Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 03:06 pm
FranklinWe are now into the fifth year of these open posts. When I first posted a tentative hypothesis on the course of the Covid phenomenon, I had no idea that discussion on the subject would still be necessary all these years later, much less that it would turn into so lively, complex, and troubling a conversation. Still, here we are. Crude death rates and other measures of collapsing public health remain anomalously high in many countries, but nobody in authority wants to talk about the inadequately tested experimental Covid injections that are the most likely cause; public health authorities government shills for the pharmaceutical industry are still trying to push through laws that will allow them to force vaccinations on anyone they want; public trust in science is collapsing; new revelations are leaking out about just how bad the Covid vaccines are for human health; and the story continues to unfold.

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry and its government enablers are causing injury and death on a massive scale. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its wholly owned politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you plan on making off topic comments, please go away. This is an open post for discussion of the Covid epidemic, the vaccines, drugs, policies, and other measures that supposedly treat it, and other topics directly relevant to those things. It is not a place for general discussion of unrelated topics. Nor is it a place to ask for medical advice; giving such advice, unless you're a licensed health care provider, legally counts as practicing medicine without a license and is a crime in the US. Don't even go there.


5. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

6. Please don't just post bare links without explanation. A sentence or two telling readers what's on the other side of the link is a reasonable courtesy, and if you don't include it, your attempted post will be deleted.

7. Please don't post LLM ("AI") generated text. This is a place for human beings to talk to other human beings, not for the regurgitation of machine-generated text. Also, please don't discuss large language models (the technology popularly and inaccurately called "artificial intelligence" these days) except as they bear directly on the Covid phenomenon. Here again, my finger is hovering over the delete button. 

Please also note that nothing posted here should be construed as medical advice, which neither I nor the commentariat (excepting those who are licensed medical providers) are qualified to give. Please take your medical questions to the licensed professional provider of your choice.


With that said, the floor is open for discussion.  
Monday, December 8th, 2025 10:52 pm
I have nothing against people who feel their gender does not reflect the way they feel inside. As a believer in reincarnation, I believe souls take turns as male and female incarnations, so it follows that sexual dysmorphia would be a natural outcome in a world where reincarnation is rapid, with little time between death and re-birth. My problems with trans began when it went from being a fringe choice to a mass agenda pushed upon young children by the greedy State. My objections arose when trans tried to become the new normal, wedding the pharmaceutical-industrial complex to public schools and monopoly media in a disgusting, fascist polygamy of propaganda and brainwashing. I began to hate trans when it called me a bigot for questioning castration hormones for boys and induced menopause and mastectomy for girls, perverts in taxpayer-funded libraries, chest binders at Target, and the erasure of women’s sports. I don’t like sports nor have I ever liked them, and if I never saw or participated in another sports game for the rest of my life, it would not be too soon, but I hate seeing sports taken away from girls and women. These girls and women love sports and cannot have them because of male fetishes and insecurities. Give them back, and while you are at it, keep dudes out of the girl’s locker rooms and toilet stalls.

TRANS IS MUTILATION

Usually I don’t shout my headings like a Boomer or some doofus from Fifty Shades of Grey, but I feel it is warranted here. Hormones are the tip of the trans-mutilation iceberg. Whether they are for an F to M (female to male) or M to F (male to female) transexual, it is not a good idea to take regular doses of opposite sex hormones at any phase of life. It is especially damaging to take hormones as a child. I had a friend who accidentally tampered with her own hormonal balance by starving herself and replacing meals with diet shakes and pills during puberty. She seemingly screwed up everything: the development of breasts, digestion, and moods. She never experimented with drugs, including diet drugs. Kids who screw with the polarities of estrogen and testosterone with actual drugs blow up their entire hormonal ecosystems before they are built, trapping themselves in a paradox of aged babyhood and permanent sexlessness.

It’s just Pat

Back in the 80s, Saturday Night Live ran a particularly cruel skit called It’s Just Pat featuring Julia Sweeney as an androgynous person named Pat. Everyone around Pat tried to goad him/her into revealing his/her gender. Pat was an insipid, nasal, whiny, and mostly unfunny caricature of a human being. In that way typical of overweight, stocky adulthood, it was difficult to make out Pat’s feminizing or masculinizing features. For Sweeney, the skit appeared to be a humiliation ritual, throwing it in the actress’s face that she was only one bad haircut or some extra padding away from ugly, androgynous freakdom.

Hormones make the man or the woman, but they also regulate digestion, mood, water retention, muscle, and fat. If fertility were the only concern in hormonal manipulation, it would be a small one. Most people who become trans start out gay, and baby-making has never been a primary obsession among gays in any era except our own. The trouble with trans is that hormonal manipulation via shots and/or pills do not make a man into a woman or a woman into a man. They make either gender that takes them into Pats, androgynous and riding the middle in the worst sort of way.

Chopped

I recently uttered a single, flippant sentence in an essay that I wrote about plastic surgery about how M to F trans who opt for a colon graft end up with a second, stinky butthole they must dilate every day for the rest of their lives. There is nothing unprovable about what I said, it is plain fact. Some M to F trans have parts of their harvested lower colon implanted as a faux vagina. Because the lower colon has the function of eliminating waste in the form of stools, it continues to have that function if it is implanted in the perineum. My comment triggered a thousand liberal Karens who immediately broadcast my essay to the entire free world. I wept all the way to the bank.

