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Welcome to episode 17 of season two. If you’ve just joined us, I am Robin from out of Tired Witch on Instagram, and I’m with the beautiful Maria from Maria the Arcane on Instagram. Thank you. Beautiful wife named Maria. You might recognize her from the Internet. Yes, I’m pretty much a trophy wife, so yeah, thanks. I just live off of Robin’s energy. Yeah, I don’t have to lift a finger. It’s so great
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if you’ve just joined us this week. Every week we talk about the upcoming lunar phase and kind of how we can utilize that in our own magical practices. Although these lunar phases do deal with the astrological placement of said the moon, this is a reminder that this is not an astrological forecast for you in regards to your zodiac sign. That’s not what this is. So just don’t do that. Don’t.
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So that being said, the nearest and dearest from the air date will be on October 6. It is the new moon in Libra. When we are dealing with new moon in Libra, we can utilize this moon phase for energies that are dealing with our own relationships, with our beauty, with our selfimage, and how we sort of put ourselves out there. For me, personally, I think this would be a really great moon to utilize for magic, confidence, magic, basically anything that deals with how we perceive ourselves with the outside world. Does that make sense? How we within ourselves perceive ourselves? Not necessarily how the world perceives us, because this is dealing with beauty from within. In my personal experience, Libras in general are a very sexy sign. Okay. And my rising. So thank you. You’re very welcome. I get the impression that I am
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I come off that way, but I really am just an awkward duck. I am so sorry I gave the impression because this is a semi sexy sign and a social sign, this would be a really good time to utilize magic that involves boosting our own sexy cells. This could be sex magic, not in the ceremonial way, but in the means of making yourself feel sexier for intimate times. This would be a great time that you could utilize magic. Where you’re going to be the it girl when you walk into a room girl? Of course. I’m using as the late 90s movie reference, not as, like, an actual gender that you might be in listening to this. Think of, like, Jawbreaker the movie jaw Breaker. Love it. Yeah. So, you know when the popular girls are, like, walking down the hallway and it’s like a slow motion scene and their hair is blowing and everybody’s kind of looking at them like, that’s the kind of energy that we can utilize with this lunar phase. You want to be the badass popular girl who’s walking down the hall. So, yeah, she might have actually just killed her best friend with a jawbreaker. Okay. But she still was sucking up, and that’s something to consider
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utilizing magic that comes in this form. Similarly, Libra is also all about balance and justice. We see it with the Justice Tarot card as an example. And so utilizing magic that is for justice, this might be law spells for spells of somebody getting what’s coming to them, and similarly, just finding a better balance and things very heavy on duality. So these are the sort of things to hone in on this interface. And yes, go be the hot girl walking down the hallway. Live off love. I also think Libra is great for making decisions because Libras are very like justice and also balance and deciding. I say making decisions, but Libras are known to be like, I don’t know what to do. Nothing I know is like, boom, this is what I’m doing. They’re very driven, at least the ones I know. Maybe that’s their moon signs or something. But maybe thinking about big decisions that you need to make, I think that’d be very good for this new man. Yeah, go do something fun, guys. Go be the baddest, bad guy. Okay. Live off Love,
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everyone. Yes,
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you can’t see it, but I’m doing little hands and it’s Mercury Retrograde. So what could go wrong? Nothing will go wrong. Everything will go perfect. They often say that about Mercury Retrograde. That did start, let’s see, four days before recording this. So let’s see if we even get this posted on time. The last two Mercury retrogrades, we haven’t
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oh, God.
