Lux Occult

This is the meditation that is featured at the end of episode 13. Meditation Mas-up. Written by Luxa Strata and read by Dave Ardrey from the Unearthing Paranoarmalcy podcast. Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease: https://www.instagram.com/the_memetic_disease/ Check out Faith Blind Council Podcast https://www.faithblindpodcast.com/ And Unearling Paranormalcy Podcast https://www.unpnormalcy.com/ Check out the Church ov Nothing and ANQ (Pseudo-Qabalah): The Church Ov Nothing — ANQ Listen to Ad Hoc History, a podcast where Luxa and her brother, Asher, talk history and the personal motivations that might underlie it:  https://open.spotify.com/show/0HLqy3W7LtnuMxRxl0ei0Q The Green Mushroom Project: Here is a link to a slideshow about the Green Mushroom Project! https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRfpKtb77aI5yU1uCnkfvHC4mnCOvmmdvOhB-39XDTWXBk3m_2rWr_3Pa8ahspM4ywDTLZdSdITFCxX/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000 A doc about Fungal Fridays which has some ideas about how to connect with the project. A work in progress! https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQFmqPKxW-7IoryFh9nMdkOAUf8ixDs35R83nYZefzOC1D_4GPe_mNqstv16aWgE-ajY2eEbm6t5XhH/pub And follow The Green Mushroom project on Instagram @hyphosigil  https://www.instagram.com/hyphosigil/

Join Luxa as she interviews Aidan Wachter, magician, author, podcaster and talismanic jeweler about framing our approach to the practice of magick (and life, in general!). Aidan’s books, Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past and Telling True Lies and Six Ways: Approaches and Entries for Practical Magic are both highly recommended! Plus, an update on The Green Mushroom project and even more nonsense, this time with an element of Tarot! Works Cited and Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR4EjmXsAY2ZFOmxGhyodBhS96qbL5Y0STnPv0yNncquTb6Sqce_SOj7P0NhW7-aXAIq9O3chdOr5AI/pub To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease: https://www.instagram.com/the_memetic_disease/ And try the technique for yourself! https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSLceg14KnJMbDNLOj0R_5851IPu5zt-s1FaCnEk1yB1_DkQs1lyK41Id2lrKAxI8DbyFC1Y_0f4Ivq/pub Here is a link to a slideshow about the Green Mushroom Project! https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRfpKtb77aI5yU1uCnkfvHC4mnCOvmmdvOhB-39XDTWXBk3m_2rWr_3Pa8ahspM4ywDTLZdSdITFCxX/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000 And follow The Green Mushroom project on Instagram @hyphosigil  https://www.instagram.com/hyphosigil/ Check out the Church ov Nothing and ANQ (Pseudo-Qabalah): The Church Ov Nothing — ANQ Listen to Ad Hoc History, a podcast where Luxa and her brother, Asher, talk history and the personal motivations that might underlie it:  https://open.spotify.com/show/0HLqy3W7LtnuMxRxl0ei0Q Also check out Faith Blind Council https://www.faithblindpodcast.com/ And Unearling Paranormalcy Podcast https://www.unpnormalcy.com/

Find your dragon and climb aboard! In this episode of Lux Occult, Luxa is joined by her guest, Becky, to discuss the powerful symbol of the Dragon, and also to nerd out about the Fantasy genre of literature! Having studied dragons in the context of art history, Becky lends her insight into what we might learn and how we might improve our practices and ourselves by incorporating this powerful creature into our lives. Plus, updates on The Green Mushroom Project and, as requested, more nonsense cut-up poetry! For full show show notes and works cited:https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRcQMKPOS8IDZS-QLmSm6ej9JRrdTElwLJTkzffaUPB9kOjXYH8kBVTRMzclH3AVq0WX6qDTDqfFATD/pub  To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease: https://www.instagram.com/the_memetic_disease/ And try the technique for yourself! https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSLceg14KnJMbDNLOj0R_5851IPu5zt-s1FaCnEk1yB1_DkQs1lyK41Id2lrKAxI8DbyFC1Y_0f4Ivq/pub Here is a link to a slideshow about the Green Mushroom Project! https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRfpKtb77aI5yU1uCnkfvHC4mnCOvmmdvOhB-39XDTWXBk3m_2rWr_3Pa8ahspM4ywDTLZdSdITFCxX/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000 And follow TGM project on Instagram @hyphosigil  https://www.instagram.com/hyphosigil/ Check out the Church ov Nothing and ANQ (Pseudo-Qabalah): The Church Ov Nothing — ANQ Listen to Ad Hoc History, a podcast where Luxa and her brother, Asher, talk history and the personal motivations that might underlie it:  https://open.spotify.com/show/0HLqy3W7LtnuMxRxl0ei0Q Also check out Faith Blind Council https://www.faithblindpodcast.com/ And Unearling Paranormalcy Podcast https://www.unpnormalcy.com/

