'Witchful' Parenting: A Guide To Raising Magical Children (AUDIO ONLY)

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Hello witches and wizards.

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This is Courtney Pearl.

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You're listening to Practically Magick.

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I am your guide to discovering
true and real Magick in the world.

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I am a pagan witch.

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I am a card reader, healer,
spiritualist, Celtic priestess,

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teacher, artist, and mystic seeker.

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And so today We are going to begin on
the subject of raising Magickal children.

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So to start our episode, I do have one
of my favorite oracle decks that I use

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for kids when I'm doing events or, um, my
own kids when they want to do a reading.

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I use my first Magick oracle.

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Voila.

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And I'm going to pull a
card for this episode.

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And this deck is really easy to use
because it just already has a little Uh,

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saying for each card, kids can read it.

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Um, the pictures are Magickal
and colorful and really fun.

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And.

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It helps keep people, it helps
kids get engaged into the,

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into the card reading itself.

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I'm shuffling, so

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I'm not paying attention
to what I'm saying.

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Okay, we are pulling a card
that is the picture of an owl.

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It's kind of actually looking right
directly at us in this card in the

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picture, but it's winking when I closed.

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So I love that.

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It's kind of cute.

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Um, and I love that I pulled this card
because currently as I'm recording,

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this is the time of Blidaewydd
in the mythic moons of Avalon.

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And so during the time of Blidaewydd in
the year, um, Blidaewydd is a Welsh story,

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Welsh folklore story about how, um, she,
Kind of does a bad thing, at least from

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one perspective of telling the story, and
to be punished for it, she gets turned

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into an owl because it is said in the
story that owls are the most hated of

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the birds, that they're outcasts, and
that's why they only are awake at night

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because the other birds don't like them.

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Um, that's not really a lot of our
relationship with owls, though.

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I think most people love owls.

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I think that they are
excited when they see an owl.

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If you see one flying around in
the daytime, it's kind of Magickal.

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You get a sense of, Oh my gosh,
there's an owl in the tree and

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I can see it and it's real.

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It's real life.

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It's not a cartoon.

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So I think that's a
rebranding we've done you.

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And the words on this card actually
say, believe in the Magick of life,

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which is absolutely perfect for our
topic today, because we are going to

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talk about raising Magickal children.

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We're going to talk about
children and Magick.

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That is our theme today.

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Today, I happen to have children of
my own, and so this is going to be,

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I'm going to take you a little bit
on my personal journey of how I came

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to the spirituality that I practice,
but also in teaching it to my kids in

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wanting to be an example for them in
whatever spirituality that they seek.

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Um, but also.

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And empowerment for them.

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And, uh, I also teach art lessons to kids.

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I have been a teacher for
children for many years.

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That was, uh, a previous life and career.

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I was an elementary school
teacher and I really love kids.

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I love hanging out with kids.

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I love being with kids.

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Um, as Cambria said in the episode
that she was a guest on, I have a Leo.

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Moon sign, which means that I
am really, I really kind of love

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engaging with kids in a playful way.

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I love being the center of attention.

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I love having dance parties or playing
hide and go seek, or, you know, the

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kinds of things that kids love to
do, but I'm going to start off today.

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With a story time, and I actually want
to talk about an Irish mythology, an

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Irish legend of the children of Lear.

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So, um, in a lot of Irish
folklore, Lear is a god or a lord.

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Um, this is a sort of a living legend,
which means that we aren't exactly

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sure of the exact origins of Lear.

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Who Lear was other than what
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So I think that you can kind of, it's
safe to say it's a, it's a living story.

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It's something that people have added to.

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You can even see in the story as
I'm going to kind of paraphrase it.

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Um, and I'm going to supply a link
to the story so that you can read it

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in all of its glory, um, on my blog.

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But you can kind of see where
there was Christian influence

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in the mythology that before.

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Before that influence,
it was a pagan mythology.

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It was a story of, um, that had
to do with the gods and goddesses.

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There was Magick involved.

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And then there was some influence
in the story as they talk about, you

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know, God being able to help them.

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But I am going to do my very
best to tell this story.

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Now, some of the names of the
places and the characters, I

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probably will completely mess up.

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So I apologize in
advance if you are Irish.

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If you know these words and these
places, and you know that I am saying

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them incorrectly, just know in advance,
I am doing my very best, having not

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lived in that region, and I will do
my best to credit it to what it is.

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Okay.

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So, in the story of the Children
of Laer, I'm told that this

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is a pretty, pretty well known
story in these parts of Ireland.

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Um, there was a king and um, Lear
was meant to be king and he was

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passed up for, for his role as king.

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And so he was a little
bit jealous of that.

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And so the king who, uh, is named
Bolt, I believe King Bolt, offered

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Lear his daughter, pronounced Eve, um,
as kind of a peace offering for their

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in saying, I'm sorry, I I'm going to
be king, but I am going to give you

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my daughter as hand in marriage, and
you can be the Lord of your own lands.

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Now, Eve and Lear went
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They had a daughter and three sons.

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The last two are twins, which I love
about this story because I met the

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last two of my kids are twins too.

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And I love when twins
show up in mythology.

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There are a lot of mythology with twins.

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So his wife died after giving
birth to his last child.

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Children and King Bolt, uh, offered
another one of his daughters to,

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so that he would be able to remarry
and the second daughter that he

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married, um, the sister to his first
wife was not necessarily a kind, she

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was bitter and jealous as almost.

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All the times we hear about stepmoms
in mythology, she was bitter that

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her, the children received more love
from Lear as Lear doted on them.

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She took the place of their mother
and their father and just, um, doted

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on his children more than his wife.

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And she, being his second
wife, did not like that.

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So she decided she was going
to do away with these children.

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And when it came time to actually
kill the children, she couldn't do it.

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So she Decided that she
would just use Magick.

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She happened to have a knowledge of
Magick, which in all of the best,

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best fairy tales and mythology,
it's both the evil stepmother and

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a witch all rolled into one role.

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So love that for her.

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She's taking the children out to.

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A lake, and she decides to
encourage them to go swimming.

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And as they get into the lake to go
swimming, the North channel, um, the

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names and places in this mythology,
I love just like in the Welsh

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mythology, they are actual places.

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So people who live in these lands,
they are connected to these stories.

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They can visit these lakes and
they can talk about the children

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of Lear being in this lake.

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So the children go for a swim and she uses
a Magick spell to turn them into swans.

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So there's four children now swans, but
they had remained able to speak and they

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had their dignity and their knowledge.

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They just had their physical
appearance turn into swans.

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And The stepmother left them there
at the lake and cursed them that they

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must stay there at this lake or these
particular bodies of water for 300

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years, and they could not return home.

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And of course, when she got
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came back without the children.

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He was very upset, and he
told on her to her dad.

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And he told King Bod that his new
wife, uh, His daughter, the king's

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daughter, had, um, done something to
his children and she was punished.

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She was,

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um, turned into the shape
of a demon of the air.

