Participant #1:
Welcome to our 10th episode, everybody, which coincidentally airs on the 10th, and therefore it’s a very lucky episode. You just joined us. I am Robin At, a tired witch hunter Instagram, and I’m with Maria at Mariatheaarchain on Instagram. Good morning. Hi, guys. Good morning.
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If you guys are just joining us, every single week we talk about the nearest upcoming lunar phase. And this week it happens to be kind of far away. Actually. It is going to be the 20th of this month, which is another new moon in Cancer. So that’s two new moons in a row. So the universe has decided that you need to focus on the exact same energies more than once. And it’s actually pretty appropriate considering the state of everything. Still, it’s never going to end. Nothing has changed. If anything, it’s gotten worse. Permanent new moon and cancer. Yeah, that’s it. Only new moons and cancers. Surprise. So if you weren’t here two episodes ago so the last new moon, let’s talk about what that means. The new moon in Cancer means that we are going to be focusing on things like emotional clearing. We are approaching Leo season, which is a lot more straightforward, let’s call it, than Cancer season, a lot more to the point. And because of that, with everything going on, we might see people butting heads and stuff like that. And so this is a time to focus on emotional clearing, like checking in with yourself, how am I doing? How can I help myself? Do I need to release any kind of, I guess, negativity? We’re holding on to unnecessarily. So I’m not trying to spiritually bypass and be like, let go of your trauma, guys, because that is not realistic. But maybe you are getting unnecessarily mad about something that really doesn’t matter or emotional about it. And so this might be time to evaluate whether or not letting that go is a healthy thing. We also should be checking on we also should be there. We also should be checking on the balance that we have between our home life and our work life. And as we’re transitioning back to working, maybe we’re going to go back in locktown again. Time will tell. But as we’re transitioning back to the workplace, make sure that you are balancing that. Make sure that you are finding space for yourself and for work. And I know a lot of our jobs have been very demanding and requesting quite a lot of us because they’re eager to get back to work as well and make money. And that is amazing, obviously, for them. But never put a corporation before your own health. So keep that in mind, guys. Health and mental health. So make sure you’re checking with yourself. Make sure you’re having time for yourself, even if that time for yourself is having a lovely glass of wine and a bubble of baths when you get home from your job. We’re watching flavor alone for 5 hours straight like I do. You could do that. I’m not trying to say that’s the only option, but it’s not not the only option, you know what I’m saying? That’s like the pinnacle of self care. Listen, I just want to watch 2006 VH One reality shows for like 7 hours straight and that’s my ideal form of self care. And maybe you should consider it. It’s very clearing right now. My emotional support is creating like an amazing village on Animal Crossing and emotionally connecting to my villagers. If you guys haven’t already seen Maria’s village, I spent a lot of time on mine and I was like oh girl, you did it. And Maria just shows up a month late and it’s like your village sucks. Look at this one. Yours is amazing. Hers is beautiful and mine is getting there. Mine now I feel it needs total work. So we’ll see
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if you just start listening to us. Every podcast we talk about a random tarot card. We go over the universal meaning and then our own interpretations 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 meetings. So this week we are talking about the Queen of Swords. On this card you see our queen wearing a crown of butterflies which is also represented on her throne. And there are storm clouds retreating in the background in the back of her throne. And she wears a cloak of clouds and a headscarf of red. Her back is to her past and she is faced towards the future with her hand up in a Beckoning gesture. The universal meaning of this card shows a queen who is straightforward, honest and wise. Due to her experiences in life, she approaches decisions with balance. Due to this, she deeply relates to the justice card and she rolls over the two and three of sorts. To me, the queens on the deck are all about caring for others as well as themselves. But this queen does things very differently