Luxa is joined by Dr. Rob C. Thompson of the Occult Confessions and Dark Pool Podcasts to talk Ritual and Performance Art and how these things allow us access to deeper levels of consciousness. Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod or @the_memetic_disease. To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Check out  Occult Confessions https://www.occultconfessions.com/episodes & The Dark Pool podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/2RtT7xz81ABAOnIyzC9Akq A Slide Show about The Green Mushroom Working: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRfpKtb77aI5yU1uCnkfvHC4mnCOvmmdvOhB-39XDTWXBk3m_2rWr_3Pa8ahspM4ywDTLZdSdITFCxX/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000 Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease: https://www.instagram.com/the_memetic_disease/ And try the technique for yourself! https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSLceg14KnJMbDNLOj0R_5851IPu5zt-s1FaCnEk1yB1_DkQs1lyK41Id2lrKAxI8DbyFC1Y_0f4Ivq/pub Check out The Church ov Nothing and ANQ: https://covn.tumblr.com/post/625661661556195328/sorry-it-has-been-so-quiet-here-lots-of-study-and#notes Listen to Ad Hoc History, a podcast where Luxa and her brother, Asher, talk history and the personal motivations that might underlie it:  https://open.spotify.com/show/0HLqy3W7LtnuMxRxl0ei0Q Also check out Faith Blind Council https://www.faithblindpodcast.com/ And Unearling Paranormalcy Podcast https://www.unpnormalcy.com/ WORKS CITED: Descartes Secret Notebook by Admir D. Aczel Hitchhikers Series by Douglas Adams

In this episode, Luxa is joined by an old friend, Scav,  to hear his thoughts on costumes, chaos magick and his practice, in general. Also, more information about The Green Mushroom Project, an ongoing group magickal working that you can be a part of! Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod.  Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease: https://www.instagram.com/the_memetic_disease/ And try the technique for yourself! https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSLceg14KnJMbDNLOj0R_5851IPu5zt-s1FaCnEk1yB1_DkQs1lyK41Id2lrKAxI8DbyFC1Y_0f4Ivq/pub To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Check out Wolfgrin, Scav's side hustle on Twitter and Insta @wolffrinkult https://www.instagram.com/wolfgrinkvlt/?hl=en The Green Mushroom Project Slide show: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRfpKtb77aI5yU1uCnkfvHC4mnCOvmmdvOhB-39XDTWXBk3m_2rWr_3Pa8ahspM4ywDTLZdSdITFCxX/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.ga619a16fc1_0_5 The Green Mushroom Project: https://regainground.wixsite.com/greenmushroomproject Also check out the work of the collaborators on The Green Mushroom Project! Faith Blind Council Podcast: https://www.faithblindpodcast.com/episodes Also checkout their Discord server! Unearthing Paranormalcy Podcast: https://www.unpnormalcy.com/ Church Ov Nothing and ANQ: https://covn.tumblr.com/ WORKS CITED: How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

In this episode of Lux Occult, Luxa is joined by Douglas Batchelor, magician, bibliophile and host of the What Magic is This? podcast to talk about everything from Discordianism, time loops, the history of the occult and the magick and worldview of the Ancient Egyptians to dreaming and expressing oneself authentically. Luxa announces an ongoing group magickal working that you can be a part of! There were too many books to list here, so please see the show notes for WORKS CITED: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRJWnDpxTYN9_IDkg98scm9V8PAGl2-2s6Kv-lG3pL2ZhuZ2NwQPEv5_SWQLg4IffLzn9MDhgsWFZMf/pub To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult For tons of great info and more great book recommendations, check out the What Magic is This? Podcast  https://whatmagicisthis.com/ Check out the very cool ANQ (Pseudo-Qabalah) project: https://covn.tumblr.com/post/183583331212/anq Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod or @the_memetic_disease. Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease: https://www.instagram.com/the_memetic_disease/ And try the technique for yourself! https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSLceg14KnJMbDNLOj0R_5851IPu5zt-s1FaCnEk1yB1_DkQs1lyK41Id2lrKAxI8DbyFC1Y_0f4Ivq/pub Listen to Ad Hoc History, a podcast where Luxa and her brother, Asher, talk history and the personal motivations that might underlie it:  https://open.spotify.com/show/0HLqy3W7LtnuMxRxl0ei0Q And hear Luxa and her friends, Ray and Deep, talk about sex and sexpositivity on the (very cringy) Smut’s Up podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7DwvM9RldLyJjs6yj70GLk

