tarot readings. Human experience is something that happens offline. It's something you can smell, taste, touch. 🌈
Having an ideal day reading Tarot in the window of the Boystown Chicago Diner. 🌈🔮
Here till 3 pm! The vendor market in the back is wonderful. There are 8 fantastic vendors in the patio event space.
The staff at the is really making this whole event a dream. Come order a vegan reuben. 💕
Favorite Ace of Cups design from the Tarot.
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The artist talk that Giulia @closet_of_visions gave was wonderful! Not every day that you meet an Italian literature teacher who can paint a hell of a beautiful triptych. Thanks to @necessary_coffee_pr for such an inviting event space.
So, the name of Saturday's show, all organized under @ritualrhythmschicago is "Summer Fire and Drum Show + Night Market". So, obviously, there must be drumming and there must be fire dancers, right? Right. The event is graciously hosted by @gaealady.silkcreatrix at her home @ecocollectivechi. I'e been to many events and parties at Eco in Pilsen over te years, and I must say, Gaea Lady holds the place down with a certain grace. Not to mention that she's an internationally recognized burlesque and fire dancer! She is leaving Chicago soon, so see her while you can! Also, this silks video was shot at her house, Eco. What a space, what a lady. Bio: Gaea Lady is an enchantress by nature; a force that will make you feel the earth move. Integrating a lifetime of experience, Gaea cultivates an intentional style that is all her own. She seeks to share knowledge and empower others through her performances, events, nourishment, & instruction. She manifests community everywhere she goes, by forging connections that are grounded in inspiration, mutual support, & self-transformation.
It's sunny & Pilsen fest is happening down the street! Free house music at Blue Island & 18th! I had to put my crystal ball away because the sun was threatening to melt the table! #witchproblems No bother, though, it's beautiful out & I'm reading Tarot under a tree at @shopverybestvintage till 7 pm!
It's sunny & Pilsen fest is happening down the street! Free house music at Blue Island & 18th! I had to put my crystal ball away because the sun was threatening to melt the table! It's beautiful out & I'm reading Tarot under a tree at @shopverybestvintage till 7 pm!
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
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Chicago Women's History Center
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National Public Housing Museum
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
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