Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

Siri Vincent Plouff (they/them) works to queer Nordic witchcraft. They are a Nordic witch, rune reader, and tarot reader based in Minneapolis, MN. In this episode, Eryn and Siri talk about:

• Siri's journey with witchcraft
• Racism & white supremacy in heathenry
• Their experience growing up with religion & spirituality
• Getting introduced to witchcraft through being in a Wiccan coven
• How their gender identity and sexuality have evolved alongside their evolution with witchcraft
• Interrogating toxic masculinity & feeling afraid of masculinity
• Queerness & witchcraft!
• All about Nordic witchcraft
• Radical runes!
• How to work with the runes for yourself
• How working with the runes is different than working with tarot for them
• Working with runes in an ethical way
• Creating your own folk magic practice

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/siri-vincent-plouff

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Ep. #217: European Folk Ways + Ancestor Work with Megan McGuire
• Wild Soul Runes by Lara Veleda Vesta
• Trolldom - Spells and Methods of the Norse Folk Magic Tradition by Johannes Gårdbäck

Happy Pride! In this episode I talk a little about my ever evolving journey with queerness & read you a bunch of queer love and pleasure poems. Enjoy!

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Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/queer-love-pleasure-poems 

Poem and book links for the poems read in this episode:

• Whole and Without Blessing by Linda Gregg
• The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
• Selected Poems by Adrienne Rich
• All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women
• Peanut Butter by Eileen Myles
• Orchard by HD
• Poem For My Love by June Jordan
• Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
• The Tradition by Jericho Brown
• Life of the Party by Olivia Gatwood
• Crush by Richard Siken
• Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
• Bible Black Out Sodom & Gomorrah poem

Britten LaRue is an intuitive astrologer, writer, and teacher. Born guided by The Hierophant and called a Key by her students and clients, Britten opens portals and realms for others to go deeper on their own path.

In this episode, Eryn and Britten explore:

• Britten’s journey with astrology
• How astrology helped Britten connect with herself & do deprogramming work
• Giving yourself permission
• Fully embodying each sign
• Living the Hierophant & Hierophant themes
• Authority & self-trust
• Accessing more of your intuition & wisdom
• Living the astrological signs
• Living moon by moon
• Working with the moon

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/britten-larue 

Download a free meditation for ex-religious folks and a free breathwork meditation. Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

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Welcome to Gemini season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Gemini season & does a collective tarot reading for us to feel into how this energy wants to move through us. We talk acceptance, control, honesty, & more.

Poetry Magic class for ex-religious folks.

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Alice Sparkly Kat (they/them) is an astrologer & author of Postcolonial Astrology. They use astrology to re-chart a history of the subconscious, redefine the body in world, and reimagine history as collective memory. 

In this episode, we talk about:

• Alice Sparkly Kat’s journey with astrology
• What is postcolonial astrology
• Western astrology
• Outer planets in astrology practice
• Venus and Mars teaching us about gender
• The duality of all planets
• Peace and war in astrology
• Applying this context to someone’s chart
• Mars as a specific kind of masculinity
• Inanna & Venus
• The Moon & money
• Growing into our charts
• Working with planets in detriment and exalted planets
• Their writing process

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/alice-sparkly-kat 

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Mary Lanham is the editor, writer, and tarot reader behind Bibliomancer Editing. As an editor, she works with speculative fiction and spiritual nonfiction writers, helping them develop and share their most transformational stories. She also helps creatives rediscover their vision with tarot readings that inspire the storytelling process.

In this episode, Mary and Eryn talk about:

• Mary’s journey with writing and magic
• Reclaiming creativity
• Disengaging from limiting creative and spiritual mythos through tarot
• Growing up Catholic & deconstructing Catholicism
• Tarot as support for transitioning out of Catholicism
• How tarot supports her creativity
• Finding the story in a tarot card or tarot spread
• Developing somatic awareness
• The Magician & The Wheel of Fortune
• Taking ownership of our big and deep stories
• Stories as an alchemical experience
• Telling the truth in our stories
• The vulnerability of sharing stories
• Mary’s writing process, how she holds structure and space for her creativity
• Keeping a creative practice going
• Process as enough
• Cultivating connection to intuition

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/mary-lanham

Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks here.

