Grief Magic: Rituals, Tarot & Creativity for Seasons of Loss

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#40 My interview with Fay Johnstone on plant magic Oct 06, 2018

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Hey friends, happy almost new moon in libra! I have a really wonderful episode with my friend Fay for you today, which I think is perfect if you want to dream about the changing seasons and reconnect with plants. Here is what we talked about:

+ The creative process of Fay's book
+ Intimacy with the changing seasons
+ Understanding cycles and applying them to our own lives to take pressure off ourselves
+ Grounding practices out in nature
+ Working with found objects
+ What we can learn from plants

Fay Johnstone is a Shamanic Herbalist, Reiki Master and a Plant Spirit Guide who is the author of Plants that Speak Souls that Sing: transform you life with the spirit of plants. Following a beautiful awakening to the spirit of plants while running a flower farm, Fay's work helps clients open their own intuition to the forces of nature, meet plant spirit guides and restore their sacred relationship with the Earth to feel confident and connected on their path. Applying Shamanic techniques, the alchemy of nature and spirit inspired guidance to nourish your soul, Fay can help you remember your magic, release old patterns of shame and grief, reawaken ancient wisdom within you and reclaim your power to become fully aligned with the truth of who you are. Fay offers healing, workshops and programs across the UK, online and from her home in Scotland. Fay's website: www.fayjohnstone.com

//If you enjoy listening and would like some support for your practice please consider joining my Patreon. In the Practice // Space community you’ll get access to recorded workshops, ritual guides, journaling prompts and movement & creative practices to explore in your own time. I also host monthly intention setting sessions and quiet co-creating sessions on Zoom around each new moon. Join here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/practice/

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#39 A minisode on things to consider when you're looking for a tarot deck Oct 03, 2018

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Hey dreambabes, since it's officially the witchy season some of you have asked about tarot decks I use and love. It's a great time to fall in love with a new magical tool, so I wanted to share some tips for those who are on the lookout. This is a very short episode, a minisode if you will, and there will be more of these with practical advice coming your way soon! Here are the decks and the shop I mentioned: Little Red Tarot Shop - http://littleredtarot.com The Next World Tarot deck - https://cristyroad.bigcartel.com/category/next-world-tarot Fountain Tarot deck - http://www.fountaintarot.com/ The Divina deck - https://www.spirit-speak.com/ The Wild Unknown deck - https://www.thewildunknown.com/ The Anima Mundi deck - http://www.thecreepingmoon.com/tarot.html

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#38 My grumpisode with Sarah Chappell all about embracing the whole range of human emotions Sep 13, 2018

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Friends, this is such a wonderful and special episode - in fact, it's a grumpisode! I have long admired Sarah Chappell's wonderful sense of humour and her ability to embrace the whole range of human emotions, which is exactly what we did for this episode. We grumped away about stuff that bothers us, got a bit snarky and let it all out - in the hope that you might feel less alone. We felt a bit shy in the end and felt a gentle urge to say that we are also happy, grateful people sometimes, which was really interesting and, in my humble opinion, shows that we all need more permission to grump sometimes. So if you needed a permission slip, this is it! Here is what we talked about:

- Embracing the whole range of human emotions
- Being grumpy about having no one as a sickness back up when you are working for yourself
- Being grumpy about diet culture - Being grumpy about social media changing all the time and loosing "exposure"
- Being grumpy about all the hard work we have to put in before creative work becomes sustainable
- Life being hard but amazing
- Wanting a stable, not overpriced forever home
Our favorite self-care practices for grumpy times
-"Work/Life Balance", scaling a small business and trying to not constantly work

Sarah M. Chappell is an intuitive counselor and herbalist based in Asheville, North Carolina specializing in addiction and mental health. She draws on her study of tarot, flower and stone essences, herbal medicine, and reiki to help clients unravel their stories, create lasting shifts, and heal themselves. Sarah is the host of So You Wanna Be A Witch, the podcast for soul-centered entrepreneurs and the people who love them. You can find Sarah on the internet at sarahmchappell.com, and follow her on Instagram http://instagram.com/sarahmchappell,

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#37 My interview with Desiree Cervantes on chaos magic, tarot and cultural appropriation Sep 02, 2018

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Hey dreambabes, I am incredibly honoured to bring you an episode with the wonderful Desiree Cervantes today! We first met online a few years ago and started to have really good chats about magic, cultural appropriation and identity this summer. Desiree is incredibly kind yet fierce, grounded, curious and magical and I am super happy she said yes to recording one of our conversations. This is some of what we talked about:

