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Hades In Aquarius
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03/15/23 • 40 min
Pluto's move into Aquarius portends some very dark, and very revealing, years ahead, particularly as science and technology integrate more deeply with every aspect of our lives. The dwarf planet's strange elliptical orbit lasts 248 years and causes it to spend different amounts of time in each sign. It's been in Capricorn since the 2008 financial crisis and is moving out now during another financial crisis (among other things) and into Aquarius.
Capricorn is an earth sign and signifies physical, material things, structure, order, and so on, and Aquarius is an air sign, which signifies cerebral things, ideas, plans, science, technology, and perhaps most importantly, the digital world.
Pluto, on the other hand, is the name of the Roman god of the Underworld -whom the Greeks call Hades- and he rules the land of the dead obviously, but also that other meaning of the word "underworld" -crime; especially the organized kind. As Hades / Pluto moves into Aquarius, the dark, corrupt, and hidden parts of our science and technology will come to light and their rotten cores revealed.
This is a necessary process the universe has to go through, occasionally digging up and revealing the dirty secrets which allow the powerful of the present day to subjugate the future of the world. Still, from our perspective, it's going to be a bit scary and unpleasant; particularly if you enjoy liberty and speaking your truth.
But it's important to keep in mind that Pluto's always lurking somewhere in the sky -and can only be in one area of the chart a time. In this transit, Pluto occupies Aquarius for over 20 years, so there's no getting around it and no point in living in fear. You just need to understand what to expect from Pluto in Aquarius and how to navigate your way through the worst of it.
In this first of a series of three episodes titled,"Hades In Aquarius," I'm going to introduce the idea and importance of Pluto's ingress in Aquarius in late March, 2023, and explain the bad -and the good- of what's to come, so that you can plan accordingly, make informed choices, and protect your family in the storms to come.
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Resurrection As Praxis
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03/08/23 • 45 min
Western culture is has unhealthy fear of, and obsession with, death. And it leads us to try to control the universe through man-made inventions like technology, policy, law, and so on, that can't help but fall short. When they do, it causes harm and suffering, among less privileged people and the natural world. But if we look at this behavior through "shaman eyes", it's obvious our attempts to dominate and control are just cries for help as our social unconscious attempts to process centuries of generational trauma.
It comes from a materialist worldview; one where life is impossible and fleeting and terribly dangerous. This kind of fear-driven thinking leads us to mandate extreme anti-life measures in the name of collective safety and progress. In the last few years this fear was weaponized to create unprecedented compliance with obvious bio-tyranny, total surveillance, and ideological oppression.
This demiurgic mind-virus, the Wetiko, takes root in our collective fear of mortality but we can inoculate ourselves against it by reconstructing ancient rites of renewal, trips through the Underworld, which refresh our life force and that of the Earth around us -and give us the authority to walk upon the Earth as gods.
In this episode I make the case that the West's collective fear of death drives us to objectively insane extremes, attempting to control the world around us, and that this causes untold harm to ourselves, the Earth, and the cosmos. And I attempt to reconstruct ancient rites of renewal which allowed humanity to exist in prosperous equilibrium with the world for tens of thousands of years (and potentially much, much longer) through the magic of resurrection.
Dusting off ancient wisdom like The Pyramid Texts, through the eyes of modern historians and occultists, like Dr. Jeremy Naydler and show favorite Gordon White, we'll examine the Egyptian myths of Osiris and his son Horus. And we'll explore parallels in South American cosmologies is search of the broader interpretations of these ideas -and inspiration for creating our own practical rituals.
Mentioned In This Episode:
Van Gennep, A. (1960). "The Rites of Passage," London, UK: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
White, G. Star.Ships (2016). "Star.Ships," London, UK: Scarlet Imprint.
Jokic, Z. (2008). "Yanomami Shamanic Initiation: The Meaning of Death and Postmortem Consciousness in Transformation," Anthropology of Consciousness.
Naydler, J. (2004). "Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts," Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions.
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The Light Of Life
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08/03/23 • 46 min
We were worshipping the Sun long before we were building, taming, or conquering. Long before we knew anything else, we'd figured out that the Sun is divine, it is the source of all life on this planet, and a magical source of healing and renewal. Somehow along the way to modernity though, we've forgotten this simple truth, and now the Sun is feared and we're doing everything we can to disconnect from our greatest source of life and energy.
The Sun has always been associated with health and healing and exposure to the Sun has been used for literally thousands of years to heal all kinds of injuries, illnesses, and disease. And lack of exposure to sunlight bears greater health risks than we have been led to believe.