Check out the Religious Trauma Healing workbook here for support in healing from the impacts of dogmatic religion.

Poetry Magic for Ex-Religious Folks class.

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Ivy Kwong, LMFT is a writer, speaker, and licensed psychotherapist specializing in Asian American mental health, healing codependency, and healing ancestral and intergenerational trauma. She is an advocate for decolonizing mental health and has 16+ years of experience offering social justice-minded therapy and coaching. 

In this episode, Eryn and Ivy talk about:

• Ivy’s healing journey
• Healing being hurt in relationship through relationships
• Reconnecting with the wisdom of our emotions
• Self-abandonment through people pleasing
• How to know when something old is showing up and asking to be seen
• Moving emotions
• Rage as an expression of love
• Expressing our anger as people socialized as women
• Healing intergenerational trauma, ancestral trauma
• Inner child healing including for people who don’t have a lot of childhood memories
• Healing relationships with our parents
• People pleasing & codependency
• Healing through setting boundaries

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/ivy-kwong 

Download a free 8-minute breathwork meditation here and download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks here. Check out the Religious Trauma Healing workbook here.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
• Healing Your Relationship with Your Parents with Ivy Kwong

Megan is a mother, permaculture gardener, folk ways practitioner, and ritual weaver living on the lands of the Dakota people near Kaposia. Her ancestors came to this land primarily from Europe, and she is on a long journey of unearthing and reclaiming their earth-honoring practices, especially their seasonal rituals and holy days. 

In this episode, Eryn and Megan talk about:

• Megan’s journey as a folk ways practitioner
• Applying new ideas to old ways
• Connection with her European ancestors and their pagan traditions
• Making your own meanings with the Wheel of the Year
• Bioregional wheel of the year
• Belonging yourself to the land
• History of violence and colonization in our white ancestry
• Ancestor work & anti-racism
• Connecting with European culture to feed us, so we don’t steal from other people’s cultures
• If you have no idea about your ancestral traditions and practices - a place to start connecting & researching
• Language as an ancestor
• Ancestral food
• Ancestral debt
• European traditions in May

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/megan-mcguire 

Register for the Beltane Breathwork Ceremony for healing around pleasure and self-love.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-Pa
• My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
• Layla F. Saad & the concept of being a good ancestor
• My Patreon

Welcome to Taurus season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Taurus season & does a collective tarot reading for us to feel into how this energy wants to move through us. We talk pleasure, fulfillment, letting ourselves be changed & more.

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/taurus-season-medicine-2021

Register for the Beltane Breathwork Ceremony (early bird pricing through this Friday) for healing around pleasure and self-love.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The poem I read aloud - [untitled pleasure poem]
• When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron 

Lee (she/her) is an intuitive healing artist who has adored esoteric and occult wisdom for as long as she can remember. She practices Tarot divination, Reiki, and Akashic Records & is committed to her continual practice of anchoring her true essence into the world, so that she may help others unveil their own source of magic.

In this episode, Eryn and Lee talk about:

• Lee’s journey starting with meditation and Buddhism
• Religion and spirituality for Lee growing up
• Lee’s relationship with tarot
• Symbolism and symbols in our culture
• Symbols that Lee connects to
• Working with your own personal symbols
• How writing poetry is part of Lee’s spellwork and spiritual practice
• Channeling her ancestor connection into poetry
• The beauty in the creative journey
• Perfectionism & exploring things that you’re “bad” at
• Working with the Akashic Records for healing
• Cultivating ancestor relationship

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/lee-scrimmager

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Mentioned in this episode:

• The Modern Witch Tarot
• Spirit House Collective
• Mary Grisey on the Living Open podcast
• Sanyu Estelle on the Living Open podcast