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So welcome to episode nine of season three, everyone. If you’ve just joined us, this is Maria and I’m at Maria the Arcane on Instagram. And I’m joined by the lovely Robin on Instagram. Hello,
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everyone. Hello.
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If this is your first week listening to us, every single week we talk about upcoming lunar phases and how we can use them in our personal practice. As a reminder, this is not in reflection to your own personal sunshine and how this could work for your chart. This is simply how we can use it magically. So that being said, on May 30, we have the new moon in Gemini. And this particular new moon is going to take kind of that intention setting that we often see with new moons. And we’re going to put it into a perspective of not just writing out intentions and then never doing them. We have to follow through. Well, not that we have to, but the new one in Gemini specifically does. Less talking, more actually doing, which I think is kind of nice. It is bringing us this active energy in the mental realm of things. And so when we’re looking at spellwork that deals with the new ones intention setting, we’re going to be looking at kind of tackling energies of restlessness, impatience and really just kind of kicking ourselves in the ass to actually follow through with whatever it is that we have perhaps been manifesting. I really wanted to put that word in there because I felt like it was very appropriate for this new moon. It feels very new agey, the new moon in Gemini, if that makes sense. And I think that is the kind of energy that we’re going to be bringing into this, I don’t know, this lunar phase. Greetings fellow light workers for new moons and Gemini like setting intentions for communication and for good communication, especially now with Mercury retrograde, I feel like fight it a little bit with the Gemini sign. Yeah. That being said, the Mercury retrograde does not end until the the third. Marie and I have to look it up because we weren’t sure. But when I said we weren’t sure, she was right. I was wrong. I found it. So what Robin is saying is I am now the supreme. So everyone found out. He actually will die now because that’s how this works. It’s very sad. If we can all just rest and peace me, that would be great. You will be missed. I’m just kidding. Please stay. And the other thing with the new wind in Gemini, before I forget, because I did forget and I moved past it and we’re circling back, is that when we are looking at the new moons and Gemini, this is also a really good time to focus on grounding yourself. If you aren’t somebody who practices grounding techniques after every single spell or ritual that you do, and you’re somebody who maybe follows litter cycles for grounding or similar this is a really good time to do that. We’ve talked about it before. There are several different types of grounding. It could be as simple as getting some apple cider vinegar and pouring it over your body in the shower. Or it could be a far more complex, grounded meditation. That is, of course, up to you. But yeah, recenter yourself and whatever intentions you set follow through. I really do feel like the Gemini new Moon brings a real new age spiritualism energy. I don’t know how else to describe that. Well, I’m here for it sounds very 90s. Not just that it feels like really rich lady, specifically rich white women in the 90s. That’s the energy that this new mode is bringing. And I just feel like I have no other way of describing that. So hopefully you know what I’m talking about.
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So if you just started listening to us, every podcast, we talk about a tarot card. We go over the universal meaning and then our own interpretations of the cards. This is so hearing other people’s opinions helps beginners perform their own opinions, or even those who are practicing for a while, expand their views on other meetings. And I promise I can talk today. But anyway, why guys, look, as I was telling Robin earlier, I’m going on day three without coffee. Bear with me. Anyway, so this week we’re going to talk about the nine of swords on the Rider Wheat Smith version card. You’ll see a figure lying in a bed crying. Well, not lying in a bed, but like sitting up crying. And there are nine swords above them and the room they are in is dark. And if you look closely at the quilt they are covered in, you’ll see zodiac symbols as well as roses. And if you look closely at the bed frame, you will see an engraving. Some people say it looks like figures are fighting, but to me the scene looks oddly familiar. It kind of looks like the four of cups, but someone is coming and stealing the