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Chats with Aunt Jacki

Jacki Smith

Society & Culture

Religion & Spirituality

Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 11

I’m Jacki Smith, but you can call me Aunt Jacki. After thirty years of building a life around being a witch, I’ve learned that magic isn’t an escape from your reality—it’s the way you master it.

Chats with Aunt Jacki is a space for honest conversations about how we navigate today’s world using the tools of the magic. We’re talking about the real stuff: the Akashic Records, conjure, candles, and the grit of spell crafting. I’m sharing my own journey, the struggles, successes, and the "notes from the field" I’ve gathered along the way, to help you listen to your own intuition.

Each episode, I’ll tackle the topics on our hearts and minds, sometimes joined by fellow practitioners to compare notes on how we stay grounded while working with the unseen. Practical magic for the life you’re actually living.

Pull up a chair. You’re already more magical than you think.

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🇨🇦 Canada - philosophy
27/06/2026
#62
🇬🇧 Great Britain - philosophy
26/06/2026
#81

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When Family Patterns Surface: Shadow Work with Adult Children

Season 1 · Episode 10

Monday, June 22, 2026 • Duration 19:46

The hardest family pattern to recognize may be the one where we realize we are part of someone else’s story.

In this episode of Chats with Aunt Jacki, Jacki Smith explores family patterns, shadow work, ancestral healing, and the uncomfortable moment when we stop being only the child trying to understand our parents — and become the parent our adult child may be trying to understand.

After teaching about inherited beliefs, family legacies, ancestral contracts, and healing family patterns through the Akashic Records, Jacki reflects on the humbling truth that our children may not experience us the way we experience ourselves. This is especially tender in mother daughter relationships, parent and adult child relationships, and any family dynamic where love, grief, boundaries, repair, and old wounds live side by side.

We know our intentions. They know their experience. Both can be true.

This episode is an honest conversation about motherhood, adult children, impact versus intention, emotional healing, spiritual healing, distance, repair, grief, humility, and the magic of asking better questions before we defend the wound.

Because family patterns are not museum pieces. They are living things.

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Are you Making it up? Understanding Akashic Records, Intuition, and Inner Knowing

Season 1 · Episode 9

Monday, June 8, 2026 • Duration 34:50

Most people imagine the Akashic Records as a giant cosmic filing cabinet — distant, mysterious, and only accessible to the extra-special spiritually attuned.

That is not how I experience them.

In this episode, I’m talking about the Akashic Records from lived experience: what they are, what they are not, and how they can help us understand the patterns, fears, blocks, and old stories shaping our lives. I share how I first found myself working in the Records, why consent matters deeply in this work, and how to tell the difference between anxious mental storytelling and true Akashic insight.

We’ll also talk about intuition, psychic information, mediumship, imagination, grounding, and why the Records are not here to help you spy on other people or bypass common sense. They are here to help you understand yourself more honestly.

Because sometimes the wisdom you need does not arrive as a lightning bolt.

Sometimes it feels like memory.

Sometimes it sounds like a strange symbol.

Sometimes it starts with the question, “Am I making this up?”

And sometimes, that is exactly where the door opens.

You can learn more about my work, book an Akashic Reading, or find my book DIY Akashic Wisdom at auntjacki.com.

Until next time, trust your magic and keep your candle lit.

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Chats with Aunt Jacki Trailer

Season 1

Monday, March 30, 2026 • Duration 02:39

After 33 years of defining her life through the wax and wicks of Coventry Creations, Jacki Smith is stepping away from the factory floor to open the books. By transitioning manufacturing to the trusted hands at Type 40 Vending, Jacki has cleared the space to do the one thing the warehouse wouldn't allow: dedicate 100% of her time to the Akashic Records.

Chats with Aunt Jacki is a seat at the kitchen table for real-life magic. No fluff, no vague theories—just lived-in tools for candle magic, conjure, and soul-work that actually fits into your everyday life. Pull up a chair. The books are open.

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The Energetic Purity Trap: Your Pain Isn’t Proof Your Magic Failed

Season 1 · Episode 8

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 • Duration 38:50

You were never meant to be calm, perfect, and high-vibe before your magic was allowed to work.

What if your pain isn’t blocking your magic, but trying to tell you where the spell begins?

In this episode of Chats with Aunt Jacki, I’m joined by Laura Tempest Zakroff for the final conversation in the Protection Magic for Women series. Together, we unpack the energetic purity trap, the damaging idea that anger, grief, fear, overwhelm, or messy human emotion means your vibration is wrong, your magic has failed, or you are somehow the problem.

