May 6, 2026

Harness The Moon: Unlocking Lunar Magic & Your Inner Power w/Lady Jesamyn Angelica

What if the Moon is influencing more than just the tides? In this episode of ParaTruth: Reborn, we talk with Jesamyn Angelica ​ @SisterhoodoftheMoon ​, author of Llewellyn's Complete Book of the Moon, about moon magic, rituals, intuition, and...

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What if the Moon is influencing more than just the tides?

In this episode of ParaTruth: Reborn, we talk with Jesamyn Angelica ​ @SisterhoodoftheMoon ​, author of Llewellyn's Complete Book of the Moon, about moon magic, rituals, intuition, and spiritual alignment.

Learn how to:
🌙 Work with lunar phases
🌙 Develop intuition
🌙 Perform rituals with intention
🌙 Decode dreams and signs
🌙 Align your life with cosmic energy

Guest Bio: Lunar Priestess, Oracle, and Ritualist, Lady Jesamyn Angelica has been practicing Witchcraft and walking the Path of the Moon since her dedication to the Goddess as a Maiden at age 13. Now in her Queen Season, she is High Priestess of Sisterhood of the Moon, a matriarchal Goddess Tradition and community for *all* located in the San Francisco California Bay Area.

Jesamyn brings her joie de vivre, humour, and wit to all she does, combining these qualities with foundational skills in leadership, communication, and magick cultivated over three decades.

As Alchemical Guide of The Women’s Mystery School of Magick & Empowerment, Jesamyn is dedicated to empowering *all* women through truth-speaking, authenticity, and self-exploration. Through the soon-to-be launched Lunaversity, she shares her love of lunar alchemy and moon magick with all who are called to modern moon mysticism.
Explore her offerings, rituals, and online training programs at JesamynAngelica.com. Connect on Instagram @jesamyn_angelica.

Lady Jesamyn’s first title, “Llewellyn’s Complete Book of the Moon: Lunar Wisdom for Magic, Healing, and Inspiration” was published in December 2025.

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Coming up on Paratruth Reborn, I'm gonna be talking to

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Jessmine Angelica about the Llewellens Book of the Moon.

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Welcome, Well, do parry Truth Truth?

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How's it going Paratruthers. Welcome to another episode of Paratruth Reborn.

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My name is Justin and I'm very excited to welcome

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lady Jessmine Angelica to the show. Jasmine, Welcome to Paratruth Reborn.

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Hi, thank you so much for having me.

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Yeah, absolutely so. Before we get into the book itself,

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what first drew you to the path of the Moon.

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Well, that is an interesting question because I feel like

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I have always always been drawn to the moon. My

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mom loves to tell this story that when I was

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a little girl, before I could even talk, I would

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see the moon and I would wave my arms and

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I would yell and she'd have to lift me up

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so that I could get closer to the moon. So

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I don't even have any conscious memory of this, but

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I do know that I've always had this attraction to

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the moon.

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Okay, And they never could tell, like what the reason

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was anything like that. It was just you were fascinated

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with the moon.

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It was just my thing.

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That's interesting. So what made you want to write the book?

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Oh goodness, So I have been following this path.

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For thirty very much closer to forty years at this point,

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and we have a whole community that practices moon magic together,

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and it got to the point where I realized that

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it was now or never.

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That I needed to set these things down now before

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it was too late. So this book is really a

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compendium of my own practice and the work that we've

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done in community over decades. So it's tried and true

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kind of things in there, practical things as well as

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ceremonial aspects.

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When did the Sisterhood of the Moon start.

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The Sisterhood of the Moon began in twenty ten, so

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we turned sixteen this past February.

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Okay, And it's just a bunch of people that are

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attuned to like moon magic or the moon itself.

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It's a lot of magic. We do ritual once a month.

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Most of our gatherings are women only, so we're doing

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women's magic in women's circle. My own background owned in

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this spirituality witchcraft even goes back to the women's spirituality

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movement of the nineteen seventies, so we're really informed by

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that kind of feminist structure around egalitarian magic and practice.

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Okay, interesting, Now, what does it truly mean to work

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with the moon?

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Well, that's a question and a half right there. Well,

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for me, I like to look back at the moon

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as humanity's first calendar and humanity's first clock. And when

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we begin to learn how to time our own lives

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with the cycling in the moon, we can slow down

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our everyday activities and instead of running in this post

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capitalistic sprint that we're all living through right now, we

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can learn to kind of slow things, savor things, learn

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when it's best to do things that are outward and

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when it's best to do things that are inward. So

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for me, it's really about bringing a sense of mindfulness

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to everyday life, not just in a magical or ritualistic sense,

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but in my everyday practice.

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Okay, Now, this was a question that was submitted by

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a listener, and she puts it very much better than

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how I had worded it. So, how true is it

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that a full moon causes odd things to happen or

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are these just coincidences?

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I believe that the full moon causes odd things to happen,

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and I think this is true because the moon is

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at the highest point of the cycle at the full moon,

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so it's exerting a greater pull on everyone. And when

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we consider the fact that our adult bodies or are

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about sixty percent water, and that the moon pulls tides

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in the oceans, it makes a lot of sense to

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me that wild things happen during the full moon. Now,

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some people feel really energize during the full moon and

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want to go out and do all sorts of fun stuff,

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and there's other people that the full moon becomes more

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of an internal thing for them and they want to

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kind of be at home, hiding away. And it really

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depends on what moon you were born under and what

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sign of the moon you were born under how you

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interact with the phases. So not only is there kind

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of like a protocol for every phase in general, there's

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also a very personal aspect to working with the moon.

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Well, that's actually a good segue into my second listener question,

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Like this is actually from my mom. She says, to

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my zodiac is cancer also known as moonchild? Does the

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moon actually have more effect on me as opposed to

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someone not born under that sign?

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All right, Well, I love that question from your mom

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because I'm also a Cancerrian, so my son is in

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cancer and this is the sign that the moon is

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considered most at home, and this is the sign that's

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literally ruled by the moon. So every zodiacal sign is

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ruled by a different planet, and Cancerrians are ruled by

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the moon. So yes, mom, you are probably feeling it

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more than other people are, because I know that I do,

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and I think that is part of my connection to

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the moon. You were asking about, like how why do

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you have this connection from being so small? It could

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also be that that's my home planet. The moon is

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considered a planet in classical astrology.

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Okay, for beginners, where should someone start when it comes

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to moon magic?

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Well, the first thing in my feeling is that we

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develop first a personal relationship with the moon, because then

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we know how the moon interacts with our own unique nature.

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And the absolute best place to start, I think, is

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to look for the moon every single day, so choosing

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a time of day or night and making it a

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thing that you do consistently every single day for at

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least a year, and then you start to know where

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the Moon's going to be before she's there, because there's

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sometimes you can see the moon and sometimes you can't,

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but you start to develop this organic understanding of where

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the moon is and also how she influences you personally.

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So how the moon interacts with me is going to

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be different than how she interacts with you, and it's

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up for us up to us to each develop that

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relationship because it is a really unique individual relationship that

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each person has with the moon.

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Now you're calling it a her. Is moon kind of

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considered a feminine energy?

