Last week I was in the trenches
I found myself silent, intently listening, basking in the divine glow of holy light, waiting to hear a message delivered by someone bigger than me…
A Tiktok tarot reader with ~500,000 followers
It’s become a running joke amongst us heavy web users that once you hit tartot-tok the hour of reckoning has come. All you can do is continue to swipe and hope for divine intervention.
The Internet has revived a lot of things
Last week we talked about the Millennial business casual, club outfits that haunt anyone over 28. A few years ago it reintroduced us to Kate Bush’s 1985 hit, Running Up That Hill. Soon, we’ll be revisiting Jenco jeans.
Tiktok’s next resurrection? Spirituality.
We’ve talked about this briefly before. Yes, there’s Tiktok tarot but there’s also birth chart interpreters, manifestation audios, zodiac experts, transcendent sound baths, general witchcraft, even good ‘ol fashioned religion.
I swear by an entity found in nature, filled with wisdom and acceptance: Lana Del Redneck. This divine being is often submerged in a river, somewhere in the Pacific North West (although in my heart, she’s in the hills of Kentucky.) She consistently graces feeds with conversational wisdom. Far from platitudes, her words are strikingly nuanced and unique— wildly clever (and as a woman,) feel universally attainable.
A non-exhaustive sample of LDR’s works that barely begins to scratch the surface of how captivating her content is
“…the opposite of free bleeding is captive bleeding. God made us menstruate every month so we can take a break to lay an egg and shed our insides. But no one wants to hear that. Starships were meant to fly and girls were made to rest.”
“I am releasing all neurotic energy, I am astonishingly normal.”
“I’m not burnt out. I’m still burning and this feels so nice.”
“Do I hate myself? Or am I just growing and changing so fast that I continue to hate prior versions of myself and my current self, because that’s how fast I’m changing. I’m already in the future.”
When she graces her devotees with manifestation and affirmation
Sure, her content is funny
I find myself laughing at her wit and observations regularly but it’s beyond that. Deity Redneck moves fluidly through life and the river. Her affirmations are stream-of-conscious and sincere. They’re attainable, they’re grounded. Her poems and musings aren’t tidy and neat, created solely for public consumption. She verbalizes things how you say them to yourself— she speaks them how you feel them.
The woman behind the wisdom
There’s shockingly little information about someone who is So Online and tbh? Good for her. The key important things to know are:
LoRae Blackmore is her real name and you can find more of her here and here. And my favorite, she’s a poet. You can find her chapbook, Poems of a Podunk Princess here for $10. A criminally low price for such wisdom, art, and entertainment.
*Note, name pronunciation may be more like, Larae— deeply sorry if flubbed. 😭
Peace be with y’all,