Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

Welcome to Libra season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Libra season, shares key lunar dates, and does a collective tarot reading to understand some of the invitations and challenges of Libra season.

Register for the virtual Fall Equinox Breathwork Ceremony happening tomorrow, 9/22, at 7:30 pm EST (recording will be sent to all).

Download the free Libra season breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video.

Say hi on Instagram!

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/libra-season-medicine 

Diana Rose Harper is a tarot reader, astrologer, reiki master, writer, educator, and bodyworker. In this episode, Diana and Eryn talk about:

• Her journey of getting to where she is now 
• Imposter syndrome with astrology
• How astrology can help us figure out what the hell we want to do with our lives
• Understanding rising signs and why you need to understand the ruler of your ascendant
• What cycles are most important for you to understand in astrology and how to understand those cycles in your chart
• How to understand the themes of your year through annual perfections 
• Her perspective on moon signs + where the moon loves to be and where it’s less stoked to be
• Your primary luminary and what that means 
• Understanding planets in the context of houses
• Gifts of astrology
• Mars in Aries (where it will be until January) & Mars retrograde 

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/diana-rose-harper 

Register for the virtual Fall Equinox Breathwork Ceremony. Follow Eryn on Instagram.

Explore Diana's website and get her free workbook. Purchase Diana's talk from NORWAC, Fierce Compassion: Natal Astrology as Radical Self-Care. Follow Diana on Instagram and Patreon.

Isabella Frappier is a sexual activist and pleasure mentor, focused on body literacy and sexual sovereignty. In this episode, Eryn and Isabella talk about:

• Isabella's journey with sex, pleasure and her body
• Her thoughts about what sex and pleasure actually are
• Finding pleasure in all kinds of emotions & in difficult times
• Healing through pleasure
• Seeing Eros in everything
• Sex magick
• Cultural appropriation in magic & spirituality
• Crafting your own intuitive magical practice
• Taking care of the nervous system
• Being eternal beings in bodies
• Being a recovering people pleaser, and more

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/isabella-frappier 

Register for the virtual Fall Equinox Breathwork Ceremony. Join the Patreon to experience SHIFT: 7 days of breathwork and journaling to hold you through the transition into fall (starts 9/14). Follow Eryn on Instagram.

Follow Isabella on Instagram and explore her website. 

Mentioned in this episode:

• @tourmaliiine's post on abolishing the cop in your head
• Gaby Herstik's book Inner Witch

Carolina Arevalo is a Peruvian visual artist. In this episode, Eryn and Caro talk about:

• A grounding and gratitude offering
• Her journey including trusting her intuition for the first time and transitioning to the arts
• Creativity and making art as healing
• Art as for everyone
• Releasing the need for art to be good and letting it just be expression
• Advice for reconnecting to creativity
• Rituals around creativity
• Giving yourself permission to try different things and see what works
• Spending more time feeding our creative and playful curiosity
• How it felt to show her work for the first time
• Being in exchange with the earth, with other people, with spiritual practices, outside of the extraction-based mentality of capitalism
• Her relationship with the plant kingdom & the fungi kingdom specifically (including nonbinary mushrooms!!)
• Working in unity with the earth
• The jungle inside of ourselves, being nature ourselves

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/caro-arevalo 

Download your free Virgo season breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video. Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Follow Caro on Instagram, check out her website, and explore her course Rituals Around Creativity. 

Welcome to Virgo season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Virgo season, shares key dates, and does a collective tarot reading to understand some of the invitations and challenges of Virgo season.

Download the free Virgo season breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video. 

Register for WHOLE, a virtual sliding scale breathwork + writing ceremony happening tomorrow 8/25 at 7 pm EST.

Tada Hozumi (they/them) is a practitioner, developer, and teacher of emergent methodologies for individual and collective healing that holistically integrate animism, somatics, and justice. They sometimes describe their animist-somatic work as cultural somatics. 

In this episode, Eryn and Tada explore:

• A lot of practice! Including a grounding & land acknowledgment.

• Bypassing and disassociation

• Ways to ground

• Our cultural and collective disassociation

• Cultural somatics

• Trauma passed down & passed down looks a lot like posture

• The vagus nerve 

• Bodies changing through disconnection from culture and roots

• Cultural attachment theory

• Taking folks off of pedestals and unhealthy relationships with teachers 

• The connection between the cultural soma (body) and the individual soma (body) 

• Supporting the healing of our collective body

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/tada-hozumi 

Connect with Eryn on Instagram and register for WHOLE: a virtual breathwork + writing ceremony on August 25th.

