Participant #1:
Welcome to episode eight of season two. If you just joined, this is Maria at Maria, the arcane on Instagram, and Robin at A Tired Witch on Instagram. Hello. Hello. How are you guys? It’s afternoon this time. Afternoon. Morning for me. Oh, it is for you, yeah. It’s only 10:00. A.m. Happy brunch, everyone.
Participant #1:
Brunch. That sounds so good.
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So if you’ve just joined us this week, every week we talk about upcoming lunar phases and kind of what that means for us magically and how we can use it to our advantage. So for that, the upcoming lunar phase is on April 26, and it’s the full moon and Scorpio and both Marie and I, when we were talking about this, we’re like because the full men in Scorpio kind of deals with things like needing to choose to allow yourself to be emotionally vulnerable. There’s a lot of anger in this full moon that can I really want to tread lightly when I’m talking about this because I know there’s a lot of creators out there that will be like the full moon in Scorpio. Your trauma is going to come to the surface and your brain is going to explode. That’s very spiritual gas lighting. I really don’t want to tread down that path. But instead we’re going to talk about the reality of it, which is that this is a good time to focus on things like shadow work. We are looking at energies, possessiveness, insecurity, jealousy, fears that are kind of I don’t want to say unrealistic because they are realistic, but they’re a bit agoraphobic. So it’s like fear of death, fear of like getting hit by a car when you walk across the street is this covet, this little scratch in the back of my throat, because these are very real things that could actually happen. But we could be tackling energies that kind of heightened that anxiety, let’s say. So I don’t want anybody thinking that I’m trying to tell you that there’s going to be this trauma surfacing for you, because that is not necessarily true. And it’s very gas lighty. So instead we’re looking at tackling magic that deals with those traumas. So we are tackling magic like doing shadow work, having vulnerable conversations with ourselves, exploring maybe the early stages of why we have some negative emotions here and there. And everybody has negative emotions. This is a human experience. The people who don’t have a negative emotions cannot be trusted because everybody has a bad day.
Participant #1:
But we are going to want to be tackling really heavily things like shadow work and similarly the full moon. Scorpio is a great time for things like divination. Yeah, I feel like especially like with water moons, it just intensifies the signs of that sign, especially negative aspects. As you said, it’s not a disc towards Scorpios or anything like that. Not at all. Sounds like a full moon in Scorpio is not a direct reflection of Scorpios in general. So if anybody comes to either of our DMs being like, well, I’m a Scorpio, I never have this happen. You’re a liar, I can’t trust you. We all experience this. We all experience negative emotions. It’s the human experience. It’s just the full moon. Come on guys. Oh, this is also a really good time to explore things 100% sex, magic and self pleasure kind of magic. Somehow masturbation comes into every episode. I’m so sorry everybody. Scorpio ball mood is a sexy sign. This is sexy sign. The Scorpio full moon is really sexy. We’re dealing with things like exaggerated sexuality, even things like promiscuity. It depends on who you are, obviously. But there’s no harm in exploring that as long as you’re practicing safe sex, wear a condom, you know, those sort of things. So there is positive aspects here, but I would highly recommend deep diving into shadow work that deals with our traumas and triggers in a healthy and baby step kind of way. That’s my deep dive into the worst of the worst and really set yourself off and trigger yourself. That’s not healthy and very bad. Please don’t do that. That sounds like a really not fun time. So baby steps.
Participant #1:
Yeah. And then also Phil scorpio is a great sign for divination. So if you want to scry with that doing like with shadow work in mind, I think that would be great. Like doing maybe a tarot spread for yourself. I love it. Yeah, I love it. I think it’s all a good idea.
