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welcome to Demystify Magic with Molly and Madison i'm Molly a former skeptic turned full-time energy healer andteacher 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 bothscience and spirituality so that you can find the moments of magic in your everyday life and create an intentionalspiritual practice so if that's what you're into find a cozy spot take a deep breath and let's demystify somemagic howdy duty friends howdy and a duty friends welcome back to yourregularly scheduled programming we had a little bit of a a diversion from your usual podcastenjoyment last week for our 100th episode welcome to episode 101hey how are you feeling how are we feeling in this in this post milestone world we're living in i'm feeling greatum I'm feeling a little bit worried because depending on how the next couple of days goes I may have to live streamSweat to the Oldies 3 by Richard Simmons because I did promise that if we got a 100 paid subs on our Patreon I would dothat so if you would like to Sweat to the Oldies with me and also listen to our bonus podcast and also support thisshow head to demystifymagic.com check out our merch check out our Patreon we're having a lot of fun over there westarted a group chat that is just absolutely chaotic i'm having so much fun we got a message this is how much Iknow about Patreon is that we got a message in this group chat that exists on our Patreon like just it's like afeature i thought this Oh well again shows you what I know somebody messagedin that group chat i was like "Oh somebody's sending us a message." And I responded as if I was only talking to that one person and I did maybe defamethe classic movie Grace sorry everybody i know we've got strong opinions on that onebut we are getting right back into it and we are launching into a new seriesi'm really excited we're taking you back to elementary school no I'm Nope and nowit's canceled now I'm not doing it anymore i just slide that in because Madisonwouldn't let me make that the title of the series fully she said that should we call it that and I said "No that's notwhat we should call it at all." But we are gonna go through thefive elements and talk about how they show up in our world how they show up in our bodies how they show up magicallyenergetically how you can connect with them how they're connected to the tarot and all kinds of other fun stuff and Ican't wait so so we don't have to wait molly what was your magic moment this week okay my magic moment was mybirthday was on the 16th of March everybody say "Happy birthday Molly." Happy birthday Molly and I spent it inSan Antonio because I went for an event that I dominated but I'm sure that'll bemy next magic moment that I tell you about but it was so fun because I got to meet a bunch of graduates of my trainingprogram and listeners of this pod hia friends i know you're listening and theythrew me a little birthday party at this witch shop in San Antonio and it was so fun they made me cookies and I got areading and I just got to meet and chill and hang out and it was really nice because had they not done that I wouldhave spent my birthday in a hotel room by myself which also would have been fun but not nearly as cool and exciting andI just felt so loved and so supported by not just this group but also like all ofall of you listening because you all sent me really nice messages and all day my DMs were blown up and I just I lovedit so thank you a and Madison got me the best presentever we haven't announced this on the pod yet i know calling it the best present ever is a stretch some might sayit depends on who you ask i registered Molly and I for a [ __ ] halfmarathon okay we have to tell a story about how this came about because it was a crazy moment it is it is like acollective magic moment it's like a you and I magic moment so this is a bonus magic moment for you all bonus magic moment okay so couple weeks ago I wasdriving somewhere and I just had a thought in my head like "Oh maybe I should run a half marathon in November." I've done them in the past don't ask mewhy November specifically popped in my head but I was just like "Yeah that could be interesting that would really motivate me you know cuz I'm focused onmy health this year and then I completely forgot that I had that thought until a couple of hours later inwhich I messaged you because the night before I had been thinking I really wantto get back into running but I am a person that like I need a goal i need something to go for i used to be a bigrunner i like was kind of half-heartedly getting myself in the mental state tolike train for a marathon that's something that I've always wanted to do that's like a lofty big one day goal butI just looked up half marathons near me and there is one in St pete on November 16th and so I texted Molly the next dayin the afternoon cuz I just kept refresh like I just kept going back to the page and just like reading about it and likereading where it goes through it like passes on my favorite places in St pete and I texted Molly and I was like Ithink I'm going to sign up for a half marathon like is that bonkers is that bonkers even though like I haven't running no you said I'm going to I'mthinking about doing a half marathon in November is that bonkers and you said specifically said that idon't I really I thought you found out when I sent you the link i believe it though that's wild no because that's whyI was like "Oh my god I want to run a half marathon in November." And so Isaid "Well your birthday presents handled." Yep and the flights were extremely cheap and convenient so andyour dad was down for a visit so it was like all the stars aligned it was like so perfect it was so funny the stars aligned anyways if you want to hearabout our endeavors running I'm sure we'll talk about it over on Patreon i believe that to be true because onething I know is when I start running I don't shut up i'm going to tell you about itwhat was your magic moment my magic moment is that it