The Abundance Matrix Underground Podcast

Vegan vs. carnivore has become more than a debate about food. The carnivore diet, veganism, plant-based eating, factory farming and sustainability have increasingly become tied to political identity, culture war and ideas about who we are supposed to be.

Using the vegan vs. carnivore divide as a case study, I explore how the Lack Matrix turns complexity into us vs. them—and how ideology can quietly replace preference and discernment. We look at Big Meat and influencer culture, ancestral human diets, factory farming, regenerative agriculture, environmental sustainability, vegan purity culture and the possibility that the real way out is not choosing the correct side, but recovering our ability to perceive beyond the binary.

What would you choose if nobody knew what you chose?

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Why does feminine spirituality still provoke so much fear? As more women explore witchcraft, goddess symbolism, and spirituality outside traditional religion, we're looking beneath the headlines to explore the witch wound, religious deconstruction, and the longing for a direct relationship with the sacred.

In Part 4 of The Witch Wound, we explore spiritual agency, religious trauma, the pendulum between fundamentalism and rebellion, and what it means to reclaim our intuition and spiritual authority without replacing one system of fear and control with another.

What if healing the witch wound isn't about choosing between Christianity and witchcraft, but about reclaiming the freedom to experience the sacred without abandoning ourselves?

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What comes after deconstruction — and what if some of what we call spiritual discernment is actually hypervigilance?

This conversation explores spiritual warfare, the nervous system, authority, sovereignty, and the work of rebuilding after we begin questioning the beliefs and systems that formed us.

Deconstruction can help us reclaim the ability to say no. But eventually another question emerges:

What are we actually for?

We explore the movement from:

Rebellion → Freedom → Liberation → Sovereignty → Communion

And why dismantling an old belief system does not necessarily dismantle the fear, purity, enemy-making, and reward-punishment patterns underneath it.

Inside this episode:

• Discernment vs. psychic hypervigilance
• How fear shapes perception
• Religious and spiritual deconstruction
• Why rebellion can be part of reclaiming the will
• Rebuilding after deconstruction
• Sovereignty without rejecting wisdom or healthy authority
• The difference between human worth and mastery, expertise, privilege, or power
• Why healthy authority should strengthen our agency
• The lack matrix and the belief that someone must be sacrificed
• Social media, cultural conflict, and the creator’s nervous system
• An embodied practice for responding when the feeling of an “enemy” is activated
• Using creative will to consciously decide what we want to build

It isn’t enough to spend our lives defining ourselves by what we reject.

At some point our creative will has to answer:

Now that I am free enough to choose, what do I choose to participate in, create, and become?

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What happens when we believe we know—and then direct that knowing into someone else’s life?

I’m exploring spiritual authority through the crossroads of Christianity and witchcraft: prayer and spellwork, blessing and cursing, personal revelation, evangelism, consent, moral certainty, and the blurry line between influence and jurisdiction.

Because there is a difference between saying:“This is what I experienced.”

and“Therefore I know what is happening to you.”

There is a difference between spiritual authority and spiritual entitlement.

And maybe the deeper work of healing the Witch Wound is not only reclaiming our own sovereignty, but learning how to hold that sovereignty without needing someone else’s beliefs to confirm our own.

This is a conversation about will, ethics, discernment, power, and what it means for sovereignty to eventually become communion.

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The witch wound is not only a fear of persecution. It is the embodied fear of losing love, safety, community, or connection to God when we step outside authorized belief.

In this episode of the Psychic Liberation Series, I explore the charged fault line expressed through Christianity and witchcraft—and why the deeper fracture is not truly between two opposing spiritual paths. It is a fracture in our relationship with the body, Earth, instinct, direct experience, and spiritual authority.

We look at how fundamentalist certainty can become spiritual and epistemic authoritarianism; how the lack matrix uses reward, punishment, and cautionary tales to contain rebellion; and why exploring witchcraft, ritual, tarot, or a more personal relationship with God can activate the nervous system and the fear of losing belonging.

This episode is for witches, mystics, former or questioning Christians, people moving through religious deconstruction, and spiritual seekers learning to trust their own embodied knowing.

The movement is from rebellion to freedom, liberation, sovereignty, and ultimately communion—a form of relationship that does not require identical beliefs.

Explore this work more deeply inside the Wheel of the Empress in my YouTube membership.

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After completing the eight-day Living Waters ritual, I wanted to share what actually emerged for me through *living* the practice—not just what I thought it was going to teach me when I created it.

In this reflection, I share:

🌊 What water began teaching me about relationship, circulation, currency, and life force

☀️ How incorporating my daily herbal sun tea transformed the ritual and made it deeply personal

♾️ What I discovered through working with the figure-eight pattern (and why I would actually change part of the ritual next time).

🌀 The relationship between allowance, capacity, circulation, and the spiral

🌹 How Mary, mother of Jesus, emerged for me as an archetypal expression of the Queen of Cups

👑 And how the Queen of Cups has ultimately become my introduction to the heart of the Empress

**And I have a special announcement for you...**

Beginning in September, we're entering The Wheel of the Empress together—a year-long journey through the Queens, the seasons, and the living intelligence of the Empress herself and the arch of Her story.I share a first glimpse of what I've been creating and where we're going next. ✨

We don't always know what a ritual has given us the moment we finish it.