than her counterparts. She has gone through a huge transformation in her life. She has suffered many traumas and bad experiences. But instead of subcoming to them, she builds her kingdom on top of the ashes of them. She doesn’t need her king. She is self sufficient because she had to be in the past. She isn’t necessarily a warm person, but she inspires others to step into their power with her because she’s such a Beckoning. I mean, she is such a beacon of strength and will. She inspires others by telling them her story, speaking her truth and going through her actions as a ruler of her life. And when she pops up in a reading, I tell myself and clients that we can’t overcome anything we put our will and mind towards. We are capable of great change and resiliency, but we have to be honest with ourselves. About the things we are letting stand in the way of that. Learn from your past, look towards the future and depend on yourself. So Robin, how do you view this card? The Queen of Swords, in my opinion is the single mom card. She is the only queen in the entire deck that doesn’t have a king. So she is a single queen and therefore I think of her like kind of sharp edges and the fact that she just cuts right to the point and is very like justice. Like you said, it’s all about making swift and solid decisions that are morally correct and no like feelings really involved. That reminds me of single moms, of somebody who doesn’t have the time, quite literally to necessarily always be nurturing because they have to also be thinking about, OK, how am I going to make money to feed my children? How am I going to fit all this time in basically to make sure that every job gets done and they’re putting their family first but in a different way than let’s say the Empress would who is soft and kind and has kind of that not that the Queen of swords isn’t kind, but they don’t have the time to just focus on being maternal. They have to also be paternal and playing those sort of archetypal gender roles, you know what I mean? All in one. And so she is a much harder queen than the rest. And so when I see her I think, okay, so decisions need to be made and you need to stop thinking about how do I feel about this and instead think what is best for the situation. So that’s how I view her. She’s the single mom. She is the only head of the household and somebody who has to think not just what will make my peers or myself happy, but what needs to be done. Yes, I totally agree. I love that. It’s a different kind of loving, right? It is. Mum’s a boss. Yeah, mom’s a boss bitch. Do not mess with her because she means business. Not just single moms though, too, like single dads as well. These are people that are raising a household by themselves. It’s a lot of work. I have so much respect for anybody who has to raise a family all by themselves. That must be so incredibly difficult and having to try to find that balance between being the stern backhand, for lack of a better term, don’t hit your kids, and also being the nurturing, gentle touch. It’s a lot, isn’t it? It is. Agreed.
Participant #1:
Okay, so since it’s our 10th episode, we thought we’d do something a little fun this time. Well, we’re always fun. Let me put that on. We’re always fun. No, we’re not. Everybody listening to this is like, okay, I bet fun guys for fun. I’m a freaking fun. I’m hilarious. But we’re going to just have a little conversation about where we’re eating and what we’re doing in our craft right now. And just like, little baby. I’m probably high on the podcast. She literally just crawled up here, put her face directly in the mic, and went, ow.
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Oh, we’re keeping that in. Oh, yes, we are. Sorry, guys. Sorry. Robin, what have you been doing in your craft lately? Well, I became very obsessed lately with travel alters and the idea of doing something that isn’t an Altoid container. Like, you’ve seen those, right? Yeah. First of all, I don’t like Altoids. I think they’re disgusting. Oh, my God. Of Altoids. I agree. Yes. If you’re a fan of Altoids, I’m not trying to be disrespectful. I just think they taste like awful bad times. I just don’t like them at all. I know my little brother could eat Altoids like it was M and M. And I’m just like, not for me. I’m also somebody who doesn’t believe in being wasteful. I don’t like it at all. Even if I made a disgusting dinner, like, let’s say, which doesn’t happen often, I’m a great cook, guys, but even if I make a disgusting dinner, I’ll try to find a way to repurpose it in, like, a soup or something like that, because I just hate waste. So I don’t like the idea of buying Altoids to throw them out. I think that’s