Hazel Mae Righter
@hereiswonder.bsky.social
Creative technologist + practicing animist
15 yrs trad and realtime vfx, ar/vr/ai,
deep meditator, ritualist, magic-maker,
toddler mom.
/|\ OBOD + witch @ ReclaimingLA
https://open.substack.com/pub/hereiswonder
15 yrs trad and realtime vfx, ar/vr/ai,
deep meditator, ritualist, magic-maker,
toddler mom.
/|\ OBOD + witch @ ReclaimingLA
https://open.substack.com/pub/hereiswonder
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My long story short -
Spent a decade trying to get enlightened (therevada, Mahayana, dzogchen) + popped out the other side an animist
Professional vfx artist for tv for 15 years - presently a creative technologist with AI and realtime
(More deets in comments)
Spent a decade trying to get enlightened (therevada, Mahayana, dzogchen) + popped out the other side an animist
Professional vfx artist for tv for 15 years - presently a creative technologist with AI and realtime
(More deets in comments)
Finally a new Substack article - in which I share a fairy tale favorite, a tarot tie-in, and a short exercise.
Have you ever heard the story “the singing bones”?
#magick #witchsky #pagansky #witchy #fairytale #tarot #druidsky #witchcraft
open.substack.com/pub/hereiswo...
Have you ever heard the story “the singing bones”?
#magick #witchsky #pagansky #witchy #fairytale #tarot #druidsky #witchcraft
open.substack.com/pub/hereiswo...
The Singing Bones
a fairy tale
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Finally a new Substack article - in which I share a fairy tale favorite, a tarot tie-in, and a short exercise.
Have you ever heard the story “the singing bones”?
#magick #witchsky #pagansky #witchy #fairytale #tarot #druidsky #witchcraft
open.substack.com/pub/hereiswo...
Have you ever heard the story “the singing bones”?
#magick #witchsky #pagansky #witchy #fairytale #tarot #druidsky #witchcraft
open.substack.com/pub/hereiswo...
When I worked on a very large public AI project, we had to create a spreadsheet labeling each element of the film we were re-creating - everything got a hashtag labeling the character, expression, and any other details in order to train the model.
It’s not magic people, just a huge spreadsheet.
It’s not magic people, just a huge spreadsheet.
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
When I worked on a very large public AI project, we had to create a spreadsheet labeling each element of the film we were re-creating - everything got a hashtag labeling the character, expression, and any other details in order to train the model.
It’s not magic people, just a huge spreadsheet.
It’s not magic people, just a huge spreadsheet.
No shock to anyone here but: AGI isn’t coming from LLM models, which are basically the largest spreadsheets that ever existed. Emergent consciousness is not going to appear from a spreadsheet, and just making it bigger isn’t going to do it either.
Heres why:
#animism #ai #conciousness #magick
Heres why:
#animism #ai #conciousness #magick
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
No shock to anyone here but: AGI isn’t coming from LLM models, which are basically the largest spreadsheets that ever existed. Emergent consciousness is not going to appear from a spreadsheet, and just making it bigger isn’t going to do it either.
Heres why:
#animism #ai #conciousness #magick
Heres why:
#animism #ai #conciousness #magick
I’ve been coming to a realization that through this year I’ve passed through all the elements and am back in deep between earth and water - its very comfortable and cozy - but it’s also the thickest, stickiest, mud. Send help!
Where are you?
#witchsky #witchy #witchsky #witchcraft #magic #pagan
Where are you?
#witchsky #witchy #witchsky #witchcraft #magic #pagan
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Im invoking water this year at our public Samhain ritual, and I’m noticing it’s finding me all over: in reading, conversation, even social media. I lived in water time for so long, and finally feel like I’m moving to fire - but water doesn’t let go so easily.
#witchcraft #ritual #seasonofthewitch
#witchcraft #ritual #seasonofthewitch
October 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Im invoking water this year at our public Samhain ritual, and I’m noticing it’s finding me all over: in reading, conversation, even social media. I lived in water time for so long, and finally feel like I’m moving to fire - but water doesn’t let go so easily.
#witchcraft #ritual #seasonofthewitch
#witchcraft #ritual #seasonofthewitch
I’m in Japan for a month, and one of the things I love about it here is the way the sacred and mundane just kind of flow together. There’s a shrine right next to my subway stop and you can leave offerings or incense while passing by.
