Lux Occult

Note: This version does not contain the introduction and discussion of the exercise. A version with the introduction as well as the meditation will also be available for convenience. This meditation was written by The Green Mushroom Council member S Shane Thomas with Narration by Dave Ardrey, Amy Ardrey & Chad, and Production and Sound Design by Luxa Strata.  S Shane Thomas blogs about discovering and learning magic at https://buildingthephilosophersstone.wordpress.com.  This meditation is intended to guide you through the positive and negative traits of the thinking, feeling, intuitive, and sensory parts of the self. It can be used for personal reflection and growth, acquainting yourself with the four esoteric directions, and learning not to be a dick. Shane’s experience with Franz Bardon’s Black Mirror and White Mirror exercise in Initiation Into Hermetics and his practical work in the first two Apprentice modules of Quareia.com, a free self study school of magic in the Western Esoteric tradition, have inspired this writing. Much Love to everyone who has been participating in the project, however that looks in your individual practice. Notes and Resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQtLrj7vyQFI28m5XKLRnaoOnSUtDfoXEww0s1zSmf2GJ_eb17s6xvddOpO9cUOf8iY61EMB7rw5sw7/pub Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Check out the new Lux Occult YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB We would love to hear from you! 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/ Watch the informational video about The Green Mushroom Project on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlBQ Follow The Green Mushroom project on Instagram @hyphosigil  https://www.instagram.com/hyphosigil/

Join Luxa as she speaks again with Aidan Wachter, magician, podcaster, talismanic jeweler, and author or Weaving Fate and Six Ways about how changing the way we think about the term “Visualization” as well as how we frame the practice of Imagination Magick can make it much more accessible. There’s also a ton of other great, practical advice about framing our approach to the practice of magick, and life, in general, as well as some commentary on fine cinema. There’s an update about a Sound Sigil track for The Green Mushroom’s first birthday that you can contribute to, as well as a sample of what Luxa has mixed for the track thus far. Also, a bonus bibliomancy break featuring listener and supporter, Antoni! Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult FOR FULL EPISODE NOTES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSXi-jt2fAJP3QgyXv_AnEjTLqjjIQGUMxeZg20neZL0bofuoYluxJY0-EQK5YtjSApFlVhFCKIm6-B/pub Check out the new Lux Occult YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB We would love to hear from you! 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/ Find alL of Aidan’s Wachter’s work at : http://www.aidanwachter.com/ If you would like to record a Statement of Intent for The Green Mushroom Zygospore Sound Sigil Track by mid September 2021, here are instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQDdyWdjSBh0FiYYbD3y19P0E4UUZN58ab_U7dBlT7LNfA9i1p939dqZEX-MNWBvgIQhKmLbItH7xnB/pub

Join Luxa as she speaks with Matt Marble, an artist, writer, and audio producer whose music and visual art are informed by symbolic geometry, divination methods, and ongoing dreamwork practice, about his work and his approach to creating. Matt is also the host of the Secret Sound podcast and the author of Buddhist Bubblegum, an upcoming book about Arthur Russell, which will be available Winter 2021. Also featuring music from Matt Marble, alchemists with fun names, an update about The Green Mushroom Project, and musings about Gratitude. Much Love. For Full Episode Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQin6fW8AbreUHdhGr_YqdTkHDpAZASmksjHT1A9tDaK6WTjkjfQF_sZ0bI9-0l9IE7iJMRqKQXpDp3/pub Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Check out the new Lux Occult YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB We would love to hear from you! 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/ Find all of Matt Marble’s work, including Musical Geometry and the Secret Sound podcast at: https://mattmarble.net/secret-sound

This instrumental meditation track is intended to be used for doing work with The Green Mushroom Hyphosigil Project, particularly work with the Astral Temple. It can, of course, be used however you see fit. The track ends with a composition for The Green Mushroom project by Kue Varo. Three versions of different lengths will be released to suit people’s current needs. Much Love. Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult We would love to hear from you! 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 follow The Green Mushroom project on Instagram @hyphosigil  https://www.instagram.com/hyphosigil/ Watch the informational video about The Green Mushroom Project on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlBQ The Green Mushroom Astral Cache Experiment Protocol: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTnc8z6hQy6QJzOV7Ra5CWO0-VPTTfDu55gfR9a0GQUV2rXSVmvPVhEOIYviMYYJDAbBBolSzdLV8sO/pub Music Notes: The following tracks were mixed using Audacity. Big thanks to the following creators! Brainwave Entrainment » Ambient Drone Solfeggio.wav by Headphaze Not To Notice by Andrewkn Stars Collide - Blur Pad 1.wav by Karma-Ron Sunny Forest by unfa Wandering by Andrewkn Blade Runner Type Ambient by onderwish Track for The Green Mushroom by Kue Varo https://soundcloud.com/j-street-390/kue-varos-the-green-mushroom-audio-track Check out Kue Varo’s stuff on bandcamp! https://kuevaro.bandcamp.com/