wasteful. So I’ve been researching travel alters that are not that and different techniques, if you will. I found one that was really cool. Yeah. They created I found three or four of them that are like, you can buy, but I kind of want to make my own. But I also got a woodsmith woodworker what is that called? A carpenter. And houses that are, like, gorgeous, like, they’re these amazing maybe like wood birdings or like that, etching. Like the laser etching. That, I don’t know, aphrodite on the inside or whatever. And I’m just like, wow, I could do that. No, you fucking couldn’t, Robin. You don’t have a laser cutter. And yet in my brain, I’m like, I don’t know, bitch. Maybe you could. You didn’t go to art school, Robin. Maybe you just could. And no, the fuck I couldn’t. But I found one that was hexagonial shaped. It’s pentagram shaped. It’s like a solid shape. Yeah, like a car. Straight up. Honest with you guys. I cheated in all of high school math. I’m not good at things like this. I did actually cheat in geography. No, what’s the one? Geometry. And actually, on this episode of coffee and Cauldrons, I will be seeing myself out. Thank you. Geometry. I cheated in all those classes. Not was. I am not matchMark. Anyway, so it’s the five pointed solid shape, and the top of the board is chalkboard, so it’s called a pullout drawer. The top is chalkboard, so you can write sigils on it or whatever. Write your intentions, write prayers, whatever you want. And then it’s got offering cups up at the top three of them that you can use for putting candles in, putting offerings and putting whatever you want in. And I saw that and went, I want that. I would like to have that. I would like to make that. And then I remembered that my idea of crafting anything with wood is to just put wood glue on it and call it a day and thought maybe I couldn’t do it, maybe not. Well, I’ve seen the travel alters where they get like a vintage what were they called? They were like little train bat, not train bags. They’re like really sturdy boxes. Yeah. And they have bags and they make little altars out of it. So cute. Cool, man. I want to make one so bad, but I don’t want a half acid and I don’t want it to come out poorly, like sick, poor. I don’t want it to come out bad. But I also like right now what I have for a sort of travel alter is a pelican case that has like the little if you know what a pelican case is, they’re basically like these heavy duty waterproof cases that come with foam in it that is cut in like twelve layers and then each layer is built up of little cubes so you can remove the cubes to put stuff in it so it’s safe. They’re often used for like, bringing guns places and like really fragile and delicate computer parts and stuff like that. And of course I have used that for alter stuff, but now I’ve got all this extra time and I’m like, maybe I’ll build one out of wood. I won’t. I’m not going to. I’m way not like savvy like that, but in my brain I just might. We’ll see. Well, you can get a box and customize it, right? Yeah, I could do that. There are so many really cool ones and I really want to have one, but I also don’t have the extra funds to spend like $300 on something I’m going to use maybe once a year. Yeah. You know what I mean? And so I want to build it myself. We’ll see how that goes. I’ll check in with you guys on that. Yeah. And then take pictures of it. I love the travel alters. I love it. I had started one like a year ago, I think, where I was going to podge moss into the bottom. Right? I love the ones that have moss in it. It’s so pretty. Yeah. And so I had this whole amazing plan. Then I found out that that is not allowed on international travels. That plan went out the window, like super quick is because it’s like foliage. You’re not allowed to bring foliage. Even though it was like under mod podge. It was like one of those up to the person’s discretion. And I’m like, I’m not going to put all this work in just to have it thrown away because somebody’s wife burnt their toast that morning and they’re like pissed the world. Yeah, I agree. And they really do just pick up. If you’ve ever made a travel alter that wasn’t an Altoid TID, maybe hit me up and let me know what your hot tips are. And also keep in mind that I am not woodworking Savvy, but I want to be. Keep that in mind when you let me know. This is my magic pill, guys, and I just want you to feed it to me.
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I want the least work amount possible in for it to look amazing. That’s what I want. I want to be able to do this on like a Saturday afternoon and then to come out better than anything I’ve ever done. No, that’s completely realistic.
