Constant Craving Digest: When Dharma Decentralizes and Witchcraft Fights Back
Aquarius energy meets radical kinship in this lunar roundup of decentralized sanghas, spellcraft as resistance, and the fierce clarity of both/and.
The Sturgeon Moon this weekend means abundance, but not the abundance of endless taking. It’s the slow, steady yield of rivers that have been tended for generations. Aquarius reminds us: we are only as strong as the waters that connect us.
This is a moon for radical kinship. For turning our genius toward the commons, even as we protect the shorelines of our own boundaries. Leo season asks: What’s in your heart? Aquarius asks: How does it feed the world?
With Saturn still in Aquarius’ orbit, there’s an edge here, a reminder that true community doesn’t mean erasing difference. It means holding difference in a shared field of care. This full moon invites us to braid our individuality into the collective without letting it fray.
In spiritual solidarity,
🧿 Alexandra ✨
🔥 What’s New on Constant Craving
Decentralized Dharma: Buddhist Communities Are Faltering
A new way to understand the moral incoherence in today’s Dharma communities—and how to move toward something more whole.
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The Witch Is the Third Term: Spellcraft as Resistance
Witchcraft must reclaim its spirit as a direct response to systemic abuse, patriarchy, capitalism, and eco-genocide—not just as a tongue-out gesture toward authority.
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When Shame Says ‘Look Away,’ Look Closer
On transforming the dirty pain of avoidance into the clean pain of integrity—especially in the shadow of genocide.
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Abundance Magic: Where It Goes Wrong
The dangers of casting for “more” without interrogating the systems and shadows that shape our desires.
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The Third Mountain: Identity & Emptiness
Emptiness doesn’t erase identity—it liberates it from reification. How bypassing this truth betrays the Dharma.
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Death, Death to (Causes and Conditions of) the IDF
A communique from the tense place between the Bodhisattva Vow and Revolutionary Solidarity
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🧿 Spellcraft of the Month
Spell for Collective Clarity
Fill a clear glass bowl with water.
Drop in three ice cubes—naming what must cool in the collective you belong to.
Place the bowl under the full moonlight.
Whisper 3x “May compassion cool the fire that burns”
In the morning, pour the water at the roots of a tree.
🌀 Craving Corner
📚 Book: Take Back the Economy, by Katherine Gibson & J.K. Gibson-Graham
A practical toolkit for imagining and enacting post-capitalist economies. Emphasizes community wealth, ethical markets, and joyful interdependence.
🎧 Podcast: “Dr. Vandana Shiva on The Promise of the Commons” (For the Wild)
A conversation on the crumbling of the colonial paradigm and the hope of re-commoning the commons for our collective future.
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📖 Article: “The Avoidant Dharma: How Western Buddhism Validates Emotional Withdrawal” by Daniel Thorson
A sharp look at how certain Western Buddhist norms unintentionally train practitioners in avoidant attachment, masking disconnection as equanimity.
🎥 Film: The Terrifying Theory of Stupidity You Were Never Meant to Hear (YouTube)
A meditation on theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s prison writings that asks the question Bonhoeffer died for: Who stands fast when thinking becomes dangerous?
💣 Letting Go Of: The myth that community is effortless when it’s “meant to be.” All circles take holding.
🌕 Final Moon Reflections: Aquarius Full Moon
This moon wants your originality, yes, but braided into something bigger than you. Aquarius teaches that liberation is never solitary. The Sturgeon reminds us that abundance is what flows when a river is kept alive for all who drink from it.
Ask yourself: What am I willing to give the collective that only I can give? And how will I make sure it lasts?
In spiritual solidarity,
🧿 Constant Craving ✨
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