Hello, welcome to Practically Magick. I'm excited today to be doing something a little bit different. We're gonna do some crafting today so while I'm talking about our subject I'll show you some things that we're making and talk about the Wheel of the Year turned to the harvest season. We're gonna start today's episode as we always do with pulling a card and today I'm using the everyday witch tarot. We're in my dining room so if you think it looks a little different or you hear some odd noises here and there just know we're in a different part of my house and that's why and that's what's gonna happen.

Maybe we'll have guests joining us unexpectedly as we're here in the middle of the house, the hearth, the central part of the house. So the tarot that we're going to pull today if you haven't been watching my show I pull a card and we are going to trust that this card is just right for you and the message that it gives you is just what you need today no matter what time of year or when you happen upon this episode. Alright and I never know what the card is gonna be ahead of time only a few times have we pulled a card ahead of time so oh okay I have a couple of background stories to go with this card so if you are watching on YouTube you can see what the card looks like this fantastic knight of cups riding a broom over shark-infested waters with his cup that is overflowing with heart bubbles. Do you know what this makes me think of and I don't know if anyone else remembers this but when I was a kid growing up we used to listen to Dr. Laura.

Yes very conservative AM radio Dr. Laura she wrote books like The Proper Karen Beating of Husbands you can you can go ahead and comment and write in on your thoughts about that I will probably agree with you if you have anything to say about good old Dr. Laura but what I do remember from growing up is that Dr. Laura used to say something to women about choosing a husband or choosing a mate choosing a person to be their person and she used to say this thing microphones like creeping away from me here she used to say this thing where she say pick someone who would swim across shark-infested waters to bring you a lemonade like that's how you know that they were really truly a committed loyal loving person to be your person right and not bad advice I mean overall find someone who's really that that committed to you but there's a shark in the water on this card and I do think of the night of cups as grand gestures of love grand gestures of emotional commitment so I think that works perfectly a lot of times when I'm doing card readings on a live tick tock I get a lot of questions like is so-and-so really into me is so-and-so going to come back to me I also happen to be on forums with people who are just at the beginning stages of engaging with witchcraft and energy work and things like that and they will say oh my gosh I did a love spell and I asked so-and-so to come back to me and blah blah blah and this and that this really represents those like red flags in a relationship I feel like even if it's not a romantic relationship if it's something that you are invested in emotionally in a relationship of any kind this would be the card suggesting to you that if they're just not that into you if the evidence supports that you are far more committed and willing and putting in the effort than they are and that's something to be aware of right so pay attention to when they're giving those those grand gestures towards something that shows that yes they're just as emotionally invested in this relationship that you have as you are and then decide what you're going to do with that relationship accordingly I guess would be the message today so what are we doing in my dining room today well I thought it would be fun since when I'm recording this we just had the weekend where August 1st Saturday was Lunessa or La Masse or the mass however you prefer to pronounce it in all of the in all of the history and background and language and how that works you can decide but it is the harvest season the first harvest season so we talked a little bit about healing cycles when it comes to what it means when the wheel turns towards this time of year and what is it that we are focusing on and we've had our dog days of summer right when the summer solstice happened we were kind of in a in a rest and see sort of sit back and watch observe moment this is the moment when in the turning of the wheel of the year in the alchemical cycles of transformation you might have set a lot of stuff down for the summer and not taken it up taken up the mantle of working on it but it's now all very much in front of you like it's laid out on the table much like the table I have in front of me which I'm going to show in just a minute but if you have all of this stuff that you've set down you've said no to any new things for a minute to see what sort of things you want to pick back up this is the time of sorting it out right a lot of times reading tarot for this season I might get a lot of sevens seven of pentacles is probably a great tarot card to associate with this feeling or this energy of this vibe of essentially sort it out what are you picking up what are you going to invest your time and energy in what lights your fire and what needs to be set aside you might love it all but it doesn't mean it's all for you and so we're going to be making bundles I have some leaves that I foraged over the weekend you might have if you follow me on social media you might have seen my Instagram my tick-tock at Prism Healing where I showed a video that my husband took of me I he caught a little video of me out in the we were at bridal Falls and here I was out there just like pulling Mullen out of the out of the ground you know what I noticed though it's we're in a drought we're in Utah and I noticed that the Mullen or Mullen however you pronounce it it's not as vibrant this year which is good because Mullen is invasive we don't want it to spread it was brought here by settlers like my own ancestors and we don't want it to flower and spread so I imagine if you live in a place like where I live we're doing the environment a service by pulling all of that out of the ground before it flowers before it spreads so it's good and it also makes perfect big nice leaves for bundles that we're going to be making today so I pulled a bunch of Mullen and the other thing is is that has nice big stocks with the flowers at the top and you pull those out and you pull the leaves off and you hang the stocks upside down they make great which is torches which I'll show you in a minute so lots of great crafting can be done at this time of year I'm laying out I've already look at