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Join me as I explore the healing journey through psychology, personal development, mythology, and transcendent experiences at the crossroads of modern life and the deeper world. Claim, and keep, your unique keys. Devoted to the ancient goddess Hekate as World Soul. About me: Cyndi Brannen is an author, herbalist, psychologist, and teacher, merging her years of experience studying health and relationships with the traditional wisdom of the goddess. https://keepingherkeys.com/ Learn more about ...
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Lux Occult

Luxa Strata

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Welcome to Lux Occult, a podcast where we gleefully taunt the mundane, butcher the Latin and most other languages, and also discuss a variety of occult topics! Exploring the intersections of Magic, Art, Science and Philosophy- it's Occultism For Everyone!
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Occultmagick

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I am going to explore the deepest parts of gnosis and the occult, no matter who it offends or who it collides with, this is my declaration of intent for the world to know, who I am what I stand for and what I am willing to do, for the greater good.
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A weekly podcast sharing various legends, lore and myths which function as divine reflections of LGBTQIA+ identities and experiences. Hosted by Dakota St. Clare, Vince Vance & Daphne Malfitano. New episodes every Friday. Follow us on IG & TikTok @whengodwasqueer Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whengodwasqueer/support
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In the Studio

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In the Studio is the new podcast which takes you into the minds of the world’s most creative people, with unprecedented access. Famous artists, writers, sports stars, musicians, DJs and designers invite you behind the scenes. We explore the creative process like never before.
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This Witch Reads is a podcast about a witch’s journey to deepen her magic and spirituality through books. Whether the book is found at the local bookstore, in the forgotten corners of my own bookshelf or recovered from an ancient source, I hope to learn more about the magical path through the written word and I invite you to join me.
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This episode combines meditation and discussion to ignite our connections with Hekate's Torches. Explore a transformative meditation centered on Hekate's torches, symbolizing creation, nourishment, and destruction. Participants engage in breathwork to ignite their inner fire, while acknowledging local spirits and ancestors. The session emphasizes g…
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Co-directors of Consent Academy https://www.instagram.com/consentacademy/ Ariana and Ash, join Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to discuss how magical work with groups or solo (and activities or relationships of any kind) can be improved through learning about and using consent practices, and how the risk of consent incidents happening can be decr…
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We delve into catharsis through Hekate, emphasizing personal empowerment and release via witchcraft. Join us in a candlelit ritual symbolizing letting go, while a protective circle welcomes spirits of release. Key contributors share insights on creative processes, magical crafting, and the integration of psychology with witchcraft. The focus is on …
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Melissa Jayne Marada https://www.instagram.com/saint.jayne/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share about their new book, The Witch's Workshop and about the power of creating one’s own magical tools and materials. Topics discussed include making your own incense and recipes for different types, dying your own magical chords, creating inks …
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Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata shares a guided meditation, “Get a Room With Yourself at The Green Mushroom Astral Space: A Solo-Sex Meditation for Healing, Wholeness, and Power” as well as setting the table with some context. What do you truly consent to when you're alone with yourself? How does respecting your own boundaries feel in your body? …
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Erika Robinson https://www.instagram.com/divine_withme/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share about her new book, The Language of Lenormand (which is the first on the topic written by an American), as well as her journey into creating the deck, ‘Erika’s Lenormand of Hope’. Erika explains how divining with Lenormand deck is different from…
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Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata is joined by Becky Annison https://www.instagram.com/beckyannison/, creator of “Wreck This Deck”, the solo role playing and journaling game in which players modify standard playing cards for magical purposes. Topics discussed include the magical power of roleplaying, the intersections between games and rituals, how…
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Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata is joined by the hosts of Ex V Planis https://linktr.ee/Exvplanis and Unearthing Paranormalcy podcasts https://www.unpnormalcy.com/ for this special round table discussion about the Simulation Hypothesis, what it is and what its implications might mean for Magic, Death, Morality, and the nature of reality itself! I…
