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Where metaphysics meets matcha and the beauty we create.
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I flow between the mystical and the everyday: Dark Feminine energy, beauty as rebellion, the way our shadows hold wisdom - right alongside the playlists, the books, the style shifts, and the little luxuries that keep me lit up. It’s part spell, part story, part sit-down on the couch with me & sip matcha. lotuslaloba.substack.com

  1. Sep 20

    Prioritizing Beauty: EFT Meditation

    Thank you Nia, Duncan The Sage, and many others for tuning into my live video! Whether you caught it in real time or you’re reading this because you couldn’t make it, I appreciate you being here. If you want to jump around the replay: * Live begins — 2:29 * EFT directions begin — 34:00 * EFT meditation begins — 38:33 Fall Equinox Message Equinox is a crossroads. That’s something we don’t talk about often enough — how this is a shedding and a becoming. We’re leaving behind summer as a season, and moving into fall, where things are dying, things are falling away, things are shedding. It reminds you to slow down. Summer is a very external season, we outside, sun shining, let’s go. Fall is more introverted. You’re coming back in, and you’re realizing you’re at the crossroads of this journey. We always talk about how we prepared to get here, and we talk about what happens after the crossroads, once we’ve made our choice and picked a direction. But what’s actually happening at the crossroads itself? Are you panicking? Are you freaking out? Do you feel ready to make that choice? Do you know exactly what choice you want to make, or are there too many options for you? Are you taking the time to sit and see if you feel prepared from the past season you just lived? Are there any gems you want to take with you moving forward? Is there anything you know absolutely will not be coming with you? Are you trying to move backwards at the crossroads because you don’t feel prepared to move forward? Are you really aware of the options in front of you, and do you trust that no matter what you choose, it will leave you where you need to be? Equinox is encouraging us to remember there are plenty of crossroads through life, each day and in each moment. They happen at noon, at midnight. Are we present in the moments when we’re there — when we can see the paths ahead and the paths behind and we’re like, I’m right here right now, I don’t have this urgency to move forward and I don’t have a desire to go backwards, I’m at the plateau. And that’s okay, because this is a space to regroup, to reconnect back to yourself, to take inventory, and then to move forward. To be in the moment, to be present, to see what the crossroads have for you, and also to see what you have for the crossroads — maybe there’s something you’re supposed to leave there. The Dark Divines is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my art, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. What Virgo Season Gave Us Virgo season has this emphasis around clearing out your house, whether that’s physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and getting organized. That’s where we get this innate desire to want to get our houses in order, to see what’s staying and what’s leaving, to begin witnessing the beautification of our spaces and our relationships because we’ve been cleaning house, because we’ve been organizing. I know it can feel a little cliché to say Virgos are organized, but they are, they’re very organized. Virgo energy knows how to streamline, how to make things efficient. They appreciate sustainability because they know that’s what’s going to keep things going, and they understand the importance of sustainability and streamlining, because you really cannot have one without the other. Without streamlining, without sustaining it, are you actually going to enjoy the journey? Libra Season and the Power of Beauty Libra season is less of the internal work up front. I like to say Libra season can catfish you, because you immediately focus in on beauty and pleasure in general, things that can feel super surface level. But real ones know that beauty is power. It’s raw, and it can be refined, and access to it will radically shift your world. The only way to truly sustain consistent change in life is through pleasure. Virgo season should have been where you got to highlight the spaces in your life where there was some level of emptiness, or too much clutter that you removed. Now you’re entering Libra season to fill in those voids, those gaps, whether that’s in your community, in your relationships, in your practice, with beauty. That could be beautifying something, beautifying yourself physically, shape-shifting. It could be revamping your beauty ritual to deepen your connection and your respect to your own magic, to your own ancestry. It could be exposing yourself to more arts and music, being in places and spaces with people that feel beautiful to you. What power comes from centering beauty? When you decide you’re going to fill these voids and gaps with beauty, what can come of that? Are you