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Well, you know, it really depends on the tradition that

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you come from. So there are deities that are both

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masculine and feminine associated with the moon. There are also

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non binary deities that are associated with the Moon. I

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grew up calling the moon her, so that always slips

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out because I'm a goddess worshiper. I don't worship God's

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so the she is really kind of my home frequency

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with the moon. Other people may experience it differently, but

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I grew up calling her like grandmother Moon or Mama

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Moon or sister Moon. So there's always been that femininity

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to me, and that resonates with who I am. Now,

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you know, your mileage will vary, Like the moon is

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so old that I don't think she really is gendered,

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but every planet is assigned kind of a masculine or

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feminine energy in classical astrology. So that's that's my little

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spiel about the moon, as is she.

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All right? Well, and that's fair enough. I mean I

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remember studying astrology, so that makes a lot of sense

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that you attribute it to that. So, now, how does

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moon work connect to intuition and psychic development? And this

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actually really does fascinate me since I had started developing

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for a very long time now, so I'm interested to

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hear your thoughts on that.

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So the moon is said to rule intuition and to

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rule our psychic nature, and the home element of the

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moon is water, which is also connected to our intuition

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and to our psychic abilities. And I do believe that

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everyone has psychic abilities and that we all have intuition.

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It's just learning how do we tap in to that

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knowledge inside of us and to that wisdom inside of us.

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And when the moon is in various phases, you can

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work with her in different ways. So I prefer to

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work with the psychic arts when the moon is waning,

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and especially when she's in that final part before she

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goes new, so that waning crescent that dark moon. I

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really like to engage with divinatory arts using the moon

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during that time, So I might do terrot spreads using

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the moon. I might do scrying in water and seeing

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what comes up from there, because not only do we

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receive information from the moon, but we can also receive

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that deep inner wisdom from ourselves when we're scrying that

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we're not really aware of until we enter into that

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space where we're really connecting into the energies and the

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vibrations of the moon. And I really love when the

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moon is in a water sign to do this work.

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In particular, so Scorpio Pisces cancer, that can really help

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to enhance the information that we get from our intuition

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and from our psychic nature.

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Now, that's interesting you brought that up. Is because I've

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always heard people saying during like the new moon portals

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opening and that that is like the best time to

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start putting your intentions out there for what you want

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to manifest. Is that true?

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It is true because that's the beginning of the cycle.

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So when we're timing our lives with her tides, we're

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going to look at the whole cycle as a continuum.

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So there are eight scientific phases, but lately I've been

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playing around with something that I've been calling the four

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phasal pillars, and that is two points and two waves.

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So we have the point of the new moon, and

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that is the beginning point of the lunar cycle, which

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is about twenty nine ish days depending on the cycle.

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It varies a little bit here and there. So I've

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been New Moon. That is the seed that we're planting

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for the whole rest of the lunation. So that's the

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first point. And then as the moon waxes, we have

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that waxing wave, which is the tide rising, rising, rising

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until we hit that full moon, and that's the point

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of culmination and celebration and just really feeling the power

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of everything that we've been working on for that whole cycle.

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And then once we hit that pinnacle, the only place

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to go is down, So then you have that waning

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wave that brings us all the way back down to

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the new moon where we can begin again. So I

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like to use the new moon to consider what i

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want to do during that waxing wave. I'm not necessarily

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going to take action at the new moon, but I

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am going to dream into what I want to manifest

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Over that next twenty nine is days, I'm going to

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do some brainstorming. I'm going to do some visioning. I

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might do a tourou or other kind of reading to

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see what other information might come down towards me. For that,

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I might start to make plans, look at my calendar

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and feel into what might be the best time to

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schedule certain things. So the new moon is really kind

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of a spark that can jump, that we can jump

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off of into the whole rest of the lunation.

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Now, can working with lunar cycles actually change your life trajectory?

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I feel that they can because we're not just blindly

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moving through life anymore where literally working with that cycle,

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that rising, the peaking, the falling. So there's time built

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in for rest and relaxation and rejuvenation, which I think

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can really change our modern lives. We don't really give

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ourselves time to relax and rest and refill unless we

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force ourselves to. And I really feel like that last

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part of the lunar cycle, if we're flowing with it,

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we can feel that need to pull within, to go within,

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to just take a break, to give our brains, our bodies,

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our minds, our spirits, that relaxation and then we can

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be refreshed and start that whole cycle back over again

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instead of just this one continual straight line that we

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tend to run in that brings us usually into burnout

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and depression, anxiety, stress, all those things that happen when

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we're not taking care of ourselves. So built into the

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Moon's cycle is that time for self care. We just

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listen and I'm not saying, oh, we're going to do

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it for twenty nine days, but there's there's three days

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that are really built in to every cycle where we

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can just think about taking care of ourselves and then

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enact something. It doesn't have to be, oh, I'm taking

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the whole day off from work, but it can be like, Okay,

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I'm gonna do this thing for myself. I'm gonna, you know,

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give myself an extra hour sleep, or I'm going to

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read this novel that I've been longing to read. Or

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I'm going to take that walk, or I'm going to

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go to the beach, play hooky for the day and

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just give my spirit a moment to just pause. So

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I think that pause is an essential component of alignment

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for us as humans that we have forgotten about.

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You brought up goddesses at the beginning there, What role

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do luer goddesses play in this practice?

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In my personal practice, they play a very large role,

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and within our community they play a large role, although

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we do work with goddesses that are necessarily lunar goddesses.

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But for me, the Moon herself is a goddess, So

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I will sometimes call her Selene or Luna and then

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other names as well, But I do view the Moon

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as deity, not always. So she's one of those sacred paradoxes, right,

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She's a satellite of our Earth moving around us at

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all times, But she's also the personification of a deity,

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of something greater, of something bigger, of all that is

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in some ways. And one of the things that I

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love about the Moon is that she has witnessed every

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moment of humanity. Every human that's ever lived has been

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able to gaze up at the Moon, and the Moon

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has witnessed every single thing that's ever happened on this planet.

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And that just always gives me this feeling of connectedness

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and that bigness that makes me feel small, and that

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smallness really is a comfort to me in many ways.

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How do dreams tie into lunar energy and divination.

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Does it affect those things very much, so, very much so.

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And as one works of the moon, they'll discover at

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what point in the cycle that they dream more, where

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they sleep deeper, where they might not remember dreams at all.

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And you can ask the moon for a dream before

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you go to bed. You can petition the moon for

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a dream that will perhaps shed light on a conundrum

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that you're working with, or just something that might sort

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something or untangle something for you in your life. And

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I really have always felt, you know, dreaming, divination, intuition,

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psychic abilities, gut feelings, flashes of insight, epiphanies, all of

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these things, to me are intertwined with one another. All

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of these threads can come together and help us create

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richer lives for ourselves here on Earth, and the Moon

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can illuminate things for us that might have been hidden.

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You know, she's very much connected to our subconscious, and

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that's where a lot of that inner wisdom rises up from,

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is the subconscious, which might be our subconscious, or might

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even be the subconscious of our ancestors, our epigenetic subconscious

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rising up, and the Moon can shine that light so

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that we can actually see, making the visible the invisible visible,

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making the unconscious conscious, bringing it into our waking lives

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so that we can move forward with more information.

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Now I've heard this, and I don't know how true

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it is, but that the word lunatic or lunacy came

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from the belief that it was the moon that was

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causing mental issues. How true is that?