this leaf is like double doubled up it's split in the middle I don't think I've ever seen that that's interesting you'll have to be watching instead of listening if you want to see what that looks like but Mullen leaves lane leaves they are very nice and full and they are I found a couple of good ones but a lot of them were dry and brittle already so it was kind of hard to find ones that weren't eaten up by insects or dried out here's one that's not so pretty it's holes in it now we're making smudging bundles for smoke cleansing however I need to just reiterate that for me personally it's important that when I engage with smoke cleansing I I try to be honor more of what is a localized plants and herbs that are indigenous to my own homeland rather than something that is sacred to the indigenous people of this land of I am NOT indigenous of I try to engage with that appropriately instead of appropriating I have been gifted and I have used white sage bundles however I use it very specifically for very specific purposes and aligned with what I'm given permission to use it for I personally don't purchase them and use them out of my own choice so I do encourage you to kind of look at what would be appropriating a culture or a sacred practice that maybe your own ancestors didn't use but we all do have a history in most cultures of some sort of smoke cleansing smudging of some kind sayning is what they call it in the Nordic ancestry so I tend to call it that and today what herbs I have in association with that are going to be I collected some pine and juniper there is some white or I'm sorry not white white sage we were just talking about there is some Utah sage brush that's very prominent here that smells really good and can also be added to the bundles and burned I would look into what that practice means because when I do home cleansings and I come and bring some smoke cleansing to I do not use it to clear the space it purifies the air it's it's got a lot of you know there's a lot of science back to how smoke cleansing can be beneficial to the to the space however culturally and spiritually just using sageing as a way of cleansing a space is inaccurate and so I would do your research look into it more but I will give you just a little bit to as a jumping off point to your learning about it is that a lot of times it was used to call in ancestors so it would be more used as a bringing in the positivity or bringing in the protection and the the affirmations of what the space is going to be more of like the blessing part of the cleansing process so when I go through a home cleansing session and I've done a couple in person I can do them from a distance I can just do them where someone orders a home cleansing for their address I can do it where I am for their space I don't necessarily have to be in the space to do it which is the way energy work works but I've done a couple of really great home cleansing and I have a certain process that I go through one of the things that I make sure I do is I use sound to cleanse drumming bells rattles certain items and tools that I feel are perfect for breaking up negative energy residual energy the previous owners fingerprint whatever that might be in the space and banishing it you know letting it move on and then sort of opening up the space like a vacuum to then welcome in new energy and new space and so that's when I use the smoke for cleansing or more for blessing and protecting and saying and calling in this space is for love this space is for the new owners blessing the space for them and preparing the space for them to use it so I would look into how you want to actually use your smoke cleansing when it's appropriate and what sort of rituals you want to cultivate from that but I have picked some pine and some lavender here's some lavender I got permission to to clip from some nearby spaces in my neighborhood I will say also if you haven't seen my previous episodes about root and ritual the book was very powerful in being able to open up some ideas on how to engage with plant life when you are going to be collecting and foraging it is really really important that you tap into intention with collecting the herbs that you're going to use even with the pine I didn't clip the pine directly from a tree I did just take what was fallen already all right so let's get to it we are going to take some of these mullen leaves and lay them out everything is still wet or moist from picking them these are really great to overlap with each other and I'm putting it all on a brown paper bat a brown paper so I'm going to tilt the camera down just a bit so you can see the workspace and I'm working with okay I'm going to overlap these leaves a little bit a couple different kind and then the lavender smells really really strong and I had to wait until it was shady or evening before I picked from the lavender bushes because they have a lot of bees and other pollinating insects that love lavender bushes which is great again I only ask permission of the lavender bush can I pick some of these pieces pine is especially difficult because it's usually either takes a long time to or you're trying to like clip it from a tree and it usually is not going to be dried at all or these these pieces that are dried I got this from fallen bushes it's going to be you know very crumbly essentially but we're rolling it up like a burrito we're going to let the mullen or mullen leaves kind of wrap around and give like a really tight see because I have some of the little bits exposed I'm going to grab a couple of leaves on the outside too and let them wrap around to keep them all bundled nice and taint in there and then string which I'm going to want to wrap around the leaves and then I'm going to also make sure that they tie leaving a little a little string to hang it with am I as good at talking and working as Martha Stewart does when she does her shows not so much not so much as soon as I get going I'm losing track of what I that's right can't all be good at everything right so I just go through making sure that these get tied with some string access left over so that I can hang it upside down I just hang it in my art room honestly with all the bundles and my art paintings that are drying and then tie it so that they can hang and dry make sure you use string that can burn and not leave some kind of toxic feeling things in the air when you're burning it because essentially you will be burning after it's dried if you're smudging so I'm tying this at the ends and then I'm going to leave some string to hang it so that it'll hang upside down I can do it this way and if I want it nice and pretty I cut the end so that they are like nice and