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So welcome to episode 13 of season two. It’s been a while. And so if you’re just now joining us, this is Maria at Maria’s Arcane on Instagram and am alongside the lovely Robin, a tired witch on Instagram. Hello, babies. We’re back. It was a long six weeks. I’m sure I’m sure you guys felt very sad and depraved without us, but here we are back to Brighton,
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three episode lengths, and we do an episode every other week. So six weeks. Wild, isn’t it? Time doesn’t exist. I mean, our last recording, I went into labor like, what, five days after that. I’m so glad we made that decision to take a break, too. Oh, my goodness. Okay,
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so although it’s been a few weeks, if you are new here, every week we talk about upcoming lunar phases and kind of how we can use that for our practice. I am going to remind everyone, just because it has been a few weeks, that this is not an astrological forecast that has to directly do with your sun signs or moon signs. I know some people do that. And there was a little bit of not miscommunication but misunderstanding with what these were a little while ago. So since we took a little break, let me just remind you that this is the upcoming lunar phase and how we can use it magically. Yes, sometimes that can affect your star chart, but that is not what we are specifically talking about. So on that note, the upcoming lunar phase is actually like two days after this comes out. It is the new moon in Leo on August 8. New moons in general are a good time to focus on new projects and kind of starting up anything inviting or new into your life. And when we’re looking at the new one in Leo, we’re seeing things like self expression, romance, creativity, leadership, and really just anything that kind of lights your fire. Leos are in general, the whole sign is a very sort of for a loud sign. And I don’t mean necessarily loud as in speaking volume. I mean bold, bright, energetic. You always know when a Leo is in the room. And so that’s the same kind of energy that we are encompassing with this new moon. Anything that you are going to be starting up that’s going to take that kick under the ass that I am here and I am in this room, energy, whether that is landing a promotion, painting, really anything, having the balls to go talk to that person that you’ve had a crush on for a while, these are the sort of energies that we’re looking at. So I say find your inner lion. Is that corny? Not at all. No, I mean, it’s like a very confidence heavy find. Yeah, it really is a very independent heavy sign as well. So if you’re in a position where maybe you’re trying to, let’s say, move out of your parents house or move out of a toxic household. This would be a really good lunar phase to do spellwork to help you kind of get that ball rolling in a more productive and healthy way. So I say, yee fucking ha, and let’s do some solar for that.
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He’s a guy from Practical Magic.
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That’s all we’ve been talking about for the last two days. Practical Magic. I can’t escape it. I had to tell everybody my dark secret, which is that until your little one told me to watch Practical Magic, I hadn’t seen it. I know I brought shame to everyone. I’m not a big TV or movie watcher. I never have been. So
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nothing to see here, folks. Shame. Shame. That’s something new Moon should be used for. To shame me. Yes, shame, Robin, with all the leo energy. Shame. Oh, my gosh.
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So if you just started listening to us, every podcast, we talk about a random terror card. We go over the universal meaning and then our own interpretations. Hearing other people’s opinions helps beginners form their own, or even those who have been practicing for a while, expand their views on different meetings. So this week we’re talking about the Seven of Swords. On this card, you will see a person in a red hat and shoes stealing five swords of the seven available that seemed to be in front of an encampment of swords behind them. You can kind of see people either fighting or having a meeting of sorts. Okay, so this is going to be a hot tick, which means that’s totally my personal view. But it kind of looks like the Seven of Wands happening in the background. Just like, take a look, and then you can hear me right now. And I think you’re right. I agree with you. It is a hot take. It is definitely UPG, but I can totally see exactly what you’re talking about. Yeah, one person is higher than the rest and is holding the freaking wand. It’s there. It’s definitely there. And if you want to believe that that card is there, it means actively fighting to keep your position. So the universal meanings of this keywords of this card are deceit, lying, cheating, and generally being underhanded. Now, okay, so I view this card differently depending on the situation it comes up in. If it comes up in an overall positive reading or a positive position, it asks for us to take back the power that was taken from us. Sometimes we have to do things sneakily or underhanded or put ourselves first to make big changes. If you look at the tents on the card, they are pretty