cup away. But that’s just a personal take and a personal opinion. Maybe tell us what you think. But the universal keywords card are anxiety, distress and hopelessness. And so when this card pops up for readings for myself and clients, it definitely lives up to its name, the Nightmare Card. We are usually suffering from sleepless nights, from anxiety and stress. We are envisioning like worst case scenarios. We are absolute wrecks. Our thoughts are weighing heavily on this and it just isn’t impacting our lives at night, but also it’s impacting it during daylight hours as well. While we are up and moving, we are still that figure in the bed dealing with all those tough emotions. The thing about this card is that it is a minor arcana and nighttime is depicted on the card. The minor arcana are footnotes in our lives. They are part of our normal everyday EPS and flows and the night can’t last forever. The day will eventually creep in. And when this card pops up for you, you may be like in the thick of it, like you feel like it isn’t going to end, but it will. This doesn’t mean that we need to pretend that it isn’t happening. We have to go through it to get through it, basically. And shoving down cards like this one and a five of cups is just not helpful. It will just prolong the period and putting on a brave face while admirable. You’ve still got to allow yourself to have some time so you can feel to heal. Now, if you have anxiety like I do or have anything that gives you super low lows that feel never ending, you may need to get help in order to get out of this kind of swords theme. There’s nothing wrong with that. Seeking help from doctors, therapists, or trusted confidants, doing anything in order to heal and to take care of yourself, to find that light at the top at the end of the tunnel is important. So don’t feel like you have to soldier through it alone. So how do you view this card? Robin Deer this card, to me, I know that we kind of put it in the nightmare category, and I think that there’s a lot of obvious reasons why that would be, but I actually view this card one step further. Sometimes. It depends, of course, on the context, but I see this as a PTSD card. This is a card that, in my experience, suggests that the anxiety, the fears, the nightmare, trauma, whatever you want to call it, stems from real life scenarios. Those scenarios, whoever, just might not be putting you in danger at this time. It’s very similar to the moon card. But unlike the moon, where we are seeing shadows in the night, these shadows stem from real life past events. If you look at the card itself, the swords are there, they’re on the wall. The danger is actually real and present, right? It’s just not maybe something that we are physically in the way of, in terms of actually being in harm’s way. And so I see it as kind of a PTSD or trauma card where your feelings on this are valid and they stem from real life scenarios or instances that you have lived through. But just because that has happened doesn’t mean that those feelings are, I want to say, relevant, but that’s the wrong word aren’t transpiring at that exact moment as well. That’s how I see it. So, for example, let’s say you’re in a relationship and you get triggered by something your new partner is doing because of something that your old partner had done to you. And the new trigger might not be actually like, necessarily a bad thing, something that is toxic or ill intended, but it has triggered a response based off of real life experiences that you have had in your past. And so to me it is that kind of self reflective moment of, hey, our feelings here are super valid, but is it necessarily rooted in present reality for the situation that we’re living in? Yeah, I like your thoughts. Thank you. For me a couple of times like that too, so I can of course it often depends on the context and I do definitely agree with everything that you’ve said. I just typically see it taking it that one step further. Sometimes it worries me. Yeah. I did forget to mention on the blanket you see the roses and the zodiac signs. If you look at anywhere else on the card, it’s like this card is pretty like doom and gloom. But I don’t know, the quilt looks comforting. Especially like, I think with the zodiac symbols and the roses, it’s kind of letting you know that even though you might not feel safe, you are safe. Does that make sense? Yeah, it totally does. Yeah. And that the universe or whoever’s watching over you is on your side. And roses grow from dirt. And through our experiences, even bad experiences, we learn to protect ourselves and to grow into like the beautiful creatures that we are. And we thrive in our own way from our experiences, both good and bad. Yeah. Does that make sense? It does. Thanks. Just two big brain gals. Oh, big brain.
