Walking by Lamplight FAQ

I host a 1 on 1 magical mentorship program every year.

Mentorship is one of the time-honored ways to engage with magical learning, but I do not operate on a hierarchical ‘teacher-student’ relationship model. This post is my learning-as-I-go description of what it means to be mentored by me.

🕸️🧎🏼Do I have to know less about magic than you to be your mentee?

No. This a peer-mentorship. My philosophy is this: things are easier with a team. When tracking the ephemeral, Another Mind is a hugely powerful tool.

My learning model looks less like a ladder and more like a web.

My mentees are my magical equal, AND in some ways they have something to learn from me. I believe we are all teaching each other at different moments.

We are traveling priests of different gods, meeting each other at the crossroads, visiting each others churches. You visit my church when you want access to the things I submerge myself in every day – my unique magic. 

🤷🏼 Can I do Walking By Lamplight if I have a different practice than you? 

Resounding yes. Every spoke on the wheel of the Crossroads leads to the center, where we meet round the fire. 

I do not teach “magical tech” as my priority in this container, so it doesn’t matter if your tools, or Gods, are different than mine. I look forward to being exposed to their mysteries, through you. 

🌟🪞Ok, if not tech, and if you’re not my “superior,” what is your role as a mentor?

Really good question. 

I’m a professional magic mirror. The art of reflecting someone’s spiritual journey into an apprehensible medium is both a gift and a skill- one that I have cultivated over 13 years of magical experience, and 6 years of professional practice. 

I simplify the process of seeing yourself. I remove friction, offer levity, contribute insight and inspiration. I can affirm “do I see what I think I see?”


I model both reverence and silliness when faced with the unfathomable mysteries. 

I instill confidence & dispel fear. 


Most importantly, I endeavor to redirect you back to your own authority. I encourage connection to your gods, your guides, in your search for direction on the path. We are not finding the way - we are developing the way to find the way (which, thankfully, often results in finding the way). I’m doing this for you because it’s what I’m doing for myself, too - walking the path to valuing my own authority, on par with the insights of my mentors and spirits.

So, we are cultivating vision & clarity. What you will be able to see by the light of two sets of eyes – two rays of lamplight cast in the dark – maybe more than you could see before. And you may increase your faith in your own sight, with a second pair of eyes to confirm. One of the key words in my work is entrainment - how moving with a teacher helps to change your mind thru rewiring. You create the pathways, of seeing, then changing, alongside me for months at a time.

This affects system-level shifts in the way my clients walk their Path.


The program does a lot of things, and the sigil we find between us, scratched in the dirt, transforms each time, depending on who I meet at the crossroads. Doors are slowly moving toward opening for exploratory interviews, and when they do I’ll send out an email, scroll to the bottom of this page to get on that list (but not my greater mailing list)

Laurie, WBL 2021.

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