Strange Magic Podcast

Find out more about the steamy Cards of the Year combo for 2019: The Empress and the Hanged One. You'll also get more intel on how to apply YOUR cards of the year to your own life, and how to use them in your magical practice. Sarah and Amanda dish on what they expect from THEIR cards of the year and how they handled their cards from 2018. You'll also find out more about what to expect in their upcoming Intention Setting Workshop.

The Chariot card teaches us how to align our will so that we can accomplish our goals. A protective symbol, the Charioteer helps us establish healthy boundaries and tame our fiercest inner (and outer) critics. In this episode, you'll also find out more about our first digital workshop of 2019, Intention Setting for New Cycles. This workshop will get you all set to start to New Year off right. Find out more by copying and pasting the following link into your browser: https://modernwomen.bigcartel.com

In this episode, Amanda and Sarah discuss Key 6: The Lovers. We talk about the history and evolution of this card, and what that can teach us. We talk about ways to relate to this archetype and ways to make magic with it. We announce our first digital workshop of 2019, which you can sign up for below, in the show notes, or by copying and pasting: https://modernwomen.bigcartel.com

In this episode, Amanda and Sarah talk about some ways they are consciously building inclusive Tarot practices. This episode was borne out of many conversations we've had about politics, social justice, and magic.

In this episode, Amanda and Sarah discuss Key 5: The Hierophant. The Hierophant, also known as “The Pope” or "The High Priest", corresponds to teachers, edicts, learning, the work of the soul, and working within (and/or without) institutions. We talk about why people don't always love this card, and different ways to think about working with this card so that you may step into its potency.

In this episode, Amanda and Sarah discuss Key 4 in the Major Arcana of the Tarot: The Emperor. The Emperor is structure, stability, planning, and well, empires. We talk about the patriarchy, power, and ways to work with this card positively, and magically. How can we reimagine power, and take up space in our own life? The Emperor can help us think about creating the world we want. Tune in to hear much, much more!

The Empress is the Queen of Queens. Like the HIgh Priestess she sits, but her throne is in nature, and it is daytime. She is mother earth, she is Venus, she is love and creation and sex and generative processes. She’s an open rose, one who has been pollinated and is activated by pollination. She’s sex, pleasure and the pursuit of. The integration of all the cards before her, she is ego and intuition, personal power and surrender. Find out more ways to work with her and for her, in this episode.

Your Questions Answered! In this episode, your hosts Amanda & Sarah take on a couple of listener questions. We talk about why it is challenging to answer a spiritual or spell-based question over a DM, and go into some deeper themes behind the workings of a spell. A beautiful question is discussed where we advise a listener on how to think about embarking on deity work and worship. We talk about different ways to connect to source, spirit, and ways to view the various tools of magick.

The High Priestess is a guide who often appears to us when we feel lost or abandoned. She teaches us how to utilize our intuition to navigate our way out of the underworld. As the witchiest card in a tarot deck, the High Priestess is magic itself, she can help us heal, and transform our world in the spirit of service. Tune in if you're ready to meet your deepest witch self.

Holiday episode! Tune in to learn about Samhain, the witches' New Year, otherwise known as Halloween. We talk about what it means to us, rituals we use, and a special bonus discussion about hexing.

So, you've taken the first step of your journey and now you're like, "What do I do next?" The Magician teaches us how to use what we have available to us to manifest our desires. But beware... he can also be hustling snake oil (e.g. teaching you how to sell workshops on how to sell workshops). Listen to this episode if you want to get some cards up your sleeve.

What can you do if you don't know what you're doing? The Fool knows. Tune in to this episode to learn about Major Arcana 0, and how he/she/THEY can help you leap into the void with confidence.

Before we begin, please note that this episode was recorded before the SCOTUS confirmation hearings. The card of this year is Justice (Major Arcana 11). Yeah. Topical, right? In any case, join us as we discuss how to calculate your Soul Card, your Year Card and THE Card of the Year - what it means, controversies, karma, what justice is? Do we get justice through punishment and revenge, or through restoration of balance. We’d love to hear your thoughts via our Social Media pages.

Join us for our very first episode of Strange Magic where we introduce ourselves and our podcast and describe what you can expect throughout our podcast season. We share our perspectives on where magic is right now, how we see witchcraft, what to expect from a tarot reading, and a few tips on how to use tarot in your magical practice. Tune in and say hi.