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It's very true? It's very true. It's the same root

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in language. And yes, people did believe that the moon

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made people crazy. I mean, look at werewolves and such that.

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You know that's the full moon right there. So yes,

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that that is correct. I know the full moon can

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make us all a little bit wild, though in the

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good ways. So I like to like claim the title

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lunatic in that kind of celebratory, relevatory way instead.

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Of the negative way.

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Very much.

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What are the biggest misconceptions about witchcraft and moon magic?

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The people tell you?

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Well, I think like the biggest misconception about witchcraft is

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that it is of devil, which is, don't have a devil.

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That's a Christian construct, So we don't have we don't

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have a devil in our in our spirituality. So I

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think that's the biggest misconception. And I also think that

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people believe that witchcraft is like the Hollywood style witchcraft,

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you know, the wiggling of the nose, the snapping the fingers,

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that like you know, something happens. But that's really not

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how it works. And maybe it works for some people

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that way. I've never met those people yet.

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And if you are one of those people and you're listening,

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get in touch with me.

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I really wor a lot. But witchcrad to me is

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more of a path of self development and self understanding

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and growing and changing and becoming the best person I

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can possibly be in this lifetime. I think it's a

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lot to do with self reflection and mindfulness and knowing

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that we do have the power to influence reality on

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many different levels, so setting those intentions and making things happen.

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When you set an intention or do a spell in witchcraft,

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you don't just do that and right walk away. You

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still have to do the things in physical reality to

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make that happen. And so you know, the example people

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use is, well, you don't do a spell to get

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a job, and then you don't put your resume out

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there and you just you know, wait at home for

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somebody to call you up. So you have to keep

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taking action as well. You have to keep walking that

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path in the physical and the metaphysical realities. You do both.

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I think that's one thing that people get confused with

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with when somebody says, set your intention. Just setting the

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intention isn't going to do anything. You have to also

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manifest the reality of it. And that includes yeah, like

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you're saying, the physical side of.

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It exactly exactly, So yes, set those intentions on the

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new moon, and then as that cycle is waxing, make

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your plans. How are you going to manifest this? What

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are your steps? And then take the steps you know,

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just you have to take them too. So I think

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it's also important to note that the new moon intentions

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that we set, even if we're working really hard to

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manifest them, the chances of them manifesting at the first

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full moon are pretty low. Right, We don't manifest things instantaneously.

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Those dreams and hopes that we have will plant that

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seed at the new moon, but it might take several lunations.

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It might take several years of lunations for a dream

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to manifest, depending upon how big that dream is and

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how things are lining up. And also if we're ready

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to actually manifest that dream. We all talk about what

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we want to manifest, but sometimes we're actually not ready

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to accept the manifestation of that. So it's not going

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to happen very quickly in that case, or it might

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happen and we might not recognize it because it doesn't

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look the way that we have a preconceived notion about.

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Well, right, in the same and age, it's very much

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a instant gratification. So I feel where you're coming from there,

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and same thing like the the magic you see in Hollywood. Yeah,

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if we could shoot energy bolts out of our hands

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and stuff like it wasn't on the movies, I'm sure

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people would be trying to do it all the time.

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Oh yeah, there would be a lot of chaos happening

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if we were capable of that.

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Now, there's many different magical practice out there. What's the

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difference between moon magic and those other practices?

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Well, I mean chrinas, there are so many different practices,

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and I can really only speak to what I do,

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and that is really just digging deep into what the

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moon is doing on a daily basis and letting that

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guide my actions. So letting that lead me so for example,

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today we have the moon waning in the sign of Capricorn.

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So waning moon work is the work of releasing and letting.

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Go, of pruning, of composting, of taking a really good

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hard look at those things that are holding us back

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and making the plans to remove them.

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And because the moon is in an Earth sign today

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in Capricorn, this would be things on the physical, earthy level, right,

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it's an Earth sign, So practical matters are things that

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I tend to on a daylight today, So decluttering something,

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also looking at things like finances, help gardening. I did

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some gardening today, some weeding, and using that too as

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a metaphor for things that I want to weed out

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of my life, So weeding those plants away and naming

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those things that I'm letting go of at the same

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time and really following that cycle. So also like, so

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we're waning now, and I'll look ahead and I'll make plans. Okay,

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what am I going to do when we get towards

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the dark moon, towards the end of that lunar cycle?

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How am I going to rest? How am I going

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to honor myself? How am I going to make space

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for that rejuvenation? For that replenishment so that I can

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be ready for that cycle to start again when it does,

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and really just every single day connecting with the moon. So,

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like I mentioned early earlier, looking for her in the

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sky and you can look day or night. The moon

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is not just visible at night, and it's not strange

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when she's visible during the day. I saw this very

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wild thing on the internet a couple of weeks ago

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where people were freaking out because they saw the moon

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during the day and they thought that, you know, that

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was the sign that you know, something really crazy was

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about to happen in the world.

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At times, yeah, yes.

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And I'm like, no, like, how long have you been alive?

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Because the Momon can be seen during the day just

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as often as at night. It really does depend though,

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come where you live, what time of year it is,

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where the moon is in the cycle, because we have

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to remember, the moon doesn't have her own light source.

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The moon is always reflecting and carrying the light of

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the sun, so she doesn't have her own light and

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we can't see the moon day or night. During that

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dark moon new moon phase. There's about three ish five

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ish days there towards the end of one cycle. The

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beginning of the next where we're not going to be

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able to see the moon at all, but looking for

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the moon every day, even if you know that you're

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not going to see her, so you can get in

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that flow. And every morning I also offer water to

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the moon, and then the next day I'll pour it out,

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perhaps in a houseplant or outdoors, depending on what feels right.

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I'll also bless water, hold it up to the moon,

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bless it and drink that in as a way of

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connecting with the Moon and deepening my connection and relationship

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and practice with her. So, like I mentioned earlier, water

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is her home element. Water is a really great way

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to deepen connection in a very easy way. I mean,

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most of us live where we can just you know,

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get water out of our tap and connect with it

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in that way and connect with the Moon through that.

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Now I've heard people talk about moonwater and stuff like that,

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when you drink it, or even when you're watering plants

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stuff with it, does it show like a more energetic

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feel to you compared to just drinking regular water.

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I do feel that it does contain that, and I

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do try to always know not only the phase of

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the moon, but the sign that she's into, so I

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can really start differentiating the difference between each of the signs,

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but especially each of the elements, so air, fire, water,

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and earth. There's three astrological signs that go in each

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of the elements of life, and noticing how I feel

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like I'm going to feel very differently when the moon

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is in a water sign, then when the moon is

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in an air sign, because A, I mean can't there

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in sun, so I'm already resonating with the element of water.

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And then b I have a fire moon. My birth

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moon is in a fire sign, so I can really

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feel that. But really learning over these years to make

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peace with the air and the earth moons have been

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a really big thing for me, especially the earth moons,

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but getting to know them has really changed my life

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in my practice in really beautiful ways. So I really

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I invite everyone to do this water practice and to

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drink it or just hold it. But when we drink it,

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I feel like we can really connect more deeply with

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what's happening in our body and how our body is

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resonating with what those vibrations are in the moon. And again,

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you don't have to be able to see the moon

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to ask for her raise her vibrations, her frequencies to

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come into that water. And I know that sounds out there,

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but try it and see and let me know, let

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00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:08.359
me know how it goes for you.