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I'm not exactly sure what that means.

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Maybe he turned into a bat.

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I don't know.

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I'm just kind of picturing
something like that.

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Um, so there she remains, and that
was her state she was left in.

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And Lear, going back to look for his
children, could hear his children's

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voices singing at the lake, but
all he could see were the swans.

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Four swans swimming in the lake.

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And so 300 years came and went.

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They were still swans.

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And in the story, they
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Um, there's kind of some changing of,
they go to the Straits of Moil, uh,

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and they, Anyway, they have to spend
300 years in each of these places.

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So it ends up being 900 years before
they're finally able to return home.

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And apparently, they're still swans.

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They get to go home being swans,
but when they get home, they realize

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that it's completely abandoned and
they're not really swans anymore.

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Nothing but ruins left because now they've
spent nearly a thousand years being swans.

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And finally, they were able to find
an enchant, uh, um, in this case, the

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story changes a little bit to where
they pray to God and God blesses

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them and with their belief in God.

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So this is where there may be some
Christian influence into the mythology

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where it says that a monk was able
in some versions, it's actually St.

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Patrick himself.

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I love that.

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Um, don't we love St.

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Patrick for all of his work
in driving out the pagans.

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But anyway, he was able to transform
them back into humans, but at this

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point, they are not children anymore.

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They are old.

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So when they are transformed into humans,
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And, um, they asked just that
they be baptized before they die.

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And again, there's that Christian
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they are, they are able to
be baptized before they die.

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And then this is the end of their story.

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That is their fate to be swans for
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human again, right before they die.

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So I am telling this story
because we are going to talk a

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little bit about children today.

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And the raising of children
into a Magickal sort of.

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upbringing and how, how that works.

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Because I did have a question from
a listener a couple of episodes ago.

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If you go back, um, where I invite
people to write in questions,

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things that they might want to ask.

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And I love to engage with the
audience on things like that.

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And I had somebody reach out to me and
say, um, you know, talk about whether or

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not these practices that you're teaching
or talking about, or, you know, anything

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that we talk about in our subjects, um,
if it's appropriate for children and.

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I have a lot to say about that and
there is kind of a school of thought

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like if you were going to dabble into
certain practices of witchcraft or if

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you were going to dabble in certain
practices of paganism, there is such

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a thing called sex Magick and there
is things that are just for adults.

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But as I I'm telling this story.

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I want it to be very clear that
this is not just indoctrinating

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children into witchcraft.

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This is about teaching
children the ways of empowering

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themselves to believe in Magick.

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And truth be told, children do
not need a lot of convincing

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that Magick is real, okay?

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Because they come out of The womb
and being raised really believing

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in Magick, understanding Magick,
understanding energy better than us.

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Adults, we're the ones who have been
sort of indoctrinated or trained out

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of thinking that that could be real,
that there is such a thing as Magick,

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or there is such a thing as energy
in the universe or unseen forces.

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And it takes quite a bit of convincing
to, to, um, let adults know.

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That there is that Magick in the
world that they can access, that they

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can, that they can be empowered by.

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Um, children already believe in it.

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So let's just say this is
your letter to Hogwarts.

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You are, um, you have been
found to be a Magickal person.

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We, the Council of Magickal People, have
Dubbed you worthy, that perhaps you are

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not the muggle you thought you were.

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And sometimes I hear people use the
term muggle when they mean people

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who just really don't believe in
this kind of stuff, when they're

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just, they don't speak the language,
it seems really foreign to them.

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Um, it almost makes them uncomfortable
to talk about or think about.

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And that's okay.

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That's not a bad thing.

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There's nothing wrong with you if
this is just kind of not your thing,

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but we can refer to those people as
muggles because they just are existing

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in their life in a different way.

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realm than we are.

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We're existing in a realm that does
participate in Magickal things.

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And that can be even the most
superstitious rituals that you have.

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It doesn't really matter.

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But I am going to

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start off by telling you a
little bit about my story.

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So I was raised, give or take, loosely
in the Mormon tradition and the Christian

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fundamentalist Mormon tradition.

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Um, and I say loosely because my
particular family was not what you

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would call the true believers, I
guess, in that my parents were raised

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in traditional Mormon families.

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Um, I am a descendant
of the Mormon pioneers.

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Um, I'm sure if I go back in my family
history, I would find exactly the

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person who was converted and they
were probably converted to Mormonism.

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Um, directly from someone
who knew Joseph Smith.

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So if you know the church
history at all, um, and it is

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a fairly new Christian church.

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I mean, we act like Mormonism is really
kind of taking over the planet, but

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that's because we live here in Utah.

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And so that's kind of my own, um, you
know, just where I come from religion.

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And, um, I think that there was a
deep sense of growing up like, okay,

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I don't really have to subscribe
to everything in this doctrine.

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I just.

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I'm just exposed to it.

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This is what I'm exposed to.

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So following in the footsteps of my
more recent ancestors and my pioneer

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ancestors, I was just doing what
was expected of me at that time.

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So I know that early on, I
was kind of, uh, we use the

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term Jack Mormon around here.

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Like, it's like, you kind of like pick
and choose what it is you're going to do

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and what you're going to participate in.

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I never saw anything wrong with that.

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It was just kind of like, you
know, Religion and spirituality

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is personal to everyone.

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And now looking back on it, um, kind of
looking at even, I have lots of families

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still very much devoted members of the
church and friends and, um, people I

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really care about and love and respect.

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And so I want to just point out
that I really do understand what

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that means to them and that I
understand the value of participating

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in that kind of an institution.

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So for me, I stayed longer going
to church as an adult, probably

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because of those reasons, not because
of my belief or testimony in it.

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But because I was very much comforted
by the, um, the certainty of it all,

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especially when it came to what am I
going to pass on to my own children?

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So knowing that my parents weren't
really true believers, but that they

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felt like this was important to pass
on to me, um, and my sister and say,

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you know, I don't know what you want to
take from this, but here it is anyway.

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And I think that was a really
good way to go about it because.

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It left my mind open.

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It left me willing to learn what I needed
to learn from it and from other things.

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So I know I stayed going to church, um,
quite a long time into my adulthood.

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And even when my first son was born, we
were going because I liked the structure.

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And our brains are
wired to like certainty.

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It's where we get our dopamine.

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So we like the certainty.

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We're being told exactly what is the
blueprint for life and what we're doing.

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Um, and I liked, if the Mormon Church
is anything, It is definitely organized.

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They have a very strict, um, they
program, they have a strict program

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where it's manuals, teaching manuals.

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Um, they come out with
new ones every year.

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And every 4 years, it's a different, um,
they rotate through the The doctrine.

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So they might spend an entire year
focused on the New Testament of

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the Bible and the Old Testament,
and then the Book of Mormon, and

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then the Doctrine and Covenants.

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And they have their
doctrines that they teach.

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And it's very structured.

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It's very well structured because
they can send those same manuals

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out to every church in the world.