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Oh, my Lord. Well, what about you? What are you doing in your craft right now? Well, I’m doing a few things actually. Like for myself personally, I’ve been diving deeper into meditation and also exploring tarot even more intensely. I was already super in tarot, so I’m like reading all the books and reading all the stuff on it and we’re doing that thing in our discord where we’re actually talking about the cars and going through them. So it just gives me even more of a chance to just keep reading up on it. But other than that, lately I’ve been working with my energy boundaries and being very mindful where I’m putting my energy towards. We’ve been quarantining since freaking March and people are in our area aren’t taking the pandemic seriously and so our cases have been surging because of it. I can wear a mask, but rarely anyone I will be around will wear one to protect me. So we just avoid going out altogether. We can’t really afford another US hospital bill right now. I know, right? I want to be that kind of life. I want to be the kind of rich where I go, $10,000 hospital bill, who cares? I wipe my butt with that in the morning. It’s not going to happen. But you know what that is? Goals. We’re also just affordable health care for everyone. But because I’m staying inside for so long, I realized that we as a family unit turned to technology way too much to fill that void of not going anywhere and me and my wife throwing ourselves into work and all that, which hasn’t been good for any of our mental health. And so I felt so close to emotional and energy burnout and my Witchling has been missing that face to face social interaction and definitely not getting as much as she should. So any all have probably realized, especially the people that have been following me on social media, that I’ve been fairly quiet on social media lately. But this isn’t due to me not practicing or anything like that. I’m just being very minded for my energy. She’s actually taking up a role in the Christian church guy. I don’t know anything about Catholicism, right? But I do feel like she might just be the new Pope. Pope Maria.
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I think we’re one of those cool hats. I will never pull it off like Rihanna, though, let’s be honest. I don’t know, maybe you just could different a different kind of pope hat than her, though. I’m not shaving off my eyebrows. Or you should. Let’s do it. It’s 2020 M. Do whatever you want. Fuck it. Cheaper eyebrows.
Participant #1:
Just like right now, my energy is best directed towards my family and like, making sure my witching is getting the interaction she needs to continue to thrive while we’re still and while still devoting time to my work, to my Tarot clients, and to our patreons. But having the energy redirected towards my family and all that has I have more energy for spellwork and doing stuff for myself and then going more into meditation. And now my witch link isn’t usually, you know, she’s not usually home with us when we’re working. And so I feel that like, I was constantly on my phone checking instant checking emails, checking Facebook, checking the news and taking those little peas. I can see her struggling and that was all right. And so having the energy directed back towards her, I mean, we have time to do spells together, Tarot spreads and we go out and connect to nature. And we’ve been doing fun little intuition exercises as a family. And I really love how we’re spending this time, like connecting as a little magical family unit and finding a new version of normal for a while. And social media will always be there, and there’s no way in hell I’m going to stop creating, especially magically or through photography, obviously setting those boundaries for myself. I can see now that continual stream of energy again. And it’s been nice. I totally love that. I also love that you guys are bonding with magic as well. I think that’s so fun. I was just talking to my best friend just a couple of days ago about sending her son a color. Your own Tarot deck.
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Yes. And then having him do one for me. I’m like, he can put stickers on it, he can do whatever he wants, but I want one. And so she’s like, Oh my God. And then we could pull a card together every day and then he could and I’m like, yes.
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What’s a dragon from Lord of the Rings smoke. Just my horde of Tarot decks gives me more. Yes. I hate to say it, guys, but everything going on in our practices right now are not that exciting. I mean, it’s obviously exciting for us, but it’s not that exciting. And therefore what I’m trying to say with this is yours doesn’t have to be either. It doesn’t have to be all beef tongues and coffin nails. It can also be researching travel, alters and meditating. Okay, yeah, it’s not like practical magic and the craft like Toyota have it up in here.
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We got at least one Necromancy esque situation going on a week in this house. I tell you somebody with the ready whip. Oh, my gosh, I love that movie. I would never have seen the movie if it wasn’t for your daughter. So you have to watch it into watching it because I had never seen it been bullied by a child. No, she didn’t really bully me. Well, she’s like Ninja Robin. Hasn’t seen Practical Magic.