Participant #1:
So if you just started listening to us, every podcast we talk about a random tarot card. We go over the universal meanings and then our own interpretation of the cards. Hearing others opinions helps beginners form their own opinions or even those who have been practicing for a while expand their views on other meanings. So with scorpio in mind
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so on this card you will see our lovers, this time with horns coming from their heads, chains around their necks which are attached to a pillar. Above this pillar rests are devil, complete with a reversed pentacle on his head. So if you take a look, a close peek at the leverage chains, they are loose around their neck, seemingly easy to be pulled off so they can run away and be free at any time. The universal keywords of this card are addiction, materialism control, bondage and materialism. So when it comes to my thoughts on this card, it reminds me of how society treats the devil. The devil is blamed for everything. He robbed the store because there was a devil inside of him. The devil is saving us with covet, blah blah blah blah. Regardless, people use the devil as a scapegoat instead of taking personal responsibility for themselves or others. Sorry, excuse me. It is our decisions and our life experiences and past traumas that cause these things to happen. Now with that in mind, when this comes up in readings for myself, for clients, it is almost always has to deal with a bad habit. Someone isn’t wanting to give up a negative behavioral problem. They don’t want to fix a toxic relationship, they don’t want to leave. Not being true to themselves and sometimes even addiction. It is basically the refusal to do meaningful shadow work along with real world energy to cultivate real change in their life. Instead of even trying to free themselves, they make excuses why they should keep doing what they’re doing. Now these excuses are basically people blaming the Devil for their ills. Yes. While this card isn’t easy, well, leaving this card isn’t easy. We are so used to blaming and even comfortable with the sponge to the Devil that it is hard to leave. It is a huge mental blockage we all must pull through in order to free ourselves. But once we do input in the work to better our situation, we can be free of it. So how do you well, we’re two for two weeks in a row, but I totally agree with you. I know what’s even happening. Hello, I’m feeling okay, by the way. I know everybody’s concerned, obviously twice in a row. I completely agree with you. I think the Devil is a victim complex card. Very specifically, as you said in talking about the symbolism with the chains around the neck, how they can just be popped off, but they still stay there. It is choosing to blame external forces for mistakes that you are making within yourself. And we’re all guilty of this from time to time.
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You know how like people, not all people, obviously, but some people sometimes weaponize their trauma and use it as an excuse for treating people horribly. To me, that’s the Devil card. And I’m not saying of course, that by any means that trauma doesn’t create a reaction out of us, but that also doesn’t mean that you get to weaponize it. That’s not okay. Yeah, that is okay. That is like tricky balance. And that is very much how I see this card. It is putting ourselves, having done, even by mistake, a crappy thing, usually more than once when we see this card. So we see things like addiction, drinking, gambling, whatever, right? And instead of saying, yeah, I’ve got a problem and I’m just not ready to deal with it, it’s, Oh, this isn’t my fault, because of XYZ. And just kind of allowing yourself to stay in this crappy situation where you’re hurting other people instead of taking accountability, instead of hurting other people, sometimes you’re hurting yourself. Yeah, it is choosing I hate to use that word choosing, but it is choosing to avoid having the difficult conversation with yourself, to make positive changes for the situation overall and instead are just choosing to deflect blame. Yeah, that’s like the avoidance. We all do that from time to time. I do think it’s very fitting for the Scorpio full moon. I was talking about in the first half. And I feel bad everybody’s going to be listening to this, being like, oh my God, they’re just talking about mental health. Sorry guys, mental health is important. Mental health matters. And unfortunately, sometimes having the difficult mental health conversations very much so need to happen. We still love you. Yeah, completely. And we include ourselves in this. So yes, the devil has popped up many of times for me. Not for me. I’m actually really perfect in every single way. Okay. I personally struggled with this couldn’t be me. No, that’s a lie.
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So we thought this week that we would talk about expectations versus reality. We want to talk about your perfect magical morning. How you want it to look versus how it actually looks, just to kind of bring everybody back down to earth. Because first of all, this is Maria’s idea for the topic, so snaps for him. But things like social media and stuff like that make it really easy to play the comparison game and thinking that everybody’s having these super magical mornings, and they might be. I have magical mornings, like really perfect ones. Like once in a blue moon. It happens, but that doesn’t mean it’s happening every morning, and it doesn’t make what you’re doing, even if it’s a minimal, any less valid. So how is your perfect morning? Okay, my perfect morning, I wake up at eight, well rested, my family still tucked into their beds, and I go downstairs, take myself coffee and some breakfast. I turn on my twenty s and forty s tunes on my little cute little retro speaker. And as I’m brewing my coffee, I pull a card for myself and it is the Empress. When my coffee is done, I put an extra cup on my altar for my guides while also lighting all my seven day candles on it. And then I sit down with my journal and my breakfast. I stir my coffee clockwise to set my intentions for the day. And as I eat my food, I write out my intentions for the day as well. And about the card I pulled, my body is feeling absolutely amazing. So I decided to go on a walk. So we are finally trying to exercise. Listen, my body is real perfect, okay? All right, I’m taking notes. If I’m going to write about my perfect morning, it’s going to be perfect. Speaking of which, it is November, so we’re finally experiencing fall in the south. So your perfect morning only happens in one of the twelve months. Look, it’s a cell.