fancy. These aren’t the tents of soldiers, but like, higher ups. So this whole situation reminds me of fighting, like the patriarchy or people who have gained from our demise. Well, we can’t take back all that was taken from us, represented by the leftover sword, such as real world aspect as memories. We can build off what we actually can take from the situation, turning that past situation into knowledge and using it to fight or guard against future events. Now, when it’s in a negative position or in an overall negative reading, it can show trying to take away from others achievements by being a sneaky and conniving asshole. So how do you view this card? Robin Deer well, I view it two ways and it’s very similar to what you discussed. This is a Robin Hood card to me, healing from the rich to give to the poor. Right? And while there is nobility, I guess, in doing that, it is at the end of the day still stealing. And so therefore it can be very easily misinterpreted as something negative. I mean, think about it, right? When you see somebody, for example, stealing formula from the grocery store no, you didn’t. But simultaneously, if you were to say something like that to the wrong person, or not the wrong person, but a certain group of people, they would say, yeah, but what about the people who steal to go resell it? Right? And then, of course, then you still have that kind of conversation where it’s like, yeah, but then they obviously need the money and that’s a whole other issue and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So it is kind of that double edged sword of theft when you are looking at stealing from the rich. Depends on who you’re talking to and whether or not that’s a noble thing. And it also depends on, in a reading the cards around it on if it’s a noble thing. Right? Yes, because it is a very circumstantial situation. I mean, things like being rich, it is subjective and it is something that might look as though it’s one way to a group of people when in reality they’re just really lucky. You know what I mean? They got a fortunate situation happening. That doesn’t mean that they’re wealthy. So I always say, look to the other cards around it. And I love reading. I hate this card so fucking much because when I see this card in a love reading, to me, every single time, I’m like, he, she, they are cheating on you. There’s something going on here that you don’t know about that is being snuck around behind your back. It might be cheating, it might be just keeping secrets we don’t know. Right? Again, look to the other cards for clarification on that. But to me, I hate seeing this card in love readings because it’s never paired with something good. Yeah. Usually when I see this card upfront for love reading, it’s definitely the person I’m doing the reading for who’s hiding stuff from their partner and just hiding even like small things like how you feel or something like that can be very harmful, if that makes sense. Yeah, I completely fucking agree.
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This card to me is very contextual with the rest of the cards that are around it. You know how, like, the eight of wands is a Catalyst card in a lot of situations? To me, this is very similar in it being a Catalyst card. It does depend on the cards that are around it, but it is very rarely a good sign.
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So as we said when we opened up this episode, we’re back from my maternity leave and Maria, being the rock star that she is, where she sat with me in solidarity despite the fact that I was giving birth. So we thought that we would just kind of catch you guys up as to what we’ve been up to, and then we’re going to talk about actual discussions and topics next week, like usual. Because six weeks is a long time. It wasn’t for me. It flew by, but it is a long time. Darn
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it. For me, too. I don’t know. It’s no luck. What year is it? Our last episode came out on June 11. So that means that I gave birth, I guess, two weeks later,
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then. I guess it’s actually almost been two months. Not six weeks. It’s been eight weeks. It doesn’t feel like that. I can’t believe that. It’s almost, like, may bond time. Either way, I’m so fucking happy to take that break because my last couple of weeks there were hell on Earth. Being pregnant sucks. Guys, I’m just telling you, if you’re on the fence about having a baby and you’re, like, being pregnant is magical and wonderful, it’s not. And they lied to us, okay? We’ve all been bamboozled and tricked. It’s not. I’m so sorry. I’m one of those weird people who love being pregnant until the day yeah, I know. Maria had hormones. She misremembered the entire thing. Luckily, I’m here to remind her that being pregnant sucks ass.
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Oh, my God. Now I’m a mama, which is great, and I love being a mom, and I think it’s amazing, and I think everybody has been so cool about it. If you don’t follow me on Instagram, just a kind reminder before I get DMs and emails, we are not sharing our child online or our child’s name or their gender or anything just because their baby doesn’t mean that they don’t have the right to privacy. So too young to consent to be on the Internet, so we’re not doing that. So please respect that.