464
00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:11.519
Now you've brought up a couple times now about the

465
00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:20.680
moon being in different astrological times? Does that affect the

466
00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:24.440
outcome of a spell? Like, depending on where what sign

467
00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:25.119
it's in.

468
00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:29.119
It definitely can. And I would say not so much

469
00:28:29.319 --> 00:28:34.079
adverse reaction, but that it can help to empower. If

470
00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:37.599
you time your spell in a certain way with the

471
00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:41.039
lunar phase and then the lunar what I call frequency,

472
00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:44.759
which means the constellation she's passing through, you can use

473
00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:49.640
that extra power to really move your spell more quickly. So,

474
00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:53.200
for example, if you wanted to do something that has

475
00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:58.359
to do with intellectual pursuit, so say writing, for example,

476
00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:00.599
it would be good to time your spell when the

477
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:03.279
moon is in an air sign because that is related

478
00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:10.599
to vision, inspiration, intellectual pursuits. Air signs are also good

479
00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:15.680
if you want to do social activities because Gemini and

480
00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:21.359
Libra are really connected with people. So if you're why

481
00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:24.000
to do something with partnership or other people, if you

482
00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:26.559
have a difficult conversation, you might want to time that

483
00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:30.319
to an air moon can be really helpful. So now

484
00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:33.400
nothing's going to go bad if you time it to

485
00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:36.960
another moon, but it can help. So I don't think

486
00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:39.799
that it can be harmful per se if you time

487
00:29:39.880 --> 00:29:43.279
it wrong. But we're looking for like what causes the

488
00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:46.440
most amount of fluidity and flow, what can bring the

489
00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:49.799
most amount of ease and effortlessness, and then timing it

490
00:29:49.839 --> 00:29:52.799
in that way. And because the moon moves so quickly

491
00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:55.240
through the signs, at the most, you're going to have

492
00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:59.359
to wait three days, like yeah, so if you can wait,

493
00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:03.000
wait it out. And that's why I say everyone should

494
00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:07.200
get either a paper lunar calendar or put one of

495
00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:10.480
those apps on your phone, a moon phase and sign app,

496
00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:12.920
and then you can just look every day and know

497
00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:15.720
what's happening. And then you can look ahead and be like, hmm,

498
00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:21.119
could this conversation wait till tomorrow? And if it can

499
00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:23.640
and that's an air sign, then then that's the time

500
00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:26.279
to do it. So it's really not that hard once

501
00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:29.720
you move into flow with learning where the moon is,

502
00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:33.599
learning what she's doing, and feeling into those vibrations and

503
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:37.279
also how they react to you. So As I mentioned earlier,

504
00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:41.720
some people feel really inspired during the full moon. Other

505
00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:46.119
people feel really drained. If you're someone who feels really drained,

506
00:30:46.359 --> 00:30:48.880
the don't plan something that's going to require a lot

507
00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:50.440
of energy but the full moon.

508
00:30:55.839 --> 00:31:01.920
Now, working with magic and even being a psyche, how

509
00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:04.440
do you stay grounded while working with power?

510
00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:09.079
For energy like this, I do a lot of earthing,

511
00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:13.640
so a lot of feeling the Earth through the soles

512
00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:16.839
of my feet and sending from the souls of my

513
00:31:16.920 --> 00:31:21.759
feet and from my spinal column etheric roots down into

514
00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:24.599
the Earth and connecting with her that way, sending my

515
00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:29.599
roots down, down, down, and then breathing the earth the

516
00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:34.440
energy up into my body. And when I exhale, I'll

517
00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:37.759
send those things that are not supportive to me. So

518
00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:41.279
if I am feeling scattered or ungrounded or all over

519
00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:43.920
the place, I'm going to use my breath to send

520
00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:47.160
that energy out of my body through my roots, through

521
00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:49.640
my spinal column which has grown into a tap root,

522
00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:51.640
and I'm going to send it into the core of

523
00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:54.920
the earth where that fire is, and I'm going to

524
00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:58.240
let the Earth take that energy and transform it. And

525
00:31:58.240 --> 00:32:02.359
then I'm going to breathe and again that earthy grounded energies,

526
00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:07.000
and those energies are also of stability and strength and

527
00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:12.279
health and healing, peace, calm, all those energies of stillness

528
00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:14.519
and quiet, and I'm going to bring those up into

529
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:19.039
my body. So when we work with cosmic bodies, it's

530
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:23.359
really important that we're also embodied in our physical bodies

531
00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:27.519
and connected with the earth. So that's really the first

532
00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:30.480
step if you're going to do lunar magic, is being

533
00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:33.799
embodied in your own physical body and connected with the

534
00:32:33.880 --> 00:32:37.680
earth below. And then once you're connected with the earth

535
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:38.680
and connected with.

536
00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:43.119
Your own body, then you can send branches up from

537
00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:46.559
your shoulders, from your head, from your hair, sending those

538
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:49.359
branches up to commune with the moon up there.

539
00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:57.920
Okay, and this may not apply exactly, But is there

540
00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:00.960
anything that advanced practitioners you'll get wrong, or can you

541
00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:01.640
get it wrong?

542
00:33:03.319 --> 00:33:06.720
I don't think we can get it wrong. It's a

543
00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:10.559
personal relationship with the moon, right, How can we get

544
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:13.799
any of our relationships wrong. I think that the only

545
00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:17.319
way to get it wrong with the moon is not

546
00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:19.880
to do it. That's really the only way, you know.

547
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:24.039
And so much of magic is trial and error because

548
00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:26.480
there's so many things that work so here's a spell

549
00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:29.880
somebody wrote, you know, here's the rituals somebody work, somebody wrote,

550
00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:32.160
and you do it and you're like, uh, that's flat.

551
00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:35.599
That didn't work for me. Well, then take that speller

552
00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:38.759
ritual and create something from it that does work for you.

553
00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:44.440
It's really about finding our own individual individual ways. So

554
00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:47.240
of course, you know, paths have been trodden and we

555
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:50.119
can follow those paths, and we should follow those paths.

556
00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:52.200
And it's important to learn from people who have gone

557
00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:56.319
before us. But it's also important to remember that we

558
00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:58.599
have what we need inside of us as well, and

559
00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:03.799
that our intuition can guide us. So, yes, study, learn,

560
00:34:03.839 --> 00:34:06.599
I think this is so important to be educated. And

561
00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:09.320
then it's also important to trust ourselves enough that we

562
00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:12.400
can be educated and soar off from that point and

563
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:15.559
learn what it is that we're supposed to bring into

564
00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:18.440
this world, that unique connection that we have with the

565
00:34:18.440 --> 00:34:20.159
moon that nobody else has.

566
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:27.039
Okay, now that's twice. Now somebody has told me that,

567
00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:33.760
you know, don't take a written spell as gospel. You

568
00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:36.480
definitely have to make it your own for it to

569
00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:38.880
work for you. So that is very much true to

570
00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:41.239
you then, too, Yes.