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Embark with us on a mystical journey, attuning with goddesses and practicing healing witchcraft. Light candles, invoke mystical experiences, and embrace wild and free goddesses. Through poetry and sacred creativity we deepen connections, without rigid rules, following the way of the wild and free goddesses. We discuss balancing everyday life with s…
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Author, psychologist, and longtime Thelemite, Dr. David Shoemaker livingthelema.com joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share about his new book, The Way of the Will:Thelema in action and about how Thelema might differ from other traditions or religions where thinking about the founder is concerned. Topics discussed include Aleister Crowley-…
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Christen and Cyndi delve into the historical origins and personal meaning of Hekate's three forms, from the earliest references to her as governing land, sea, and sky in Hesiod's Theogony to a contemporary perspective on our own tri-valent nature. This episode accompanies the chapter on Triformis in Entering Hekate's Cave. For more info about this …
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Embark on a mystical journey to Hekate's Garden to connect with the Sovereign Goddesses, including Hekate, Circe, Medea, Persephone, Demeter, Artemis, and Selene. Ground yourself before delving into the deeper spiritual realm, and then journey into the garden on the Summer Solstice. As the sun sets and the moon rises, gather at the moon altar to in…
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A bonus mini-ep with the remote version of The Green Sphere. This simple magical working is to be performed for the first time on Saturday June 8, 2024 at 9:00 PM EST either solo or as a group. It is a companion to a Hekatean ceremony using The Green Mushroom Hyphosigil Project’s magical current for protection and healing for children and others wh…
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Hail Hekate Triformis, The Triple Goddess. The Unifying The Three Selves Meditation is a foundational practice for connecting with Hekate while aligning our personal energy field consisting of The Three Selves. These three selves represent the lower self (root), the middle self (heart), and the higher self (crown). The meditation process involves c…
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Actor, director, and pagan performer extraordinaire, Cythia Beckert https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065653/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share about the intersections of a magical practice and theatrical practice, working with deities like Dionysus and Hekate, and about what can be learned about practices like invocation through explorin…
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Michael M Hughes https://www.michaelmhughes.com/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share about experiences surrounding the ritual he created to bind the reality TV star the US elected as president in 2016 and which ended up being propelled to viral fame, becoming the largest magical working in history. There’s some great stuff about the hi…
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From close relationships to our beloved goddess, it is only through having the courage to open up that we deepen these connections. As we communicate with the deeper world, while navigating everyday life, we face specific challenges in being open, but it is only through such that we can truly walk with our beloved goddesses and practice our craft. …
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Trigger warning for a brief discussion of grief near the start of this interview. You can support Cas and her Etsy shop here: Shopblackdahlia.etsy.com You can join Cas' facebook group here: https://m.facebook.com/groups/thegreywitchsgrimoire/?ref=share&mibextid=NSMWBT Welcome back to another enchanting episode of Ramblings of a Grey Witch, where yo…
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In this bonus episode, Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata presents a talk given on the Green Musheen Discord server about the founding of The Green Mushroom Hyphosigil Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/ and about how this work will be continued with a new experiment, Void House: creating an inclusive, consent-forward space in which to conduct…
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This episode comes with a trigger warning for discussio of a mental health crisis and S*icide at 48:13 - 49:48 A huge thank you to Cas for sharing your life experiences and witchy knowledge with us. Check out Cas's Etsy shop here Shopblackdahlia.etsy.com Check out Cas's Facebook Group "The Grey Witch's Grimoire" Here: https://m.facebook.com/groups/…
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Albert Björn Shiell https://www.instagram.com/sussex_pellar/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about his new book, Icelandic Folk Magic: Witchcraft of the North Topics discussed include Galder and Sedir, the trolls, the elves and other denizens of the wild places, Oden’s complex role in the mythology, the role Christianity plays in th…
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We had a fabulous deep conversation about Demeter, who often comes to us when it's time for us to "get it together," whatever the "it" may be for us personally. Demeter, the mother of Persephone, is a significant goddess in Greek and Roman mythology. She represents the natural cycle, agriculture, order, civilization, and the ruling of the home. The…
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Isa Nakazawa https://www.instagram.com/isanaka joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share some approaches to astrology and tarot and discuss how such practice can be both a technology of freedom as well as something which gives one insight into meaningful patterns on a broader, social level. Isa is the host for the Stars and Stars with Isa po…
