Cauldron Her Daddy

Demons, Spirits, and Entities

CW: This episode talks about suicidal ideation. If you or someone you know experiences thinking that is self-harming, please access medical support and remember that in the United States, 988 is a resource for friends, family, and support people as well as people experiencing suicidal ideation.

In this episode of Cauldron Your Daddy, hosts Sarai Johnson and Meredith Holley explore “demons,” spirits, and entities as metaphors for intrusive, self-harming thoughts, emphasizing personal sovereignty, boundaries, and separating identity from thoughts. Both share experiences with religion, spiritual sensitivity, and entities, and Sarai discusses her history of suicidal ideation, her brother’s death by suicide, and reframing harmful thought patterns through ongoing “weeding” practices, somatic presence, and seeking help. They cite CDC 2021 statistics, note higher risk groups, distinguish medically assisted end-of-life from suicidal ideation, and encourage therapy, medical care, and emergency resources, alongside astrology and human design as tools for reconnecting with the self.

00:00 Podcast Welcome

00:24 Content Heads Up

02:13 Demons as Thoughts

07:21 Religion and Control

09:34 Body Based Framework

11:02 Sarai Childhood Stories

18:20 Meredith Childhood Stories

23:32 Shutting Down Sensitivity

26:30 Suicidal Ideation Entity

34:13 Coping Patterns and Roots

39:50 Replacing the Escape Hatch

41:41 Purpose Is Being Here

43:48 Beyond Conversion Moments

44:47 Daily Weeding Practice

46:23 Suicide Stats And Midlife

48:57 Brother Loss And Biology

52:24 Systems Self Abandonment

01:01:27 Male Loneliness Epidemic

01:05:50 Meeting Our Own Needs

01:10:03 Disability Risk And Care

01:12:53 Try Many Supports

01:17:19 Grief Pleasure And Living

01:22:36 Resources

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

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• 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!

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Ethical Shit Talk--JK Rowling and the Millennial Witch's Fraught Relationship With Harry Potter

CW: transphobia, sexual violence, partner violence, racism

In this Ethical Shit Talk episode Meredith and Sarai dive in to the wizarding world of Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling's conflicted relationship with gender. Ethical Shit Talk requires that (1) you shit talk, (2) you turn the mirror on yourself, and (3) you only punch up. J.K. Rowling is the first billionaire author, and despite her background as someone who experienced partner violence and sexual violence, has chosen the path of violence (at least in her language) herself.

If you are a millennial, the Harry Potter books likely came to you at a formative age (or if you are like Sarai, you might never have read the stories or seen the movies), and for many people these books framed how they see magic and even witchcraft. Through stories about the power of love and friendship, and a compelling John Williams musical score, the Harry Potter books gave a lot of millennials permission to explore magic and think outside of traditional structures.

And, on the other hand, if you look closer, the stories raise questions about sexism and racism that have played out poorly over the decades. J.K. Rowling has consistently used male pen names, including the name Robert Galbraith, which is the name of the person who invented conversion therapy. Yet, J.K. Rowling has stated the belief that cis women should not be required to "call a man a woman," when it comes to pronouns. It's tough to know what pronouns to use with J.K. Rowling, so as cis women, we're going with he/him. In a 2020 essay, Rowling described believing that if the option was available in the 1980s, s/he would have transitioned to male.

In 2024, cis woman boxer Imane Khelif sued JK Rowling and Elon Musk for cyberbullying, after Rowling accused Khelif publicly of being an abusive man and symbol of a "men's rights movement."

In December 2026, HBO is set to release a new Harry Potter series, this time casting the incredibly cute Latin actress Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger and accomplished Black actor Paapa Essiedu as Professor Snape. While this may at the outset seem like a good way to correct the inherent racism of the original cast being all white, if you look closer, this raises many problems. First, this puts a young Latin actress in the position of being called a racial slur. Second, Harry Potter's father and his band of white friends hang Snape from a tree and generally bully him in flashback memories. This is bad enough when Snape is white, but it presents the white Griffendor friends as KKK members if Snape is Black. Worse, the story tends to make this seem like a childhood mishap instead of a horrific crime. We feel skeptical that the show will handle this thoughtfully given the landscape of the books.

