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Color magick seems like kind of an elementary concept.

Blue is good for water energy and healing.

Black for banishing, red for vitality, purple for psychic awareness.

But, folx, think about it. Literally THOUSANDS of colors exist across nature and throughout our modern world. This incredible, undefined playground is perfect for really diving deep into experimentation with what’s possible, including:

Creating your very own custom color palette

Naming or renaming obscure colors to fit specific purposes

Building personal guidelines for working with colors “in between the lines”

Using hidden colors to evoke specific energies

Playing with light to heal, manifest, and summon specific outcomes

And that’s just a few possibilities for VISIBLE color. There’s a whole spectrum of INVISIBLE light we can’t see, but can still tap into energetically.

Join Shannon and me this week to discuss new and interesting ways to blend color magick into your daily practice.

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Do you have a serious love of mythological creatures and cryptids? Are cute and clever Disney animal sidekicks your favorite characters? Does the IDEA of a familiar feel right, but your living situation prevents you from adopting a pet?

A pop pantheon familiar may be just the energy you’re looking for.

Listen in this week as Shannon and I discuss what these creatures are, how to connect with them, and how they can help give your magickal practice a boost!

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One of the many fantastic things about paganism is the huge demographic of queer witches and spiritual practitioners among us.

So many of us come to the pagan path after having rejected faiths that first rejected us, seeking a place to heal from fundamentalist dogma and build a spiritual family that supports and affirms who we are.

Yet, at first glance, many common pagan practices seem depressingly binary. God/Goddess, male/female, moon/sun.

Many of us simply don’t vibe with that dichotomy. And that’s okay.

Because witchcraft is what WE make it, my dears. The best part is that we don’t even have to try that hard—the lines between these seemingly cut-and-dried dichotomies are A LOT fuzzier than they first appear.

And who doesn’t love fuzzy things?

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Is there a particular character in pop culture that you just cannot stand?

There’s nothing necessarily wrong with this person. They’re not bigoted or toxic. Other people in the fandom seem to love them.

But you can’t. Something about them just makes you roll your eyes every time they’re on screen.

That character may just represent one of your shadows.

Perhaps they give you the icks because they remind you of a trait or characteristic you’ve rejected. Walking with these characters and examining their motivations can help us reintegrate some of our most intimidating shadows.

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Resources:

Islands of Personality and Trains of Thought

Pop Pantheons! Comic Goddesses, Sacred Starlets & Dead Rock Stars

Who inspires you, folx?

Do you have trouble connecting with deity, but love channeling revolutionary historical figures? Is your idea of a higher power your favorite manga character? Does your familiar take the form of a cute and quirky Disney animal sidekick?

This is definitely the podcast episode for you.

This week, Megan and I chat about pop pantheons—what they are, how to connect with those on them, and whether or not pop pantheons count as “real” pantheons. (Spoiler alert: They definitely DO!)

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Resources:

Islands of Personality and Trains of Thought

Pop Pantheons! Comic Goddesses, Sacred Starlets & Dead Rock Stars

When you picture sacred spaces, magick-maker, what do you see?

A forest clearing containing a circle of mossy standing stones?

An altar in a corner of your closet, lit by string lights and decorated with papier-mache effigies?

A quiet corner of your local library?

Or, perhaps, the bustling, lively energy of a local farmers’ market?

Every place on earth—be it urban or rural, tropical, or arctic—contains spaces and places rife with magickal energy.

Join Shannon and me this week as we discuss what forms these spaces take, and how to connect and work with the energies in your bioregion.

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Further research:

Genius Loci Altar How-To

Working with Spirit of Place (Ideas for Genius Loci Magick)

Genius Loci—Spirit of Place

World-Wide Labyrinth Locator

Thunder. Lightning. Cold, pounding rain. Blizzards.

Storm magick is a mighty force we harness to banish and cleanse, hex and heal, charge and release.

So many of us wait with bated breath for the vast depths of energy and power these weather events create. We rush to collect rainwater and snowmelt, time our candle lighting perfectly flashes of lightning and chant to claps of thunder as the electric rhythms of storm energy roll through us.

