issa me!

Hi! Nice to meet you. I'm Sonja, aka Sonja the Grey.

I write. Some fiction, some life reflections, sometimes shitposting on Threads. Where can you find these things? That's underway (I mean, except Threads, shitposting there is in full throttle).

I create art. Store is currently under development as I change providers.

I also make digital tools. Astrology, tarot, magick, mindset, spreadsheets, python scripts, whatever – if I can smoosh woo and practicality together, I'm in.

Sometimes I talk about AI, or various ways the world is changing, or how spirituality and tech aren't opposites.

Sometimes I just shout into the void like anybody else.

I have a free astrology calendar and a podcast. This place is a hub for all the things I make. Except æbleskiver (shipping would be too complicated).

How I Got Here

I used to work in a tall office building. I didn't have enough hair to climb out the window and escape, so I kept going back.

One day, I felt a pressure in my chest. It wasn't anxiety, it wasn't a heart attack, and I had a thought that I was experiencing something that wasn't about Western medicine.

I asked a coworker buddy, and she suggested an acupuncturist she knew who was "witchy in the way she just knows shit."

That was the beginning of exploring spirituality with a never-ending voice of doubt in the background. Energy work (like Reiki, but more intense), tarot, astrology, shamanic work, spiritual journeying, channeling. Learned about my own family history, and connections to magick work I never knew about.

I was living the cliche (corporate-to-spiritual midlife ... crisis? journey? ... the difference is probably a judgement more than anything else), and I knew it. That didn't feel bad. A little embarassing maybe, because it's hard to go from the religion of science and drop face first into woo and not wonder if you have something on your face.

But here I am. Both sides alive and well, the spiritual and the skeptic, the shaman and the philosopher. I wouldn't be who I am without the spiritual explorations. I also am not interested in a world where spirtuality tries to sugar coat the lived reality that is ... whatever the fuck this all is right now (though I have thoughts on that, too, but that's a different topic). The world is tough, spirituality helps, but isn't supposed to hide it.

People tell me the way I see the world helps (which really is my favorite part). And my gods keep handing me cookies, so I must be doing something right.

So, now I'm here. I tell stories, create art, talk to spirits, play with tech, and have accumulated a lot of rocks and tarot decks along the way.