- Magic as a way to self-soothe
- Coming out later in life
- Cultural appropriation in spiritual communities
- Working with ancestral traditions
- Chaos magic and dealing with the unexpected
- Shedding the idea that our worth as a person is defined by how desirable we are to men

Desiree Cervantes is a shaman, intuitive healer and witch. An indigenous femme, modern medicine woman and mother of two. She is passionate about wild spirituality, radical honesty and creativity as a tools for spiritual healing. Desiree helps wild-hearted souls connect with and reclaim their personal magic through intuitive counselling, clairvoyant readings, practical magic and mediumship. Connect with her on Instagram @spiritfireshaman and visit www.spiritfireshaman.com.

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#36 My interview with Tess, the City Witch about urban magic and breaking the binary spell Aug 12, 2018

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Happy new moon in Leo, witches! Thanks so much for your patience, I feel it was worth it as today's episode is with Tess, the City Witch who is an absolute dream babe who makes incredible zines and offers beautiful tarot magic. I recently had an emergency reading with them, which was super helpful, and I read the zine I have from them often. I hope our conversations gives you some joy and maybe a sense of not being alone in your weird and wonderful witchcraft, at least that's how I felt after talking to Tess. Here is what we dreamed about:

- Working with willow to process grief
- How Tess was introduced to magic
- Being disillusioned by binary based approaches to magic
- Witchcraft on tumblr and sharing radical ideas through social media
- Hexing your local rapist - Using your phone charger for magic
- Working with the hermit card
- Generosity and abundance in our communities

tess is a collective tarot reader, city witch, and zinester based in Ottawa, Canada. they are a cancer sun and moon, aries rising. they studied history and political science at the University of Ottawa and are an alum of lindsay mack's wild soul tarot teachings. influenced by anarchist studies on gendered labour and bodily autonomy, tess approaches tarot as a spiralic, revolutionary tool to assist the collective. https://thecitywitch.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/cityxwitch/ https://www.patreon.com/citywitch/

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#35 My interview with Janelle Hardy on personal mythmaking and emotional body awareness Jul 20, 2018

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Hey daydreamers, I am really sorry for the delay with this episode - the last few weeks were a bit intense and hectic and I really missed podcasting! I think the wait was totally worth it though because I interviewed my friend Janelle Hardy, who was an absolutely dream to talk to! Here are some of the things we shared about:

- Weaving story telling, body work and visual art into transformative healing
- Personal Mythmaking as a tool for insight and empowerment
- Her group program and how she helps people write their own memoir with ease through looking at myths and fairy tales
- Podcasting as a way to build community and have meaningful conversations
- What embodiment means to Janelle (her words really touched me!)
- How we can unlearn body hate and restrictive movement patterns
- Emotional body awareness

Janelle Hardy is a healer, single mother and artist. Her work is driven by the belief that when we tap into the power of our creativity, our bodies and our vibrancy, we gain vitality, courage and strength. We reclaim our wholeness and sense of purpose and identity. She works with women who long to feel like enough, and know it's possible. She combines 12+ years as a hands-on bodyworker with a background in Anthropology, Dance and the visual arts to offer one-on-one sessions as well as leading private healing retreats and The Art of Personal Mythmaking (a transformational memoir-writing course that facilitates healing, growth and joy.) Here is Janelle's website: https://www.janellehardy.com/ The Art of Personal Mythmaking - a transformational memoir-writing course: http://www.janellehardy.com/personal-mythmaking/

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#34 My interview with Natalie Ross on DIY media, overcoming self-doubt and embracing weirdness Jun 24, 2018

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I am still riding the summer solstice waves and am super happy to bring you another podcast episode with the beautiful Natalie Ross of Dream Freedom Beauty. Natalie and I had a really cool conversations about the following stuff of magical interest:

- DIY Media and feeling less alone
- The story behind the Dream Freedom Beauty podcast
- Coming up against resistance as an entrepreneur
- Overcoming self-doubt and being ok with imperfection
- Working with privilege, being ok with being wrong and being called in
- Embracing weirdness

Natalie Ross produces two podcasts (Dream Freedom Beauty and Self Care Club) that help empaths, intuitives, and healers untangle themselves from childhood conditioning that made them feel like they weren't worthy or enough as they are. Natalie has a fierce passion for connecting with the non-human inhabitants of Earth. Through the communities that have grown around her podcasts, she's recently discovered that humans can be pretty cool, too. Dream Freedom Beauty podcast www.dreamfreedombeauty.com Self Care Club podcast - listen + learn about the online gatherings - www.selfcareclub.net Connect on Instagram: @DreamFreedomBeauty - https://www.instagram.com/dreamfreedombeauty/ @SelfCareClubbb - https://www.instagram.com/selfcareclubbb/ Grow Beautiful - @GrowBeautiful on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/growbeautiful Staring at Plants - another predecessor to Dream Freedom Beauty website: http://www.staringatplants.com

