0:01Welcome to Demystify Magic with Molly and Madison.I'm Molly, a former skeptic turned full time energy healer and teacher.And I'm Madison, a born and raised witch running my family's crystal shop.And we're here to explore all things woo through the lens of both science and spirituality, so that you can find the moments of magic in your everyday life and create an intentional spiritual practice.0:20So if that's what you're into, find a cozy spot, take a deep breath, and let's demystify some magic.Howdy Doody friends.Howdy and a duty.Guys, we're gonna have a moment of vulnerable truth here, and we're gonna It's been a rough one that the vibes are rancid.0:38Oh the vibes.They're rotting off the bone.This is gonna make us feel so much better, isn't?It it is, and I feel like that's fitting for the topic of this week's episode because we are gonna talk about something that, to me personally, also has rancid vibes.0:57We're just matching the mood, yeah.Really, we're just matching the energy we're just really trying to give you.Oh, there's a butterfly out my window.And the moods have flip flops that made.Me feel better that that decrease the rancidness of the vibes but we are.1:14Now the vibes are just a little mildo Y mildo.Mildo.Mildo, mildo, or mildo.To mildo or not to mildo?This is an intro.It certainly is introing something.1:31We are talking about eclipse season.We are.Because at the time, if you're listening to this, we are about to be in the thick of it.The eclipse season is eclipsing upon us.We have a partial lunar eclipse coming up either on September 17th or September 18th, depending on what time zone you're in.1:48For us on the East Coast, it'll be September 17th and then followed by a solar eclipse on October 2nd.We.Were talking about this earlier because we were like, oh, we should talk about like our experience with the last eclipse.2:05That was in March of this year, March and April.And I really think like, you know how people describe when they have babies, they're like, oh, your body forgets how horrible birth is, so you'll want to do it again.2:23That's how I feel about the eclipse.I'm like, I remember it was bad.I didn't feel good but I can't remember what was so bad about it.Not a single memory.You know what's so funny is in like at the end of last Eclipse season, we wrote this idea down.2:40We're like, yeah, we should, we should record now what our Eclipse experience was like so that we can remember next time.And then we're like, Nah, we'll remember.Remember, what if we do at the end of this eclipse season?What if we do in?Eclipse review.Eclipse review.OK, if you want to see that, let us know.2:57Yeah, if.You enjoy this mess.If you enjoy these rancid vibes, tell us if you want more of them.All right, but before we get started, as I've already launched this into it, what was your magic moment this week, Molly?OK, I have a very silly magic moment.3:15I don't know if it's silly or not.I'm excited about it.I'm excited if you're.Excited I had a dream specifically involving, you know those eyeliner stamps that make the perfect wing?Haven't seen those like in stores ever.I think I've probably seen like 1 review of them.3:30Had a dream about them.I was just like, oh, that's interesting.And then I had to go to Marshall's naturally or TJ Maxx, one of those, they're all the same to me.And I was like, oh, just let's check the make a bile.Maybe it'll be there.And the stamp eyeliner was there and I was like, well does.3:49It work.It does, really.Honestly, I.Can show you do it right now, live.I'm gonna do it right now.All right, you ready?Yeah, show it to me.Yeah.Get real.Get a person personal.Looks like this, Yeah.OK.Wow.4:07I know, I know.Let me do the other side.This podcast is not sponsored by Little Stamps.Wow.Pretty good.Pretty good.Good enough for government work.Good enough for government work, that's what I always say, and I've been having someone with it so.4:27You manifested.It anyways you dreamed it in dreams do come true.So true.What?Was your magic moment.I am gonna be a little bit more tender.Sorry.I've just been I've, I think this is kind of also a part of eclipse season for me is that I just feel so emotionally fragile where like everything is something to cry about.4:48I am crying over spilt milk, you know?Sure.And I now live like 45 minutes away from my mom.Oh, she's finishing the eyeliner.I'm.Sorry, I'm sorry.I can't.I'm fucking it up.5:06I've.Never seen someone so disinterested in me, she said.Oh serious moment, let me pull up my mirror and fix my eyeliner.That I just.Stamped on I'm so.Sorry, I'm so sorry.You