Lux Occult – Details, episodes & analysis

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 and much more, as well as getting into some theory about deconstructing magical operations in order to better understand how they function. We’ll ask, “can you talk shit to the gods and still have your operations work?” and discuss the Lunar Occult; and Melissa’s online group, Moon Cvlt.  Melissa will share thoughts about what it means to organize a magical community in a way that’s functional and empowers all involved. Luxa shares listener mail and an update about The Green Mushroom Project and Void House- creating a consent forward magical space for conducting group work both in person and online and investigating the magical and alchemical properties of consent. Much Love!

Thanks for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break by giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult or Buy Me a Coffee.com for a one time donation: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod?new=1 

We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to [email protected] or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/

Full Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h95drqxCh13lCeLuolqc8sirJUIDm7VTaP2c-Cd7bVU/pub

Moon Cvlt: https://www.mooncvlt.com/

The Witches Workshop by Melissa Jayne Marada https://www.highlandandhoney.com/products/the-witchs-workshop-by-melissa-jayne-madara

The Witch's Feast: A Kitchen Grimoire by Melissa Jayne Madara https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678885/the-witchs-feast-by-melissa-madara/

The Green Mushroom Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/

Find Luxa’s work published in Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience edited by Laura Tempest Zakroff and Ron Padrón https://revelore.press/product/serpents-of-circe-a-manual-to-magical-resilience/

Weird Web Radio Episode 101- Luxa Strata- Consent, Chaos Magic, Experiments and The Self https://open.spotify.com/episode/4t431wA9D1uNnM2SAUa2ci?si=rDyF_nAUR3qOYJ5LWhcB5A

Check out The Consent Academy https://www.consent.academy/

Sex and Sigil Magic 101 w/ Luxa Strata and Damian Agony, Kinkschool 2024 (November 23rd, 2024) Use code LUXA10 to get 10% off tickets!

https://www.kinkschool.ca/

Curious about steel mace flow? Check out Fourth Dimension Fitness: https://www.fourthdimensionfitness.com/

Companion Episodes of Lux Occult:

50. Kitchen Grimoires, Edible Occultism, and Erudite Hedonism w/ Melissa Madara & Divine Chaos w/ Derek Hunter https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/luxa-strata/episodes/50--Kitchen-Grimoires--Edible-Occultism--and-Erudite-Hedonism-w-Melissa-Madara--Divine-Chaos-w-Derek-Hunter-e1pgg21

85. Demons, Playing Cards & Wreck This Deck w/ Becky Annison & Secrets of Greek Mysticism w/ George Lizos https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/luxa-strata/episodes/85--Demons--Playing-Cards--Wreck-This-Deck-w-Becky-Annison--Secrets-of-Greek-Mysticism-w-George-Lizos-e2mds6s

48. The 5 Pillars of Consent w/ Zach Budd & Odin and Inclusive Heathenry w/ Lonnie Scott https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/luxa-strata/episodes/48--The-5-Pillars-of-Consent-w-Zach-Budd--Odin-and-Inclusive-Heathenry-w-Lonnie-Scott-e1m0qbr

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?

This meditation is intended for adults to listen to in a comfortable and private area where they feel confident that they won’t be interrupted. If this is not the situation for you, please consider returning to check it out when it is. Like all guided meditations, it’s not advisable to listen while driving, operating heavy machinery or doing anything else that you need to stay alert for. We’re not your dad, as they say, but be safe please! 

Thanks for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break by giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult or Buy Me a Coffee.com for a one time donation: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod?new=1 

We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to [email protected] or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/

“Get a Room With Yourself at The Green Mushroom Astral Space: A Solo-Sex Meditation for Healing, Wholeness, and Power” (meditation only) https://youtu.be/ofi5zcBsU14

Let’s Meet in the Tavern on Fungal Friday https://youtu.be/SkEejpRrf5A

The Green Mushroom Hyphosigil Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/

Audiophilia: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XdUxcimjAxkVBGc5RUT7xspaZfCMUBFOnrS1oKATKNo/pub

Check out The Consent Academy https://www.consent.academy/

Sex and Sigil Magic 101 w/ Luxa Strata and Damian Agony, Kinkschool 2024 (November 23rd, 2024). Use code LUXA10 to get 10% off tickets! https://www.kinkschool.ca/

graphic design by T. Grady https://www.instagram.com/mirthandwoe/ and theme music from Kue Varo https://kuevaro.bandcamp.com/

EYES OF YOUR EYES- Luxa Strata ft. Folds & Floods https://youtu.be/EfdQ-pJEBsg

Much Love and Mush Love to everyone participating in the project, regardless of what that looks like for you in your practice. 

Resist. 

Resist by maintaining Sovereignty of the Self. 

