Cauldron Her Daddy

Content warning: This episode includes a brief mention of suicide and the loss of Sarai’s brother. If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988.

Meredith has officially left the cauldron, so it’s time for a proper reintroduction. This first solo episode is Sarai Johnson telling you who she is, what she does, and why it matters.

Sarai is a witch and somatic sexologist who helps post-religious people reclaim their bodies, minds, and souls so they can live a lush life. If you grew up being told your body was bad, your desires were dangerous, your intuition was the devil, and you didn’t belong to yourself, this is for you. Ex-evangelicals, ex-Mormons, ex-anything. Witches and the witch-curious. People who have already done the hard work of deconstructing in their minds, but whose bodies haven’t quite caught up to what they know.

That last part is the work. Sarai isn’t here to help you tear things down. You’ve already done that. She’s here for the rebuilding: learning to trust your own knowing again, in your body, so you can choose your life on purpose. Think of her less as the spiritual EMT and more as the proverbial physical therapist who helps you walk again.

She does it through Pragmagick, her name for pragmatic magick that works in real life. It’s embodiment, ritual, tarot, energy work, and mythology as a language for meeting yourself, all grounded in the ordinary and the physical. And she follows the LeVar Burton rule of spirituality: she’ll tell you what’s true for her, but you don’t have to take her word for it. You get to decide what your life means.

In this episode, Sarai tells the story of the single question that cracked her faith open in a college ministry class, the angry hike that ended with her re-baptizing herself into her own divinity in a creek, how losing her brother changed her relationship to being alive, and why the Tower card always clears the way for the Star.

In this episode:

• Welcome to the solo era, and what Pragmagick is
• The ministry class question that started it all: “My wife is a Republican, but I’m a Christian”
• Twenty years of deconstruction, breakup songs with God, and a brief return to leading worship
• Why religion is like a subscription box you can’t customize
• Divination tools as a way to externalize intuition (and “mythodology,” dad joke intended)
• The angry hike, jumping in a creek, and the torn curtain of the internal Holy of Holies
• How high-control religion teaches us every part of us is not enough, and why every goalpost is a mirage
• Ken Ham textbooks, dinosaurs, and who Sarai works with now
• The underworld in between: Leave in Love, homeownership counseling, and systems work on houselessness
• Losing her youngest brother in 2024, and letting go of the wish to disappear as a coping mechanism
• The Tower and the Star: what crumbles away, and the pilot light of your soul
• Making life lush, and why embodied people are too slippery for oppressive systems to hold
• Liberation as a group project, decolonizing your spirituality, and why your existence is enough
• The Five of Pentacles coven
• Pragmagick defined, the LeVar Burton rule, and Sarai as your personal Wendy

Ready to reclaim? Start here.

1. Join the Five of Pentacles coven (doors close November 5)

A pay-what-you-can, five-month coven for witchy and witch-curious folks coming out of high-control religion. New moon ceremonies, full moon integration calls, and a Telegram community between sessions. Starting at $5 a month.

👉 https://saraijohnson.com/5-of-pentacles

2. Take the free Body Trust Quiz

Find out where your body trust is strongest and where it’s asking for attention, across physicality, emotions, worth, and knowing.

👉 https://sarai-bodytrustquiz.scoreapp.com/

3. Work with Sarai one-on-one

• Tarot Reading ($55): a recorded reading delivered within three days
• Energy Work ($150): a 60-minute distance Reiki session
• The Witching Hour ($177): a 60-minute session to name the thing underneath the thing and leave with a magickal working
• Tending the Bones and Blooms ($333): a 90-minute somatic session with a guided pathworking to meet your own inner landscape
• 👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

4. Give the gift of coming home to yourself

The holidays are coming. Readings and sessions make great gifts for the deconstructed people in your life.

👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

5. Follow, subscribe, and share

• Threads (Sarai’s favorite right now): https://www.threads.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Substack: https://substack.com/@saraijohnson
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saraijohnson.witch/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Subscribe to and rate Cauldron Her Daddy, and send this episode to a friend who’s ever said, “I wish my body would catch up to what my mind knows.”

6. Get a reading on the show!

Sarai will continue to offer a free intuitive tarot reading to folks who are willing to be on the show!

👉 Put in your question here!

7. Chip in directly

Want to support this work? DM Sarai on Threads or Instagram for Venmo (not tax deductible).

Everything lives at saraijohnson.com.

Ready to reclaim? Start here.

1. Take the free Body Trust Quiz

Find out where your body trust is strongest and where it’s asking for attention, across physicality, emotions, worth, and knowing.

👉 https://sarai-bodytrustquiz.scoreapp.com/

2. Work with Sarai one-on-one

• Tarot Reading ($55): a recorded reading delivered within three days
• Energy Work ($150): a 60-minute distance Reiki session
• The Witching Hour ($177): a 60-minute session to name the thing underneath the thing and leave with a magickal working
• Tending the Bones and Blooms ($333): a 90-minute somatic session with a guided pathworking to meet your own inner landscape
• 👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

3. Give the gift of coming home to yourself

The holidays are coming. Readings and sessions make great gifts for the deconstructed people in your life.

👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

4. Follow, subscribe, and share

• Threads (Sarai’s favorite right now): https://www.threads.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Substack: https://substack.com/@saraijohnson
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saraijohnson.witch/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Subscribe to and rate Cauldron Her Daddy, and send this episode to a friend who’s ever said, “I wish my body would catch up to what my mind knows.”

5. Get a reading on the show!

Sarai will continue to offer a free intuitive tarot reading to folks who are willing to be on the show!