These are dark topics. J.K. Rowling's descent into TERFdom (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist-dom) and the concerns about the racism of the new HBO series are serious and real. Anytime someone is set up as an icon around a spiritual topic, they dissapoint.

AND we had some fun shit talking this, so we hope you enjoy!

For a full timeline of J.K. Rowling's descent into TERFdom, check out this article. We're not going to link to Rowling's discriminatory posts, but that article does, so make your own choices about whether to click.

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
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• 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.

Stigmatized Spellwork

Some call it baneful magic, some call it of the devil, but we disagree. In this episode, Sarai and Meredith talk about their own experience with stigmatized spellwork: banishments, cord cuttings, hexes, and curses. They share personal experiences with retrieving their own energy and releasing other people's energy, including national and international hexes. To access the patriarchy and white supremacy hexes, visit the Fourth Cup Astrology Substack here.

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
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• 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.

Pride Is Better Than Purity: Deconstructing Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and Reclaiming Sovereignty

In this Pride Month episode of Cauldron Her Daddy, Sarai Johnson and Meredith Holley discuss how purity culture and rape culture function as control systems rooted in shame, bodily control, and compulsory heteronormativity/monogamy, and frame Pride as an antidote built on self-ownership. They share personal stories of deconstructing anti-queer religious conditioning, including Meredith’s journey to identifying as pansexual while married, questions around coming out, and the costs of self-erasure. Sarai outlines the “seven deadly sins of purity culture” (stripping autonomy, pleasure, agency, instilling self-loathing, stifling self-expression, stripping insight, and cutting off spiritual connection) through a chakra lens, connecting these dynamics to larger cultural and political forces, grief, and suicidal ideation. They close with resources and ways to work with Sarai (chakra/Reiki offerings) and Meredith (natal chart readings).

How to Understand Your Gender

How to Understand Your Sexuality

On Our Best Behavior

00:00 Welcome and Pride

00:40 Purity Culture Exposed

02:44 Pride as Antidote

06:53 Witchcraft and Liminality

08:18 Meredith Coming Out Story

18:08 Labels and Identity Integration

38:49 Community Boundaries and Bots

42:26 Seven Deadly Sins Intro

45:47 Autonomy and Root Chakra

48:13 Pleasure and Sacral Chakra

50:29 Suffering as a Virtue

53:12 Work as Servitude

54:29 Stripping Your Agency

56:26 Learned Helplessness Trap

58:55 Instilling Self Loathing

01:06:12 Radical Self Acceptance

01:10:49 Stifling Self Expression

01:16:43 Stripping Your Insight

01:19:39 Cutting Spiritual Connection

01:31:04 Sovereignty Over Suffering

01:34:32 Resources and Closing

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
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• 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.

Energies of June 2026!

This month-ahead forecast starts with a tarot reading for June 2026, and then looks at the astrological energies.

The R&R Tarot Spread is from Interobang Tarot and is available here. Sarai used the Fifth Spirit Tarot Deck here. In this tarot reading has the Sun card in the center and then these are the other cards:

• Recover & Renew: 8 of Wands
• Rumpus & Romp: Heirophant
• Release & Re-block: 8 of Cups Reversed
• Rest & Relax: Hanged One

These are the major transits happening in June:

June 1: Mercury to Cancer at 4:55am

June 2: Sun sextile saturn 3:48pm

June 3: Mercury square neptune 5:18pm

June 9: Venus conjunct Jupiter at 12:59pm

Mercury square saturn at 10:38pm

June 12: Mercury goes to pre shadow 5:53pm

Venus square chiron 10:23pm

June 13: venus into leo 3:46am

June 14: GEMINI NEW MOON at 7:54pm

June 15: Venus sextile Uranus at 3:52pm

June 16: Venus trine neptune at 8:40pm

June 17: Venus opposite pluto at 1:38pm

June 19: chiron into Taurus

June 21: SUMMER SOLSTICE/Litha

Sun into Cancer at 1:24am

Sun sextile chiron at 2:47am

June 25: Venus trine saturn at 5:01am

Sun square neptune at 3:38pm

June 27: Mars sextile Jupiter at 9:50pm

June 28: Mars into Gemini at 12:29pm

June 29: Mercury retrograde at 10:35am

FULL MOON Capricorn at 4:56pm

Jupiter into leo at 10:52pm

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.

