Welcome to Magic School – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Today’s lesson is all about simple, approachable, and actionable ways to upgrade the words we use every single day that shape our realities. You’ll walk away from this lesson with a new understanding of the power of your word, and six simple conscious language upgrades you can start using right away.

In Today’s Lesson:

* What is conscious language and why is it important?

* What is the scale of emotions and how can it help you access your inner power?

* What is the responsibility line and how can you use this visualization to take personal responsibility and step into your power?

* Six simple but POWERFUL upgrades! Learn how to transform and upgrade these and similar phrases to new and empowering language patterns:

1. “I can’t/don’t know how…”

2. “It’s hard” / “It’s not working”

3. “I’m broke” / “I can’t afford…”

4. “I don’t have time”

5. “I’m busy”

BONUS: “try”

BONUS: “but” —> “and”

6. “I don’t want…”

* What does it mean to be casting broken spells, and how does this affect our present and future?

* What is possible for you if you claim the power of your word and choose to use it consistently in your favor?

“Often, our belief about what we can and can’t do is [us] playing the blame game and placing the blame on our ability or our power when the truth is that, often, we have the power to make any number of choices.”

~Vervain Helsdottir

“‘It’s hard’ is really the heart saying ‘this is difficult and I don’t know what to do.’ So that actually goes to the realm of shutdown, of ‘I don’t know,’ ‘this is hard,’ ‘I can’t,’ that clamming up and that going into protection mode of ‘it’s hard and I don’t want to.’ ‘It’s hard’ is ‘I don’t want to,’ because it’s scary, or whatever it is. You may not have all of the translation there, it depends on the scenario, but ‘it’s hard….’ Is it really hard? Or is it that you’re choosing not to do it and you’re not engaging with it?”

~Abigail Sitter

Additional Resources

• Episode 1: Crafting Empowering Questions for Divination https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/episodes/01-crafting-empowering-questions-for-divination
• Episode 8: How Good is Your Word? (Manifestation Magic part 1) https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/episodes/howgoodisyourword
• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz: https://amzn.to/3GRi5Jo
• Conscious Language: The Logos of Now by Robert Tennyson Stevens https://amzn.to/3uaeJOL
• Abigail Sitter: https://instagram.com/earth_angel_abigail
• Alicia Ann Howery (founder of Sacred Stays): https://instagram.com/alicia.howery

Level Up with Plant Magic:

• My Daily Non-Negotiables: https://www.myyl.com/oilcoven#bwm/step-into-your-highest-potential
• Explore Bundles & Individual Products: https://www.myyl.com/oilcoven
• Learn more about Oil Coven:

Resources:

• Whole Self Support Workshop - Text WHOLE SELF to 314-292-9919 for more information on this seasonal quarterly workshop! Find @heartshinedivine and @kitchen.mystic on Instagram to meet the facilitators.
• Wanna have some major breakthroughs and maybe cry about it while being virtually held in a loving supportive way? Book a Divinatory Coaching Session with me: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/divinatory-coaching
• Get 10% OFF your session through the end of January with the code 2022ISMYYEAR
• Magic of I Astrological Planner: https://magicofi.com/
• The Muse Tarot: https://themusetarot.com/
• Try Noom (one of my most effective wellness tools): https://www.talkable.com/x/FTw6UL

Level Up with Plant Magic:

• Explore Bundles & Individual Products: https://www.myyl.com/oilcoven
• Learn more about Oil Coven: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/oilcoven

And More…

• Support my music (and by extension, this podcast) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vervainandtheroses/

Homework

• Subscribe, rate, & review (please)! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Welcome to Magic School can currently be reviewed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Podchaser, and Audible… AAAAND YOU CAN NOW RATE PODCASTS ON SPOTIFY! Please do this, it will mean the absolute world to me!
• For this week’s assignment, do this spread for yourself—Body, Mind, & Spirit with Problem/Challenge and Action/Solution for each—and tell me how it goes! Send me a voice note of your experience for a chance to be featured in a future episode.

Contact the Professor:

https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/contact

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On today’s episode of Welcome to Magic School, we’re gonna be talking about Runes for Protection Magic.