Living in modern, urban environments virtually guarantees that you are light-starved and vitamin D deficient; which greatly increases the chances you will suffer with preventable diseases. Seasonal respiratory diseases, seasonal affective disorder, and many other illnesses are directly tied to lack of exposure to natural light.
In this episode I look back in history to understand how humanity has understood the Sun in the past, how humans from prehistory to relatively recent times have prioritized exposure to sunlight for boosting health and curing wounds and disease. I'll examine archetypal frameworks for understanding solar energy like mythology, astrology, and energetics. And I'll detail some of my favorite ways of working with the Sun magically and as an ally in healing.
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The Enchanted Home
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09/14/23 • 35 min
The home is a very magical place and its energies attract all kinds of spirits (for good or ill) with all the many different aspects of life that take place in the home. The home is sacred, in that it makes you feel safe; your place of sanctuary. In an animist framework of mind, the home is also alive and aware, or at least the spirits that inhabit it are. And so the spirit of your home should be an ally and a guardian; and to have issues with this spirit is the last thing you want.
It's easy to run afoul of the spirit world from our modern context, simply by deciding to put a structure in the wrong place, or failing to pay tribute to the land spirits. And while making amends is usually easy enough, correctly identifying and interpreting the problem is not -unless you've already established a relationship with your local spirits.
These sorts of household magical traditions don't really exist in modern Western cultures anymore and so we're left to reconstruct our own practices from bits and pieces of ancient spells and practices.
Fortunately for us, author and historian, Claude Lecouteux, has done a great deal of research on this subject and written a series of books; two of which inform this episode's exploration into household spirits: Demons and Spirits of the Land and Traditions Of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practice.
In this episode we attempt to piece together an authentic, living practice around the appeasement and engagement of household spirits and discuss some of my own experiences (for better or worse) with spirits of place as we remodeled and sold our old house and moved to the Riviera Maya to build a homestead and spiritual healing center in the jungle.
Mentioned In This Episode:
Ep. 18: A Home For SpiritsEp. 14: Fern Gully Magic
Lecouteux, Claude, "Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices," (2015) Inner Traditions
Lecouteux, Claude, "Traditions of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices," (2013) Inner Traditions
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Enter The Dragon: Aries & Libra
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08/31/23 • 46 min
All of astrology talks about fate and destiny but there are two characters in the story of the zodiac which rule matters of Fate more than the rest -and they're not even planets. Instead, the lunar nodes -North and South- are two points, or "nodes", on either side of the globe which represent the places where the Moon's orbit crosses the ecliptic. These two nodes are represented in astrology as a serpent, divided into two parts, which winds around the earth. The North Node, or Rahu, is this serpent's head, and is said to be hungry and obsessive and relate to fate and destiny. The South Node, or Ketu, is its tail, and is said to process karma and purge energy to maintain balance.
The effect of these forces in the fate of the world, and in each of our lives, can be predicted thanks to astrology, and we can anticipate these changes and adapt accordingly. Nothing will prevent the nodes from working their (often unpleasant) magic on you but the transits of the lunar nodes, and the eclipses that come with them, map the phases and critical turning points of our lives so that we can navigate their powerful currents without being swept away.
In July of 2023, the lunar nodes entered new signs: Aries and Libra (north and south, respectively). In this episode I take a deep dive into the new nodal axis: how it has manifested again and again in my own life, what this transit means for the world, and how it may feel for everyone else, according to their rising signs.
Following the transits of the lunar nodes can help you understand where you're going, what you're running from, and how to balance those energies to make the most out of their evolutionary effects.
Mentioned In This Episode:
SJ Anderson Website | YouTube
Lunatic Astrology Website | YouTube
Maren Altman YouTube
Susan Hopkinson Website | YouTube
Lunatic Astrology video about the Aries / Libra nodal transit and Chiron
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The Religion Of Science Pt. 1
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06/21/23 • 56 min
A crisis has been brewing in the scientific community for years now that calls into question a great deal about what we believe about humanity, our future, and how we navigate uncertainty. There are many contributing factors, like scientific fraud, carelessness, ambition, and so on, but the bottom line is that a great deal of the experiments described in journal papers -these are the studies that define our current understanding of science- cannot be replicated.
When we base medical treatments, or social policy, around science based on peer-reviewed studies, and then those studies turn out to be fabricated, or irreproducible, there is often a significant human cost to the error. Multiply this impact across every field of scientific inquiry and it is difficult to take materialist-rationalist worldview very seriously.
There is nothing wrong with science but a lot wrong with how we go about doing science in the modern age, and it has been co-opted by the powers of hegemony to keep the rich wealthy and the powerful in power. But this is about more than just greed...it's about what dreams our worldviews allow to come into being.