571
00:34:41.159 --> 00:34:44.440
Very much. So I always say that magic is an art,

572
00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:48.280
it's not a science. So once you learn how things work,

573
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:51.440
then you can mess around, just like if you're a cook, right,

574
00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:53.840
I love to cook. If you know what you're doing

575
00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:57.920
in the kitchen, you can substitute ingredients without having to

576
00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:00.679
worry because you already know the protocol of how to

577
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:03.400
make and create something. So then you know what you

578
00:35:03.440 --> 00:35:05.559
can do to make something that you'll like even more

579
00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:07.760
than the original recipe, or that will work for you

580
00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:10.840
or your family even more than the original recipe. So

581
00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:16.159
practice and learn from people who have gone before you. Definitely,

582
00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:19.239
I think teachers are so important, especially if you can

583
00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:22.840
learn in person, which is very rare in this day

584
00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:24.840
and age. But if you can find an in person

585
00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:27.280
mentor that is just the most perfect thing that you

586
00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:30.440
could possibly do for yourself. And to go into that

587
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.119
relationship with humility so that you learn and then be

588
00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:36.920
brave and try things out and see what works, and

589
00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:40.119
don't be afraid to fail. I think people are so

590
00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:44.480
afraid to fail lately that people don't take those risks

591
00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:46.840
that maybe some of us took years ago before there

592
00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:49.159
was an Internet, to tell us what we are supposed

593
00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:51.000
to do next.

594
00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:57.079
That's I mean that's one hundred percent true. And I

595
00:35:57.119 --> 00:36:01.440
feel way back in history, you know, finding written spells

596
00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:04.320
where it's probably not as common as is today as well.

597
00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:07.679
Yeah, I mean even when I was growing up, like

598
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:13.679
I literally had one book for years and years and years.

599
00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:16.920
I mean I lived in rural New England, but still

600
00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:19.480
there was no internet, there were no bulletin boards, there

601
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:22.000
was no bookstore. You got one book and you studied that.

602
00:36:22.159 --> 00:36:26.039
Like people of my generation, generation x woho, we would

603
00:36:26.039 --> 00:36:27.920
have one or two or three books and we would

604
00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:31.800
learn those books inside out, backward forward, and they became

605
00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:34.960
a structure that we could then build our own things

606
00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:38.280
out of. And I think that's important. And you mentioned

607
00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:44.599
it earlier, like this immediate gratification, that's not reality in magic.

608
00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:49.000
And I know that things look really pretty on Instagram

609
00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:52.360
and TikTok et cetera. It makes it look beautiful and easy. Well,

610
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:56.119
you know, real magic is not always pretty. It is

611
00:36:56.199 --> 00:36:59.199
often very unattractive, and it's not a picture that you

612
00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:02.920
put on the internet. But it works, right, a handful

613
00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:07.000
of sticks and stones, you know, roots and bones. It's

614
00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:10.320
it's not supposed to be pretty. Witchcraft isn't supposed to

615
00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:12.960
be pretty. It's supposed to be primal. It's supposed to

616
00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:18.320
be real and raw. It's not glossy, it's not.

617
00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:25.719
Now, how can skeptics approach this with an open mind?

618
00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:28.960
Because I can guarantee you many skeptics out there that

619
00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:32.920
listen to the show are already like, well, magic doesn't

620
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:33.599
work anyways.

621
00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:38.440
Yeah, well I feel that, And you know, not all

622
00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:43.199
witches practice magic. So if you're not interested in magic

623
00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:45.719
and you don't want to experiment with it, then that's fine.

624
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:51.000
I completely understand skepticism. But I would invite everyone to

625
00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:56.400
still attempt to time your life to the lunar cycle

626
00:37:56.480 --> 00:37:59.800
and see what happens. And remember that that cycle was

627
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:05.119
humanity's original calendar, so our original way to tract the days,

628
00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:08.440
it's the original month comes from moon month, is what

629
00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:13.440
I call it. Sometimes, so attempting to take even just

630
00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:16.239
one lunar cycle and see what it would be like

631
00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:21.119
if you aligned your habits and your routines and your

632
00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:27.639
goal setting with that lunation. So the moon influences the tides,

633
00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:33.320
she influences our bodies, she influences animal migration, she influences

634
00:38:33.960 --> 00:38:38.320
how plants grow. Even so, if we use lunar magic

635
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:43.840
as a framework for kind of our circadian cycle. Using

636
00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:50.400
those phases and frequencies as a framework, it will remind

637
00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:53.559
us when we can dream, when we can plan, when

638
00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:56.599
we can act, when we can rest, And again, you

639
00:38:56.639 --> 00:39:00.280
can't do it wrong, right, but how to best do

640
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:04.440
this so that we can create more fluidity and flow

641
00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:06.679
in our lives, and so that we can live these

642
00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:11.679
lives with more intention, with more mindfulness, so we can

643
00:39:11.760 --> 00:39:15.079
kind of slow our role. I feel like we're all

644
00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:18.199
missing out on so much because everything moves so fast

645
00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:23.960
right now. The moon is kind of like a psychological tool.

646
00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:25.440
So if you don't want to look at her as

647
00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:27.400
a magical tool, you can look at her as a

648
00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:34.320
psychological tool. And remember that all cultures throughout all time

649
00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:38.800
use the moon to represent things like the cycle of

650
00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:43.280
birth and death and rebirth and the cycle of growing.

651
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:47.559
So the seed, then the fruiting or the flowering, then

652
00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:51.480
the harvest, and then the dying or the dormancy of

653
00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:54.039
that plant, and then that cycle is starting again, right,

654
00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:57.440
So the moon can remind us that we can hope

655
00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:02.480
because that cycle is perpetual, cycle never ever ends, And

656
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:07.719
we can apply this ancient symbolism to our modern lives.

657
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:11.800
I feel like it can help us to move out

658
00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:17.559
of that survival mode and into a thriving mode where

659
00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:22.760
things are more conscious, where we're more mindful about ourselves,

660
00:40:24.119 --> 00:40:27.480
who we are, where we are, what our role and

661
00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:31.559
place is in this lifetime. And also to help us

662
00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:37.800
to focus our creativity to manifest our hopes and our dreams.

663
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:40.199
And you don't have to use spell work in order

664
00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:41.119
to make that happen.

665
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:51.960
Now, what does often say through belonging mean in your work? Oh?

666
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:56.360
I love this question. So belonging in our tradition is

667
00:40:56.400 --> 00:41:01.360
a very central point of what we do and the

668
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:05.639
way that it is, the way that we approach it

669
00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:11.239
is really highlighted by a book called Belonging by Tocopah Turner,

670
00:41:11.320 --> 00:41:15.760
who's an amazing writer, and in this book she talks

671
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:20.519
about how we don't need to wait to belong, that

672
00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:25.159
we need to choose to belong ourselves. So in our

673
00:41:25.199 --> 00:41:28.920
community and our tradition, we ask for people to bring

674
00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:32.159
their whole self with them, meaning that you don't have

675
00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:34.440
to dress a certain way, or be a certain way,

676
00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:36.480
or act a certain way, or speak a certain way.