👉 Put in your question here!

6. Chip in directly

Want to support this work? DM Sarai on Threads or Instagram for Venmo (not tax deductible).

Everything lives at saraijohnson.com.

"Honest": November 2026 Month-Ahead Reading: Tarot, Astrology & Human Design (Plus a Podcast Transition)

Sarai Johnson and Meredith Holley open Cauldron Her Daddy to share a November month-ahead reading combining tarot, astrology, and Human Design/Gene Keys, while announcing Meredith is stepping away from the podcast to focus on her Substack (@FourthCup) and Sarai will take over, with possible future guest appearances. Sarai’s tarot theme, inspired by the song “Honest” by Joseph, highlights collaboration and alignment (Three of Pentacles), persistence and civic participation (Nine of Wands), releasing burdens and misplaced responsibility (Ten of Wands), letting go of needing answers and trusting seasonal cycles (Ace of Pentacles), sustainable stewardship and abundance (King of Pentacles), balancing bold leadership with grief (King of Wands with Three of Swords), shadow integration and self-acceptance (The Lovers), and truth-telling in integrity (King of Swords). Meredith then outlines key November transits, including Venus and Mercury retrogrades turning direct, Scorpio new moon, Gemini full moon, and several Leo/Sagittarius aspects emphasizing ego, power, boundaries, courage, and collective change, and closes with where to find both hosts for horoscopes, lunar updates, and sessions.

Listen to "Honest" by Joseph here: https://youtu.be/4eGVGwuNukU?si=0jO3cJ45fHfsaeg-

The Fifth Spirit Tarot is available here: https://www.hayhouse.com/fifth-spirit-tarot-card-deck

00:00 Welcome and November Preview

00:37 Meredith Steps Back

02:08 November Mood and Darkness

03:27 Song Theme and Three of Pentacles

08:51 Honesty and Nine of Wands

10:49 Dropping False Responsibility

12:36 No Answers Needed

14:46 Next Right Action Abundance

19:09 Courage and Grief in Tension

22:09 Shadow Work and The Lovers

25:23 Collective Truth King of Swords

27:52 Astrology Begins Key Dates

28:29 Venus Jupiter and Mercury Cazimi

30:40 Mars Shadow and Scorpio New Moon

33:09 Scorpio Transformation Reset

34:43 Mars Venus Retrograde Flirt

36:13 Retrogrades Station Direct

38:22 Mars Jupiter Ego Surge

41:47 Boundaries Consent Lessons

46:01 Sagittarius Season Begins

52:19 Full Moon Power Check

56:36 Mars Enters Virgo Shift

59:02 Late Month Healing Expansion

01:00:42 Collective Community Rethink

01:04:31 Wrap Up And Where To Find Us

Transits:

November 4 Venus retrograde in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo at 2:31am

Mercury retrogrades to cazimi the Sun at 5:24am

November 5 Mars enters pre-retrograde shadow in Leo at 7:33am

November 8 New Moon in Scorpio at 11:02pm. Gate 1 - Entropy, Freshness, Beauty

November 9 Mars in Leo sextiles venus retrograde in Libra at 10:47pm

November 13 Mercury stations direct in Scorpio at 7:53am

Venus stations direct in Libra at 4:27pm

November 15 Mars goes conjunct Jupiter in Leo at 10:23pm

November 18 The Sun in Scorpio squares Jupiter in Leo at 1:38am

November 19 The Sun in Scorpio squares Mars in Leo at 4:48am

November 21 The Sun enters Sagittarius at 11:23pm

November 23 The sun in Sagittarius trines Neptune in Aries at 4:07pm

November 24 Full Moon in Gemini at 6:53am. Sun is in Gate 34 (Force-Strength-Magesty) and Moon is in Gate 20 (superficiality-self assurance-presence)

November 25 The Sun in Sagittarius sextiles Pluto in Aquarius at 9:27am

The Sun in Sagittarius opposes Uranus in Gemini at 2:41pm

Mars enters Virgo at 3:37pm

November 28 Venus in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo at 4:04am

Venus in Libra opposes Chiron in Aries at 4:16pm

November 29 Uranus trines Pluto at 3:23am

Mercury ends post-retrograde shadow at 10:16pm

Ready to reclaim? Start here.

1. Take the free Body Trust Quiz

Find out where your body trust is strongest and where it’s asking for attention, across physicality, emotions, worth, and knowing.

👉 https://sarai-bodytrustquiz.scoreapp.com/

2. Work with Sarai one-on-one

• Tarot Reading ($55): a recorded reading delivered within three days
• Energy Work ($150): a 60-minute distance Reiki session
• The Witching Hour ($177): a 60-minute session to name the thing underneath the thing and leave with a magickal working
• Tending the Bones and Blooms ($333): a 90-minute somatic session with a guided pathworking to meet your own inner landscape
• 👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

3. Give the gift of coming home to yourself

The holidays are coming. Readings and sessions make great gifts for the deconstructed people in your life.

👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

4. Follow, subscribe, and share

• Threads (Sarai’s favorite right now): https://www.threads.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Substack: https://substack.com/@saraijohnson
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saraijohnson.witch/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Subscribe to and rate Cauldron Her Daddy, and send this episode to a friend who’s ever said, “I wish my body would catch up to what my mind knows.”

5. Get a reading on the show!

Sarai will continue to offer a free intuitive tarot reading to folks who are willing to be on the show!

👉 Put in your question here!

6. Chip in directly

Want to support this work? DM Sarai on Threads or Instagram for Venmo (not tax deductible).