Castrati, court eunuchs, and female genital mutilation

For those who think castrated males and “cut” females are a new phenomenon, please consult the annals of history or at least Google and educate yourself. Since the dawn of imperial courts, said courts have made a habit of altering boys and men by amputating their testicles and penises. Castrated men, also known as eunuchs, were put into the service of elite rulers who used them, often for the duration of their neutered lives.

The Italian castrati were pre-pubescent boys whose testicles were often removed or more commonly crushed to render them impotent. The boy’s voice remained beautiful and high throughout his manhood. They were the lucky ones.

Cutting off the testicles alone is far less painful and dangerous than chopping off both penis and balls. I have four male cats, all of whom are feline castrati. Though they do not mark their territory in the manner of unneutered male cats, they piss like champions. Their healthy urine streams strike the sides of and top of their covered litter boxes.

The court eunuchs of ancient China and old Byzantium were not so lucky. It was custom for thousands of years to remove both cock and balls in a single, harrowing procedure that fewer than half survived. Those who did survive often lived long lives, but the procedure that took their penis resulted in a lifetime of catheterization as the wounded penile stub was prone to closing.

As to why eunuchs were so popular in dynastic China and other places, it is quite obvious. Eunuchs were useful. In the golden cage of the harem, emasculated men served as guardians and petty dictators over bevies of scheming courtesans. Eunuchs knew how to exploit their liminal situations in ways that their 21st century equivalents have yet to grasp. The last surviving eunuch, Sung Yaoting, lived from 1902-1996. His own father performed his castration when he was only 8 years old.

For approximately 2000 years, Chinese court eunuchs were made into eunuchs as a matter of punishment. Full penis and testicular castration was a traditional punishment used to place men as high ranking civil servants and to assimilate them into the court. The “crimes” involved to merit the punishment of castration could be rape, rebellion, or merely being on the losing side of a war. Because eunuchs had a great deal of power, kids from poor families such as Sun Yaoting were often volunteered by their own families. Often, men older than the age of 14 were killed and those who were still young were castrated. The procedure, traditionally done in a chair with the legs spread and the organs chopped off with a sickle-shaped knife, routinely rendered men and boys incontinent for life if they were part of the 30 percent who survived. Self-administered catheters and diapers were and are the eunuch’s reality for the duration.

What about the girls?

Women have always been used and abused for their fertility, and that is why only eugenicists like Margaret Sanger desire to “help” certain races to stop reproducing. In cultures that openly hate women, girls, and femininity with zero qualms, female genital mutilation is the preferred method of ending a woman’s capacity to enjoy sexual pleasure. The advantage of FGM is that it wrecks any sense of fulfillment or power for the girl and future woman without destroying her potential as a baby factory. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, one of the few intelligent people ever to emerge from Somalia, describes her own mutilation around the age of five by her own trusted relatives. This surgery, if you can call it that, was performed on the kitchen table with a pair of scissors and sewn up tight on the spot so she had to pee through stitches. As you can imagine, this disfigurement has caused her a lifetime of pain and suffering.

You have to pee through that

The trouble with trans surgeries and hormones is that they mess with urinary and waste systems while attempting to exclusively target the reproductive organs. Whether the transition is M to F or F to M, bottom surgery involves the shortening or stretching of the urethra. Adolescents and children who have not been sexually abused do not have any concept of the predicament of an aging urinary tract. For a woman, the first time anything penetrates the vagina and leads to an orgasm often heralds the last time peeing is normal, painless, and easy. Because the two pieces of equipment are so close together, the urethra is regularly irritated and often infected with UTIs that emerge after sexual activity. The beginning of sexual activity is routinely accompanied by frequent urination, burning, and a funny smell to the urine even if both partners start out as disease-free virgins.

Almost all men who reach a certain age get prostate cancer. Only vegan men seem to be spared. My not-young, vegan husband pisses like a racehorse. He has 100 problems, but his prostate is not one. Unless you maintain a strict diet free of animal flesh and secretions and an herbal regimen of urinary tract supporting herbs for decades, you will probably end up in an adult diaper as an elderly person.

Trans hormones wreak havoc upon digestion, cognition, and mood. The trans seeking person hopes surgery will complete the process, allowing her or him to emerge from the surgical cocoon to become a beautiful butterfly. Instead, they emerge as Pats, neither male nor female.

The reason the post-op trans person is 17 times more likely to commit suicide is because trans bottom surgery is more brutal than what was done to Qing dynasty brothel boys. At least 1 in 6 trans victims end up with searing, chronic pain that will haunt them until they die. In the creation of a faux vagina, vulva, and clitoris, the penile shaft is either inverted and stuffed inside the perineum or the afformentioned section of the lower intestine is crafted into a “vagina” and stuffed into the same area. The root of the penis is impossible to remove without killing the customer patient, and the castrated male is left with erectile tissue in the stump of his amputation. The stump has a manufactured wound-hole behind it along with reconstructed lumps of flesh as labia to cover the amputation. Unlike the Chinese court eunuch, he is condemned to dilating or re-opening his faux-vaginal wound every day for the rest of his life, lest the wound close and become septic. His shortened urethra is a recipe for permanent UTIs and premature incontinence. There is a high likelihood he will never orgasm again after surgery due to both his hormonal treatments (the same hormones are given to male sex offenders to make them impotent) and the painful, dysfunctional state of his amputated penis.

