“The world is its own magic.” – Shunryu Suzuki
“When we experience the Beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming.” John O’Donohue
“I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.” Elsie De Wolfe
Bio: Caitlin Gemmell is a poetic witch who lives near a woodland. Her poetry has been widely published, including by Rue Scribe, One Sentence Poems, Minison Project Zine, Querencia Press, Capsule Stories, Kind Over Matter, and Bella Grace magazine. When she's not casting spells or writing poetry, Caitlin can be found savoring every moment. Her newsletter, Ink-Stained Compass, offers her readers some of the magic that she experiences in her daily life.
Welcome to Ink-Stained Compass! My name is Caitlin Gemmell, and I am a published poet and a writer of magical stories and novels.
I am also the founder of #enchantedsimplicity on Instagram, which is a place for sharing content that has to do with finding the magic in the simple, everyday things.
Here on Substack, I write two newsletters — this one (Ink-Stained Compass) and Wild Rose Witchery, which is where I share tips and resources for healing the divine feminine.
Ink-Stained Compass is released weekly and is where I share news relating to my poetry, seasonal & magical living ideas and reflections, personal journal style entries, and poems.
My Ink-Stained Compass newsletters are usually published on a Sunday, but once per month I uplift another creator on a Monday in what I call Muse Monday. You can read those posts here. And if you are a creator who’d like to be featured, send me an email at caitlingemmell@substack.com
This post right here is a good place to start to know what my purpose is in writing this newsletter. I wrote it when I changed the name of my newsletter, to explain what the change meant.
Changes to Musings of a Selkie Witch
Thank you, friends, for providing feedback in my last post via the polls, in the comments, and as email replies. I have been considering changing the name of this newsletter for some time. Now that I am studying library science, I wanted a name that would encompass bookish things and my writing news, but still allows room to explore magic and whimsy. My…
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