You Are The Spell – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In this episode, I'm excited to chat with Astrea Taylor, one of my favorite witchy authors! She is the author of Intuitive Witchcraft, Inspiring Creativity Through Magick, Air Magick, Modern Witchcraft with the Greek Gods, and The Magic Bell.
She's an eclectic/intuitive pagan witch whose life goals include empowering other witches and encouraging them to use intuition in their witchcraft.
She has also published passages in Mastering Magick, The Witches' Companion, Witchology, Green Egg, The Witches' Calendar, The Witch's Almanac, and several other periodicals and books. Sometimes, she blogs as Starlight Witch on Patheos.
When she's not co-leading the Aurora Fire dance group, she presents workshops and rituals at festivals across the country.
Learn more at AstreaTaylor.com.

Here's a little Storytime video about how I accidentally joined a Christian vlogger group, and then performed a Future You Timeline Jump spell to get out of it!Sign up to the "Future You" Grimoire and Workbook at https://RedSoulflower.com/future

The days are getting shorter, the temperature is feeling cooler, and Starbucks is selling Pumpkin Spice Lattes again. You know that means, right?

That the Season of the Witch is approaching!

In today’s episode of “You Are The Spell”, I’m talking about Mabon, also known as the Autumn Equinox.

Mabon is a pagan holiday and one of the eight annual festivals celebrated within the Witches’ Wheel of the Year. It falls around September 21st or 22nd in the Northern Hemisphere and marks the point in the year when day and night are approximately equal in length, signifying the changing of the seasons from summer to autumn.

It’s a time to give thanks for the harvest and to honor the balance between light and darkness. It's a time to appreciate the fruits of the earth, reflect on the changing cycles of life, and prepare for the colder months ahead. 

I’m hosting a free equinox ritual this Friday, Sept 22nd at 7pm ET. If you can’t make it live, the replay will be available. Sign up now at https://RedSoulflower.com/fall

For the past few months, I’d been feeling burned out spiritually. It’s not something I was advertising, but I had been feeling kinda run down. 

In my usual Capricorn way, I tried to push through it. But as you know, pushing through is how we get burned out in the first place, and therefore, not the solution. 

If you’re listening to this podcast,  you’re also on some kind of spiritual journey, and you and I both know that it’s impossible to pour from an empty cup. 

If I call myself a spiritual teacher, how can I teach if I’m feeling disconnected from Spirit? How can I teach something if I don’t believe it?

It took me a while, but I eventually found ways to pour back into myself. 

Now that I’m feeling energized again, I decided to take a pause and talk about spiritual burnout, because I knew that I wasn’t the only one out there dealing with it. 

So in today’s episode, we’ll explore the causes, and signs of spiritual burnout, and strategies to overcome it.

I hope that this episode can help you on your path.

If you'd like to take my free 5 day email spellcrafting course, sign up at https://RedSoulflower.com/spell

Lammas, also known as Lughnasadh, is a traditional festival celebrated on August 1st (or thereabouts) in the Northern Hemisphere and February 1st in the Southern Hemisphere.

Lughnasadh is a pagan holiday associated with the god Lugh (Lú) in ancient Celtic mythology, and one of the eight Wiccan sabbats during the year. 

The name "Lammas" is derived from the Old English term "hlafmaesse," which means "loaf mass" and emphasizes the importance of the first wheat harvest and offering loaves of bread to the church.

Lammas is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals of the Celtic calendar and marks the beginning of the harvest season. It is a cross-quarter day, falling halfway between the summer solstice (Litha) and the autumn equinox (Mabon).

Lammas is also known as  Lughnasadh, (pronounced "LOO-nah-sa), a pagan holiday associated with the god Lugh (Lú) in ancient Celtic mythology, and one of the eight Wiccan sabbats during the year. 

Over the last few episodes, I’ve focused on how to create your own personalized and powerful spells. In other words, magickal spells that only YOU could create!

Part 1 was about Alignment, which is the process of bringing your thoughts, feelings, and actions into harmony with the intentions of your spell.

In Part 2 I talked about the importance of the natural elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water.

Part 3 was about Sympathetic magick, also known as imitative magick, which all magickal spells use at some point. 

Part 4 I talked about how the body is a magick wand, and how your senses enhance your power

Part 5 was about magickal timing. 

While these episodes gave a foundation of what spells incorporate, you may find yourself asking, “what do I do now??”

So for Part 6, the final episode in this spellcrafting series, is “Put It All Together”! How to use everything you’ve learned to create your own spells!

If you want to learn more about using magickal timing in your spells, sign up for my spellcraft mini-course at ⁠https://RedSoulflower.com/spell⁠

Litha, also known as Midsummer or Summer Solstice (between June 20th and June 23rd each year) marks the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere (for those in the southern hemisphere, it’s your Winter Solstice), it also marks an important transition point in Earth’s seasonal cycle. It’s a time when fertile energy is at its peak, and all around us, new life is rapidly growing. 

It's also the first day of Cancer Season. Hello Summer!