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So this week we thought we’d do something different. We usually talk about Amy topic and we discuss it, but we figured this week we’ll just go talk about what we’ve been doing and what we’ve been up to within our practices and maybe not on our practices. So what have you been up to? I’ve been doing a lot of things, actually. I know that if anyone listening who is in the Patreon discord, we have been talking a lot about death work lately and we just finished up the Death work series and actually Sunday. So two days after this episode comes out, we’re going to be doing a discord hangout where we’re going to talk about the series and people are going to ask questions and I think that’s going to be really fun. But I have been kind of exploring a little bit more that self aspect within myself. I think that it’s been good for me because even though I do work with death as an energy and spirits, magically, et cetera, kind of getting down to how to put these things into words for other people, you know what I mean, has been a really good self exploration for me on my own relationship when it comes to my own practice. And it’s been having me go, well, why do I do that thing? You know what I mean? And having to take it a step further and kind of explore that a little bit more because I don’t know, at least maybe I’m the only one who does this. Maybe you’ll agree with me, but when you kind of get into a practice that you’ve been doing concretely for a really long time, sometimes we forget the reasons that we started doing things that work for us, whether it’s because we were trying something or someone told us we read it somewhere or freaking whatever, right. It’s been forcing me to reevaluate why I do these things and where did I learn that from, et cetera. And it actually had me reconsider a few things, which has been very interesting for me. That is interesting, yes. What about you? I don’t know, to be perfectly honest. I’ve been going through that nine of energy myself. I’ve been going through it to get through it. Lately, with the state of the world on top of my health and other personal struggles, I’ve been like a poster child of shadow work lately. It just all feels so heavy right now, and I think many people are feeling it too, due to so much going on. So I know I am far from alone and want others to know it’s okay to feel that way too. And I think it’s important to talk about, especially since so many of us were raised. Being taught, showing and sharing our emotions is a selfish act, which it’s not hard, but it’s been hard. But I’ve been doing things to take care of myself and using my practice has definitely been a big part of that. I’ve been doing small things that make me happy. And this year my wife and I have made it a point to breathe the heat and the bugs and the pollen and go to different spots every weekend to get into nature, which has been so amazing. And honestly, I look forward to it every week. I realized that when I’m really in my feelings during the week, I want to run back to those spots for it to be the weekend, which honestly makes it feel so much worse. Like, if I’m really upset, I’m like, I just want to get out of here. But because it’s during the week 99% of the time, that’s impossible because of our schedules and those spots being so far away. So with some problem solving, I finally use some of my spoons to clear off, like my small porch. And it’s honestly became like my weekday safe haven. And we’ve been putting like a small outdoor fan out there to combat the heat and the bugs. And honestly, it’s just been the best use of the spoons that I have given in a long time, even though it leaves me up in a screened porch. Do you have a screening porch or did I imagine that? I wish I imagined it. No, just a porch porch. But getting out there has really put me in a better head space. And I’ve been journaling again, prioritizing reading during the week and spending that quality time in nature and spirit. My body and Spirit were telling me I needed to do this and I’m really glad that I listened. I know that for us in our house, I’ve been trying to unplug a lot more as well and reading more and just doing things that I think it’s really good for my mental health. Even like practice suicide. Yeah, I’ve been doing that too. Like putting turning off my phone or having my wife take my phone, run off with it and put it somewhere. I put on Focus. Have you seen I just turn that shit off. Well, yeah, I put Focus because my husband cycles. He’s a cyclist and he is a man what is that called? A mammal. A middle aged man in Lycra. Have you ever heard of that? No. Yeah, he’s like fully the Lycracy. He shaves his legs. Like it’s the whole thing. Anyway, so he’ll go out on these really long rides, like for four or 5 hours at a time. And we live in an area where people think it’s funny to scare cyclists. What? Yeah, there’s been multiple occasions where he’ll be riding and he can like reach out and touch the car next to him because they’re that close to him. That’s terrifying. Yes. So it makes me really anxious. So I will not turn my phone off. No. Because we have an agreement with each other that if he like, I need to know where he’s going to be. He’ll leave his little bike path on the computer and if he’s not back by a certain time or has updated