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So if you just started listening to us, every podcast, we go over a different Tarot card, go over the universal meanings, and then our own interpretation of the cards. Hearing other people’s opinions helps begin their own, or even those who have been practicing for a while, expand their views on different meetings. So this week, we’re doing something a little different that we haven’t done in a while. We’re going to talk about a reversed card. We’re going to do the ten of cups reversed. So when upright, this card shows a family rejoicing. A rainbow holding ten cups is overhead, and in the background there’s a river and a home. The keywords to this card are well, reversed, unhappiness dish, harmony, and even a broken family. Now, when this card comes up for me in readings, it is when reality hits our hopes and dreams. It is when we build something up in our heads to be this amazing thing. And as time passes, we realize it isn’t what we thought it was going to be. The happiness we thought and might even had at one point is no longer there. It reminds me a lot of moving past the puppy love stage or even the honeymoon stage of a relationship. And your partner or partners can do no wrong and getting an amazing job that you’ve been pining for. But then things start to get more real. Things can’t be sunshine and roses, like, all the time. And this card is what happens when all of that falls through. Your partner turns out to be deceptive or your job turns out to be not what you thought it would be at all. You kind of have to rethink what makes us happy and what we want when it comes to emotional for fulfillment in life. Some people do get stuck with us card reverse because they do everything they can to keep that dream they previously had alive and basically living seemingly in ignorance list, but not really, because they’re fighting to get back the old feeling. But the longer we stay in these positions where happiness is not the real end game, the longer we veer off course of our personal journeys when it comes to happiness and emotional fulfillment. So how about you, Robin dear? How do you see this car repairs? Are you sitting down? Do you agree with me? I do. Oh, my God. I’m going to say I agree with you with an anecdote or not an? Anecdote. What’s that called? An asterisk anecdote. Listen to me, I don’t know words. I agree with you with a little extra, which is that when I see this card come up, it typically tells me that you’re having really serious issues at home and that basically you need to deal with it now. Like, it needs to be dealt head on right now, or it’s going to lead to divorce, friendship, breaking up, severed ties. Because the tenant cups doesn’t just mean like, emotional relationships, right? Or not emotional. It does because it’s the cops suit. I meant romantic.
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Romantic. So it basically tells us that we have to deal with it. Like, now it’s a make or break card. In my experience, it needs to be dealt with right fucking now, or it’s going to lead to your friendship dissolving, severed ties with family members, your relationship ending, et cetera. Otherwise, I completely agree with you. Look at us. Just two girls just coming to total agreement for once in our lives who thought it could happen. Mercury retrograde is sinking us. Live, laugh and love, guys. It’s truly possible.
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Don’t worry, everybody. I hate me too.
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To me, it’s like a really big red flag card and a big warning card. It’s like alarm bells are going off. It’s like, okay, we actually need to stop talking about everything else in this reading. We need to focus on this. Everything else doesn’t matter here. What matters here is the fact that you guys need to deal with it or accept the fact this relationship is coming to an end. Yes, I completely agree. Look at us, just agreeing.
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So this week we want to talk about ghosts. And Maria and I have talked about ghost stories before in the past, but we figured this time now, we’re going to we did open up the floor to our beautiful discord members to send us their ghost stories. And Em and I are going to talk about kind of how we would deal with this situation. Even at minimum, just reading it and having a laugh will be fun. But the main thing is that Maria and I are going to be starting something extra here at Coffee and Cauldrons and we want to focus October on just being all about spirits and spookiness and having a good time with Salon coming, it’s the start and end of the Pagan New Year, so we wanted to be just fun. So we will be posting something on Instagram for you guys to send us your ghost stories if you want. They will be anonymous and this is just going to be a fun little extra segment. I think we’ll be good. We think we’ll be good. Yeah. I’m excited. So that being said, Maria, what is our first ghost story? Okay, so let’s start back in 2014. I was considered a chaperone for my younger sister’s high school trip to Europe. I was only 21. It’s fine. We were traveling through Wells and the Hand Hotel was our place for the night. We all knew it was haunted and we’re excited to check it out. The rumor was that Room 14 was the most haunted of them all. We arrived and guess what room we were assigned? 14 people offered to switch with my sister and I, but we’re like, no, it’ll be fine. This should be fun. So the room was small. Two twin beds with a light on the wall above each bed, a wardrobe and a glass window with a chair and curtains hanging so you can sit in the chair behind the curtains, and a small bathroom with a shower and a broken light. Outside the window was a small one lane road, another building, rather close. We were leaving early the next morning so I could set my clothes out on the chair and I piled up my jewelry on the small bedside table next to me. Everything was fine until it got dark when we decided to keep and we decided to keep the light on while we slept. The first time I woke up, the curtains were blowing like there was a breeze in the room and my clothes that I had set out were on the floor, as if someone really wanted to sit on the chair. I got up to look out the window I still don’t know why to this day, and saw a woman with long black hair dressed all in red. I ran back to my bed and hid under the covers. I don’t know if I passed out from fear or what, but the next thing I know, my sister is running around the room collecting her things and telling me we need to leave right now. I told her, we can’t yet, it’s only 03:00 a.m. And we will be leaving at seven. She looked at me, I shut and she crawled back into bed without another word. She, to this day does not remember this happening. It was then I noticed that the jewelry next to me, that was laid out perfectly. Sorry, I think I’m reading this wrong. That’s okay. This is a long one. This is a long story. Yeah. I think that the jewelry was disturbed, but she didn’t put that but I didn’t sleep. My sister woke up at six and she noticed I was looking dead tired. I asked if she remembered anything and I told her all that had happened. She freaked out and we ended up being the first in the lobby in the morning. I remember it was a Sunday and a few people were going to church before we got back on the buses. We were definitely in that group that morning. Freaky. I think my favorite part of all of this, right, of this whole story is the fact that the sister doesn’t remember any of it. Because I’ve been there, obviously I wasn’t there, like in Wales, I was there, but
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yeah, it’s funny you should mention that because I actually am a big fan of wearing all red. So it was me.