677
00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:40.440
You just need to be exactly who you are and

678
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:42.800
to be brave because we have to be really brave

679
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:45.039
to be who we are, right, it's a very vulnerable

680
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:49.440
place to be just being ourselves, and that in our

681
00:41:50.039 --> 00:41:55.119
authenticity that we already belong. So we say to newcomers,

682
00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:58.079
and we say to everyone actually, that if you show

683
00:41:58.119 --> 00:42:00.519
up to a ritual, if you come through a door,

684
00:42:01.159 --> 00:42:04.400
that's because you already belong. You don't need to wait

685
00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:08.360
to be invited to belong. Just stepping through that door

686
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:11.519
into space with us means that you already belong, and

687
00:42:11.559 --> 00:42:15.519
that when you bring your whole self into belonging, that

688
00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:18.559
you can live a life that's very real and very

689
00:42:18.599 --> 00:42:22.639
open and very heart centered. And I feel like in

690
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:25.960
this time, this is so so needed, and this is

691
00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:29.880
something that I wish that I had heard as a

692
00:42:29.880 --> 00:42:33.320
young witch, as a young person, even that I can

693
00:42:33.400 --> 00:42:35.960
bring my whole self somewhere and that I can choose

694
00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:39.119
to belong myself to something that I don't need to

695
00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:43.480
wait and look and hope for someone to reach out

696
00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:46.079
that hand and invite me in that because I'm already

697
00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:49.199
in the place, that means that I already belong.

698
00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:58.199
That's an excellent way to look at it. Now, you've

699
00:42:58.199 --> 00:43:01.519
been doing this for thirty plus years. How has your

700
00:43:01.559 --> 00:43:03.960
practice evolved over the years or has it?

701
00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:08.159
Oh, it's definitely evolved. So you know, I came from

702
00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:12.239
that one book and then learned and basically I had

703
00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:15.320
to teach myself pre internet, right, So I taught myself

704
00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:19.559
for many many years, and you know, attended events here

705
00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:21.800
and there because there wasn't just like you know, Coven,

706
00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:24.079
No one's putting out a sign about Joiner Covin like

707
00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:31.119
back then. And I think as I matured, my practice matured.

708
00:43:31.159 --> 00:43:33.760
And I think that's for That's probably true for anything

709
00:43:33.760 --> 00:43:35.599
we do in life, right, you know, we approach it

710
00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:37.559
as a certain thing, and if we stick with something,

711
00:43:38.039 --> 00:43:42.000
then that practice matures along with us. And one of

712
00:43:42.039 --> 00:43:45.840
the most important things that I feel like I studied

713
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:49.000
over the years was how to be a good leader.

714
00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:52.000
And the way I learned how to be a good

715
00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:55.119
leader was by spending a lot of time with those

716
00:43:55.119 --> 00:43:58.599
who ended up not being good leaders. So learning what

717
00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:01.960
not to do, I think was more important in some

718
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:05.639
ways than learning what to do, because what you do

719
00:44:06.360 --> 00:44:08.639
is for me to just be that authentic self that

720
00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:12.599
we were just talking about. But knowing what doesn't work

721
00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:15.719
can often be the most helpful thing. I think in

722
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:19.199
a lot of in a lot of different places in

723
00:44:19.239 --> 00:44:22.559
our life, knowing what not to do, what watching what

724
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:26.159
doesn't work can be really helpful. And just being willing

725
00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:29.440
to learn and to know that I don't have all

726
00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:33.039
the answers, and then I will never ever have all

727
00:44:33.079 --> 00:44:36.920
the answers, and that that's a really exciting thing. That

728
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.559
there is always going to be mystery in this world.

729
00:44:40.599 --> 00:44:43.719
There's always going to be things that we can't explain

730
00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:48.320
or we don't know why that's happening. And there's a

731
00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:52.000
concept called the altar of mystery, and I believe it

732
00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:55.280
comes from Carolyn Casey, but I did learn about it

733
00:44:55.320 --> 00:44:58.119
from one of my priestess elders named Boo. And the

734
00:44:58.239 --> 00:45:01.840
alter of mystery is this furic place, right, So it's

735
00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:04.719
not a physical place, although you could create a physical

736
00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:08.920
alter mystery. And on this altered mystery we can put

737
00:45:08.960 --> 00:45:13.239
anything that doesn't make sense, anything that we can't figure out,

738
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:16.719
anything that might not be for us to figure out.

739
00:45:17.039 --> 00:45:19.880
And this could be terrible, awful things that happen in

740
00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:21.639
the world. Sometimes we need to put those on the

741
00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:24.960
alter of mystery, or they could be really beautiful, exciting

742
00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:28.440
things that we put there, and sometimes the mystery is solved,

743
00:45:29.199 --> 00:45:32.320
and then oftentimes the mystery is not solved, And there's

744
00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:36.599
something very exciting about that to me, and I feel

745
00:45:36.599 --> 00:45:39.199
like that's you know why I will never be bored

746
00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:42.079
in this life, is that there's always mystery out there

747
00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:43.400
and how beautiful that is.

748
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:47.760
With as crazy as the world is right now, I

749
00:45:47.760 --> 00:45:50.480
think we've got a ton of mystery that we need

750
00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:52.320
to solve, so we need to put it on that

751
00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:53.280
alter of mystery.

752
00:45:53.760 --> 00:45:56.400
Yeah, for sure, there is a lot that needs solving.

753
00:45:57.119 --> 00:46:00.119
There's a lot that needs solving. And then also to

754
00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:02.400
remember that there's also a lot of beauty out there,

755
00:46:03.039 --> 00:46:04.840
because I know I get caught up in all this

756
00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:08.079
just as much as we all do. Right, we're humans,

757
00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:10.679
like we want good things for one another, and when

758
00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:14.559
good things aren't happening, it can be really stressful. And

759
00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:17.599
I've been really doing my best over the last couple

760
00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:21.800
of months to be looking for beauty and joy and

761
00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:25.039
delight and pleasure as well as handling all of the

762
00:46:25.079 --> 00:46:26.960
things to try to make the world a better place.

763
00:46:27.079 --> 00:46:27.239
Right.

764
00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:30.880
I'm not talking about spiritual bypassing. I don't think that's

765
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:33.559
of service at all. We each need to do what

766
00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:36.320
we need to do to make this world better for everyone,

767
00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:39.880
but to not have that be the only thing we do,

768
00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:43.360
because we have to be filled up in order to serve.

769
00:46:43.400 --> 00:46:46.320
We cannot serve from an empty vessel. So making sure

770
00:46:46.360 --> 00:46:49.360
we're filled up or else will all be burnt out

771
00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:51.440
and nothing good will come of that. So right now

772
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:54.360
I can see roses in bloom outside of the window,

773
00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:57.360
and that is beautiful to me, and that fills me

774
00:46:57.440 --> 00:47:01.079
with joy. So I can take that. Okay, I'm filled

775
00:47:01.159 --> 00:47:03.559
up with this, and now I can serve more because

776
00:47:03.599 --> 00:47:07.039
I've seen something beautiful and I've allowed myself to witness

777
00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:09.360
that and take that in and change me in a

778
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:12.559
good way.

779
00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:16.159
We've talked a lot about how things are so much

780
00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:23.440
different compared to when we were younger, and the easiness

781
00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:29.639
of finding information now. But one thing that is of

782
00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:32.280
concern it is spirituality. Like I feel a lot of

783
00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:35.320
people have fallen away from it, and there are plenty

784
00:47:35.400 --> 00:47:38.199
that are coming to it just because of the information

785
00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:43.960
that we can find. Now, why is it inclusive spirituality?

