Always Already: Black Healing and Magic with Crystal Davis

Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Crystal Davis of Blooming Fire Healing where we discuss how magic helps us survive, becoming a BIPOC healer, and much more.

Topics we cover include:

• Shapeshifting
• Learning to live with depression
• Becoming a healer and reiki master
• Being a “feral witch” (or Crystal’s term for solitary magical practitioners)
• Building relationship with the things we can see and the things we can’t
• BIPOC healing circles
• Tarot as a mirror and a map

About Crystal:

Crystal Davis (she/they) is an intuitive empath, healer, and magic maker living in Portland, OR. She moves through the world as a queer Black cis woman. The alchemy of her interests, experiences, and survival have led her down this winding road of exploration, reflection, and the path of the witch. She found her way to metaphysics in her hometown of Richmond, VA. After beginning her Reiki training, Crystal was called to the Pacific Northwest to continue her study of alternative healing and magic.

Healing is a journey - one step inevitably leading to the next. Her perspectives on healing have been informed by her lived experiences, work with youth, and individuals surviving houselessness and poverty at Sisters of the Road. She is an alumni of the Blue Iris Mystery School and a Holy Fire Reiki Master/Teacher. She is a volunteer practitioner with healing justice organization Radical Rest which provides mental health and wellness services to support BIPOC organizers and activists in their continued work of liberation.

Through Blooming Fire Healing, she offers tarot, energywork, and monthly BIPOC healing circles to support the healing and magic that her clients bring into the world. She believes that when individuals are in full bloom they give a gift to their entire community.

Find Crystal online:

• On the web: www.bloomingfirehealing.com
• On Social Media:
• • IG: @bloomingfirepdx
  • FB @bloomingfirehealing
  • Soundcloud: Blooming Fire Healing

Links to relevant resources:

• Black Lives Are Magic calendar - https://www.instagram.com/blacklivesaremagic
• WooPDX - POC-owned magic shop in Portland - https://woopdx.com
• Sisters of the Road - https://sistersoftheroad.org/
• Radical Rest - https://www.radicalrest.org
• Blue Iris Mystery School - https://www.blueirismysteries.com
• https://www.wweek.com/culture/2020/09/23/in-2020-everyone-is-struggling-with-mental-health-heres-our-guide-to-finding-peace
• https://soundcloud.com/bloomingfirehealing/the-shielding-song

Links to So Many Wings’ social media and website

• On the web: https://somanywings.org
• On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somanywingspodcast
• On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/somanywingspodcast
• On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/somanywingspodcast