open and ready to receive those blessings and miracles? Because let me tell you something — only good things come from adding more beauty into your life. And I mean beauty as it has always been: the expression of source’s love for you and all things. How I’m Filling My Own Gaps As a beauty practitioner, pretty much everything I do is a beauty ritual. Even now, it’s like brushing my teeth. The tool I’ve been really connecting back to is tarot, particularly a deck I struggled with in the past, an Afro-Brazilian deck. It had been calling to me, and doing the reading, it was just such clarity — I needed to hear this. With the body, I’ve been doing butters and smell goods, new fragrances, new body oils and body butters, and I’ve been enjoying reacquainting myself with my body that way, allowing my skin to glow. And with spirit, reconnecting back to the Divine Mother. That has been so important for me. My journey with the Black Madonna has been incredible. What’s Waiting in Scorpio Season When we leave Libra season heading into Scorpio season, Libra season is like death for me, and then I have my rebirth during my birthday. But if you’re prioritizing beauty throughout Libra season, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s less fear when you enter Scorpio season, of having to experience deep transformation or explore the taboo of who you are, because you’re so rooted in and nourished by beauty that it’s almost an adventure. It becomes exciting to look at those aspects of self and see what’s there, see how it can add to your beauty, contribute to it, or see how it’s been deteriorating your beauty and why you need to let that go, or alchemize it into something else that feels beneficial for you and yours. If this felt really good to you, share it with somebody so they can also prioritize beauty in their life. And let me know how you’re doing — leave a little heart, a little comment underneath, so I know you were here. Tap With Me: Prioritizing Beauty and Intentionally Seeking It Out Sequence: side of hand, top of head, brow, side of eye, under eye, under nose, chin, collarbone, heart, underarm. Three rounds — one negative, two positive. Setup (side of hand, 3x) Even though I haven’t always centered beauty, and even though I haven’t always let it be a form of liberation, I’m still here, I’m still worthy, and I am still capable of choosing differently, starting right now. Round 1 — the negative round * Top of head: Here’s what happens when I don’t center beauty. * Brow: When I treat it like it’s optional, like it’s extra or frivolous, I feel incomplete. * Side of eye: I will push past any gaps and create these endless voids, and it feels like I’ll never be able to fill them. I forget that beauty is necessary. * Under eye: It also means I haven’t fully believed I was allowed to experience and receive pleasure. * Under nose:I’ve stayed stuck in the mud without moving, forgetting that there was more for me. * Chin: I bypassed what I was going through instead of letting myself feel it. * Collarbone: I’ve cut myself off from the power of beauty, and I realize if I hadn’t, it would have cost so much less. * Heart :I lost access to that power every time beauty was not at the center. * Underarm : And that’s what it’s cost me: this confusion, this lack of confidence, being unmotivated, the list can go on and on. To live a life without beauty woven through it is a life I no longer want to live. I want to let that old mindset go and allow myself to be reborn. Round 2 — positive * Top of head: I am choosing to prioritize beauty in my life, to intentionally seek it out. * Brow: And in doing that, I’m accessing power that can radically change my life. * Side of eye: I am ready to receive pleasure, for it to be at the forefront of my practice, of my experience. * Under eye: Pleasure is becoming the baseline for me now. It’s no longer the exception. * Under nose: I’m learning to instinctively identify beauty, even in the darkest of times. * Chin: I’m not going to spiritually bypass what I’m going through. I’m just acknowledging that two things can be true at once. * Collarbone: Even if I feel like I’m in the mud right now, I know it’s not the end of my story. Beauty still lives there too. * Heart: I can bloom, the same way a lotus blooms out of the mud and into the light. * Underarm: I’m becoming the beauty I’ve been seeking this whole time. Round 3 — positive * Top of head: I have bloomed like a lotus flower. * Brow: I am a beautiful entity that nourishes the environment it’s in. * Side of eye: I bring inspiration to everything and everyone I meet, and they do the same for me. * Under eye: I bring joy to everything and everyone I meet, and they do the same for me. * Under nose: I bring peace to everything and everyone, and they do the same for me. * Chin: Not just my immediate environment, but the world at large. * Collarbone: This is what happens when I choose beauty. * Heart: This is what happens when I’m ready to receive. * Underarm: I am living proof of what beauty can do. And in that itself is beautiful. Temporal tapping — close Starting at your temple, lightly tap behind the ear, coming down almost to the

