Your Creative & Magical Life
How do we hold on to creativity and magic in a world that tries to separate us from both again and again? This podcast explores that question through the lens of Tarot, nature, and the lived experience of creative and magical humans who are making art, manifesting their visions, and changing the world as they go. Join creativity coach, Tarot reader, and writer Cecily Sailer on a cosmic, conversational journey to help you embrace you creative and magical life!
Your Creative & Magical Life
2. The Magician: Bringing Something Into Existence That Wasn't There Before w/ Jessica Jernigan
Since this show is just getting started, and this episode focuses on THE MAGICIAN, I spend a little time explaining what I mean by Your Creative & Magical Life, and I share about my theory of creativity and how magic can how up in different ways and how we can invite it into our lives.
Then I talk with writer, zine-maker, and postmodern witch Jessica Jernigan all about The Magician archetype. Jessica and I co-teach this card and riff off The Magician's energy — how "manifestation mindset" and "create your own reality" thinking can be dangerous, the trickster side of The Magician, different ways of defining magic, and magic within and beyond certain cultural frameworks.
Jessica also shares about the year she went all-in on witch life, her journey towards Tarot (which starts in the 80s with "Mists of Avalon), the witchy zines she creates, and what it's like launching and running her Substack and writing cover copy for Harlequin romance novels.
We also get into the relationship between The Magician, The High Priestess, and The Fool; Tarot's recent expansion into the mainstream; bringing social justice into Tarot readings; offering readings through different formats; the magic and (anti-magic) of aging; plus labor unions, Starhawk, and more! The episode closes with a creative prompt for working with The Magician.
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+ Meet Ami Plasse, the artist who created YC&ML's logo.
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