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Remember, it’s only 14 days in the entire year where I’m actually happy everyone dropped that down. Oh my God, you’re killing me. Okay, 1 minute. It gets better. So I go on my walk where it’s not hot and humid, there’s no pollen, shit everywhere, it’s beautiful. And after my walk, I realize I have plenty of time to do a tarot spread for myself. For an upcoming moon phase. So I brew myself a big pot of lady Earl Grey tea and I sit down at my coffee table with a deck. And while I’m pulling my cards, I have time to write the whole spread down and, you know, it’s like maybe ten now. My girls are finally waking up and eating breakfast at the table. Since I plan on drinking my weight and tea, I curl up on the couch with a good book. And after a while, my Add does start to kick in because, let’s be honest, fantasy me still does have it. I decided to move on with my morning. So it’s almost afternoon with Photographing, and I have plenty of time to edit and put my magic into it. And then yeah, I finish up my morning meditating outside on a blanket. Wow, that was beautiful. Thank you. There’s a lot to unpack there and I feel like we’re going to do that privately because what the fuck? Wait till you hear my realistic morning. That’s how you can get to all right, obviously it can’t be November all the time. Chronic illness is real. So having a perfect day where you can go on a walk every day is not real. So what does your realistic morning look like? Okay, my realistic morning, I wake up at the asscrack of dawn with my witch lean to make them breakfast, get them set up for school. I most likely have problems falling asleep the night before, so I ended up at 02:00 A.m. In the morning, bringing myself a cup of sleepy time tea, and I’m still groggy as fuck from it. And after my Witchling is all set up with school, I go back upstairs and pass out next to my wife for another hour, too. When I wake up again, I’m already running late with my day. I have a few client readings, a photo to take, an avalanche of emails to get to. I do what any same person does. I stay in bed and I work from my phone for 30 minutes. Eventually, I find my way downstairs. I have some coffee. I lay some of my wife’s coffee at my altar, light some of my candles at my altar, and I might close my eyes and set intentions for my day. And then my daughter decides she needs help from school. So I put off eating breakfast. And when I’m done helping my daughter, I’m really running late. And I check in on everyone in the discord, answer a few emails, and by the time I’m done, it is lunchtime. My morning has come and gone in the blink of an eye. And this is why I have a nighttime ritual over a morning one. And yet this is your topic of choice?
Participant #1:
Well, see, the thing is, I am inside like a morning person, but I have to go to bed at a decent hour, and I can’t have my insomnia stars have to be aligned. Oh, my God. I used to be a morning person, and then my idiot self was like, let’s get pregnant and have a baby. Yeah, perfect mornings are done. Never again. Sorry, guys. I’ll never ever be restful again. Everybody keeps telling me, just you wait till the baby gets here. Fuck off, Karen. I didn’t ask.