    Prioritizing Beauty: EFT Meditation

  2. Jul 4

    Twin Flame: The Power of Two V:II Sermon

    This sermon is about the wild woman and the civilized woman — the two sides of you that society has taught you to treat as opposing forces instead of what they actually are: twin aspects of the same divine power. Drawing on Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run with the Wolves and bell hooks’ Sisters of the Yam and Communion, this video goes into what it actually costs us to keep these two sides separated, and what it means to become your own container — strong enough to hold both sides with equal fierceness. This is a continuation of part one, where we laid the foundation for who the wild woman and the civilized woman actually are. Books used for this sermon: * Women Who Run with the Wolves — Clarissa Pinkola Estés * Sisters of the Yam — bell hooks * Communion — bell hooks Songs to meditate on: * “Twin Flame” — Victoria Monét, on what it feels like when you’re in internal divorce, wild and civilized pulling against each other instead of together * “Gemini” — Princess Nokia, on what it feels like in divine union, fully accepting all of yourself Go deeper: * The complete 2026 syllabus : the full theological and literary framework behind this sermon and the year’s theme of duality * My Divine Union sermon : go here for a deeper dive into what union actually looks and feels like once both sides are integrated Reflection questions: Come back into your body before you sit with these. * Place your hand on your chest. Which one of them is closest to the surface today, and what is she trying to tell you? * Where in your body do you feel the split most — your throat, your stomach, your chest? What has staying silent or staying small actually felt like physically over time? * Think about the last time you felt completely like yourself, not performing or managing or shrinking. What did that feel like in your body? What shifted when it was over? * Who in your life knows both of your names? Sit with that one. What does your body say before your mind answers? * If your wildness and your civility can exist together without one canceling the other out, what becomes possible for you that hasn’t felt possible before? Share this: Tell me what surfaced in the reflection questions. And if it named something true, send it to someone you love — repost it, get it in front of the person who needs it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lotuslaloba.substack.com/subscribe

  3. Jul 4

    Twin Flame: The Power of Two V:I

    This sermon is about the two sides of you that society has taught you to treat as opposing forces instead of what they actually are: twin aspects of the same divine power. Drawing on Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run with the Wolves and bell hooks’ Sisters of the Yam and Communion, this video lays the foundation you will explore who the wild woman is beneath everything media taught us to fear about her, and who the civilized woman is beneath the language of “well-behaved,” and what it costs Black women specifically to sever ourselves in half. The Dark Divines is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my art, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Books used for this sermon: * Women Who Run with the Wolves — Clarissa Pinkola Estés * Sisters of the Yam — bell hooks * Communion — bell hooks **feel free to grab your bell hooks books from The Lit Twist! My girl Petra is also having a summer school all about bell hooks if that sounds like a vibe for you! Tell her I said Songs to meditate on: * “Twin Flame” — Victoria Monét, on what it feels like when you’re in internal divorce, wild and civilized pulling against each other instead of together * “Gemini” — Princess Nokia, on what it feels like in divine union, fully accepting all of yourself Go deeper: * The complete 2026 syllabus : the full theological and literary framework behind this sermon and the year’s theme of duality * Haven’t read the story of Manawee? I read it directly from Women Who Run with the Wolves in part two, so you can catch the full story there, or pick it up in the book beforehand if you want a head start. Share this: Tell me what came up for you watching this. And if it named something true, send it to someone you love — repost it, get it in front of the person who needs it. Part two picks up with what that separation actually costs us, what it means to build the container strong enough to hold both sides, and what divine union looks like in practice — plus reflection questions to sit with after you watch. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lotuslaloba.substack.com/subscribe

  4. Jun 30

    The Dark Divines Monthly Salon: July '26

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit lotuslaloba.substack.com 💫 Not a paid member yet? This one’s for you first. This month’s meetup is already up BUT if you’re not subscribed, you won’t have access to the full video. But here’s a taste of what your people inside got to sit with today. 👀🖤 Here’s what we covered: 🕯️ Ancestral Veneration: not the performance of it, but the intimacy of it. What it actually looks like to honor your lineage in ways that are personal, doable, and deeply felt. Including how to handle the complicated ones — the ancestors the relationship isn’t simple with — and how to stay centered and stand your ground when working with energy in general. 🌕 Capricorn Full Moon Reading: the two-sided nature of this moon and what it’s asking of you right now. ♌🪐 Jupiter into Leo: what this shift means for your power and your presence in the second half of this year. 🃏 Two-Card Pull: specific guidance to help you move through this lunar energy with intention. 🎵 Song Recommendation: leave you with a song to help you embody the energy of what we covered, not just think about it. The whole session centered on one truth: your darker instincts deserve a seat at the table. Wisdom lives there. Power lives there. And if you found your way to this community, some part of you already knows that. 🐍✨ The Dark Divines is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my art, consider becoming a paid subscriber. When you become a paid member, you get: 🌕 Access to this full video + every monthly meetup going forward🗂️ The complete archive — past meetups, rituals, EFT scripts, and somatic tools built to help you navigate your life with clarity and intention🕯️ Practices that will help you dance in the darkness and live in your light — for real, not for the aesthetic This is the space for the ones done pretending the light is the only place worth being. Come on in. 🖤

