sara f; gomes
is a systems thinker, writer, and teacher
whose work stands on three pillars:
i – inner sovereignty
(how an individual becomes the author{ity} of their own mind)
ii – cognitive architecture
(the cross-disciplinary synthesis that allows one to see—and think clearly about—reality)
iii – civilisational design
(the world we use that clarity to build).
in her own words, sara is a new school witch;
a bridge between worlds, weaving ancient wisdom with cutting-edge insight to spark transmutation.
sara works with individuals who are ready to understand themselves more deeply—and trust in their own system—to ignite their joy and move through life with agency.
having learnt that healing starts in the mind, she brings psycho-spiritual wisdom and symbolic literacy into conversation — to cultivate coherence and, thus, the freedom to walk as your highest self.
part academic, part mystic—
sara sees the block, deciphers the why,
and distills complexity into the exact lens you need
to reclaim your compass —
for thou art thine own guru.
she 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.
just shy of 4, she emigrated to sydney, australia — where she spent 10 years before relocating to london, england.
after 2 decades following the yellow-brick mainstream road (that led to a prestigious university, where sara studied physics and astronomy), "catastrophe" struck — shattering the paradigm beneath her feet (clearing the way for her unceremonious drop into the red pill-flavoured functional medicine rabbit hole she's been happily tumbling down ever since).
(hers is the one on the left.)
now, also a spirited initiate of astrology — sara offers teachings that bridge spirit with science, turning the transmutation of her own darkness into medicine for others.
she 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 level")—a walking encyclopaedia.
[if she had to describe herself in three words,
they’d be alchemist, sage, elder
(because too few would understand snake, bear, wolf).]
could she etch just one truth into the collective, it would be this:
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darkness is just a lightbulb asking to be turned on.
...while we're at it, here are some more dark moon magic definitions.
[because the only thing more important than the words you use
is the meaning you choose to give them]
[[and if i’m going to use “dark” in my 'branding'
...and call myself a (new school) “witch”...
(in honour of the highly-respected wise woman origins of true witches)
i really should do something to bring light to the polarizing worldview we've been fed
and dispel the medieval propaganda still painting witches—along with “dangerous dog breeds”, bullies and criminals (who are obviously all born rotten)—as inherently evil.]]
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 the inner and outer forces (that “magically” change reality).
“huh!?”
the "dark moon" = is the sensible, logical, accurate epithet for the so-called "new moon"
(that would make sense... 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.
cold > warming > hot > cooling > (return to cold).
warming > hot > cooling > cold > (return to warming).
different octaves of hot > cooling > cold > warming:
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 as all life...
goes from full moon > waning moon > new moon? > waxing crescent—when the new cycle see the first sliver of the new cycle is born ... !?
—cue right-eye twitch ('cause the left one relishes absurdity, 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 hangs in the night sky
(on the opposite side of the sky to the sun, in its perpetual-daylight bubble),
glows.
visibly.
the antithesis, our so-called “new moon” —
is found (but not seen — for it is invisible)
right alongside the sun (in his daytime bubble).
and, on the rare occasion this “new moon” does becomes 'visible', we don’t see the moon —
we see the silhouette the sun occasion-ally outlines (in an aptly named, solar eclipse).
ie this, "the moon is fully dark" 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 much more OCD-friendly)
full moon > waning moon > dark moon > waxing moon sequence that makes sense
(where
new moon = first visible sliver of waxing moon
(ie the glowing crescent that—
like the invisible foetus which becomes a visible newborn—
we can see. visually. (with our eyes.) → 👁 👁 ←
→ the dark moon = a reclamation of wisdom (and sanity).
it is awareness of the winter / outer-stillness / rest phase of the cycle (≠ scrolling)
that is stolen from our vocabulary
[by a profoundly sick society that would have us forget how nature works
(ie how we 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 the inner and outer forces (that “magically” change reality).
(old school) witch = 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 not only as the original doctors (who carried the plant medicine knowledge — from which all modern pharmaceutical medicine hails), but as elders — the wise 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.]
hedge witch = ultimately, a solitary witch
who (is not anti-social but a too-busy-with-her-[pre]occupation recluse that) 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, embodied intuition and applied alchemy.
their lifestyle mirrors their mental dwelling place — on the metaphysical outskirts they're anchored to by their devotion to empower their community — at the deepest level.
[and a hollywood witch = medieval propaganda that paints inherently evil beings using “malignant supernatural powers” to perform “black magic, with the aid of a devil” to “affect injuriously”.]
a new school witch =
a “modern” research-fed but heart-led — systems by day, second-sight by night —
polymath meets hedge witch,
integration-over-ideology scholar meets shaman
(because elegant ideas that don’t improve your life are noise),
rule-phobic engineer meets intuitive
(because if not built for exceptions, it's dead weight)),
personal trainer meets chef of soul-food,
introvert meets extrovert,
fish meets bird…
who lives to see you meet 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.]