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But what I mean is, I’ve been in a situation like that before. Yeah, I can understand it. What were you going to say? I was going to say that what I would have done personally in that situation. You know, being at hotel is like creepy stuff is happening. Your options are fairly limited. I mean, sometimes you just have to like, this is fine, everything’s fine, we’ll be okay, we’ll make it through the night. But I think it’s great to bring cleansing stuff with you, like when you travel, even if it’s just like a spray bottle with some salt. And you could spray the room down with salt because the last thing you want to do is light up a cleansing wand in the hotel room and start and people are like, something is burning. But even if you carry a black handle, if you just do quick banishment symbol on it. But again, that could be not very it’s in the middle of the night, you want to do something quick so you can go back to sleep. Yeah, but that’s what I would personally do. Just the salt and water for me personally in that situation, and this is going to sound really bad, okay, but it’s a hotel, right? I would have just gone back to sleep. My reason being, listen, and I know this isn’t like a very helpful situation, right? I know what I’m suggesting is not very helpful, but my reason being is that doing a proper cleansing or banishing, in my opinion, takes enough time and energy that by the time it’s done, you will have already not gotten any sleep anyway. Do you know what I mean? At that point? So you’re going to be gone in the morning, just force yourself to go back to sleep. That’s what I do and I’ve done that before. There was a hotel that my husband and friend and I stayed in a couple of years ago, that there was a man in the corner of the room the whole night. He was scaring the shit out of me. I just turned the TV on. I literally just turned the TV on and I went back to sleep. Because things like that noise, like the static and the noise and stuff like that tends to be distracting enough that you can ignore the situation. That’s been my experience, at least. And like I said, not that I don’t think that cleansing and stuff is useful. It totally is. But in a hotel specific situation, I would do anything I could to just go back to sleep. Yeah. And I do want to say that even if you cleanse, most likely it’ll probably help for just a little bit, and then it’ll start over again. And this is because with spirits, especially if you’re in an old place, you’re saying like a bed and breakfast or something. It’s actually a brand new country. So I don’t really know where this remark is coming from in general. You know what I mean? In general, because even newer hotels can be haunted. But it’s so ingrained. Like, the haunting itself is so ingrained in the structure that you’re just going to temporarily put it on hold like it’s still going to be there. It lives in the place, and with so much energy there’s being so many people there, it’s just going to keep feeding that spirit or energy that’s there. But that’s my personal opinion and experience. That makes sense. I think. It makes sense. And, well, guys, if it doesn’t make sense to you, that’s okay. We got another story. Oh, well,
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sorry. This one is part of four stories offered, but this is my favorite in all the stories. Well, not even my favorite, but one that I think would I have advice for. Okay. In college, I constantly felt a weird presence in my apartment, specifically male, specifically watching me in the bathroom and in the shower. One day in the middle of the night, I heard a whisper, katie, I love you. I had a friend who was also super sensitive and one who was not. I was having lunch with. I told them, and K, the sensitive one, believe me, but S, the skeptical one, laughed at me. I brought them to my apartment so Kay could feel around, too, and see if I was being crazy. First of all, I don’t like that word, crazy, okay? Nobody’s crazy, okay? You’re all just going through different things, all right? S just made fun of us the whole time. S left the room, and Kay whispered to me, pack a bag, grab the kitten. He’s really angry. He thinks you’re making a joke out of him. I stayed with her for a couple of days and went back eventually. A couple of days later, I woke up to a hand on my chest and somebody physically bouncing me up and down on my bed by pushing my chest up and down. I slept with the light on the rest of the night and I moved out shortly after. First of all, this is not very live laugh, love. Okay, let’s start with that. Oh, God, sorry everybody. Copy turned into a ray done running joke. Anyway.
