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 

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Connect with Megan on her website and Instagram.

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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Connect with Lee on her website and her Instagram.

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

Tara Burke (they/them) & Sanyu Estelle (she/her) are spiritual care workers dreaming collaboratively together in their communal dream course, Dreamscapes. In this episode, Eryn, Tara, and Sanyu talk about:

• Their journeys with their dreams
• Dismantling needing to interpret your dreams
• What the dreamworld is to them 
• Multidimensionality in dreaming
• Not exploiting and extracting from the dream process
• Living into our dream
• Collective dreaming
• The power of the imagination
• Ableism within the dream space
• Making magic in the unseen, in what we feel
• Nightmares and dreams you don’t prefer
• Dream figures & how maybe those aren’t the exact people in your waking life that you’re seeing in the dream
• Spiritual agreements
• Destiny and free will
• Connecting with dreams through art

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/sanyu-estelle-tara-burke 

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Poem Tara mentions in the episode: Rant by Diane di Prima.

Check out the spring Dreamscapes cohort. Connect with Tara on their website and Instagram. Connect with Sanyu on her website and Instagram.

Carolyn Elliott is an author and teacher who specializes in helping people achieve dramatic positive change in their lives through shadow integration practices and applied occult philosophy, particularly Existential Kink. In this episode, Eryn and Carolyn talk about:

• How Carolyn developed existential kink
• How to start to love and even get off on those things in your life your conscious mind / ego hates
• Considering life from soul perspective
• Putting ourselves back into the role of creator and dreamer of the dream, rather than the character
• Sexual fantasy & existential kink
• Integrating an EK practice
• Working EK in the moment
• Staying with intense sensation
• Deepest fear inventory
• Desire and fear as two sides of the same coin
• Your havingness level for feeling good

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/carolyn-elliott 

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Check out Carolyn's website and join her email list here. Follow her on Instagram here.

Anti-Asian violence resources. The post I mentioned from @talkpuritytome. 

Sarah Potter is a professional witch, Tarot Reader and psychic medium living in Manhattan. Sarah specializes in Color Magic, a means of using specific hues of the rainbow to conjure different energies and manifest personal transformation.

In this episode, Sarah and Eryn talk about:

• Sarah’s tarot journey
• How Sarah works with the tarot for healing and growth
• When the universe keeps calling you towards something
• Tarot cards that have been showing up a lot during pandemic time
• When the tarot isn’t telling you what you want to hear!
• What color magic is
• How to work with color magic to amplify your intentions
• Cultivating a personal and intuitive relationship with color
• How to start exploring how different colors make you feel
• What your favorite color can teach you
• Reclaiming pink!
• Working with color magic in the tarot
• How colors are tied to elements
• What the colors you don’t like have to teach you
• What to do when you’re feeling creatively blocked
• Self-love spells
• Simple rituals and spells

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/sarah-potter-color-magic 

Register for the Spring Equinox breathwork ceremony.

Download my free 8-minute breathwork meditation here and download my free healing meditation for ex-religious folks here.

Blog post I wrote about crafting your own creative rituals.

Follow Sarah on Instagram and check out her color magic intention setting sessions with ORLY color labs. Explore her writing here.

Sophia (she/her) is a medium, Akashic Records Reader, Root worker, and Conduit who comes from a long line of Root Workers, Seers and Energy Workers. She specializes in bridging the relationship with you and your shadow self. In this episode, Eryn and Sophia talk about: 

• Sophia’s spiritual journey
• Communing with shadow 
• Why it’s not about getting rid of shadow
• Getting to the roots with shadow 
• What your child self has to do with shadow work
• Her perspective on past lives 
• How she helps people connect with their guides and council
• Life as ritual
• Communing guides & shadow in your dreams
• Working with fear
• What’s ego and what’s spirit?

Sign up for the spring equinox breathwork ceremony (early bird pricing through Friday).

Free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.

Free 8-minute breathwork meditation. 

Connect with Sophia on her website and Instagram.

Marika Clymer, she/her, is a steward of traditional Japanese Reiki ways, and guide in decolonial energetic healing practices. In this episode, Eryn and Marika talk about:

• Marika’s spiritual journey & journey with Reiki
• The roots of Reiki and how western Reiki is different from traditional Reiki
• What is cultural exchange and what is violence and cultural erasure?
• How she has shifted her relationship with Reiki and developed a Reiki practice that de-centers colonialism and whiteness
• Shame in ancestor work especially for European folks
• Engaging with Reiki with respect
• Disconnection from culture and roots and our own ancestral healing practices
• Cultivating our own understanding of what sovereignty is and what it means to be a healer today
• How she teaches Reiki & how her process is different from what’s standard in our western culture
• Being in relationship with spiritual practices like Reiki, not just the transaction or consumption of them
• Having a business for your healing work
• Reiki attunements and why Marika teaches reiki without them

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/marika-clymer 

Check out HOLY: a 7-week reclamation circle for ex-religious folks who want to create ex-religious community and heal from the impacts of dogmatic religion together. Open today through this Friday only!

Connect with Marika on her website and Instagram.

Mentioned in this episode:

• My interview on The Medicine Bag Podcast on deconstruction & religious trauma
• You’re Not Going to Hell: my interview on the Moonbeaming podcast

Welcome to Pisces season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Pisces season, shares key lunar dates, and does a collective tarot reading to understand what Pisces energy is here to teach us, what wants to flow through us this season, and more.

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

Download the free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.

Download the free 8-minute breathwork meditation.

Check out the Patreon to support the show and access an archive of meditations, rituals, breathwork practices, and more to support your healing.

Andrea Glik, LCSW is a somatic trauma therapist, supervisor, and educator. Andrea specializes in treating trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and PTSD, prioritizing women, survivors, and queer & trans folks. She utilizes neurobiological, body-based and feminist therapy practices to help clients feel safe in the present and come home to themselves. Andrea practices online, lives on stolen Osage & Sioux land, and can also be found on Instagram @somaticwitch and at andreaglik.com.

In this episode, Eryn and Andrea talk about: 

• Andrea’s journey to becoming a therapist
• Somatics & healing through the body
• Digital minimalism & the nervous system
• The intermittent reinforcement of social media
• Using phones to cope & finding other coping mechanisms to support
• Body image and moving to support ourselves
• Parts work & our protector parts
• How to start caring for and connecting with your child self
• Queerness, coming into her queerness, and internalized homophobia
• Healing through kink, BDSM, and sexual fantasy
• Taking your power back through kink
• Shame around sexual fantasy
• Translating fantasy into in-person
• Pleasure in trauma healing
• Doing nothing!

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/andrea-glik 

Today is the last day to join the Creative Support membership! It’s here to help you tap into your innate creativity, cultivate creative bravery, & move through creative blocks so you can craft a more creative life. Come join to tend to your creativity in community - there are two live calls a month, a creative support course to help you heal your relationship with creativity & visibility, and a really cool Mighty Networks community of fellow witchy creative humans! Closes tonight at 11:59 pm EST. Check it out and join us here.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Andrea’s interview on Consensual Non-Consent
• Digital Minimalism book
• Andrea’s Digital Minimalism workshop