Scapegoating And Healing From Nonprofits With Mazarine Treyz

CW: Death and Grief

In this episode, Mazarine Treyz joins Sarai and Meredith to talk about her new book (and workbook), Healing From The Nonprofit Sector. Mazarine and Sarai both have extensive history working in nonprofits, and recovering from them. In this episode, Mazarine talks about the dynamics of scapegoating, which might be something you've experienced if you've ever considered yourself a witch. The episode covers the anger that is normal from that experience, as well as the systemic and institutional dynamics that underpin it such as white supremacy and cultures of silence.

If you have experienced unhealthy dynamics in the nonprofit sector or if you have found yourself over-giving, be sure to check out Mazarine's book!

Also mentioned in this episode:

Sarai's work with Leave in Love and Holy Ghosting

Meredith's books Career Defense 101 and The Inclusive Leader's Guide to Healthy Workplace Culture

WhiteSupremacyCulture.info

GriefHouse.org

Feelings Wheel

Needs Wheel

Wheel of Power/Privilege

Julie Ann Wambach's book The Battle Between Somebodies and Nobodies

Gabor Mate's book The Myth of Normal

Sara Ahmed's book Complaint!

Modern Witch Tarot

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.

Twin Flame or Hot Stove?

In this episode, Sarai and Meredith unpack the concept of Twin Flames. That concept was originally coined by Elizabeth Clare Prophet in the 1970s, but it reaches back to Greek and Christian myth in the way we think of it today. The concept refers to a fated relationship that feels like it has a karmic component to it, and is somewhat different than the concept of soulmates, although there is overlap between the two concepts.

In this episode, Sarai describes the Twin Flame Universe (watch Escaping Twin Flames on Netflix), and the cohosts discuss the draw of the concept of twin flames and some of the pitfalls in how that concept plays out as a practical matter, from stalking to obsessive relationships to enmeshment.

If you might be in a twin flame relationship, the cohosts have been there and hopefully this episode does not judge that experience. Instead, they talk about some steps you can take to relieve the suffering component of a twin flame relationship if necessary and move toward healthy sovereignty and community. We all need each other, we all need growth, and also twin flame relationships can stifle personal power and create annihilation in a way that can become unhealthy.

Also mentioned in this episode:

Lucy Maude Montgomery's books, Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, and The Blue Castle

Zora Neale Hurston's book Their Eyes Were Watching God

CNN's article exposing an online rape academy

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.

Sex Magic

In this episode, Sarai and Meredith dive into one of the most misunderstood — and most human — forms of magic: sex magic. Not the dramatic, velvet-robed version you've seen online. The real kind. The kind that lives in your body, in your breath, in the quiet space between who you've been told to be and who you actually are.

They start with the basics. What sex magic actually is, why so much of the information out there feels either inaccessible or performative, and why that matters — especially if you grew up being taught that your body was something to manage rather than inhabit.

From there, the conversation gets honest. They talk about the way purity culture, capitalism, and spiritual frameworks that trade on shame have separated so many of us from our own pleasure and power. About the idea that sex is simultaneously more sacred and more ordinary than we make it — a doorway into transformation, yes, but also just a deeply human thing that most of us are already doing.

Sarai shares real stories of using sex magic for manifestation — solo practice, partnered practice, the unexpected downloads that arrive in liminal moments — and both hosts get into what consent, sovereignty, and genuine healing actually look like in this space.

Plus: what your astrology chart and human design can reveal about your relationship with sexuality, and the gentlest possible places to start if your body still feels like unfamiliar territory.