View these show notes with pictures and more at https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/episodes/protectionrunes/

My personal website: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/

In Today’s Lesson:

• What are runes? How can you use runes in magic?
• Which runes are best for protection magic? (We’ll cover three today; stay tuned for part 2!)
• Elhaz (Sometimes known as Algiz)
• elk, elk-sedge, hamsa, branches of the world tree
• protection for travelers
• protection from ancestors
• self-defense, boundary-setting
• Isa
• ice, ego
• energy shielding
• defensive mirror magic
• Thurisaz
• thurse (giant), thorn, Thor’s hammer (Mjollnir)
• destruction (can be positive or negative, offensive or defensive, can even be creative)
• What are some specific ways you can invoke or evoke the magic of these protection runes in your witchcraft practice and your day to day life?

Further Learning & Additional Resources:Recommended Runic Reading:

• Modern Runes: Discover the Magic of Casting and Divination for Everyday Life by Vervain Helsdottir https://amzn.to/3mUxYGS
• Taking Up the Runes: A Complete Guide To Using Runes In Spells, Rituals, Divination, And Magic by Diana Paxson https://amzn.to/3DCI3i8
• The Big Book of Runes and Rune Magic: How to Interpret Runes, Rune Lore, and the Art of Runecasting by Edred Thorsson https://amzn.to/3aE8kjz
• Northern Mysteries and Magick: Runes & Feminine Powers by Freya Aswynn https://amzn.to/3mNdoIm

Additional Resources:

• View the Rune Resources page on my personal website: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/resources/runes (this page will continue to be updated with more resources, including a book list and website directory, as time goes on)
• Wikipedia page for Troll Cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_cross
• Tacitus’ Germania: https://www.unrv.com/tacitus/tacitusgermania.php
• Teal Swan on self-isolation: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CUelxCSFUf3/?utm_medium=copy_link

Plant Magic for Protection:

• Pick and choose your plant magic from this bundle, curated around the intention of magical protection: https://www.myyl.com/oilcoven#bwm/protection
• Essential Oil Magic: Natural Spells for the Green Witch (chapter on Protection) by Vervain Helsdottir

In today’s lesson on Welcome to Magic School, I’m going to share with you a recent experience I had, part one of which was a definitely demonic nightmare, and part two of which was a shamanic journey in which I revisited the scene of the nightmare and literally slayed the demons that came to haunt me.

I’ll be sharing about what that experience was like, how I knew the nightmare was demonic, how I prepared for my journey in the material realm, and what happened in the spiritual realm once I entered the trance state. That includes what I did to prepare myself in the spiritual realm, how Zhong Kui came to me as a helping spirit, how I determine the true nature of spiritual entities, destroy demonic entities, and what lessons I brought back for life in the material realm.

In Today’s Lesson:

1. Physical steps you can take in the material realm to prepare for a demon-slaying mission in the spiritual realm via shamanic journey;
2. Actions you can take in the spiritual realm to protect your energy and fight spiritual foes;
3. What facing demons in the spiritual realm can teach us about living our best life in the material realm.
4. Plant Magic Minute: White Angelica for Energetic & Spiritual Protection

Further Learning & Additional Resources:Check Out the Episode 02 Show Notes for general Shamanic Journeying resources. https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/episodes/02-shamanic-journeying

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Audio for Journeying:

• Shamanic Drumming audio (no guide): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivCOrc1HWxI

Enhance Your Journey:

• Book a Divinatory Coaching Session: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/divinatory-coaching
• Plant Magic for Journeying: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/shamanicjourney

Zhong Kui on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Kui

• If you do end up working with Zhong Kui, I would suggest pouring him some of your best tea (or at least very good tea) as an offering. My favorite source for farm-direct Chinese Tea is So Han Fan’s West China Tea: https://westchinatea.com/tea

Today’s Homework:

1. Subscribe, rate, & review (please)! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Welcome to Magic School can currently be reviewed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Podchaser, and Audible.

1. Embark upon a demon-slaying quest!

• Go on a shamanic journey. (See resources above for suggested audio tracks.)
• On your journey, ask your guide or guides if you have any demons plaguing you. If not, congratulations!
• Unless you’ve just had the most amazing energetic reset of your life, you probably have at least one. Ask your guides to prepare you—if they have any tools or advice to give you for fighting your demon(s). If they do, accept with gratitute; if not, you can use anything you learned in this lesson.
• Ask your guides to take you to your demons and support you in defeating them. You can use the techniques you learned in this episode, or if your guides or...

For today’s lesson on Welcome to Magic School, we’re gonna be talking about a very complex subject: I’m going to be sharing with you an introduction to Shamanic Journeying, with the caveat that what I’m sharing is from my own personal experience—I am not officially initiated in any particular shamanic tradition, but the techniques I share in this episode have worked for me and definitely belong in the category of “Witchcraft that Works,” at least in my book.