Resist by maintaining Love of the Self. 

Resist by maintaining fierce Loyalty to Love and Pleasure. 

Resist with acts of Radical Kindness. 

Focus on the Path to Better Times. 

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 the tradition, and some common misconceptions about Icelandic magic and it’s origins (spoiler- it’s not really viking stuff). For an episode within the episode Luxa is joined by Omega Decay https://www.instagram.com/omegadecayvideo/ to talk about Santa Muerte and his devotional practice as well as to discuss nonviolent communication and how it might lead to more effective magic as well as alchemy and  the book he has anonymously published titled Fables and Chimeras on the topic. Luxa shares about a cooperative magical protection working which will take place on June 8th, 2024 and how you can take part in it as well as giving an update about the Green Mushroom Hyphosigil project and doing listener mail and shout outs. This episode also includes an original track from “Fuck Around and Find Out pt. 2”, the We the Hallowed and Green Mushroom Project digital mixtape. Big thanks to everyone who contributed to the project. Check out the entire mix here! https://wethehallowed.bandcamp.com/album/fuck-around-find-out-2-the-green-mushroom-project-and-we-the-hallowed-digital-mixtape?from=embed

For Full show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRPERe8fxp4N_RhW5pjzAXvWFw9m4TbormfT6NbkIrKFYPRWtgtDccC27xVh5XBsJFlPVuNCgLpigBt/pub

Albert Björn Shiell’s work can be found at www.crossedcrowbooks.com (book publisher) and 

www.pellarcrafts.com where people can find his classes and courses etc.

Omega’s Book, Fables and Chimeras:

https://www.amazon.com/Fables-Chimeras-alchemy-notebook/dp/B0CX9J1ZNP/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3C8IY92PT9JMN&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.XpO31MqX2cMahXjrcRI193RkFlCoNgiFFtVASMrJFLgJ2mNRJgwilx4ATDoR3_AViXJZtvzIAZFm8zzvSdSgwz1s35wzuEAWl9YEsDkCSGcaoFeBQjRwMC-6HdqzJXA3P9wbdyEujYex8dAZiv7FbsAuGZEn3ZWBVsMscV1Z7Sq5GfypQniHQZbqr59lzPiQ_Nm8Po15o1I3d-r6SgTtxw.Xj5IIbosovoBryjPz_VTBokbFsBKNrLroWewn4nVsmU&dib_tag=se&keywords=fables%20and%20chimeras&qid=1714570578&sprefix=fables%20and%20chimera%2Caps%2C262&sr=8-1#featureBulletsAndDetailBullets_feature_div

Omega’s you tube: https://www.youtube.com/@outbreaklive4157

The Green Sphere: A Hypho-Hekatean Collaborative Working for Protection and Healing By Luxa Strata https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQsi-sqCg1RgxZWbePZ7-boZ1k0Xknnpgbzof31_KNtfegkMgLXcqGK1pZQfNm4m35xmOXKhNPm_S3t/pub

Thanks for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break by giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult or Buy Me a Coffee.com for a one time donation: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod?new=1 

We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to [email protected] or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/

Casual Temple 22: Magical Musings: EXPLORING Art, Science, and Philosophy VIA Chaos Magick for Personal Growth w/ Luxa Strata https://casualtemple.com/episodes/ep-22/

Hear Luxa and Keats Ross on Rendering Unconscious podcast: https://www.renderingunconscious.org/art/ru287-luxa-strata-keats-ross-on-23rd-mind-magic-occulture-creativity-art-podcasting/

Green Mushroom Project: Resist! https://greenmushroomproject.com/

Companion Episodes of Lux Occult:

70. Spinoza and the Sexy Dangers of Pantheism, Transdivinity & Agdistis w/ Rocket https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/luxa-strata/episodes/70--Spinoza-and-the-Sexy-Dangers-of-Pantheism--Transdivinity--Agdistis-w-Rocket-e2bnjsi

48. The 5 Pillars of Consent w/ Zach Budd & Odin and Inclusive Heathenry w/ Lonnie Scott https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/luxa-strata/episodes/48--The-5-Pillars-of-Consent-w-Zach-Budd--Odin-and-Inclusive-Heathenry-w-Lonnie-Scott-e1m0qbr

In this episode, Luxa is joined by an old friend, Scav,  to hear his thoughts on costumes, chaos magick and his practice, in general. Also, more information about The Green Mushroom Project, an ongoing group magickal working that you can be a part of! Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to [email protected] or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod.  Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease: https://www.instagram.com/the_memetic_disease/

And try the technique for yourself! https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSLceg14KnJMbDNLOj0R_5851IPu5zt-s1FaCnEk1yB1_DkQs1lyK41Id2lrKAxI8DbyFC1Y_0f4Ivq/pub

To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult

Check out Wolfgrin, Scav's side hustle on Twitter and Insta @wolffrinkult https://www.instagram.com/wolfgrinkvlt/?hl=en

The Green Mushroom Project Slide show: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRfpKtb77aI5yU1uCnkfvHC4mnCOvmmdvOhB-39XDTWXBk3m_2rWr_3Pa8ahspM4ywDTLZdSdITFCxX/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.ga619a16fc1_0_5

The Green Mushroom Project: https://regainground.wixsite.com/greenmushroomproject

Also check out the work of the collaborators on The Green Mushroom Project!

