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welcome 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 so if that's what
you're into find a cozy spot take a deep
breath and let's demystify some magic
howdy dudy friends howdy duty
it's a full-on howdy duty day isn't it
it really is in more ways than one if
you are looking for a reason to join our
Patreon just know that as we sit and
record in this moment I am waiting for
the police to arrive to my
residence and we are recording Akamom
right after
this i can't wait can't wait to hear the
story uh-huh but but we're not here to
talk about that we're going to talk
about air
and I need some
so it's a good thing we're talking about
it today yeah yep yep we're talking
about the element of air this is part
two of our element series taking you
back to elementary school i hate it here
still if you missed the Earth episode
you should go listen to that and then
come back here to air this is just our
new way of saying start at the root yeah
yeah yeah yeah it really It really is go
touch grass go touch grass go get
grounded before you come talk to me
about the air
oh you know what they say a basketball
player can only get air when they jump
from the earth
what nobody says that i was going to say
sometimes I really do just go with you
into that great night like I just
believe you i'm like sure people say
that
that's a thing totally for certainly it
reminds me of when we were walking
around Disney World and I was just
spouting facts and Anthony was like "How
do you know all these facts?" And I was
like "About 30% of them are made up."
Just corroding trust one moment at a
time
oh anyways before we dive into air
Madison what was your magic moment okay
my magic moment I don't quite know if
this constitutes a magic moment it's
mostly just something bonkers that
happened
that I'm like it has to
be psychicness and so I'm telling it to
you
so as you know if you listen to the
Earth episode Spellcfter recently
celebrated its first birthday which was
very exciting and a part of that is we
gave away this huge gorgeous green event
tower mhm and any purchase that was made
during that weekend was eligible it
counted as an entry you know and so at
the end of the weekend I went through
our like processing system and looked at
the order number the first order that
was eligible and then the last order
that was eligible and so I looked at
those two numbers and I just looked to
Anthony on that Monday morning and I
said "Give me a number between this
number and this number." And he just
spouts off a number off the top of his
head and the
only requirement was that you had to
have like an email address or a phone
number attached to your order like we
had to have a way to contact you like
you basically had to get a receipt you
know yeah
and
so my only rule is that like staff can't
win
and Anthony just like gives me a random
number whatever off the top of his head
i look it up and I go "Well we we have
to choose another." He goes "Why we have
to choose another." He had given
inadvertently his own [ __ ]
number in between like hundreds of
numbers and we both didn't even realize
that he had bought anything during the
weekend he had to buy like a few chime
candles for ritual that we had on
Saturday night and so he just like
grabbed them really quick his card are
like when our system knows that like his
card is attached to his email
address and so his name was on it and I
was like "You've got to be [ __ ]
kidding me that is the wildest thing
I've ever heard like you are so psychic
so sorry I love you but you can't have
this tower." He's never going to shut up
about that either that's the best part
it was so
funny what was your magic moment oh what
was my magic moment okay I went to So I
went on this big trip i went to San
Antonio for an event and then flew to
Reno to see my best friend who moved out
there and then we drove to Santa Cruz
okay so I had to wake up for my flight
from San Antonio to Reno at like 3:30
a.m central time and then go to Pacific
time okay so just keep that in mind i am
like 2 hours behind what the actual time
is okay I'm doing math and then we drove
5 and a half hours to Santa Cruz okay so
I woke up at 3:30
a.m i got like four hours of sleep went
on two
airplanes and then drove five and a half
hours got to Santa Cruz got some food in
me and it was like the sun was just
setting and we wanted to go on a walk on
the beach and I'm like delirious i'm
like my brain is not working i'm like
dizzy from the plane you know
we decide to walk on the beach and we
walk over these rocks and that was a bad
idea because again I am dizzy from the
plane i am over tired and it is now
getting dark out so I fall directly on
my knee oh good good good good and it it
was like a slow fall like my hands
didn't even brace myself like I was like
what's
happening and then because I fell on my
knee I start to cry
and I'm just like I'm so tired i'm so
sorry i'm tired right now it's like 9:00
at night in my brain and I just have
this like little meltdown mhm and then
look up there is magic in a little
meltdown there is but that wasn't the
magic moment the magic moment was I
looked up and sitting directly next to
where my knee landed was a hag stone
beautiful i've never found a hag stone
so I picked that up and I went "This is
going to be my magic moment." It's like
when you give a kid a lollipop after
they sprain like after they scrape their
knee yeah mhm exactly and it was a
honker honker hag stone too so and I
didn't see another one the entire trip
so seemed like the universe was like
"You know what you get knocked down you
get a little treat." You get back up
again mhm mhm mhm love that love that
anyway let's talk about air let's talk
about air i feel like a joke is like
right on the tip of my tongue and I
can't parse it out about air i like it's
like I feel like I'm missing something
in my own brain you feel a little bit
like an airhead oh [ __ ] you
sorry that was too much guys it's been a
day oh so air is a funny one as we