Everything lives at saraijohnson.com.

33 Cauldron Reading: Health Crisis and Breakups

On Cauldron Her Daddy, hosts Sarai Johnson and Meredith Holley welcome guest “Calypso” for guidance through major transitions involving health issues, the end of a relationship, being newly single, and a career change. Sarai offers an “Inner Terrain” chakra tarot reading featuring the Wheel of Fortune, Page of Cups (root), World reversed (sacral), Knight of Swords (solar plexus), Eight of Pentacles with a Beaver guide (heart), Queen of Swords (throat), Nine of Swords (third eye), and Temperance (crown), emphasizing resilience, completion, boundaries, and alchemy through extremes. Meredith then reads Calypso’s astrology and human design—6/2 splenic authority projector with Leo rising, Aquarius sun, Cancer moon, heavy Capricorn influence—discussing Pluto and Saturn transits, career shifts, managing overstimulation, choosing mentors wisely, and practical boundary-setting around an enmeshed partnership.

The Fifth Spirit Tarot is available here: https://www.hayhouse.com/fifth-spirit-tarot-card-deck

00:00 Welcome and Guest Question

01:56 Wheel of Fortune Overview

03:51 Root Chakra Body Grounding

08:19 Sacral Chakra Cycle Closing

10:39 Solar Plexus Forward Drive

13:10 Heart Chakra Work and Beaver

20:04 Throat Chakra Truth Voice

21:48 Third Eye Fears to Insight

25:01 Crown Chakra Temperance Alchemy

29:29 Astrology and Human Design Setup

32:14 Power Perspective Mentors

36:32 Incarnation Cross Listening

38:30 Overstimulation and Inner Voice

42:25 Empathy With Boundaries

43:50 Queen of Swords Archetype

44:51 Saturn Transits and Hard Lessons

47:54 Codependency and Cutting Cords

54:13 Eviction and Boundary Scripts

57:29 Leo Rising Identity and Community

59:46 Karmic Connections and Pluto Venus

01:02:26 12th House Healing and Career Shifts

01:09:01 Loneliness, Friendship, and Finding Joy

01:11:48 Cycles Not Ladders Closing Advice

01:13:32 Hermit Time and Where to Book

Ready to reclaim? Start here.

1. Take the free Body Trust Quiz

Find out where your body trust is strongest and where it’s asking for attention, across physicality, emotions, worth, and knowing.

👉 https://sarai-bodytrustquiz.scoreapp.com/

2. Work with Sarai one-on-one

• Tarot Reading ($55): a recorded reading delivered within three days
• Energy Work ($150): a 60-minute distance Reiki session
• The Witching Hour ($177): a 60-minute session to name the thing underneath the thing and leave with a magickal working
• Tending the Bones and Blooms ($333): a 90-minute somatic session with a guided pathworking to meet your own inner landscape
• 👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

3. Give the gift of coming home to yourself

The holidays are coming. Readings and sessions make great gifts for the deconstructed people in your life.

👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

4. Follow, subscribe, and share

• Threads (Sarai’s favorite right now): https://www.threads.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Substack: https://substack.com/@saraijohnson
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saraijohnson.witch/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Subscribe to and rate Cauldron Her Daddy, and send this episode to a friend who’s ever said, “I wish my body would catch up to what my mind knows.”

5. Get a reading on the show!

Sarai will continue to offer a free intuitive tarot reading to folks who are willing to be on the show!

👉 Put in your question here!

6. Chip in directly

Want to support this work? DM Sarai on Threads or Instagram for Venmo (not tax deductible).

Everything lives at saraijohnson.com.

Cauldron Reading: Body Care for the Saturn Return with Liv Kelsey of Sacred Portal Tattoo

Sarai Johnson and Meredith Holley welcome Liv Kelsey of Sacred Portal Tattoo to Cauldron Her Daddy to discuss Liv’s alchemical ceremonial healing tattoos, including the sigil-based tattoo ceremony Sarai and Meredith received during the July outer-planet alignment. Liv shares how she guides clients to set intentions and embed living symbolic transmissions into the body. The hosts then read Liv’s current “in-between” phase and vision to create a ceremonial sanctuary, beginning with a tarot inner-terrain chakra spread featuring the Six of Swords, Empress, Eight of Pentacles with a peacock guide, Ace of Swords, Page of Pentacles, Page of Swords, the Fool, and Two of Pentacles, with emphasis on body care and boundaries. Meredith follows with Liv’s human design (3/5 manifesting generator, emotional authority) and astrology, highlighting major transits, Saturn return themes, and grounding practices. Contact and booking details are shared at the end.

00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro

01:17 Sacred Portal Tattoo Magic

02:20 Livs Sanctuary Vision

03:41 Six of Swords Liminal Space

06:51 Root Chakra Empress

10:14 Sacral Creativity Eight Pentacles

15:46 Solar Plexus Discernment

20:05 Heart and Throat Pages

24:27 Third Eye and Crown Balance

28:17 Human Design Overview

29:26 3 5 Manifesting Generator

34:31 Gates Shadow Integration

37:21 Capturing Downloads Practice

39:11 Natal Chart Highlights

40:51 Major Transits Overview

41:57 Saturn Return Health Focus

45:53 Releasing Savior Patterns

47:08 Pluto Power and Consent

51:30 Pluto in Aquarius Collective Shift

54:40 Uranus Awakening and Mediumship

01:00:51 T-Squares and Mental Chatter

01:07:07 Eclipses and Career Shifts

01:09:12 Honoring Saturn Practices

01:10:00 Human Design Wait to Respond

01:15:11 Wrap-Up and How to Connect

Ready to reclaim? Start here.