Faith Blind Council Podcast: https://www.faithblindpodcast.com/episodes Also checkout their Discord server!

Unearthing Paranormalcy Podcast: https://www.unpnormalcy.com/

Church Ov Nothing and ANQ: https://covn.tumblr.com/

WORKS CITED:

How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

In this episode of Lux Occult, Luxa is joined by Douglas Batchelor, magician, bibliophile and host of the What Magic is This? podcast to talk about everything from Discordianism, time loops, the history of the occult and the magick and worldview of the Ancient Egyptians to dreaming and expressing oneself authentically. Luxa announces an ongoing group magickal working that you can be a part of!

There were too many books to list here, so please see the show notes for WORKS CITED: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRJWnDpxTYN9_IDkg98scm9V8PAGl2-2s6Kv-lG3pL2ZhuZ2NwQPEv5_SWQLg4IffLzn9MDhgsWFZMf/pub

To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult

For tons of great info and more great book recommendations, check out the What Magic is This? Podcast  https://whatmagicisthis.com/

Check out the very cool ANQ (Pseudo-Qabalah) project: https://covn.tumblr.com/post/183583331212/anq

Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to [email protected] or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod or @the_memetic_disease.

Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease: https://www.instagram.com/the_memetic_disease/

And try the technique for yourself!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSLceg14KnJMbDNLOj0R_5851IPu5zt-s1FaCnEk1yB1_DkQs1lyK41Id2lrKAxI8DbyFC1Y_0f4Ivq/pub

Listen to Ad Hoc History, a podcast where Luxa and her brother, Asher, talk history and the personal motivations that might underlie it:  https://open.spotify.com/show/0HLqy3W7LtnuMxRxl0ei0Q

And hear Luxa and her friends, Ray and Deep, talk about sex and sexpositivity on the (very cringy) Smut’s Up podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7DwvM9RldLyJjs6yj70GLk

Luxa’s bro, Asher (host of Ad Hoc History), returns to talk more Chaos Magick concepts and practice! In this episode we talk about making Servitors as well as go into other thoughtforms like Egregores and Godforms. We also talk about Hypersigils and building your Astral Temple. We even touch on Warhammer and D&D... this is a juicy one! Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to [email protected]

Note: there were too many sources to fit here, so for the list of books and links, check out the Show Notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT279ClTe4Af1ip0CZhr91mhW3O-QqsaSXCqwKaHGFoBn2EFLHwE09wePUy9Zbs2IuWKvdwCtZk5FrS/pub

To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult

Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_memetic_disease/

And try the technique for yourself!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSLceg14KnJMbDNLOj0R_5851IPu5zt-s1FaCnEk1yB1_DkQs1lyK41Id2lrKAxI8DbyFC1Y_0f4Ivq/pub

Listen to Ad Hoc History, a podcast where Asher and Luxa talk history and the personal motivations that might underlie it:  https://open.spotify.com/show/0HLqy3W7LtnuMxRxl0ei0Q

Cover art: “The Intention to Know” Thoughtform from the book Thought-Forms by Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater

Dave Ardrey from the Unearthing Paranormalcy Podcast returns to discuss Ogham Pathworking and scrying as well as some specifics about how to use the Druid’s Wheel of the Year (The Wheel of Life) for planning rituals and invoking the energies of certain times of year. Dave and Luxa go through the Ogham fews (letters of the alphabet) and discuss some botanical aspects of each of the plants represented.