We talk about why “high vibration” language can become another ranking system, how shame interrupts magic, and why real witchcraft brings us back into the body, the land, our tools, our communities, and our actual lives. Laura shares wisdom on sigil magic, embodied practice, magical resistance, shadow work, and why sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is simply do the thing, make the mess, and learn from it.

This conversation is about reclaiming magic from perfectionism, purity culture, spiritual bypassing, and the myth that you have to be healed, calm, or perfectly aligned before you are allowed to be powerful.

Your pain is not proof your magic failed.
Your fear is not proof you are broken.
Your mess is not the opposite of magic.

Sometimes, it is where the working begins.

Learn more about Laura Tempest Zakroff at lauratempestzakroff.com.

Learn more about Jacki Smith, book an Akashic reading, or find more episodes at AuntJacki.com.

Until next time, trust your magic and keep your candle lit.

Protection Magic for Women: Trust the Signal Before the Spell

Season 1 · Episode 7

Monday, May 18, 2026 • Duration 33:40

Protection magic is not just about what you put on your altar, hang over your door, or carry in your pocket.

Sometimes protection begins much earlier than the spell.

It begins in the moment something feels off and you decide not to talk yourself out of it.

In this episode of Chats with Aunt Jacki, I sit down with beloved author, folklorist, and magical teacher Judika Illes for a conversation about protection magic, women’s power, self-trust, fear, discernment, and what it means to stop apologizing for being a witch with claws.

Judika is the author of many essential books on magic, folklore, spirits, and spellwork, including The Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells and Pure Magic. Her work has helped shape modern magical practice by bringing historical, folkloric, and practical magic into the hands of real people living real lives.

We talk about:

Why protection magic is one of the oldest forms of magic
What magic can and cannot do when danger is real
Why “harm none” does not apply to every magical path
The problem with the “good witch” and the declawed version of magic
How women have been trained to doubt their own instincts
Why fear is not always the enemy
How intuition can be damaged by abuse, gaslighting, and conditioning
Simple daily protection practices that help rebuild self-trust
Judika’s Protection Spells deck and how portable magic can support people in real-world moments

This conversation is part of my ongoing series with magical women about protection, power, and what it means to claim yourself in a world that often teaches women to stay quiet, stay nice, and stay unsure.

Because the first protection spell may not be the candle, the charm, or the ritual.

It may be believing yourself.

You can find Judika Illes through her books wherever books are sold, and on social media.

Protection Magic for Women: The Motherline Has Your Back with Cairelle Perilloux

Season 1 · Episode 6

Monday, May 11, 2026 • Duration 42:48

Where do you go for protection when life gets hard?

In this episode of Chats with Aunt Jacki, I sit down with Cairelle Perilloux, author of The Magic in Your Genes and the upcoming Motherline Grimoire, to talk about ancestor magic, the maternal line, inherited survival patterns, and the deep protection carried through generations of women.

This conversation is about power, lineage, boundaries, and remembering that you are not starting from zero.

When something goes wrong, when you feel scared, depleted, threatened, or unsure, where do you go for protection?

A spell?
A crystal?
Your anger?
A trusted friend?
Your own stubborn refusal to fold?

In this episode of Chats with Aunt Jacki, I’m joined by Cairelle Perilloux, author of The Magic in Your Genes and the upcoming Motherline Grimoire, for a powerful conversation about protection, power, and the ancestral strength carried through the maternal line.

Cairelle is a genealogist, integrative RN, and magical practitioner whose work brings together ancestry, DNA, science, magic, and deep spiritual relationship. Together, we talk about the motherline, the women who came before us, and the patterns we inherit, both the ones that protect us and the ones we are here to interrupt.

We explore how women have survived through silence, back-channel communication, intuition, endurance, adaptation, and fierce quiet strength. We also talk about what changes when protection stops being automatic fear and becomes conscious choice.

This conversation moves through boundaries, inherited compliance, medical advocacy, ancestor altars, mitochondrial DNA, the power of naming your mothers, and what it means to walk through the world aware, but unafraid.

When the System Breaks, We Build Circles Power, Protection, and Why You Can’t Do This Alone

Season 1 · Episode 5

Monday, May 4, 2026 • Duration 42:54

When the system breaks, we don’t wait to be saved. We build circles.

Every week, another story breaks that confirms what many of us have always known—this world was not built with women’s safety in mind.

In this episode of Chats with Aunt Jacki, I sit down with Byron Ballard—folklorist, author, and longtime voice in the magical community—for a real conversation about what’s happening right now. Not in theory. Not in headlines. In lived experience.