In Today’s Lesson:

1. What is Shamanism? What is Shamanic Journeying? And how does this apply to you and me?
2. What is the point of a Shamanic Journey? What are the benefits, and what are the risks?
3. How do you go on a Shamanic Journey? How do you mitigate said risks?

Further Learning & Additional Resources:

• Audio Tracks
• Shamanic Drumming audio (no guide): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivCOrc1HWxI
• “Meet Your Spirit Guide” Guided Meditation by Lilian Eden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuJM31DqAkM
• Recommended Reading:
• Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstacy by Mircea Eliade: https://amzn.to/3ANZsUd
• Spirit Walking: a Course in Shamanic Power by Evelyn Rysdyk: https://amzn.to/3EYdzc0
• Raven Kaldera’s website on Northern Tradition Shamanism: http://www.northernshamanism.org/welcome.html
• Further Listening
• The Shaman’s Cave podcast: https://shamanstv.com/
• Enhance Your Journey:
• Book a Divinatory Coaching Session: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/divinatory-coaching
• Plant Magic for Journeying: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/focuspocus/

Today’s Homework:

1. Subscribe, rate, & review (please)! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Welcome to Magic School can currently be reviewed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Podchaser, and Audible.

1. Go on a shamanic journey! (See resources above for suggested audio tracks.)
2. Record your experience and tell me how it goes!
3. Extra Credit: Share what you learned on Instagram and tag @welcometomagicschool so other witches can benefit, too!

Contact the Professor:

https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/contact

Today’s lesson on Welcome to Magic School is about crafting empowering questions for use in divination with Tarot, Oracle cards, Runes, and other divinatory methods.

In Today’s Lesson:

1. Fortune-Telling vs. Divinatory Coaching
2. Disempowering Questions vs. Empowering Questions
3. What to Do with the Answers to Empowering Questions

Further Learning & Additional Resources:

• Book a Divinatory Coaching Session: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/divinatory-coaching
• FREE Worksheet for Crafting Empowering Questions: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/free-worksheet
• Take Inspired Action with Valor & Focus Pocus: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/focuspocus/

Today’s Homework:

1. Subscribe to my newsletter to receive the FREE Worksheet for Crafting Empowering Questions.
2. Fill out the worksheet.
3. Perform a reading for yourself using the question you created with the worksheet.
4. Tell me how it goes!
5. Extra Credit: Share what you learned on Instagram and tag @welcometomagicschool so other witches can benefit, too!

Contact the Professor:

https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/contact

Welcome to Magic School!I'm your host, Vervain Helsdottir, and this is the podcast version of school orientation!

This episode is for you if you're just stumbling upon this podcast and you want to know who I am, what qualifies me to teach about magic, and why I think you might benefit from joining me on this magical journey...

OR if you've been listening for a while but you want to know a little more about where it all started.

Here's what you need to know:

• Welcome to Magic School operates on the quarter system
• Episodes are published weekly on Wednesdays when Magic School is in session (for 8 weeks every quarter)
• First quarter begins 9/22/2021
• Homework is optional but encouraged and each assignment will be reviewed at the start of the next lesson/episode.
• W2MS is episodic, not serial--some episodes do build on each other, but you do not have to listen in order.

Find me:

www.vervainandtheroses.com (subscribe to newsletter)

www.welcometomagicschool.com

IG: @welcometomagicschool (podcast) & @vervainandtheroses (personal)

My Books:

Modern Runes: Discover the Magic of Casting and Divination for Everyday Life

Essential Oil Magic: Natural Spells for the Green Witch

I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling REALLY GOOD about 2022.

I know you and I both have a lot of work to do—internally and externally—this year, but I just have a really good feeling about our ability to take care of ourselves and stick with it. I’m rooting for you, and I’m rooting for me.

That said, I know I could certainly use all the support I can get this year for my WHOLE DAMN SELF—my body, my mind, and my spirit—and wouldn’t you know, my badass boss witch friends Sam and Jennifer put together a little 3-day workshop for Whole Self Support!

I signed up for the workshop (details below!), and item number one on the agenda was this tarot/oracle spread, so I got down to business with it… and knew almost right away that I had to share my takeaways with you! I have the feeling that these messages are not JUST for me, and while I don’t expect ALL of it to resonate with you, I’d be pretty shocked if NONE of it did!

I ended up going SUPER DEEP with this one and had at LEAST two instances of Cry Sesh™ by the time it was over, so today I give you… PART ONE!