786
00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:46.920
Why is that so important right now?

787
00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:51.800
Yeah? Well, I think as we were talking about belonging,

788
00:47:51.880 --> 00:47:55.320
right people are looking for places to belong and I

789
00:47:55.360 --> 00:47:58.320
think that is possibly one of the biggest problems in

790
00:47:58.360 --> 00:48:00.880
the world right now, is people don't feel like they belong.

791
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:06.519
People feel isolated and alone. And being inclusive in our

792
00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:09.599
spirituality means that the door is open. If people want

793
00:48:09.599 --> 00:48:11.800
to come and learn, will come and learn. If they

794
00:48:11.800 --> 00:48:13.840
want to come and be in community, will come and

795
00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:19.039
be in community. And I feel like the world changes

796
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:23.239
one person at a time, right like one person feeling belonging,

797
00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:28.039
one person feeling included, one person feeling witnessed or seen

798
00:48:28.719 --> 00:48:33.039
in their struggles. One by one by one, those small

799
00:48:33.119 --> 00:48:36.880
things add up to create tidal waves of really big

800
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:40.920
beneficial change. So I think now more than ever, inclusivity

801
00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:44.280
is important, especially with what's happening in the United States

802
00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:49.599
where our government is choosing to try to stop people

803
00:48:49.679 --> 00:48:55.920
from being included in all different realms. So moving we're

804
00:48:55.960 --> 00:48:59.000
at this precipe, it really does feel like we're at

805
00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:01.199
the end time, but not like the end of the

806
00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:04.159
world times, where at the end of a big, big cycle.

807
00:49:05.159 --> 00:49:07.920
And because of that, you know, there's like the death throws.

808
00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:11.559
I feel like the death throws are happening, and what

809
00:49:11.639 --> 00:49:14.440
do we want beyond that? What is our vision for

810
00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:17.239
the future and what are small steps we can each

811
00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:23.119
take to get there. And I think being inclusive, belonging, loving,

812
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:26.000
that is one of the most important things that we

813
00:49:26.039 --> 00:49:28.920
can do right now for one another, is really reaching

814
00:49:28.960 --> 00:49:35.079
out that neighborly kind of connection, like that compassion, that empathy.

815
00:49:36.039 --> 00:49:41.079
That is one thing we absolutely have lost is being neighbors.

816
00:49:42.519 --> 00:49:44.960
The funny thing about that is when I moved into

817
00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:47.880
the place I have right now, our neighbor has been

818
00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:50.239
like the best person to us, and you don't find

819
00:49:50.280 --> 00:49:50.960
that anymore.

820
00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:56.000
Yeah, yeah, And I think it's up to us to

821
00:49:56.079 --> 00:49:58.480
change it. Each one of us could change that. And

822
00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:01.079
I feel like the same, Like our block was like

823
00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:04.400
really kind of strange, and last year we had tons

824
00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:06.519
of extra produce in our gardens, so we just went

825
00:50:06.559 --> 00:50:10.199
around knocking on doors and like cucumber bombing people with

826
00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:12.639
like a little note, you know, you know, from our house,

827
00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:17.840
and then people started. There's reciprocity going on now because

828
00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:20.480
of just these little actions of just being like, hi, neighbor,

829
00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:22.559
Like here's a bag of cucumbers that we can't eat,

830
00:50:23.199 --> 00:50:26.599
and that planted the seed of like beautiful things that

831
00:50:26.639 --> 00:50:30.559
are starting to grow. So hyper local I think is

832
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:32.840
really the place to go. Like I always say, like

833
00:50:32.920 --> 00:50:36.760
work on the micro level, find the smallest possible action

834
00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:40.960
that you can take. Because as above, so below, as below,

835
00:50:41.199 --> 00:50:43.880
so above, So we talk about the hermetic maxims, but

836
00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:47.639
micromagic is what I call it, and it's finding the

837
00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:52.440
smallest possible place to work and planting that seed there

838
00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:54.719
and letting it grow. So we don't have to have

839
00:50:54.760 --> 00:50:57.800
a grandiose vision, because sometimes that will mean that we

840
00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:00.559
don't do anything because that's overwhelming, we don't even know

841
00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:04.400
where to dive in. But just one small action, choosing

842
00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:08.119
one small thing. There's so many causes that they think

843
00:51:08.159 --> 00:51:11.440
that that also makes people feel overwhelmed, and then they

844
00:51:11.519 --> 00:51:14.400
just end up not doing anything because there's too many choices.

845
00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:18.920
Choose one thing that's important to you and do one

846
00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:22.239
small thing to support whatever that is, and then just

847
00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:26.960
keep doing it and see what happens.

848
00:51:27.679 --> 00:51:33.000
What is one ritual anyone can start doing tonight using

849
00:51:33.320 --> 00:51:33.960
moon magic.

850
00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:37.639
So we've already talked about looking for the moon, and

851
00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:43.679
we've talked about water. So I think a very easy

852
00:51:43.960 --> 00:51:47.599
other thing to do would be breath. Right, we all

853
00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:52.119
have our breath or holds. We're not alive, so Haha,

854
00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:57.920
consciously breathing the moon into your body and seeing what

855
00:51:57.960 --> 00:52:02.360
that feels like. So breathing and the moon, asking the

856
00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:06.239
moon to create more spaciousness and openness in your body,

857
00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:10.920
and then exhaling anything that you don't need to hold,

858
00:52:11.320 --> 00:52:13.800
and just slowing down in that way, just slowing down

859
00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:18.920
three or four or five breaths with the moon every

860
00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:22.239
time you see her, and then see what happens for you,

861
00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:26.400
see how that slowness starts moving into other aspects of

862
00:52:26.440 --> 00:52:30.480
your life and that ritual. You don't need anything at

863
00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:32.840
all but yourself in the moon, and you don't even

864
00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:34.400
have to see her, but when you see her, I

865
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:37.039
think it's it can be more fun because there's that

866
00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:40.920
visual connection as well as just that energetic connection.

867
00:52:43.239 --> 00:52:46.480
Well, you are the second person today to mention that

868
00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:48.920
breath is a huge part of a practice. The other

869
00:52:48.920 --> 00:52:52.239
person was talking about shadow work, but I think it

870
00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:56.559
all applies. And that makes me really think, like, is

871
00:52:56.559 --> 00:53:00.480
there a message I'm missing? Man? I need to start speaking.

872
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:01.639
Time to do more breaths.

873
00:53:02.039 --> 00:53:05.800
So, Harry, right, conscious breathing. How often do we remember

874
00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:07.960
to do that? Like there's so many times during the

875
00:53:08.039 --> 00:53:09.719
day where all of a sudden I realized I've been

876
00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:12.159
holding my breath and I didn't even know it, or

877
00:53:12.159 --> 00:53:15.280
that I was breathing really shallowly. And if I just

878
00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:18.519
stop and do like three or four breaths and tune

879
00:53:18.519 --> 00:53:23.400
into the moon, I'm like, huh, Like so much stress

880
00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:26.519
just leaves my body. And you know that's something I

881
00:53:26.519 --> 00:53:29.159
can do in like a minute. It's a whole reset.

882
00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:31.719
It's amazing. It's amazing to me.