me by a certain time, then I am legally entitled to worry and go look for him. And there have been a few instances where I’ve had to do that and he’s been fine. It was just like something else had happened that kept him. Yeah, but yeah, I won’t turn on my phone for that reason because it makes me too anxious. So I’ve had to put like the focus settings on. And when I tell you guys, if you don’t already use focus and you think that you might have an addiction to your phone, you should do it. Because it like cut my hours on my phone in half. I’m like so bad. But having my wife take my phone or just like setting it somewhere and be like you are not touching it. That’s what’s worked for me. That’s awesome though. Yeah, especially it’s been very on my mind this month and I think that’s part of the reason why I’m having such a rough time. I just think social media has gone to absolute crap and it just does not help anymore whatsoever, if that makes sense. So taking that much needed time to go journal and do something for myself. Anything else? Because we talk all the time about how social media has changed, especially like Instagram and stuff like that. And I feel like as a photographer and as an artist who my main medium is sharing photography. That’s not really being prioritized anymore for social media. So it’s just oh, no, it’s been really hard to come to terms with. Yeah,
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I think a lot of people can relate to that though. So Journaling still creating, trying to do it for me. I hate making videos. Let me rephrase. I like making YouTube videos, the longer format ones where I’m like talking or giving an instructional and I can take as long as I want. It can be five minutes, it can be 50 minutes. It’s entirely up to me and how long I want to make it right. That’s all good. I hate making short format. I hate it. It’s not fun. I hate feeling like I’m on this time crunch, do you know what I mean? To get everything out. And I quite frankly, do not think that there is anything that I have to say that is more valuable in a video. You know what I mean? Oh, no, I cannot get in front of a video. I don’t know. I’d rather just type it out. That’s why I usually put words and stuff on my videos, which is crazy because you’re literally so pretty. I don’t even know why.
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It’s just not my cup of tea. I’d rather be behind the camera than in front of the camera. Well, I think that’s my biggest stress has been that informational videos that I make, the little short ones, like, here’s how to do this bell. Try these things with tarot, freaking whatever. Nobody sees them. But then I make a stupid video that’s like funny or whatever, where I’m just making a joke and then it does well and I’m just like, what am I, comedian now? I know that’s exactly how I feel. That’s not authentic to me. I like sharing information. I love pretty things and I like setting up a pretty video and sharing information that way.
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No, you’re fine. My husband just sent me a picture of him crying because he’s watching Blue and it made him sad. I’m sure he’s going to cut that out anyway. Where would I go with this? It’s not true. I do enjoy making funny videos because I like humor and I think that humor is nice and fun. But having to always make funny videos to me feels like it’s straying so far away from what I actually give a shit about. No, I completely agree. It’s just, you know, that’s how apparently we have to stay relevant nowadays instead of doing what we love, which is sharing and giving information. That makes me a little sad and frustrated because I don’t want to be inauthentic. I want to stay authentic. I can be funny sometimes, but I don’t my whole platform to be funny videos in order to be relevant. Oh, no, it kind of sucks. Yeah, it does. And I do think that both of us having that sort of internal recognition to be able to unplug and just focus on things that actually matters to us is important and continuing to be authentic. Because I do think that it is a trap that a lot of people fall down, that they’re just chasing the likes they’re chasing them. That, for me, at least, I’ve just stopped looking at likes, I turned mine off. I just don’t look at them anymore. I don’t think I turned mine off. I literally just don’t look at it anymore. Either people live with my shit or they don’t. And I’m just done trying to I don’t know, I guess pander to that. Yeah. And just do what I want to do and the reason I started all this in the first place. Yeah, I definitely agree. Like, oh, no, it’s just been really hard, and hopefully one day there’ll be a platform for us to be seen again. I doubt it. We’re being authentic. We try to get people on what was it? Vero? Vero did not work out. No, it did not work out just fine. It’s fine. But goodness. We are doing our best, guys, and we’re still trying to remain authentic. I’m not doing my information. I’m actually doing my worst, actually. This is pure evil. This is evil, Robin. And I’m actually going out of my way to do my worst. Very educated, absolutely unbearable. One out of five stars. My favorite is so funny. So good. It’s so funny to me. It’s so funny to me. I wish that we knew someone who had, like, the Mr. Movie phone voice and doing that at