10/10: The Friday Five
What’s up, swimmers? We’ve reached another Friday, but a special one indeed!
Here’s today’s write-up from October 2025: WE WILL GO FORTH:
HAPPY TEN TEN (NINE)
10/10/2025
1+1+2+0+2+5 = 11/2
A day for whimsy! For delight and taking flight! Two can get a little stuck in the mud, but don’t forget how beautiful and magical this world can be. If you’re struggling to connect to joy and pleasure, go back to basics. What do you love despite all odds? What makes you smile, move, dance, yell, create, soar? Spend the day devoting yourself to Venusian pursuits and let it all lift your mood. You’ll never make it to the light at the end of the tunnel if you’re so bogged down in heavy darkness. Find balance here and now.
How are you spending the day? Which delights will you incorporate?
Personally, I’m going to get a little writing done for my grad program, which started on Monday and is already off to an amazing start, and then my wife and I are dropping the dog off with friends and heading to see our girl Chappell Roan play in Pasedena! So I, for once, will be taking my own advice and smiling, moving, dancing, yelling, creating, and soaring as best I can.
BUT FIRST—
the bee-cosystem(Y’all seem to be loving this name change, which has put a huge smile on my silly face!)
✅: FILL OUT THIS FUN FEEDBACK FORM! — Help me plan the next chapter for us here at swimming in the soup and beyond! Thank you to everyone who’s already filled it out. The answers are illuminating and the comments are lovely!
🎥: Snag an Asynch Video Reading from me on Moonlight — These readings have been so fun to do lately, and from what clients have shared, they’ve also been “shockingly accurate” and “just what I needed to hear.” $25 for 15 minutes!
😈: Call Your Coven is all brand-new with The Rebis’s Hannah Levy — Meg and I had the express honor of sitting down with HWIC, Hannah Levy, for a gorgeous conversation about The Devil, creativity and self-care, and making anti-capitalist art in community.
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THE FRIDAY FIVE 🖐️Here’s what’s gotten me through this wacky week:
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. — This was the first reading assigned in a class I’m taking called Society and the Individual, and a huge green flag for me! I’m in the right program with the right values! If you’d like to read the first chapter, which is all about “The Lie” that white America is founded on and Baldwin’s views of the writer’s role in revolutionary societal change, email me and I’ll send you a PDF! Otherwise, check out the whole book above and let it change your life.
“Emotions Are Real; Knowledge Is Not Real” by don Miguel Ruiz with Janet Mills — This was the follow up piece to the Glaude Jr.’s on Baldwin, and addresses the internal lies that spring forth from what Ruiz calls “the voice of knowledge.” My professor, who has a PHD and has been working in the field for longer than I’ve been alive, offered a solid piece of advice to clinical practitioners: It’s rarely about what happened, but rather what the present-tense feeling is. Keep that in mind as you read this piece. What does it reveal to you?
Magic Spells Oracle by Judika Illes — I was lucky enough to get my hands on a copy of Judika’s lovely new deck (Thanks, Weiser Books!), and earlier this week, I got to speak with Judika about the deck, her decades-long career in publishing, and what we can do in these Trying Times. You’ll get to listen to it later this month, but for now, please scope out this simple, yet rich deck that breaks down spell-crafting to its base parts: An element, a tool, and a theme or intention! And it’s cheeky—I already have a repeating card: The Cat!
Kinktober 2025 — It pains me to say it, but this is the first year I’m not writing for my fandom’s Kinktober in four years!!!! Even worse, I haven’t even been online all that much this week to scream over my friend’s creations!!! So it’s a good thing we’re celebrating in the SMUT CLUB Discord server, and that our October meeting is coming up on Thursday the 16th. (The only way to get into the server is to come to the club, so email me if you want to join us this week!) TGIF — EMAIL ME YOUR KINKY LINKS SO I CAN READ!
MY FRIENDS! MY PRACTICES! MY RESILIENT HUMAN SPIRIT! — Okay, this isn’t your typical Friday Five entry, but at the end of a week that catapulted me into grad school, delivered some disappointing scan news (they’re mostly good, more to come), and everything in between, I have to sit in gratitude for all that I’ve cultivated in my life. My friends and family are keeping me alive. My practices are keeping me centered and grounded. My resilient human spirit is keeping me in the fucking game. I am grateful for the opportunity to keep breathing, blinking, loving and making, and I hope to return the favor to my beloveds for the rest of my born days.
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Happy Friday! Let me know what’s getting you through this week, and if you love any of the things I love! <3
Until next time, just keep swimming!xx, bee