1. Take the free Body Trust Quiz

Find out where your body trust is strongest and where it’s asking for attention, across physicality, emotions, worth, and knowing.

👉 https://sarai-bodytrustquiz.scoreapp.com/

2. Work with Sarai one-on-one

• Tarot Reading ($55): a recorded reading delivered within three days
• Energy Work ($150): a 60-minute distance Reiki session
• The Witching Hour ($177): a 60-minute session to name the thing underneath the thing and leave with a magickal working
• Tending the Bones and Blooms ($333): a 90-minute somatic session with a guided pathworking to meet your own inner landscape
• 👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

3. Give the gift of coming home to yourself

The holidays are coming. Readings and sessions make great gifts for the deconstructed people in your life.

👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

4. Follow, subscribe, and share

• Threads (Sarai’s favorite right now): https://www.threads.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Substack: https://substack.com/@saraijohnson
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saraijohnson.witch/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Subscribe to and rate Cauldron Her Daddy, and send this episode to a friend who’s ever said, “I wish my body would catch up to what my mind knows.”

5. Get a reading on the show!

Sarai will continue to offer a free intuitive tarot reading to folks who are willing to be on the show!

👉 Put in your question here!

6. Chip in directly

Want to support this work? DM Sarai on Threads or Instagram for Venmo (not tax deductible).

Everything lives at saraijohnson.com.

October Astrology Forecast + Tarot (Wildflowers): Venus Retrograde in Scorpio, Libra New Moon & Taurus Full Moon

On Cauldron Her Daddy, Sarai Johnson and Meredith Holley preview October with a Dolly Parton–inspired tarot spread based on “Wildflowers” and a detailed astrology forecast. Sarai frames the month’s theme as the Queen of Swords reversed—recognizing resilience by aligning thoughts and emotions—then pulls Page of Cups (release naïveté/idealization), King of Cups (caregiver/martyr expectations), Four of Swords (rest and recovery), King of Pentacles (sustainable abundance), Nine of Wands reversed (stop pre-worrying; trust your survival record), the Hierophant (discernment and self-defined beliefs), Knight of Swords (boldly pursue mystery), and Five of Cups (make space for grief). Meredith outlines key transits: Venus stations retrograde Oct 3 in Scorpio, new moon in Libra Oct 10, Pluto stations direct Oct 15, Mercury retrograde begins Oct 24 in Scorpio, full moon in Taurus Oct 25 as Venus re-enters Libra, and Samhain/Halloween Oct 31, emphasizing boundaries, honesty, rest, and avoiding paranoia or possessiveness.

As always, Sarai uses the Fifth Spirit Tarot: https://www.hayhouse.com/fifth-spirit-tarot-card-deck

(Scroll down for a list of the human design sun transits and astrology transits)

00:00 Welcome to October

00:40 Dolly Parton Tribute

02:03 Queen of Swords Theme

06:08 Page of Cups Letting Go

09:14 King of Cups Expectations

12:58 Four of Swords Rest

18:34 King of Pentacles Abundance

21:19 Survival and Worry

27:25 Hierophant Beliefs Path

32:25 Mystery and Trust

37:38 October Astrology Preview

39:19 Early October Tension

45:01 Venus Retrograde Deep Dive

50:49 New Moon Libra Flirt Energy

51:49 Libra New Moon Vibes

52:46 Gate 57 Intuition

55:41 Flirting Boundaries

01:00:31 Pluto Direct Shift

01:04:20 Venus Pluto Paranoia

01:13:50 Scorpio Season Begins

01:18:06 Mercury Retrograde Lessons

01:21:59 Taurus Full Moon Balance

01:32:36 Samhain Witch New Year

01:35:58 Offerings And Farewell

October 2026 Transits

Oct 1-2 Gate 18: Judgment - Integrity - Perfection

2-7 Gate 48: Inadequacy - Resourcefulness - Wisdom

7-13 Gate 57 (NEW MOON): Unease - Intuition - Clarity

13-19 Gate 32: Failure - Preservation - Veneration

19-24 Gate 50: Corruption - Equilibrium - Harmony

24-30 Gate 28 (FULL MOON): Purposelessness - Totality - Immortality

30-Nov 5 Gate 44: Interference - Teamwork - Synarchy

New Moon in Libra is October 10 at 8:50am Pacific

Full Moon in Taurus is October 25 at 9:00pm Pacific

Samhain/Halloween is October 31!!

October 2: Mercury in Scorpio square Mars in Leo at 2:14am

Mercury in Scorpio square Pluto in Aquarius at 1:42pm 

Mars in Leo trine Neptune in Aries at 3:17pm

October 3: Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio at 12:15am

Mars in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius at 3:38am

Moon is void of course all day (it’s a saturday)

October 4: Mercury in Scorpio enters pre-retrograde shadow at 2:09am

Sun in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries at 5:29am

October 6: Mercury goes conjunct Venus in Scorpio at 5:10pm

October 7: Mars in Leo sextiles Uranus in Gemini at 3:41am

Moon is void of course Wednesday afternoon until Friday morning

October 10: New Moon in Libra is at 8:50am

Mars in Leo squares Venus in Scorpio at 2:31pm 

October 15: Sun in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo at 1:21am

Pluto stations direct at 7:40pm

October 16: Mars in Leo trines Saturn in Aries at 1:32am

October 19: Venus in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius at 11:56pm

October 21: Sun in Libra opposes Chiron in Aries at 3:26pm

October 23: Sun goes into Scorpio at 2:37am

Sun goes conjunct Venus in Scorpio at 8:44pm

October 24: Mercury stations retrograde in Scorpio at 12:12am

October 25: Venus retrogrades into Libra at 2:09am

FULL MOON in Taurus at 9:11pm (the moon is also opposite Venus)

October 26: Sun in Scorpio square Pluto in Aquarius at 5:11am

October 28: Venus in Libra opposes Chiron in Aries at 12:34am

October 30: Mercury retrogrades to square Mars in Leo at 10:20am

October 31: Samhain!!