Sometimes we have to create the space for the meaning to emerge.

For me, the pearl I am carrying forward is simple:

“I allow life to move through me.”

The ritual may be complete, but the water keeps moving. 🌊

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The Queen of Cups has never really been about emotion. That description of her is incomplete.

In this episode, we explore one of the most misunderstood archetypes in tarot through a completely different lens: the Queen of Cups as the Keeper of the Living Waters.

Rather than seeing water as a symbol of emotion alone, we'll explore water as the medium through which life moves — through our bodies, our relationships, our creativity, our intuition, and our spiritual practice. We dive into the symbolism of living water, the shadow of stagnation, the feminine psyche, and why restoring movement may be one of the deepest forms of healing.

We'll also explore:

• The Queen of Cups as the Heart of the Empress

• Living water vs. stagnant water

• Why jealousy, grief, longing, and codependency may be invitations rather than failures

• The relationship between water, the nervous system, and the body

• Spiral Movement and the symbolism of living systems

• The question that has transformed my own practice: "What is trying to emerge through me?"

If you're drawn to tarot, folk magic, ritual, witchcraft, symbolism, archetypes, shadow work, embodied spirituality, nervous system healing, or creating a more devotional relationship with everyday life, I hope this conversation gives you a new way of seeing both the Queen of Cups and yourself.

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In this Queen of Cups Season (in the Empath Entrepreneur tier of the membership), we're practicing The Living Waters Ritual: An Eight-Day Devotional guided experience where we'll tend one evolving water ritual together while exploring Spiral Movement, devotion, and the Primal Anomalies that form the foundation of Abundance by Craft.

The craft isn't about escaping ordinary life.

It's about entering into a deeper relationship with ordinary life until it becomes sacred.—If this episode resonated with you, I'd love to hear your reflections in the comments.

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Expansion doesn't just attract more abundance.

It amplifies everything.

The more magnetic you become, the more life reveals the places where you're identity is still rooted in fear, self-abandonment, people-pleasing, or unconscious shadow contracts.

In this episode, I explore why visibility, success, health, beauty, creativity, and influence often come with unexpected lessons—and why that isn't a sign you're on the wrong path. It's an invitation into deeper discernment.

We'll explore the difference between the Lack Matrix and the Abundance Matrix, how magnetism actually works, why empaths often become disconnected from their own signal, and how learning to include yourself in the equation changes everything.

This conversation also introduces the Queen of Swords as an archetype of discernment, energetic sovereignty, and shadow contract work—helping us stabilize our inner grid so we can hold more vitality and magnetism in our bodies.

If you're navigating expansion, this episode is for you.

✨ Inside my YouTube Membership, you'll find the Queen of Swords Grid Work Series, The Four Primal Anomalies, Shadow Contracts, Emotional Alchemy, and deeper teachings on building a life from resonance rather than survival. These free mini-series will only be available in the membership until September 2026, so now’s the perfect time to join.

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There are moments in life where we can feel that something larger is trying to move through us.

More abundance.

More visibility.

More creativity.

More love.

More embodiment.

More life force.

But expansion amplifies everything:

Old survival patterns.

Boundary distortions.

Over-giving.

Creative burnout.

Nervous system overwhelm.

The fear of truly receiving what we say we want.

In this podcast episode, I share the deeper philosophy behind the body of work I’ve been developing over the last several years around shadow contracts, rhythmic creation, life-force stewardship, embodied abundance, and what it means to consciously expand our capacity to hold more.

This episode is for conscious creators, spiritually-led entrepreneurs, healers, visionaries, artists, mystics, and people who can feel themselves moving through a major energetic initiation into their next level.

Inside this episode, I talk about:

✨ The Lack Matrix vs. the Abundance Matrix

✨ Why abundance is resonance

✨ Shadow contracts and unconscious energetic depletion

✨ Expanding your capacity to hold wealth, love, visibility, and creativity

✨ Rhythm as a pathway to embodied abundance

✨ Creative life force and regenerative living

✨ The importance of preference, sensation, and nervous system coherence

✨ Rhythmic “anomaly” practices and embodied creation

✨ Finding your own unique rhythm with your craft

I also share more about my new mentorship container:

✨ Abundance by Craft

✨A 3-Month Wealth Rhythm Mentorship

A space for people who are ready to consciously steward their life force, stabilize expansion, and create from resonance instead of depletion.

If you’d like more information about the mentorship, you can join my email list or reach out directly.

With love,

Amanda

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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about social media…and what it actually means to use it as someone who is here to create and amplify the resonance of heaven on earth.
Social media is one of the fastest ways we can move energy right now. Which means how we use it matters.
In these voice notes, I share my perspective on why empaths and creators may be called to step outside of the war paradigm online—and choose, specifically to not allow their platform to be used to support any “side” of the political divisiveness.
I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Xx
Amanda
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