Hi! I’m Audrey, one of the founding members of the Kansas City Sorcerous Arts Collective. I am a Scorpio (watch out, there are a lot of us around!), a feminist, and a nerd for sources.
Magically, I’m less concerned with whether something should work than whether or not it does. Chaos Magick, with its focus on results and flexibility of paradigm, has long been the foundation of my practice. There’s a Mercury sigil on my favorite lipstick and another on my phone. I make planetary offerings in my car on my lunch break, and have more than once yelled “I demand to see the oracle!” when a visionary experience wasn’t providing any clarity. (You should try that. It’s delightfully effective.)
I’ve taught classes in tarot, visionary techniques, energy work, and everyday vs emergency spellwork. Because of my corporate background, I am perhaps a little too dedicated to processes and standards, codes of conduct and spreadsheets. Yes, I have some Virgo in my chart.
I discovered the occult as a teenager through AOL message boards in the late 1990s. I was already reading everything pertaining to religion and spirituality that I could get my hands on, convinced that I could find some Truth outside of the default Christianity that surrounded me. I read the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao te Ching and The Zen Teachings of Huang Po instead of paying attention in Mass.
And then I found Liber Chaos at Border’s, and my quest became less about Truth and more about experiments. I started a coven in my Catholic high school, played around with spirit conjuration and energy work, built an altar in my locker and buried jars in the woods.
Through a thriving Wiccan group in college, I experienced my first intense, intimate larger-group rituals. My vision of the power and possibilities of magic shifted when I saw how deep and transformative group work could be.
Along with other members of the Sorcerous Arts Collective, I’ve worked with/helped to start a few study-and-practice groups over the past 10 years. I spent a few years volunteering with a local festival, writing rituals and working on committees and learning a lot about cult toxic group dynamics.
My desire to continue to work with the people who have inspired and supported me, to do this work in, with, and for the community, pushes me forward. Long ago and far away, I wrote:
"I am inspired by a vision of community that supported and embraced me.... I am grateful to a lovely mixture of talented and spiritual people who came together, on purpose, to make magic, and I am restored in my wild hunger for community, for communion, and for an ideal of spiritual leadership that recognizes the core creative potential of each person, and the ways in which we are all teachers."
That is the vision that inspires me still. I am grateful to have found people who share it, and I look forward to sharing it with you.