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For me personally, if I was in this sort of situation, I would be doing first and foremost very obvious cleanse and a banishing. But I would specifically get things like holy water and I know that or blessed water. And I know that words like holy water might seem triggering for some people because not we all, but many people have a very negative relationship with the church. However, holy water serves an incredible purpose. It has been blessed. And whether you believe in it or not, the ghost in question has a very high likelihood of believing in holy water. It’s part of most like, historical American faith systems and there is a lot of power in consecrated water, whether that is truly coming from the Christian God or just the act of consecrating said water. Yeah, I would then this is going to sound like such a dollar store which thing, but I don’t give a shit. Get some holy water, get a spray bottle, and you are going to spray your whole effing house down. Okay. Then you’re going to go get a candle, a black candle. You’re going to do a vanishing sigil on it and you’re going to leave that burning in the center of your house until it’s gone. That’s what I personally would do it very well is probably not going to get rid of the entity altogether because it’s usually a lot more complicated, but it is going to at least make it so. That way you’re in a position of safety where in my experience, the ghost is not going to physically harm you again. Does that make sense? It’ll take the activity from something that is super scary and physical and frightening and instead make it so that way the male entity is just like closing cabinets, let’s say. Yeah. So the entity is not gone, but you can at least run out your lease and do so in a way that you’re not worried for your life. Does that make sense? No, that makes total sense. I would cleanse the entire house, as you said, specifically opening up all the windows. Do not cleanse your house with the windows closed, please. Yeah, every inch of the house. Even like it sounded like the ghost was mostly like in the bathroom area. So even getting there, like even the tiniest corners in the cabinets, in everything. And then I always also recommend taking an Epson salt bath and scrubbing your entire body down just so, I don’t know, some spirits really connect to you and sounded like in this position. It really connected to her. So I would definitely do the whole scrubbing down the body thing with Epson salt and as you say, eventually just leave. If the spirit keeps acting up, I will say instead of MINDBODY with Epson salt, I will just say this one thing. You do it once. Okay. And then that’s that. Don’t keep doing it thinking it’s going to help because what you are actually going to end up doing is giving your skin such an abrasion that you have a whole other issue going on. You scrub yourself down once. Don’t keep doing it like every day and thinking that’s going to help. Because if it didn’t work, let’s say the first time doing it on repeat is not going to help the situation more than the first time did. But it will cause your skin to break. Oh, I should have clarified. I meant like the Epson salt bath, like it’s dissolved and everything. And I personally use a charcoal soaps are good. I’m not anti using that. Yeah, I use a charcoal soap for matters like this for different purposes. But even in spirit related, I use the charcoal soap because the whole point of charcoal is like it draws things out. So I scrubbed my body down with that. That’s what I use specifically. But I know people also use other herbal blends of their own soap and stuff like that to do the same. You can also do the scrub method, but that’s what I personally do. Floor washes in this case would be really good as well. I know that there’s a good one called Devil Begone floor wash. I actually have a recipe for it and I can share it on patreon. So I will do that next month. The floor wash, it does, however, have pee in it. Okay,
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our whole conversation, I think it was off air we were talking about with Corey. I think we were talking about Corey. It will have PNM. It don’t get weird, okay? It’s normal and fine. Put a little bit in. Okay, everybody just needs to relax. You’re yelling at me right now. Stop it. If your house smells like ammonia, you’ve gone too far. It’s been too much. Oh, my word. We have a couple of other ones here. I don’t think we’re going to get to all of them today, guys. But we could do one more story. Do you want to pick another one, Maria? Yeah, let me bring it up because I am not on there. Wow, she’s really dropping the ball, guys. I know, I’m just so organized in every aspect of my life. Just kidding. Okay, so let me see if I can read this one correctly. I believe in you. Okay, so it starts off this first part happened when I was born, so it’s technically hearsay. But my house has an L shaped hallway, the shorter leg coming from the front door to the living room and the longer leg going back to the back of the house where all the bedrooms are. So when my fatherinlaw first bought the house he started seeing a little old lady who would come down the short leg of the L, turn, walk down the long leg of the L and disappear. After a few weeks of this, he described the old lady to a neighbor who told him that the spirit looked like the previous owner. After a few years, he stopped noticing her and didn’t see any other spirit activity in the house. So when we moved in, got jobs in the area