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I let her down, so I had to get it. I paid for it. I bought that movie without ever having seen it. Just so that way I didn’t let her down anymore. No regrets. No regrets. No regrets. That’s one of those movies I could watch over and over again. Yeah, it was really good. I really enjoyed it. I plan on see for me,
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Witches of East End. Classic. I don’t like Jack Nicholson. It’s really hard for me. He’s the worst character in that movie. He’s like the bad guy and is not the main character. He’s like the catalyst for them getting their shit together. You 100% should see that movie. He is unlikable in that film, which would be fine because you already don’t like him. So you need to sort your life out of Jack Nicholson playing the love interest. I know that was mostly a 90s thing, but he plays the love interest. Yeah, he plays the love interest, but he’s not likable, and you’re not supposed to like him. Okay. Also, I am fully on board with that with him. Who decided Jack Nicholson was like the peak of hotness? He looks like somebody hit him in the face with a cast iron skillet. Okay. Like when you played the Joker as a kid, I used to have, like you know how you’d be scared to go to the bathroom, like in the middle of the night? I used to believe the Jack Nicolson version of the Joker lived under my bed, so if I didn’t jump over my bed, he was going to grab my feet. That’s really sad him. That’s probably why I had, like, this aversion nickels. I had a haunted clown in my bedroom growing up. But that’s the story for another day. They was like, honestly haunted as fuck. And that was my nightmare demon. Except for it was actually haunted. Anyway, we’ve gone off on a full Jack Nicholson tangent here, but if you guys are in our discord, we’d love it if we were to talk about what you guys are working on currently. I know we kind of talk about that, like ongoing, but specifically, what are you specifically doing right now? And let’s talk about it because it, I think, shows each other that you don’t have to be beef tongues and coffin nails all the time. Sometimes you are just like we talked in the other podcast about unrealistic expectations. Like, you’re still human, and you’re going to have bad days and you’re going to have days, or you’re going to feel like doing absolutely nothing unless you’re meeting again, because I actually am just always perfect. Hashtag relatable. Am I right, guys? Charmed off of Robin’s life. Okay, I’m not actually you guys don’t know this, but a couple of days back, we had Stephen as a guest on the podcast. I forgot he made a joke off air about being the Charmed Ones. And Stephen, that fucking asshole, says he goes that I said something about being Phoebe because I’m like, the least useful one. And then Maria and Steven are like, yeah, but didn’t she do this and didn’t she do that? And he goes, So what you’re trying to say is you’re Leo. I aggressively reject that. She sent us an image with Leo’s head on top of Phoebe, so it was perfect. So rude. Anyway, yeah, so let’s talk about that in discord if you guys want to. That would be great. And if anybody calls me Leo, I will cry, so please don’t do that.
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So, Robin, what is during your quuljun this week? I know that we just talked about travel alters, which could be seen as store in my cold room, but it’s really not. It’s actually the bane of my existence right now. Getting my juices flowing, as we call it, is just going outside, just being in nature. I know that everybody is super cooped up right now, and I have so much privilege living in the woods where I can go outside and be in nature and still be completely and utterly social distancing, and not a lot of us have that. And it’s so beautiful where you live. So beautiful. I mean, it’s a lot of pine trees. I hate pine trees. I just think they’re so I love pine trees. Going back to your freaking animal crossing thing, bitch. I know I don’t like pine trees. The pollen that comes off of it gives me horrible hay fever. And anyway, I have been really digging, just going outside and grounding, if that makes sense. And I don’t mean even full ritual. I mean full on just taking my shoes off and standing in the dirt. I’m just digging it right now, just breathing in fresh air and getting a little bit of vitamin D. Yes, I go outside and I go for walks and jogs and all that in nature. But what I’m enjoying far more than that is just sitting in it and not like, going out and walking, like just being present outside. One of our Patreon members, Christie, got me turned on to hammocks. Okay, first of all, never owned a hammock before in my life. I know you had tried to convince me to get a hammock. I don’t know why Christie telling us about the hammocks put me over that edge, but it did. She did. Christie’s is outside and mine is inside because I use it for my chronic pain. And so I need it inside so I can just, like I am just obsessed. I am, like, enjoying just being outside. I’ve been trying to do, like, short meditations outside in the hammock, okay? That’s