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And everybody's doing the same thing.

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Everyone's getting the same lessons and
they're broken down weekly throughout the

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So the teacher in me clearly loved that.

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I love a schedule.

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I love a lesson plan.

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I love to take the bones of something
and then be creative with it.

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Um, I feel like I'm more creative and
more inspired when I have some structure

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to follow, some collaboration with that.

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And so, yeah, I, I thought, you know,
even if I don't teach it exactly

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the way that they are putting it
out there, um, I thought for a long

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time that I would be continuing to
teach the come follow me lessons.

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So they send out this booklet that
is like, you know, here's your

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lessons for your kids at home.

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Here's what you're going to follow.

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And I, I kind of thought
that I was going to do that.

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Um, I think that I, there was a kind
of a shift at some point where I

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realized, and maybe I was getting some
influence from other people who had

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done this before me, who said, you
don't need the church and its doctrine

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to be spiritual and to teach your kids.

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It is something that.

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Maybe will take a little bit of
work on your part, um, to structure

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something, but you can, you can do
whatever it is you want with your kids

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and your family, and it doesn't have
to follow suit with an organization.

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And once I kind of got brave
enough to try that, um, I did

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get myself a binder with 12 tabs.

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So there would be a 12 different themes.

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12 months of the year.

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Um, and this was the beginning
of my kind of trying to piece

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together, how am I going to do this?

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And I started with stories.

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I have young children and even if
I didn't have young children, I

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myself personally love stories.

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I love what stories have to teach us.

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I think stories, whether told in
movies, um, written down in books, uh,

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Or even on your Instagram reel, I feel
like stories are a powerful, powerful

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connection we can make to each other.

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Um, it's like having living art, you
know, there's an art piece that you

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might connect with because it has the
colors and the emotion that you're, you

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know, you're vibing with, but stories
kind of make that come alive to me.

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With characters, with, you know,
Events with things that happen.

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And I've always been like that.

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I think it comes from my grandma,
my mom's mom, who was a storyteller.

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Now she was very much devoted to the
Mormon church, but she also loved stories.

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She had a, she had at least one,
maybe several binders full of stories.

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She loved to put on little puppet shows.

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She loved to do little
skits at Christmas time.

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She loved to gather us
around or to put us.

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to bed at night when we
were visiting her house.

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And I remember distinctly how she
told the story of Beauty and the

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Beast to me, um, in the most original
form that it was first published in.

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So, um, I think in the original form
he had the head of a beast, but the

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body of a man or something like that.

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So it was very creepy when she told
the story, but I remember her telling

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us the story of Beauty and the Beast
before the Disney movie came out.

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Yes, I know I'm old.

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You don't have to point it out.

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I get it.

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But it was before Disney put out
the movie Beauty and the Beast, the

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animated Beauty and the Beast, and
she told us that story at bedtime.

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And I mean, if you don't believe in
Magick, the moments that I spent with her,

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Connecting to those stories and making the
images up in my head as she told it to me.

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And as I fell asleep, that's a pretty
Magickal moment and will always,

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always bond me to my grandmother,
no matter what our religious beliefs

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are, no matter, no matter what.

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So telling stories has been a
traditional way to teach children life

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and Magick and power and Morals and
values since the dawn of time in, um,

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almost every culture across the world.

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So that's where I started.

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I started with stories.

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I started collecting stories and I would
put them into whatever tab of the binder.

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I thought they might fit in.

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So when that month came up,
I could tell those stories.

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And then create some kind of
activity to go with it because

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that's the teacher in me.

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I have to, you know, there
has to be a follow up or

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something, something engaging.

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Now, I will say that this doesn't solve
the problem, um, of trying to take

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You know, what I wanted to pass on
to my children as far as something to

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guide their lives, um, to teach them
something about Magick, uh, I will

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say that it has been a long journey.

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We started this a few years ago.

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My kids, my youngest are
five and my oldest is nine.

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And.

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I still, we call it Sunday story times.

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So I'm trying to kind of follow the
traditional structure of Sundays

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being sacred or family time or,
you know, church or whatever.

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We usually do something
outdoors in nature.

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I try to do something like a meditation
or gardening or something that gets us

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out into the sunshine or into the earth.

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Um, Connecting with the land,
connecting with our own personal plot

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of land that we currently reside, or
even the mountains that surround us.

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And, um, to tell you the truth, I,
I still say to my kids on Sundays,

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Okay, guys, after breakfast, we're
going to do our Sunday story time.

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Or, hey, I'm going to turn on the fire and
we're going to go snuggle up in a blanket.

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And this is what I'm picturing
that it's going to happen.

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This is how I think it's going to go.

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My kids are just going to love snuggling
up with pillows and blankets next

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to the fireplace, the hearth of our,
of our family home, or even outdoors

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in the near the bonfire or around,
you know, whatever we're doing.

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And they'll just be so excited to
hear another Sunday story time, a

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new story every week or whatever.

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This is how I picture it's going to go.

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And I can tell you right off
the bat, It absolutely 100

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percent has never gone like that.

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And I am telling you this because if
anyone is looking to seek something

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that they can do with their kids,
that is maybe they're transitioning

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out of a traditional church
environment and they want something.

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That still engages in community.

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Um, that still holds the
structure that they're used to.

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This is what I attempted to do
and I'm still attempting to do.

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I still think it's worth the effort.

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I think it's worth a try
to create those memories.

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And I think sometimes moms end
up being the lore keepers and the

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spiritual holders of the family.

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Um, I hope that's not the case.

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always and in every situation, but
it does tend to fall on us women and

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mothers to offer that to our children.

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So here, I have really had moments
where I am kind of wondering, okay,

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how much do I make my children
sit down and listen to a story?

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And is that just like doing the exact
same thing that church was doing?

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for them, which is like, you have to
listen to this and you have to do it

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and you have to participate in it.

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Or like, let go of that altogether
and just be like, Hey, you, you, if

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you want to do a story, I'm here to
do a story, but we don't have to.

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And in that case, we may never.

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I'm not really sure
the right answer there.

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I am still figuring that out because I
feel like if I didn't kind of push or

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Almost force my children to sit down and
listen to a story, even for a few minutes.

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It would never happen.

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And how did our indigenous
ancestors, how did they carry

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traditions on to the next generation?

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If they didn't.

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maybe kind of force their kids to
sit down and listen to the stories.

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Now, I imagine that children of a
different generation in the past, um, you

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know, go back a few hundred years, they
probably didn't have to be forced because

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they didn't have other things to do.

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They didn't have screens.

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They didn't have, you know, parks with
a playground and all the toys and all

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the things that Distract kids today,
you know, wanting to go do those things.

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Cause honestly, they do sound all a lot
more fun than sitting down and listening

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to a story your mom has to tell you.

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I get it.

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Which is why I've kind of, you know,
tried to create, like, no screen days.

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You know, Sunday is going
to be a no screen day.