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Yeah. So what have you been up to missing? Well, we took that break. I’m doing what I always do, which is I’m doing my best to practice balance with everything that I’ve been working on with all my different witchy business projects,
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I realize I need strong bound when it comes to work, so I am at my best. That means only working from nine to five and cutting myself off and distancing myself from it on the weekends. I am not the type of person who will make work my life or stare at a computer screen all day. Even if it’s like, work, I enjoy it’s. Just, I don’t know, being a working witch who has, like, a chronic illness and having a family and having Add, I need to prioritize having that time for myself and of course, spending meaningful time with my family so I can recoup. I’ve been spending a lot of time with my family and going on a trip with my wife to ashful. It was so nice. I love that. I know that everyone talks about the pressure in the community to keep up, and I’m not exempt from that. I too, like, the list. Tremendous amount of pressure from other, like, witchy entrepreneurs to keep up with what they are doing, like running five different socials, going on Live every day and having many workshops. It’s just not my cup of tea. And, like, completely unrealistic to me. This is definitely, like, not a dig at anyone that does these things with Grace. By the way, she’s literally adding me right now. It’s so fucking rude. You guys, I am no longer best friends with Maria, okay? I’m breaking up her.
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Every time that I try to do it, I run myself into the ground. It has to create using my hands, picking up my camera, and getting the fuck away from technology whenever possible. But other than that, the big witchy project I’ve been working on, that’s still secret secret has been going through some huge changes, and I mean great huge changes. And I’m so excited about the direction it’s heading in, and I can’t wait to reveal to everyone what exactly it is. All I will say for now is that freaking magical as hell and the team behind it are awesome. You have to clarify, though, because I really just posted today about how we as content creators do not have a team behind us. Like, the team behind my project. That’s not what she means, guys. It’s an actual company that I’m working with. It’s like a contradiction I’m working on. Oh, my goodness. Hell. I don’t have an assistant. I’m the only one checking my email messages. I’m the only one responding and taking photos, editing such photos, posting. Not me. Not me. I got a 20 person army, guys. Could you imagine? They’re tiny mice that I pay peanuts. They are anthropomorphic mice. I don’t even have a house cleaner. I do that. I don’t even have a house cleaner. God, I want a house cleaner when we get moved, because our goal still is to be moved at the early start of fall. When we get moved, the one thing I said to my husband in terms of luxury items is, I want a housekeeper. I was like, I will go without personal items to have a housekeeper. So that way I can focus on other things that need to be focused on. Because although my husband’s amazing and he splits all household chores in the 50 50, we both still have full time jobs and then we’re also new parents and everything else. And I’m just like, why don’t we just invest in a housekeeper? I was like, I will go without. We can redo the budget if we have to. No more eating out if we have to. Please. There’s a lot. There’s a lot. I don’t think a lot of people understand that. Like, as you said in your past, we’re not like Kylie Jenner. Kylie Jenner, we don’t come from money. She has great tits and I know that they were bought and I wouldn’t mind buying a pair of great tits as well. So if I could be Kylie Jenner, I would be. But I’m not, unfortunately. I am a woman in her thirty s with wrinkles. So it’s too late for me. Same.
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Yeah. Obviously we have been readjusting to life here in Parenthood, which has been great and amazing. We actually have a very easy baby, which is awesome. Knock on wood. You’re like, pregnancy is so hard. It was like, no, the baby is hard. And I know this is going to sound totally fucking bonkers, but honestly speaking, I think my husband and I had a really difficult time getting pregnant. I know that that’s not public knowledge, but it is now. I think that it’s something that we should talk about in a wider spectrum. Having miscarriages, I don’t think it should be a taboo thing that women feel ashamed about and it is something that we all kind of suffer in silence about, right? Yes. So I am somebody who had many a miscarriage before giving birth to Smoke Ball. A little smoky, as my godson calls them.
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What a name. When SP was born, Spin looked at the baby and goes, oh, smokey. They haven’t stopped laughing about it since anyway. So that is something that I struggled with very heavily. And then I had a very difficult pregnancy as well. And I swear to God, because of the two, I’m like, maybe the universe is like trying to give me this gift of, hey, you had a really hard time getting pregnant and then you had a really hard pregnancy. So here is an easy baby. Not only an easy baby, but a doll baby. Looks unreal. You guys are just going to have to trust Maria and I. I gave birth to a child that does not look real. They are fake. They look fake. There is nothing real about them. They look like a fucking born or whatever. They’re called a Baby Alive dolls or whatever. Yeah,
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they’re even smiling already. What the hell? I like the little farty gas smiles. Like actual responsive smiles. So it’s crazy. I had such a difficult time and such a difficult journey and so grateful to be here. But I really think the universe is like, hey, I think that you have suffered enough. Here is this sweet little angel that sleeps through like sleeps 5 hours already overnight. And it’s just happy and content and perfect. So we’ve had a very easy transition around here, and I’m very grateful. I’m starting to get a swing back in with doing my own personal practice every single day with, like, doing my dedications and devotions and prayers. Actually, today I’m cleaning up my altar because I haven’t cleaned it this entire time since Smokey was born. So I’m going to do that today, which I’m very excited about. Yeah. And I’m reopening up tired, which this weekend, so it’s a soft reopening. So I’m going to be doing tarot readings first and then like Marie and I were talking about, before we start recording, I’m going to be doing taro readings for at least a month first before also adding physical items back into the shop. So it’s a soft reopening, but still reopening nonetheless. So, yeah, I’m feeling great. Good. Yeah. I really feel like I’m getting my life back, if that makes sense, like, back on track and like, normal. Just even doing little things like getting to pull a tarot card every single morning and lighting my candles and my incense every morning has been amazing. It’s feeling like myself again, so being able to do that in my practice has been awesome.
