About Dark Moon Lilith
Dark Moon Lilith made its first appearance as a Winter 2001 print issue. Two more print issues followed in Spring and Summer of 2002—the latter a contest. Dark Moon Lilith returned for two digital issues in 2009.
After a long hiatus, we brought the publication back—during a Mercury Retrograde, of course!—with its original intention intact: to hold space for stories and ideas about that which goes unseen, unheard, and unbelieved.
Dark Moon Lilith is about the dark feminine—not as evil, as some would have us believe, but as the creativity that inhabits our subconscious. The place where our deepest knowledge, wisdom, and creative impulses live. The place where our Shadow hides for fear of judgment, dismissal, and rejection.
We have always made this for particular souls. The ones who don’t fit in—by choice or by force. The artistic, the imaginative, the labeled, the wounded, the healers, the deviants. Those who hear voices, see visions, feel the energies of the Universe moving through them, who both witness and dream for a version of reality outside the status quo. Those who keep believing, against all evidence to the contrary, that human evolution is still possible.
Dark Moon Lilith exists with the heartfelt conviction that one day there will be a more accepting, more loving, more awake world—one in which we are all finally free to sing our souls’ songs.
Who We Are
We are a witchy bunch. We embrace the power of the feminine and hold feminism as something that belongs to everyone. Our spiritual practices run counter to the mainstream — we worship nature, not idols; we resist the “New Age” label because what we practice reaches back to long before that movement had a name.
We stand with BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities.
We believe in forces that cannot be seen. In stories that cannot be explained. In the power of ideas that challenge systems built to serve only a few. We believe in the weird, the unclassifiable, the unruly, the spiritually alive.
We believe that the stories people least want to hear are often the ones most necessary to tell.
What We Love
We love work that lives in the margins—of genre, of belief, of acceptable conversation. The spiritual and the supernatural. The occult and the metaphysical. The body in all its vulnerability. Illness. Death. The shadow side of social structures. The intersection of identity, power, and the unseen.
We are drawn to work that disturbs and heals—sometimes in the same breath. Work that tells the truth sideways. Work that could not have been made by someone at peace with the status quo.
For submission guidelines—what we publish, word counts, and how to submit—visit Submissions.
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What We Do
Enlighten. Dismantle. Inflame. Encourage. Reveal. Disturb. Entertain. Agitate. Educate. Inspire. Confound. Affect. Excite. Hearten. Inform. Soothe. Invigorate. Elate. Transform. Shift. Reform. Edify. Preach. Uplift. Cultivate. Nurture. Acquaint. Touch. Foretell. Upset. Validate. Annoy. Dissolve. Scare. Calm. Surprise. Astound. Rattle. Perturb. Advocate. . .
Raise eyebrows.
Raise awareness.
Create change.
Heal the world.
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