talked about in the last episode we are
approaching these elements through the
lens of witchcraft tarot the chakras
traditional Chinese medicine just all
the different avenues that we are versed
in and it's funny because I said this I
said to Madison I was like I really want
to talk about the traditional Chinese
medicine approach of these elements and
she was like great I love that and I was
like okay never mind because air is not
an element DCM
great great great love that yeah so the
closest kind of like overlap would be
the metal element which corresponds with
the breath the lungs i remember this
here's my little Here's my little
pneumonic that I I I teased y'all on
last week but I remember air as metal
because heavy metalists have strong
lungs excellent one well done thank you
good job thank you and that's it that's
the episode thanks so much guys we'll
see you next week for fire but seriously
that that really helps me remember that
metal air strong lungs also I love that
we're starting this episode about air
about with metal yeah we're like "Yeah I
I hear you about air i see that." And I
raise you metal metal how do we feel
about that guys how do we feel about
metal there's overlap okay so the metal
element is tied to the lungs and the
large intestine and it really represents
sort of if we think about the organs in
in Chinese medicine less about the
actual physical tissues and more about
their
functions the lungs have a couple
different functions right it represents
purification right like purifying the
air carbon dioxide doing that little
transformation right it represents
boundaries
the breath is really this boundary
between like the outside coming in the
germs outside coming into our system it
represents letting go right the exhale
it represents communication and
emotional expression which is so deeply
tied to how we are breathing we've
talked about before that stress response
or that relaxation response impacts the
way that we're breathing the depth of
our breath the speed of our breath etc
and so when we think about the air
element or the metal element in this
case we can see it as this opportunity
to create space this opportunity to let
go of the things that are kind of in our
way clouding things up creating clutter
in the mind the energy or the body and
let that go to create spaciousness and
clarity what's so interesting about
looking at the metal element in TCM and
then switching over to the heart chakra
which corresponds with the element of
air is that both of them have their
they're
intertwining with
grief right the heart holds grief the
lungs right if we if we think about how
it feels when we grieve something it's
often like a heaviness in the chest and
that shows up in the lungs as well and
so one of the things that we can kind of
take away from this element is both
sides of that grief so in order to
grieve
something we have to like have once
loved it and at some point we have to
let it go right so that tie back to
letting go of the things that are
pulling us down dragging us down so that
we can create space is a very poignant
throughine in the air element i think
it's so interesting that you bring up
the concept of grief with air and with
the heart like I didn't know that those
two things were connected like I didn't
know that the heart was connected to the
element of air air is the element that I
feel the least connected to m
and like it feels so silly to say like
and I've had a really hard time with
grief because I don't know that I've
ever met anyone that's like "Yeah I feel
really good about grief grief is really
easy for me." But I've been very lucky
to not experience a ton of heavy grief
in my life and so when it happened it
felt like it hit me like a like a train
and it was something that I obviously
struggled with a lot and so to hear that
those things are connected I just think
that's really interesting mhm yeah yeah
because I struggle with air yeah and
it's it's interesting because a lot of
times we think of air connected to
clarity right when we have space we have
clarity but I think grief often brings
clarity too right you didn't you don't
know how you don't know what you got
till it's gone you know that line uhhuh
that's one people really do say yeah
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and we're back so tell me about your
experience with air tell me about
witchcraft so in the realm of like
paganism witchcraft whatever there's a
lot of overlap with how you've described
metal air is really big for
communication intellect that clarity
it's really tied to the breath but I
also see air as it's really tied to the
truth which is I'm telling you I
struggle so much with air i'm like I'm
actually a huge liar i love to lie
no it's just a suit that I don't always
super connect with or an element i say
suit because it's connected to the suit
of swords which is the suit that I
struggle with but swords for me when
they come out really heavily in a
reading it is really tied to that idea
of boundaries
and one thing about me that might be
something I struggle
with and so especially if you're someone
who like dabbles in energy work
especially like with other people you
might find that the elements that are
most like difficult for you to create
balance within your own life might be
where it's difficult for you to help
others find balance cuz sometimes I'll
like pull it's specifically the court
cards with swords where I really have to
like take a second and reset or have to
take a breath get it yeah a breath
because it's all about breath
i can make jokes too on this podcast i
didn't want to meddle in your joke by I
hate it
here but sometimes I have to sit for a
second and go like okay what does this
what is this trying to say here what are
we trying to say here and what I think
is so funny is that my card of the year
for 2025 is the queen of swords oh and
I've really been trying to dive deeper
into the idea of air and into that
source energy to like see what it's
there to teach me because sometimes I
