Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

Kathleen Callahan is a Philly-based astrologer, tarot reader, and IET practitioner. In this episode, we talk about moving through grief and grief in the tarot, the pre-patriarchal version of Persephone’s story, what her 2018 Empress/World year taught her, social media & competition, collective Hanged Man lessons for 2019 that we’re stepping into, what evolutionary astrology is, where you should look in your natal chart for clues about shadow work and past lives, and the importance of Pluto.

This week artist, witch, and creator of Dark Days Tarot Wren McMurdo joins Living Open to talk astrology, the dark moon, her creative process, Dark Days Tarot, being who you truly are, and tarot archetypes including the Lovers, the Devil, and the Hanged Human.

Elise Entzenberger of La Mystica Tarot is a writer, artist, and tarot reader who helps psychospiritual practitioners deprogram their fear and blocks to step into their power and voice. In this episode, we talk about the importance of integration, psychedelics & healing trauma, healing your relationship with money, redefining success as a psychospiritual practitioner, common threads of blocks and struggles she sees among psychospiritual practitioners in her work, core wounds as gateways & the Empress.

In this episode, I share a few words about the winter solstice (which is tomorrow, December 21st!) and 4 rituals to honor this sacred sabbat. | Winter Solstice Rituals

Tarot reader, Reiki Master, 13th Octave LaHoChi master, Breathwork facilitator, and creator of Ostara Apothecary Jordan Pagán joins host Eryn Johnson to talk about cultural appropriation. We talk about her work healing personal trauma, how to choose teachers to work with, decolonizing your healing practice including shame that can come up around this, resistance to looking at the shadow side, 13th Octave LaHoChi, her relationship with the tarot, deprogramming needing to be strong and tough, and more. 

If you ever feel like a fraud or experience imposter syndrome, this episode is for you. It includes tarot allies for feeling like a fraud, practical tips for working with this particular contraction, and collective medicine for feeling like a fraud. 

Raechel Anne Jolie is an educator, writer, activist, and a queer femme witch. Her work focuses on social movements, prison abolition, media, liberation magic, and she was selected as a 2019 witch-in-residency at The Future where she will be creating The Prison Arcana Tarot zine in collaboration with her incarcerated pen-pal, Krazybwoy. In this episode, we talk about the Prison Arcana Tarot Zine and the relationship between prison abolition and magic as well as her personal journey to witchcraft.

Tarot reader Rash Tramble of Stay Woke Tarot joins Living Open to talk all things tarot. We discuss how her relationship with the tarot has shifted from reading for other people, making your own magic, people pleasing, not giving away your power, her writing practice, her relationship with change, and a whole bunch of different cards including the Wheel of Fortune, Death, the High Priestess and 7 of Wands. 

In this episode, I explore the medicine of the Queen of Cups. The Queen of Cups is mutable water, Pisces in the court cards of the tarot. This archetype brings its own unique medicine around our internal landscape, subconscious, psychic abilities, and feelings. 

Healing Guide, Intuitive Channel & Depth Hypnosis Practitioner Rhiannon Morsch joins Eryn to talk about working with personal trauma to heal the collective experience. We talk about what it means to be an intuitive channel, healing her matrilineal line, how to work with new traumas so they don't get shoved down and rejected, reprogramming your subconscious, the 6 of swords & deprogramming, energetic boundaries, and healing sexual trauma, self-judgment, and shame. TW: sexual trauma, rape.

In this episode, I share 12 ways to release negative energy from your body. We absorb so much throughout our days, and we have to find outlets to release so this energy doesn't keep building up. 

Reiki, breath, & sound practitioner Liana Naima talks standing at the center of the circle and finding your liberation. We talk about how she came to this work, developing confidence as a healer, bringing your intuitive gifts to light, creating a safe container for people, sacred cacao ceremony, what it means to embody the tarot's Strength card, her current Saturn return, remembering your power, her astrology, shifting and shedding identity, & detaching and releasing hierarchy in healing work.

Energy worker and medicine woman Koa Mikaelah born into a lineage of curanderas from South America shares her wisdom on ancestral healing and following your own story. We talk about her work around healing ancestral trauma, honoring roots and traditions that her grandmothers passed down, her astrology, what she’s working with now, the nonlinear process of healing, advice for opening up your channel and connecting with intuition, the divine feminine, healing yourself, her work with plant medicine.

Writer, improviser and artist Marlee Grace joins Living Open to talk about unblocking creativity and how to not always be working. In this episode, we talk about letting things die and evolve into something new, evolving your relationship with social media, the role of movement in her life, making art even in these horrifying times, working with creativity and unblocking creativity, giving ideas room to breathe, social media + imposter syndrome, how to not always be working, softening your heart, and more.

It's my birthday! In this episode I reflect on my growth over the past year, lessons learned, and the tarot cards I'm leaving and stepping into.