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Okay. Things are very good around here, if I may say so myself. That’s so adorable. A break was stressful. You’re like, it was peaceful and so lovely. Well, I wouldn’t say it was peaceful. I didn’t have a peaceful break. I still felt like my organs were going to fall out of my coochie for like, a straight week. About that. Okay, no one tells you, listen, we’re going to have 2 seconds to be real right after I gave birth, right? Literally right after I gave birth. Well, the whole time I was pumped, filled with fluid, right? I had a catheter. It was like a whole thing, just pump filled with because your girl is a pussy. I got an epidural. Like, I’m not sorry about it. Come for me. I got one too. You’ll have to come for me. Yeah, come for me. I don’t care. Anyway, they took the catheter out, but I’ve been pumped, filled with fluids, right? So I had to piss so bad, but the catheter wasn’t in me anymore. And they don’t let you get up to do anything until you’re able to fully move your legs again after the girl, which makes perfect sense. They don’t want you to stand up and just collapse. So I had to pee so bad, and I was telling them, I was like, I have to pee. You have to help me go to the bathroom. And I can feel my legs again. And they were like, okay. And I could I could move my legs in the bed. Everything was good. This is about an hour after I gave birth. I went to stand up, okay? And all of a sudden, all this pressure of my organs that were up in my lungs just went down to my fucking gaping hole in the cervix. I thought I was going to die. I was like, this is it. This is how I die. I literally looked at and I was like, my organs are going to fall out of me. And the doctor was like, no, they’re not. That’s not how bodies work. Like, you have a whole uterus there. And I was like, I’m going to die. Actually, Doctor, I am actually going to die. She’s like, I don’t doubt it hurts, but you’re not going to die. And I was like, well, fuck you, because I might. Turns out six weeks later, I have not died. Everyone so glad. Oh, my God.
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Nobody tells you a lot of the things like how much you poop in labor as well. You look it up. If you’re listening to this and you are considering having a child, genuinely look it up. That’s all I’m going to say. I don’t want to get too sidetracked and become like this mommy episode where people are going to listen to it and be like, she’s changed. Because I already got that on Twitter twice. All you’re talking about is being a mom now. I literally pushed a kid out of my fucking vagina. Allow me the space to be a human. Yeah, it was only six weeks ago, literally. And this is a Slice of Life episode. It’s fine. Literally, next week we’ve already got like a whole next week. We’re going to talk about spirits, guys. Okay? So allow us to space to be mothers for just 2 seconds. Real about delivery.
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Apple podcast reviews that are like, I like this episode. But then Robin talked about her organs falling out of her vagina, and I never want to listen again.
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You mentioned your organs falling out of your couch one time, and suddenly it’s a problem. People who’ve gone through will understand. They will. Hopefully we have a high enough percentage of listeners that Evelyn’s secondhand heard about it, so that they are nice to me.
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Anyway.
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Yeah. So I think that’s all I’ve been up to. Oh, my God. And what an adventure it was. Yeah. Sorry for the sidetrack, guys.
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Witches are real people, too. It’s fine. Yeah. Back to my previous statement of content. Creators are still fucking people.