the end. This podcast gets one star. That’ll be so funny. I wonder if there’s, like, a bot for it. Oh, my gosh. I’m going to look that up. Speaking of looking things up, since we’re just kind of, like doing a check in episode, they’re having a few requests from people about having transcripts made of the podcast. And I have been working on it, and I’m hoping to have transcripts like the backlog episodes because I’m going to do those before I start doing new ones at all. I’m hoping to have that done in completion by the end of July. That’s my goal. I found a service for it. It’s a bit tricky, and there’s a lot of, like, manual stuff that has to happen. Goodness gracious. But I did find it, and I am working on it. And so if you are somebody or you know somebody who had requested transcripts for hard of hearing, I am actively working on it. I did a request on Twitter about it and asked for help, and then I got a bunch of freaking, like, those bot commodors. It’s like, for $2 a minute of listening time, I will transcribe your podcast. And I was like, what do I look like? Do I look like Daddy Warbucks? Like, oh, yeah, here’s two grand
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roll. I know it’s a valid job, but it’s like, those weren’t real people. They were bots. Do you know what I mean? Camers yeah, we know about those all too well. Truly. It was just one of those days. So I was like, okay, all right, thank you. Or like, I posted something about buying a commission piece for a profile picture. And I got like, literally nine comments that were bought. Comments that were like, you know, I would love to do a piece for you. And I’m just like, oh, my God, can I live? Can I live? Oh, my God. I didn’t explain that joke to somebody the other day. The fellow light worker joke has that moment pass. No one uses it anymore. Nobody uses it anymore. But I do, apparently now Robin is going to start using it unironically. I use it like I just did now where it was, like, relevant to the conversation. And I said it was like a passing thing. And they were like, what is that? I was like, what do you mean? What is that? They’re like, Why are you saying that? I was like, well, it was only a year ago, guys. It wasn’t that long ago. But look at how much has changed within a year. It’s crazy. The Scammer thing is out of control, too. Out of control. I’ve gotten like 20 emails from people talking about Scammers. There’s nothing I can do, guys. I still get, like 20 messages a day about scammers. And I’m like, I don’t know what else I can do for these people. I’ve just stopped responding to them. And I know that that’s maybe mean, but simultaneously, I’ve done everything I can. I’ve made post after post after post. I’ve got a highlight reel. It says that Tired, which is my only account in my bio. When you go through to freaking go to any of my other links, it says a big bold paragraph. If you’ve made it this far, this is my only account. I will never do that. You know what I mean? Yeah. I just don’t know what else I can do at this point. And I don’t know. That’s great. My big thing is I pay for an entire fucking website. Yeah, I pay for a website. Why would I then be like, I know I pay a monthly for this website, but I think I’m going to DM people. But have you been up to anything else? Not really. I mean, we’ve got our life transitioning, and so that’s been a bit of something. I actually did a poll with the discord. Not a poll that’s misrepresentation. I asked for advice, and then I got advice in our discord about if I should bring my cauldron or not in my immediate belongings with our move stuff going on. That you should. Yeah. I’m just worried about the weight of it. Yeah, but we get like crazy, like, suitcase weight. So I don’t know. I don’t know. My husband says I can do whatever I want, but I also feel like he’s just desensitized to all my crazy requests at this point. Sure, whatever. Yeah, whatever it is. He just doesn’t fight with me about anything that I want. He’s just like, why not? Here you go. Perfect marriage. Yeah. I will never, ever leave him because I know that I will never strike gold twice like this. I can do whatever I want, and he’s like, as long as you’re happy, babe. Gold, gold star. Tiffany. A plus editor. A plus husband. We love Milan. Yes, we do. Wow. We love them a lot. Oh, my gosh. Well, do you have anything else that’s going on with you that you want to talk about? I guess I’ve been digging more into working with local plants, like learning the Lore medical uses and where to find them. She’s obsessed, guys. I’m obsessed with her new black and gold deck, maybe adding too many books to my collection. I have, like, two more coming in. On local plants or just plants in general? On local plants, actually. Yeah. I’ve been finding a bunch of them just looking for southeastern stuff. Your plan stuff has inspired me to look up plans that are local to our area when we move. Plan best area. Well, I am only doing the best things ever at all times, so that makes sense.
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Yeah. You’ve inspired me. So I’ve been doing research on local flora and fauna. It’s fun. I don’t know. Just like, adding those type of ingredients to spell work is like I don’t know. It just makes it that much more special, in my personal opinion. Yeah. Makes it look cool. It does.