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Okay, what is your perfect morning? Well, in my perfect morning, it actually has to start the night before in that both my cats decided that I am not their personal bed and therefore they have slept at the foot of the bed or like with their father or shoot, even on the couch. So that way they’re not on top of me. In my perfect morning set up, I’ve had a restful night’s sleep that didn’t involve kitty claws or like purring on my eyeballs or something like that during the night. So that way I wake up rested, like, oh, what a beautiful day. Pregnancy symptoms didn’t affect me over the night. I got a full 8 hours. I’m looking beautiful and fur fresh, so it has to start with that. But then I get up with the sun because that is what I do normally is I get up with the sun. So currently 630 in the morning. I know I am actually a morning person. I do get up quite early. And then I’ll get up, I’ll go feed my cats, and then I’ll go to my altar and I like incense and I like all my candles, which is usually like three or four. I go make coffee for both my husband and I, because again, pregnancy symptoms are not happening, which means the smell of coffee does not make me throw up. And I can just go make coffee and everybody’s happy. I can put some coffee on my altar for my guides, and then everybody’s situated, right? Husband has coffee, I have coffee. Guides have coffee. Incense are going, candles are lit. I can get my tarot journal, and I can sit down and draw some cards for the day. And I can take a good 30 minutes to really reflect on it, write about whatever’s going on, my interpretation of that, and just kind of doing general journaling. And then I go outside because the weather is great. And I go outside and I water the plants because we’ve got a little plastic greenhouse now. I’m going to go out there and I’m going to water my plants, and then I’m going to go for a walk because I, too, am not living in November, but I’m living probably now like April’s good where the weather is absolutely perfect, but the pine pollen hasn’t started falling like big sheets. I go for a little two mile walk because again, pregnancy symptoms aren’t happening and waddling isn’t in the picture, nor a stolen feet. And I can do 2 miles just going for a lovely little troll, listening to a book on tape connecting with Mama herd because also in my perfect morning, my Add also is still present, which means that listening to a witchy book on tape is still the picture. So I’m digesting some new information and then I come home and I do some stretches and I have a perfect morning. But then I get to sit down and start working, which none of that happens. I like how working is not involved in my perfect morning. See, I am a workaholic. You and I both know this about me. I get antsy when I can’t work. I had to take my husband to Oregon for a dental appointment yesterday and the town we went to had full cell signal but their internet wouldn’t connect. So I had to not work for like 4 hours and it was making me crazy. I couldn’t respond to people. I couldn’t check email. I was literally going insane. It was very normal. It was very cool. This is my toxic rate.
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So in reality, literally none of that happens. Yeah, literally none of that happens. In reality, the night before, both of the cats have decided that I am their personal bed. Which means that I’ve woken up four times in the night, got me very shitty night’s sleep. I wake up with the sun still. So I’ve had a shitty night sleep and I’m still waking up at 630 in the morning. I just sit on my phone for like an hour and I catch up on social media and maybe I watch some TikToks until I pissed my husband off enough that he also wakes up and then I go make his coffee, hopefully not to throw up. I probably have thrown up in the sink at this point. And so I’m like angry. Angry is not the right word. I am annoyed and I need to eat something because I just threw up bile. So then I got a big breakfast. Then I bring a cold because the coffee is cold at this point now because I’ve thrown up and had to make breakfast. And I bring my husband to the cold coffee and then I make myself a very watered down version of it before all the parenting assholes listen to this and are like, well, you’re not going to have caffeine good. Like, actually you can, but thanks. Thank you, doctor random stranger. Thank you, doctor Random. I’ve done the basic self care stuff that has taken me about an hour and a half. I can’t feed my cats because we feed them a raw food diet and the smell makes me throw up. So I nagged my husband until he gets up to go feed the cats. Then I’ll go light some incense, light my candles, maybe pull a tarot card, but more likely, probably just close my eyes and have a moment of like you can call intention setting, you can call prayer, whatever is more comfortable for you in your palate. I call it prayer. And then I just sit down and start working. It’s far less glamorous. And then I’ll maybe do a walk, like, later in the day. But it’s usually like instead of being like a two or three mile walk, it’s usually like, maybe a mile. And I’m like, winded as fuck by the end of it. Yeah. At least I’m doing it, right. Yeah. It’s funny because me and my wife, we also take walks at night because during the morning and during the day, it’s just not realistic. If we had street lamps we don’t have street lamps here. So at night time, you’re literally walking in the dark and like, in a car, you get some drugs. You might run into a bear. Yeah, or a bear. Or a fucking mountain lion. There’s like mountain lion. One time I was on a jog and I saw a bear. Did I tell you about that? Yes, I remember. Yeah. And I was, like, yelling at this bear, and then I’m like, I’m in the woods and I’m, like, going for a jog and I’m like I looked crazy. I had my hands up on my head and I’m, like, clapping, and I was like, go away, bear. Go away, bear. I looked insane. Like, if anybody was like a fly on the wall, they would have been like, that woman needs help. Someone get her some milk. That’s just a big mood. I feel like that’s definitely fair. Or not. Just randomly talking and exclaiming. Talking out loud about it. I’m jogging and I’m doing the YMCA. Hands above my head. I’m bigger than you are. But I’m doing it right now because I’m trying to figure out how to describe it. Like jumping jacks without the legs. This is very cool and very normal. In a really perfect day, after I’ve done all these wonderful things, I would take my lunch to the woods because I live right in the woods, right? So nice. I would take my lunch to the woods and I would go have lunch, like at the creek. Oh, I love that. Those days are very rare. I like sitting out on my porch, but it’s hard to do it, especially right now with all the pollen. Like, too much. Thanks. It is two allergy girls. You ever seen the comic book Snock Girl? No. Okay, first of all, I’m going to send you a copy because I think I have two copies of the first edition. Second of all, she’s like, snotty and that’s just me. Like, smart girl is just me. I love it. I’ve never related so much to a fictional character in a graphic novel. That is so funny.