know I won't be able.To focus.I know, I know.5:22Thank God the wings are on.But she's back.She's back.Growing up, I like never thought I was a person who would really like care that much about living close to my family.I went to school like 4 hours away from home and then promptly moved to New York, lived in the Midwest for a little while and then two years ago moved back to Florida.5:42And for the last two years I've lived like 5 minutes from my mom's house.And we both, you know, we live close together, we work together.I spend a lot of time with my mom, and with the opening of Spellcrafter and moving to Saint Pete, that's like 45 minutes to an hour away and she's moving a little bit further north.6:00I just have like this very new appreciation for her.Like, we've had some space and now I see her twice a week, which is still so much more than like most people see their moms, right?But I see her on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I'm like, on Tuesdays, I'm like, I missed you over the weekend.6:18And we're just able to like, talk in a very different way.Like when you see somebody all the time, it's, it's almost like you're always talking, but also you're never talking about stuff like, yeah, because there's always more time.And I've really just, like, over the last few weeks, had this new appreciation for her, especially as, like, she started a podcast about local Tarpon Springs politics, as we've discussed in the third episode.6:41Like I just see so much of who I am in who she is.And like, I just mom, you listen to this podcast.I love you and I'm so grateful that you're my mom.And I'm really proud of who you are as a person.6:58And I'm so glad.Like I I claim you with such a severe energy.I'm like, that's my mom.You know that video of Gus Walls at the DNC?That is me.No, I don't.You didn't see it.It was very tender.Kamala Harris's VP pick, Tim Walz, his son, was at the DNC screaming.7:14That's my dad.Yeah.That's me.That's me to Christie always OK.And that was.Also me to Christie.I claim you too, Christie.That's our.Collective Mom.That, that is the mom of Demystify magic.But he sent us a message once and like sent us this really nice thing about you, like you and I and then said and also your mom too.7:36She is mother, I said to her.And I said your mother.She is this this fun fact, this podcast would not exist without Christie so.Wholeheartedly would not exist without Christie.Like no one has ever believed in us the way my fucking mother does.7:53It's yeah.Crazy Town USA like I know everybody thinks that their kids can do everything and I believe that that is true.My mom has the fucking follow through on that.She I believe that you can do anything, and I'm gonna force you to do it.I remember before we even like launched the podcast, she's like, all right, we need to trademark Demystify magic.8:13She was like to start getting merch.She's like, you buy that domain name now?I was like, yes ma'am, 299 a year, you got it.Oh, I bet all.Right now that we've had something to slightly derancify the Rancify magic derancify Eclipse season.8:35That's that's episode title.Episode title OK.I'm going to be very vulnerable with you in this moment, Molly, and tell you that I had to Google just now.You actually watched me Google it, so I'm not.8:51I'm being vulnerable with all of you listening and telling you that we just had a 5 minute interlude about what is the difference between a solar eclipse and a linear eclipse.There are some things that I just accept are true.Yeah, I've never thought about it, to be honest with you.Well, the difference is according to Google, according to NASA science and I.9:10And I trust them.If there's one thing I trust, it's NASA science.During a lunar eclipse, Earth's shadow obscures the moon.During a solar eclipse, the moon blocks the sun.OK.So a lunar eclipse is a shadow, whereas a solar eclipse is like, actually there's an obstruction.9:33Sure.Great.Now that we're all on the same, we're on the same page.We're on the page.I don't really experience an energetic difference between a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse, and I think that's just because they're so close together.I just experienced it as Eclipse.9:49Yeah, I'm like, it's just the season.It's the reason for the season.It's the season of the eclipse.It's the season of the vibes.Someone told me their favorite part about this podcast is when I sing and I just want you to know you've created a monster.10:04She's taking that to heart and she's making it everybody's problem.But I feel like really for me, like the eclipse is