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Yeah. You get your hands in the dirt, and you’ll be like, oh, I pulled that ingredient myself. I didn’t have to go to the Apothecary. And then I feel like especially have you been drying them, too? Yes, I know. Look at me. And then I always feel good about pulling invasive plants that are non native and being like, haha, I’m going to use this as spellwork, and I’ll stop hurting the local environment. She’s an environmentalist guy and really like, mimosa plants. I don’t know if you’ve heard about them. I’ve heard of them. Mimosa. They are delicious. They are delicious. I am not familiar with the plant, however. Well, the plant is very pretty. It has a bunch of little leaves, and these pink poofs come out, like, I think, in the next couple of months. I google it, but they’re very pretty, but they’re also very invasive and not native. It’s also called the shame plant. I didn’t know shame tree because there’s that too shame, which is funny because you can use the flowers for, like, love spells and things like that. Really? I’m going to get a bunch. This girl is a plant lore queen, guys. I’m getting there. I will learn everything. Hand me a book. I realize now, like, when I go to bookstores, I just bypass the witchy section. Now head straight to the nature one. That’s so funny. And just sit on the floor. Honestly, right where I am right now in my practice. Those books have been way more helpful in my practice. So I’ve been loving it. It’s like a whole new thing to research until I can’t research it anymore. I love that. Yeah. Jumped from black to gold decks to learning everything about plants. She’s got a problem, everyone. It’s very, very sad. We’re worried about her. For just five cents a day, you two can donate. Maria in her area. Yes, donate. So she can take a class. Yeah, a class on addiction to further the addiction class. That would be great.
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What’s stirring it? She wants her stirring it. Oh, my God. I’ll tell you what’s stirring it. I had no idea what thing that we were on. I was just like, we’re stirring something. Something’s being stirred. That’s all we know.
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Lately, I’ve been really into witchy books that use writing to inspire rather than coming across as an owner’s manual. Like, there’s nothing wrong with books that put all information for the sake of information. Of course, they’re definitely important. Like, more so important. But I also love reading about other witches like, experiences and how they practice and their personal experiences and how they involve magic in their daily lives, or even reading about history in a way that isn’t dry as hell. Like what a lot of books seem to do. There aren’t that many out there, unfortunately. I wish that we had more books like that. On the last podcast, I recommended Spelling Wild by Alice Tarbeck, and I’m definitely, like, on search for more like it. I have found a few that I haven’t read yet, so I can’t recommend until I’ve read them, of course. But after reading so many informational books, I just want to be inspired now and to experience how other people practice. Because I’m reading my herbal books, I’m doing all of this stuff, and I don’t know, it’s just something so magical about reading, like putting your feet in someone else’s shoes for a little bit and reading how they involve magic in their daily lives. But, yeah, I think we need more, like, witchy biographies or, like, a year in the life books. I need them. I need someone to put more out. He’s really good at writing. Please, could not be me. I’m illiterate. You’re literally an author. Literally. I don’t know how to read. I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.
