sara f. gomes
is a new school witch—a bridge between worlds,
weaving ancient wisdom with cutting-edge science to spark transmutation.
as an evolutionary coach who knows healing starts in the mind, sara teaches you to upgrade your mindset, alchemise your shadow, and forge a deep connection with the universe—to ignite joy and empower you to walk as your highest self.
part academic, part mystic—she sees the block, deciphers the why, and distills a vast mental library into the exact keys you need for an epic shift, helping you embody what is within you—
for thou art thine own guru.
sara lives to get heroes in the saddle,
and breathes to shine the light that keeps them getting back on the horse.
(because everybody falls...
and the only thing more wonderful than watching someone Rise—
is watching them Rise, in all their muddy glory.)
sara was born in lisbon, portugal, moved to sydney, australia at three, and relocated to london, england at fourteen.
she studied physics and astronomy until a cancer-scare dropped her down the red-pill flavoured functional-medicine rabbit hole—she's been happily tumbling down ever since.
now a spirited astrologer, she offers mind-blowing tarot readings that bridge spirit with science, turning the transmutation of her own darkness into medicine for others.
sara has been called a swiss army knife, a fairy godmother and—to the abject horror of her sun-mercury-pluto stellium in scorpio allergic to "surface"y things—a walking encyclopaedia (but if she had to describe herself in three words, they’d be mystic, writer, teacher ...because too few would understand snake, bear, wolf).
if she could etch just one truth into the conscious collective, it would be this:
darkness is just a lightbulb asking to be turned on.
thanks, nova—for helping me whittle 80k characters of failed attempts into that not-quite "plug-and-play" but incredibly concise bio i won’t burn any more time editing
but will add to.
(because it’d be a shame to scare you off unnecessarily.
...and between "dark moon magic" and "new school witch"...)
let me make clear—you’ll find
NO "voodoo"
NO “black magic” and
NO "worship" (devil, lunar, or otherwise) on these shores, darlin’.
[just some good ol'
tapping into the quantum field,
placebo/nocebo mechanisms (ie you, activated by what you trust),
and psycho-physiological re-patterning of the subconscious—
aka "shamanic" magic that recalibrates the mental-emotional-spiritual patterns shaping the physical
(to help you love yourself and "magically" transform your reality).]
and here are some dark moon magic definitions.
[because the only thing more important than the words you use
is the meaning you choose to give them]
[[and merriam’s definition for shaman (a priest or priestess who uses magic to cure the sick, divine the hidden, and control events) is fine—
if by “priest/ess” you mean spiritual counsellor who inspires you to let go of anything ≠ love
and “control events” = exercising sovereignty over the internal state reality mirrors back—
but the primitive definition of magic just will not do.]]
[[[and
if i’m going to call myself a “witch” (in honour of the highly respected wise woman origins of true witches) i really should do something to dispel the medieval propaganda still branding witches as inherently evil—just like “dangerous” dog breeds, bullies and criminals (which are, obviously, all born rotten).]]]
magic = working with the forces inside and outside of you to “magically” create the change you desire.
"magic" = inevitable change that is—to borrow words from my favourite comedian/visionary/sage—no more a miracle than eating food and a turd coming out of your ass.
dark moon magic = using reclaimed wisdom to work with inner and outer forces to create that “magical” change.
let me explain:
the dark moon = is the sensible, logical, accurate title for the so-called "new moon".
(that wouldn’t need rehashing if a foetus were called a newborn.
or an egg were called a chick.
or a seed, a seedling; midnight, the dawn; or winter, spring.)
you see the heartbeat of life goes:
(ba—boom) warming up—hot
(ba—bum) cooling down—cold
you can start on any beat, but the sequence is always the same.
for example:
cold, warming, hot, cooling.
hot, cooling, cold, warming.
the latter, in different octaves looks like this:
midday, dusk, midnight, dawn—ie of a new day.
summer, autumn, winter, spring—the season of new growth.
yet the moon—which moves to the same universal beat—goes:
full moon, waning moon... new moon? waxing moon
—cue right-eye twitch ('cause the left one relishes chaos, apparently.)—
“so why dark moon?”
because beyond OCD (and what some might call unfairly intuitive), i am nothing if not logical.
the full moon—which visibly glows—hangs in the night sky, opposite the sun (which likes to hang out in its perpetual daylight bubble).
the antithesis—our so-called “new moon”—is invisible, hanging beside the sun in the daytime sky.
[on the rare occasion this “new moon” becomes visible, we don’t see the moon itself;
we see the silhouette occasion-ally cast (in a—very aptly named—solar eclipse).
ie this phase (only ever visible as—spoiler alert—a 'dark orb') is the midnight / winter pause before the new cycle begins.
→giving us the accurate and—more importantly—OCD-friendly:
full moon, waning moon, dark moon, waxing moon—that is born with the true new moon, ie the first visible sliver of glowing crescent—we can see. visually. (with our eyes.) → 👁 👁 ←
→ dark moon = a reclamation of wisdom (and sanity).
it is awareness of the winter / outer-stillness / rest phase of the cycle (≠ scrolling) stolen from our vocabulary by a profoundly sick society that would have you forget how nature works (ie how you work)
[because when you remember (and give yourself permission to) rest, you become the far less profitable, impossible-to-control force of nature that builds the momentum to break through every ceiling].
—cue the juggernaut, breaking through every ceiling—
hence, dark moon magic = using reclaimed wisdom to work with inner and outer forces to create that “magical” change.
an (old school) witch = a highly sensitive, nature-literate, lineage-based medicine wo/man—ie a nature-based healer.
these cunning folk (from middle english "cunning" meaning deep, extensive learning or skill) served as elders—spiritual counsellors the community was built around.
[please note: matriarchies are not inverse-gender patriarchies built around one woman.
feminine/yin archetypes lead not like the single tip of an arrow driving the community forward, but like a link in the chain holding it together.]
a hedge witch = ultimately, a solitary witch who (as a not anti-social but too-busy-with-her-[pre]occupation recluse) must be sought out by the community she serves.
though often mentored &/or rooted in inherited traditions, hedge witches refine a highly individual craft through self-directed learning, alchemized experience, and embodied intuition.
their lifestyle mirrors where they dwell mentally—on the metaphysical outskirts they’re anchored to by their devotion to empower their community at the deepest level.
[and a hollywood witch = the medieval caricature with “malignant supernatural powers”, who uses “black magic with the aid of a devil” to “affect injuriously”.]
a new school witch =
a “modern” research-fed & heart-led—systems by day, second-sight by night—hedge witch meets polymath,
integration-over-ideology scholar meets shaman (because elegant ideas that don’t make your life better are dead weight),
utterly rule-phobic engineer meets intuitive,
personal trainer meets chef of soul-food,
introvert meets extrovert...
fish meets bird…
who, like a space-age librarian (of the holographic universe), lives to meet you with the words that unlock your joy.
because, you see, a new school witch is a bridge—where all things empowerment → meet.
[please note: new-school witches don't teach the art and science of manifestation.
they teach the "magic" of alignment.]