In Today's Lesson*:

• Listen to my cards call me out hardcore and use MY OWN VOICE to do it (rude!)
• Witness me having several earth-shattering and tear-inducing realizations in real time
• Find out why tf I’m finally giving astrology a chance
• A brief discussion of The Placebo Effect™ as real life magic
• Why “abundance” and “money” are not the same thing and why this MATTERS in magic and manifestation
• My struggle with being my whole authentic self on social media (bc I am grateful for you and I love you, Instagram, but also fuck you)
• Discover Evil Secret Knowledge™ regarding the making of a viral Instagram reel and the reason why I will probably never go viral again (lol)
• Probably a bunch of other stuff

*Yeah, the definition of “lesson” is getting looser around here—but you know what? This reading/divinatory coaching session is CHOCK FULL OF LESSONS. Live and learn, right? We’re living! We’re learning! Together! Let’s do this!

Resources:

• Whole Self Support Workshop - REGISTRATION DETAILS COMING SOON! Message @heartshinedivine on Instagram in the meantime if you need the hookup!
• Wanna have some major breakthroughs and maybe cry about it while being virtually held in a loving supportive way? Book a Divinatory Coaching Session with me: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/divinatory-coaching
• Get 10% OFF your session through the end of January with the code 2022ISMYYEAR
• Magic of I Astrological Planner: https://magicofi.com/
• The Muse Tarot: https://themusetarot.com/
• Try Noom (one of my most effective wellness tools): https://www.talkable.com/x/FTw6UL

Level Up with Plant Magic:

• Explore Bundles & Individual Products: https://www.myyl.com/oilcoven
• Learn more about Oil Coven: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/oilcoven

And More…

• Support my music (and by extension, this podcast) on Patreon:

Happy New Year! Or, you know, happy whenever-you-get-here!

Today’s lesson is about the very heart and center of manifestation magic: intention.

Without intention, there’s nothing to manifest! So, let’s talk about it.

In Today's Lesson:

• What is intention? Why do we need it?
• Why is it so important to know CLEARLY what you want and/or need?
• How to go deeper and determine your TRUE INTENTION and your WHY beneath the surface
• And how I’ve been fucking this all up PLUS my plan to set it right in 2022

Resources:

• Get clarity on your own intentions (and how to move forward from there) by booking a Divinatory Coaching Session with me: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/divinatory-coaching
• Manifestation Magic series: https://feeds.captivate.fm/magicschool/manifestation-magic/
• Try Noom (one of my most effective wellness tools): https://www.talkable.com/x/FTw6UL

Level Up with Plant Magic:

• Explore Bundles & Individual Products: https://www.myyl.com/oilcoven
• Learn more about Oil Coven: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/oilcoven

And More…

• Support my music (and this podcast) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vervainandtheroses/

Homework

• Subscribe, rate, & review (please)! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Welcome to Magic School can currently be reviewed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Podchaser, and Audible.
• For this week’s assignment, get clarity on your intention—both your Big Picture Vision (BPV) and your Current Primary Goal (CPG)—and tell me how it goes! Send me a voice note of your experience for a chance to be featured in a future episode.

Contact the Professor:

https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/contact

This post contains affiliate links (duh).

In Today's Lesson:

• Is sacrifice relevant to modern magical practice?
• What sort of sacrifices are helpful in manifestation magic?
• How does NEED vs. WANT affect manifestation?

Homework:

• Subscribe, rate, and review, please!
• Ask yourself the following questions:
• What are you sacrificing?
• What are you sacrificing it TO or FOR?
• Are you happy with those answers? If not, what has to change?
• For Extra Credit, ask yourself the following:
• What are you willing to sacrifice to get what you want?
• What are you willing to sacrifice to get what you NEED?

Resources:

Books:

• Modern Runes: Discover the Magic of Casting and Divination for Everyday Life by Vervain Helsdottir https://amzn.to/3qEnbCy
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo https://amzn.to/3Jq6IdB
• Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up by Marie Kondo https://amzn.to/3qAftJk
• Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie Kondo https://amzn.to/3pzCBbz
• Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui: Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever by Karen Kingston https://amzn.to/3qAN9GX
• Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff by Dana K. White https://amzn.to/3zlgclX

Online Resources:

• The Possibility Department (home of Get Your Shit Together With the Pentacle) https://thepossibilitydept.com/
• Book a Divinatory Coaching session with me: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/divinatory-coaching

Contact/Homework Submissions:

https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/contact