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So, Robin, what is not stirring or cauldron this week? Thank you so much for asking. You’re so welcome. This has actually been going on for me for a while. I am sick and tired of watching people in our community take tragic events, other people’s pain, sorrow, grief, whatever that may be. We’ve seen it with mass shootings, we’ve seen it with homicides, we’ve seen it with people losing their homes, et cetera, and then using it to sell books or sell tarot readings or fucking whatever. Stop taking other people’s personal tragedies, like serious issues, serious political issues, serious anything. Stop taking these serious egregious issues and then being like, you know what this is a good time for? We should sell my book with this, or we should sell my tarot reading with this, or we should fucking all pay money for a collective healing for this or whatever. It’s disgusting. I like this healing thing. Well, I mean, the people who do the fucking astrology readings based off of stuff, it’s disgusting. It is gross. You are profiting on purpose, profiting off of disgusting egregious situations. And it’s not okay. It is not okay. I don’t know. I know that we’ve been talking about this sort of stuff on and off, at least privately for a while. A huge reason why we did not record the other week. Yeah, I don’t understand how people can’t fucking read the room. It’s so gross to me. Like, it’s actually so gross to me. And if you want to do things to help situations instead of using it for clout or profit or whatever, you should be sharing information about how to contact your congressman’s, your governors, freaking fundraiser, fundraisers, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I don’t know. It’s very gross. I’m not going to get all soapboxy and tell people what to do on here. Do know that? I know Maria and I both have been sharing things about information on social media privately. But people it’s a witch’s responsibility to help others. Not like, yes, we can help ourselves, but not to that point where we’re putting other people I think people tragedies and using it for our benefit, using that energy to our benefit. It’s disgusting. Even on magically, even just like on a personal level, it’s absolutely deplorable and disgusting. And I think that if you see someone doing that, I don’t give a shit who they are, if they are nobody you’ve ever heard of before in your life trying to sell a reading or a super huge name, trying to sell, I don’t know, a class, a book, a reading, fucking whatever. Like, those are red flags and you should seriously evaluate that and how that makes you feel because it makes me feel very disgusted and gross. Yeah. Yucky. I don’t like it. It’s very sticky.
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If you’ve just joined us this week, every single week, we talk about creators that we are loving right now. This could be, I don’t know, artists, bloggers, YouTubes, Instagrams, authors, you name it. These are people that we are finding on our own, organically. These are not sponsored ads. We just think you guys will vibe with them. So that being said, Maria, who are you digging this week? Okay, so while I will not say the Instagram name, we will put it down in the little thingy. But it’s not a bad word. We just go bad words. Yeah. I do not know how to pronounce it, but the deck itself is called a Terra ball tall deck. And it’s just so pretty. And I’m trying to describe the image. It looks like classical art that you would see over in Europe, but with a modern twist in the main deck, because I have the expansion too. They have different cards that play up against each other. Like, there’s two eight of wands, and one of the eight of wands has, like, an eye in the sky and the wands pointing downwards. And the other aid of wands has a woman’s head, and the wands are coming out of her head into the sky. And it’s just like cards like that, and there’s like, different devil cards and things like that. Especially if you get the expansion, there’s like, four different types of devil cards. But it is a big deck. Like, I cannot shuffle the entire thing. Like, not have been doing, like the Ford Shuffle. So what I’ve been doing is cutting the deck into three and just kind of putting my hand over them and seeing which deck I need to pull for a specific prompt. And I’ll shuffle that way. It’s such a beautiful deck, and I highly recommend looking it up. And it is definitely not a black and gold deck. I looked it up. I want it, and it’s not black and gold. So Maria is really just like, breaking the cycle, guys, on a new woman. I feel like this is my soulmate deck. It’s just so pretty deck. You guys going to kiss? Yeah. Tell me the truth. Kiss and make cute little tarot babies. Oh, my goodness. So who you’ve been loving? So there is a soap maker that my friend well, you guys know Temp. She was on here before she turned me on to them. And I bought some of their stuff recently and I’m super digging it’s. Witchy baby soaps. I love it. All their stuff is witchy themed. Witch baby soaps? Not witchy baby soap. Sorry. All their stuff is witchy themed, but then they have, like, soaps with crystals in it. They have bath bombs. And if you know anything about me, you know that I am a celebrate for a good bath bomb. Sorry about it. I love them. I love them so much. I know they’re bad for your couch if you overdo it, but my couch is fine anyway, like body butters and all that, it’s fine. But I really, really love their stuff. It all is just so good. And I love that each one has got magical properties and thoughts put behind them. They have I think it’s a bath bomb. That’s a gossip stopper. And they’ve thought about the things that they put in it to further that intention, et cetera. They have, like, elemental stuff, everything. It’s so good. They’re super pretty. Yes, I’m super in love with it. I love it, love it, love it, love it. Yeah. Huge fans you should go get some. I know I should. Okay. You’ve convinced me.
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so again, this is Coffee and Cauldrons with Robin from Ataron Instagram. And I’m Maria from Maria’s Arcane on Instagram. Are you ready? Yes. One, two, three.