just an energy that feels quite chaotic.Yeah, chaotic Twister.Twister vibes.I think of like, you know, the scene in The Wizard of Oz when the tornado's going and the, like, cow and the dog and the door are all like swept up in the tornado energetically.10:31That's what eclipse season feels like to me, usually.Yeah, I think like it's very similar to how like what people fear monger Mercury retrograde to be like is what eclipse season is for me.On the whole, I don't find Mercury retrograde to be all that spooky.10:48This last one.Rough.She came for me, but eclipses and I feel like is more consistently.I notice the energetic differences.There are Mercury retrogrades that go by, and if I didn't work in a metaphysical space, I would never know that Mercury was retrograde.Yeah, yeah.11:04I feel like when I go back in time, I'm like, Oh yeah, that was a time that I felt unhinged.That was a time that I felt unhinged.This was a shitty situation.Like when I go and look at past retrograde or not past retrogrades at past eclipses.So I'm interested to hear from our listeners of like what y'all experienced during the eclipse.11:24Like 'cause we can't be the only ones.I have a love hate with eclipse season because yes, it's chaotic, but I also think it, it's like, OK, I'm gonna, I'm gonna run with this tornado analogy because I just, I see it panning out in the way that I see eclipse season panning out.11:43So if you're familiar with The Wizard of Oz, if you're not familiar with the plot of The Wizard of Oz, I'm sorry.Spoilers ahead.Spoilers.Skip 2 to 3 minutes.But like, OK, so Dorothy lives in this black and white world.11:59She's got the tornado.The tornado turns everything upside down.She gets jettisoned to this new place where she has to go on all these adventures.All these things go wrong, but in the end, she learns that the power is within herself and she learns the value of home, right?12:15So it all comes together in the end.I feel like that's what eclipse season is.It kind of stirs shit up so that you find what's really important, and then it anchors that important thing in your life by getting rid of everything else.So like, I sometimes don't dread eclipse season because if there's something that I feel stuck on that feels stagnant, I know it's going to get whipped up in that tornado and it's going to get solved one way or another.12:40It might not be pretty, might not be fun, but I know at the end of Eclipse season I'll have clarity on it.Yeah, it's like the ultimate version of the shaking the jar analogy that we've used for retrograde, where it's like things that are a little bit, you know, stuck to the bottom of the the energetic spice jar.13:01They come out the little holes in the top.Yeah, they sure do.One thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take Molly's really good metaphor and I'm going to make it much worse and say it again.But what do we do?Yeah, well, this is your survival guide.13:18We're going to, we're going to rapid fire survival guide for you.Because if you're anything like us, you want to be prepared.You want to know?You know where your Ruby slippers are and you wanna dump some water on the Wicked Witch of the West?That is the eclipse energy so that you can make it back home to Oniam.13:35OK, now I'm bringing it around and I'm bringing it home, and it's a good one because now what a perfect metaphor the Wizard of Oz has been.Because if you've seen Wicked.I haven't.Don't spoil it.Oh, spoilers ahead, you've listened to the soundtrack.I have.I have, I guess, about the wicked.13:51Witch of the West.I know she's.The big character Eclipse season.She really just has a bad PR team.She's got a bad PR team.Yes, Eclipses are powerful.Eclipses are life catalysts.Winners write the history books, and Dorothy got to write The Wizard of Oz.14:09Yeah.They don't know alpha, but like we do after we've just talked a lot of shit about Eclipse season, but the clarity, the clarity that it brings.Is Wicked, Yeah.So what you're saying is step one to survive eclipse season is to watch Wicked and to watch The Wizard of Oz?14:25Yes.That's step one.Follow the.Yellow brick road.Honestly good advice for eclipse season.Follow the yellow brick road.Follow your intuition.Take one step forward, one step at a time, one thing.About us is we are gonna make it to a metaphor that makes sense.14:41It might take We are following the yellow brick road.Sometimes it don't look like.It because this.Episode is chaotic.I'm gonna share with you a Wizard of Oz story that I don't think I have shared on the pod before.OK, more skipping again if you