Ready to reclaim? Start here.

1. Take the free Body Trust Quiz

Find out where your body trust is strongest and where it’s asking for attention, across physicality, emotions, worth, and knowing.

👉 https://sarai-bodytrustquiz.scoreapp.com/

2. Work with Sarai one-on-one

• Tarot Reading ($55): a recorded reading delivered within three days
• Energy Work ($150): a 60-minute distance Reiki session
• The Witching Hour ($177): a 60-minute session to name the thing underneath the thing and leave with a magickal working
• Tending the Bones and Blooms ($333): a 90-minute somatic session with a guided pathworking to meet your own inner landscape
• 👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

3. Give the gift of coming home to yourself

The holidays are coming. Readings and sessions make great gifts for the deconstructed people in your life.

👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

4. Follow, subscribe, and share

• Threads (Sarai’s favorite right now): https://www.threads.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Substack: https://substack.com/@saraijohnson
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saraijohnson.witch/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Subscribe to and rate Cauldron Her Daddy, and send this episode to a friend who’s ever said, “I wish my body would catch up to what my mind knows.”

5. Get a reading on the show!

Sarai will continue to offer a free intuitive tarot reading to folks who are willing to be on the show!

👉 Put in your question here!

6. Chip in directly

Want to support this work? DM Sarai on Threads or Instagram for Venmo (not tax deductible).

Everything lives at saraijohnson.com.

Energetic Hygiene & Past Lives with Eliel Fionn | Cauldron Her Daddy

On Cauldron Her Daddy, hosts Sarai Johnson and Meredith Holley interview Eliel Fionn, an intuitive with synesthesia who describes learning to filter constant energetic information, developing “dimmer switches,” and using touch and Reiki to read energy. They discuss practical energetic hygiene like clearing during a shower, using salt to cleanse spaces (especially transitional hubs like airports and hospitals), and maintaining personal boundaries. The conversation critiques outsourcing authority to institutions or spiritual leaders, warns about spiritual abuse and perfection narratives, and emphasizes cultivating internal authority and responsibility. Eliel shares perspectives on past-life patterns, soul “majors,” non-linear time, and recurring relationships, including the hosts’ shared themes of rebellion, creating alternatives, and activism. They also explore martyrdom, codependency, grief after suicide, and choosing love over grief, ending with Eliel reading her poem “Quest” and sharing contact details.

Work with Eliel: https://elielfionn.com/

Follow Eliel on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eliel.fionn

Scroll Down to read the poem Eliel shared

00:00 Podcast Welcome

01:12 Eliel’s Intuitive Origins

01:57 Synesthesia and Filtering Energy

04:29 Energetic Hygiene Basics

08:38 Clearing Spaces With Salt

10:15 Authority and Spiritual Mentorship

15:00 Past Lives and Soul Majors

18:05 Rebel Lifetimes Together

20:40 Church Conflict and Finding Voice

22:48 Patterns We Repeat

23:29 Optimism Versus Resistance

25:00 Martyrdom And Self Love

26:33 Not My Responsibility

27:12 Releasing Gathered Souls

31:12 Love Bigger Than Grief

35:21 Perfection Myth And Reality

37:52 Soul Age And Time

41:31 Karma Misunderstood

46:28 Poem

47:44 Where To Find Everyone

Quest, by Eliel Fionn

As I walk in woods 

of greenness wild,

I sip from the cup 

of the blessing child,

sip grail and walk on

Each instant a richness 

of the savoring cup,

a linger, a touch, 

of life to sup

Sip grail and walk on

The tastes of journeys,

the splendors I’ve seen

there in the shades 

of welcoming green,

Sip grail and walk on

My companions, a book, 

a song and a thought

of leaping life’s rim 

and taking a draught

Sip grail and walk on

Then home to my love 

and my garden green

and stories for children 

who know what I mean

Sip grail and walk on

The grail tastes of sunshine,

joy, sorrow, and pain,

if I’d yet to choose

I would drink it again

Sip grail and walk on

Ready to reclaim? Start here.

1. Take the free Body Trust Quiz

Find out where your body trust is strongest and where it’s asking for attention, across physicality, emotions, worth, and knowing.

👉 https://sarai-bodytrustquiz.scoreapp.com/

2. Work with Sarai one-on-one

• Tarot Reading ($55): a recorded reading delivered within three days
• Energy Work ($150): a 60-minute distance Reiki session
• The Witching Hour ($177): a 60-minute session to name the thing underneath the thing and leave with a magickal working
• Tending the Bones and Blooms ($333): a 90-minute somatic session with a guided pathworking to meet your own inner landscape
• 👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

3. Give the gift of coming home to yourself

The holidays are coming. Readings and sessions make great gifts for the deconstructed people in your life.

👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

4. Follow, subscribe, and share

• Threads (Sarai’s favorite right now): https://www.threads.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Substack: https://substack.com/@saraijohnson
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saraijohnson.witch/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Subscribe to and rate Cauldron Her Daddy, and send this episode to a friend who’s ever said, “I wish my body would catch up to what my mind knows.”