was Spellcrafter's birthdayoh my god this past weekend my baby turned one and it was just likesuch a wonderful weekend you know I like posted about this on Instagram but ourfirst year in business like there was just so much that was so heavy we had tobe closed so much we had like multiple you know devastating hurricanes that you guys have heard me talk about and then[ __ ] Linda died and so it was like really hard for me to get in the brainspace of celebrating you know it had been like just barely 6 weeks since she passedthat we were having this party and Ilike all leading up to it I was talking to Anthony of like really just I don't want to do this i don't want to do thismhm and I did it anyways because you know there are just sometimes likesometimes you just got to do the thing and I knew that she would want me to too you know and so I bought the balloons Igot the treats I scheduled the emails we did the sale andlike money aside like financial success aside the people who showed up andshowed out for us just like making it a priority to like come in and leave us comments andsend us messages and just like say what the store means to them that's why I knew it was going to be worth doing mhmand it was just such a lovely time and we also had our OAR ritual which was thefirst ritual that we've like had without Linda and Anthony led it and it was really beautiful and reallylovely and like there was just a lot of space being held I guess like we werejust be able to be so honest and say like our friend used to lead these andnow she's no longer here and so like we made a candle for her all together as like a part of the ritual and you knowjust like had the space to honor her in a in a in a sacred space and everybodywas really like supportive and excited about it i don't know it was just it was exactly what it needed to be and I thinkthat is what made it so magic is that I felt like she was there and she was likebringing people to me so I would know that we had done the right thing it was just so good and I'm so grateful so manyof you guys listening like placed online orders and sent us messages and wellwwishes and it just means a lot to me you guys mean a lot to me the store means a lot to me the St pete community means alot to me i just I was like "Oh I am the luckiest person ever." You mean a lot to me you mean a lot tome stop don't cry i've been an emotional wreck don't cry don't cry don't crydon't cry for me argentina don't know it oh god eva huh evita Peron[Music] peronita i don't actually know the words it's been years anyway let's uh let'sset the stage set the stage speaking of stages let's set this one let's set thisonehow's that first segue we're so good at a transition one thing about us we are going full force into a transition nothoughts just vibes no thoughts just vibes all right all right allright so here's our here's our plan for talking about the elements is we reallywant to approach this through the lenses of the different practices that we areconnected to and called to and so we are going to be kind of creating like afusion instead of just talking about the element from one perspective we're going to talk about it from a couple ofdifferent perspectives we're going to talk about it through the lens of traditional Chinese medicine even thoughthey don't directly overlap with like the western witchcraft version of elements I think it's really helpful tohave that kind of perspective we're also going to tie in the chakras so if you've listened to that series or if you wantto dive deeper into an element you can refer back to that series we're going to talk about them through the lens oftarot crystals and we're going to give you some rituals to connect with each element yeah I'm specifically reallyexcited i love when you talk about traditional Chinese medicine and I think what I'm like I'm weirdly more excitedthat there's not a ton of overlap like it gives us this really beautiful segueto talk about something that you know a lot about that I know next to nothing and sowe're going to go a little bit outside the scope of what you would originally think of when you think about each ofthese elements and kind of like we're going to show you where there is overlap and where there isn't and I'm just Idon't know i think that that's going to be really fun i'm excited about it and so we we had a little bit of a debate onwhich element we should start with but Molly made the excellent pointof we always say to start with the root and so we are starting with the element that is most closely tied to the rootwhich will surprise none of you is earth okay tiny detour because this is toogood not to share this episode is sponsored by Conscious Seed okay real talk if you've everforgotten Mercury retrograde again and wondered why your life suddenly feels like a cursed group project then it'stime to let Chelsea Joel be your cosmic Google calendar fairy chelsea who you might remember from our astrologyepisode is the magical force behind conscious seed and she created a digital astrology calendar that syncs with yourGoogle calendar so your astrology is literally integrated into your dailylife no more guessing when Venus is doing a backflip or when it's time to stop texting your ex it's like a lovenote from the universe that actually reminds you when to schedule rest reflection and that new moon ritual youswore you'd do and it's not just dates it's guidance insight and honestly amindfulness tool disguised as a calendar use code demystify magic for 10% off atthe link in the description of this episode and get synced with the stars on purpose your nervous system will thankyou your ex probably not thank you again to Conscious Seed for sponsoring thisepisode let's re-enter the chat shall we yes so Earth as you may be able to guessbased on its name is associated with nature so everything from the ground thesoil to plant life vegetation etc and so we can think of the elementof earth as like creating stability and nourishment and from traditional Chinesemedicine perspective we can