Connect with Tada on Instagram, their website and the Ritual as Justice School.

Cassie Uhl is an artist, author, empath, and the lead Goddess of her business Zenned Out. In this episode, Eryn and Cassie talk about:

• Her spiritual journey 

• Creating structure for creativity 

• Sustaining creative energy to actually birth something 

• Cassie’s practice with energy and why it matters to her 

• Working with energy intuitively outside of formal education and training 

• Being your own best teacher & honoring your connection to your guides, ancestors, etc. as your teachers 

• Ego and spiritual/healing trainings 

• Her connection to journeywork 

• How she works with her guides and deepens those relationships 

• Ancestral connection 

• Working with auras - what the aura is, cleansing and healing your aura, primary aura colors

• Her energy maintenance practices 

• Energy clearing & maintenance vs. processing 

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/cassie-uhl-zenned-out 

Connect with Eryn on Instagram and register for WHOLE: a virtual breathwork + writing ceremony on August 25th.

Connect with Cassie on Instagram and preorder her new books on her website.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Four years of the Living Open podcast (with the 10 most downloaded episodes ever)
• Elen Sentier on British Shamanism
• Ep. #89: Love and Lightwashing with Jordan Pagán
• Decolonial Atlas website 
• Celtic Cauldrons webinar from Energetic Justice
• Ancestral Altars (Europa Edition) with Sanyu Estelle

Samara Kasai (they/them) is a tarot reader and meditation instructor who helps queer people of color remember that they are co-creating a life of infinite possibility, giving them the tools and empowerment to settle for nothing less. In this episode, Samara and Eryn talk about:

• Samara's journey of coming into tarot practice
• How they developed a relationship with the cards outside of guidebooks
• Using the tarot to break oppressive systems at a personal & collective level
• Working with the tarot to help reclaim marginalized identities & heal internalized oppression
• The academic industrial complex & the wellness industry
• Bridging justice and tarot
• Making money within capitalism, particularly as a black person
• Their relationship with their ancestors, how it supports them, what it means to them
• Gender in the tarot
• The Hierophant to deconstruct systems & structures, to subvert forced hierarchies in healing & wellness, to heal religious trauma & take folks off of pedestals 
• Co-creating experiences with clients in readings

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/samara-kasai

Connect with Eryn on Instagram and join the sliding scale Patreon to access a huge archive of self-healing practices as well as join WHOLE: a virtual breathwork + writing ceremony on August 25th. (More on WHOLE here.) 

Check out Samara’s Instagram and offerings: free mini course: Ditch the Tarot Guidebook, Six Week Program on Tarot for Liberation & their decolonize the tarot workshop.

Welcome to Leo season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Leo season, shares key dates, and does a short collective tarot reading to understand some of the invitations and challenges of Leo season.

Download the free Leo season breathwork playlist. Join the Lammas breathwork ceremony (this Saturday! Sliding scale + 10% to Morris Home).

Breathwork for the People's website & Instagram.

Davis Carr is tarot reader and astrologer based in unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe Nation (aka Ottawa, Canada). In this episode, Davis and Eryn explore:

• Davis’ journey of searching for something spiritual and finding tarot & astrology
• Her work & why it matters to her 
• Traditional astrology as the foundation of Western thought - her “traditional astrology” rant :)
• How astrology helps us heal
• Understanding patterns with astrology
• Learning parts of our charts when we’re ready for them
• How to find the medicine of your chart 
• Why you need to look at your rising sign in horoscopes not sun sign!
• Interesting takes on the moon sign around privilege
• Planetary rulerships in traditional astrology
• Trusting intuition in astrology & integrating your own medicine with what you learn from teachers and studies
• The Lovers & the Hermit
• Channeling and creative processes with the Magician
• Being beings in progress
• The higher self & the magic of the human experience

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/davis-carr 

Join Eryn's sliding scale Patreon community for practices for today's Cancer new moon. Register for the upcoming virtual Lammas breathwork ceremony with Eryn.

Connect with Davis on her website + Instagram. Download Davis' free guide to learn the 3 things you need to know to understand your birth chart.