52 cards in a deck
52 Weeks in a year
52 words
52 Spells
52 invitations to notice where there is wonder, to move with the turning of the seasons, to write toward attention, to remember the cycles of return and renewal, to tend your connection to yourself, the earth and time itself.
A year-long offering of slow magic, ritual, and re-enchantment.
An invitation to remember the spell of being alive and to practice the art of attention, week by week, season by season.
about the course
Each week for one year, beginning January 2nd, you’ll receive a written offering: part love letter, part almanac, part field guide. Inside you’ll find folk magic rituals that root you in the turning of the seasons, recipes that both comfort and enliven, spells for re-enchantment, small observances to anchor your days. They are reminders, companions, possibilities. They are ways of pausing, of listening, of reclaiming attention as the power that it is.
Included each week is a slow magic writing prompt for those who want to participate in a daily or weekly process writing practice, and a writing sanctuary for those who want to gather to share their words.
You’ll also receive a weekly creative prompt to make your own card in your Deck of Slow Magic. By years end you will have a 52 card deck made by your own hands and imagination - an embodied archive of your time for divination, creativity, and ritual work.
This is not about productivity or adding more things to do in your year. This is not about fixing or optimizing yourself. This is not about having the answers. This is about astonishment. About cultivating intimacy with the seasons, the body, the kitchen, the page, the night sky.
About honoring how love and ritual can change what feels unchangeable.
And because magic is multiplied in company, we will gather.
A Private Mighty Networks Community - This is a space for gathering, reflection, and shared attention, away from algorithms and the rush for more urgency. Here, we exchange writing, ideas, rituals, and observations with others moving at a slower pace, witnessing one another and tending the small, vital threads of life that often go unnoticed, building connection and support along the way.
Monthly New Moon Gatherings - once a month, under the new moon, we’ll gather on Zoom. We’ll write together. We’ll create practices of renewal and connection, honoring the seasons and cycles of the natural world, rituals of re-seeing. We’ll bring our separate lives into a shared field, remembering that magic multiplies when witnessed.
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Those who long for slower rhythms in a world that keeps speeding up.
Those who crave ritual, seasonal practices, and the art of daily savoring.
Writers, artists, caregivers, seekers, and humans who want to live in attunement rather than efficiency.
Anyone yearning to disentangle from the algorithms, step away from noise, and reconnect with what desire feels like in stillness.
Those who want to remember how to listen, how to be astonished, how to fall in love with their own days again.
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Those who want a how-to manual.
Anyone uncomfortable with mystery, ambiguity, or being undone by beauty.
Those who need certainty more than wonder.
Because our world is exhausting. Because so much is built to distract, to overwhelm, to make us believe we must do more, consume more, measure more. And in that fatigue, enchantment dims. Slow magic reminds us how to open again: to slow our breathing, to honor cycles, to write our way back into presence. It is act of care—for our attention, for our relationships, for our ecologies, for our hearts—and in that care we begin to heal, begin to remember, begin to create.
what’s included
52 Weekly Written Letters/Offerings (Fridays): all the elements above—folk magic rituals, recipes, observances, spells, writing prompts.
52 Collage / Creative Card Prompts: one card per week to build your deck of slow magic.
Monthly New Moon Calls: live gatherings evening of each New Moon from January through December, 7pm-9pm EST, where we ground together, share writing, ritual, and create in mutual presence.
Private Mighty Networks Community: a space outside of algorithms, where we share reflections, process writing, images of our cards, seasonal savoring, and hold each other in witness.
52 Weekly Offerings — part love letter, part almanac, part field guide, arriving each Friday for a year.
52 Creative Prompts — supporting you in creating your your own slow magic deck across the year, one card at a time.
52 Slow Magic Writing Prompts - invitations for a daily or weekly slow magic writing practice
12 New Moon Gatherings — monthly live Zoom sessions on the new moon of each month 7pm-9m EST for writing together, ritual, and remembering.
Private Mighty Networks Community — a slow, nourishing alternative to social media; across distance we gather in the luminous field of shared attention to connect, share writing, and savor ritual.
Seasonal Recipes, Spells, and Practices — offerings that live in your hands and kitchen, not only in your head.
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That’s part of slow magic—nothing is lost. The written offerings arrive each week and are yours to keep. You can return to them whenever you need. New Moon gatherings will be recorded and shared if you cannot attend live.
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You’ll need something to create your 52 cards with: blank cards, watercolor paper, index cards, or anything you love to work on. I use a deck of playing cards as my base, and collage on top of them directly. You can use pens, paints, collage, or any medium that calls to you. It doesn’t have to be “art”—just your hands, your attention, your time.
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It depends on you. The weekly offering may take only ten minutes to read, or you may choose to linger with it for an hour, weaving ritual, writing, or art. Slow magic is not about more to do; it’s about how we do what we do.
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Beautiful. Come as you are. Everything is shared in a way that’s accessible, simple, and flexible. You are invited to adapt or ignore anything that doesn’t fit for you.
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Nothing—except the choice that feels most true and possible for you. Every participant receives the same offerings. All are welcome.
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That’s okay. You can move through this offering quietly, privately, without ever posting or joining a live call. Everything is optional, everything is invitation.
Choose the tier that feels right for you
Cost is per month.
All tiers include everything. All are welcome.
Please contact me for scholarships.
Pick up the deck.
Choose to play with time differently.
Fifty-two weeks.
Fifty-two cards.
Fifty-two spells of slow magic.
about me
ISABEL
I am a writer, full-spectrum doula, and ritual practitioner. I have spent years working with birth, death, and the body, and my writing reflects the questions, practices, and attentions that arise from that work. My work focuses on attending to life’s cycles, the body, and human experience, exploring how writing, ritual, and daily practices can help us reclaim the power of our attention and engage with the world around us. My writing has appeared in Ars Medica, Bellevue Literary Review, Calyx, and other journals, and I am the published author of Salt+honey: secular prayers for the human and hedonistic hearts.