A recording of an event in which Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata leads participants in a guided meditation about visiting The Green Mushroom Hyphosigil Project’s https://greenmushroomproject.com/ Astral Temple to conduct egg and sigil magic; and the group discusses their experiences. There is also a call for submissions for collection of magical recipes: F**k around and Find Out 3: Sorcerous Recipes for Resistance, Resilience, and More from The Green Mushroom Project. Much Love! Thanks...

Aidan Wachter https://www.instagram.com/aidan_wachter joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to discuss Aidan’s recent bicycle tour and the esoteric insights arrived at through such endeavors. Aidan also shares about the book he’s working on now, and about his new essay in the compilation This Is Chaos: Embracing the Future of Magic, edited by Peter J. Carroll. Aidan explains why he doesn't consider himself to be a chaos magician, and discusses egregores, spirit ecology, sigils, Jung’s...

Lee Harrington http://www.PassionAndSoul.com joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to discuss ritual, psychonautic exploration, body magic, and more! Lee also shares about his personal magical practice, and his Patron deity, Bear. During a break, enjoy a stroll through history as we honor Claud Cahun, Marcel Moore, and the Soldier with No Name. Luxa also shares listener mail and an update about The Green Mushroom Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/ and Void House- creating a consent...

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata is joined by Cressida Stone https://www.instagram.com/secretsofsantamuerte/?hl=en, author of Secrets of Santa Muerte:  joins to discuss her book, Secrets of Santa Muerte: A Guide to the Prayers, Spells, Rituals, and Hexes, working with the folk saint, and her journey into becoming a devotee. Topics discussed include the colors of Santa Muerte, mythbusting and advice for practitioners who would like to form a relationship with Santa Muerte. During an episode...

Co-directors of Consent Academy https://www.instagram.com/consentacademy/ Ariana and Ash, join Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to discuss how magical work with groups or solo (and activities or relationships of any kind) can be improved through learning about and using consent practices, and how the risk of consent incidents happening can be decreased through education, respect, and slowing down and taking one’s time. Topics discussed include contextualizing consent in relationships with...

Melissa Jayne Marada https://www.instagram.com/saint.jayne/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share about their new book, The Witch's Workshop and about the power of creating one’s own magical tools and materials. Topics discussed include making your own incense and recipes for different types, dying your own magical chords, creating inks and much more, as well as getting into some theory about deconstructing magical operations in order to better understand how they function. We’ll...

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata shares a guided meditation, “Get a Room With Yourself at The Green Mushroom Astral Space: A Solo-Sex Meditation for Healing, Wholeness, and Power” as well as setting the table with some context. What do you truly consent to when you're alone with yourself? How does respecting your own boundaries feel in your body? This meditation is intended for adults to listen to in a comfortable and private area where they feel confident that they won’t be interrupted....

Erika Robinson https://www.instagram.com/divine_withme/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share about her new book, The Language of Lenormand (which is the first on the topic written by an American), as well as her journey into creating the deck, ‘Erika’s Lenormand of Hope’. Erika explains how divining with Lenormand deck is different from working with the Tarot or other popular systems, and about how each card in the deck will have a different meaning depending on what cards...

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata is joined by Becky Annison https://www.instagram.com/beckyannison/, creator of “Wreck This Deck”, the solo role playing and journaling game in which players modify standard playing cards for magical purposes. Topics discussed include the magical power of roleplaying, the intersections between games and rituals, how to design a game and much more.  During an episode w/in the episode, Goerge Lizos https://www.instagram.com/georgelizos/ shares about  his new...

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata is joined by the hosts of Ex V Planis https://linktr.ee/Exvplanis and Unearthing Paranormalcy podcasts https://www.unpnormalcy.com/ for this special round table discussion about the Simulation Hypothesis, what it is and what its implications might mean for Magic, Death, Morality, and the nature of reality itself! In this fun and heady discussion we’ll discuss near death and psychedelic experiences, answer listener questions, argue various perspectives and...

Author, psychologist, and longtime Thelemite, Dr. David Shoemaker livingthelema.com joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share about his new book, The Way of the Will:Thelema in action and about how Thelema might differ from other traditions or religions where thinking about the founder is concerned. Topics discussed include Aleister Crowley- the man vs. his work, the Magical Will, and Qabalistic Psychology. David also shares thoughts about vetting magical teachers and organizations and...

A bonus mini-ep with the remote version of The Green Sphere. This simple magical working is to be performed for the first time on Saturday June 8, 2024 at 9:00 PM EST either solo or as a group. It is a companion to a Hekatean ceremony using The Green Mushroom Hyphosigil Project’s magical current for protection and healing for children and others who are in positions of vulnerability which Luxa Strata https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata will be leading at the same time this video is published....

