Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

Eli is a gender doula - supporting folx as they question, explore, and transition their gender. In this episode, Eryn and Eli talk about:

• Eli’s journey with sexuality, gender, and spirituality
• “Is it my gender or sexuality, or is this just my trauma?”
• Queerness as a dream outside of the realm of our existence as kids
• His work as a gender doula
• Tarot’s role in his gender journey
• What Eli wants to tell people who are on a gender journey of some kind
• Why Eli thinks everyone should go on a gender journey
• Fluidity and changeability around identity and labels
• Labels & how they can constrain us
• Holding our own complications & other people’s complications, too
• Transness and queerness as vectors of spirituality and connection to nature, land, and community
• Different timelines for queer and trans people
• Tarot as support for gender exploration
• Grief as part of gender and sexuality journeys
• Ritual in gender journeys

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/eli-lawliet

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Ari Felix (they/them) is a counseling astrologer, writer, poet, and bruje providing emoceanal support for apocalypse.

In this episode, Eryn and Ari talk about:

• Ari’s journey with astrology and healing
• Seeing everything as god
• Their religious background as the bones of their spirituality
• Ari’s words for folks who have rejected the religion they grew up with and want to cultivate connection to spirituality that is true to them
• Developing spiritual sovereignty
• Not replacing dogma with another dogma
• Applying critical thinking with your whole mind-body to everything
• The power and point of storytelling and myth
• Shedding orientation towards the destination
• Truth and certainty, truth as mutable
• Why Jupiter and Saturn need each other
• Learning about alignment through being misaligned

Blog for this episode: http://www.living-open.com/blog/ari-felix

Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Preorder their poetry collection, moon sign, now through April 15th!

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Cassie Uhl is an artist, author, empath, and the lead Goddess of her business Zenned Out. In this episode, Eryn and Cassie talk about:

• Her spiritual journey
• Creating structure for creativity
• Sustaining creative energy to actually birth something
• Cassie’s practice with energy and why it matters to her
• Working with energy intuitively outside of formal education and training
• Being your own best teacher & honoring your connection to your guides, ancestors, etc. as your teachers
• Ego and spiritual/healing trainings
• Her connection to journeywork
• How she works with her guides and deepens those relationships
• Ancestral connection
• Working with auras - what the aura is, cleansing and healing your aura, primary aura colors
• Her energy maintenance practices
• Energy clearing & maintenance vs. processing

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/cassie-uhl-zenned-out

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Connect with Cassie on Instagram and preorder her new books on her website.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Four years of the Living Open podcast (with the 10 most downloaded episodes ever)
• Elen Sentier on British Shamanism
• Ep. #89: Love and Lightwashing with Jordan Pagán
• Decolonial Atlas website
• Celtic Cauldrons webinar from Energetic Justice
• Ancestral Altars (Europa Edition) with Sanyu Estelle

Welcome to Leo season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Leo season, shares key dates, and does a short collective tarot reading to understand some of the invitations and challenges of Leo season.

Download the free Leo season breathwork playlist. Join the Lammas breathwork ceremony (this Saturday! Sliding scale + 10% to Morris Home).

Breathwork for the People's website & Instagram.

Davis Carr is tarot reader and astrologer based in unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe Nation (aka Ottawa, Canada). In this episode, Davis and Eryn explore:

• Davis’ journey of searching for something spiritual and finding tarot & astrology
• Her work & why it matters to her
• Traditional astrology as the foundation of Western thought - her “traditional astrology” rant :)
• How astrology helps us heal
• Understanding patterns with astrology
• Learning parts of our charts when we’re ready for them
• How to find the medicine of your chart
• Why you need to look at your rising sign in horoscopes not sun sign!
• Interesting takes on the moon sign around privilege
• Planetary rulerships in traditional astrology
• Trusting intuition in astrology & integrating your own medicine with what you learn from teachers and studies
• The Lovers & the Hermit
• Channeling and creative processes with the Magician
• Being beings in progress
• The higher self & the magic of the human experience

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/davis-carr

Join Eryn's sliding scale Patreon community for practices for today's Cancer new moon. Register for the upcoming virtual Lammas breathwork ceremony with Eryn.

Connect with Davis on her website + Instagram. Download Davis' free guide to learn the 3 things you need to know to understand your birth chart.