883
00:53:34.599 --> 00:53:37.840
What is one thing or multiple things that you hope

884
00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:38.960
people take from this book?

885
00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:42.719
Wow? Okay, So I have to just say, first of all,

886
00:53:42.840 --> 00:53:45.920
that book when I read it, I'm like, who wrote this?

887
00:53:46.079 --> 00:53:49.320
Like I channeled a lot of it. So most like

888
00:53:49.360 --> 00:53:52.960
the practices, especially like the herbalism and the rituals, those

889
00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:55.760
kinds of things, those are my Those are my things,

890
00:53:55.760 --> 00:53:59.159
but like huge swaths of information, like damn, you were

891
00:53:59.159 --> 00:54:02.559
in the flow and like I don't even remember writing that, right.

892
00:54:04.119 --> 00:54:06.840
My favorite stuff in the book that I would love

893
00:54:06.880 --> 00:54:10.880
for people to experiment with is the green witchcraft, so

894
00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:16.000
the making of elixirs and potions. This is just kind

895
00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:19.079
of a home frequency for me, working with the moon

896
00:54:19.159 --> 00:54:22.079
in conjunction with the plant realm. I'd love for people

897
00:54:22.119 --> 00:54:25.199
to experiment with that, but I'd also love for people

898
00:54:25.239 --> 00:54:27.880
to just read the whole book through and see what

899
00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:31.280
calls to them and then follow that. So the coolest

900
00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:34.800
thing about this book is you can jump in anywhere.

901
00:54:35.360 --> 00:54:38.679
It really ended up turning into a big reference book.

902
00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:41.880
This is not the book that I proposed to Llewellyn,

903
00:54:42.800 --> 00:54:45.880
but when I turned in the manuscript, my editor was like,

904
00:54:46.360 --> 00:54:50.480
oh wow, this is really long. Let me get back

905
00:54:50.480 --> 00:54:53.960
to you, and they came back with retitling it Complete

906
00:54:53.960 --> 00:54:55.320
Book of the Moon. So I get to add in

907
00:54:55.360 --> 00:55:00.440
a little bit more stuff too, but I suggest, you know, gosh,

908
00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:03.599
just kind of diving in, like turning to the pages

909
00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:07.079
in the book that are highlighting the lunar phase that

910
00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:10.440
you're in when you pick it up, and then reading that,

911
00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:13.840
and then going and reading the part that highlights whatever

912
00:55:13.880 --> 00:55:17.079
the frequency, whatever the constellation is that the moon is

913
00:55:17.159 --> 00:55:21.039
passing through, and reading that little passage and seeing how

914
00:55:21.079 --> 00:55:23.800
you feel about that information and if it is resonating

915
00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:28.119
with you. So that's really easy if you're a Charro reader.

916
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:30.519
There's a bunch of Charro spreads in there that I

917
00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:34.280
really like too, so try those out. There's several that

918
00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:36.880
are just three card readings, So if you only have

919
00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:39.199
a few minutes, like popping in with one of those,

920
00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:43.440
or trying one of the larger spreads that I created

921
00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:46.679
as well, and then you know, making sure to write

922
00:55:46.719 --> 00:55:49.800
it down and a photograph that's spread, and then checking

923
00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:52.239
back in with it to see how it manifested for you,

924
00:55:52.519 --> 00:55:54.679
which I think is also one of the coolest things.

925
00:55:54.719 --> 00:55:56.920
I think a lot of times we divine and then

926
00:55:56.960 --> 00:55:59.400
we forget to note it, and then we don't know.

927
00:55:59.440 --> 00:56:01.000
But when we take the time to note it, and

928
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:03.199
then like I'll come upon like an old notebook and

929
00:56:03.239 --> 00:56:06.239
be like, oh my gosh, like all this happened like

930
00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:09.199
exactly the way that that was, but the spread would

931
00:56:09.239 --> 00:56:11.159
have been done like five years ago. So I just

932
00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:14.559
I love that kind of stuff, like synchronicity. That is

933
00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:17.119
just one of my favorite bits of I always say

934
00:56:17.119 --> 00:56:21.559
synchronicity is magic, but I think synchronicity is actually proof

935
00:56:21.639 --> 00:56:23.599
of magic, proof of magic.

936
00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:27.639
Yeah, well, it is about that time to let you go.

937
00:56:27.760 --> 00:56:29.119
So I did want to give you the chance to

938
00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:31.559
tell everybody where they can find you find the book

939
00:56:31.679 --> 00:56:33.000
the Mike Olyers.

940
00:56:33.440 --> 00:56:38.039
Excellent, Thank you. So my website is Jessmine Angelica dot

941
00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:41.320
com and my name has one s, so please note

942
00:56:41.360 --> 00:56:45.599
that Jessamine Antelica dot com. And on social media, I'm

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most active on Instagram, so that's Jessamine Underscore Angelica. And

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you can find my book anywhere books are sold. And

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if you have a local bookstore, it would be really

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cool if you called up and asked if they would,

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because I really love supporting local businesses, especially local bookstores.

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They're so needed. Thank you all so much for being

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here with us.

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Yeah, and thank you for being on Paratruth. I do

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have to say that it is a huge book of knowledge,

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so absolutely get it in your local book But Jessemine,

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thank you for being on Paratruth. You be born.

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Yeah, thank you so much. Justin I really love their talk.

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Thank you.

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All right, folks. That is Jesslemine and Jacka lou Ellen's

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Complete Book of the Moon. I hope you enjoyed this,

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and I hope you check out the book and check

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out Jessmine's work. It is a great addition to your

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paranormal library or your witchcraft library. It's a great book.

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That is it for us this week Paratruthers, and we

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hope that you've enjoyed every minute of this. Make sure

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you're checking out the Facebook Comparatruthers community where again those

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people ask questions. I also had a poll in there

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which a lot of people answered sorry, and it was

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do you believe the moon effects your life? And one

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hundred percent said yes absolutely, and Jessumin has confirmed that

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now as well. So we hope you've enjoyed it until

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next week, folks, where you will find us, same time,

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same show. My name is Justin. I'll talk to gays

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later
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Jesamyn Angelica

High Priestess & Author

Lunar Priestess, Oracle, and Ritualist, Lady Jesamyn Angelica has been practicing Witchcraft and walking the Path of the Moon since her dedication to the Goddess as a Maiden at age 13. Now in her Queen Season, she is High Priestess of Sisterhood of the Moon, a matriarchal Goddess Tradition and community for *all* located in the San Francisco California Bay Area.

Jesamyn brings her joie de vivre, humor, and wit to all she does, combining these qualities with foundational skills in leadership, communication, and magick cultivated over three decades.

As Alchemical Guide of The Women’s Mystery School of Magick & Empowerment, Jesamyn is dedicated to empowering *all* women through truth-speaking, authenticity, and self-exploration. Through the soon-to-be launched Lunaversity, she shares her love of lunar alchemy and moon magick with all who are called to modern moon mysticism.

Explore her offerings, rituals, and online training programs at JesamynAngelica.com. Connect on Instagram @jesamyn_angelica.
Lady Jesamyn’s first title, “Llewellyn’s Complete Book of the Moon: Lunar Wisdom for Magic, Healing, and Inspiration” was published in December 2025.