The festival of Litha is a way of honoring the fertile energy of nature and celebrating the beauty and magic of our natural world. Litha is also called Sun Moon Summer Solstice, which means that the day of the full moon is at its longest length while the days grow shorter.

On the Wheel of the Year, this marks the time when the seeds have been sown and begin to grow in abundance The important theme of Litha is being grateful for the abundance in your life.

From Litha, the days become gradually shorter until Yule when the days begin to grow steadily longer again.

Litha is typically a bright and exciting celebration. It celebrates the growing crops, the Sun, abundance, and the first day of Summer!

I encourage you to celebrate the Summer Solstice as a way of honoring nature’s incredible fertile energy at this time of year, and as a way to connect with our natural world on a deeper, more meaningful level. I truly believe that by recognizing and celebrating the little shifts in Earth’s natural rhythms, we can become more attuned to nature and feel more grounded in our everyday lives.

To sign up for the free Summer Solstice manifestation ritual (and replay), go to https://RedSoulflower.com/summer

You can get the free Beginner's Guide to Witchy Gardening at https://RedSoulflower.com/6herbs

You’ve probably heard the saying, “Timing is everything”, and it’s true. But it’s especially true when it comes to magick. Whether it’s the astrological season, the phases of the moon, or even the days of the week, you can plan your spells and rituals to be in alignment with the energies that are the strongest in real time. 

If you imagine the astrological seasons as a clock in the sky, you will discover that certain times of the year provide the best energies for certain manifestation rituals.

From Aries to Pisces, each astrological season provides approximately 30 days to work through a particular energy that is the strongest. Even if the astrological season isn’t your sun sign, you can still tap into its energy.

You can perform spells and rituals that are aligned with the best timing. Mundane actions taken at the right time will also be more likely to bear fruit.

One of my favorite magickal tools is aligning my desires with the monthly New Moons, which is a great time to plan. In my membership group, Magickal YOU, we have a monthly Crayon Coven for the New Moon. During this live session, we talk about the energies that are strongest, set intentions, draw and color in the monthly sigil, and then activate it within a group manifestation ritual.

The way I see it, Working with the seasons is like shopping at a farmer’s market. You might be in the mood for strawberries, but watermelon happens to be in season. 

If you had your heart set on strawberries, you can get frozen strawberries at the grocery store, but it won’t have the same energy as fresh watermelon.

By going with the flow, and harnessing the energy that the season presents to you, the fruit salad that you create will taste amazing.

If you want to learn more about using magickal timing in your spells, sign up for my spellcraft mini-course at https://RedSoulflower.com/spell

You may have heard the saying: “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” But have you ever considered what that really means? 

To me, that’s a reminder of how we are made of spirit. When you think about it,  no matter what your physical body looks like, tall, short, slim or thick, your spirit is the best part of you.

When we die, all that’s left of us is a shell of skin and bones, while our spirit, the thing that animates that shell, goes somewhere else. Many of us believe that our spirit lives on forever.

There is a school of thought that says that each of us, before we incarnated on this earth as humans, our spirit agreed that we have some kind of work to do while we are here. And that this is work that we wouldn’t be able to do without this physical body. Our spirit could be floating around in the astral plane somewhere, but it might not be able to see, touch, taste, dance, sing, scream, listen, etc, without having a physical body to express its needs.

Thinking about this now, it reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend earlier this week who admitted that she was just starting to get comfortable with her body, and what it looked like in a bathing suit. At the time, I said that our bodies are the only one we have, so we might as well make peace with it.

We were talking about summer bodies and how they looked in bathing suits, but when I now view this conversation through the lens of how our body is a home for our divine essence, I feel surprisingly less self-conscious.

Think about it. What does your size or shape really have to do with your soul’s Divine Mission? I’m pretty sure that my Divine Mission isn’t to be a supermodel. 

If anything, my Divine Mission is to live a life of my own choosing, and inspire others to do the same. And having a belly and big thighs isn’t keeping me from doing that. So the summer is gonna get whatever body I bring to it.

And my spirit is gonna tell me what it wants, and I’m gonna listen to it.

If you want to learn more about writing your own magick spells, sign up for my free 5-day spellcraft mini-course at RedSoulflower.com/spell

Have you ever wondered how magick works?

Me either, but I have my theories, and it all comes down to sympathetic magick and correspondences.

"What's that?", you ask.

Sympathetic magick, also known as imitative magick, is based on imitation or correspondence. Any time you perform a spell, you are manipulating objects or performing actions that influence your desired outcome.

In magick, correspondence is the belief that there is a natural connection between different things, such as planets, herbs, colors, crystals, and symbols. 

When performing a spell, a spiritual practitioner stacks as many correspondences as possible, and the resulting ritual would represent them and their desired outcome. 

When planning your next spell, take into account how many correspondences you use. The more you can layer into your ritual, the more powerful it will be.

If you want to learn more about using correspondence in your spells, sign up for my free 5-day spellcraft mini-course at RedSoulflower.com/spell