Join Luxa as she speaks with Dr. Rob C. Thompson of Occult Confessions and The Dark Pool podcasts about conspiracist ideation and the roots of the “Occult Conspiracy” narrative. Learn the ingredients in a  “Conspiracy Burger” as well as how to vaccinate yourself against hoaxes and faulty logic. Also, a classic prank, new music from Matt Marble, poetry from Frater Yaramarud, an update on The Green Mushroom Project, and much more! Full Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSqhNLKlmoEY3irl4zA17sP1DJd44O9LqgEqFDPNblBYl4YfBdv-FODTAeXk48go4_qR2jkmMGZQe8w/pub Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Check out the new Lux Occult YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB We would love to hear from you! 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/ Listen to Occult Confessions and The Dark pool podcasts: https://www.occultconfessions.com/episodes https://www.darkpoolproject.com/

Join Luxa as she speaks with Dave Neal, Writer, Theater Director and Trauma Specialist, about how Metacognition can help us better contextualize our experiences and responses, how Trauma affects the brain, and how the concept of Neuroplasticity tells us that it is possible to heal from the hardship of past events. Also featuring Dave’s Erisian poetry, an update on The Green Mushroom Project, and much more! Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Full Episode Notes:https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTKD-3HIXmamBNQyXSMhc2DSKfmXqVcjFmx1J2Pwky26abD9vUVUvJ4n-bxXDSE8dpw3t0bw51dwJF8/pub Check out the new Lux Occult YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB We would love to hear from you! 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/ Thanks to Dave Neal for recommending these resources! Trauma Informed Care from the Center for Health Care Strategies https://www.traumainformedcare.chcs.org/ National Alliance on Mental Illness Helpline, which also lists some other phone and text resources- https://www.nami.org/help Info on the ACES study and  related resources from the CDC under violence prevention- https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html

Join Luxa for a short introduction and a sound magick track.  It’s a sort of sonic offering to Hekate, a  Deipnon, or feast, which was traditionally given to her during the dark  moon. The track includes a shoal of sigils and some cut up poetry, as  well as audio from several related operations I ran as part of its  creation. The beat is symbolic of Hekate leading the spirits of the  unavenged and wrongfully killed up from Hades, which the Ancient  Athenians thought happened during the liminal time between moons. The  Deipnon was a means of placating them. For Notes about this track and other info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vS-HSMXhHWWQkOsel54ihirnsfmOTBWIkTbeykKEIDr-iToDyDt_w200jYDDBZ__94nQqYtxeyvaEYo/pub Thank  you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to  support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs,  consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Check out the new Lux Occult YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB We would love to hear from you! 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/

Join Luxa as she speaks with Elise Oursa, card reader, craniosacral therapist, practicing witch and creator of The Blood & Ink Tarot, which came to her in a whirlwind of a weekend! Elise shares about her experience creating the deck, as well as sharing some insights about cartomancy and using the Tarot. This episode also features an in-depth look at The Star Card (XVII), a nod to Hekate and the first in an ongoing talk series about The Green Mushroom Project Astral Temple Experiments. There is also a discussion about a ritual The Green Mushroom Council ran in April, as well as original music by An Historic composed for the working. Full Episode Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRh2XrU0OIyXwTSHVt3pSZjSRwPE_KSmW1K1ojr2QJCoSA8F0O8JvwcHr1QcpcaDj7IiysBfFhL41pO/pub Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Check out the new Lux Occult YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB We would love to hear from you! 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/ Check out The Blood and Ink Tarot and Elise Oursa’s other work: http://eliseoursa.com/ https://eliseoursa.com/bloodandink/ Check Out An Historic’s BandCamp: https://adammatlock.bandcamp.con/

Join Luxa for this special bonus episode as she makes a big announcement and speaks with her collaborators! Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult We would love to hear from you! 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/

Join Luxa as she speaks with artist, occultist, curator and activist Izdiahd Afyouni about her path to Chaos Magick, maintaining balance with a divination practice, the importance of being cognizant of the sociopolitical parameters of the spiritual practices in which we engage, and much more! Luxa provides some context from Liber Null and Psychonaut about two “different” ways of looking at Kia or Life Force (or Whatever) as well as some thoughts about Authority and Communication. Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQlusyZYO4ebe0w8KgSvTMqQU2VAHi1ALJAtAMfcl5hO_RORe6CKLzN_H1xYaGaZh74qx6Lz_GvvhRW/pub Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult We would love to hear from you! 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/ Check out Izdihar Afyouni’s stuff! https://www.instagram.com/fvckthepost/ http://izdiharafyouni.com/