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Sorry. I’m not sorry, guys. I’m not sorry at all. No, you just did the whole Samantha thing from Bewitched wiggle your nose and suddenly a baby appeared. That’s how we found we’re going to sidetrack. But also stay on topic for one more second, everyone. So a while ago, I got a message. I read this on my Twitch a couple of weeks ago. I got a message about three years ago on Facebook, okay, where somebody wanted unrealistic magic. I know we’ve talked about that before. They wanted me to do spellwork for them that was like, this is not possible. And one of the spells. Let me find it. They wanted me to do a fertility spell for them. I’m going to give this I’m going to give it as a synopsis, okay? They wanted two sets of twins, two boys first, then two girls. They wanted the babies to be perfect in every way, healthy and happy, which who doesn’t want that, right? They wanted the pregnancy to be so easy with no morning sickness, no pain, no health issues, and to then go on to have a pain free delivery vaginally with no epidural or health issues and just a calm natural birth that is painless lovely. And an excellent experience that this person would want to redo time and time again. Those are their exact words. They said they have no again, exact words, tolerance for pain or birth. And well, I don’t know what they’re saying. They wanted the birth to be painless, fast and sweet and perfect. They can stand needles and stuff, so they don’t want a needle in their vision. It was like a ten part request. All of it was not possible. Right? One of which was like they wanted like €40 million. And I was like, honey, if I could manifest €40 million, do you think that I would ever work? I’d be on here with you, would I be? Tolerating this ridiculous conversation.
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Wow. Yeah. Isn’t that amazing? For myself, I mean, Robin, if you can make that happen, I too €40 million. So they were flexible. That’s really specific. That’s really yeah. I will send you a screenshot of this because you’ll absolutely love it. Yeah, I read the whole thing on my Twitch. I wanted the first episode streams of my Twitch because it was like, what the fuck? Yeah, absolutely. What the fuck? So I just thought you guys would enjoy that as a little side anecdote.
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Yeah. Amazing. Our request DMs yeah. The other part of that person’s thing was that they I’m not going to open it back up, but I just remembered they wanted the twins, the two sets of twins to be such easy babies that they basically took care of themselves. The babies, like, fed themselves right away, barely had any dirty diapers, slept 8 hours a night right from birth. It was like, maybe what you want is a baby doll. It sounds to me like what you want is a doll. Like, just get a doll. No judgment. Yeah.
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My newborn feeds himself, actually. So you think your little newborn is smart because they can roll over? Well, mine feeds themselves, so think about that. That makes it so funny because I saw a post. I forgot who posted it, but it was in someone’s stories where I guess their boob had popped out and their really small toddler was like, oh, I’m going to have some of that and just like attach themselves. So at the end of the day, everybody, you might think that this episode with the baby thing was a little annoying, but at least I gave you a realistic expectation of birth. So that way you don’t go to somebody and say, excuse me, I don’t like needles, and honestly, I hate children, but I want them. Can you make sure that I don’t feel anything ever? And my babies take care of themselves? Thank you so much. Awesome girl. Could you imagine if their kids did something wrong? That’s somebody who really should not have kids? I’m not trying to be a day, but it sounds to me like the idea of actually rearing a child is a little too much for them. No judgment to that person, but what a situation. So anyway, we can end this segment there no that was fun. Yeah. Maybe we could do like a fun reading one day of all of our best emails. Oh, no. Oh my gosh, I love that. Let’s do that.
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Jacob oh my God. Obviously we’ll keep it confidential, no names, and we’ll keep genders neutral and all that, but I very much think that would be funny. I don’t know, you guys let us know on our Instagram if you think that’d be funny, because I think it’d be funny. We’re talking about stuff that is so left field that you’re like yeah, if you’re listening and you’re like, yeah, the one time I asked if my ex boyfriend would get back together. That’s normal. That’s a normal question. I’m talking about the time that somebody asked me if their ex would get back together with them. And I looked into it. This is at my day job. I said, no, it looks like not. She goes, Is it because I ran him over with a car? Like, probably bitch, I don’t know.
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A car? What? Oh my God. I remember that. Yeah, stuff like that. Just normal things. Completely normal. How does it feel? You guys would be interested in hearing that. Oh my God.
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So, Maria, what’s stirring your cauldron this week? Oh, I’ve missed your sensual voice, that’s what’s. During my culture.