think of the earth element as representing our ability to digestboth nutrients and also information oh that's interestingdigestion in like multiple perspectives i had not thought about that mhm yeahbecause the whole like premise of traditional Chinese medicine is that we are a microcosm of the macrocosm sowhat's happening in our body is reflected in our mind is reflected in nature and so yeah sometimes when wehave like struggles digesting information we can feel kind of like ourdigestion slow down and our motivation becomes sluggish so earth element isconnected to the organs of the spleen and the stomach and I always rememberthe spleen as like the motivation organ in traditional Chinese medicine it's like your get up and goit's like the the organ that's depleted when you feel kind of blah when you feellike you're struggling to do the thing we look to the spleen and oftentimes what the spleenneeds is nourishment and in order to truly like absorb nutrients from ourenvironment from our community from our food we need to be able to digest andtransform that support and those nutrients and in order to digest andtransform those nutrients we need to be on solid ground remember when we talkedabout in the root chakra episode and probably in every episode of this podcast ever at some point I havementioned to you that your brain doesn't know the difference between something that stresses you out and a tigerchasing you it literally thinks you're being chased by a tiger and when that happens all of your resources getdiverted to survival and so your digestion literally slows down when wedo not feel stable when we do not feel that sense of security when we don't feel grounded we are physically unableto digest and absorb nutrients again nutrients could be from the earth itselffrom our environment from our food but also love and support of others of ourselves and so that can lead to thissluggishness of the spleen and this decrease in motivation and so one of theways that we can think about connecting with the earth is activities thatpromote that grounding and stability so spending time in nature getting close tothe ground literally like lying on the floor sitting on the floor if you are a floor sitter you know practicing yogadoing mindfulness activities and then in terms of food think about things thatgrow in the earth so root vegetables carrots squash potatoes things that growreally really close to the soil like grains thinking about those things thatreally create that stability in our uh our meals right the the the carbystarchy vegetables that sort of round out the meal and make it feel reallynourishing are super super important to the spleen the stomach and the earth element and when we are working inbalance with the earth element we can feel more centered grounded and contentversus when we're out of balance this can show up as worry overthinking and anxiety i actually really love thatwe're starting with earth because I feel like this is an element that has a lot of overlap with TCM and so really quickcan you say what the five elements are in traditional Chinese medicine just so going forward everybody knows like whatwill and won't be you know yes so the five elements are wood fire earth metaland water and they represent cycles and relationships rather than likeindividual forces i just think it's so cool that metal and wood are considered elements i don'tknow i like that just feels very like it's so tactilewhich I think is something that makes like the elements hard to connect with on like a spiritual level on a like in amagical way because they are outside of earth and water i guess really it's justlike fire and air but like they are just so to me they feel almost like separateyeah and there's like I I've come up with really cool ways to like rememberwhat the associations are based on them i'm not going to spoil it for you but when we get to the air episode you willknow what I mean cliffhanger love it i found myself really starting toconnect with the idea of the elements through tarot that was like my firstunderstanding of how they show up other than like their physical representationyou know to me before I really started learning and understanding tarot earthwas sticking my fingers in the dirt you know like that's what earth meant rather than this like understanding ofearth is what supports you it's what keeps you upright it's literally what isunderneath your feet that makes it possible for you to take that next step and so the in tarot the suit ofpentacles is what's associated with earth and when there's a lot ofpentacles in a tarot spread it is very similar to what you were talking about in TCM it's very much in that groundedenergy but it's also really tied to anything that's like in the physical mhm anything that you can touch anythingthat's like in your real life especially when you're like when you're divining when you're reading tarot a lot of whatyou're talking about is often mental or spiritual you know it's about your innerworld is kind of how I would describe a lot of like most of the other elementsearth is everything in your outer world yeah so like your home your financesyour shoes deeply tied to money and the idea of abundancemhm if you go through like a tarot book and read the descriptions of each of thecards in the suit of pentacles there will be the like there will be moneywill be mentioned more often than not yeah because when we go back to that idea of supportand nourishment and nourishment that is so deeply tied to your financesmhm yeah and if we hearken back to the root chakra which is so tied to theelement of earth as well that is so deeply tied to finances as well it'sthat sense of safety security and belonging i have what I need my basic needs are met i do not have to worryabout where my next meal is coming from or whether my house or car is going to be repossessed yeah and I feel like youreally can't discuss one without the other like you can't really leave moneyoutside of that conversation about Earth because they're so deeply tied to one