We talk about “Tower Time”—what it means when the systems we’ve relied on are cracking, and why this moment isn’t about fixing what’s broken. It’s about seeing clearly what was never built to hold us in the first place.

This conversation goes into hard territory:

the visibility of organized harm against women
the conditioning that keeps us quiet or compliant
the ways fear, isolation, and distraction keep us from acting

And then we move into what actually matters.

Power.
Protection.
And the truth most people don’t say out loud:

We don’t do this alone.

If the system isn’t going to keep you safe, then the question becomes—what does?

We talk about grounding, energetic protection, and why community is not a luxury. It’s the work. It’s the protection. It’s how we move forward from here.

If you’ve been feeling unsettled, questioning what you’re seeing, or trying to figure out where your power actually is in all of this—you’re not wrong. And you’re not alone.

And if you’re at a place where you need clarity, perspective, or help sorting through what’s yours and what isn’t, you can connect with me for a reading at

Protection Magic for Women: This Is How We Protect Ourselves Now

Season 1 · Episode 4

Monday, April 27, 2026 • Duration 43:40

This is the first conversation in a new series on protection magic for women.

Not just spells. Not just mindset.

We’re talking about what protection actually looks like in real life—awareness, boundaries, physical safety, and the ways women move through the world every day.

In this episode, I’m talking with Amy Blackthorn about protection on every level:
mental, physical, and magical.

This isn’t about fear.

It’s about being aware, prepared, and in your own power.

Because protection isn’t one thing you do.
It’s how you move through your life.

If this is something you’ve been navigating, you can go deeper with me here: https://auntjacki.com/book-a-reading.html

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You Don’t Get Out of Life Undamaged (And Neither Does Anyone Else)

Season 1 · Episode 3

Monday, April 20, 2026 • Duration 37:18

You don’t get out of life undamaged.
And if you’re honest… you’ve done damage too.

In this episode of Chats with Aunt Jacki, I sit down with Amy Blackthorn to talk about the part of growth most people avoid—the truth about shadow work.

Not the aesthetic version.
Not the “I journaled and feel better” version.

The real version.

We get into what it actually means to carry wounds, defensiveness, and patterns through life—and the harder truth: how those same wounds shape the way we impact other people.

This conversation moves through:

Why shadow work feels so intimidating (and why that’s a lie)
The difference between being hurt… and doing harm
How trauma responses quietly run your life
Why “healing” isn’t about fixing the past—it’s about changing your future
How working with plant allies can make shadow work feel supported instead of overwhelming

Amy shares the heart behind her new book Blackthorn’s Botanical Shadow Work and how she reframes this work into something grounded, relational, and actually doable.

This isn’t about becoming perfect.
It’s about becoming aware enough to stop repeating what hurt you.

If you’ve been avoiding your own shadow—or you’re tired of doing the same work over and over—this is the conversation that will shift something.

Listen in. Then decide what you’re ready to face.

Subscribe for more real conversations about magic, growth, and doing the work that actually changes your life.

shadow work, emotional healing, trauma response, personal growth, Amy Blackthorn, plant magic

The 90's Survivalist Roots of Modern Magic

Season 1 · Episode 2

Monday, April 13, 2026 • Duration 28:52

We didn’t build the modern witchcraft movement so it could stay in the shadows or look good on an Instagram feed. We built it so magic could become a lifeline.

In this episode of Chats with Aunt Jacki, Jacki Smith strips away the "aesthetic" of modern witchcraft to reveal the gritty, grassroots reality of the 1990s. Before information was free and shops were on every corner, magic was practiced in church basements and secret hotel rooms. Jacki honors the "Mighty Dead" and the elders who took real-world risks to normalize the word Witch.

But this isn't just a history lesson. Jacki connects the dots between the secrecy of the past and the current struggle for trans and non-binary visibility. If your magic doesn't have room for the ultimate alchemy—transforming your reality to match your inner truth—then what is it for?

Inside the Episode:

The 90s Underground: Calling landlines in search of mugwort and hiding pentagrams under work clothes.
The Myth of Gatekeeping: Why the "survivalist era" focused on what actually worked, not what looked good.
The Alchemy of Identity: Why the trans community is currently performing the highest grade of magic.
A Call to Protection: Recognizing that our visibility is a hard-won luxury we must use to protect others.

About Jacki Smith: Jacki Smith is the founder of Coventry Creations and the author of Coventry Magic with Candles, Oils, and Herbs. For over 30 years, she has been a leader in the magical community, dedicated to normalizing the practice of magic and the path of the Witch.

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