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Ep. #227: Folk Magic, Poetry & Plants with Liz Migliorelli Jul 06, 2021

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Liz Migliorelli belongs to a lineage of spinsters, hedge witches, bee maidens, apple romancers and herb cunning-folk. She is a herbalist, animist and educator. Liz weaves together and facilitates classes on plant medicine, storytelling, ancestral remembrance, earth rhythms, folk magic, hearth culture, poetry and social justice movements.

In this episode, Eryn and Liz talk about:

Her journey with plants and magic
Folk magic as nourishment for life
Ancestral folk magic practices she has woven into her life
Healing for our ancestry through the way we live
Dream magic & incubating dreams
Why she loves poetry & what poetry means to her
Turning back to poetry when things fell apart
Flower essences as poems
A poem that has been resonating with Liz lately
Fires of spring versus fires of summer, the different ways elements express in different seasons
Noticing as an ancestral practice
Leaning into the subtle magic of seasonality

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/liz-migliorelli

Check out Eryn's poems daddy and dinner party on Tilted House's website. Register for the Erotic Poetry Writing class.

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Ep. #226: Fostering the Magic Inside of You + Creative Nourishment with Erin Alise Borzak of Hollow Valley Tarot Jun 28, 2021

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Erin Alise (she/her) is an illustrator and witch who helps creative witches get clarity on their purpose and keep inspired through uncertain times. In this episode, Eryn and Erin talk about:

Erin's journey with creativity and magic
The process of claiming "witch"
Core witchcraft values and beliefs
Noticing the magic around you
Sigils & symbols
Weaving and integrating magic into your life
Magic as a pivot point during the day
Simple pivot spells
Using what you have to make magic
Personal symbology and personal grimoires
Symbolism as shaped by the collective
Staying creative in uncertainty
Being an artist who sells creative work and still feeling connected to your work
Working with your internal creative flow
Creating wells for creative nourishment
Creative seasons and cycles

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/erin-alise-borzak

Download a free meditation for ex-religious folks and a free breathwork meditation. Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Connect with Erin Alise on Instagram, TikTok, and her website.

Ep. #225: Cancer Season Medicine Jun 21, 2021

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Welcome to Cancer season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Cancer season & does a collective tarot reading for us to feel into how this energy wants to move through us. We talk guilt, boundaries, stories we tell ourselves + more.

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/cancer-season-medicine-2021

Download a free meditation for ex-religious folks and a free breathwork meditation. Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Ep. #224: Radical Runes + Nordic Witchcraft with Siri Vincent Plouff Jun 14, 2021

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Siri Vincent Plouff (they/them) works to queer Nordic witchcraft. They are a Nordic witch, rune reader, and tarot reader based in Minneapolis, MN. In this episode, Eryn and Siri talk about:

Siri's journey with witchcraft
Racism & white supremacy in heathenry
Their experience growing up with religion & spirituality
Getting introduced to witchcraft through being in a Wiccan coven
How their gender identity and sexuality have evolved alongside their evolution with witchcraft
Interrogating toxic masculinity & feeling afraid of masculinity
Queerness & witchcraft!
All about Nordic witchcraft
Radical runes!
How to work with the runes for yourself
How working with the runes is different than working with tarot for them
Working with runes in an ethical way
Creating your own folk magic practice

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/siri-vincent-plouff

Download a free meditation for ex-religious folks and a free breathwork meditation. Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Connect with Siri on their website, podcast, and Instagram.

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Ep. #223: Queer Love & Pleasure Poems Jun 07, 2021

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Happy Pride! In this episode I talk a little about my ever evolving journey with queerness & read you a bunch of queer love and pleasure poems. Enjoy!

Apply for HOLY, a 7 week reclamation circle for ex-religious folks (closes Tuesday).

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/queer-love-pleasure-poems

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Ep. #222: Living the Hierophant + Living the Signs with Astrologer Britten LaRue May 31, 2021

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Britten LaRue is an intuitive astrologer, writer, and teacher. Born guided by The Hierophant and called a Key by her students and clients, Britten opens portals and realms for others to go deeper on their own path.

