In Episode 8, Amaya Rourke of Empress Craft joins me to discuss what the heart of what magic really is – relationship. We discuss a variety of topics: lands, waters, animals, stars, ancestors, ritual, creativity, tradition, breaking tradition, the Moon, Venus, Mars, and sooo much more. ✨
topics discussed in the episode:
- Amaya’s ‘analog’ upbringing, spending majority of time in nature, as well as the animate lands & waters she currently lives with in Ireland
- spending lots of time traveling and how Amaya’s chart reflects this search for what really feels like Home
- feral experiences with the natural world informing her later relationships with fixed stars Algol and Vega
- star entities connected to natural phenomena and looking at how those natural phenomena are understood or seen across various cultures
- Algol as a teacher of the inter-relationship between creation & destruction; nature examples like glaciers, volcanoes, atolls, and hot springs
- Uranus in Taurus approaching the star Algol over the next few years: a similar theme of instability, creation and destruction, and equalizer for things out of balance
- wielding large amounts of energy or power and how that shows up in various ways in the world
- common plants consistently showing up in our lives that want to be in relationship with us
- Magic in the age of social media: one way vs. many ways; us vs. them
- how ritual and creativity and land-based practices were hand-in-hand in ancient times, and how participating in certain vocations were acts of offering & respect to various deities
- magic as a co-creation of you & the relationships you have
- relationships as reciprocal care, deepening relationships over time
- tradition was always in flux in the past, today we can create from the principles of the past while updating to today, and also be informed by our current relationships
- the Moon as mediator to the planets/stars/deep time/deep space, and the Moon’s deep involvement in magic
- & so much more!
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