Luxa’s bro, Asher (host of Ad Hoc History), returns to talk more Chaos Magick concepts and practice! In this episode we talk about making Servitors as well as go into other thoughtforms like Egregores and Godforms. We also talk about Hypersigils and building your Astral Temple. We even touch on Warhammer and D&D... this is a juicy one! Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com Note: there were too many sources to fit here, so for the list of books and links, check out the Show Notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT279ClTe4Af1ip0CZhr91mhW3O-QqsaSXCqwKaHGFoBn2EFLHwE09wePUy9Zbs2IuWKvdwCtZk5FrS/pub To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_memetic_disease/ And try the technique for yourself! https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSLceg14KnJMbDNLOj0R_5851IPu5zt-s1FaCnEk1yB1_DkQs1lyK41Id2lrKAxI8DbyFC1Y_0f4Ivq/pub Listen to Ad Hoc History, a podcast where Asher and Luxa talk history and the personal motivations that might underlie it:  https://open.spotify.com/show/0HLqy3W7LtnuMxRxl0ei0Q Cover art: “The Intention to Know” Thoughtform from the book Thought-Forms by Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater

Dave Ardrey from the Unearthing Paranormalcy Podcast returns to discuss Ogham Pathworking and scrying as well as some specifics about how to use the Druid’s Wheel of the Year (The Wheel of Life) for planning rituals and invoking the energies of certain times of year. Dave and Luxa go through the Ogham fews (letters of the alphabet) and discuss some botanical aspects of each of the plants represented. Please refer to this diagram: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQoCt0LOYrfr_-E0bdM2nQ8ied0qlD3b3HxCnXqF107MM1Oruxu1L_BPlzrJrfR9ha9iaNmBhTqVqu1/pub Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or join the FB group (if you feel like it, ugh, FB). https://www.facebook.com/groups/319273195800053/?ref=bookmarks Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease: Luxa Strata (@the_memetic_disease) • Instagram photos and videos And try the technique for yourself! https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSLceg14KnJMbDNLOj0R_5851IPu5zt-s1FaCnEk1yB1_DkQs1lyK41Id2lrKAxI8DbyFC1Y_0f4Ivq/pub Check out Dave’s show, the Unearthing Paranormalcy Podcast Unpnormalcy: Podcast and hear Luxa on Unearthing Paranormalcy: https://www.unpnormalcy.com/podcast/episode/4a8e1512/105-unearthing-dion-fortune-and-the-magical-battle-of-britain-with-special-guests-fools-guide-to-the-occult WORKS CITED: Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms by Donald J. Borror; The Botany of Desire by Michael Poland; The Drunken Botanist by Amy Srewart; Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart; Contemporary Plant Systematics, 4th ed. by Dennis Woodland; Pathworking by Ted Andrews;  Book Of Ballymote containing the Auracept Na n’Eces by Longarad https://www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/jce/ballymote.html With side by side translation https://archive.org/details/auraicept00calduoft/page/n17/mode/2u

Dave Ardrey from the Unearthing Paranormalcy podcast joins Luxa in this first installment of a two episode series about Druidism to discuss his path of independent Druidry and how he draws the inspiration to create from his practice and from the natural world. A somewhat short episode, but Part II will make up for that! Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com    Or the show's new Instagram https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_memetic_disease/ And try the technique for yourself!  https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSLceg14KnJMbDNLOj0R_5851IPu5zt-s1FaCnEk1yB1_DkQs1lyK41Id2lrKAxI8DbyFC1Y_0f4Ivq/pub Listen to Dave’s show, the Unearthing Paranormalcy Podcast Unpnormalcy: Podcast To learn more about Druidry, visit: Ancient Order of Druids in America – Traditional Nature Spirituality for Today Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids | OBOD Tribe of the Oak Thank you to Sawsquarenoise for the use of their song "Rito Oculto". http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/p/sawsquarenoise.html

In this episode, Luxa is joined once again by special guest, Asher, host of the Ad Hoc History podcast and also her brother! An exploration of more Chaos Magick concepts- Models of Magick and how Divination might work within them. We also talk about some pitfalls to avoid, plus more bibliomancy and a discussion about the ethics of sorcery! We close out with some stuff to try  and some tips about automatic writing.  To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Thank you so much for listening to Lux Occult! Write in with your thoughts, questions or suggestions! luxoccultpod@gmail.com Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The Memetic Disease On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_memetic_disease/ And try the tech yourself! Protocol for the Memetic Disease Project Tech https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRvTsYoDX3pSZnrxssg0_T_SVRRz-Luk1v2lYWVecIOysLahdUTkFLrwIwcuNI7HsGaucWISgul9D62/pub Check out Asher and Luxa’s show, Ad Hoc History: It’s not the history podcast you wanted, it's the one you deserve! https://open.spotify.com/show/0HLqy3W7LtnuMxRxl0ei0Q Works Cited: Liber Null and Psychonaut by Peter J. Carroll Visual Magick: A Manual of Freestyle Shamanism by Jan Fries The Writings of Austin Osman Spare by Austin Osman Spare Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine The Big Bang by Joseph Silk S.S.O.T.B.M.E. Revised, an Essay on Magic Edited and Revised by Ramsey Dukes Real Magic by Dean Radin Principia Discordia- Malaclypse The Younger This was the documentary we argue about in the episode: Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods - Official Full Film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZcflWe6Fhc