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None of us, even mom and dad, are going
to be not on our phones, we're not turning

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on the TV, we're not playing video games.

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We're not doing any of that.

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And so if you want to be entertained,
it's going to be with a story.

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And perhaps that will
be encouraging to them.

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But I collected stories from
everywhere and everything.

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I collected stories.

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I have, um, mindfulness for kids,
little cards and activities that, um,

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are kind of from a Buddhist practice
of mindfulness and I have Buddhism for

449
00:29:21,283 --> 00:29:24,673
kids and I collected stories from Hindu.

450
00:29:24,973 --> 00:29:27,783
Um, some of them are Chinese folk stories.

451
00:29:28,323 --> 00:29:34,703
Um, I have a list of children's
stories that I will provide on my blog.

452
00:29:34,703 --> 00:29:38,018
So for those of you who are
like, Where do I even begin?

453
00:29:38,028 --> 00:29:39,458
How do I collect stories?

454
00:29:39,468 --> 00:29:43,813
How do I collect things
that have A moral to them.

455
00:29:44,553 --> 00:29:49,793
Um, I collected a bunch of different
kid friendly stories that are beautiful

456
00:29:49,793 --> 00:29:54,253
with beautiful pictures, something that
would be more engaging and encouraging

457
00:29:54,253 --> 00:29:55,853
for them to come and sit with me.

458
00:29:56,593 --> 00:29:59,733
Um, Dawn Casey has one
called Winter Tales.

459
00:30:00,323 --> 00:30:05,003
Um, one of my favorites is Angela
McAllister has written a bunch

460
00:30:05,003 --> 00:30:09,698
of books for kids that, um, Are
kind of follow along the year.

461
00:30:09,868 --> 00:30:13,998
So, um, I picked up a year full
of stories, 52 folktales and

462
00:30:13,998 --> 00:30:15,378
legends from around the world.

463
00:30:16,108 --> 00:30:17,498
So I will post a link to that.

464
00:30:19,058 --> 00:30:21,578
And I just started collecting
as many things as I could.

465
00:30:21,578 --> 00:30:22,848
And even if I just made notes.

466
00:30:23,193 --> 00:30:27,183
In my binder of where I was going to
put those tabs were in the year we

467
00:30:27,183 --> 00:30:28,503
were gonna talk about those things.

468
00:30:29,183 --> 00:30:33,293
Um, I need to revamp that completely
because even as I started that a

469
00:30:33,293 --> 00:30:36,833
couple of years ago, I didn't know
where to begin with any of that.

470
00:30:37,363 --> 00:30:43,038
I thought, okay, how do I even pick
what themes should be each month?

471
00:30:44,378 --> 00:30:45,638
and I'm gonna be honest.

472
00:30:47,348 --> 00:30:51,358
And this is completely crazy and silly
and I'm almost embarrassed to admit

473
00:30:51,358 --> 00:30:58,748
it, but I picked the young women value
theme from when I was a young woman.

474
00:30:59,108 --> 00:31:00,748
Um, Young Women's is a program.

475
00:31:01,108 --> 00:31:05,228
In the Mormon church, where girls
from age 12 to 18 are in the young

476
00:31:05,228 --> 00:31:09,818
women's program back when I was that
age and doing it, they actually had a

477
00:31:09,818 --> 00:31:17,318
little, um, personal progress booklet
that you were working on to earn your.

478
00:31:17,908 --> 00:31:19,758
Medallion or whatever.

479
00:31:19,958 --> 00:31:24,588
It was kind of like there was their,
um, solution to Boy Scouts for girls.

480
00:31:24,598 --> 00:31:28,598
Like they were like, what can the
church have for girls to do that would

481
00:31:28,608 --> 00:31:34,208
increase their spirituality and connect
them with getting, getting ready to be

482
00:31:34,248 --> 00:31:41,048
a endowed member of the church, to be
married in the temple, to be a mother,

483
00:31:41,088 --> 00:31:46,363
you know, all of the things that were
Prepping girls for to, um, to be the

484
00:31:46,373 --> 00:31:48,553
free domestic labor of the church.

485
00:31:49,623 --> 00:31:49,873
Okay.

486
00:31:49,913 --> 00:31:55,463
So that's a topic for another
day about feminism, but in

487
00:31:55,463 --> 00:31:57,803
young women's, we had a theme.

488
00:31:57,813 --> 00:32:01,153
If this doesn't sound cult, like I don't
know what does, but we had a theme.

489
00:32:01,153 --> 00:32:02,953
We were meant to recite.

490
00:32:02,993 --> 00:32:06,543
At every meeting and church activity,
we had to stand up and say, We are

491
00:32:06,543 --> 00:32:08,733
daughters of our Heavenly Father
who loves us and we love Him.

492
00:32:09,053 --> 00:32:11,073
Ba I used to have it all memorized.

493
00:32:12,043 --> 00:32:18,673
And there was a list of
themes, um, that we value.

494
00:32:18,683 --> 00:32:24,273
So faith, divine nature, individual
worth, and on and on it goes.

495
00:32:24,943 --> 00:32:29,213
So I thought those were
pretty good place to start.

496
00:32:29,213 --> 00:32:34,063
So I named each tab after one
of the, the things, the themes

497
00:32:34,303 --> 00:32:35,503
of the young women theme.

498
00:32:35,803 --> 00:32:40,123
So it was January was faith,
February was divine Nature.

499
00:32:40,303 --> 00:32:45,253
So those would be the focuses or topics
of the stories or the lessons or anything

500
00:32:45,253 --> 00:32:48,133
else that I had to offer my children.

501
00:32:48,948 --> 00:32:50,288
And we would do Sunday Storytimes.

502
00:32:50,288 --> 00:32:52,228
We would just do kind
of like church at home.

503
00:32:52,688 --> 00:32:56,258
And it would be a program that I
get to create and I get to build

504
00:32:56,258 --> 00:32:57,788
from the, from the bottom up.

505
00:32:58,428 --> 00:33:04,558
And, um, I also really loved getting
inspiration on things to teach them

506
00:33:04,588 --> 00:33:10,098
about, uh, from like podcasts like
this secular Buddhism, um, which I

507
00:33:10,108 --> 00:33:16,488
loved because it was just fundamental
basic things about life that help us.

508
00:33:17,418 --> 00:33:18,278
Live our lives.

509
00:33:19,308 --> 00:33:27,538
And when I began to shift more into a
pagan, Magickal mindset, I realized that

510
00:33:27,538 --> 00:33:31,088
it didn't matter if we call ourselves
pagan or if we call it witchcraft,

511
00:33:31,438 --> 00:33:35,868
because this spirituality is really
about empowering each individual

512
00:33:36,018 --> 00:33:40,108
to have And believe in the Magick
that they have within themselves.