5. Get a reading on the show!

Sarai will continue to offer a free intuitive tarot reading to folks who are willing to be on the show!

👉 Put in your question here!

6. Chip in directly

Want to support this work? DM Sarai on Threads or Instagram for Venmo (not tax deductible).

Everything lives at saraijohnson.com.

Reclaiming Power After Betrayal: Inner Terrain Tarot, Human Design & Astrology for Big Life Decisions

On Cauldron Her Daddy, hosts Sarai Johnson and Meredith Holley welcome Dawn for an inner terrain reading plus human design and astrology to help her navigate turning 40, intense political stress, and a recent breakup after her long-term partner’s poor decisions, complicated by shared house, dog, and bills. Sarai pulls chakra-based tarot with Reiki-style landscapes and guides—river otter (root), California condor (solar plexus)—highlighting steadiness (Knight of Pentacles), curiosity and pleasure (Page of Pentacles), endings and grief (Ten of Swords), uncertainty (Seven of Cups), support through honest communication (Two of Cups), compassionate clarity (Three of Swords), inner knowing (High Priestess), and leadership/phoenix energy (King of Wands). Meredith explains Dawn’s sacral authority as a 1/3 Generator, emphasizing body-based yes/no decisions, then outlines major midlife transits, including Pluto on Dawn’s Aquarius ascendant and Saturn on her Aries sun, with a timeline extending into 2027–2029, focusing on reclaiming sovereignty, experimenting, and staying in therapy and embodiment practices.

As always, Sarai uses the Fifth Spirit Tarot.

00:00 Podcast Welcome

01:14 Dawn Shares Her Situation

02:07 Decision Moratorium Rules

05:53 Inner Terrain Reading Setup

06:41 Root Chakra Otter Guide

09:33 Sacral Chakra Pleasure

11:17 Solar Plexus Ten Swords

15:08 Heart Chakra Seven Cups

19:01 Throat Chakra Support

20:34 Third Eye Heartbreak

22:41 Crown High Priestess

24:04 King of Wands Energy

26:19 Human Design Overview

29:16 Body Yes No Practice

31:00 Generator Sacral Authority

34:14 Defined Sacral And Sex

35:54 Wait To Respond Strategy

37:10 One Three Experimenter

39:00 Aries Aquarius Overview

40:22 Pluto Transit Power Tests

44:14 Stalker Stories Energy Drains

46:48 Experimenting With Boundaries

47:58 Mother Wounds And Needs

50:09 North Node Destiny Shift

53:28 Saturn On The Sun Lessons

56:34 Reframing Regret And Data

01:02:52 Transit Timelines And Patience

01:05:56 Somatic Tools Pendulum Practice

01:15:00 Embodiment Pleasure And Healing

01:17:05 Wrap Up Readings And Links

Ready to reclaim? Start here.

1. Take the free Body Trust Quiz

Find out where your body trust is strongest and where it’s asking for attention, across physicality, emotions, worth, and knowing.

👉 https://sarai-bodytrustquiz.scoreapp.com/

2. Work with Sarai one-on-one

• Tarot Reading ($55): a recorded reading delivered within three days
• Energy Work ($150): a 60-minute distance Reiki session
• The Witching Hour ($177): a 60-minute session to name the thing underneath the thing and leave with a magickal working
• Tending the Bones and Blooms ($333): a 90-minute somatic session with a guided pathworking to meet your own inner landscape
• 👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

3. Give the gift of coming home to yourself

The holidays are coming. Readings and sessions make great gifts for the deconstructed people in your life.

👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

4. Follow, subscribe, and share

• Threads (Sarai’s favorite right now): https://www.threads.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Substack: https://substack.com/@saraijohnson
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saraijohnson.witch/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Subscribe to and rate Cauldron Her Daddy, and send this episode to a friend who’s ever said, “I wish my body would catch up to what my mind knows.”

5. Get a reading on the show!

Sarai will continue to offer a free intuitive tarot reading to folks who are willing to be on the show!

👉 Put in your question here!

6. Chip in directly

Want to support this work? DM Sarai on Threads or Instagram for Venmo (not tax deductible).

Everything lives at saraijohnson.com.

The Pentacle with Courtney Weber

Sarai Johnson and Meredith Holley interview author and tarot advisor Courtney Weber about her upcoming book, “Pentacle: The Shape of Power.” Courtney discusses the pentacle’s history and meanings, the pentagram vs. pentacle distinction, its links to ancient symbols and later occult sources like the Key of Solomon, and how it became a modern witch symbol through Gerald Gardner, Wicca, and counterculture, including Satanic Panic and ritual theater like the 1960s attempt to “levitate” the Pentagon. The conversation expands into symbolism, honesty about magical sources, rejecting dualistic “good/bad” thinking, how deities reflect human experience, and the effects of patriarchal Christianity, purity culture, and Christian nationalism. Courtney shares upcoming events and where to find her work; Meredith and Sarai share their own offerings.

Pre-Order Pentacle: The Shape of Power here!

Work with Courtney!

