While the landscape of healing and personal growth is booming with opportunities for altered states, peak experiences, and epic journeys, we often act like these experiences are totally set apart from everyday reality.
Last year, inspired by the timeless wisdom of an internet meme (“everyone wants to do ayahuasca but no one wants to do the dishes"), a group of us witchy practitioners joked about making a conference about the boring, practical parts of spirituality—and Mundane Magic was born.
Mundane Magic is an act of anarchic alchemy to integrate our relationship to Mystery alongside folding laundry, exchanging soup recipes, and other ordinary intimacies of daily life.
A few weeks ago, I sat down to have a conversation with Kate Fontana, one of the practitioners for this year’s Mundane Magic Gathering.
Kate Fontana is a recovering angry activist and peak-experience junkie. She now hustles and hopes for the best as a psychic, pagan-christian priestess, and mentor to the spiritual fringe. Kate seeks to help spiritual misfits live and lead with joy (and to do so herself) – amidst the chaos of collapse and in pursuit of restored relationship with the web of life. She is the founder of The Sanctuary Northwest, a center for resilience and culture, where she hosts local land-based rituals in the South Puget Sound of Washington State. She is also the founder of Priestess School, an apprenticeship program for reluctant leaders on the spiritual fringe.
Trailer and music at the end of the episode was created by Laurel Armstrong and Arden Leigh.
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