Defining Your Own Rules: Welcome to the New Age of Spirituality
Tarot apps, moon circles and occult bookstores: why so many young New Yorkers are writing their own spiritual rulebook.
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Jaden Smith
Posts on celebrity-led spirituality and the new wave of self-styled wellness, a conversation public figures like Jaden Smith helped bring mainstream.
Celebrities have helped bring alternative spirituality into the mainstream, and few did it as openly as Jaden Smith, whose philosophical, unconventional takes on life reached a young audience online. These posts look at the bigger trend behind that: a generation building a personal spiritual practice from tarot, astrology, crystals, meditation and modern witchcraft.
Start with Defining Your Own Rules, our guide to New York's new-age scene, including Brooklyn's Catland Books and the folk practice of using eggshells for protection.