Follow Courtney on social media @courtneyaweber

00:00 Welcome Daddies

00:54 Meet Courtney Weber

02:09 Pentacle Basics

05:56 Occult History Shift

09:09 Wicca Pop Culture Panic

10:55 Levitate The Pentagon

14:33 Patriarchy Christianity Critique

19:21 Symbols Shadow Work

22:58 Gods Reflect Trauma

30:14 Cold War Glossy Era

33:49 Why Write Pentacle Book

35:36 Mythology Research Grind

37:07 Deconstructing in Christian College

38:29 Ethics Class Wake Up Calls

39:38 Sentinel Island Trivia Disaster

42:22 Evangelical End Times Politics

42:49 Rewriting Bible Stories for Kids

45:49 Brigid Between Saint and Goddess

50:45 Cults Coven Leadership Reality

54:03 Fear Doubt and Discernment

56:10 Pentacle Rituals in Practice

57:56 Workshops Book Launch and Links

59:46 Final Plugs and Farewell

Ready to reclaim? Start here.

1. Take the free Body Trust Quiz

Find out where your body trust is strongest and where it’s asking for attention, across physicality, emotions, worth, and knowing.

👉 https://sarai-bodytrustquiz.scoreapp.com/

2. Work with Sarai one-on-one

• Tarot Reading ($55): a recorded reading delivered within three days
• Energy Work ($150): a 60-minute distance Reiki session
• The Witching Hour ($177): a 60-minute session to name the thing underneath the thing and leave with a magickal working
• Tending the Bones and Blooms ($333): a 90-minute somatic session with a guided pathworking to meet your own inner landscape
• 👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

3. Give the gift of coming home to yourself

The holidays are coming. Readings and sessions make great gifts for the deconstructed people in your life.

👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

4. Follow, subscribe, and share

• Threads (Sarai’s favorite right now): https://www.threads.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Substack: https://substack.com/@saraijohnson
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saraijohnson.witch/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Subscribe to and rate Cauldron Her Daddy, and send this episode to a friend who’s ever said, “I wish my body would catch up to what my mind knows.”

5. Get a reading on the show!

Sarai will continue to offer a free intuitive tarot reading to folks who are willing to be on the show!

👉 Put in your question here!

6. Chip in directly

Want to support this work? DM Sarai on Threads or Instagram for Venmo (not tax deductible).

Everything lives at saraijohnson.com.

Career Crossroads Reading: Balancing Academia, Dharma & the Call to Transform | Cauldron Her Daddy

In this episode of Cauldron Her Daddy, hosts Sarai Johnson and Meredith Holley welcome Dr. Sarah Carlson for a reading focused on her uncertainty about balancing her academic career in learning and cognition with her growing passion for yoga, meditation, and her Dharma Collection offerings. Sarah shares how Dharma Collection supports inward connection through restorative movement, ritual, guided meditation journeys, and evolving projects like Stories with Dharma, plus upcoming sacred ceremonies and a retreat in Nicaragua. Sarai offers a tarot-and-chakra reading highlighting impatience, taking stock, institutional constraints, integration over either/or choices, and legacy-building, with animal-guide reflections from prior pathworking. Meredith adds astrology and human design insights, including Sarah’s Chiron return and Pluto transits, emphasizing grief, transformation, informing as a manifestor, and aligning energy with supportive spaces.

Check out the Dharma Collection!!

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As always, Sarai uses the Fifth Spirit Tarot deck

00:00 Podcast Welcome

00:33 Sarah’s Crossroads

02:36 Dharma Collection Intro

03:58 Offerings and Origin Story

06:39 How to Find Dharma

07:43 Tarot Reading Setup

08:49 Root and Sacral Cards

14:07 Solar Plexus and Heart

18:17 Throat and Legacy

23:18 Third Eye and Crown

28:57 Guides and Gifts Recap

31:40 Astrology Transits Begin

34:07 Adventure Versus Stability

35:17 Butterfly Grief Process

37:52 Feeling Disappointment Fully

39:04 Human Design Gate Five

43:15 Manifestor Profile Insights

46:28 Pluto Transit Breakdown

50:39 Witch Shed Sign

54:49 Anger And Informing

59:05 Failure And Replanting

01:05:55 Middle Age Gifts

01:09:08 Wrap Up And Offers

Ready to reclaim? Start here.

1. Take the free Body Trust Quiz

Find out where your body trust is strongest and where it’s asking for attention, across physicality, emotions, worth, and knowing.

👉 https://sarai-bodytrustquiz.scoreapp.com/

2. Work with Sarai one-on-one

• Tarot Reading ($55): a recorded reading delivered within three days
• Energy Work ($150): a 60-minute distance Reiki session
• The Witching Hour ($177): a 60-minute session to name the thing underneath the thing and leave with a magickal working
• Tending the Bones and Blooms ($333): a 90-minute somatic session with a guided pathworking to meet your own inner landscape
• 👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

3. Give the gift of coming home to yourself

The holidays are coming. Readings and sessions make great gifts for the deconstructed people in your life.

👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

4. Follow, subscribe, and share

• Threads (Sarai’s favorite right now): https://www.threads.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Substack: https://substack.com/@saraijohnson
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saraijohnson.witch/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Subscribe to and rate Cauldron Her Daddy, and send this episode to a friend who’s ever said, “I wish my body would catch up to what my mind knows.”

5. Get a reading on the show!

Sarai will continue to offer a free intuitive tarot reading to folks who are willing to be on the show!

👉 Put in your question here!

6. Chip in directly

Want to support this work? DM Sarai on Threads or Instagram for Venmo (not tax deductible).

Everything lives at saraijohnson.com.