and started fostering some puppies one day I’m at work and my partner is sitting on the couch in the living room with the puppies and as they tell it, a small toy tank like the military vehicle fell in front of them. It hadn’t been on any of the shelves or anything. My partner said they had never even seen it before. They picked it up and put it on the shelf and went about their day. Immediately after the day, we started feeling and seeing a presence in the house and it started walking the same path down the el hall. But whenever I caught a glimpse of it, it didn’t look like an old lady. It’s just a dark black shape. There would be times my partner and I would be hanging out in our room at the end of the long hallway with the door open and my partner would suddenly ask me when I had turned on the light in the hallway off. But when I looked, the light was always on. I started feeling unsafe and weird if I was in the house alone. A few weeks later, our cat knocked the toy off the shelf. The puppies got a hold of it and brought it outside and chewed it up. The activity stopped for a bit, but while after that, again while I was at work my partner took the pups outside and found the toy and brought it back inside. That night we were once again hanging out in our bedroom with the door open and the hallway light was on. My partner looked over at the doorway and just started sobbing just out of nowhere begging me to turn the light on because there apparently was a huge black shadow hanging in our bedroom doorway. When I looked over there, the light was on and there was no shadow. But I could feel a presence. My partner just kept crying. So I got up, went out into the living room, grabbed the toy, yelled for whatever it was to leave us alone and threw the toy away in our outside garbage can. When I went back inside, my partner was fine. If you were to ask them about it now, they wouldn’t even remember it. I’ve described that night in detail and they still don’t remember a thing about it. Anyways, I think about it constantly because it seems so wild and horror movie ask. Do I genuinely think that toys curse or something? No, but do I have another explanation for the activity? No. I wasn’t practicing yet at this time, so I probably would have just handled it very I would have handled it very differently. But whatever it is went away. There still is occasionally a spirit energy I don’t like in the home, but I just tell it to leave and do a good cleanse and I don’t have any other problems. I’m going to say something. I would have handled it exactly how they handled it. Even now as a practicing, I would have told them to leave me alone and to get out. Right. I would have gotten rid of the object. Right? Maybe I would have not thrown in the trash can. I might have done it a little bit differently, but I would have gotten rid of the object.
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I honestly feel like they handled it exactly how it should have been handled. And I know that that’s maybe not the spiritual answer everybody is looking for, but simultaneously, sometimes it’s coming from an object. You just need to get the object out of your house. Yeah, that’s why, like I say, when you THRis anything, just cleanse it. And obviously this is like completely different. Like a toy that has never been around suddenly appeared. I mean, that’s completely different. What do you do in that situation? But I personally with objects like that that are cursed, I wouldn’t throw it away. I would actually give it a burial because obviously there’s a spirit attached to it. I know this sounds very supernatural, that’s what I would do. But I would salt it. I wouldn’t burn it, but I would pour salt all over the object while it’s in the hole and say some words of like, rest in peace and I hope your spirit settles down or whatever. Obviously I’ll say something more eloquent and then, you know, bury it away from the house. Like away. Like, I would even do it in the yard. I would go somewhere and bury it far away and then do the thorough house cleansing and have everyone in the house take an Epson salt bath and also do a handle just in case. Yeah, but otherwise I would say the main points there of the getting it out of the house, telling it to leave you alone, et cetera, I think is right on track. You have to be very verbal with ghosts. Like, you can’t just be like, oh, it’s fine. You have to yell sometimes and be like, get out. If you wish me harm, you can leave. But I leave actually the nice stuff. If you’re just going to cover in my kitchen, fine, whatever. As long as your presence feels good. Whatever.
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My grandmother’s ghost does it every year around this time up until yellow time. So I just let her spirit be like she watches over me. And she judges how I don’t wash the dishes every night. It’s fine. Like, I love her. What the heck? Oh, gosh, that’s so funny. That’s what please. Even if you buy from the second hand shop, I even say cleanse the clothes that you get. You never know. Yeah, just be safe. Don’t get a haunted doll. Or do at some point, look your life and go, you know what, yolo, my Witchling wants one so bad. Like, they want to start a collection. I’m like, you know who would have to deal with that? It would be me. And I’m not going to do that. Just like, with a puppy, and it would be me. And I’m not doing that. I’m busy enough. Mom is actually way too busy for this shit, actually. Thank you so much. I can see them doing that, too, being like, come on, mom. I know.