tidy I have a very colorful string to use for these bundles today okay so I could use the white sage I could use the Utah sagebrush I could take the lavender whatever it is you're using make sure that you actually can burn it when it's dried right that's the idea I may or may not be able to get the camera back to where it was originally but that's okay we're just finishing up yeah you may have little buggies I just have ants to to crush as they go along send outside all right friends so this is our art project today we're doing a little bit of crafting which is also perfect for the season for Luna set is to harvest to harvest what it was that we've been working on growing and cultivating throughout the year and so whether that's physical plants that you have been cultivating and that you are doing something with at this time remember what harvest seasons were about to our indigenous ancestors to those that took the opportunity to come together from their various places where they farmed or where they lived and it was time to kind of gather as a community so you see a lot of county fairs at this time it's a great opportunity to show off what you feel you've been working on and cultivating so if it's in business or in relationship or in family or you know whatever it is that you feel has been your area of focus and goals that you've had since the planting season this is a really great time to give yourself a pat on the back during this cycle and when the autumn equinox comes at the end of September it's sort of that end of summer you know feeling that we all get that fall is on the way shorter days are coming and we get to reach out and connect again with our community so if you felt a little out of out of place or disconnected in some way either spiritually or from family or from you know the earth this is a great time to reconcile that difference basket weaving crafting it's what it's all about at this season so lean into it enjoy it I am going to personally recommend that if you did not take the opportunity to slow down in the summer and at the height of summer when it was time to rest and set things aside and you didn't do that you need to check in with yourself and ask if you are really feeling burned out if you're feeling like you just kept going and you burned the candle at both ends when you felt that maybe you should have taken some time for yourself there is going to come a sort of I was gonna say come to Jesus which is a strange thing for a pagan to say I understand but it is kind of like a come to Jesus moment where you are going to be confronted with the choices that you've made if you feel that your body is wearing down you're getting sick you are getting resentful angry burned out irritable you start feeling a lot of those things during this shift of the season this is great awareness and by the way I am saying this from personal experience that that is kind of what I did I looked at my summer and I said gosh I really need to clear my schedule because I've got way too much going on I am as I've mentioned before on the podcast a stay-at-home mom essentially I am the caregiver of my three boys and they're home for summer so the fact that I could think that I could I don't know run a business and a podcast and all of the million other things that I sign up for thinking that I had the time and energy to do that during summer while being a full-time mom full-time home domestic home manager whatever you want to call that it's not realistic truthfully so I thought I was clearing my plate quite a bit I was you know taking a lot of things that I was doing obligations and commitments and pulling back on all of them and essentially what I did is I just I piled more on I ended up doing more this summer than I have ever done ever and somehow was juggling all of the things at once but then I got to the turn of the wheel of the year Lunasa August 1st and I have been unwell let's just say my body is showing signs of wearing down and feeling tired and having low energy and it's time for me to actually be forced to pull back on a lot of stuff and say you got to pick up what really matters and only spend the time and energy on those things so if you feel that you're in that space right now during the cycle you're not alone we all are confronted with that so if the kids are going back to school if you are able to clear your plate just a little bit more I recommend that you do and I recommend that you let it all sit sit in front of you on the table and decide what is really going to be important what's going to matter and reach out to your community if you can speaking of community as we wrap up today's episode don't have currently active and live right now the practical magic to tickets are available to win go to Ride The Wave Media you have to subscribe to this podcast and submit your email so that we can give you the map if you're in the Salt Lake South Jordan area there is a map of where the ten pairs of tickets are located it is so much fun to go hide them in special locations that are connected to this podcast and Parallel Frequencies we chose very specific spots where we had worked or where we have friends and those tickets are hidden all over the local area on September 10th we are going to be watching an early screening of practical magic 2 together with my witchiest witch friends so please go get those tickets so you can come join us and see the movie with us there is no greater event happening this year for witches than practical magic 2 coming out I'm so excited so please go get your tickets we have 10 pairs free that we are giving away and you can come with us we're going to see it with light and love Reiki this is their event Aurora's Enchanted Apothecary their client appreciation event they rented out the theater for this screening and we get to tag along so go to Ride The Wave Media you have to subscribe to this podcast and submit your email so that we can give you the map if you're in the Salt Lake South Jordan area there is a map of where the 10 pairs of tickets are located it is so much fun to go hide them in special locations that are connected to this podcast and Parallel Frequencies we chose very specific spots where we had worked or where we have friends and those tickets are hidden all over the local area on September 10th we are going to be watching an early screening of practical magic 2 together with my witchiest friends so please go get those tickets so you can come join us and see the movie with us there is no greater event happening this year for witches than practical magic 2 coming out I'm so excited so please go get your tickets we have 10 pairs free that we are giving away and you can come with us