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Essays and Lunar Letters: desire, work and the island as a method.
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Desire
has a body.
Plants. Politics. The things we want.
A field practice for living inside your own skin.
WORDS BY NATASHA KADINISLAND PACE. REAL CONSEQUENCES.
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What do you
need right now?
Seven questions. Nine elements. A way into the practice.
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FIND YOUR ELEMENT
Begin where you are.
Choose the answer that feels closest today.
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Choose an element. Read the terrain.
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02 / FEELING
Water
A day can fill with feelings that never receive a name. You move from message to task to conversation, then reach evening with a weight you cannot sort. Water offers a small interval between feeling something and deciding what to do with it.
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The latest three public posts. Open a text to read it in full.
17 Oct 2026
LILITH: The Desire Is Mine
I like myself when I am in desire. The concentration. The sudden competence of my hands. The way a room acquires distances I can feel with my skin. The smell, the vibe, the play, all of it. I’ve spent years knowing what needs to be done, and it is a pleasure to find out what I would like to do, what I desire.
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16 Oct 2026
Resonance Ecology #2: ULTRASONIC VOCALIZATIONS
On the night before the first big rain, my house sounds like my imaginary boat Daha , on autopilot. I lie in bed listening and think: I know this sound. Night on deck, everyone asleep, something electrical keeping the vessel on course. A thin, persistent iiiiiiiii . Nobody at the wheel. Still moving. Except I am in a forest.
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09 Oct 2026
Lunar Letter #19: I NEVER AGREED TO THAT
Cultural work taught me accounting long before astrology did. A project can finish on time and within budget while quietly running on unpaid labour, private equipment, a borrowed van, one person’s phone contacts and the nervous system of whoever happens to be most competent. The final report balances, the funder is pleased, everyone thanks everyone in the closing speech, and the spreadsheet balances because the missing line item lives in a body. Private life runs on the same accounting method. A relationship feels easy because one person absorbs the uncertainty. A household works because somebody notices what needs doing before it becomes a…
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03 / THE ISLAND, IN YOUR HANDS
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44°22′ N / 14°42′ E
The island
is a method.
I’m Natasha Kadin. I write, record, gather plants and make things on Silba, a car-free island in the Adriatic.
Magia Botanica is the writing, botanical craft and ritual practice of Natasha Kadin, based on Silba, Croatia. Essays on Substack, digital practice guides and personal astrology readings, made here and delivered online.
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