haven't.14:57You like the the people who haven't seen the Wizard of Oz.I don't really care about spoilers.Oh thank God this is a Molly.This is a Molly.This is a life, life altering Molly.Stop.Hitting the 32nd button.Stop hitting the 32nd button.We're free, chaotic.This whole fucking episode.I'm so sorry I can't contain myself.15:14This is your first time.Listening to us?Just go listen to the root episode.Just skip this one.Come back later, circle back.Yeah, we're embodying Eclipse energy here so that you know what you're in for.Anyways, when I was 16 I was in The Wizard of Oz, a local community play.15:32Anyways, let's get back to what?Matters.I played the Wicked Witch of the West, of course, and during the tornado scene I had a very quick change right 'cause I had to go from Missus Gulch to all green everywhere and I had to cross backstage.15:49Get on a vintage bike with a tiny, tiny like 3 foot wingspan in the wings to get on that bike, get the momentum and then cross between the stage and the front row.And I could cackle during the tornado scene that was that was what was happening behind the scenes.16:04OK, on stage I was Missus Gulch, the neighbor, the cranky neighbor and I ran backstage, got green, ran all the way to the other side of the theater and crossed.Well, you see, one night I did not get enough momentum before I left the wing and I toppled over on my vintage bike onto a small child, I don't think.16:24You've told this on the podcast, but I did know this story.I forgot about it because I.Am a professional actor.I stayed in character and when the small child looked at me with his little eyes, I went.How get you my pretty.16:42And then I kept going and the boy burst into tears and I didn't ride a bike again for 12 years.And that's what Eclipse season is all about.Sometimes you're the wicked witch falling over, and sometimes you're the small child who gets.16:58Falling on, I just remember I couldn't I every time I think about that kid, I'm like, he's whenever he sees grass, whenever he sees Kermit the Frog, he can't watch.Wicked.He's like, that's not the good guy.I know her.17:15I've seen her with my own eyes and that is not a protagonist.Well, my.Advice to tie that in was make sure you have enough wing space.So true.Make sure there's enough wing space on your tiny bike.17:31To get the momentum right.So don't try to rush things is the message there.Take your time in Eclipse season especially get your feet on the ground.Maybe genuinely this is not a bit.Genuinely revisit the root chakra episode because that is always my go to do during eclipse season, is to come back to the root, come back to my feet on the floor, right?17:53What do we do when we're spinning up in a tornado?We put our feet on the floor, yeah.I think that that's a great way to check in during any sort of turbulent time, which is why you're going to hear us talk about it every.Day Every.Episode for the rest of eternity, probably, if that's not.18:09Our most popular episode by the end of the year, we've got.Beef OK, but I want to walk you guys through my favorite energetic shielding tactic that I think I've touched on lightly, but I really wanna like walk you through it because I think it's a really powerful thing for eclipse season specifically.18:33This is advice that I also often give through Mercury retrograde is that there are people, like, when you're aware of astrology and how it impacts you specifically, right.I think almost the hardest part is encountering people who are experiencing that chaotic energy, but they don't know why.18:56And so for me, like grounding, shielding, and like, almost like a level of energetic protection is my number one piece of advice through eclipse season because you might feel shitty, but at least you know why you feel shitty.Yeah.And so if I can protect my shitty little rancid vibe bubble, then I don't have to pull up.19:16Like I don't have to interact with anybody else's shitty rancid vibe.It's kind of like when you smell like Bo, it's like, all right, at least it's my Bo.But when you smell someone else's Bo, yes.That is exactly what it's like.OK, So what you're gonna do is you're gonna put your feet on the floor.19:34We're gonna start with the grounding.Oh, Molly's still go.She's still laughing.Come on, ground.My feet are on the floor.Get to the root, and I was taught to do this using light, but I want you to sit with your feet on the ground, take a few deep breaths in through the nose, out through the mouth.19:55And I want you to think about what element Earth, air, fire, water, and I'll include energy like light.Just