But, what happens when the storm won’t come? What’s a weather witch to do when you *know* a howling wind is just the thing needed to ensure your working’s success?

Our answer? Look to the cosmos.

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Further reading:

Storm | Wikipedia

Space Weather Topics

Jupiter's Great Red Spot: Our Solar System's Most Famous Storm

Saturn's Hexagon in Motion | Saturn – NASA Solar System Exploration

New Type of Storm Spotted on Saturn

Weather Magick: Storms | YouTube

Storm Magick & Witchcraft | YouTube

Hurricane Magick | YouTube 

How to Harness Storm and Lightning Energy for Magick

Storm Water: Magical Properties Meanings and Spell Uses

Hurricane Magick: Curse or Bless | YouTube

Magpie Magick: Embracing Chaos! | Metaphysical Apothecary

Holographic universe.

It’s very likely you’ve heard this phrase tossed around in fringe science communities, along with some very strange-sounding theories, such as the idea that we’re projections being controlled by a superior alien race or machines, a-la The Matrix.

What these theories strangely overlook is the idea that our universe is composed of frequency, and that frequency arranging itself into solid, complex formations is simply a natural consequence of that frequency existing or a natural function of the universe.

Exactly how and why this happens is still something of a mystery, but the implications of this theory are myriad. Understanding that the entire universe—from humans and dirt to space dust and supernovas—is made of pulsing light means that we can truly create our own experiences simply by aligning our frequency with the things we want to attract.

This is, essentially, how manifestation—and magick—works.

Join Shannon and me this week as we discuss what this means for us magick-makers, and how we can use it to our advantage in the Craft.

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Further reading: 

We Are Beings of Light | Metaphysical Apothecary

Some Physicists Believe We're Living in a Giant Hologram | Vox.com

Holographic Universe Theory in Under 5 Minutes | BrandeisNOW

How a Holographic Universe Emerged From Fight With Stephen Hawking

Study Reveals Substantial Evidence of Holographic Universe

How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram

Far Apart, 2 Particles Respond Faster Than Light | NY Times

Science’s ‘Spookiest’ Phenomenon Achieved | Washington Post

Magpies are astonishingly intelligent birds. They’ve been known to communicate with humans in our own languages, develop regional vernacular with each other, appear to honor their dead, and—perhaps most famously—collect shiny things.

...much like many of us witchy folx.

Like magpies we’re often found in possession of pretty pebbles found by the roadside, coins discovered glimmering in the dirt, sticks, feathers, dice, buttons, and any number of bits and bats that we’ve collected “just because.”

This kind of instinctive, ongoing treasure hunting is often its own kind of magick.

Join Shannon and me today as we talk about what drives us “human magpies” to amass our nests of treasure and how to use those very objects in both the simplest and most complex witchy workings!

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Resources

Molly Roberts | ROCK your Grimoire!

Kelly-Ann Maddox | How To Use a Poppet for Self-Love Spells and Rituals

Magpie Symbolic Meanings and Magpie Meanings

How To Make A Spirit Doll — The Journey of Magickal Design

Oceans of Fire by Christine Feehan

Names.

Each of us has one, but we likely don’t think about it much. Yet, they carry so much weight, so much meaning. So much power.

At their core, names are frequencies of sound applied to all kinds of things. Humans. Pets. Cars. Places. Events. Those frequencies penetrate and meld with the identity of the things they reference, essentially changing the way we perceive those very words.

For this reason, naming is one of the most potent kinds of magick that exists. It’s also one of the simplest.

Badass, right?

Join Shannon and me as we explore the ways in which names affect our daily lives, and how we can use them consciously and magickally to manifest, protect, banish, and so much more!

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Resources:

The Power of Naming | Psychology Today

The Power of Naming | Culture Decanted.com

The Power of Your Name | Keen.com

Philocetes.org | The Power of Names: Religion and Mathematics

Wolf Of Antimony Occultism | The Laws Of Magick

The Mystica.com | Law of Names

I Know Your True Name | TV Tropes.org

Brands By Ovo | Why We Name: The Power of Taming to Drive Deep Connections with a Brand

There's More to Naming Than Meets the Eye: Using Psychology to Create Brand Names