Actor, director, and pagan performer extraordinaire, Cythia Beckert https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065653/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share about  the intersections of a magical practice and theatrical practice, working with deities like Dionysus and Hekate, and about what can be learned about practices like invocation through exploring the performing arts. Cynthia shares about her journey from Catholicism to paganism and she and Luxa discuss magical work that they’ve done...

Michael M Hughes https://www.michaelmhughes.com/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share about experiences surrounding the ritual he created to bind the reality TV star the US elected as president in 2016 and which ended up being propelled to viral fame, becoming the largest magical working in history. There’s some great stuff about the history of the Tarot and Micheal’s courses in the subject, with some debunking of popular myths (spoiler alert, it’s not from Ancient Egypt, but that...

In this bonus episode, Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata presents a talk given on the Green Musheen Discord server about the founding of The Green Mushroom Hyphosigil Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/ and about how this work will be continued with a new experiment, Void House: creating an inclusive, consent-forward space in which to conduct magical work in person and online and investigating the magical and alchemical properties of consent.    Much Love! We would love to hear from...

Albert Björn Shiell https://www.instagram.com/sussex_pellar/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about his new book, Icelandic Folk Magic: Witchcraft of the North Topics discussed include Galder and Sedir, the trolls, the elves and other denizens of the wild places, Oden’s complex role in the mythology, the role Christianity plays in the tradition, and some common misconceptions about Icelandic magic and it’s origins (spoiler- it’s not really viking stuff). For an episode within...

Isa Nakazawa https://www.instagram.com/isanaka joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share some approaches to astrology and tarot and discuss how such practice can be both a technology of freedom as well as something which gives one insight into meaningful patterns on a broader, social level. Isa is the host for the Stars and Stars with Isa podcast https://www.instagram.com/starsandstarswithisa where she sits with artists and thinkers to read them their birth chart and discuss their...

Angela Guyton https://www.angelaguyton.com/about/ (Nothing Rhymes w/ Rats, Paradoxical +) shares about the experience of being an accomplished comic book artist who would also like to be a comic book writer, and the sometimes uncomfortable journey of stretching one’s wings in a creative practice. The concepts discussed could be applied to a new endeavor of any type! Merrily Duffy, host of the Casual Temple Podcast https://casualtemple.com/ shares about her journey into the magical paradigm...

Aidan Wachter https://www.patreon.com/aidanwachter, author of Changeling, Six Ways, and Weaving Fate, joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to discuss ways of cultivating resilience and focusing on the bigger picture by aligning one’s attention with one’s intention. Aidan shares about the somatic work he’s been conducting to move through anxiety, some thoughts about his time away from the public eye and much more! There is also a teaser about a new project he is working on. Luxa shares Book...

Douglass Batchelor of the ‘What Magic is This?’ podcast https://whatmagicisthis.com/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata for a discussion about the phenomena and the conversations surrounding government disclosure about “non-human intelligences”, etc. from a perspective which is informed by an occult or magical practice. What does it look like when a new religion is being born? Who might benefit? What’s really going on with the strange lights we’ve been seeing in the sky throughout human...

23 skidoo! Psychoanalyst, author, artist, occultist and host of Rendering Unconscious, Dr. Vanessa Sincalir https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about the cut-up technique and how it can be applied in one’s magical practice. Dr. Sinclair shares some advice about magical praxis and about some of her experiences having a foot in multiple worlds, and she and Luxa demonstrate the cut-up technique by producing a cut-up poem together during the...

Eric J. Millar https://substack.com/@ngbmo joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share some philosophical outlooks on the creation process, what it means to be a magician in the machine and about his newest book, WOMBAT. Despite the title, which stands for Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time, WOMBAT is a very cool collection of creative curiosity ranging from sculptural comics to blackout prose, surreal collages to asemic writing experiments. For the episode w/ in the episode, Mme. Vendredi...

Dave Ardrey of Unearthing Paranormalcy podcast https://www.unpnormalcy.com/, The the Ancient Order of Druids in America https://aoda.org/ and The Green Mushroom Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/ joins Luxa https://anchor.fm/luxa-strata to talk about Mycocultus, a project which explores core concepts found in neophyte or beginner work from mystery schools and other related traditions, and reinterprets it in the context of mushroom symbology. A bit of a crash course, exploring with...

Professor Patricia MacCormack, author of The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about the Death of anthropos, Queerying, Queering and Queer(y)ing Chaos Magick, Death Activism, C**t Chaos Magick, and much more! Find out why the Professor doesn’t mind being called a c**t and why perhaps you shouldn’t either. There is an update about The Green Mushroom Hyphosigil project as well as a new sounds magick track produced by Luxa...