go with your intuition.Go with your gut.Which one appeals to you the most?You can go with your sun sign.20:13You could go with your rising sign, what element those are tied to, or what element just makes you feel the best.What makes you feel the most grounded, what makes you feel the most secure.And when you really lean into that feeling of security and strength and power, I want you to imagine that element coming up from the ground and surrounding you in in a literal bubble.20:42And you're going to infuse that shield, that literal elemental shield with that strength, with that power, with that security and state your intention.No unwanted energy can pass through this barrier.21:01I am protected by this energy.I am safe in this shield, whatever comes to mind.You don't have to use those.That's just what I'll sometimes use.And then let it go, knowing that it's still there.21:19But you don't have to be, you know, looking at it all the time.And that shield is going to protect your energy, keep it in and also keep others out.My mom taught that to me when I was probably in like middle school or early high school.21:35I was like a very anxious, stressed out kid and I had a lot of feelings.As we've talked about on this podcast, famously, I have a lot of feelings and my mom taught me that to help manage my anxiety.21:54So I wouldn't take anything else on from my environment.And I find that to be a really, really helpful tool for those who are experiencing any kind of chaotic energy.So this isn't just for like retrogrades or eclipses.And this is like for any time that you're feeling really overwhelmed, use that same shielding technique.22:14It's my favorite thing ever.I love that.I just did that along with your guidance and I was like, oh, I feel so much better.And also an an analogy came to me.If you struggle to let it go at the end and still feel it there, Here's the analogy that came to me while we were doing that.When you're picking the element, it's kind of like when you start a new Pokémon game and you have to choose between like Bulbasaur, Squirtle, or Charmander.22:41Why did I know you were going to Pokémon?I don't know how.I just knew it.I felt it in my bones.You just picked.You just picked.Based on your gut, you know which Pokémon you wanted and they all have different elements.And then when you're in battle, you just take out your your Pokeball and you say Squirtle go, you know, or whatever.23:00But then you know when you're just walking around, you have it in the little Pokeball in your little pack and it's just so you don't see it, but it's just there.It's just ready, ready to help you.I love that Which which Pokémon would you choose?I always would choose the fire Pokémon, always a Charizard.23:16Really, I always go with whatever intuition nudges me on.I didn't have a set one, I would just go with like you didn't.Have a favorite?I didn't.No, I'm, I'm not gonna lie to you.I just went with like I, I would seriously, I think this is like the first intuition test I ever gave myself is I would literally sit there and be like, which one feels right?23:36Yeah.That one my intuition just always said fire.That makes sense.I'm fighting.Fire with fire.Always.Yeah, Yeah.Well, since you guided a shielding practice, I thought, wouldn't it be fun if I guided a cleansing practice?23:52So at the end of your day, you can clear off the rancid vibes of the eclipse and just come back to your own energy.Yeah, everything.That your shield caught during the day, We're going to wash it off together.Wash it off.24:08You can do this in the shower, you can do this in the bath.You can do this while lying in bed.You could do this wherever you want.Drinking a glass of water is usually my go to because I'm a dehydrated bitch.But go ahead and close your eyes if you want to.24:26If you're driving, don't close your eyes.But when you do this, feel your feet on the ground or whatever is supporting your feet and above your head.24:42Imagine you had like a great bright light, like a spotlight just shining down into your crown and ask that any of your energy that you may have left behind, different places with different people throughout your day, ask it to return home to you purified by that light.25:06So it comes in, gets purified by the light, comes down into the crown, starts to fill your body.And as you fill with your energy, feel anyone else's energy, anyone's energy that you may have picked up throughout your day.25:26Feel that drop out of your body into the earth through your feet.So it's like.Any energy that's not yours is being pushed out of you while