For F to M transitioning women, the process and results are even more ghastly and hideous. A woman or girl who goes through the F to M grist mill must harvest skin from another body part to form the sleeve or shaft of her future frankenpenis. The skin taken from her forearm (preferred), thigh, or back leaves a permanent track of shriveled, reddened burn that never heals, the searing brand of the surgeon who finances his next tropical vacation on the insurance payout. The urethra is stretched through the phallus, blithely casting aside its intended function purely for the sake of aesthetics. (Gee, when have we seen women subject themselves to bizarre and outlandish tortures and permanent damage in order to look a certain way before? That never happens) The frankendick will only work to function as a dildo with a pumping device. My research hinted at something referred to as “donor testicles”, and I am going to guess that means testicles are being harvested from nearly dead, male ICU patients who made the mistake of checking the Organ Donor box on their driver’s licenses.

A metioplasty involves cutting the clitoris (female genital mutilation) to unmoor it from its surrounding skin so it can stand at attention and function as a micropenis. Fake silicone testicles are added with more harvested skin. The result is the exact sort of “penis” that most straight women purport to hate and loathe, especially if said micropenis is attached to a gender neutral, Pat with a balding pate and a pot belly. Pat with a micropenis does not appeal to anyone, gay or straight. It’s almost as if lesbians prefer to be with other women.

TRANS IS ABUSE

Gays had a short moment in the 1990s when things were looking up. They were not yet free to marry, but they had gained a great deal of respect and clout in our civilization. The 1990s and early 200s showed us that gay is not that big of a deal and that anyone with a puerile interest in what consenting, mature adults do in the bedroom should probably seek help. Big Pharma had not yet cannibalized the populace to the point where it needed to use lesbian and gay children as cannon fodder in its never-ending war against the human race. Right around the time Big Pharma mated with government to create the Covid scare, we got the trans movement and the funneling of children into the medical system via subterfuge such as preferred pronouns and on-the-sly gender counseling. Fascism is the alliance of governments and corporations to create a de facto rule of law. Trans fascism was all the rage from 2016- 2023 until Dylan Mulvaney served as the straw to break the camel’s back by tanking Budweiser’s market share. Fascists cannot fascist if they cannot turn a profit, and Budweiser learned the hard way that its demographic of good old boys and sportsball bros were just as happy to drink Modelo and Miller. The name is irrelevant — it all tastes like carbonated gerbil piss, so why buy the one being hawked by the freak in womanface acting out a minstrel show of Venus flytrap femininity?

Men, as it turns out, try to become women in order to punish them. They have daddy issues galore but it is their mothers who drive them truly nuts. To punish women, they invade their private spaces and steal their trophies. Thanks to the trans movement, the physical superiority of men is now glaringly obvious in a way that was unclear in my Generation X. The strongest female athlete will always be beaten handily. If the point of sports is victory, there is no point to female sports. A group of amateur teenage boys beat the US Women’s Soccer Team, with the women scoring only one point in the entire game. They did this more than once. Switzerland Women’s National Team (it’s called football over there) went up against a group of boys, none of whom was over the age of 15. The women had their asses handed to them. Serena Williams, who is currently shilling her newly-emaciated Ozempic body, once boasted she could beat any male tennis player ranked outside the top 200. She was trounced by Karsten Braasch, who ranked 203rd and whose training “regimen” involved beer and cigarettes, beat both Serena and her sister, Venus, when both were at their physical peak in 1998.

Clearly the best sportswomen in the world are no match for a random, untrained teenager with a cock and balls. They are having their faces rubbed in their physical shortcomings, and though I should feel a grim satisfaction watching all the female jocks who ostracized and mocked me for sucking at sports when I was young, I don’t. They are getting their comeuppance and a taste of their own bitter medicine. Like me, they will never be good at sports. Not really. A man will always do a better job even if they train their entire lives. But just as I play piano and do not qualify or come even close to being the world’s greatest pianist, it does not mean I should give up playing or be mocked because I am not as good of a pianist as someone else. Women should continue being active in sports. Biological men and boys should be kept out of women’s sports so women can win fair victories against other women and gauge their own improvement on a fair grading curve.

F to M transitioners often come from abusive backgrounds. Many have been sexually assaulted and/or raped. They seek transition in order to avoid feeling vulnerable. This certainly seems true of the person formerly known as Ellen Page, who was passed around in the Hollywood System and now passively victimizes others by broadcasting her own brand of false transcendence. Sadly, the abused become abusers at a prolific rate, especially when abuse is of a sexual nature.

TRANS IS PERVERSION

The goal of transitioning is to run away from the weight of age and maturity or anything that looks remotely like it. The person formerly known as Ellen Page has no plans on aging into a bearded, wizened, beer-gutted fellow; no, Page wants to be the miniature version of her own imaginary biological son for the remainder of this articulation. She wants to be a boy, not a man. The man known as Rachel Levine would not dare to cut his hair short — to do so would prevent him from gaslighting the general public into calling him ma’am. Dude does not even look like a lady, and short hair would be far too honest, especially for an obese ex-Secretary of Health. Dylan Mulvaney said it himself: he wants girlhood for himself, not womanhood.