In this episode, Eryn and Britten explore:

Britten’s journey with astrology
How astrology helped Britten connect with herself & do deprogramming work
Giving yourself permission
Fully embodying each sign
Living the Hierophant & Hierophant themes
Authority & self-trust
Accessing more of your intuition & wisdom
Living the astrological signs
Living moon by moon
Working with the moon

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/britten-larue

Download a free meditation for ex-religious folks and a free breathwork meditation. Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Connect with Britten on her website and Instagram.

Ep. #221: Gemini Season Medicine May 24, 2021

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Welcome to Gemini season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Gemini season & does a collective tarot reading for us to feel into how this energy wants to move through us. We talk acceptance, control, honesty, & more.

Poetry Magic class for ex-religious folks.

Download the free breathwork meditation!

Connect on Instagram.

Ep. #220: Postcolonial Astrology with Alice Sparkly Kat May 17, 2021

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Alice Sparkly Kat (they/them) is an astrologer & author of Postcolonial Astrology. They use astrology to re-chart a history of the subconscious, redefine the body in world, and reimagine history as collective memory.

In this episode, we talk about:

Alice Sparkly Kat’s journey with astrology
What is postcolonial astrology
Western astrology
Outer planets in astrology practice
Venus and Mars teaching us about gender
The duality of all planets
Peace and war in astrology
Applying this context to someone’s chart
Mars as a specific kind of masculinity
Inanna & Venus
The Moon & money
Growing into our charts
Working with planets in detriment and exalted planets
Their writing process

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/alice-sparkly-kat

Check out my upcoming class, Poetry Magic for Ex-Religious Folks.

Order the Religious Trauma Workbook.

Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Connect with Alice Sparkly Kat on Instagram.

Order Alice Sparkly Kat's new book, Postcolonial Astrology.

Ep. #219: Reclaiming Creativity + Storytelling Magic with Mary Lanham May 10, 2021

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Mary Lanham is the editor, writer, and tarot reader behind Bibliomancer Editing. As an editor, she works with speculative fiction and spiritual nonfiction writers, helping them develop and share their most transformational stories. She also helps creatives rediscover their vision with tarot readings that inspire the storytelling process.

In this episode, Mary and Eryn talk about:

Mary’s journey with writing and magic
Reclaiming creativity
Disengaging from limiting creative and spiritual mythos through tarot
Growing up Catholic & deconstructing Catholicism
Tarot as support for transitioning out of Catholicism
How tarot supports her creativity
Finding the story in a tarot card or tarot spread
Developing somatic awareness
The Magician & The Wheel of Fortune
Taking ownership of our big and deep stories
Stories as an alchemical experience
Telling the truth in our stories
The vulnerability of sharing stories
Mary’s writing process, how she holds structure and space for her creativity
Keeping a creative practice going
Process as enough
Cultivating connection to intuition

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/mary-lanham

Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks here.

Check out the Religious Trauma Healing workbook here for support in healing from the impacts of dogmatic religion.

Poetry Magic for Ex-Religious Folks class.

Connect with Mary on her website and her Instagram.

Ep. #218: Codependency, Inner Child Healing & Intergenerational Trauma with Ivy Kwong May 03, 2021

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Ivy Kwong, LMFT is a writer, speaker, and licensed psychotherapist specializing in Asian American mental health, healing codependency, and healing ancestral and intergenerational trauma. She is an advocate for decolonizing mental health and has 16+ years of experience offering social justice-minded therapy and coaching.

In this episode, Eryn and Ivy talk about:

Ivy’s healing journey
Healing being hurt in relationship through relationships
Reconnecting with the wisdom of our emotions
Self-abandonment through people pleasing
How to know when something old is showing up and asking to be seen
Moving emotions
Rage as an expression of love
Expressing our anger as people socialized as women
Healing intergenerational trauma, ancestral trauma
Inner child healing including for people who don’t have a lot of childhood memories
Healing relationships with our parents
People pleasing & codependency
Healing through setting boundaries