08/12/2023
I've come to realize that for a while now, I've been stressing myself out by trying to fit myself into a situation that wasn't right for me or my work.
My work has always been intended to be physical, not digital. Physcial in the way of reaching only those with a legitimate desire or need.
I like the idea of being able to network and connect with folks via the computer, however, making my work avialble as digital downloads does not make me feel good.
I miss being active in the physical world, talking to people face to face, and the organic and natural rhythems that I used to work within.
The internet for me is about windows; A peek into what I am working on and creating in the physical, and want to share with folks. It's a calling card, or a digital brochure.
I don't like the impersonal, nor do I enjoy the devaluation that folks at large place on things that they can get when they want. No offfense, but when people know something is going to be there whenever they want it, it devalues it and begins to earn a place of disregard and disrespect.
The algorithm doesn't own my time, nor does it deserve my attention. Attempting to work long hours to make enough content and garner interest for my projects and creations has done nothing but stress me out mentally and emotionally, and ruin my back, neck and eyesight.
This is going to be discussed on the Ravynmoon's Hex podcast soon.
That being said, I want you to know that I do appreciate the folks who have attempted to help me along the way. 40 years is a long time.
Ravynmoon has been an portal of information for the metaphysical and witchy community since 1986. Online as a market of handmades and interactive information since 1999. It was the first ever website of it's kind, and became the model for the "shop in a box" that so many shopd use today. I'm not honored by that. "Take back the market" as an activism and mantra was influential in it's time, and helped others to focus on their skills, network with others of like mind, and promoted and supported small majikal business. But as with anything that works, those concepts were hijacked by corporate pigs and used as a means of psychological manipulation.
These walls talk.
So, after many years of trying to integrate new format into the digital portal, I have decided that it doesn't work. I'm not a "me-too", I'm valuable. What I have and what I create have value and substance, and are original. My work has weight, and my time and everything that makes me real has been injured in the process of attempting to make it available.
Localization and word of mouth worked for me in the past. It was natural and organic. That's why I'm going back. We all are.
I will no longer be putting any of my work up for digital download. I will continue to move along the path I have prescribed for myself, and bind my own books and and packages through our own publishing house, Wintermoon Publishing. That means that you will only be able to purchase physical copies from us when you visit the physical shop. We will continue to do our podcasts, shows, and radio station online.
As I've stated before our family has decided it in our best interest to also go back to farming. In 1986, I moved from the city to a working farm. Dad wants to go back to this as well. Of course, it won't be as big as it once was. After all, for those of you who do remember, it was a mile of cornfields we would hide in, several cows, a herd of goats, pigs, many cats, and huge gardens.
Our plans for ourselves in building a nice shop with our handmade creations, and making a physical information hub has begun to morph into something much more in depth. Something necessary.
The online presence we now have will be merely a window into what is happening and available. To participate, you'll have to physically walk through the door. As it should be.
"Take back the market" is now more in sync with "take back my health" and "bring back the physical world" -in an act of continued belligerence and powerfully necessary alchemy.