Episode 14 // Business Alchemy with Maude Schellhous

08/26/20 • 72 min

STARGAZER: a podcast about astrology, alchemy, and magic

Welcome to another installment in the ELEMENTAL series, where I interview small business owners that I love to find out just how many inspiring ways there are to work for yourself doing something you love.

I’ve known Maude Schellhous since 2016, back at the beginning of Aeolian Heart. Maude has been working for herself as a hypnotherapist since 1995. Not only does Maude offer one-on-one clinical work, she also founded her own school called Sacramento Hypnotherapy where she has trained hundreds of students.

Recently, Maude has developed a new technique that she calls psychedelic hypnotherapy.

This doesn’t involve drugs. But this technique does alter one’s consciousness to invite a shift in beliefs or one’s physical state.

Psychedelic translates from Greek to mean something like “mind manifesting.”. Psyche meaning mind and delos meaning manifesting.

And the word “hypnosis” is derived from the Greek word hypnos, or sleep.

So Maude guides her clients through mind manifesting sleep, a healing practice that invites them to find deep levels of relaxation, awareness, and the strength to change their life for the better.

Maude believes that discovering inner wisdom holds a path to many different areas of our subconscious where we can unlock blockages that can hold us back mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

In my mind what Maude does is totally shamanic, resonating with deep wells of ancestral wisdom. And the spirit of hypnosis as a healing modality recalls the ancient wisdom of Egypt and Greece, whose hospitals and healing centers were actually called Dream temples. In the dream temples, people were guided into enchanted sleep to be healed by the gods.

In this episode, Maude and I discuss her work and its healing benefits. And towards the end, she takes us on a hypnotic journey to experience our inner world directly.

You can learn more about Maude's work at https://sacramentohypnotherapy.com/

Are you an artisan or craftsperson with vision?

Do you need an extra boost from the cosmos to take your small business to the next level?

Or are you trying to launch your brilliant online business but need a little help from heavens?

Well, I’ve got good news.

My business alchemy workshop ELEMENTAL is now open for registration.

After you take this class, you’ll know how to:

Synthesize your passion, message and hard work to bring your vision into form and launch a successful business
Apply an alchemical business model to your work that will increase creativity, productivity, and sales.
Create a business from the heart that allows you to do you what you love and find your tribe!

And, of course, it will feature mind-expanding esoteric philosophy, heart-opening meditation and a powerful global group dedication to Mercury in Virgo to empower your business for success!

Click here to register.

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Recently, Maude has developed a new technique that she calls psychedelic hypnotherapy.

This doesn’t involve drugs. But this technique does alter one’s consciousness to invite a shift in beliefs or one’s physical state.

Psychedelic translates from Greek to mean something like “mind manifesting.”. Psyche meaning mind and delos meaning manifesting.

And the word “hypnosis” is derived from the Greek word hypnos, or sleep.

So Maude guides her clients through mind manifesting sleep, a healing practice that invites them to find deep levels of relaxation, awareness, and the strength to change their life for the better.

In this episode, Maude and I discuss her work and its healing benefits. And towards the end, she takes us on a hypnotic journey to experience our inner world directly.

You can learn more about Maude's work at https://sacramentohypnotherapy.com/

Are you an artisan or craftsperson with vision?

Do you need an extra boost from the cosmos to take your small business to the next level?

Or are you trying to launch your brilliant online business but need a little help from heavens?

Well, I’ve got good news.

My business alchemy workshop ELEMENTAL is now open for registration.

After you take this class, you’ll know how to:

Synthesize your passion, message and hard work to bring your vision into form and launch a successful business
Apply an alchemical business model to your work that will increase creativity, productivity, and sales.
Create a business from the heart that allows you to do you what you love and find your tribe!

And, of course, it will feature mind-expanding esoteric philosophy, heart-opening meditation and a powerful global group dedication to Mercury in Virgo to empower your business for success!

Click here to register.

BTW, did you know that my Patreon supporters get into ELEMENTAL for free?

Join my Patreon now

Support the show

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Episode 13 // Business Alchemy with Psychic Stitch

Welcome to the first episode of the second season of STARGAZER, a podcast about astrology, alchemy, and magic.

This begins a series of interviews with magical and creative entrepreneurs who have courageously forged a path for themselves, finding unique ways to share their gifts with the world. This series is timed to coincide with the upcoming transit of Mercury through Virgo, which is the astrological influence that I used to launch my creative business five years ago!

If you want to learn about how I used the transit of Mercury in Virgo to launch and support the growth of Aeolian Heart, be sure to sign up for August 19th event, ELEMENTAL: Business Alchemy with Mercury in Virgo.

Those who are a part of this Renaissance work because they have a passion, not merely for material acquisition. They work to find freedom for their creative spirit and in the way they use their time. And they work because it gives them purpose, creating vital connection and community.