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Join Dr. Cyndi and all the Key Bearers from Covina: The Coven of Hekate for this fascinating discussion about Hekate's ancient titles referring to her as a maiden to what this means for us as modern witches. We explore the different meanings of the terms 'maiden' and 'virgin' when applied to Hekate in ancient Greek and Roman texts. Then we flesh th…
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Angela Guyton https://www.angelaguyton.com/about/ (Nothing Rhymes w/ Rats, Paradoxical +) shares about the experience of being an accomplished comic book artist who would also like to be a comic book writer, and the sometimes uncomfortable journey of stretching one’s wings in a creative practice. The concepts discussed could be applied to a new end…
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Eclipses are such a powerful time to explore darkness, so very Hekatean in their essence for they not only either dim the world or occur at night when they are visible, but are also liminal times. As Hekateans, the MOON will always be highly influential since we are naturally attuned to it's powers: emotions, intuition, magic(k), mystery. They are …
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Welcome to the season of Spring. Through a meditative journey, we will explore the myth of Persephone's emergence from the underworld. I recommend reading the chapter "Kore Reborn," in Entering Hekate's Cave to fully immerse yourself in the meaning of emergence. Get your candle ready for the opening ritual. In the meditation, we start by attuning t…
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Join me and Christen Bennett (she/they) - Coven Key Bearer as we review how Goddess Witchcraft has evolved over the past five decades and how we are creating our own religion, both as a movement and personally. I'm calling this The Goddess Liberation Movement, as the Spirit of Rixipyle has certainly liberated us spiritually. The Goddess Liberation …
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Aidan Wachter https://www.patreon.com/aidanwachter, author of Changeling, Six Ways, and Weaving Fate, joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to discuss ways of cultivating resilience and focusing on the bigger picture by aligning one’s attention with one’s intention. Aidan shares about the somatic work he’s been conducting to move through anxiety,…
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Ever wondered how to approach a deity you think may be calling to you? Or even wondered whether or not what you're experiencing is a calling? Hopefully this episode will help clear things up and equip you with the tools you need to start building that magickal relationship with the divine. In this long-awaited episode (sorry guys!) I share my tips …
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Shake it up, Witches! Hail Rixipyle! Join Cyndi and Christen for this discussion on Hekate's aspect known as Rixipyle, the chain-breaking, gate crashing liberator. Cyndi starts us off with a meditative being check-in exercise to assess physical and emotional states. We breakthrough seeing all emotions as sacred, and how liberating expressing emotio…
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The purpose of this ritual is to write affirmations you believe with every fibre of your being to create a kind of mantra used to inspire you exponentially.Starting with "I am" and using positive reinforcement to use neuro-linguistics to program the brain to exhibit the placebo effect.The other portion will not be mentioned here.…
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Douglass Batchelor of the ‘What Magic is This?’ podcast https://whatmagicisthis.com/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata for a discussion about the phenomena and the conversations surrounding government disclosure about “non-human intelligences”, etc. from a perspective which is informed by an occult or magical practice. What does it look like …
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It is nights like tonight, She finds me. Slipping in through a crack in the curtains. Riding on pale moonlight. It is nights like tonight That I long to be her. To have no familiarity With words like, “diagnosis,” “mortgage,” and “grief”. It is nights like tonight She reminds me Of who I was before, And who I could be. Shooting her arrows into my h…
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Entering Hekate's Cave: The Journey Through Darkness To Wholeness by Cyndi Brannen, PhD, can be purchased wherever books are sold. This is a guided class and meditation that introduces the listener to Soul Retrieval. Join my soul school, The Covina Institute, for the in-depth eight week journey that takes place between the first and third new moons…
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23 skidoo! Psychoanalyst, author, artist, occultist and host of Rendering Unconscious, Dr. Vanessa Sincalir https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about the cut-up technique and how it can be applied in one’s magical practice. Dr. Sinclair shares some advice about magical praxis and about some of her expe…
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Perhaps to me the most enduring way that Hekate presents to me is as Psychopomp, The Soul Guide. So much so that this entire moon month is dedicated to exploring the mysteries of Psychopomp, from connecting with a past life to experiencing the transformative Animarum Recupero (Soul Retrieval Ritual).Hail Hekate, Psychopomp. Guide us, light our jour…
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