another in our society like weunfortunately cannot opt out of this capitalist system that we live in andtherefore money is tied to like our is tied to our rootyeah and I think it's interesting too as we're talking about money and how it shows up in this element and hearkeningback to the spleen and our like motivation our ability to get up and gooften times money is an element of that and I think we can fall out of balancebased on our relationship to money right if I'm afraid of having too much moneythat's going to squash my motivation to work but if I want you know all the money and allthe fame and all the power then that's going to tip that balance in the opposite direction mhm and so a lot oftimes when it comes to working with the earth I think one of the really reallytangible ways to see where we are in that spectrum of balance versus imbalance is to just check in with ourrelationship to money and I don't say that as like check in with your bank account cuz really it like it we're nottalking about the number that's in that bank account we're talking about how you feel about whatever that number is doyou feel fear do you feel worry do you feel possibility do you feel curiositydo you feel peace do you feel excitement motivation right like anger whatever thecase may be really noticing that relationship to money can help you startto recognize where the ground feels a little bit shaky underneath your feet where your foundation feels a little bitinstable yeah and so for me when that kind of like earth energy comes up a lotfor me I really like to pay attention to the specifically going back to tarot Ilike to pay attention in my readings to where the scales are tipped in terms ofsuits m and so if I'm seeing a lot of like heavy pentacles energy it might betime for me to like take a look at my own what my scarcity mindset might looklike where I might need a little bit more grounding where I might be searching for a little bit more securityand how I can support myself to feeling a little bit more like energetically protected even and physically protectedwhere am I feeling like my safety is at risk where am I feeling where am I feeling out of balance at home you knowmhm yeah i think so much of working with the earth element can be tied up in that word you said that protection but alsoboundaries mhm boundaries are a form of protection energetically and otherwisebut I think when when it comes to how do I work with the earth element or how do I come back into balance it's aboutthose boundaries you know where where are you experiencing that you know outof alignment feeling maybe it's the scarcity maybe it's something at home maybe it's you know something as simpleas like skipping lunch can throw your earth energy out because Mhm you knowyou need that nourishment to keep going and and if you don't eat then you feel that brain fog you have that lack ofmotivation right uh you feel like that that worry can start to creep in that anxiety becomes so much easier toconnect with and so we can look at like our rituals and our boundaries aroundtaking lunch like how many of you listening don't take a lunch break or ifyou do you don't clock out for it or if you do you sit at your desk and you work through lunch uh I know Madison and Iliterally both did that today so we're not calling anyone out yeah as there's literally a halfeaten pre-made meal fromthe grocery store sitting next to my laptop in this moment i I have a bowl of Lucky Charms next to We're doing greatwe are doing great for me I think boundaries are so deeplytied to both earth and air as elementsand earth to me is like the the physical boundary you know people couldsay that walls are boundaries you know like my walls are here to say the walls of my home are here to say you cannotenter you know and so it is like those those boundaries around I will I will nourishmyself i will care for myself today i feel like I really channeled some earthenergy cuz I washed my [ __ ] hair when I really didn't want to you know proud of you i will I will care for myself iwill tend to myself mhm where air we'll talk about this a little bit more in that episode is sotied to communication that's the verbal boundary and I think that like so much of whatwe're going to talk about is going to be the interconnectedness of those elements because you can't have one without theother you know you can't have the the the verbal boundary without the physicalboundary and you can't have the physical without the verbal i mean you can it just doesn't work very well yeah youcan't set the verbal boundary unless you feel safe and taken care of and you can't feel safe and taken care of ifyou're not setting verbal boundaries yes exactly so let's throw some ideas of howyou can work with the earth element maybe if you're listening to this in real time or if you listen to us once aweek you spend the next week connecting with the earth and then moving on to thenext element and really like embodying some of these practices in your day-to-day life i love that idea likethat little challenge that's your challenge it's Earth Week it's Earth Week everyone it's Earth isn't there anEarth Day in April i think it's late April we're early we really We [ __ ]this timing up we [ __ ] this up when is Earth Day i'm googling guys 24th i'm going to say April 24th that's my guessi think April 21st ah damn it april 22nd 2025 we areso close all right we're in between well you will be fully prepared for Earth Dayyes exactly you'll have so much practice by Earth Day don't even worry about it yeah so as we said some things that youcan do in your routines some kitchen magic is starting to bring in some ofthose root vegetables starchy vegetables those vegetables that growclose to the earth also like just throwing some fresh herbs on food orsalt salt is one of my favorite favorite favorite ingredients to connect with theearth element like literally if you feel like spacey and disconnected from your body eat a pretzel well cuz it comesstraight from a cave what's more earthy than that earth