In this episode, part 1 of a 2-part series, I'll show exactly why science has failed us, how it all went wrong, who benefits, and where it's all going.
The science of today isn't about discovering truth. It's about turning certain beliefs into facts to manipulate public consciousness. Science, like religion before it, has become the opiate of the masses.
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Tending Your Dreams
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04/19/23 • 38 min
Something we don't discuss often in magical circles is how long it can take for your magic to work -and how important it is to continue your positive intentions while it does. Self-doubt, over-analysis, and obsession with results can counteract your magical workings, never giving them the time to come to fruition.
In my own experience following my dreams -and spirit guides- moving my family from the US to Mexico to pursue a grand vision and a new purpose in the beautiful Riviera Maya, there have been ups and downs, good days and bad days, and the road has had many unexpected twists and turns.
Our journey has been undeniably magical, and this helps to reinforce our confidence and our faith, but nevertheless, we're tested, we encounter roadblocks, and things do not always seem like they're moving in a positive direction.
We've learned to expect sluggish progress and to appreciate the value of patience which, sometimes, is really the only way forward. Sometimes time is the most important factor in your dreams coming true and patience is the only way to get what you want.
Small goals typically only require shifting reality in small ways to achieve. Big goals, your life's purpose, etc...these kind of ambitious plans require much larger reality shifts. These larger movements play out over longer spans of time and that's just something we have to anticipate when making big asks of the universe.
It's essential to be able to wait patiently, in a state of positive anticipation -but without worrying about the details. And this isn't easy...
In this episode I'm going to share stories from my experiences learning how to manage my expectations and to keep the faith while our passion project slogs through challenges, delays, and constant refinement. I'll also share with you the ideal framework of mind for manifesting your intentions, my most effective strategies for staying positive, and a variety of techniques to put it all into action.
Dreaming big is hard work but making those dreams come true is more a test of endurance, focus, and willpower than effort. Getting that mix right takes some practice but you'll have plenty of time -believe me.
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Hades In Aquarius Pt. 3
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03/28/23 • 55 min
The final installment of the three part series, “Hades in Aquarius,” digs into the darkest issues of the 20+ year transit of Pluto through Aquarius, how the state weaponizes our best intentions to turn us against each other, how they are seeking to control our bodies and minds, and how all of this technocracy in the West is just a desperate attempt to cling to power long enough to achieve their terrifying transhumanist ideals.
If you haven't listened to the previous 2 episodes already, "Hades In Aquarius," and "Hades In Aquarius, Pt. 2" , I highly recommend do you so before tuning in this episode.
Pluto in Aquarius picks up the threads of its time in Capricorn; the wealth transfers, government lockdowns, bio-authoritarianism, and so on; and weaves them into the fabric of the digital realm with digital IDs, health passports, carbon tracking, social credit systems, and bio-data harvesting.
The end goal is domination of the world, and eventually the cosmos, through scientific dominance and transhumanism -and along the way our would-be overlords plan to genetically-engineer us into a compliant workforce using the remarkable powers they’ve given themselves over the last few years while the general population has been distracted by culture wars and manufactured crisis.
The way forward is not scientific dogma or political intolerance -the solution isn’t reductive, which is why our broken, mechanical, materialistic society can’t seem to find it. Surviving and thriving in this transformative time will require embracing life, nourishing spirit, and bringing people together -instead of driving them apart.
But to do so means leaving the fold, opting out, and going your own way while mainstream society is doing its very best to box you in, limit your options, and enforce the will of the 1% upon you. And there’s not that much we can do about it, in a mundane sense. The old tools of dissent like protesting and journalism have been corrupted by the state and activism in general is endangered by the introduction of social credit systems and CBDCs. Censorship and propaganda are wielded with a strong hand and so freedom is very much up against the ropes.
It’s time for a different approach -a new strategy. And it’s time to face the karmic lessons that all this technocracy represents. The West has abused science, technology, and economics for generations to establish and maintain dominance in the world; as this dominance crumbles we will be forced to reckon with the sins of our past.
Belief in the natural world, and hope for ourselves, has to carry us through the next 20ish years of technocratic totalitarianism but the more we lean into life and out of the system, the more we will find new (and very old) ways of flourishing again.
Tune for the big finish of this provocative and revealing exploration of one of the most impactful transits of the modern age -one we’re definitely going to feel in the West- and one that has the potential to chart the course of humanity’s evolution far into the future. Hide your kids, hide your wife, and put on your tinfoil hat for “Hades In Aquarius, Pt. 3”.