    The Dark Divines Monthly Salon: July '26

  5. May 27

    The Dark Divines Monthly Salon June '26

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit lotuslaloba.substack.com Happy Gemini season!!! As a Gemini rising with Mars in Gemini, this is one of my favorite seasons baby! There is something that Gemini energy that tells you to WAKE IT TF UP and we all need that boost of adrenaline for real. Here’s what I want you to do (before or after reading this) pay attention to where Gemini is showing up in your own chart, because that’s exactly where this season is asking you to move, speak, and grow. You’ll notice that the reflection questions overlap and even repeat - this is to ensure that you are showing up to the moment with as much clarity as possible. Take the time to answer them based on the wisdom expressed beforehand and then weave all the like minded answers together to build out what you need to focus on in this upcoming cycle. These notes are the deeper layer of everything we covered in the live so you can sit with it, study it, and come back to it whenever you need to. What to Expect in This Replay 🌌 A full sky reading broken down so the astrology actually makes sense and you know what to do with it. 🔮 A two-card pull for the Sagittarius Blue Moon one card for what is completing, one for what this portal is opening. If you are watching on replay, your timing is not late. It is right. 🧪 A live look at the rum-based signature blend I have been fermenting since the Scorpio Full Moon — every ingredient, why it is in there, and how I actually use it. 🧿 The full framework for building your own intentional blend from scratch so you walk away with a method, not just a moment of inspiration. 📑The research and selection process for herbs, spices, and oils that are actually aligned with your energy, your lineage, and what you are calling in right now. Let’s get into it! The Dark Divines is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my art & magick, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