September 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I’m in Japan for a month, and one of the things I love about it here is the way the sacred and mundane just kind of flow together. There’s a shrine right next to my subway stop and you can leave offerings or incense while passing by.
Can’t believe how dense life is - I started teaching this year (on top of managing a VR project) and back to school has a whole new meaning. Sending love and good energy to all my teacher friends out there!
August 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Can’t believe how dense life is - I started teaching this year (on top of managing a VR project) and back to school has a whole new meaning. Sending love and good energy to all my teacher friends out there!
After some deep soul searching and an age at which I feel like I can finally be really honest with myself I have finally come to own that I am firmly a “no cold drinks before lunch” person.
Get that iced latte away from me, I don’t care if it’s 100 degrees outside at 9am.
Get that iced latte away from me, I don’t care if it’s 100 degrees outside at 9am.
July 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
After some deep soul searching and an age at which I feel like I can finally be really honest with myself I have finally come to own that I am firmly a “no cold drinks before lunch” person.
Get that iced latte away from me, I don’t care if it’s 100 degrees outside at 9am.
Get that iced latte away from me, I don’t care if it’s 100 degrees outside at 9am.
Im learning how to sing in Irish and I love it so much - I wish I had gotten more serious about it sooner!
July 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Im learning how to sing in Irish and I love it so much - I wish I had gotten more serious about it sooner!
When you sing out to the world - with a song, a prayer, a ritual - and feel the world sing back through winks of synchronicity…
That’s what being in resonant relationship feels like. This is the experience of resonance.
#witchmadmess #witchsky #spirituality #magic #pagansky #ritual
That’s what being in resonant relationship feels like. This is the experience of resonance.
#witchmadmess #witchsky #spirituality #magic #pagansky #ritual
July 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
When you sing out to the world - with a song, a prayer, a ritual - and feel the world sing back through winks of synchronicity…
That’s what being in resonant relationship feels like. This is the experience of resonance.
#witchmadmess #witchsky #spirituality #magic #pagansky #ritual
That’s what being in resonant relationship feels like. This is the experience of resonance.
#witchmadmess #witchsky #spirituality #magic #pagansky #ritual
I love that you can’t make resonant experiences happen intentionally. They are inherently anti-capitalist. If you try and force them, or create them they slip away.
Resonance only happens when we let go of control and let the world sing to us.
#pagansky #witchsky #witchmadness #magick #ritual
Resonance only happens when we let go of control and let the world sing to us.
#pagansky #witchsky #witchmadness #magick #ritual
July 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I love that you can’t make resonant experiences happen intentionally. They are inherently anti-capitalist. If you try and force them, or create them they slip away.
Resonance only happens when we let go of control and let the world sing to us.
#pagansky #witchsky #witchmadness #magick #ritual
Resonance only happens when we let go of control and let the world sing to us.
#pagansky #witchsky #witchmadness #magick #ritual
I just realized I havent had any bird flu news cross my radar in a while. Not sure whether or not this is a good thing.
😬
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July 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I just realized I havent had any bird flu news cross my radar in a while. Not sure whether or not this is a good thing.
😬
😬
I do not know which to prefer -
The beauty of inflections,
Or the beauty of innuendos
The blackbird whistling
Or just after
From my favorite poem by Wallace Stevens “13 ways of looking at a blackbird”
#poetry #poem #blackbird #spirituality #animism
The beauty of inflections,
Or the beauty of innuendos
The blackbird whistling
Or just after
From my favorite poem by Wallace Stevens “13 ways of looking at a blackbird”
#poetry #poem #blackbird #spirituality #animism
July 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I do not know which to prefer -
The beauty of inflections,
Or the beauty of innuendos
The blackbird whistling
Or just after
From my favorite poem by Wallace Stevens “13 ways of looking at a blackbird”
#poetry #poem #blackbird #spirituality #animism
The beauty of inflections,
Or the beauty of innuendos
The blackbird whistling
Or just after
From my favorite poem by Wallace Stevens “13 ways of looking at a blackbird”
#poetry #poem #blackbird #spirituality #animism
My daughter got a dollhouse for her birthday, and she’s doing a lot of making coffee and eggs for the mommy doll, and I feel so seen.