Participant #1:
Yeah. I think it was important to talk about how we really spend our mornings compared to how people probably think that we spend our mornings. I mean, you especially, your photos are so beautiful. I bet people look at it and they’re just like, her life must be amazing. It’s amazing. After twelve. Perfect in every way. After twelve, it gets a little bit better, but not that much better. It gets better. Your wife’s listening like, all right, bitch. I thought it was pretty good. Look, she knows. She sees me in the morning, she marries. Goddamn, I need space. I need extra sleep because my body is a disaster zone. And I find relief in taking photos and doing magical things for myself. That’s my stress relief. I used to read the paper in the mornings online, obviously. Online, obviously. I’m not like a 900 year old woman who’s like, did you get the newspaper from the front yard, Johnny? Okay, that’s wholesome would do gross. Anyway, I used to read the paper in the morning because obviously my husband is English, and so, I don’t know, being married to him, I slowly developed a habit of reading BBC World News instead of reading, like, American news. I don’t know why I picked up that habit. I think it’s because that’s what he reads, and so I don’t have my own personality, so I absorbed his I don’t know. I’m sure he’s absorbed some of yours as well. Of course he has. I’m perfect, and I made him perfect to buy Proxy, but I used to read that in the morning. But now with everything that’s going on in the world, I literally can’t bring myself to do that anymore. So now I just watch TikToks and irritate the shit out of him.
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And then I don’t brush my hair and I’m like, Let’s go. Come on. That’s why you never see me on Instagram. That’s why I never post pictures. Because brushing your hair is a government conspiracy. You heard it here first, guys. I’m lucky my hair is so thin. I could just quickly just put it up. I don’t have to really brush it. Yeah, same. Literally same. I have a lot of hair, but it’s very thin. All right, we’re getting off topic. I have no hair
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information. Listen, guys, jot this down. If your hair is very thin, don’t brush it, ever. That’s a crime. You will go to federal prison. You’re welcome. Hey, do the aunties on Practical Magic look like they brush their hair? No, it doesn’t. Exactly. They don’t. So there you go. We’re just magical. I mean sorry for being so perfect.
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Okay. Sorry for that sidetrack.
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So, Maria, what’s stirring your children this week? Oh, let me tell you. So I’m loving how creative, I don’t know, seemingly happier everyone seems to be in the community right now. I don’t know if it is, like, the weight of the pandemic finally steadily being lifted, if it’s bringing inspiring everyone, or just a little bit of both, but everyone just feels so much not to get all, like, love and light, but lighter right now. Things aren’t as heavy. Do you know what I mean? Like, heavy emotionally. Yeah. And I feel like this is a result of I feel like this is result like a bunch of witchy shops have opened. Witches are being more creative in their practices and art and so many of them have also been super supportive of one another lately. And it’s just great to see that after such a stressful year. I feel like that all the stress that this pandemic and stuff has caused has put like witches against witches and witches who do like photography and art. I don’t know what everyone has been doing lately, but it seems like everyone’s art projects have been so inspiring and so beautiful lately. And if you are doing any of that, keep up the amazing work and keep doing that shit for yourself because everyone can tell that you’re doing it for yourself and no one else. But now I will say that maybe this is just limited to my little space in the community. And I do acknowledge bad stuff is still happening in the world. But when we are stronger as a community and supportive of one another, it breeds change even outside of our community, if that makes sense. And I just hope this continues for a while. I know that the wheel of fortune is always turning. Eventually an EB will hit. But I’m excited to enjoy this flow for a little while and I hope everyone stays on top of shadow work so we can keep this energy going. Yeah, I like it too. There has been some negative conversations going on that I’ve seen going around, but I have been very blessed to not be involved in them. So it’s been like an outsider’s perspective, like, oh shit, that’s going on. I’m glad I’m over here. Does that mean no? I mean boundaries are important. Yeah, I completely agree with you. I have noticed like a really big burst of creativity, especially like you said, and I think it’s really nice. It’s really beautiful. And in terms of supporting people, can I just say off topic, on topic, the amount of people that have supported my book already. I know I’ve told Maria, but I jumped up to number one in new releases. You all literally made me cry. Like that’s the sweetest, kindest thing that nobody had to do and I just appreciate it. You deserve it. You worked hard. Thank you. But that is a big example of that because people didn’t have to do that. The book is not out yet. It’s a pre order. You have no idea if I wrote a shit book or not. I think I didn’t, but I have a bias with the book. I’m just kidding. We’ll see.