  6. Apr 14

    Show Your Teeth: What Your Whimsy Can't Survive Without

    I know what people see when they look at me. They see someone intense, who doesn’t hesitate, who has probably always been this way. And they’re not wrong. I’m not a person who is big on giving grace just for the sake of giving grace, and I know that gets me a bit of a bad rap, which I am totally ok with. I’m the type of woman who has been thrown to the wolves and came back leading the pack. My Nana (a very dangerous yet loving woman) taught me that at a super young age. I remember me, my baby sister & cousins getting a lecture before school that if anyone tried us “you make em hurt so bad that they will never think of hurting you again” essentially I was taught that at the first sight of disrespect you eradicate it before it becomes too big to handle. Now Nana may have meant that in terms of bullies putting hands on us but there was nuance there. There are many ways to remove a threat to your well being that doesn’t equate to being physically violent - and yet at some moments in life that may be exactly what you need to do. Discernment is key here. When I seek out justice or retribution, I receive it — because I come letting people know that if I need to be deadly, I will. For my well-being, peace, community, whatever it is I’m fighting for. I will not hold that back. And because I am a fully embodied multifaceted Black woman there is another side to me that people don’t always see: I am as equally cutie patootie as I am bad b***h. I am very much a whimsical la-la girl. I LOVE that about me. And I can be that way — fully, without apology — because I have no problem showing my teeth. I don’t lose sleep over it & have never felt bad about it. I’m not concerned if someone says I’m too much or too aggressive. At all. Those two sides have always lived in me at the same time. And this piece is for the girl who has that same duality inside of her but hasn’t let both sides fully breathe yet. The girl who is bubbly and joyful and half-glass-full but has been told in a thousand different ways that her softness is the only version of her that’s welcome or allowed. The Dark Divines is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my art, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. That is a conversation I will probably always be having thanks to patriarchy (eye roll) so I wanted to put it here, plainly: it is okay for you to show your teeth. Actually, in order to fully get everything you want from this lifetime, you will have to. I was raised by women who showed their teeth all the time. And I saw how it protected them, how it allowed them to live in a way of freedom that most Black people didn’t even know existed. That forever shifted my understanding of what it means to call in matriarchy, the real deal not the weird whitewashed version trending currently. But to call that in, you have to be able to show your teeth. You have to be able to protect your being, inner God, higher self & inner child. You cannot do that without showing that you can bite back. I have this strong belief that Black women are like wolves. I’ve felt this since I was a child. I actually got an A+ on an essay where I defended the so-called Big Bad Wolf in the Three Little Pigs — those pigs sounded like terrorists to me, like Karens before the word Karen was a thing, harassing a wolf that was just trying to live in its natural habitat and survive. Anyways I’ve always had this kinship with wolves because I see how they’re portrayed in media as vile, irrational creatures that are always out for blood, with no warmth or care in their bodies. Things to be terrified of, to eradicate. And it always bothered me because reading Women Who Run with the Wolves confirmed what I already felt: wolves love and care for their community deeply. They only become vicious if you attack what they love. They are sweet, loving, intelligent creatures. That reminds me so much of Black women in particular. I’m not saying all women. I’m saying Black women. I said what I said. We are portrayed in media the exact same way as wolves, wicked and dangerous. Yet we are the exact same way as wolves — nurturing, community-oriented, instinctually protective of our young. Even those of us who have dealt with immense trauma. Part of our healing and spiritual journey is coming back home to that understanding: we are designed to take care of ourselves, and by taking care of ourselves, we take care of our communities. That is why I believe deeply that Black women who are fully embodied, who can operate in their light and their dark, will absolutely shift this world forward. Not save — I’m not calling us into becoming super mammies. My goal is for us to really live out our lives exactly how we see them in our mind’s eye, to be so clear in that decision that we fearlessly live it out loud. And that requires showing teeth. But society has tried to defang us. Remove our canines, our claws, so we would cower and be afraid of extinction and stop operating in our natural way of wildness. Too many of us have stopped showing our teeth because of it. Whether that’s through assimilation and just wanting to succeed with capitalism/racism/sexism or any of the myriad things we have to deal with as intersectional beings we are constantly told not to show our teeth. And when you grow up with that understanding, it is dangerous. It is you forcing your bigness into something so small that it is crushing you. There are parts of you that are being unseen and compressed and pressured into a shape that is not your Divine self. Hell not even your fully human self. You’re operating from a space of smallness. And I don’t want that for us anymore. It can cost you everything to not show your teeth. Even just hesitating a bit. It impacts your confidence. It becomes detrimental to your dynamics because people aren’t fully aware of all you are. You end up actively suppressing your bigness, so you make choices from a place of fear or desperation instead of power. And suppressing your true feelings, especially as a Black woman, can literally make you sick. There was an article that went viral from the Atlanta Tribune ‘Silent Rage Is A Hidden Health Crisis Among Women Of Color, Fueling Autoimmune Disorders’ and it laid out that the ‘angry Black woman’ stereotype pressures us to suppress our emotions to avoid being labeled, and that cultural silencing is making it a matter of life and death. Women of color who frequently suppress their anger are 70% more likely to develop conditions linked to heart attacks. Women account for nearly 80% of autoimmune disease cases. And the traits that get rewarded in us by society like agreeability, extreme selflessness, suppression of anger — are the same traits making us chronically ill. Your body will say what your mouth has been forced not to express. That’s clearly what the research is showing us. I have witnessed incredibly bright, brilliant women go through pain and humiliation simply because they were taught to be nice first. That leads to something else that happens when you swallow your teeth for too long you start questioning other women who you actively see using their teeth. Women who do know who they are, who are aware of their power, who do not hesitate to remove whatever is in the way of their joy — you start projecting yourself onto them. You start thinking, well, I did this, so they might go down this road too. But you’re not considering the fact that a woman who is comfortable showing her teeth is fully aware of what she’s experiencing precisely because she is not hesitant. She’s clear. And when you can’t see that in her because you can’t see it in yourself, it makes it very hard to be in circles with women who are actually showing up and living life. It costs you proper community and support, sisterhood. Because if you’re constantly projecting and not taking the time to allow another woman to be who she is because you are realizing that you are not all of who you are, you will push away the very women you need around you. There’s a deep wound underneath all of this, and for many of us it starts with our mothers. We talk sooo much about daddy wounds (which I think is hilarious because it just speaks to patriarchy) but it’s the mother wounds that tend to cause us the most pain. Because we lived inside of a body that we didn’t really get to know, or that we only knew in one capacity. We didn’t get to see the full dimension of who that person was, whether or not we know our biological mother. And that disconnect can create a real disassociation from your fullness and your power. If you were a golden child, a goody two shoes (I know that’s exactly what I was) you learned early what it meant to make yourself small so that your existence felt worth the sacrifice. I knew at an early age that my mother had sacrificed a lot for me to exist, and my main goal as a child was to make it worth it. I know that sounds heartbreaking. But that is something I intuitively felt the need to do because I was really grateful for my mom, I loved her and I could see, even at a young age, that she was suffering. Or maybe you were the weird girl, samesies. And depending on your environment, that weirdness might have actually shielded you from some of what society was trying to force on you — but you still felt the pressure of people wanting you to assimilate and be normal. Whether it was because being normal gave you more access to community or resources as a child, the pressure was there to not be too weird. To tone it down & fit somewhere recognizable. Or maybe you were the rebellious one. Who questioned authority, had her own thought process, was outspoken in a way that made the adults around her uncomfortable. And eventually that got weathered out of you — either you fell in line, or you were isolated and became an outlier to your own tribe. And that kind of exile