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#33 My interview with Jordyn Schwersky on herbal skincare and favorite tarot decks Jun 16, 2018

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Hey loved ones, I am super proud to send another episode with the beautiful Jordyn Schwersky of mysticsister.net your way! It`s been a wonderful conversation about the following magical stuff:

Working with tricky soil
How Jordyn got into magic and the tarot through her mum
Travelling with small tarot decks
Healing skin problems with DIY herbalism
Self-care for entrepreneurs
Support for anxiety and depression
Why regular tarot readings feels SO GOOD

Jordyn Schwersky is an herbalist, tarot reader, writer, intuitive, and general witchy person. She founded Mystic Sister with the intent to offer tarot readings, herbal medicine, and a community where similarly minded people can reclaim their ancestral knowledge, open their hearts, and become whole. You can find out more at her website, https://www.mysticsister.net/. You can also contribute to her Patreon (in exchange for some pretty awesome goodies at https://www.patreon.com/mysticsister and follow her @mysticsister__ on Instagram.

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#32 A solo episode on free tools for embodiment + self-healing May 29, 2018

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Happy full moon, dreambabes! I have some exciting news to share and also wanted to record a solo episode on free resources for when you are struggling, craving some shifts or just feel a bit stuck. There have been some really cool conversations about keeping magic + healing accessible (because really, if its not accessible to poor people, its not radical but also how do we as facilitators pay bills? So many questions!) lately and I wanted to share some stuff that has really helped me, especially at times when I was super limited on both time and money. Tune in to hear me talk about:

+ How after months of soul searching I finally got lots clearer on my focus for Daydreaming Wolves and why I stayed up till 1am to redesign the whole site + How I would love to invite you to think about how much structure and commitment you need around magic and self-care
+ What free resources I am super excited about at the moment
+ How I made space for nourishing input by decluttering newsletters and social media spaces
+ How I find it 100% okay to check people`s free stuff out even if you are not in a position to buy anything
+ Why just dancing to one song is making a huge difference for me right now and how I want to explore embodiment even more

Here are some resources I talked about/wish I would have mentioned:

+ Books I am currently loving are Embody by Connie Sobczak as well as Body Positive Power by Meghan Jayne Crabbe + My free everyday magic course: https://online-awesomeness-school1.teachable.com/p/free-ritual-magic-course + Holly Lowery`s work around eating disorder recovery and her podcast Well + Weird: https://www.hollylowery.com/well-and-weird/ (also great freebie to check out!) + The Food Psych podcast by Christy Harrison: https://christyharrison.com/foodpsych/ + The Herbal Academy`s blog on herbalism full of recipes: https://theherbalacademy.com/blog/ + Lindsay Mack`s podcast with lots of free tarot teachings: https://www.lindsaymack.com/podcast ...I hope there is something in there for you!

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#31 My interview with Chanelle Bergeron on essences, vibrations and sweet morning rituals May 11, 2018

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Dreambabes, I am so honoured to send this beautiful conversation to you through the magic of Soundcloud and the internet! The other day I received a reading from my guest Chanelle that left me feeling truly seen, more confident and empowered to untie some knots I had been playing with for years. I love her take on everyday magic and the way she works with plants, sounds and essences. Here is what we talked about:

Seeking magic out as a child
The morning as a sweet altar space for the rest of the day
Re-enchanting ordinary life
The magic of experimental sound collage
Falling in love with flower essences
Choosing a tarot card for the year

Chanelle A. Bergeron is a flower essence practitioner & an intuitive herbalist who weaves her knowledge of midwifery, astrology, tarot, & mysticism into her healing practice. When she is not in the apothecary, you will find her making improvised & atmospheric sound-collage music under the name of mille, dreaming of the water, and writing poems. She currently resides in Raleigh, NC with her brilliant partner, Minori Sanchiz-Fung. You can find more about her offerings online at: www.moonbymoonapothecary.com instagram: @moonbymoonapothecary email: moonbymoonapothecary@gmail.com bandcamp: mille.bandcamp.com Minori’s website: www.minorisanchizfung.com My dear friend Emma Scully who I mentioned in our interview: Instagram: @justherbals

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