513
00:33:40,658 --> 00:33:44,898
So in the episode, um, two episodes
back, if you listen to the episode we

514
00:33:44,898 --> 00:33:52,018
had on intuition, where Rachel Cox Taylor
and I talk about our role as healers

515
00:33:52,118 --> 00:33:57,528
is not actually to heal anyone, but
to help them understand their journey

516
00:33:57,528 --> 00:34:02,408
and healing in witnessing themselves
in engaging with their own intuition.

517
00:34:03,558 --> 00:34:10,678
And I feel like that is a fantastic
thing to impart to my children and to any

518
00:34:10,678 --> 00:34:19,208
children that need to follow their own,
their own worth, their own discovery.

519
00:34:20,358 --> 00:34:24,998
So, whether I'm teaching my kids or
whether I'm teaching my art students, and

520
00:34:24,998 --> 00:34:27,478
my art lessons are not just art lessons.

521
00:34:28,148 --> 00:34:33,498
Um, my art lessons are very much about
teaching kids to be empowered through art,

522
00:34:34,058 --> 00:34:42,808
that through the experience of creation,
creating art, we can discover how we show

523
00:34:42,808 --> 00:34:46,738
up every day for everyday activities.

524
00:34:47,268 --> 00:34:48,868
Do we show up scared?

525
00:34:48,918 --> 00:34:51,268
Do we show up worried we
aren't doing it right?

526
00:34:52,158 --> 00:34:58,358
And for me, being able to tap
into what the spirituality

527
00:35:00,738 --> 00:35:07,078
Discovering your true self, the higher
self, the love, the unconditional love

528
00:35:07,098 --> 00:35:13,973
that Rachel talked about is to help
my children and other children to tap

529
00:35:13,973 --> 00:35:17,213
into that because they already have it.

530
00:35:17,443 --> 00:35:22,203
I mean, I don't know if you've ever met
a two year old, but two year olds don't

531
00:35:22,203 --> 00:35:24,013
have to be convinced to love themselves.

532
00:35:25,163 --> 00:35:28,813
Two year olds and three year olds are kind
of showing up in the world, at least if

533
00:35:28,813 --> 00:35:33,543
they haven't already been traumatized and
abused, and that's a whole other thing.

534
00:35:34,533 --> 00:35:37,723
But for the most part, children
come into the world feeling very

535
00:35:37,723 --> 00:35:42,353
confident and very sure of themselves.

536
00:35:42,763 --> 00:35:45,343
And they also create things like art.

537
00:35:46,273 --> 00:35:50,943
Absolutely no worry whatsoever
of what anyone else thinks about

538
00:35:50,943 --> 00:35:52,623
it, because it's not about that.

539
00:35:53,043 --> 00:35:59,253
They create art simply and purely because
it is fun to do, because it's Magickal.

540
00:35:59,943 --> 00:36:01,133
And you know why it's Magickal?

541
00:36:01,563 --> 00:36:05,353
Because they had an idea in
their head, and then they made

542
00:36:05,353 --> 00:36:06,953
that idea happen on paper.

543
00:36:07,673 --> 00:36:09,773
into the physical world.

544
00:36:10,903 --> 00:36:12,683
And if that's not Magick,
I don't know what is.

545
00:36:13,553 --> 00:36:17,873
I have an idea in my mind,
and then I'm putting it out

546
00:36:17,873 --> 00:36:19,003
there into the physical world.

547
00:36:20,683 --> 00:36:23,713
And that is quite simply what Magick is.

548
00:36:24,253 --> 00:36:26,113
So go back to my very first episode.

549
00:36:26,393 --> 00:36:27,343
What is Magick?

550
00:36:27,873 --> 00:36:31,703
Because when I am teaching children
anything about Magick, I'm not

551
00:36:31,703 --> 00:36:32,713
teaching them to be witches.

552
00:36:33,078 --> 00:36:37,818
I'm not teaching them to be,
you know, pagan even, although

553
00:36:37,818 --> 00:36:39,048
I do think everybody's pagan.

554
00:36:39,138 --> 00:36:40,238
So that's a whole thing.

555
00:36:42,698 --> 00:36:48,908
I teach children to honor
the God within themselves.

556
00:36:49,768 --> 00:36:54,258
The God isn't sought out by
some other person telling

557
00:36:54,258 --> 00:36:57,433
you What is right and wrong.

558
00:36:58,553 --> 00:37:03,223
And truly, when you get really
deep into it, when you really start

559
00:37:03,233 --> 00:37:07,843
getting, um, into the theology
of it all, or the philosophy of

560
00:37:07,843 --> 00:37:11,433
it, I even start to pick away.

561
00:37:11,803 --> 00:37:14,013
at the words right and wrong.

562
00:37:15,183 --> 00:37:19,533
Because when I learned that the, like,
original meaning of the texts in the

563
00:37:19,533 --> 00:37:25,763
Bible of the word sin, the word sin
didn't ever mean a bad thing you do.

564
00:37:27,233 --> 00:37:34,033
In the original translation of the,
of the, um, Aramaic, uh, in the texts,

565
00:37:34,843 --> 00:37:38,483
they talk about how the word, when the
word sin would come up, it actually

566
00:37:38,483 --> 00:37:41,773
meant um, a disengage from yourself.

567
00:37:42,433 --> 00:37:45,873
That when you sin, it just means
that you are detached from your

568
00:37:45,873 --> 00:37:50,943
true self and participating in
something over off the path.

569
00:37:51,413 --> 00:37:59,163
So repentance is not like an
apology and a, and a, uh, you

570
00:37:59,163 --> 00:38:03,333
know, flaying yourself and shaming
yourself for what you did wrong.

571
00:38:04,023 --> 00:38:06,883
Um, repentance meant return to self.

572
00:38:07,523 --> 00:38:13,593
So a repentance process should just look
like coming back to who the true self is.

573
00:38:14,013 --> 00:38:19,423
And the true self is the calm,
confident, curious, connected self.

574
00:38:20,363 --> 00:38:24,873
So when we do the work of, of
returning to self, we're repenting.

575
00:38:26,073 --> 00:38:26,873
That is it.

576
00:38:27,673 --> 00:38:33,893
And we can say that sinning is
something we do every day, all day long.

577
00:38:34,053 --> 00:38:36,693
Anytime we let the ego
run away with itself.

578
00:38:37,443 --> 00:38:41,573
Which every person listening right
now is guilty of in this very

579
00:38:41,573 --> 00:38:42,553
day you're listening to this.

580
00:38:43,223 --> 00:38:46,983
In the moment you're hearing this,
you can think of a moment today that

581
00:38:46,983 --> 00:38:49,653
you let your ego run away, right?

582
00:38:49,913 --> 00:38:52,523
Where you got really frustrated
and angry at somebody.

583
00:38:52,773 --> 00:38:54,643
Or you were rushed.

584
00:38:54,903 --> 00:38:55,663
You felt rushed.

585
00:38:55,993 --> 00:38:57,503
I'm, I'm, there's not enough time.

586
00:38:58,113 --> 00:38:59,633
Um, there's not enough money.

