Sunday Service: The Lantern We Carry: Grief, Gifts, and the Sacredness of Being Weird

As the light begins to change and autumn approaches, Madame Creatrix explores grief as a threshold, not a tidy lesson or spiritual punishment, but an experience that can reshape how we understand love, identity, and becoming. Through personal stories of loss, awakening, and reclaiming the word “weird,” she invites us to honor what aches, welcome home the parts of ourselves we once hid, and carry our whole strange selves into the next season.

Madame Creatrix, also known as Chicagoland and McHenry County’s Emotional Support Witch, is an ordained priestess, intuitive medium and channel, Reiki Master Teacher, and certified trauma-informed Spiritual and Wellness Coach. Through private sessions, mentorship, circles, workshops, and her Mystic Parlour in McHenry, she helps people explore their intuition, grief, identity, and spiritual lives with discernment, consent, humor, and deeply human care. Her work is rooted in the belief that spiritual practice should return people to their own…