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Fun. This was fun. I’m excited for this month. Yeah. Maria and I are going to focus this month. We’re going to have a little extra something happening, and we’re going to focus on reading ghost stories. So I will be posting a post about this a couple of days after this episode comes out. So just keep your eyes peeled, gang. Keep your eyes peeled. I might even have a really good story for next time. Of course. I do, too. All right, we’ll see you then. Yes. But we’re not done yet.
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We’re closing. Like, we’re going to leave and be like, okay, we’re done. We’re not doing that stirring and stirring this time. Never again. Sorry, guys. Goodbye. This is real. But actually, we both decided to quit the podcast just now on the spot. No, we don’t mean in general. We just mean this episode. So goodbye.
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So, Maria, what’s stirring or cauldron right now? It was so sensual. Thank you. I turned really hard. Thank you. The lessons are paying off.
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Okay. So I’m actually pretty excited about our Tarot challenge on Instagram. If you haven’t seen it on our social media, we have a haunted house Tarot challenge for the month of October. And each day we’ll go in deeper and deeper into a metaphorical haunted house and run into some ghosties along the way. It may even have a story arc because, oh, my God, Maria. Or fall for yourself one. And I was like, oh, this is all like, self love theme. And Maria is like, we’re going into a haunted house. I’ve written a story. There is a plot here. We’re going to meet five ghosts.
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So much more expert than I will ever be. If I get a chance to be creative, I’m going to be fucking creative, okay? If I had time, I would have actually wrote a whole story out and had them do stuff. But I was unwell at the time, so that did not happen. But maybe next year. Each section of the house has to deal with different things, such as ancestors and guides growth, the balance of our inner child, and being an adult. And we will even tap into your witchy practice. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. And I’ll be releasing them in sections. So if you would rather do a spread over, like, pulling cards every day, that is completely fine. As I said, each section has a general theme, so your sprint will make sense. And I wouldn’t be participating myself. I’m definitely going to be using my Memento Mori Oracle deck and my Lydia Tarot deck for layering my spreads and pools. And though I will say I wish someone would release another Tarot deck that uses vintage Halloween imagery. I used to love trick or treat Tarot deck, but then I found out its creator is super racist and by heart, forever mourns the loss of that deck. But it’s painted for me. Now I’m going to use the Tarot deck that you gave me last year. Do you remember? I would have got me it, too. The haunted house one. I love it. You just get yourself one. No. Oh, my God. You really fucked. I know.
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I can order it and it would be here by Friday. It might. Maybe. It might. Yeah. I thought you got both of us. That I didn’t realize that it was just me. Wow. I’m really special, guys. She’s, like, in love with me or something. It’s so embarrassing. I like to give things that I would gift myself. It’s really embarrassing. She’s, like, obsessed with me. It’s really embarrassing. Oh, my gosh. But no, I’m, like, super excited about it. I didn’t mean to advertise, like, our instagram, but I am excited about it. She’s doing it. She’s advertising. Wow.
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Oh, my God. No, I think it is in general. It’s true. Thank you. It’s going to be fun, and I’ve seen a little preview beyond what’s out there, and I’m very excited about it. Thank you. I think she’s done a good job. Thank you. I tried.
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So, Robin, what is not stirring your culture this week? Thank you so much for asking. God damn it.