587
00:38:59,813 --> 00:39:00,603
There's not enough.

588
00:39:00,903 --> 00:39:08,118
Um, Anytime that you have come away
from yourself, you're engaging with

589
00:39:08,168 --> 00:39:11,818
judgment, you're engaging with, um,

590
00:39:13,848 --> 00:39:18,768
annoyance, frustration, anger,
um, you know, any of those things.

591
00:39:18,858 --> 00:39:21,378
And that's not bad.

592
00:39:22,308 --> 00:39:26,828
That's not an even, you know, a sin in
the way that we usually think of sin.

593
00:39:27,538 --> 00:39:29,408
It's not a bad thing to have that happen.

594
00:39:29,608 --> 00:39:30,738
That's human.

595
00:39:30,898 --> 00:39:32,308
That's just your human part.

596
00:39:33,338 --> 00:39:36,598
So when I teach children To be Magickal.

597
00:39:36,758 --> 00:39:40,548
I go back to the principles that I
talked about in the very first episode

598
00:39:40,548 --> 00:39:44,088
where I say, all of us are Magickal.

599
00:39:44,738 --> 00:39:48,328
And all of us are writing spells,
whether we know it or not.

600
00:39:49,608 --> 00:39:53,738
Now, the best kind of spells are the ones
that we put intention into, that we are

601
00:39:53,738 --> 00:39:56,388
intending on being for a certain thing.

602
00:39:56,878 --> 00:40:01,188
Um, so when we say a prayer, when
we ask for something, when we make

603
00:40:01,188 --> 00:40:07,658
an offering, When we engage with
elements in that ritual or in that

604
00:40:08,048 --> 00:40:13,088
spell, that is only amplifying the
intention that we're setting for it.

605
00:40:13,578 --> 00:40:18,028
And writing spells, quite simply,
just down to the very, very

606
00:40:18,028 --> 00:40:20,318
basics of it, is telling stories.

607
00:40:21,448 --> 00:40:24,958
You are using your words and thoughts
and feelings to tell a story.

608
00:40:25,798 --> 00:40:29,848
And whether you know it or not, whether
it's conscious or not, the subconscious

609
00:40:29,898 --> 00:40:31,728
is constantly telling stories.

610
00:40:32,243 --> 00:40:36,483
Constantly, all day long, telling stories.

611
00:40:38,368 --> 00:40:42,288
We need to be very careful
and be very aware and mindful

612
00:40:42,628 --> 00:40:44,228
of what are those stories.

613
00:40:44,398 --> 00:40:45,588
What stories are you telling?

614
00:40:46,928 --> 00:40:53,018
And I love using art to kind of
be a facilitator of this idea.

615
00:40:53,578 --> 00:40:58,668
Because when someone approaches a canvas
or piece of paper, are you approaching

616
00:40:58,668 --> 00:41:02,458
it with the story of, I can't do it.

617
00:41:02,498 --> 00:41:03,628
I don't know what I'm doing.

618
00:41:03,938 --> 00:41:05,008
I'm not good at this.

619
00:41:05,248 --> 00:41:06,128
I don't know how to do it.

620
00:41:08,118 --> 00:41:09,238
I'm a terrible artist.

621
00:41:09,338 --> 00:41:10,478
It's going to look terrible.

622
00:41:11,798 --> 00:41:14,438
Or as you're creating it,
oh, this looks terrible.

623
00:41:14,538 --> 00:41:15,158
This is awful.

624
00:41:15,158 --> 00:41:16,058
Oh, I didn't mean to do that.

625
00:41:16,118 --> 00:41:17,018
Oh, I made a mistake.

626
00:41:17,088 --> 00:41:18,018
Oh, I should start over.

627
00:41:18,998 --> 00:41:23,538
Are you approaching the process
of creation with the story

628
00:41:23,588 --> 00:41:24,998
that you are not good enough?

629
00:41:26,228 --> 00:41:29,948
Or are you engaging with
the process of creation?

630
00:41:30,658 --> 00:41:35,198
Whether it's art or life in general,
are you approaching it with a

631
00:41:35,218 --> 00:41:39,308
thought of, I'm a Magickal being.

632
00:41:40,598 --> 00:41:45,228
I can make anything that I
think or feel into reality.

633
00:41:46,728 --> 00:41:50,288
And whatever comes out of
it is what's meant to be.

634
00:41:50,418 --> 00:41:53,328
And I will make it into
something amazing no matter what.

635
00:41:53,918 --> 00:41:57,918
And I am also going to engage
with it with enthusiasm.

636
00:41:58,628 --> 00:42:03,018
Someone once told me enthusiasm
is like the feeling of God.

637
00:42:03,118 --> 00:42:03,608
Like it's

638
00:42:07,058 --> 00:42:08,058
The energy of God.

639
00:42:08,158 --> 00:42:12,808
So if you have something, uh,
that you are participating in with

640
00:42:13,128 --> 00:42:16,958
enthusiasm, you're actually enjoying it.

641
00:42:17,398 --> 00:42:23,958
The creative process is not
frustrating and annoying and a chore.

642
00:42:24,198 --> 00:42:29,968
The creative process is fun
and creative and Magickal.

643
00:42:31,668 --> 00:42:35,118
Imagine the difference that you can
make in what you actually make happen.

644
00:42:36,598 --> 00:42:37,028
Okay.

645
00:42:37,708 --> 00:42:45,128
So, I want to invite you to, if you
have children or if you work with

646
00:42:45,128 --> 00:42:51,568
children in any capacity in your life,
even if you are, Um, traditionally,

647
00:42:52,108 --> 00:42:54,328
I use the word traditionally, but
it's actually not as traditional.

648
00:42:54,378 --> 00:42:58,958
I, that's not even like a good word to
use because when you say traditional,

649
00:42:59,088 --> 00:43:02,838
we should be talking about indigenous
people's practices of all over the world.

650
00:43:02,838 --> 00:43:05,108
The pagan practices are
the traditional practices.

651
00:43:05,708 --> 00:43:10,948
But if you were to engage with the sort
of, um, fundamental religious practices,

652
00:43:11,618 --> 00:43:15,498
you were somebody who does go to church
and does subscribe to that doctrine.

653
00:43:16,288 --> 00:43:18,858
None of what I have said
today discludes you.

654
00:43:19,773 --> 00:43:23,553
You can engage with Magick and a lot
of my own students, my art students,

655
00:43:23,633 --> 00:43:29,363
um, are Mormon or who are, you know,
Christian who go to church and, um,

656
00:43:29,983 --> 00:43:31,403
believe in that spiritual practice.

657
00:43:31,903 --> 00:43:35,923
It doesn't matter because the
Magick I am teaching kids to engage

658
00:43:35,923 --> 00:43:38,203
with is the Magick of the world.

659
00:43:39,848 --> 00:43:44,378
And imagine how empowering that is,
that as a child reaches the age of

660
00:43:44,378 --> 00:43:48,368
nine years old, they start to decide
what is success and what is failure.

