Moonrise Mystic is the journey of a novelist connecting her love of story with her passion for the mystical into one moving, breathing prayer. It’s for those who love to read fantasy stories and intuitive writings that explore expanding through the initiations of life, death and rebirth, and transmuting shadow to light. Thank you for being here!
The Unseen holds a special place in my heart. This idea came to me long before I began my own spiritual journey into remembering my magical soul, yet looking back, I can see how much my own soul was calling to me through my writing of this story.
My belief is that magical realism isn’t just a genre or idea to write stories into. Magical realism is also a way of living where you allow the magic of your own soul and the calls of your soul to shine through in your real life, moment to moment.
The Unseen is an idea that I wrote into my novel, The Wonder Soul. It’s a place where magical beings exist and that the main character, Zoe, has forgotten about. Just like most adults within the “real world” of The Wonder Soul, Zoe grew up, got caught up in adult problems, and forgot about the magic that we all have access to within and around us.
While The Wonder Soul is in the magical realism genre, the story takes place in a real world setting of San Diego, San Francisco, Greece, and Ireland. After a painful break-up with her fiancé, Zoe decides to travel the world. What she doesn’t realize is that there is a magic calling for her to remember, even before she begins her travels.
This calling grows stronger as she steps out into a new experience and becomes even more amplified for her after meeting quite the unique and caring family during her travels in Ireland.
Another happenstance meeting takes place in Greece that brings Zoe a supernatural experience and she is faced with no other choice but to accept there is something beyond what she can see.
It’s a story of love, remembering who you really are, and believing in the unseen magic of this world and beyond.
Looking back 9 years ago to when I wrote this story, I can see the ways the my own magical soul was calling me to remember the same magic that Zoe was remembering in the novel. I remember, sitting alone in my small apartment at the time. It was raining and I felt so peaceful within the scene that was unfolding at my fingertips.
It was a moment in the story where Zoe was first beginning to realize that this Unseen wasn’t a terrifying power trying to harm her, but that it was a beautiful soul from a magical place calling her to remember the magic within herself. In the scene, there was a energy moving about that she couldn’t see, but could feel very clearly.
Of course, knowing myself that this being from the Unseen really did not mean Zoe any harm, I was immensely enjoying writing the scene. In this moment of pure joy, within my own apartment where I sat alone, I felt this rush of air move past me and felt in my own being that something or someone was laughing even though I couldn’t hear it with my ears. I felt the energy of pure joy and laughter, as if a magical being from my own Unseen world was dancing around me, so happy that I was having an awakening moment through my writing.
I felt loved and held and encouraged in that moment from my own guide from the Unseen. Bringing fiction into a reality that I very much wanted.
This is the power within the energetic realms of story. When you tune into them so clearly, they can bring you messages from your own soul or direct experience with the Unseen (a.k.a the Sacred, the Universe) in such a way that you can never doubt in your true nature ever again.
This is what I want to share with you, if you are ready to listen—both through my novels and stories, as well as non-fiction writings.
You are loved. You are enough. You are whole. Just as you are.
Back cover blurb from The Wonder Soul:
A MAGICAL REALISM STORY OF WONDER AND ADVENTURE When her perfect life in San Diego, California crashes down around her, Zoe Bennet - a young dreamer - decides to leave everything behind, catapulting herself into a pool of lost memories and magic.
Befriended by the most unlikely people, Zoe is surrounded by a mysterious force that haunts her waking and sleeping moments. But her chosen adventure won't allow her to turn back. She continues to fear the unseen things that call to her.
Zoe faces a life-threatening experience and is a witness to death for the first time, but most importantly, she discovers that true magic exists.
A story of wonder, darkness, and self-discovery, The Wonder Soul is a mesmerizing and magical tale of love, and believing in things unseen, that ignites the soul with a deep remembering.