a game changer for me. Laying down and meditating while in, like, soaking up vitamin D. Like, who am I? Who is this bitch? And yet here I am, thriving in my hammock, okay? And I love it. I love it so much. If you guys have a balcony or a little tiny backyard, even, I cannot recommend more right now. Just laying down in the sun and doing, like, five minutes of meditative breaths, I’m loving it. I feel so grounded and energized afterwards. I feel like a new witch. Like, who is she? We don’t know the old one. We only know the new Robin. She’s grounded. She’s earthy. She’s got her shit together. That is me. And I love it. I love it. For me, right now, like, it sucks because in the south, we have so many nets and stuff, especially where I live because I guess we have, like, the sponges underneath, underneath our grass, especially in our neighborhood. And there’s a lot of nats and stuff like that. So staying indoors, it happens a lot, and it kind of sucks. But we found that we use, like, these incense, keeps them away and stuff like that. So we try to go out there with a couple of incense. Keeps the way nats, they don’t like the smoke. Just like, don’t like smoke. I love that. I’m going to start taping incense all over my body and just going outside
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like a state puff marshmallow, man, but just incense. Just walking outside like, what a bitch is. Go away, nats. We always like those little thermostat stuff. It’s like something that heats up, like a mosquito thing so it creates a little invisible shield so no mosquitoes can come in. Yeah, it’s really nice. Listen, I’ve always just accepted the fact that the mosquitoes will actually take my last drop of blood, and I’ve embraced it. I’ve accepted that fate for me. I’ve never made the effort to try to find a way around that, so I’m going to try that. We’ll see. I’ll report back. I have accepted my fate. You know what I mean? But I am a big fan of, like, mosquito nets to keep the bugs away. Yes, I love mosquito nets. Bugs just scare me. In general, I hate them. I don’t want to fight them. I don’t want to get in their face or anything like that. But I hate them so much, they scare me. I had an aunt, a carpenter aunt, bite me the other day in my sleep. I don’t know how it got in our house. It did. Little fucker. It came in my bed at nighttime. Get me in the arm. It felt like a needle went into my arm. I screamed so loud that I woke my husband up, who then decided to put a pillow on the carpenter ant. I don’t know if you’re familiar with the size of carpenter ants, but a pillow is not going to do shit. And so all it did was bite me more times. Terrible. Oh my gosh. He did end up ending his life terminating the ant. And I said sorry to it, but it bit me a bunch and I regret nothing.
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But stirring my golden this week is I love nature as long as the bugs don’t bother me. Same girl. Same. Oh my God, I’m so glad we’re on the same page.
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So Maria, what is not stirring your cauldron this week? Are you ready for this? I mean, usually I’m going to rant shit.
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What has not been stirring my cauldron has been people thinking they can do something on faith alone, especially when it comes to this pandemic. I’ve seen this from Christians to witches, really? Anybody? And when it comes to this, it’s so troubling and problematic. It is more than great to have faith, you guys, but you need something to back that shit up. People who say their gods or spell work will protect them and their family so they don’t have to wear a mask or distance. This is not how any of this works. This is not how it works. Love and light can’t protect you if you are being a dumbass message. Yeah. We have stressed time and time again on this podcast and to our patreons that real world energy is not only important, it is necessary. If you believe in deity and you think you don’t have to do anything because you are under that deity’s protection, you better believe that deity is looking down at you like you are a dumbass because they have given you actual tools to help protect you, but you aren’t using them. I’ve also been seeing many witches say that mass are political, believe it or not, which is so disgusting. US witches who think this what if I told you the USA is not the center of the universe and other countries address the situation are mostly back to normal? Now, we of witches are supposed to be empathetic beings who not only need and want to do right for ourselves, but also want that for the people around us. And saying that elderly people in the chronically ill don’t matter has been gut wrenching. It is a piece of fabric. It is a couple of steps away from others. It isn’t that hard to be helpful or kind. I get it. As humans we freak the fuck out when things like this happen. We like to shove it all down, wrap it up in a neat little bow to forget about it so we can continue to live our lives in ignorant bliss. This is avoiding work, which is not only hurting people who think that way, but