Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

In this episode, host Eryn Johnson talks about the energy of Taurus season and does a collective tarot reading to give us insight into the energy and invitations of this season.

Ev'Yan Whitney is a sexuality doula, sex educator, witch with a curiosity in Afro-indigenous spiritual practice and ancestral worship. Ev'Yan and host Eryn talk all things sexual liberation including questions to ask yourself to unpack shame around sex and sexuality, unpacking "shoulds" in sexuality, coming home to your sexual self in a way that feels authentic, her journey with discovering her queer identity, what we're in process with around sexual liberation, consent, and her spiritual practice.

In this episode, host Eryn Johnson dives into each of the 7 traditional chakras as portals for shadow work. You'll learn what each chakra means, what we hold there, and what questions to ask yourself to dig into the roots of blockages.

Claire Gallagher is the body astrologer. Claire and host Eryn Johnson talk about her journey of coming into her body, what medical astrology is, the sun/moon/rising through the lens of the body and our energy, astrology-based exercise, elemental body types, balancing the elements in your body, anger, how to learn aspects by trusting yourself and relying on your physical experience, astrological nutrition, being seen in this work, how we can make mystical living nuts-and-bolts practical, and more. 

Asali Earthwork joins Eryn Johnson to talk about creating intentional communities, being seen, tarot as self-care and community care, using tarot to work through grief, ancestral work and the pattern they’re working on healing, being an earthworker, rosemary as a tool to bring you back to yourself, honey as medicine, dreamwork, the medicine of the swords, Libra energy, Aries energy as the polar energy to Libra, the Emperor, the Death card, connecting with the literal meanings of tarot cards, and more.

Ep. #103: Inner Child Work: A Tarot Spread + Meditation for Inner Child Healing

Rachel Howe of Small Spells and Eryn Johnson talk about the energetic foundation of Rachel's work, why they love Reiki, the connection between creativity and spiritual practice, how creating her tarot deck shifted her relationship with the tarot, connecting your own authority to what you learn, connecting to your intuition, the transition from Pisces to Aries and Aries energy, Uranus shifting from Aries into Taurus, and working with your thoughts as tools and not letting them control you.

In this episode of the Living Open podcast from Eryn Johnson, we explore creative practice, creativity as spiritual practice, creativity in the tarot, and tarot allies for creativity.

Energy worker Ashley Stinson joins Eryn Johnson to talk energy archaeology. We talk about the mind-body-energy connection, energy archaeology, the 4 categories of bones and what they do, all things Earth Star chakra, past lives and ancestral trauma in the bones, personal and collective healing work on an energetic level, the different Earth Star grids we connect with, grounding, creating containers for energy work, fire energy, stepping into her power as a facilitator of energy and healing, and more.

This week, intuitive soul tarot reader and founder of Tarot for the Wild Soul Lindsay Mack joins Living Open. We talk about her journey of coming home to the tarot, the concept of the upgrade & blossoming in the void, tarot as an invitation, wildness in the tarot and what wildness means to her, healing through nature, tarot as a tool for trauma, cultural appropriation and decolonizing her healing practice, a medicine story around the wheel of fortune, and more.

Betsy is a soul midwife, transformational coach, teacher, intuitive and spiritual guide. In this episode we talk about the stories we tell ourselves, navigating being sensitive in the world, growing out of bad relationships as empaths, the difference between ego and intuition, the different voices in our heads and how to differentiate between them, family as the final frontier, how to feel intuition in your body, empath burnout, and she leads us through her stop drop n roll intuition exercise!

Writer and creative Lauren Maxwell and I talk about the ace of cups + loving the self, loving yourself in process of uncovering your self, shadow work and the chakras, inner child healing, grief and release, the role of forgiveness in grief, containers for uncovering the self, what her creative practice is like and its relationship with pleasure, embodiment work + shame around our bodies, trusting your body, unlearning the right/wrong binary, changing the way you talk to yourself and the Strength card.

Naomi Love is a shamanic practitioner, womb healer, herbalist, and more. We talk about holding space for healing, shame, giving our authority away to other people, intuition, giving yourself what you need, coming into presence with the earth, nature as teacher, what to do when you’re feeling disconnected from nature (especially in winter), the womb space & connection to your power, the womb connection to the matriarchal line, and she also leads us in a meditation to reconnect with nature.

In this episode, I share about all things sacral chakra. What the sacral chakra is, how to work with the sacral chakra, and the sacral chakra correspondences in the elements, astrology, and the tarot. 

Lucy North is a storyteller & breathwork facilitator who does a lot of work with the archetypal stories in Women Who Run with the Wolves & with goddesses. We talk about stories she works with during the winter, many facets of divine feminine, Baba Yaga, mothering yourself, getting to how you authentically feel with breathwork, dark goddesses to work with this time of the year (including unpacking the term “dark” and its connection to the Earth), Imbolc, Freya, connecting with your erotic power & wildnes