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And additionally, I am so excited that after a year and a half, I will be going to the beach to visit my parents to practice some ocean witchery. As we all know, I am not a fan of heat and humidity and pollen, basically spring and summer, but anyways but the beach makes it kind of worth it. Well, yes, when we go, we’re going to be safe. We’re going to stay away from people. AMA will continue to mask up. So please, no one come for me. I’m going for you right now. But I am so excited. I’m going to go collect some shelves to use and spell because the time my parents get on their beach, they’re not ocean front or anything, we have to drive there, but they’re like those big comp shells and the spiral shells, like really pretty ones that are great for communication spells and things like that. And I love to go and make beach offerings and like, mindfully cleansing my body in the ocean sitting by the pool to actually have time to sit and breathe. That sounds amazing. I’m shoving, like, two weeks of work into one week so I can just chill and keep up with discord and patreon. It’s going to be
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yeah. I’m really so excited for you. Sounds nice. Send pictures, please, on the beach side. Yes, I will. Hopefully the weather cooperates. Apparently it’s been a monsoony over there. Like a lot of rain power going out and gross. Yeah, I stay under a cloud of smoke. Hopefully we’ll see. So far it looks like it’ll be fine, but even if it’s rainy, I’ll sit on my parents’porch, enjoy the rain in a rocking chair and just read. I’m not picky. Me and my wife, we got like two days in Asheville now. A couple of weeks ago. Yeah. And that was nice, but it definitely did not feel long enough. I wish it was longer. I have to finish the book club book. You should do that too, while you’re reading, unless you’re done. It’s so good. I am, like, halfway through. But I mean, so for those of you who don’t know, we’re reading New York New World Witchery by Corey Hutchinson, and it is so good and an easy read like Corey makes the whole book an enjoyable experience to read and it’s easily digestible. So I’m having no problems breathing through this textbook of a book because it’s thick. It’s a big book. It’s a big book.
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I’m excited. I’m excited for you. It is so nice. I can’t wait to see Big Chis my own. Sent you some seashells, please. Oh, please. I love seashells.
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So, Robin, what is not stir your cauldron this week? Thank you so much for asking. That was as central as I usually do it. That was literally very central, actually. Listen, I haven’t heard you actually saw my ears like that in a very long time, so that was really good. Thank you. Oh, you’re so welcome. It might be a pleasure. It was your pleasure. It was honestly my pleasure.
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My children this week, and actually for a little while now, has been like, Mini is online. I’m so sick of gray face trolls leaving shitty comments, like getting shitty. I just turned my DMs back on as a means to combat scammers because what the scammers were doing was saying that they’re my representative because I don’t have DMs turned on and they’re my representative and they’re the one who is, like, reaching out and people were falling for it. So I turned the DMs back on as a means to try to, like, combat that. And obviously I’m not going to be able to respond to all the DMs, but that is why I turn them back on. And literally as soon as I turn them back on, I was getting shitty messages. Like, people being like, fuck you telling me that I misspelled something, so I’m clearly a fucking idiot. That was literally what I got. Just really nasty vitriolic messages. And for what? What is the purpose of this? That’s crazy. And the thing is that I’m not the only person. And so I don’t want people thinking that, like, oh, Robbie is having a pity party for herself, because I’m not. These are the sort of things that all of us get, and it’s unacceptable, and it’s not cool. This isn’t a me thing. This is a content creator thing. And people seem to forget that content creators are humans. I had one message again. My DMs have been shot off for, like, what, five months now? Four months now. I had one person, the day that I turned the DMs back on, right? Send me three messages, being like, I can’t believe you don’t fucking respond to me. Fuck you, like, really mean. And whatever they had sent me before, I hadn’t gotten them because my DMs were shut off, which it said in my bio. So they’re having a conversation with themselves and just being horrific at me, and it’s like, no, please roll back. Yes. That’s the whole reason I shut mine down. I can’t. People are saying and the thing is, it’s really overwhelming. I’m trying really hard to keep them open because I don’t want people getting taken advantage of. But the other thing that I’m getting, too, is, like, people sending me their online sales, their live sales, like, as messages. Yeah, I’m getting, like, 15 to 20 a day, which is new. That’s a new thing that’s never happened before. And I’m like, what do you expect me to do here? Are you trying to sell to me? Is this your marketing tactic? Like, what the heck? Who’s telling you this is a good idea? I have so much respect for people who run small businesses. I run a small business. Like, I have so much respect for them. In no way, shape, or form would I ever do anything to directly disrespect or hinder their business. But this is not the sales tactic you think it is. It’s frustrating me because the messages that I actually want to see, there are actual messages that are questions or comments, concerns, whatever I’m now not seeing because they’re buried under a sea of people sending me their live sales