the others around them. We need to address this head on, even if it’s hard. The examples we want to see, even if our political leaders aren’t holding themselves accountable. Honestly, this whole thing gets me so fired up and angry because I don’t know how to tell people that they should care for others. I am so sick of staying indoors because other people’s unwillingness to be self aware rather than ignorant. Yeah, did you see that meme? Well, I guess it’s not a meme. It’s like a full on Florida town hall meeting or whatever where the lady was like, they’re trying to replace God’s perfect breathing machine. There’s literally something out there destroying God’s perfect breathing machine. The thing is that let’s say you do struggle with masks. Like my dad, for example, gets very claustrophobic now saying on that note, my dad is also wearing a mask. So if my dad can do it, you guys can too. But let’s just say hypothetically speaking, you’ve got really severe claustrophobia or whatever and you just can’t do it. There are other options. Get a face shield. There’s a face shield? Yeah. There’s still ways to respect the rules while also if you can’t wear a mask, not wearing one. And yeah, it is frustrating and I know it’s tough. I know it’s tough, guys. I know that. For example, this last weekend for 4 July, my husband and family and I were all supposed to go to see some other family members of ours and we found out that some self isolating had not been happening when we thought it was. So we all just opted to not go. And that sucked. Obviously I wanted to see my family for the 4 July, but needs must and it sucks, but it is what it is. And you can tell that Maria has neighbors that have signs that say faith over fear, which is like, yeah, I think everywhere it’s a toxic mentality and I don’t understand I’m fully with you, I don’t understand how science has become a point of debate for the average person. Are you fucking kidding with me? People think that God’s words or deities words are coming out of politicians mouth and we can go into the whole thing. Here’s the thing. I’m actually aggressively obsessed with insane conspiracy theories and I’m not talking about the ones where it’s like, did we land on the moon? Did we not land on the moon? There’s a multi layered conspiracy theory that involves Pizza Gate, okay? The mole Children how Coronavirus was released into America. Even though it’s a global thing, these people believe it’s just America, that apparently that this was the whole global pandemic was made to release the mole children of Pizza Gate. To move them or release them, I don’t remember exactly which one it is. And then there’s a subconversation of that conspiracy theory on whether or not it’s politically correct to call the fictional molechildren molechildren and I just what the actual fuck
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I get our reality is bad, but why would you worse reality? What the fuck? Like, poor Italy, they lost so many people, and there’s people who are so ignorant to be like, oh, this is just to get our president out of the presidency. How stupid are you? How stupid are you? I don’t like Donald Trump. I’m not a fan of his at all. And even then I’m still like, this has nothing to do with him. If you think it does, then why are you listening to this podcast? Why are you here? I spend a higher caliber of listener. Meaning that you have enough critical thinking to think that global Pandemic was not specifically sent to take one man out of office. Come on.
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I forgot whose post it was, but someone posted on Instagram about basically what I’m talking about. And I could not believe the sheer number of witches who will not wear face masks because wild woman, witchcraft, Temperance, it was her post. Yeah. She had posted about basically the fact that if you don’t wear a mask, it’s like an active aggression. And the amount of comments that were like, well, actually shut the fuck up. No, well actually shut the fuck up. The only reason why there has to be a mandate to wear masks is because there’s so many people who do not care. They just don’t care, but refuse to follow the rules. And these are the same fucking people that will argue that if the African American people that are being murdered by the police every fucking day were to just comply, then none of this would happen. Where you refuse to fucking comply on a simple thing that is to save people’s lives and then have the audacity to say something as just completely privileged and fucking backwards as something like that. Oh, it makes me so angry. I just want to punch all of them right in the face. I feel different side of me. I’ll go crazy local on them. I have actually unfollowed quite a few people in life and on social media because of them saying exactly what you said. Just comply. Fuck you. Oh, my Lord. All right, we have to end this because I will go on another ten minute rant about this. So in short, this is what’s not stirring either of our cauldrons this week.
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Oh, my Lord. We’re going to go drink now. Bye, guys.