My first guests are the perfect embodiment of the 21st Century Renaissance that is blossoming.

Beatrice Kalmar and Meredith Allen run a business called Psychic Stitch, a high-art embroidery business dedicated to up-cycling and customizing clothes to create one-of-a-kind wearable art. They are such beautiful women, old souls with loving hands who are completely inspired by their work to make clothes truly meaningful again.

Since they live right here in Los Angeles, I went to their studio to chat with them and record our conversation. Beatrice and Meredith are great artists, painters with thread. They can reproduce any image or style from the past. But they also create their own original effervescent psychedelic tapestries which are a worthy contribution to the ancient art of embroidery.

Amidst the rainbow of threads, the antique embroidery machines, and the works of art in progress, I felt like I was in another time and place. A time when people did not take so much for granted and had more reverence for the hours, labor and skill that go into creating any kind of clothing.

In this conversation, we talk about how Psychic Stitch got started and what inspired its beginnings. We also talk about the major issues caused by the mass-produced corporate fashion industry, which is obscenely wasteful, environmentally hazardous, and shamelessly employs slave labor.

As an answer to this, Psychic Stitch seeks to make clothing precious again, by enchanting them with a story and purpose. This honors the people who made these clothes and the people who own them now. With conscience and art, clothes become imbued with love. This philosophy is a great departure from the values that have spawned so much spiritual and economic crisis in the world.

Whether you love fashion or not, clothes are an expression of who you are: what your values are, what your trade is, and what your aesthetics are. It blows my mind to think of how awful it is to clothe ourselves in the products of slave labor. Not only do I mourn for the people in the sweatshops, but it is terrible how much we struggle and compete to be able to afford these loveless products. The whole experience is born from pain and injustice. And it fosters no appreciation for what we own.

I believe that most humans don’t really want to live like this anymore. And the Information Age is inviting a massive paradigm shift. Artisans with a vision, like the women at Psychic Stitch, are making small but important steps towards creating another way to live.

I loved talking to Beatrice and Meredith so much. I learned a LOT from them and I hope yo

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Episode 17 // Business Alchemy with Mithras Candle

Welcome to the final episode of my ELEMENTAL series of interviews with small business owners that I absolutely love! Throughout this season, I have learned that when a person is doing work that matters to them, it is never just about making money. Work becomes passion, service and meaning in life.

My guest today is Benjamin Warfield from Philadelphia, who is one half of an amazing company called Mithras Candle. Both scientist and mystic, Benjamin’s work represents a beautiful harmony between matter and magic, drawing from the wisdom of the past to create a healthier future.

I’ve observed that our society spends a lot of time concerned with the quality of our food. The GMO debate has lots of momentum. And we certainly spend a lot of time measuring the quality of our air and water. Pollution is something that environmental movements adamantly oppose.

But how often do you hear a dialogue about the quality of light? The term light pollution exists, but it refers to our inability to see stars in the night sky. Though this is terrible, the dimness of stars does not confront how the quality of light can negatively influence biology and behavior.

I have always felt strongly that light should be like the Sun: healing, warm and radiant. How many millenniums have human beings lived by firelight? Fire itself is like a small seed from the heart of the Sun, offering its light and heat to support so much life and transformation.

In more recent history, incandescent electric bulbs blurred the boundaries between day and night forever, but their glow still attempted to approximate the warmth of fire and the Sun.

Incandescent light differs greatly from the cold and unfeeling fluorescent light used in most major stores, schools and offices. And the even more recent emergence of LED lights has ruined the warm glow of so many homes.

I’ve been waiting a long time to commiserate with someone who can appreciate my sensitivity to the quality of light. And that’s why I’m so glad I found Benjamin, because he has made the quality of light into a scientific study for over 15 years, studying its effects on our bodies, moods, and rhythms.

In our conversation, Benjamin shares what he learned during his time working for a university level research program that was devoted to understanding the biological effects of light. Their discoveries inspired him to return to the magic of candlelight, a luminosity that physiologically invites you to calm down and relax at night.

The science makes it clear that artificial lights can aggravate and disrupt your circadian rhythms. But candlelight illuminates, soothes and relaxes.

The magic of Mithras Candle comes from the undeniably beauty of candlelight and from the evocation of a very ancient deity.

You may have heard of Mithras, because his name has never fully faded away. History places the origins of Mithras in ancient Persia, but the cult of Mithras spread far and wide throughout ancient Europe and Asia, eventually blossoming into three centuries of devotion in Rome.

In the ancient Mithras cults, he was often called the Lord of Heavenly Light. Some viewed him as the genius of fire while others identified him with the light of the Sun.

Thus, evoking Mithras has an ancient resonance with the magic and mystery of light, as both a physical phenomena and as a symbol of spiritual revelation.

I hope you enjoy our enlightening conversation.
To learn more about Benjamin's work, visit https://www.mithrascandle.com/

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