661
00:43:48,418 --> 00:43:50,878
They start to look at things
as, I'm really good at this,

662
00:43:50,878 --> 00:43:51,958
or I'm not really good at this.

663
00:43:52,678 --> 00:43:56,738
But what if we could raise children
who were confident enough to know

664
00:43:56,738 --> 00:43:59,928
that I can actually make anything
happen and I can make anything work.

665
00:44:00,778 --> 00:44:04,508
Um, even if something goes differently
than I thought it was going to, I

666
00:44:04,508 --> 00:44:06,518
am a Magickal being who can make.

667
00:44:08,323 --> 00:44:13,553
I can connect with that creative
source, creative source of the

668
00:44:13,553 --> 00:44:15,733
universe and make this happen for me.

669
00:44:17,323 --> 00:44:21,413
Can you imagine if you could go
back to yourself at an earlier

670
00:44:21,443 --> 00:44:24,183
age and talk to yourself and say,

671
00:44:26,333 --> 00:44:28,113
don't think that you're not good at this.

672
00:44:29,013 --> 00:44:31,683
The thinking you're not good
at this is going to stop you

673
00:44:31,683 --> 00:44:32,683
from becoming good at this.

674
00:44:33,763 --> 00:44:36,653
Imagine all of the advice you'd
give yourself at a younger age.

675
00:44:37,743 --> 00:44:39,443
And by the way, if you
ever want to do that.

676
00:44:39,913 --> 00:44:42,563
If you ever want to go back in
time and actually talk to your

677
00:44:42,683 --> 00:44:48,803
former child self, that is what
an IPT emotional process does.

678
00:44:49,943 --> 00:44:51,353
And that is what I facilitate.

679
00:44:52,323 --> 00:44:57,383
So if you feel that that would help
you in getting unstuck from some of

680
00:44:57,383 --> 00:45:03,993
these patterns of the stories you're
telling yourself, come find me.

681
00:45:04,973 --> 00:45:05,973
We'll work on that together.

682
00:45:07,263 --> 00:45:07,813
All right.

683
00:45:08,373 --> 00:45:09,393
Witches and wizards.

684
00:45:09,453 --> 00:45:10,763
We're going to close this up.

685
00:45:10,803 --> 00:45:11,763
I, this was a.

686
00:45:12,288 --> 00:45:17,438
An interesting, uh, topic to bring
forward for parents and teachers

687
00:45:17,438 --> 00:45:19,418
and hopefully a little helpful.

688
00:45:20,218 --> 00:45:26,428
And I wanted to inspire you, even if
you don't have children, to reparent

689
00:45:26,428 --> 00:45:30,208
yourself in that way of, I don't
actually need anybody to tell me the

690
00:45:30,308 --> 00:45:33,558
structure of what creates my life.

691
00:45:33,948 --> 00:45:38,658
I get to be the creator of my life and
I'm a Magickal being who can do that.

692
00:45:39,538 --> 00:45:46,278
So join me next The topic for next week's
episode is going to be witch burning.

693
00:45:47,028 --> 00:45:51,238
We're going to talk about the
stories of the stories and history

694
00:45:51,278 --> 00:45:54,918
of burning witches and the whodunit.

695
00:45:56,308 --> 00:45:56,518
So.

696
00:45:57,128 --> 00:45:57,778
Witch burning?

697
00:45:57,818 --> 00:45:58,678
Who done it?

698
00:45:59,198 --> 00:46:03,748
Um, couple of events I want to talk about
that's coming up before we leave today.

699
00:46:03,858 --> 00:46:07,698
I have a Tarot for Tips event
that I do with my friend

700
00:46:07,708 --> 00:46:09,678
Ben, the Fresh King Benjamin.

701
00:46:10,628 --> 00:46:14,958
If you know him, he's a local
comedian and he has a great daybreak

702
00:46:14,968 --> 00:46:18,638
following and he's a really funny,
fun guy, but he also reads cards.

703
00:46:18,748 --> 00:46:24,533
So we read cards together sometimes and
we are going to be at ground to earth

704
00:46:24,563 --> 00:46:28,103
coffee shop on Soda Row in Daybreak.

705
00:46:28,123 --> 00:46:29,453
That's on Kestrel Rise.

706
00:46:30,503 --> 00:46:34,473
And it's this adorable, cute
little coffee shop, not a lot of

707
00:46:34,473 --> 00:46:35,903
space, but I think we'll be fine.

708
00:46:35,903 --> 00:46:38,043
We're going to tuck ourselves
into a little corner, or we

709
00:46:38,043 --> 00:46:39,673
might be outside on the patio.

710
00:46:39,693 --> 00:46:42,453
It's going to be a
beautiful day on May 19th.

711
00:46:43,223 --> 00:46:47,083
We are going to be there from
10 to 12 and you can grab

712
00:46:47,083 --> 00:46:49,013
yourself a beverage, a coffee.

713
00:46:49,013 --> 00:46:52,543
They have the most delicious
fruit infused lemonades.

714
00:46:52,693 --> 00:46:54,053
I always get those in the summer.

715
00:46:55,063 --> 00:46:57,543
And they have invited us to
come and do a tarot for tips.

716
00:46:57,653 --> 00:47:00,423
So that means we're just going to
be there with our table and with

717
00:47:00,423 --> 00:47:03,863
our cards and anybody who wants to
walk by and get their cards read.

718
00:47:03,873 --> 00:47:05,753
It is just for tips.

719
00:47:05,983 --> 00:47:10,583
So you can pay as you like, whatever
you feel like tipping is going to

720
00:47:10,593 --> 00:47:12,363
be an investment in your reading.

721
00:47:12,413 --> 00:47:15,443
So I want to invite you
to come and find us there.

722
00:47:15,473 --> 00:47:17,733
Come and see us, come check
us out, just come say hi.

723
00:47:18,053 --> 00:47:21,003
And if you're a listener of the
podcast, let me know, cause I might

724
00:47:21,003 --> 00:47:22,463
have some, a little something for you.

725
00:47:23,518 --> 00:47:29,288
Um, the other events I have coming
up really fun are on May 17th on

726
00:47:29,288 --> 00:47:34,068
a Friday is my heart smart art.

727
00:47:34,098 --> 00:47:39,148
So as we've been talking today and in
today's episode about Magick and children,

728
00:47:39,518 --> 00:47:43,908
this is an emotional intelligence workshop
that I do with parents and children.

729
00:47:43,918 --> 00:47:47,128
And I do this at Biscott's
cafe in daybreak.

730
00:47:48,388 --> 00:47:50,798
The last few events that
we've done have been so fun.

731
00:47:50,798 --> 00:47:55,128
We get out, we do a breathing, we do
a, um, some chanting and drumming,

732
00:47:55,138 --> 00:47:57,888
which is just, you know, kind
of singing songs and having fun.