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anyway. It is just us. We do not have extra people. And it’s just I don’t know. This isn’t, like, a Robin problem. This is a community wide problem that is really fucking mean. And I don’t understand why I can’t even respond to all the emails I get. I get about 30 to 40 shop emails per day, and I can’t like it’s so much. I am only one person. Yeah. I don’t know. Can I really just say, let’s not? Stirring my cold room this week is people forgetting that you’re not the only person who messages me. And on top of that, taking the time out of your day to comment on my page something really awful when instead you could just not follow me. Just don’t follow me. If I’m not for you, if my content is not for you, I’m not going to lose sleep at night. I think that’s really fair for you to have that self awareness that I’m not your type of person. That’s okay. It’s okay to not like the stuff I put out there. There’s lots of stuff out there I don’t like. So just don’t follow me. And you know what? If you feel so you can’t avoid my content for some reason, block me and then you won’t have to see my stuff at all. And I’m not going to be any wiser. That’s okay. Just move forward with your life in happiness. Yeah. And if you are a witch who has a witchy page on Instagram or anything, it’s going to get a lot worse in the for the upcoming season. And I want you to have yes, don’t feel bad about not responding to everybody. You can’t do that to yourself. Do not put that freaking pressure on yourself. You are only a single person and you can’t help everybody’s problems. Like take care of yourself and I don’t know, just do what you can say like you’re a healer. You should do this. First of all, I never said that. Second of all, even if you are somebody who identifies as a healer, that does not mean that you need to fix everybody’s problems. And the type of person to emotionally manipulate you to get something out of you is beyond savings. So just consider that. Yeah, completely button is your friend.
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If you’ve just joined us on this episode, every single week we talk about creators that we are loving right now. This could be photographers, other witches shops, anything. That being said, if you are listening to this and you’re like, I want to be on here, please don’t DM us. These are people that we are finding organically. And when people do message us to be featured on here, especially if they offer to pay, we laugh at you, we mock you, we ridicule you in public or private, not in public. So please don’t be that guy. These are things that we’re finding really organically and we don’t want that to change. So stop it. Stop it, stop it. What creator are you loving this week? So I am loving actually, let’s all be surprised. Another carrot deck. This one is from Divine Uses on Instagram, and it’s called the Lua Terror. Basically, it’s like a vintage esque deck that’s black and white and it’s just so beautiful. And the deck itself represents different stories and stuff like that. And the deck is so diverse, like, in people from different nationalities and backgrounds. You don’t really see like, vintage decks with diverse people in them. It’s usually just white people. And this deck has black people, it has Native Americans, and it’s just all done beautifully. I love it. I know. It’s amazing to work with. Even the really? Yeah, the card quality is amazing. Really easy to shuffle. And it’s like the perfect size. Ten house ten. Highly recommend. So who are you loving? I’m going to try to pronounce this. I could be pronouncing it wrong. It’s my darling design specifically. So they’re a ceramic. Also, surprise, surprise, robin likes a ceramic artist. They are doing this ghost series. These little ghosties and I could simply pass away. They have a celestial one that got like a doughnut float ring around it. And I want it so bad.
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They’ve got just this whole beach ghost series, and they’ve got these little cactus ones. There’s one that has, like, clouds with raindrops. Oh, my God. I could just pass away. I want them all. If you’re looking for my darling design, please, for the love of all things sacred, send me some. I will pay you. I’m never good at live sales. Whenever sales go live and people are like, wanting to get them, I never do well at those. I always miss them. So anyway, they’re like if your baby was like a ceramic, they’re like adorable. It’s so cute. I think Smooth Ball needs a ghost. That’s all I’m saying. Yeah, that’s all I’m saying.
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They’re just so cute. I’ve never seen anything like them before. Me either. I want them so bad. Anyway, on that note, that’s who I’m digging. I can see why.
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Thank you all for joining us today. And thank you all so much for being patient during my maternity leave and our little break, sea Poo. Hope that you will join us on Friday, August 20 or 14th episode. You can keep an eye out on our Instagrams and our Twitter. On Instagram, we are Coldron’s Pod, and on Twitter we are Coffee Culdrons. For more information or you can even join us on our Discord Tier, which is First Covenant on Patreon. So we can answer your questions in our part two next time. Yes. Yes. Why do I say this one creepy? You’ll even give me your lovely voices for an additional 30 ish minutes per episode for being on our Patreon tier. Casting and up. So again, this is Coffee and Cauldrons with Robin from Attitude, which on Instagram. And I’m Maria from Maria Zara Keen on Instagram. Are you ready?
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