In the 1988 horror film Silence of the Lambs, there is an ostensible M to F trans character who captures, fattens and slaughters larger women with the goal of making their hides into a skin suit that he can wear while prancing about in front of a full-length mirror. Though the real serial killers Buffalo Bill was based upon — Ed Gein, Gary Heidnik, and Ted Bundy — were not autogynephiliacs (males who experience a sexual thrill from viewing themselves as females) but the Buffalo Bill character was depicted as tucking his equipment under crossed legs, enchanted by his own reflection.

The Buffalo Bill character was frightening because men who wear femininity as a costume are scary. A man who sees his XY chromosomal status as a cursed will always be perceived as wanting what he cannot have. To become a woman, he may exact revenge on women, killing them so that he can wear their skin.

Trans is an act of vengeance upon the polarities that make us whole. Being gay is reframed as such an extreme perversion, it must be erased so the formerly gay transperson can become technically “straight” in order to do traditional, penetrative sex. The gay woman has herself genitally mutilated show she can grow a penis out of her defective crotch and mate with other women as a man would. The gay man is castrated and wounded so he can become the quasi-feminine receptacle for another man’s sperm. I don’t know why anyone gets off on this but it is apparent there are entire autogynephiliac armies waiting to groom future autistic gay kids so they can join the ranks of the mutilated.

Rapists are still rapists even if they are autogynephilic men who have their junk amputated. Those who were straight and who raped or wanted to rape women to begin with found themselves in an ideal position from 2016-2023. The point of transitioning for many men was part sissy humiliation ritual and part espionage to see how the other half lives. There are straight men who seek a trans disguise to predate on lesbians, the final frontier for the dedicated misogynists. Losers who fail at being men must co-opt women’s causes and invade their private rooms. They depend upon cultural niceness mandates to defend them from the retaliation they deserve. They hate women and yet they want them and want to be them. Like Ed Gein, the serial killer who inspired Norman Bates of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, they hate and love their mommies in equal measure. They are not above terrorizing the fairer sex in order to satisfy their urges.

To the keyboard warriors at the ready whose fragile, broken minds are boiling over with verbal barbs and accusations of transphobia right now — go outside and touch grass. I am a rando on the internet. I do not think about you at all. Also, if you have read this far without trying to comment yet, you will soon find out that you are not allowed to comment on this essay without signing in. As I have said in the past, I am going to die without being bought. You cannot scare me and you cannot buy me off, so go away.

What I do want is to spread the message that mass acceptance of trans nonsense is over. We are done. We are now coming into a time where dangerous medical procedures of any sort will be questioned and investigated. The enlightenment is here. Allopathic medicine is fascism. Their unholy coupling with Big Government and corporate media in order to push the trans machine has been exposed.

Just a reminder that I will be taking my usual short, seasonal break from writing essays from December 19 - January 5 to rest and refresh the well of inspiration. I have put this blog's comments section to Dreamwidth Registered Users only for this moment and I will most likely turn on this same setting over my break. Thanks for understanding.

Sunday, December 7th, 2025 09:51 pm
dream it and then do itIt's almost midnight and so it's time to launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and with certain exceptions noted below, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question or comment received after that point will not get an answer, and in fact will not be put through.  If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 341,928th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.3 of The Magic Monday FAQ here

Also:
 I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says.  And further:  I've decided that questions about getting goodies from spirits are also permanently off topic here. The point of occultism is to develop your own capacities, not to try to bully or wheedle other beings into doing things for you. I've discussed this in a post on my blog.

(The image? I've finished the sequence of my published books; while I decide what I want to do next, I have some memes to share.)

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With that said, have at it!  

***This Magic Monday is now closed, and no more comments will be put through. See you next week!***
Friday, December 5th, 2025 09:01 pm



I am happy to read your Ogham free of charge -- that's how I hone my divination skills. Please limit your reading request to four or fewer Ogham cards: though this can take many forms, here are some common ones (all of them are basically combos of 4 cards):

 
-a single three card reading for the week or month and a one-off, one card reading
-four questions about four separate items that require one answer (card) per item
-a one card reading to answer a specific question and a three card for a more nuanced question
-Two separate readings, two cards a piece exploring the positives and negatives of two different choices

I am happy to do Ogham readings confidentially via emails -- just email me at k steele studio at gmail during the allotted time/before deadline. I cannot answer health questions. If you have a question about health or another sensitive, private matter, provide a bunch of non-identifying information and the Ogham will be able to figure it out even if I don't. I'm serious... the Ogham actually tend to "know" things without me being privy to what is going on.

Please note I take time off during Solstices and Equinoxes for Druid stuff and because sometimes I simply need a break.

My next planned break is from December 18 - January 8.

I take reading requests from whenever this post goes up on Friday night until 8pm US Central Time Saturday.

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Friday, December 5th, 2025 09:35 am
brussels sprouts in winterWelcome to Frugal First Friday! This is a monthly forum post to encourage people to share tips on saving money, especially but not only by doing stuff yourself. A new post will be going up on the first Friday of each month, and will remain active until the next one goes up. Contributions will be moderated, of course. 