Please refer to this diagram: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQoCt0LOYrfr_-E0bdM2nQ8ied0qlD3b3HxCnXqF107MM1Oruxu1L_BPlzrJrfR9ha9iaNmBhTqVqu1/pub

Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to [email protected] or join the FB group (if you feel like it, ugh, FB). https://www.facebook.com/groups/319273195800053/?ref=bookmarks

Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease: Luxa Strata (@the_memetic_disease) • Instagram photos and videos

And try the technique for yourself! https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSLceg14KnJMbDNLOj0R_5851IPu5zt-s1FaCnEk1yB1_DkQs1lyK41Id2lrKAxI8DbyFC1Y_0f4Ivq/pub

Check out Dave’s show, the Unearthing Paranormalcy Podcast Unpnormalcy: Podcast and hear Luxa on Unearthing Paranormalcy:

https://www.unpnormalcy.com/podcast/episode/4a8e1512/105-unearthing-dion-fortune-and-the-magical-battle-of-britain-with-special-guests-fools-guide-to-the-occult

WORKS CITED: Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms by Donald J. Borror; The Botany of Desire by Michael Poland; The Drunken Botanist by Amy Srewart; Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart; Contemporary Plant Systematics, 4th ed. by Dennis Woodland; Pathworking by Ted Andrews; 

Book Of Ballymote containing the Auracept Na n’Eces by Longarad https://www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/jce/ballymote.html

With side by side translation https://archive.org/details/auraicept00calduoft/page/n17/mode/2u

Dave Ardrey from the Unearthing Paranormalcy podcast joins Luxa in this first installment of a two episode series about Druidism to discuss his path of independent Druidry and how he draws the inspiration to create from his practice and from the natural world. A somewhat short episode, but Part II will make up for that! Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to [email protected]    Or the show's new Instagram https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/

To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult

Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_memetic_disease/

And try the technique for yourself!  https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSLceg14KnJMbDNLOj0R_5851IPu5zt-s1FaCnEk1yB1_DkQs1lyK41Id2lrKAxI8DbyFC1Y_0f4Ivq/pub

Listen to Dave’s show, the Unearthing Paranormalcy Podcast Unpnormalcy: Podcast

To learn more about Druidry, visit:

Ancient Order of Druids in America – Traditional Nature Spirituality for Today

Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids | OBOD

Tribe of the Oak

Thank you to Sawsquarenoise for the use of their song "Rito Oculto". http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/p/sawsquarenoise.html

In this episode, Luxa is joined once again by special guest, Asher, host of the Ad Hoc History podcast and also her brother! An exploration of more Chaos Magick concepts- Models of Magick and how Divination might work within them. We also talk about some pitfalls to avoid, plus more bibliomancy and a discussion about the ethics of sorcery! We close out with some stuff to try  and some tips about automatic writing. 

To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult

Thank you so much for listening to Lux Occult! Write in with your thoughts, questions or suggestions!

[email protected]

Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease

On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_memetic_disease/

And try the tech yourself!

Protocol for the Memetic Disease Project Tech

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRvTsYoDX3pSZnrxssg0_T_SVRRz-Luk1v2lYWVecIOysLahdUTkFLrwIwcuNI7HsGaucWISgul9D62/pub

Check out Asher and Luxa’s show, Ad Hoc History: It’s not the history podcast you wanted, it's the one you deserve!

https://open.spotify.com/show/0HLqy3W7LtnuMxRxl0ei0Q

Works Cited:

Liber Null and Psychonaut by Peter J. Carroll

Visual Magick: A Manual of Freestyle Shamanism by Jan Fries

The Writings of Austin Osman Spare by Austin Osman Spare

Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine

The Big Bang by Joseph Silk

S.S.O.T.B.M.E. Revised, an Essay on Magic Edited and Revised by Ramsey Dukes

Real Magic by Dean Radin

Principia Discordia- Malaclypse The Younger

This was the documentary we argue about in the episode:

Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods - Official Full Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZcflWe6Fhc

Hello and welcome to Lux Occult, a podcast where we gleefully taunt the mundane, butcher the Latin language and also discuss a variety of occult topics! This show, and magick, is FOR YOU, if you want- there are lots of ways to be more free and magick can be one. In this episode, Luxa explains some core concepts of Chaos Magick to her brother, and host of the Ad Hoc History Podcast, Asher. *PS sorry about the sound quality, had some tech issues on this one.

Send your questions, thoughts and comments to: [email protected]

To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult

Check out Luxa's sigil project on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_memetic_disease/  and read the protocol for the technique here https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRvTsYoDX3pSZnrxssg0_T_SVRRz-Luk1v2lYWVecIOysLahdUTkFLrwIwcuNI7HsGaucWISgul9D62/pub

Sources Cited:

The Writings of Austin Osman Spare by Austin Osman Spare

Liber Null and Psychonaut by Peter J. Carroll

Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine

Hands on Chaos Magic by Andriech Vitimus

Advanced Magick for Beginners by Alan Chapman

Living Thelema by David Shoemaker

Psychonaut Field Manual A Cartoon Guide to Chaos Magick by Arch-Traitor Bluefluke (here is a link to a pdf of this, one can find it all over the internet though) https://www.scribd.com/document/260337963/Psychonaut-Field-Manual-a-Cartoon-Guide-to-Chaos-Magick)

Artwork by Austin Osman Spare AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com