and it's tied to protection easy peasy i also am going tostate the obvious and say put your feet in the ground put your hands in the dirtgo plant something yeah that especially right now wheresome of us are experiencing spring you might start your little seedlings ormaybe tend to your yard or your garden or your house plants i really lovewhenever I feel really out of my earth element it shows up in my house plants and I repot them or I do like some sortof fertilization or like some sort of like care to the earth within my home i love fertilization as a way to connectwith earth like truly stimulating nourishing wait I have a great practicethat someone inspired me the other day hit me a non witch no I won't i can'tthey're far away thank you a non witch told me that she puts eggshells inher house plants yes it's a really great fertilizer and I was like it's a greatfertilizer but also eggshells for protection and to represent boundaries perfect earth element ritual love thatnothing earthier than an eggshell nothing earthier than an eggshell we've got some crystal wrecks for you three ofmy favorite crystals to connect with the earth smoky quartz is my number one it'sgreat for dispelling that worry those like negative thoughts those looping thoughts thatkeep you in your head out of your body away from the earth i also really love red jasper especially for the root andblack turmoline for protection and grounding but I feel like any kind of crystal work is really great for energybecause you want to talk about what came from the earth the earth yeah finding some beautiful raw you know likeworking with not tumbled stones like not like something that's not shaped I think is a really great way to work with earthenergy to like really crystals are something that connect me really deeply with the earth and I actually didn'treally even realize it until you started talking about the different stones where the moments when I feel most in awe ofour planet is when I'm looking like when I'm at a gem show and I'm looking acrossthis massive room filled with these beautiful things that the earth justmade and we've talked about how I don't often feel like super connected to crystals and I think it's almost from a place of like overexposure throughthrough the shows and through shopping for the stores that I almost feel desensitized to them but that's the oneway that I stay connected to them over and over and over again is through this wonder from the fact that they came fromthe earth and that all the different things that the earthcan create i even feel that way about like plantsand foods it's like sometimes I'll be at the grocery store and I'll be like all these different fruits and vegetablescame from seed and dirt and water so many colors so many colors so manytextures so many shapes like what the [ __ ] why are we not talking about this more the earth is wildi went and got to hug some redwood trees for the first time in my life i'm so jealous of that that's something Ireally really want to do i love a redwood tree i felt high after but like also grounded it was wild it's They'reso cool they're so cool there were like a couple we could walk into and I waslike "Oh my god I feel like I'm inside a portal." Like it was like the energy was incredibly intense and And do you everthink about how trees can talk to each other they can talk to each other through their roots if you were a treeand I were a tree I would send you little messages through my roots uh that would mean you'd have to work onyour root though are you implying that I don't work on my root no I'm implying that everyone needs to work on the rootmore fair it was a call back to that anyway trees trees my favorite ritualwhen you're feeling nervous or worried it's going to sound so silly but Ipromise you I went to this event last week and it involved public speaking and I was the only one in the group that wasreally super comfortable public speaking and there's like a bunch of people who were super nervous and I was like "Y'all do this." And they felt better so you goup to a tree you hug the tree you feel your feet on the ground and you ask the tree to take your nervous energy andtransmute it into confidence or power or whatever you feel like you need and justlike the trees can take the carbon dioxide and transmute it into oxygen for us to breathe it can do that with yourworries or your nervous energy i love that they're used to so when I was growing up we like my mom and Ilived behind my grandparents so like our backyards touched and right like rightwhere they met the two backyards there was this tree that truly while you were talking I remember like I had thismemory resurgence of this tree that I would talk to as a kid and I would like try to find lettersand words in the lines of its bark that's cute and I would like make littlemessages for myself and then I would respond to the tree it was really tender and I just remembered it and I hope thattree is still there i hope so too all right did we Did we do it did we do the earth i think we did the earth look atus we've done it we did it the whole earth the whole earth we covered everyinch every inch of that dang earth all right well yep uh-huh i hope you guysare as excited for this series as we are leave a comment shoot us a DM tell uswhat you think tell us how you connect with earth's energy tell us how earth energy shows up for youand if you want to hear more uncontained purely chaotic yappingcome to the Patreon it's going to be great yeah it is it ischaotic if you want a teaser of that if you want a teaser of it reminder we have one in the 100th episode spectacularyeah and we will see you next week for air air everybody take a deep breathbye thanks for listening to Demystify Magic with Molly and Madison if you want tolearn 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 shoutout on social media and don't forget to let us know your magical moment of the week okay love you byeEnglish (auto-generated)AllFrom the seriesFrom Demystify Magic: the PodcastRelatedWatched