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You get those? Very sexy. I have an erection right now, actually. Thank you. Oh, my gosh. Actually, a term that I recently learned is wide on, which is British, and it refers to the female equivalent of a boner. So consider that I love it. Consider that I have a white on right now for you. All right. Anyway, moving on from that sexy time disgusting. What is not during my caldron this week is the influx of religious comments’and. You know how Maria and I have talked about it being, like, witch season, and a lot of witches come into, like, their being and their power, et cetera. During this time, they find themselves well, with that influx of new witches comes a bunch of weirdos that spend their free time searching witchcraft, hashtags and being like, you’re going to hell. You’re going to burn. You’re going to die. OK. Thank you, Barbara. This really feels like Jesus. Love thy neighbor. It feels very wholesome. Thank you so much. That’s my story. My culture this week is the people that are like, the Satan was created because the deceiver of God. And you’re a follower of Satan. And it’s like, no, I’m not. I don’t even believe in Satan. I like to comment, be like, heckatay, bless you, Jesus, bless you. Please come to Jesus. I’m like the Lord Jesus actually says that you maria, specifically, you need to repent or you’re going to burn forever. Like, repent for what? For what? I’m like, genuinely a good person, generally. Maybe my favorite part about all of it is that because I went to art school, I’m an art history minor, which then in correspondence to that, I took a lot of theology classes because a lot of historical art pieces are done about religious things. Because quite frankly, you have things like supplies being very limited. You’re only going to do what’s going to make you money because of that. Beyond like a charcoal drawing. Right. And those were all commissioned art pieces for like, churches and rather religious things. Right. And so I actually have a pretty good understanding of the Bible. It’s not perfect. My husband loves to correct me on things because he’s a Catholic. But I have a pretty good understanding of the Bible. And I just want to know what part of your Bible tells you to harass people on the internet. I’m just wondering. That doesn’t feel very of Christ anyway. No hate to people who believe in Jesus or anything like that. Like I said, obviously it should be obvious. But I’m not a religion basher of any kind. But that being said, stop fucking commenting on my shit. Like, get a real hobby. Like, get a real hobby. Do you think that somebody I know a lot of these religions. The backbone of the religion is spreading the word of Jesus to convert them to save their soul. Right. And I’ve got no problem with that. Like, if somebody comes to your door and like, wants to spread the word of Jesus, like, just tell them, like, no thank you. They’re just doing like what the Bible tells them to do. And there’s nothing wrong with that. However, do you think that somebody was like, this person commented on my page and told me that I was going to burn for eternity. So now I’ve decided to give up everything and become whatever that religion is. So yeah, that’s just what I think about that. Do it that way. You will? Yes. Our comments test sections are not your pop. It’s literally. And nobody’s going to read your comment and be like, oh, well, I was going to do this pagan prayer. But now that you mention it, I will actually repent for my sins. And I will go to the church where they’re hiding child molesters. That sounds great.
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Anyway, I don’t want to bash anybody’s religion, so I’m going to veer off this subject, but those comments drive me fucking crazy. Like, get a real hobby. Me too. And as you said, it’s gotten pretty bad. Pretty bad. It’s just going to get worse. It’s just going to be like, I’d say, month, and then it’s going to continue on, probably through Christmas. And then the new year will start and they’ll go back to whatever the fuck they’re doing with their lives that isn’t being rude and disrespectful on the Internet. So just a warning to everybody. Just ignore them. Yeah, just ignore them. Block them. Or do what I do and make a joke out of it. It’s fun. Having a joke is fun. Joking is actually very good and normal, and you should do that. We don’t joke here. We’re serious. Yeah. This is meme free zone. This is NPR. Welcome to Coffee and Cauldrons, where we are going to talk a very serious monitor. Marie, I heard you laugh. Don’t do that. This is Coffee and Cauldrons. Have some fucking respect.
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No, absolutely not. Actually. Thank you. Yeah. This is actually Fox News now. Don’t ever speak such a thing in my presence.