733
00:47:58,448 --> 00:48:02,468
Um, the next workshop that I'm going
to be doing with the, with the kids,

734
00:48:02,818 --> 00:48:05,158
this is age 5 to 12 and their parents.

735
00:48:05,698 --> 00:48:10,138
We are going to be doing
another focus on anger.

736
00:48:10,228 --> 00:48:11,808
So we're going to be talking about anger.

737
00:48:11,818 --> 00:48:13,778
We're going to be talking
about heavy feelings.

738
00:48:13,953 --> 00:48:16,963
And we're going to do an art
project of painting rocks.

739
00:48:17,543 --> 00:48:21,383
Every child is going to go home with
a little Scribble Spot mini book.

740
00:48:21,603 --> 00:48:23,293
So please look out for that.

741
00:48:23,293 --> 00:48:25,763
It's on May 17th at 2 p.

742
00:48:25,763 --> 00:48:26,043
m.

743
00:48:27,293 --> 00:48:31,083
And May 30th coming up at the
end of the month is my next

744
00:48:31,813 --> 00:48:34,093
Healing Through Art project.

745
00:48:34,093 --> 00:48:38,193
This is a fantastic workshop.

746
00:48:38,203 --> 00:48:41,953
I'm so proud of it is actually
the IPT emotional process.

747
00:48:42,003 --> 00:48:45,603
I do one on one, but I've
adapted it into a group session.

748
00:48:46,153 --> 00:48:48,863
So I've been doing this
for over a year now.

749
00:48:48,883 --> 00:48:49,423
Every month.

750
00:48:49,423 --> 00:48:50,573
I offer this workshop.

751
00:48:50,603 --> 00:48:51,923
It's not for artists.

752
00:48:53,063 --> 00:48:54,333
Anyone can do it.

753
00:48:55,163 --> 00:48:59,033
It just happens to include painting
in the healing process and using the

754
00:48:59,033 --> 00:49:03,253
shapes and colors to paint out the heavy
feelings that we have trapped in our body.

755
00:49:03,823 --> 00:49:07,233
It starts with a guided
meditation, drumming.

756
00:49:07,633 --> 00:49:09,093
It's a relaxing evening.

757
00:49:09,103 --> 00:49:11,563
It's fantastic to do with family members.

758
00:49:11,683 --> 00:49:16,423
Or as a couple for date night,
please sign up on my website.

759
00:49:16,823 --> 00:49:20,363
And for that, you can look for
links to my website on my Instagram

760
00:49:20,953 --> 00:49:23,043
at prism underscore healing.

761
00:49:23,343 --> 00:49:27,823
You can find me on Facebook, Courtney
Pearl or Courtney Pearl's prism healing.

762
00:49:28,703 --> 00:49:32,083
And you can also find me
on my website, which is www

763
00:49:34,113 --> 00:49:34,633
prism.

764
00:49:35,573 --> 00:49:36,243
Healing.

765
00:49:36,703 --> 00:49:42,193
com for all of my events, all
of my events, all of my services

766
00:49:42,193 --> 00:49:44,523
are listed there on my website.

767
00:49:44,593 --> 00:49:49,513
Anything that I do that you'd like
to, um, sign up for a session with me.

768
00:49:49,623 --> 00:49:51,263
I do card reading sessions.

769
00:49:51,323 --> 00:49:54,473
I do 10 point priority
wellness plan sessions.

770
00:49:55,143 --> 00:49:55,773
I do.

771
00:49:56,103 --> 00:49:58,863
emotional process and I do Reiki sessions.

772
00:49:58,873 --> 00:50:02,703
So if you are looking for any type
of healing, if you feel stuck, if you

773
00:50:02,713 --> 00:50:09,523
feel like your ego is run away, if you
feel sinful and you need to repent,

774
00:50:10,023 --> 00:50:14,523
please come and see me for an emotional
process and for some healing work.

775
00:50:15,583 --> 00:50:20,893
So look for my website and at the top
of my website, there is a little link.

776
00:50:21,178 --> 00:50:23,908
or little tab that says blog.

777
00:50:24,648 --> 00:50:27,828
If you've enjoyed this episode
or any of the previous episodes

778
00:50:27,928 --> 00:50:33,968
of Practically Magick, I offer
a blog post for each episode.

779
00:50:34,228 --> 00:50:36,328
It is not a script of the episode.

780
00:50:36,448 --> 00:50:38,098
It is its own script.

781
00:50:38,883 --> 00:50:39,693
separate thing.

782
00:50:39,993 --> 00:50:47,283
But for the episode, I write some
additional information or links or any of

783
00:50:47,283 --> 00:50:51,893
the resources that I've listed today on
the children's books that I use with my

784
00:50:51,893 --> 00:50:55,063
kids in helping raise Magickal children.

785
00:50:55,363 --> 00:50:58,133
I am going to put all of
that on the blog post.

786
00:50:58,233 --> 00:51:00,463
So please look that up on my website.

787
00:51:01,983 --> 00:51:03,483
And I will list everything that.

788
00:51:04,188 --> 00:51:09,388
I personally have in my library
for you and links to anything else

789
00:51:09,398 --> 00:51:10,888
that I've happened to come across.

790
00:51:12,148 --> 00:51:16,718
So I would like to thank Ride
the Wave Media, Just Blane,

791
00:51:17,088 --> 00:51:21,928
and their podcast network.

792
00:51:22,968 --> 00:51:28,068
Producing this podcast episode and
all of the great work that they

793
00:51:28,068 --> 00:51:29,678
do to put out content like this.

794
00:51:30,408 --> 00:51:34,428
Um, I would like to thank Sarah
Albert at Daybreak Treasures Boutique.

795
00:51:34,858 --> 00:51:38,728
She features me as an artist on her
boutique and sells my work for me.

796
00:51:38,768 --> 00:51:40,668
And, um, she's also
one of my best friends.

797
00:51:40,888 --> 00:51:46,108
So I want to give a big Shout out to her
and go look up her website if you want

798
00:51:46,118 --> 00:51:48,498
to see mine and other local artists.

799
00:51:49,328 --> 00:51:54,438
And I would like to give another
shout out to all my Daybreak people,

800
00:51:54,468 --> 00:51:58,788
Daybreak business community and
the residents and all of the people

801
00:51:58,788 --> 00:52:00,258
who live in the Daybreak community.

802
00:52:00,288 --> 00:52:01,228
You are the best.

803
00:52:01,538 --> 00:52:02,498
I love you.

804
00:52:02,578 --> 00:52:07,538
You have welcomed me and made me a
part of your community and I get to

805
00:52:08,018 --> 00:52:10,888
Self title myself the Daybreak Witch.

806
00:52:12,318 --> 00:52:15,328
Daybreak's own personal witch.

807
00:52:15,358 --> 00:52:17,428
Come to me for your spells and curses.

808
00:52:18,218 --> 00:52:21,268
And I want you to go make
Magick, witches and wizards.

809
00:52:21,518 --> 00:52:24,618
So go out there, make some Magick today.