There has been talk about releasing these posts in print format.  In case that turns out to be worth pursuing, please note: if you comment on this or any future Frugal First Friday post, you are giving permission for that comment to be included in print or other editions. This means, for those of you into the legalese, that by posting something in the comment thread you are granting me non-exclusive reprint rights to your comment, and permitting me to transfer those to a publisher or other venue. Your contribution will have your name or internet handle attached, your choice. 

I also have some simple rules to offer, which may change further as we proceed. One change from the earlier frame is that if you produce goods or services yourself, and would like to let readers know about them, you may post one (1) (yes, just one) comment per month letting people know, with a link to your website or other contact info. The other rules ought to be familiar by now. 


Rule #1:  this is a place for polite, friendly conversations about how to save money in difficult times. It's not a place to post news, views, rants, or emotional outbursts about the reasons why the times are difficult and saving money is necessary. Nor is it a place to use a money saving tip to smuggle in news, views, etc.  I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.

Rule #2:  please give your tip a heading that explains briefly what it's about.  Homemade Chicken Soup, Garden Containers, Cheap Attic Insulation, and Vinegar Cleans Windows are good examples of headings. That way people can find the things that are relevant for them. If you don't put a heading on your tip it will be deleted.

Rule #3: don't post anything that would amount to advocating criminal activity. Any such suggestions will not be put through.

Rule #4: don't post LLM ("AI") generated content, and don't bring up the subject unless you're running a homemade LLM program on your own homebuilt, steam-powered server farm. 

With that said, have at it!  
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 10:52 am
who did itWe are now into the fifth year of these open posts. When I first posted a tentative hypothesis on the course of the Covid phenomenon, I had no idea that discussion on the subject would still be necessary all these years later, much less that it would turn into so lively, complex, and troubling a conversation. Still, here we are. Crude death rates and other measures of collapsing public health remain anomalously high in many countries, but nobody in authority wants to talk about the inadequately tested experimental Covid injections that are the most likely cause; public health authorities government shills for the pharmaceutical industry are still trying to push through laws that will allow them to force vaccinations on anyone they want; public trust in science is collapsing; new revelations are leaking out about just how bad the Covid vaccines are for human health; and the story continues to unfold.

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry and its government enablers are causing injury and death on a massive scale. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its wholly owned politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you plan on making off topic comments, please go away. This is an open post for discussion of the Covid epidemic, the vaccines, drugs, policies, and other measures that supposedly treat it, and other topics directly relevant to those things. It is not a place for general discussion of unrelated topics. Nor is it a place to ask for medical advice; giving such advice, unless you're a licensed health care provider, legally counts as practicing medicine without a license and is a crime in the US. Don't even go there.


5. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

6. Please don't just post bare links without explanation. A sentence or two telling readers what's on the other side of the link is a reasonable courtesy, and if you don't include it, your attempted post will be deleted.

7. Please don't post LLM ("AI") generated text. This is a place for human beings to talk to other human beings, not for the regurgitation of machine-generated text. Also, please don't discuss large language models (the technology popularly and inaccurately called "artificial intelligence" these days) except as they bear directly on the Covid phenomenon. Here again, my finger is hovering over the delete button. 

Please also note that nothing posted here should be construed as medical advice, which neither I nor the commentariat (excepting those who are licensed medical providers) are qualified to give. Please take your medical questions to the licensed professional provider of your choice.


With that said, the floor is open for discussion.  
Monday, December 1st, 2025 12:36 pm

Around 2022, when people were still cavorting about in restaurants with masks, I went to Olive Garden with my husband and family. When I went to the bathroom, it got gross. Someone had projectile vomited all over the floor, sinks, and toilet stalls. The whole room reeked of barf. As is typical of casual American restaurants, there was no specialized department to take care of the mess, so a server (presumably one with a strong stomach) went in with disinfectant and mop to do the job. I overheard the servers talking about how it was the third time that week. I chalked up the episode as the predicament of the MRNA “vaccines”.

Considering my area was one of the most heavily compliant, with upwards of 90 percent opting to get the mystery jab, I figured the Olive Garden spewer was just another statistic in the sordid list of Pfizer/Moderna/Johnson side effects. I did not suspect Ozempic or its competitors at the time, although now in hindsight, the Olive Garden “play stupid games, win stupid prizes” barf mine maze may have been provided by a Big Pharma character I did not suspect at the time: Novo Nordisk.

Brought to you by monsters

Speaking of playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes, I was last week years old when I found out GLP-1 drugs were “inspired” by the Gila monster, a prehistoric relic that eats all of once or twice per year. Novo Nordisk presumably tortured many of these animals to death in the grand style of Anthony Fauci’s sand fly/beagle experiment in order to isolate the elusive substance. They were first in line to develop hunger-suppressing semaglutide drugs and quickly outpaced Pfizer as the most profitable drug company in human history.

The Gila monster’s venom contains a substance known as exendin-4, which slows down digestion and increases insulin. When the Gila monster deigns to put food in its stomach, it subsists on stolen eggs from birds and other reptiles, baby rats, baby chicks, and carrion. In other words, the Gila monster is the OG System ghoul in lizard form, devouring fetuses and infants when it is not relishing in corpseflesh a la Jimmy Savile. David Icke is probably having a field day.

Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide debut, Ozempic, quickly overtook the sketchy MRNA products as the real injection to end all injections. GLP-1 drugs revolutionized the diet scene by making patients uninterested in food. If a patient slipped into old habits and indulged in her old favorite neverending pasta bowl at Olive Garden, that Shrimp Carbonara was highly likely to end up all over the toilet and sinks as revenge for eating it, along with copious amounts of neverending salad and bread sticks.

Strap in, because this is nowhere near the last time I will mention abuse

GLP-1 drugs were born to be abused. I first heard of Ozempic because the Kardashians were rumored to be using it along with the removal of their butt implants. They were not using it for its so-called intended purpose, which is ostensibly to manage diabetes. Even the diabetics for whom GLP-1s are prescribed abuse them. One type II diabetic I know by proxy brags that he can now drink all of the sugary soda he wants because he is on Ozempic. His blood sugar levels remain within the window of normal despite the fact he guzzles carbonated corn syrup like it is water.

There was never even a question celebrities would abuse GLP-1 drugs. As the vainest and most entitled people on the planet, they would never pass up an injection that offered “free” weight loss, even if this led to shortages1 of the drug for the people for whom it was ostensibly designed. Furthermore, I believe we are seeing GLP-1 abuse among those who need it the least: anorexics. I am not making any allegations here, but if I was the betting sort, I would put money on all three out of three of the current visibly anorexic Wick(ED) movie superstars abusing Ozempic. Yes, I am going to discuss Ariana Grande in a minute.

Ally goddamn McBeal

Back when Ariana Grande was only four years old in 1997, a dry, desiccated turd emerged from the bowels of Fox in the form of a television series called Ally McBeal. Ally McBeal (1997-2002) was mostly a vehicle for the fetishization of 1990s anorexic It Girl Calista Flockhart, a human lollipop who scored Harrison Ford as a fiancée and later spouse. Though Calista Flockhart is nearly unknown now, her pouty face and Defend Your Castle body were plastered all over the turn of the millennium. Calista Flockhart as Ally McBeal was a lawyer in a male-dominated profession who narrated a riff track to her own life, including her fantasies. Ally’s fantasy life was explored through cheesy special effects, including a three foot long tongue and an annoying dancing baby that represented her biological clock. Ally McBeal’s brand of sardonic, wisecracking, cooler-than-thou comedy obviously did not appeal to me but it was an extremely popular show at the time.

The cringe of Ally McBeal was sadly not limited to special effects. Nearly every single female character on the show looked visibly emaciated. Rumors flew that the women of Ally McBeal were embroiled in a competition to see who could lose the most weight. The stars were said to have treadmills in their dressing rooms. According to blinds, they ate as few as 150 calories per day, abusing laxatives if an upcoming scene required a state of undress. Portia DeRossi, who was involved with Ellen DeGeneres but did not wed her until 2004, suffered organ failure in the year 2000 after dropping to 82 pounds (37kg). Portia DeRossi is 5’8” tall.

To this day, Calista Flockhart denies any role she has played in the mental poisoning of the women surrounding Ally McBeal or the generations who watched it. Flockhart claims that she is naturally thin. Perhaps she is gaslighting us and perhaps she is not. When we look at who is to blame, it is convenient to point fingers at the bobble-headed It Girl. We all know who was truly at fault for the anorexic zeal of Ally McBeal: the show’s producers. David E. Kelley, the ex-lawyer who was also behind L.A. Law and Doogie Howser, M.D., co-produced the show with Bill D’Elia. Without the consent of Kelley (who has been married to über-skinny Michelle Pfeiffer since the 1990s) there could have been no mass exportation of the Ally McBeal image.

Hide your kids from Wicked: For Good

If I had children, I would either forbid or heartily dissuade them from viewing Wicked: For Good. Before I go any further, I would like to place the mantle of blame for the anorexia these films promoted and inspired upon each show’s respective producers and directors. The newest Wicked film, which is a sequel to the Wizard of Oz spinoff musical Wicked that was popular in the 1990s, features Ariana Grande as Good Witch Galinda and Cynthia Erivo (a race-swapped Bad Witch Elphaba) as its main characters.

No iteration of the Wizard of Oz has been free of anorexic torture and Wicked I and II are no exception. In the original Wizard of Oz movie, Judy Garland, once a robust show kid, was coerced into dieting and drugging herself down to a weight in which she never thrived. In the 1978 adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s books, the Wiz, singer Diana Ross battled with anorexia nervosa that coincided with an extreme amount of stress allegedly put on to her via her MoTown producer, Barry Gordy. Wicked I and II do not have a Dorothy character to torment, so the emaciation banner has been passed to not one, not two, but three separate lead characters in the film: Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Erivo, and Ariana Grande.

All formerly healthy-looking stars have wasted away over the last half decade of Wicked film production. Michelle Yeoh, a former action star, looks like she could squeeze into a paper towel tube if no clothing was available. I’m guessing this state of affairs is a matter of demented pride for her at 63 years old. She went from Flying Tiger, Hidden Dragon to Starving Greyhound, Hidden Agenda.