This one is for anyone who was taught that their desire was a problem — and is ready to find out it was always a gift.

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.

Astrology Forecast for May 2026!

In this episode Meredith and Sarai talk about the astrology of May 2026 and the cycles of time related to the astrological weather. Your hosts at Cauldron also dedicate this episdode to Chidi Anagonye from the show The Good Place. If you don't know who Chidi Anagonye is, here's a little taste of his vibe.

These are the aspects Meredith and Sarai talk about for May 2026 (all times are Pacific):

May 1: Full Moon Scorpio at 10:23am

11:45am Venus sextile saturn

1:07pm Mercury conjunct Chiron

May 2: Mercury into Taurus 7:56pm

May 4: Mars Aries square Jupiter Cancer 7:08pm

May 5: Mercury in taurus square Pluto Aquarius 3:08pm

May 6: Pluto goes retrograde 8:34pm

May 10: Sun Taurus sextile Jupiter Cancer 7:13pm

May 12: Mercury sextile Jupiter 9:43pm

May 14: Mercury conjunct sun (cazimi) 7:24am

May 16: NEW MOON in Taurus 1:00pm

Mars conjunct Chiron in Aries

May 17: Mercury to Gemini 3:26pm

Venus in Gemini sextile Chiron in Aries 11:03am

Mercury conjunct Uranus in Gemini at 5:10pm

May 18: Mars to Taurus 3:25pm

Venus to Cancer 6:05pm

Moon into cancer right after at 6:46

Mercury in Gemini sextile Neptune in Aries 9:04pm

Venus in Cancer sextile Mars in Taurus 10:37pm

May 19: Mercury in Gemini trine Pluto in Aquarius

May 20: Sun goes into Gemini at 6:36pm

May 21: Venus in Cancer square Neptune in Aries at 11:31pm

May 22: Sun conjunct Uranus 7:26am

May 24: Sun Gemini sextile Neptune in Aries 7:22pm

May 25: Mars in Taurus square Pluto in Aquarius 9:01pm

May 26: Sun in Gemini trine Pluto in Aquarius 8:52am

May 28 Venus in Cancer square Saturn in Aries

May 31 Full Moon in Sagittarius at 1:45am  

Mercury in Gemini sextile Chiron in Aries at 5:32pm

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!

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The Cauldron of Wisdom

In this episode, Sarai and Meredith turn to the third and final cauldron from the ancient Irish poem, the Cauldrons of Poesy — the Cauldron of Wisdom. It sits at the top of the body, the seat of mind, imagination, and spirit. And yet, as they quickly discover, you can't talk about wisdom without talking about everything else first.

They open with the story of Ceridwen — the sorceress who brewed transformation in a cauldron for a year and a day — and use it to explore what wisdom actually is: not intellect alone, but the capacity to imagine something different than what already exists. To dream a new world into being.

From there, the conversation gets honest and a little uncomfortable in the best way. They talk about what happens when the mind becomes a runaway animal — spinning in closed circuits, debating itself into exhaustion, attending to everything we don't want and calling it awareness. About the difference between overthinking and undirected thinking. About dissociation as a brilliant childhood survival strategy that quietly overstays its welcome into adulthood.

Meredith brings in thought work — the unglamorous, surprisingly effective daily practice of giving your mind conscious direction — and walks through four of the most common thinking patterns that keep us stuck: the narcissism spiral, the race to innocence, the safety wound, and the endless reach for power and control over other people. None of it is a moral failing. All of it makes complete sense given where it came from.

They also get into what gaslighting yourself actually looks like in spiritual spaces — the performance of a conversion experience, the veneer of progressive values pasted over unchanged behavior — and why one quiet degree of real change moves you further than any dramatic about-face.

Plus: the Four of Cups, confirmation bias, and why "no fascism" is neurologically identical to "fascism" — and what to say instead.

This one is for anyone whose mind has ever felt more like a maze than a compass — and is ready to finally point it somewhere worth going.

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.

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2. Work with Sarai one-on-one

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

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