#toddlermom #momlife
#toddlermom #momlife
July 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
My daughter got a dollhouse for her birthday, and she’s doing a lot of making coffee and eggs for the mommy doll, and I feel so seen.
#toddlermom #momlife
#toddlermom #momlife
Fun fact - psychological development and spiritual development are two seperate tracks - informing eachother - but not the same thing. Both require effort and work. Ethics is key.
So many spiritual leaders think they’re cured and then f* it up
#witchsky #magick #spirituality #witchmadness #pagan
So many spiritual leaders think they’re cured and then f* it up
#witchsky #magick #spirituality #witchmadness #pagan
July 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Fun fact - psychological development and spiritual development are two seperate tracks - informing eachother - but not the same thing. Both require effort and work. Ethics is key.
So many spiritual leaders think they’re cured and then f* it up
#witchsky #magick #spirituality #witchmadness #pagan
So many spiritual leaders think they’re cured and then f* it up
#witchsky #magick #spirituality #witchmadness #pagan
On animism, and the orientation towards ethical living as we circle into a deeper relationship with all things.
#witchsky #witchcraft #druidsky #occultsky #pagansky #animism #spirituality
#witchsky #witchcraft #druidsky #occultsky #pagansky #animism #spirituality
In the beginning - was a circle
re-orienting ourselves back home
open.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
On animism, and the orientation towards ethical living as we circle into a deeper relationship with all things.
#witchsky #witchcraft #druidsky #occultsky #pagansky #animism #spirituality
#witchsky #witchcraft #druidsky #occultsky #pagansky #animism #spirituality
If I had a nickel for every western esoteric old white dude who “discovered” a new occult practice or teaching which was actually a thousand year old eastern or indigenous practice or teaching - I’d have a lot of nickels.
#witchsky #witchmadness #esoteric #magick
#witchsky #witchmadness #esoteric #magick
June 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If I had a nickel for every western esoteric old white dude who “discovered” a new occult practice or teaching which was actually a thousand year old eastern or indigenous practice or teaching - I’d have a lot of nickels.
#witchsky #witchmadness #esoteric #magick
#witchsky #witchmadness #esoteric #magick
One of the most infuriating aspects of working in creative technologies (vfx/realtime/ai etc) is that the hot new thing appears, you learn it, you get work doing it for a few years, and then all the jobs get outsourced somewhere cheaper and you have to start over with the next hot thing.
#vfx #ai
#vfx #ai
June 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I heard this recently and it has really stuck with me:
“A moment of presence in a numb world is an act of revolution.”
#spiritual #witchy #witchsky #druidsky #pagansky #meditation #meditate
“A moment of presence in a numb world is an act of revolution.”
#spiritual #witchy #witchsky #druidsky #pagansky #meditation #meditate
June 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I heard this recently and it has really stuck with me:
“A moment of presence in a numb world is an act of revolution.”
#spiritual #witchy #witchsky #druidsky #pagansky #meditation #meditate
“A moment of presence in a numb world is an act of revolution.”
#spiritual #witchy #witchsky #druidsky #pagansky #meditation #meditate
“the map is not the territory”
Its not the books you’ve read or podcasts you’ve listened to or classes you’ve taken -
Getting out of your head and into actual regular practice is where the revelation really happens.
#witchsky #witchmadness #druidsky #meditation #jhana #pagansky #deepmeditation
Its not the books you’ve read or podcasts you’ve listened to or classes you’ve taken -
Getting out of your head and into actual regular practice is where the revelation really happens.
#witchsky #witchmadness #druidsky #meditation #jhana #pagansky #deepmeditation
June 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“the map is not the territory”
Its not the books you’ve read or podcasts you’ve listened to or classes you’ve taken -
Getting out of your head and into actual regular practice is where the revelation really happens.
#witchsky #witchmadness #druidsky #meditation #jhana #pagansky #deepmeditation
Its not the books you’ve read or podcasts you’ve listened to or classes you’ve taken -
Getting out of your head and into actual regular practice is where the revelation really happens.
#witchsky #witchmadness #druidsky #meditation #jhana #pagansky #deepmeditation
A protest chant from Starhawk to take with you this weekend wherever you are:
We are the rising of the moon
We are the shifting of the ground
We are the seed that takes root
When we bring the fortress down.
youtu.be/7aNDvZYITJQ?...