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The Munay-Ki Rites
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10/06/23 • 48 min
The magical landscape is filled with pitfalls and distractions which lead to overinflated egos and self-aggrandizement and the initiations of various magical orders are rarely what they're cracked up to be. But it can be very difficult as a spiritual seeker to tell what's authentic and what's just performative until you're immersed in what could end up either a delusional waste of time -or a culturally appropriative mess.
The Munay-Ki Rites are a glowing example of an authentic and effective initiatory experience which has the power to change your life but doesn't require you to adopt a new theosophy, take any awkward oaths, or join some stodgy, overly-politicized magical order. They're inspired by ancient Incan traditions, embodied in a modern-context in the Q'ero people of the Amazon, whose "paqos", or medicine men and women, have kept alive their cultural and magical heritage of sacred Earth stewardship through hundreds of years of colonial rule.
The Q'ero did so by hiding themselves high in the Andes mountains and keeping a low profile until the 1950s when they emerged to fulfill a prophecy and announce the beginning of an age of realignment, called a Patchacuti, which we are all now living through. The last patchacuti occurred when the conquistadors came to the Americas and enslaved the indigenous people and this one will see those of us in the West awaken to our karmic debt and our cosmic responsibility to stewardship of the Earth.
After their emergence various paqo elders began building bridges to the people of the West, through various neoshamanic spiritual leaders and personalities, such as Alberto Villoldo of The Four Winds Institute. The Munay-Ki rites are a byproduct of the collaboration of elder Don Manuel Quispe and Alberto; whom he took as a student and gave the traditional Q'ero initiations.
They worked together to adapt these same initiations for a Western framework of mind; to build a bridge we can follow to activate our energetic bodies, enhance our natural healing abilities and extrasensory perception, deepen our faith and our connection with spirit, and to move back into right relationship with Mother Earth and our role in the cosmos.
These initiations are available to anyone and designed, as a gift of reconciliation from the Q'ero to us, to help the lost people of the West find their way back to the embrace of a living universe that loves them and needs their collaboration. In this episode we take a deep dive into these rites: their history and origins, each of the 10 individual rites and their benefits, and how they work together as a whole to affect you in gradual, but astonishing, ways.
Mentioned In This Episode:
Marcela Lobos, "The Sacred Andean Codes", (2023) Hay House
Alberto Villodo and The Four Winds Institude
The Sacred Serpent
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Plotting By The Stars
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04/12/23 • 43 min
Since time immemorial, humanity has charted its path through the ages using the night sky as our guide. We sailed the seas, built temples aligned to the stars, and gave life to the constellations through our collective myths. The stars are guiding lights, speaking to us in stories, as peoples and nations, and as individuals as well.
In ancient times, when we sailed the sea, we used the stars to find our way. And though we have GPS now for our physical travels, there is still no better guide through the unknown lands of the future than the zodiac and its astrology. Astrology tells us about the forces that will be active in a given moment, what is likely to succeed, and what is not -to the world as a whole, and also in our very personal lives.
But astrology is complex and difficult to parse and everyone has different takes on what each new configuration of the heavens is going to bring us. So how do we use astrology, practically, to foretell and plan out our lives?
The key is understanding not only where the planets are in the sky and how they relate to each other but also where they are in your natal (birth) chart and what that means to you as an individual. And, by using more advanced methods to see how your chart evolves throughout your life, and how your personal destiny and fate are inscribed in the motions of the luminaries, planets, and stars.
In this episode, I'm going to share my personal approach to predictive astrology and how my wife and I have learned these techniques by navigating our own, rather adventurous, story of trading our old suburban life to follow our dreams to build sanctuary in the Yucatán jungle.
We'll discuss basic predictive astrology; looking at the position of celestials in the sky vs in your birth chart to understand how to easily personalize astrology to see what it means for you. And we'll look at 3 advanced techniques that reveal how your personal astrology evolves over the course of your life.
You don't have to be an astrologer to benefit from understanding how predictive astrology works. Tune in to learn how a few simple techniques can help you navigate life's challenges with grace and always keep the winds of fortune at your back.
Mentioned In This Episode:
CHANI, “The 6 Major Shifts Happening in 2023,” (2023)
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How many episodes does The Postmugglism Podcast have?
The Postmugglism Podcast currently has 25 episodes available.
What topics does The Postmugglism Podcast cover?
The podcast is about Spirituality, Magic, Occult, Religion & Spirituality, Shamanism, Podcasts, Manifestation, Witchcraft, Homesteading and Astrology.
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The episode title 'Enter The Dragon: Aries & Libra' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on The Postmugglism Podcast is 44 minutes.
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The first episode of The Postmugglism Podcast was released on Jan 20, 2023.
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