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Even for you, things are coming to fruition. Like, things are happening and I have no complaints. I’ve had a very good April so far, so no complaints from me. For once I say that after last month’s soapbox episode, which I’m still not sorry about. No, sorry. Not sorry.
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So Robin, that is not stirring your cauldron this week. So erotic. Thanks. What’s not stirring my cauldron this week is my own direct messages. And I don’t mean the ones I’m sending. I mean the ones I’m getting. And not just direct messages, but, like, this random group of people on all social media. So I have TikTok, obviously. We know that. Use it. I did a live on Tik tok two weeks ago. I think a week ago. A week ago, I was flooded with comments of people being like, Jesus loves you. Like, Okay, thanks. Good to know. I know we both have experienced, especially on Instagram, like, the illuminati messages, the 5D is hear messages or, like, the random messages that are like, you’re going to hell. You know what I’m talking about? Yes, I do. I don’t know. Being really pushy about religion has happened in a different way. I’m used to being told I’m burning in hell. I am not used to the knock, knock, do you have a word to talk about the Lord Jesus Christ on a social media app? And the thing is, this is a really predominant part about their faith, expanding their faith. And look at Jehovah’s Witnesses, for example, when they give you their little pamphlet. That’s a part of their faith. I don’t disrespect that in any way, but I personally don’t know how to navigate that in a social media setting without being incredibly rude, because I do respect their faith. You know what I mean? I am not for like, I don’t like it when people are pushy, and I don’t like it when someone’s like, I want you to think like me. That’s like the whole colonialization thing, totally. And no, I can’t morally disagree with the fact that I know that’s a part of their religion. Do you know what I mean? And I want people to respect my faith, so I want to be respectful of them while simultaneously being like, Fuck off. Like, I’m not interested. We already have dogs here. Thank you. Yeah, so it’s become this very morally stressful thing for me to navigate, because on one hand, I want to be really respectful because that’s the same energy I would want in return. Do you know what I mean? But then on the other hand, I’m like, Fuck off. The Tik tok live that I did. I was literally just putting on makeup and chatting with people. That’s all it was. It wasn’t like I was doing card pulls or something like that. It was very chill. And I’m just like, Fuck off. I haven’t even done anything yet. You’re telling me that Jesus loves me, like, Okay, that’s nice. Thanks.
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Yeah. Going on someone’s personal space and just like, I don’t know, blasting that sort of stuff. It’s inappropriate. Like, there are lines, and it was our whole conversation last time about boundaries. Boundaries are so important. It shouldn’t be that hard to be like, maybe I shouldn’t do this. Maybe that would be rude of me. I should just mind my business. Yeah. It’s been very tricky for me to navigate, and I’ve also been getting a lot of DMs lately that have been kind of rude in asking for free stuff. And the thing is here’s the thing, guys. If you’re going to ask for something free from a creator, I’m not saying don’t do it. I do an exchange with people all the time, like, for terror decks and stuff like that. But you also need to be providing something for the exchange. It needs to be like a trade, right, of some kind. And you need to come at them with, like, statistics and why is it beneficial for both parties? Don’t send me a DM being, like, manipulative and saying, well, I’m poor. I can’t afford a reading while I empathize with you. This is also my job, and it’s a non necessity. A terror reading is not a necessity. This isn’t the same as going into, like, Subway and being like, hey, I’m really broke. Could you give me a sandwich? Let’s say because you need to live, you don’t need a tarot reading to live. Unfortunately, as much as I love them, as much as I’m proud of them being a part of who I am in my career, it isn’t live or die. So manipulating and being rude like that when you don’t need it is really not cool. It’s not called for. Yeah, it’s just I don’t know. It’s been a lot to navigate, and I’ve been actually debating turning off my DMs because of it. I don’t want to because I still like, engaging with people. You could do that through comments. I know. I want to go ask me really personal things that I would be happy to help with and missing it. And the problem is, now I’m literally weeding through, like, 60 messages a day, and 59 of them will be, Jesus loves you, or give me free stuff. And I’m just like so I’m missing the one comment that’s actually good and nice and I can help or informatively important or needs to be brought to my attention. Whatever. Yeah. Honestly, through emails, I’ve had way better. Like, everything is streamlined. It’s not a bunch of noise. Now I can see where I need to respond and where I don’t need to respond and all that. It’s been so nice. Like, I feel on top of everything. So highly recommend for anyone’s mental health. I just feel guilty. You can engage. People do not need your energy. They’re not allowed to have it even if they want it. If you decide to give it to them, you’re welcome. Mama Maria to the rescue. Yes. Once again, another nonstop with children that involves me just complaining. Sorry, everyone. I love you so much for listening. Starting with Made for where’s that?
