Do our thoughts really create our reality? Can our energy cause hardship or challenges in our lives?

You’ve seen New Age spiritual practices like the law of attraction and manifestation all over TikTok and social media. But when does self-help become harmful?

This week, Sarah is joined by none other than Chelsea Selby, an experienced spiritual practitioner, co-host of the [Elder Hour podcast, and founder of Witch Baby Soap. You can find Chelsea on Instagram @stayathomewitch and TikTok @chelseathewitch, and snag occult bath and body products on witchbabysoap.com.

In this episode, Sarah and Chelsea answer questions like:

- What is the law of attraction?
- When are we being gaslit or gaslighting ourselves?
- How we can create our own cosmologies?

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112. The Law Of Attraction Debunked: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of New Age Spirituality with Chelsea Selby of Witch Baby

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Have you ever wanted to make a Tarot deck or Oracle Deck? How does one transition from working for others to working for themselves?Can frustration be a sign of transformation?

In this week's episode, Sarah interviews the wonderful and prolific Grace Duong of Mystic Mondays about embodying the 8 of Wands. Grace shares: 

How she created her successful Mystic Mondays Tarot Deck 
The struggles and challenges along the way to creating her brand 
The lessons of the 8 of Wands as a creative
How frustration is information and transformation  

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153. 153. How to Make A Tarot Deck and Frustration as Transformation with Mystic Monday’s Grace Duong

These week's episode is your favorite: A Tarot Teaching Episode! Today, Sarah is diving deep into the 8 of Wands. Find out it's meanings, and what is in store for you when you pull the card. In this episode, you'll learn: 

The traditional meanings of the 8 of Wands 
Sarah's updated meanings of the 8 of Wands 
How to work with this card
The shadows and warnings of the card 
Ways to ground the energy of the archetype in your real life 

Get ready to feel great as you become confident about this card. Mentions include Rick Rubin and Liz Gilbert. 

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152. Experiments in Faith: All About The 8 of Wands Tarot Card

This week is a deep dive into the Strength card. Sarah gets into the traditional meanings, discusses the transitions between the 7's and 8's as well as the Chariot and Strength.

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get clear about what Strength means for you
what lessons you can learn from Strength 
find out what the symbology of the card means 

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Check out our episode at the top of the year, all about Strength and the shadows of Strength.

151. The Strength Card Demystified

The Hoodwitch is here for a replay of a fan favorite.  This week, Sarah celebrates the 150th episode of Moonbeaming with an iconic archive edition of the show! Sarah shares a snippet of what this process has taught her. 

Sarah sits down with the legendary Bri Luna of the Hoodwitch to discuss what it was like being one of the first witches with an online presence. Sarah and Bri connect over challenges from business to visibility and dream about what the future of magic looks like. Tune in to hear all about writing a book, how Bri honors her ancestry with her practice, and some of her struggles along the way of becoming the Hoodwitch. 

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150. Bri Luna of The Hoodwitch on Work, Worth, & The Future of Magic [ICONIC ARCHIVE EDITION]

How do we work with the dead? Can calling the dead into our lives offer us more gifts and support? Where do we even begin to think of working with our dead?In this week's not to miss episode, Sarah interviews  author and facilitator Perdita Finn. We discuss: 

Perdita's story of becoming intimate with the dead
Magical tales of what happens when you start to call upon the dead for help
Simple ways to begin a beloved dead veneration practice
Ways to think about past lives and access support from our past lives
Ways to deal with grief

This is a alchemical conversation that will change the way you think about life, death, and what it means to be a creator in a greater web. 

Perdita Finn is the co-founder, with her husband Clark Strand, of the feral fellowship The Way of the Rose, which inspired their book The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. They are currently at work on their next book together Circles Not Lines: Spiritual Community Beyond Patriarchy. To find out more about her devotion to “ecology not theology” visit wayoftherose.org. Find Perdita here  (here) , follow her on Instagram,  and buy her book here. 

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112. The Law Of Attraction Debunked: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of New Age Spirituality with Chelsea Selby of Witch Baby

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