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

Hey friends, I'm delighted to bring you a beautiful conversation with Emma Freeman - her creative practice has inspired mine so much and I love what she shared about her experience of the pandemic and what's important to her now. A balm to listen to! Here is some of what we talked about:  

Emma Freeman is a queer mixed media artist, poet and teacher. She works with fibers, words, collage, slow stitching and nature to connect more deeply to herself and to this world. She is fascinated by the dance between art making and healing and loves exploring both within her practice. Her process is contemplative, slow, quiet and playful. Emma is sober, a highly sensitive person, deeply loves animals and also loves making up silly dance moves. She teaches online art classes in a variety of mediums and lives in Wisconsin in the United States with her two rescue beagles. You can find Emma at https://www.emmafreemandesigns.com/ 

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Hey friends, wishing you a gentle and restorative new year if you are celebrating!  This episode is a little catch up and I am also sharing my favorite new year ritual - it's sweet & simple practice all about the Star card. I have also talked about the Compass sessions, which I am hosting starting this Saturday for three weeks as part of the Creative Nature Coven. You can join us if you feel like you'd benefit from a creative space to land in the new year and want to be with others. It's $13 per month, sliding scale options available: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-nature-coven/ Here is more info about the Making app I mentioned: https://themakingapp.com/ and here is the Dreaming into 2022 class I'll teach over there: https://themakingapp.com/classes/dreaming-into-2022-with-your-journal--the-tarot/Y599 (you'll only be able to see this once you are logged in).  

Sending love, Yarrow

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Hey friends, I'm just coming out my little winter cocoon to tell you about the new Making app, which I loved joining. As you might know I left instagram last year for many different reasons, but one thing I have missed was seeing other people's creative processes and sharing my own. I had been hoping for a gentle and non-competitive space to do that and to be able to do a little comfort-scrolling without being bombarded by ads and shiny stuff.  I'm not being paid to say that I found exactly this in the Making app, I just wanted to see if you want to join me there so that we can swap notes on what we're working on - my username is @YarrowMagdalena In January I'll also teach a class on dreaming into the new year, which you are super welcome to join: https://themakingapp.com/classes/dreaming-into-2022-with-your-journal--the-tarot/Y599 (please note you need to be logged into the app to open this link).  Hopefully see you there: https://themakingapp.com/about 

Love, Yarrow

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Hey friends, I cannot believe that it took my almost a whole year to share this beautiful conversation with you. I truly loved talking to Lex Ritchie of Day’s Eye Tarot and then... life happened, really hard. I hope that in some way it still comes your way at exactly the right time and that you'll get as much out of listening to Lex's generous sharing as I did. Here is some of what we talked about:  

Lex Ritchie (they/them) is the tarot reader and folk magician behind Day’s Eye Tarot. A chronically-ill, neurodivergent, queer mystic, they approach tarot as a radical practice rooted in the hidden-in-plain-sight tradition of cartomancy of the working-class and backcountry kitchens of their ancestors, a skill gained through connection, practice, and cunning. They use tarot as a folk art to help you discover and nurture the root of your own authority to think, act, and create in and for your own life so that you can take the kind of intentional action you need to achieve your dreams. thelexritchie.com   

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Hey friends, ah, we made it through the eclipse and now here we are, entering Sag season, moving towards the solstice. I am trying to be still, to look at the moon, to treasure beautiful conversations like this one. I spoke to the wonderful Ryn Silverstein, a person whose creativity, thought & spirit I really treasure. I hope you'll feel blessed by this conversation the way I did. Here is some of what we talked about:  

Ryn Silverstein is a writer and priestess with a creative living practice that's embodied, queer, and ancestrally-rooted.‌ They cultivate longing as devotional practice, creating space in the everyday for dreaming and enchantment. Honoring the moon as their ancestral home, Ryn tends to the connection the moon enables between our bodies, land bodies, and water bodies.  Ryn's upcoming class & newsletter can be found at https://www.archivefeverdream.com/work-with-me/

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Hey folks,  this new moon energised me enough to send a special extra episode your way - recorded today, fresh off the microphone! I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did, it's been a real joy to speak to Rowan and take some time to reflect on the pandemic, this time, our relationships, our bodies and a lot of other things. Here is some of what we talked about:  

i'm rowan. i’m an agender white settler of Irish, Lithuanian, Scottish and Sicilian trancestry born on Turtle Island/North America. i’m the creatrix behind of hawthorn and yew, a sacred cauldron of plant kin relationship, ritual, and education. i facilitate community spaces for queer and trans folks for healing re-connection and collaborative learning. through the pathways of ritual + relationship, i seek to spiral ever closer to holy embodied aliveness, and to help others do the same. ofhawthornandyew.com   Ancestral Reconnection for Witches and Radicals of Celtic Descent: https://ofhawthornandyew.com/offerings/celticreconnection/   Working the Swords for Change and Transformation https://ofhawthornandyew.com/workingtheswords/   insta: @hawthornandyew email: [email protected]

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Hey friends, I'm excited to share this conversation with Jilna Shah with you - it's been really great to listen back as I was editing just now and I hope you'll get as much out of it as I did. Here is some of what we talked about, though there was so much more magic in here that goes way beyond lists: 

I’m Jilna and I teach gentle movement and meditation in the community. I do this both online and in-person. My practice reflects my passion to co-create ways of moving and being that help people to connect more deeply with themselves and the things that matter most in the world. It involves understanding how different people are affected by their  identities and life experiences, and encouraging them towards a greater sense of ease and joy. This practice is always evolving, especially as I learn a lot from the people who attend my classes and workshops. I have weaved social justice, movement and meditation together for many years and I am motivated by the transformative impact that these practices can have both at an individual level and beyond in cultivating communities that are rooted in kindness and care. http://www.jilnashah.co.uk/ 

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Hey friends, I have a sweet Sunday solo episode for you in which I am sharing:  Some things that will change in this space & why What's up in my own practices at the moment and what I am loving in autumn An invitation to a free printmaking workshop, join over here: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/d8b1s4 Creative Nature plans for 2022 What the Mending Together program, which starts in a few weeks, will look & feel like, more info is here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/mending/ I hope you'll enjoy this check in, recorded in my reclining chair overlooking the forth bridge

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Hey sweet ones, this is just a brief little announcement episode to say that creative space sessions are back AND I am also offer queer art magic sessions starting this Sunday.  These are for patrons at any level and I would love to see you there!

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Hey friends, I'm happy to celebrate the beginning of autumn in the Northern hemisphere with you all by sharing this absolutely delightful interview with Alice Sparkly Kat. Here is some of what we talked about:  

Enjoy! Alice Sparkly Kat is an astrologer. They use astrology to re-chart a history of the subconscious, redefine the body in world, and reimagine history as collective memory. Their astrological work has inhabited MoMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Brooklyn Museum. They're the author of Postcolonial Astrology. Alice's website: https://alicesparklykat.com/ 

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