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So every week we talk about creators that we are loving right now. And with that being said, for the 1,000,000,000th time, don’t DM us about being on here or I’m going to poop in a box and put it on your front porch. I’m going to what it will. That is the only thing that doxing is good for I’m going to poop. I’m going to find out where you live. I’m going to poop in a bag, I’m going to light it on fire and put on your porch. Don’t do that. These are people that we’re finding because we are genuinely enjoying them at present. And this is not sponsored in any way, so stop it. It’s rude. I hate it. Maria, on that note, who are you loving this week? So I know I’ve spoke about them before, but I wanted to talk about Coca’s Tarot journal. I got it for my birthday. And in true Cocorina’s fashion, it’s in black and gold. It’s beautiful. It’s stunning. On the cover of it, it’s ten out of ten. But I also like how they have it. So you could write out up to nine card spreads into the journal and you write about your feelings about it and all that, and it’s so well done and it’s so beautiful. And I love using it because it makes me want to use it. I love it, too. I think their stuff is so beautiful. Have you been loving? I have been super into this hat company who I had loved for a while, but then I lost them. You know when you bookmark something and then you can’t find it, and then there’s like a year that I was trying to remember what they’re called. So it’s the Luna Bloom. And they do like those influencer hats. Do you know the wide brimmed influencer hats that everybody wears? You know what I meant as soon as I said it. Hey, weren’t you wearing one in your author photo for saw? I was wearing a beret in my author photo. Okay. Because we’ve I’m very French, so jot that down.
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Oh, my God. I’m coffee. I’m sorry, guys. Anyway, so the Linda Bloom, they make these wide broom taps and then they paint under the brim and there’s like they’ve got like, lunar faces or like, snakes and leaves and stars. They’re so beautiful and I want one so bad. And every single time that I go to get one, they’re sold out. Every single time without fail. I’m like, all right, I’m going to get one this time. And then they’re sold out and it’s ceramic coffee cup all over again. It really is. Honestly, I genuinely need to have a word with myself and stop picking things to love that are so hard to get my hands on because it’s just nothing but disappointment. We love them, but it’s really beautiful. I’d love to have one someday.
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I love how they have moon phases. Me too. I just think they’re so pretty. Think about my blue hair with, like, a black one and stars and moons on it. Or like a skull and roses. Oh my God, I wish I could have such a big hit. So the lunar bloom. If you listen to this, you’re free to send me one. I wouldn’t be sad. At least let her know when one is in stock. Just at least personally message me when you’re in stock before any other customer because I am very cute. So jot that down. Yeah, you are. Oh my word. Sorry.
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Thank you guys so much for listening to our voices today. We hope that you’ll join us on our next episode which is on Friday, April 30, which is our 9th episode of season two. So keep an eye out on our Instagrams and on our Twitter. You can follow us on Twitter at coffeecultrons or instagram coffeeandcultronspod for more information or even better, joining us on our discord tier which is first cousin on Patreon so we can answer your questions and our part two next time, yes, you’ll even get to hear our lovely voices for an additional 30 minutes ish for being on our Patreon tier. Casting end up. So again, this is Coffee and Cauldrons with Robin from at a Tired Witch on Instagram and with Maria from Maria the Arcane on Instagram. Okay, you ready? You ready? Okay. Alright, ready? 12332. That was pretty good. Yeah, it was.