Cynthia Erivo has a beautiful, heavily awarded voice, and she deserves vocal awards. Though I refuse to see Wicked: For Good at this point, I saw the first Wicked film not too long ago and Erivo actually out-sang Ariana Grande from my point of view. She has pipes. Unfortunately, Wicked has also been Erivo’s demise into emaciation, with the formerly svelte looking actress looking like a bag of bones with press on nails. Yeoh and Erivo look as if they might return from the Land of the Dead once Wicked reaches the bargain DVD bin at Walmart. Ariana Grande does not.

The Ariana Grande death pool

I’m not the only one who thinks that Ariana Grande looks as if she is at death’s door. Recently, rumors circulated that the singer/actress had died, and considering how skeletal she has become. Though the rumors were part of a hoax, it is telling that nobody would be surprised if the Grande keeled over.

It is entirely possible that Grande was never mentally healthy, not even once in her life. Now in her mid-thirties, she is breaking down in real time, the wages of three plus decades of pretending to be above it all dragging her to the bowels of hell. As I have said in the past, Grande has all the markers of a CIA Monarch bot who has been trained from infancy to be pliant. I am not alleging her parents abused or sold her, but I would not be shocked if such revelations came to light.

Many speculate that Ariana Grande has been anorexic for a long time. There was an old Tumblr account attributed to Ariana Grande during her Nickelodeon/Sam & Cat era, and it was full of weight loss flexes such as Ariana bragging about eating a single dragonfruit in an entire busy day and copious photos of Grande in Disappearing Princess mode. Thigh gaps, or selfies that displayed the natural space between a woman’s thighs when she reaches a certain level of thinness, were all the rage. Beyonce became obsessed with Photoshopping herself as a thinner person with thigh gaps. A woman calling herself Felice Fawn became a thinspiration superstar, launching untold numbers of young women into lifelong careers as anorectics.

Ariana Grande’s long sojourn as an actress and pop star have been chock full of nods to anorexia. She was about as subtle about anorexia in her pre-Wicked career as she was about being sexually active. As a kid, accused-pedophile creep Dan Schneider had her sticking her fingers down her throat in a Sam & Cat episode where she “explored her uvula”. The impression the scene gives (this is a show for kids, mind you) is that Dan is getting off on her adolescent bulimia. I guess children’s feet are not the only things he was into.

I think Grande was always anorexic and possibly bulimic, and the evidence for this is rife not only in that old Tumblr account (which may or may not have been Grande herself) but in her music videos. Side to Side, one of her many tacky, heavily blaccented songs from the 2010s, features Grande on an exercise bike, as if she needs it. Her other videos are populated with self-checking as Grande tests various surfaces to see how tiny she looks in comparison to them. Grande was known for wanting to be carried everywhere she went in 2014. A supposed Life & Style magazine insider reported, “Her new rule is that she has to be carried, literally carried like a baby when she doesn’t feel like walking. She says that she doesn’t want her precious feet to hit the floor.”

I don’t think it was about her feet. It was about her micro-weight and her desire to infantilize herself. Ariana Grande wants to vanish. She wants to become a baby: minuscule and beloved.

Mortify the flesh

A shocking number of canonized saints, all women, were anorexic. Women have been starving themselves for a long time. Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) used to gag herself with sticks and tree branches when she was forced to eat. Marie of Oignies (1177-1213) survived for years on only the consecrated bread of the host. She preferred to eat it when the crust was so hard, it would make her mouth bleed. A common theme we see with anorexics, whether of the nervosa or mirabilis variety, is the desire to inflict pain upon themselves. Any given anorexic is a sadist and a masochist wrapped up in one. Starvation becomes addiction.

The obese starve in their own way too, and they are also sadists and masochists balled up in the same, fractured psyche. Both anorexia and obesity are disorders of dependency. The obese person wants to stop overeating, but at some point, it becomes hardwired into the system. Severe anorexia is even less reversible. Anorexics who are too far gone cannot start eating normally again even if they want to. Those who claw their way out and legitimately recover often die anyway. Caroline Knapp, author of the anorexic memoir Appetites: Why Women Want, died at age 42 after beating anorexia and alcoholism.

Karen Carpenter seems to have legitimately tried to get better. She lived with her psychotherapist Steven Levenkron for a period and she got a little traction in the time she spent with him, going from 79 pounds to nearly 100. Wanting to get back to work on singing, she left Levenkron’s care before she was truly done and most likely relapsed into purging and laxative abuse. Carpenter admitted taking up to 90 laxative pills at a time in order to stay thin. Laxatives, starvation, and purging had taken their toll. She died at age 33 of a heart attack, cutting her brilliant music career off in one fell swoop.

I will be discussing in future articles about how I feel anorexia and obesity are two sides of the same coin, with the substance of the coin being a failure to be grateful. As much as I can already see the chronically bored outrage trolls coming for me with “You’re blaming the victim!” and “Patriarchy!” I truly do see eating disorders as diseases of entitlement, which makes them especially dangerous when they are foisted upon the young and naive, who cannot see them for what they truly are. Shame on those who promote ED culture and its fetishes, and I do mean EVERYONE who engages in it, and shame on the producers of mainstream media who would market that trash to anyone at all.