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If you are new here with us every single week, we talk about creators and Instagram shops, other social media accounts, whatever, blogs that we are really digging right now. And with that, we would like to remind you all to not DM us asking to be on here. I got an email last week asking to be on here. Stop it. These are people that we are just authentically liking. These aren’t paid promos, paid slots. Just please don’t do that. It makes me feel like a jerk. It makes Maria feel like a jerk. We are just finding people we like organically. So please don’t do that. It stinks. That being said, who is the creator this week that you are digging? I am digging an Instagram person. And they’re called Country Gentlemen Cooks, also known as Botany Bay. And they film Instagram videos on all sorts of plants, tells us about their properties and also their health benefits and all that. And each video is about one specific plant. And they are just very like in depth. They go extremely in depth about what the plants can do for you and all that and how they’re used in medicine. I just love it. Yeah. I did not follow them. I now am because this is really clever and really freaking cool. And they’re all IG TVs where he just breaks it down. And I think that’s friggin sick. We can all learn from that, can we? Yes. I mean, a huge part of witchcraft, historically speaking, is holistic medicine and learning about what plans do what and how they can help you. So I think even though holistic medicine is not witchcraft, the two go hand in hand very well. It’s a lot why a lot of baby witches
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cling. Not cling. Cling is the wrong word. But they are attracted to green witchcraft because historically speaking, the two go hand in hand. So it makes perfect sense. Yeah. I love it. And it’s a very informative instagram. Yeah. And herbal medicine. Herbal medicine, that’s what brings us to modern medicine. It’s good to know that stuff. And we try as witches to be good to our environment. And it’s good to know about our environment and what’s growing around us and yeah. Just really informative and amazing instagram to follow if you want to know about that stuff. What have you been interested in? So I actually just recently got sent a deck that I will be reviewing. But this deck is so sick. It’s called the two tone tarot. It’s really freaking beautiful. And the deck comes in two tones, so one is like a white background with black ink work. And the one I got is the black background with white ink work. And I just think it’s really beautiful and really cool. And I really love to see in the artists doing something different. And I love the concept of having the two options. Do you know what I mean? The black or the white? And to me, that is very different, especially considering, to my knowledge, the artist, this is their first deck. So to have a first deck and be so unique, I think that’s really freaking cool and powerful. And I think it’s amazing watching people just do stuff like this. It makes me want to make a deck. I know. I love seeing indie artists and their takes on the cards. It’s so interesting to see how they interpret it. And their cards are gorgeous. And I really like them. They’re super beautiful. I think it’s really cool. I think it’s a unique idea. I mean, I’m sure there’s been other decks out there that have varied options for the same deck. I just don’t have one or have seen one. To me, at least, this is very unique, and I think that that’s really cool. And I think that if you like the artwork but let’s say you aren’t like me and don’t like a nice dark deck, there’s the white option, and so I think that makes it accessible, and I think that’s cool. Yeah. How’s the card stock? The artwork is really pretty. It’s really nice. It’s actually, I believe, just based off the box and the card quality, it’s the same card stock as, like, the kiwi eel, lovely omens deck. And so it’s like neon moon’s deck. Yeah, it’s sturdy but flexible, and you know how I feel about that. Plus, the deck is not super thick that I can hold it in my hands. I’ll get into this, obviously on my own review on my blog. But it’s nice, it’s good. It’s good. We like it.
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So we hope you will join us on July 24 for our 11th episode. We will actually have a special guest for Lumbas, and I’m really looking forward to it, and I can’t wait to reveal who it is because it’s going to be good. So keep an eye out on our Instas and on our Twitter. Follow us there at coffee. Cauldrons for more information. Or even better, join us on our Discord tier, which is first coven or above on Patreon so we can answer your questions. Next time on the Part Two episode. You’ll even get to hear our lovely voices for an additional 30 minutes episode for being on our Patreon library tearing up. So, yeah. Come and join us again. This is Coffee and Cold Room with Maria Maria at the Arcane on Instagram. God damn it. Oh, my God.
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Are you tired of it? On Instagram? No. We’re leaving. That that’s fine. She doesn’t know who she is.
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No, I didn’t I’m perfect. We deleted it.
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I can’t believe you forgot your own name.