look at air and I'm like "Yeah the
breeze it's great love her what else is
there?" Air is also really tied to the
idea of cleansing
in witchcraft which I that's where I can
I can make I can make the connection of
like okay a breeze is cleansing that's
why one of my favorite ways like was
this a thing that you did in high school
were you like a windows down are I guess
it doesn't have to be in high school for
me this is like a deep high school
memory you actually can only roll the
windows down in your car in high school
those are the rules i mean back when I
was in high school we literally rolled
the windows down no
but like for me that's so indicative of
like a specific place in time for me of
like rolling all the windows down in the
car music all the way up like the
ultimate cleanse sounds and air oh there
are some things that are meant to be
private
oh mine was Wham's last Christmas and it
was not Christmas time yeah I very
distinctly remember it that's hysterical
no for me it was like it was my friend
Janelle and I and it was always like
unreleased Iggy Aazelia Soundcloud music
mhm yeah that tracks
i don't know what that says about me not
sure either
listen I'll send you links slide into
our DMs not really i think they're all
deleted off the internet that was like
10 years ago but I think with cleansing
that's the easiest way to bring the
element of air into your practice is a
cleansing breath or even like using
incense
anything that can kind of like I don't
know a better word for it other than
like manipulate the air that's one of my
favorite things about incense is like
just watching the smoke and seeing how
it interacts with the world around it it
feels like a manipulation of the air mhm
yeah for sure it'll be interesting
knowing that that is your card of the
year though and now you've made that
connection with grief yeah oh for sure
that's kind of bonkers yeah the way that
And what's so funny is they've like come
out so hard for me in readings that I've
done for myself and that I've done for
other people mhm i just see like swords
energy that sounded so fake i'm sorry
i'm sorry shall we talk about some
rituals to connect with the air element
let's do it i would love nothing more i
kind of touched on it a little bit with
the incense but any kind of like heavy
smoke cleansing is a really easy ritual
to interact with the element of air and
I really love to like pull out all the
stops for a smoke cleanse just because
it is so low effort and so if you've got
a cauldron flaunt it you know fill that
baby up swing it around mhm i also
heavily relate sound cleansing to air
because in my mind I'm like it has to
travel through the air yeah yeah yeah
you know that tracks for me that makes
sense that those pieces go together in
your brain love that yeah yeah i think
so so like turn on your favorite Iggy
Aelia unreleased track off Soundcloud
wham's Last Christmas it is such a good
song it really is a bop there's another
podcast that I listen to A Date with
Deline where every year they play this
game at Christmas it's called
Whamageddon yes and it's where you go as
long as you try to go as long as you can
without hearing it i would lose because
I listen to it on the off season yeah
you lose before it even starts yeah like
I I don't want to play that game because
I would be sad if I went an entire
season without listening to Wham i did
try to play it this past year and I was
like "Oh this is kind of disappointing."
Yeah you're missing something it's like
you're missing something like let's play
that but with the little drummer boy no
that's a good one agreed with Silent
Night that song yeah you know or Baby
It's Cold Outside oh no i do love that
one i can't help it feminism 236
oh my god that is my toxic trait that I
do really like Baby It's Cold Outside
this podcast is over you've never looked
at me with such disappointment
i'm sorry i I didn't say it was right so
back to air um we're going to have to
clear the air after this podcast
oh another tool to connect with air is
with your breath shocking I know but I
know a lot of times like breath work can
feel overwhelming but I think simple
breath work practices are often the most
powerful like one that I have been doing
lately is you just breathe naturally and
just bring your awareness to the space
between each breath so at the top of
your inhale there's a little pause you
just notice that and then at the bottom
of your exhale there's a little pause
you notice that you just go back and
forth between the little pauses and that
one's great because it emphasizes that
air element of the breath but also that
spaciousness that we talked about and in
the process of tuning into that part of
your breath you get clarity in your mind
so it's a it's a triple whammy me but
um a great way to connect to air this is
also like a great way to connect to any
of the elements and especially like
earth as well is doing any sort of
energy work outside doing any sort of
spell work outside feeling the breeze on
you that's a great way to call in air
mhm but also things that represent air
like feathers
i love a feather i love a feather on an
altar yeah the sound of birds
do you know the sound of birds like
physiologically initiates a relaxation
response in the body even if they're not
real birds really listening to bird
sounds can create that spaciousness in
the mind wow let go of your stress mhm
that's really cool no I had no idea if
you want to connect with the air element
first thing in the morning change your
alarm sound to bird sounds i'm on it
there I go there you go well we really
breezed through that one huh
oh it feels good to get I don't want to
air our dirty laundry but we did have a
a lot going on during this episode so
hopefully it makes coherent sense yeah
the police are still on their way so I
think we did it i think we did it
looking forward to They're here oh my
god perfect timing they're here timing
okay well we'll see you next week for
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