Merry midnight, coven. Welcome to the Midnight Esbat podcast. We’ll be exploring the liminal spaces between light and dark, embracing the occult side of witchcraft, and focusing on making real magick. Join me, your host Vella, every Saturday for our Midnight Esbats.
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How to use tarot as a form of self-care | Midnight Esbat Podcast | Season 1 Ep. 2
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Honestly, you're probably already using tarot as self-care. Using tarot in its most basic & modern purpose — drawing cards or spreads to find deeper meaning, connecting to intuition, or decoding spiritual messages — already exists as forms of self-care. All of this already counts because, usually, tarot is meant to help answer questions, solve pro…
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Uncover Your Great Work | Midnight Esbat | Season 1 Ep.1
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You have a Great Work, and it is calling to you. I believe that every human on Earth has a lifelong mission to complete. A gift to give the world. A Great Work, which is a phrase stolen from Deborah Castellano's book, Glamour Magick. Great Work // That which I'm meant to offer the world. That gift I am meant to give away. How I help the world heal…
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How to do shadow work? Practical rituals to engage the shadow. Part two. [ep 9]
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Are you ready to deepen your practice?Diving into the darkness of one's soul is some of the most complicated and integral parts of spirituality. Where you can meet the closeted shadow, the inner child, the suppressed dreamer, and the wild animal. All who lurk under the surface. Where suddenly, you're doing more than just battling and holding off d…
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A guided beauty ritual for releasing the tension [ep 8]
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Taking time for ourselves during quarantine and social isolation.COVID-19 is not easy to navigate right now. I live in the United States, and the Center for Disease Control here has urged the country's citizens to isolate themselves in self-quarantine or to practice social distancing when we have no choice but to step out into the public. This, alo…
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What is shadow work? Uncovering the shadow side. Part One. [ep 7]
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Trigger Warning: We talk about mental health in this episode. I mention unhealthy behaviors based on bad shadow work or a lack of shadow work. I talk explicitly about depression and eating disorders. But if you are sensitive to suicide, self-harm, disordered eating, addiction, or other issues at all, please take care when encountering this episode.…
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A self love, self devotional Valentine’s Day [ep 6]
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"How do I stop being so lovey-dovey?" A few days ago a friend of mine, Alice, asked me how she could stop being so lovey-dovey. When I asked her what she meant, this is what she said: “Valentine’s Day is coming up. I love Valentine’s Day, but since this year I’m going to be alone, I don’t know how to channel my lovey-dovey energy. I don’t want to b…
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Redefining what it means to set intentions in the new year. [ep 5]
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My mental health is trash. Okay, I admit that even though I like to preach about self-care. I am not always the greatest at prioritizing it in my own life. 2019 was not a good year for me in the slightest. (Was it for anyone, though?) I want to start 2020 with a different approach to how I set intentions."But it’s already February… shouldn’t you ha…
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How to stop feeling like a spiritual orphan, plus the three steps to forging your own path. [ep 4]
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Sorry for such shitty audio. I’m not saying connecting to your ancestral history, being inspired by local lore, or finding yourself called to from establish pantheons a bad thing or “icky” (I shouldn’t have used those words in the ‘cast). What I am saying is that none of those things connect to me because of my specific code of ethics and because o…
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Breaking down the beauty ritual, plus five examples so you can start practicing every day. [ep 3]
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Okay, what is a beauty ritual?You’ve heard me talk about beauty rituals before, but I’ve only ever defined it once. Oh, and yes, this is my own, made up definition.Beauty Ritual: applying magical methods to otherwise mundane beauty routinesSeems pretty simple, right? But I’m sure you still have questions! Like, how exactly do you apply the magical …
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Mind, body, spirit, and how activating all three will maximize your witchcraft. [ep 2]
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Magic requires your whole self, not just a piece of you.It’s honestly that simple. You will get a better outcome of your spellwork when you activate your physical self, your mental self, and your spiritual self. Most new witches, or people dabbling in ritual and manifestation work, only activate the physical and spiritual side of themselves when d…
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What the heck is a beauty witch? Glamour magic, beauty rituals, sacred self-care and why it all matters to your spiritual practice. [ep 1]
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First, if you're here, you belong here.If you’re here, you probably identify, or want to identify, with the label — Beauty Witch. And that alone means you’re in the right place. You’ve found your community. 🙂But what exactly drew you in to the label Beauty Witch? What makes it feel relatable, intriguing, or validating? What exactly is a Beauty Witc…
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