 

 

 

Sunday, November 30th, 2025 09:44 pm
live without fearIt's almost midnight and so it's time to launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and with certain exceptions noted below, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question or comment received after that point will not get an answer, and in fact will not be put through.  If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 341,928th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.3 of The Magic Monday FAQ here

Also:
 I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says.  And further:  I've decided that questions about getting goodies from spirits are also permanently off topic here. The point of occultism is to develop your own capacities, not to try to bully or wheedle other beings into doing things for you. I've discussed this in a post on my blog.

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Sunday, November 30th, 2025 02:42 am
Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means [staff profile] karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

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Saturday, November 29th, 2025 09:47 pm

Exciting news! My book is available for pre-order!

Sacred Homemaking: A Magical Approach to a Tidier Home has come to fruition much more quickly than I thought it would and I could not be more delighted. Thanks to the amazing team at Aeon Books, Sacred Homemaking is my dream literally coming true.

In Sacred Homemaking, I seek to bring a fresh voice to the tidying genre as popularized by Marie Kondo (The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up) and Swedish Death Cleaning that delves deeply into magic, including the foundational magic of gratitude. It's not just about sorting stuff and getting rid of stuff -- to make a sacred home involves the cultivation of sensitivity and balance that has been all but discarded in our current era of spiritual leprosy.

It is much easier to clean and maintain items that you have appreciation for, and when we treat the things and spaces in our life well, we start treating the people like they matter too. Gratitude is what connects us to the spirit of place, and though many seek to dismiss talking to the spirits of place and objects as woo, that strange habit weaves a net of spells around you and your surroundings that is the ultimate natural magic without ever having to pick up a wand or wear a funny hat.

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Saturday, November 29th, 2025 12:26 am



I am happy to read your Ogham free of charge -- that's how I hone my divination skills. Please limit your reading request to four or fewer Ogham cards: though this can take many forms, here are some common ones (all of them are basically combos of 4 cards):

 
-a single three card reading for the week or month and a one-off, one card reading
-four questions about four separate items that require one answer (card) per item
-a one card reading to answer a specific question and a three card for a more nuanced question
-Two separate readings, two cards a piece exploring the positives and negatives of two different choices

I am happy to do Ogham readings confidentially via emails -- just email me at k steele studio at gmail during the allotted time/before deadline. I cannot answer health questions. If you have a question about health or another sensitive, private matter, provide a bunch of non-identifying information and the Ogham will be able to figure it out even if I don't. I'm serious... the Ogham actually tend to "know" things without me being privy to what is going on.

Please note I take time off during Solstices and Equinoxes for Druid stuff and because sometimes I simply need a break.

My next planned break is from December 18 - January 8.

I take reading requests from whenever this post goes up on Friday night until 8pm US Central Time Saturday.

For a more in depth look into how I read and interpret the Ogham's symbols, please visit my website druidogham.wordpress.com.

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Friday, November 28th, 2025 11:13 am
buy nothingFor quite a few years now, the Friday after Thanksgiving has been celebrated by some of us as Buy Nothing Day.  We celebrate it -- quel choc! -- by buying nothing that day. It's an opportunity to step outside of the manufactured frenzy of the consumer economy and, just for once, kick back and do something that doesn't involve money changing hands. It's also a way to take a little of the pressure off the people who have to work shifts as store clerks on the notional first day of the Greedmas -- er, Christmas -- season, and can usually count on seeing crowds of foam-flecked consumers shed their last scraps of human decency in the frantic struggle to get the latest shoddy and heavily marketed gewgaw, fresh off the boat from some overseas hellhole where sweatshops churn out plastic crap to make billionaires richer at your expense. 

(Of course those who celebrate any of the many religious holidays around the beginning of winter -- very much including Christians, whose holy day got hijacked by the mass marketers of Greedmas -- may like to use the break to reflect on what the season's really about. That's up to each of us, however.)

I keep Buy Nothing Day strictly -- that is to say, I won't be buying anything today. No, I don't expect that to have any effect on the consumer economy or society as a whole; it's simply a personal celebration and an act of personal intention. Your choices are yours to make, dear reader, but I hope that some of you will join me in having a happy Buy Nothing Day today. 
Thursday, November 27th, 2025 06:11 pm
ufoSome months ago I was invited to submit an article on the occult dimensions of the UFO phenomenon for a special issue of a scholarly journal, World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. That came as something of a surprise. Even more of a surprise was the fact that the editor accepted my article with enthusiasm and asked only for minor (and quite reasonable) revisions. It intrigues me that at least one end of the world of scholarship is that open to straightforward discussions of what occultism has to say about one of the odder mysteries of our time. 

The article, "UAPs and the Occult: An Inquiry into Rejected Knowledge," has now been published. The publisher has an odd little marketing gimmick where each author of an article in one of their many journals can give away, electronically, 50 copies of the article. Since I'm not in the academic circuit and won't be sending the links off to colleagues in the Department of Extraterrestrial Sorcery at Miskatonic University or the like, I decided to post the link here. If you're one of the first fifty people to click on the link, you get the article; if not, you get the abstract. Here's the link: 

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TB6IZUDFRFUAVDKVRPIQ/full?target=10.1080/02604027.2025.2592184

Once it's in back issues I'll see what I can do about getting it in some more accessible venue. In the meantime, enjoy!