#witchsky #witchmadness #occultsky #pagansky #starhawk #chant
We are the rising of the moon
We are the shifting of the ground
We are the seed that takes root
When we bring the fortress down.
youtu.be/7aNDvZYITJQ?...
#witchsky #witchmadness #occultsky #pagansky #starhawk #chant
Rising of the Moon
YouTube video by Reclaiming - Topic
youtu.be
June 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A protest chant from Starhawk to take with you this weekend wherever you are:
We are the rising of the moon
We are the shifting of the ground
We are the seed that takes root
When we bring the fortress down.
youtu.be/7aNDvZYITJQ?...
#witchsky #witchmadness #occultsky #pagansky #starhawk #chant
We are the rising of the moon
We are the shifting of the ground
We are the seed that takes root
When we bring the fortress down.
youtu.be/7aNDvZYITJQ?...
#witchsky #witchmadness #occultsky #pagansky #starhawk #chant
Here in LA so far this year we’ve had:
- the catastrophic implosion of our keystone industry creating mass unemployment
- the wildfire apocalypse
- whatever the f* is happening now.
How is LA is doing?
We are very tired.
(but the jacarandas are blooming anyway)
#losangeles #lastrong #la
- the catastrophic implosion of our keystone industry creating mass unemployment
- the wildfire apocalypse
- whatever the f* is happening now.
How is LA is doing?
We are very tired.
(but the jacarandas are blooming anyway)
#losangeles #lastrong #la
June 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Here in LA so far this year we’ve had:
- the catastrophic implosion of our keystone industry creating mass unemployment
- the wildfire apocalypse
- whatever the f* is happening now.
How is LA is doing?
We are very tired.
(but the jacarandas are blooming anyway)
#losangeles #lastrong #la
- the catastrophic implosion of our keystone industry creating mass unemployment
- the wildfire apocalypse
- whatever the f* is happening now.
How is LA is doing?
We are very tired.
(but the jacarandas are blooming anyway)
#losangeles #lastrong #la
Any #waldorf teachers out in Bluesky land?
As AI threatens to consume my day job, I am considering a switch to whatever the opposite of AI is.
#waldorfeducation #waldorf #steiner
As AI threatens to consume my day job, I am considering a switch to whatever the opposite of AI is.
#waldorfeducation #waldorf #steiner
June 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Any #waldorf teachers out in Bluesky land?
As AI threatens to consume my day job, I am considering a switch to whatever the opposite of AI is.
#waldorfeducation #waldorf #steiner
As AI threatens to consume my day job, I am considering a switch to whatever the opposite of AI is.
#waldorfeducation #waldorf #steiner
We breathe with the green world - we breathe out they breathe in - since the beginning of time.
If you want a secret of the universe, maybe it’s just there hiding in this truth that everything breathes together.
#witchsky #witchmadness #mindfulness #meditation #breathe #animism #druidsky
If you want a secret of the universe, maybe it’s just there hiding in this truth that everything breathes together.
#witchsky #witchmadness #mindfulness #meditation #breathe #animism #druidsky
June 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We breathe with the green world - we breathe out they breathe in - since the beginning of time.
If you want a secret of the universe, maybe it’s just there hiding in this truth that everything breathes together.
#witchsky #witchmadness #mindfulness #meditation #breathe #animism #druidsky
If you want a secret of the universe, maybe it’s just there hiding in this truth that everything breathes together.
#witchsky #witchmadness #mindfulness #meditation #breathe #animism #druidsky
I'm pretty sure everyone is asleep now, but if you're not - I wrote a little something, and hope to keep writing more somethings. On building ritual practice, finding magic, re-connection, re-centering and coming back home.
#witchsky #witchmadness #pagansky #animism #ritual #meditation #magick
#witchsky #witchmadness #pagansky #animism #ritual #meditation #magick
Into the scattered darkness
the place where things begin.
hereiswonder.substack.com
June 7, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I'm pretty sure everyone is asleep now, but if you're not - I wrote a little something, and hope to keep writing more somethings. On building ritual practice, finding magic, re-connection, re-centering and coming back home.
#witchsky #witchmadness #pagansky #animism #ritual #meditation #magick
#witchsky #witchmadness #pagansky #animism #ritual #meditation #magick