  7. Mar 5

    The Divorce Within

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit lotuslaloba.substack.com 5:44a start time So many of us begin our spiritual journey because we are subconsciously trying to mend a split inside ourselves. We spent so much of our lives before that moment feeling off, broken, misunderstood and not really having the language for why. This split was never our natural state. We were divinely designed for union, to access the full pow…

    The Divorce Within

  8. 12/31/2025

    WK 12: Recovering a Sense of Faith

    Thank you Otissia Lynette, Sierra Jeter, Jack, Tori Rerick, Sea, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is the final week of this experience for the Anti-Blocked Artist Club with The Artist’s Way framework, and I am proud of us for completing it. I hope Week 12 has been good to you, and honestly I hope every week has been good to you in whatever way you needed it. This week is recovering a sense of faith, and the essays we went through were Trusting, Mystery, The Imagination at Play, and Escape Velocity. I’m touching on each of them here, and you can go deeper with the replay video. I’ll drop the task images and check-in below so you can move through it at your own pace. Thank you to everyone who completed the 12 weeks, whether you were here live or circling back in your own timing. This is evergreen. Take what you need, when you need it. Trusting Faith had to get redefined for me. I struggled with it for years, especially in my 20s, because the version I was taught didn’t fit my life or my body. What finally made sense was realizing faith is confidence — confidence in who you believe in, whether that’s God, Source, the ancestors — and confidence in what they’re capable of in your life. When that clicked, movement got easier. Courage felt less like pressure. Following my bliss wasn’t naive, it was alignment. That’s what trusting looks like here: confidence that lets you move. Mystery This is the one that feels like dark feminine energy for real. So much of what we create is going to come from places that aren’t well-lit or logical, and that doesn’t mean danger — that means depth. Mystery asks you to stop demanding clarity before you begin. It asks you to stop treating the unknown like a threat. There’s adventure in the parts of yourself you haven’t met yet. There’s creativity in the dark. That’s where some of your best work is going to come from. The Imagination at Play Art can’t survive if you strip the fun out of it. If your inner child never gets a turn, everything starts feeling like work you didn’t sign up for. Play isn’t immaturity — it’s oxygen. It’s relief. It’s what keeps the process from suffocating you. When joy disappears, the struggle that follows isn’t growth, it’s self-inflicted burnout. Play brings your nervous system back online so you can actually create, not just perform effort. Escape Velocity At a certain point in your growth, you’re going to feel a moment where it looks like you’re being “tested.” I don’t fully agree with the language, but I do understand the pattern: there are points where life checks whether you’ve integrated what you learned. If not, the season runs again. Not as punishment — as repetition. If you have integrated it, things open. You move. Creativity gets louder. Access gets wider. It’s not about passing anything; it’s about readiness. 💡 Tasks for the Week & Check-In I’ll drop the images for the tasks and check-in below. This is evergreen. Do it in real time or come back later. Either way, if you’re applying this framework even a little: morning pages, artist dates, somatic practices, check-in questions. - you’re shifting the trajectory of your artistic life. I LOVE YOU! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lotuslaloba.substack.com/subscribe

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I flow between the mystical and the everyday: Dark Feminine energy, beauty as rebellion, the way our shadows hold wisdom - right alongside the playlists, the books, the style shifts, and the little luxuries that keep me lit up. It’s part spell, part story, part sit-down on the couch with me & sip matcha. lotuslaloba.substack.com

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    Where metaphysics meets matcha and the beauty we create.
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
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