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If you have just joined us, this episode, every single episode, we talk about creators that we are really liking right now. This is not sponsored. If you send us a DM and you’re like, Please, will you put us on here? Maria and I will walk you to everyone we know privately. We’re going to make so much fun of you. Don’t do it. Just don’t do it. I’m going to make fun of you, my friend. Ashley, listens to this. I’m going to send it to Ashley, and Ashley is going to laugh so hard at you. Wouldn’t that be so embarrassing for you if Ashley laughed at you? So embarrassing. That’d be so embarrassing. Oh, my God. So don’t do it. That being said, Maria, what are you loving right now? Well, I have to say it. You said we’re not, like, doing advertising stuff, but we both have the same company that we’re like, okay, this is a huge coincidence. Okay? This is not an ad for this company. We just happened to both get two different decks from this company this week, and we both went, yeah,
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okay. So mine is the Seed and Sickle Oracle Deck, and also in conjunction with the Citadel Oracle Deck. Also. And the reason why I combined both of them is because the Citadel Deck only comes in, like, a certain package with the Seed and Sickle. So if you don’t get that package, you don’t get the other deck, but the Seed. And so basically, Fez, who is the artist, did an amazing job on these cards. It’s all like, a herbal Oracle Deck, and it comes with two different guidebooks, and one is for introspection, and the other ones, like, outwards like, goals and stuff like that. So you kind of like, oh, well, this reading is going to be about my goal, so I’m going to read into this book. But the artwork is just so stunning. I mean, if you’ve seen any of Fez’s art, it’s gorgeous. And she did the oh, my gosh, the Poison Curses Herbal book. That’s gorgeous. She did the cover for that and the artwork inside. And it’s just this deck is kind of like the extension of that. And it’s like a bunch of different herbs, beautifully drawn. And the card stock is lush. The sides are gilded like a rose gold. And it’s just a stunning deck. And it’s been so fun to use so far. It is. I love it. And the Citadel deck is like it’s kind of like what do I want to say? Like a person deck. If you’re, like, trying to who represents me right now? And you would shuffle it, and you could pull the witch. You could pull the seer, you can pull the wise man, or something like that. So it’s basically things like that. If you’re trying to pull a card for a guide, you would well, this card represents my guide, but those cards are also done by Fez, and they’re absolutely beautiful. And they’re like I think it’s a hexagon shape, and they’re gilded images. They’re not gilded on the sides, but they’re beautiful and they’re gorgeous to use. And I think it’s a lovely deck that you can layer with. How about you? Mine is also from the same company. Again, this is a coincidence, but mine is the mythical Medley’s deck, and it is like a vintage inspired reinterpretation of the writer Wade Smith. The deck itself is like that rubber band cartoons, so stuff you would have seen in the twenties, like Disney in the 20s, felix the Cat, Casper the Ghost, like those sort of silent film cartoons. Right? I if you know anything about me, I’m a huge fan of vintage cartoons. Not necessarily the messages that they portray, but the actual imagery and the aesthetic that are in those vintage cartoon styles. So when I saw this deck actually, our discord sent it to me. When I saw this deck, I snatched this shit up so unbelievably fast. It’s so fucking fast because it is right up my alley. And I have not even mentioned a terror deck on here in months, for the record. Okay? This is the first part of it forever. And it is hey. Are you calling me out? I’m not are you saying more? That’s how excited I am about this deck, because I haven’t been so excited about a deck in a little while, actually. And, you know, normally I am. That’s more my point. And I’m just so obsessed with it. I love it. And one of my issues I have with a liminal eleven decks is that it’s not a real issue. They’ve got, like a gloss coating on them that makes them really, really sturdy. The problem is, they’re so sturdy, you can’t shuffle them. There’s a knack to it and you can learn it. But traditional shuffling cannot be done with those decks because of that. They did not do the gloss coating on this deck. And so it is still a really heavy, well made car stock that is going to last. But it’s shuffle. So, like, I am obsessed. So not only is it just 100% my jam, but it is shuffle where, in a traditional sense, it does not take a knack to learn to do that. It just absolutely. Chefs, kiss for me. Love it. Yeah, honestly, I don’t think the seed and the seed and sickle is, like, really easy to shuffle. I don’t think it has the gloss cloth coating that the other ones had. Like, the white Newman, which has it for sure, and so does the white Newman. I don’t have I remember the white Newman being a little hard to shuffle. A little bit. Not hard, but it’s hard to do. Yeah, the overhand shuffle is a little difficult, but, yeah, I like to rifle shuffle my decks because I am abusive towards them. But, yeah, I do not have that issue with this deck, and I’m so excited about it. So ten out of ten,
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thank you all for being here. We hope to see you on Friday, October 15, for our 18th episode. Now, that being said, Maria and I are planning something a little special for this month, so just keep your eyes peeled for some extra goodies this month. You can do so by looking out on our Instagram, our Twitter, or our website, which we do have a website. Now, you can find all these things@coffeeandcultrons.com or even better, joining us on our Discordier, which is First Covenant on Patreon. So we can answer your questions in our part two. Next time, you’ll even get to hear our lovely, sensual, beautiful just a round of applause voices for an additional 30 minutes per episode for being in our Patreon. The tears casting and up. So, again, this is Coffee and Cauldrons with Robin from out of Tired Witch on Instagram. And I’m Maria from at Maria Zarcane on Instagram. All right, are you ready? Yeah. Let’s do five.
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