September 2026 Astrology + Tarot Forecast: "I'm Unraveling"

Sarai Johnson and Meredith Holley introduce their podcast and share a September 2026 month-ahead astrology and tarot forecast themed around Olivia Rodrigo’s “The Cure,” focusing on the idea of being “unraveled” after August eclipse season and entering Venus’s pre-retrograde shadow. Sarai pulls a tarot spread highlighting decision-making and emotional/spiritual knowing (Two of Swords/Four of Cups), embodiment and pleasure (Queen of Pentacles), leaving what no longer works (Eight of Cups), abundance and gratitude (Nine of Pentacles), curiosity as medicine (Page of Pentacles), ending savior/martyr patterns (Five of Cups reversed), listening and learning (Page of Swords), personal power (Queen of Wands), and sustainable harvest energy (King of Pentacles). Meredith then outlines key September transits—Mars square Saturn (Sept 1), major shifts and a Virgo New Moon (Sept 10), Venus in Scorpio themes, equity-focused Mercury in Libra aspects, Mabon (Sept 22), Sun–Neptune opposition (Sept 25), Aries Full Moon (Sept 26), Mars into Leo (Sept 27), and Mercury into Scorpio (Sept 30)—and they mention Gene Keys themes, collective grief, and resources to book readings/sessions.

As always, Sarai is using the Fifth Spirit Tarot.

Listen to Olivia Rodrigo, The Cure, here.

Aspects are Below.

00:00 Welcome and September Preview

00:32 Theme Song Unraveled

01:55 Eclipse Aftermath and Venus Shadow

04:43 Two of Swords Decision Point

08:10 Queen of Pentacles Embodiment

09:54 Eight of Cups Shedding Skin

12:34 Nine of Pentacles Money Magic

26:04 Page of Pentacles Take Medicine

28:21 Five of Cups No More Saviors

33:08 Page and Queen The Cure Within

36:29 King of Pentacles Harvest Grounding

37:50 Astrology Venus Retrograde Setup

39:57 Mars Square Saturn Frustration

42:40 Dire World Urgency

43:29 Small Steps Matter

44:05 Mercury Mars Reset

45:37 September Tenth Pileup

46:40 Venus Scorpio Vibes

49:09 Chiron Codependency Check

51:34 New Moon Rituals

52:42 Gene Key 47 Trauma

01:00:37 Deep Thinking Equity

01:05:00 Make It Practical

01:06:32 Saviorism Exposed

01:13:17 Held To Your Word

01:16:09 Mabon Autumn Shift

01:17:45 Sun Neptune Reality Check

01:22:09 Full Moon Aries Delight

01:26:48 Authenticity Wounds Return

01:30:02 Mercury Into Scorpio

01:31:39 Wrap Up And Offerings

Sept 1: Mars in Cancer square Saturn in Aries at 2:58am

Mercury in Virgo sextile Mars in Cancer at 6:21am

Sept 10: Venus goes into Scorpio at 1:06am 

Mercury goes into Libra at 9:20am

Venus in Scorpio opposes Chiron in Taurus at 10:15am

Uranus stations retrograde in Gemini at 11:27am

The NEW MOON in Virgo is at 8:26pm

Sept 12: Mercury in Libra trines Pluto in Aquarius at 8:59am

Mercury in Libra opposes Neptune in Aries at 9:37am

Sept 13: Mercury in Libra trines Uranus in Gemini at 7:39pm

Sept 14: The Sun in Virgo sextiles Mars in Cancer at 12:52pm

Sept 15: Venus in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius at 11:34am

Neptune in Aries sextiles Pluto in Aquarius at 7:08pm

Sept 17: Chiron retrogrades into Aries at 6:50pm 

Sept 18: Mercury in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries at 3am

Sept 21: Mercury in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo at 3:50pm 

Sept 22: The Sun goes into Libra at 5:05pm MABON (autumn equinox)

Sept 25: The Sun in Libra opposes Neptune in Aries at 6:36pm

Sept 26: FULL MOON in Aries at 9:48am

Sept 27: Mars in Cancer squares Chiron in Aries at 4:58am

Mars goes into Leo at 7:48pm

Sept 28: The Sun in Libra trines Uranus in Gemini at 9:21am

Sept 29: Mercury in Libra opposes Chiron in Aries at 8:14pm

Sept 30: Mercury goes into Scorpio at 4:44am

Ready to reclaim? Start here.

1. Take the free Body Trust Quiz

Find out where your body trust is strongest and where it’s asking for attention, across physicality, emotions, worth, and knowing.

👉 https://sarai-bodytrustquiz.scoreapp.com/

2. Work with Sarai one-on-one

• Tarot Reading ($55): a recorded reading delivered within three days
• Energy Work ($150): a 60-minute distance Reiki session
• The Witching Hour ($177): a 60-minute session to name the thing underneath the thing and leave with a magickal working
• Tending the Bones and Blooms ($333): a 90-minute somatic session with a guided pathworking to meet your own inner landscape
• 👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

3. Give the gift of coming home to yourself

The holidays are coming. Readings and sessions make great gifts for the deconstructed people in your life.

👉 https://saraijohnson.com/work

4. Follow, subscribe, and share

• Threads (Sarai’s favorite right now): https://www.threads.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Substack: https://substack.com/@saraijohnson
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saraijohnson.witch/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@saraijohnson.witch
• Subscribe to and rate Cauldron Her Daddy, and send this episode to a friend who’s ever said, “I wish my body would catch up to what my mind knows.”

5. Get a reading on the show!

Sarai will continue to offer a free intuitive tarot reading to folks who are willing to be on the show!

👉 Put in your question here!

6. Chip in directly

Want to support this work? DM Sarai on Threads or Instagram for Venmo (not tax deductible).

Everything lives at saraijohnson.com.