you fill with your energy.And if you're a visual person, you might imagine this is like two different colors of light, imagining other people's energy as one color, your energy as another.25:54Maybe you notice this as sensation.Does your lower half of your body feel heavier as you release that energy?As the.Tension in your shoulders release as you call your energy back.And then take one more deep breath in and open your mouth to clear out any other clutter.26:23And you can do that for as long as you want.I like to do it when I'm in the bath, in the shower.Good one.While you're washing your hair or before bed.Excellent.I loved that, love it.OK, we have a couple other tips that I think we're just going to rapid fire through because we have yapped at you for long enough, I fear.26:47Long enough, let's do it.Let's rapid fire my favorite.Thing to do when I know that something kind of energetically turbulent is coming up is I will pay attention to when I feel really good and I will make a candle I'll use like a seven day or even a 14 day candle.27:05Those are a little bit harder to get your hands on, but they're like beefy.And I will do all of my ritual work for that turbulent time ahead of time.And so I'll imbue this candle with like all of my best energy, right?Like this is my protected energy, my cleansing energy, kind of like a, it's like 3 in one shampoo.27:25Yeah.Is.The vibe.You know, so I know we're.Really going for it, like anything that I will need for this period of time.I am putting it in this candle, right?And I'm pulling out the paint pens.I'm writing on the glass like we are going full send, like all the witchiness I can muster for this candle.27:47Because what I really like to do in times like this is I take a break.Yeah.Like I'm not doing ritual work in this time.Like if I feel shitty, I'm just letting it go.Yeah.What I am doing is I'm lighting that candle and it's like it's my, I'm doing my spiritual meal prep.28:05You know, I'm eating my freezer meals.Yeah, 'cause there is like some guidance out there that during eclipse season you may want to reconsider charging your crystals or doing rituals or making moon water.28:23I don't think it's like the worst thing ever.You know, sometimes people make it seem like you're gonna die if you do any of those things or they're gonna have to explode or whatever, but really it's just a matter of like, you'll never be able.To use them again, yeah.Really, it's just a matter of like, how do you feel and do you want to carry that energy with you, right, 'cause that's what's happening when you're putting your crystals out under the moon or making moon water is you're, you're harnessing that energy and of that cycle.28:48And so I tend to skip those things too.I focus much more on the mundane, right?Like cleaning my house, going to bed early, doing things that feel good and just letting, letting my practice be.I mean, I feel like my practice is like 90% mundane at this point.But it's like I, I notice right before the eclipse, I tend to drop off a lot of like the habits that make me feel really good.29:13And so I tend to focus on like, OK, how can I fill my cup so that I can go through this process?So it's like, do I need more movement?Do I need more sleep?Do I need more very smart, you know, like what, what do I need to get through this and let that be my magic?29:28Yeah.I think that that is the easiest way to keep spiritual momentum is to like almost detached, like the idea of the magic being something separate from life.Oh, just.29:45Like Dorothy realizes in The Wizard of Oz.It was all very relevant the whole time she had.The power to go home within her through the entire movie.Oh, we're good.I've got chills.30:02We.Are so good at podcasting I think.We need to end it there, I don't think.I agree on from.There.Fuck these.Grounding stones.And fuck this idea of grace for yourself and others that I had written down.Fuck it.Fuck it, just be like Dorothy, click your heels together.30:20There's no place like home.There is.No place like home and home it's it's within you, just like the magic is within you and that's within you and that is that.On that we have nothing.Magic, baby.You are the magic.Baby, don't let.Anything eclipse that?Yeah.30:37OK, we love you.Bye.Thanks for listening to Demystify Magic with Molly and Madison.If you wanna learn more about us, you can find all our links in the show notes.We'd love to.Know what you think of today's episode?So drop us a review or give us a shout out on social media.And don't forget to let us know your magical moment of the week, OK?30:54Love you.Bye.