Inviting Balance into Your Life
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To start off the show, we look at our Tarot Card for the week and we look for moments that relate to this card in our daily lives.
For this week, we chose the Three of Cups. The theme of this card is The theme of this card is emotional journey.
One way to look at this is your mind playing something emotionally painful over and over again and sort of forcing your heart to break with each replay. And in this sense you can remember that you can control your thoughts and not give power to someone else’s choice. Not let it have power over you to the point where it hurts each time you think about it.
Another way to look at this is an event or series of events that causes big pain, like a break up or divorce, death, miscarriage, loss, and all of that. There’s no way to soften it, and you shouldn’t try to because those feelings are part of being human, and the only way to move forward after experiencing a loss is to feel the pain that comes with it.
Each sword here brings you through the processing of grief, pain, sadness, heartache, or whatever else comes out of a loss. And you really do have to experience all of the stages. The memories of the past that may be bittersweet now, the heaviness of feeling the emotions in the present, particularly if the loss event happened recently, and the future where things get easier with each passing day.
You can hear Erica’s and Maggie’s stories related to the Three of Swords by listening to the episode.
Inviting Balance
Triskele
The Triskele is a Celtic symbol with three spirals that meet at a central point.
One interpretation of this symbol is that everything comes together, everything flows together. It represents three different aspects of the self—generally body, mind and spirit—and how they are interconnected. I see this symbol as a perfect representation of balance and how giving to all the areas of your life creates harmony and flow.
You can view each part of your life separately, but they all sort of orbit around the individual. You may have a work life, a home life, a TV watching life, a crafting life, a spiritual life, an exercise life, a romantic life, etc. and they all depend on and revolve around you.
1. Balance Areas of Life
So when it comes to balancing these areas of your life, it helps to determine where most of your resources—time, energy, money—are going.
Take time to evaluate what is important and bring aspects of that into your every day activities
For example, you could negotiate time off at witchcraft holidays in exchange for time on at non-witchcraft holidays.
You could do exercises during you lunch break or bring a candle and have a mini alter on you desk.
2. Balance the Body, Mind, and Spirit
IDEAS FOR BODY:
Movement
Nutrition
Hydration
IDEAS FOR MIND:
Reading
Writing
Conversation
IDEAS FOR SPIRIT:
Meditation
Ritual
Intention
3. Balance Science and Belief
There is a line that witches walk between the known and the unknown. Through scientific study, modern witches certainly know things that ancient people didn’t, and we continue to explore the imagination, the spirit realm and other mysteries.
As you walk this line between belief and fact, you study things that span the realms of vibration. From the physical to the spiritual.
Science is not superior to spiritual belief, nor is spiritual belief superior to science. We need to be aware what we know because it is based in scientific fact, and what we are believing because we had a spiritual experience. Both can have a place in the modern witch’s worldview and we ought to be careful not to push out one in favor of the other.
4. Balance with the Four Elements
One of my favorite ways to bring more balance into my life is through creating elemental balance.
The four classical elements of magic are earth, air, fire, and water. Each has a specific energy to it as follows...
Earth: stability, firm, grounded, prosperity
Air: light, adaptability, clear thought, openness
Fire: passionate, powerful, activity, change, will
Water: purifying, fluidity, transformation, healing
Examine your all the rooms in your environment.
Do you sense an imbalance of elemental energy? Which element is most prevalent? Which element is least prevalent?
Does the imbalance make sense for the purpose of the space? (For example... The purpose of a bedroom is sleep and rest. A dominance of watery or earthy energy would make sense; a dominance of airy or fiery energy would not.)
If the imbalance doesn’t make sense, what steps could you take to balance the energy?
Ideas for introducing elemental energy to your life
Color: Earth energy is green or brown, air energy is yellow or purple, fire energy is yellow or orange, water energy is blue or pink. You could also choose the color based on the feeling you wish to create.
Plants bring in earth, air, and water energy.
Candles bring in all four elements, but mostly fire.
Crystals and Stones bring in strong earth energy but depending on the type, they also have additional elemental energies associated with them.
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MEDICINAL
FLOWERS & LEAVES - Powerful vulnerary; gut inflammation from food intolerance; well-known dermatological aid; sitz bath formulas; sunburns and mild burns; anti-septic and mild antibacterial; Heart Tonic for trauma, grief, depression, anxiety (especially heart-based), heartbreak; Cardiovascular tonic; Antispasmodic; chronic musculoskeletal pain; promote beneficial bacterial; Aphrodisia; pelvic congestion; congested Liver and excess heat in the digestive system; anger and frustration; UTIs, yeast and vaginal infections; Traditional flower of love and devotion; Food as medicine the flowers are edible and are traditionally made into jam in many parts of the world and they can be put into salads, drinks, fruit salads, made into wild soda, icing, and so on. The leaves are edible and can but into salad, added to pesto, etc.
HIPS - rich in Vitamin C and excellent for colds, flus and low immunity.
ROOTS - Powerful astringent for acute diarrhea and first aid
MAGICAL
Passive, Venus, Earth, Water, Libra; Magical uses include divine love, close friendships, domestic peace/happiness, and lasting relationships. Great for use in incense, tea, potpourri, candle, or bath magic; Add to Cleansing Herb Bundle or burn in a cauldron; Rose Tea; Offer Petals; Prosperity; Rose Hips-Used in healing spells and mixtures, brings good luck, calls in good spirits.
Service Magic
Libra is all about equality and equity and by extension social justice. For the Libra season each week Maggie and Erica will recommend a cause that you can help to support. You can support the charity we’ve selected, choose your own, or find something else to do in support if you cannot support financially (or nothing at all if you don’t feel called at this time, that’s okay too).
This week we hope you will join us in advocating with the ACLU as they balance the needs of many so that all may share equality.
The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.
Learn about what's happening across the most pressing civil liberties issues of our time, and what you can do.
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We play one listener voicemail on each episode of Talk Witchcraft, with a few exceptions. To send us a voicemail, record a voice memo on your phone and email it to welisten [at] talkwitchcraft [dot] com. Please keep in mind that we only choose voicemails that are two minutes in length or shorter (even if they’re great!).
What we’re looking for in a voicemail
Share from your personal experiences (especially experiences that we could never have) and use that to illuminate the zodiac season or theme in new ways.
Ask questions of Erica and Maggie, so we have an opportunity to respond meaningfully to your voicemail during the podcast.
Use one of these prompts: Is there something happening with you and your life that aligns with the current zodiac season or a Tarot card? How do your experiences show us something new about the magic, something that we haven’t talked about so far?
Send a voicemail even if you’re behind on the podcast. If your voicemail is about a previous episode, zodiac season, or tarot card; that doesn’t mean we won’t choose it!
Tips for recording a great voicemail
Make sure you’re somewhere quiet.
Plan what you’re going to say ahead of time, because two minutes goes quickly.
Opt for talking freely based on a bullet pointed list rather than reading word-for word from a script.
Let us know if you’d prefer to remain anonymous.
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