January 2024 #4 Increasing magical power teamLab Borderless Shanghai Last week, you had the opportunity to work with an unwanted thought or feeling during an Archetypal Attunement inspired by the process of projective identification. Remember, projective identification involves taking an unwanted thought or feeling and casting it “out there.” This quality is then “metabolized” by someone else, rendering it less threatening, which makes it easier to take back and integrate within ourselves. In...
9 months ago • 8 min read
January 2024 #3 Jungian Energy Practice ARTECHOUSE Miami Last week, we ended with the question: Is it possible, using energy work, to replicate the process of projective identification, thereby gaining the benefits of having unwanted qualities processed and made available for integration, without dumping our stuff on people who aren’t our therapist? This question gives rise to the following Jungian Magic energy technique, which draws on elements of Internal Family Systems. Before you listen...
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January 2024 #2 What is projective identification? Arcadia Earth exhibit Last week, we explored how complexes can exert a powerful effect on the world around us, changing not only our perception of the world, but the world itself. Today, I want to look at a very specific form of this inner-outer interplay. It’s called projective identification, and we’re going to use it to build our own Jungian Magic energy technique. Projective identification is like ordinary psychological projection with a...
10 months ago • 7 min read
January 2024 #1 Energy centers in the psyche The Spirits of the Pumpkins Descended into the Heavens (2019) by Yayoi Kusama As a Reiki Master, I was taught a very specific approach to energy work, and for a number of years, I ran a healing practice, offering bodywork, Reiki + tarot. During that time, my hands-on energy healing began to develop its own flavor, one that was intricately entwined with my Jungian studies. I find the overlap between Jungian psychology, energy work, and magic...
10 months ago • 6 min read
Happy Full Moon in Leo, Reader! Today, I want to talk about itty-bitty changes leading to big-time productivity, and then I'm going to tie this in with Jungian Magic and turning romance novels into sigils 💋. This year, I've made some changes to my daily work schedule. Pre-schedule change, I worked from 6:30~7:00 a.m. until either 4:00 (if I had an after-work walk with a friend) or 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. That’s 10 hours a day on average that I was working, and yet I always felt like...
10 months ago • 6 min read
Enchantment Lab: January #3 Do try this at home created with NightCafe (zodiacal energy on steroids) Hi, Reader! Let’s dive right into different practices you can play with and adapt for your magical syllabus. The first idea is to translate your magical focus into something tangible, such as an object for your altar. If you’re exploring certain planets in your natal chart, for instance, you might select a crystal to represent each one (google planetary-crystal correspondences) and place those...
10 months ago • 6 min read
Enchantment Lab: January #2 Witch school is officially in session created with NightCafe (seriously, why isn't this a real place??) This week, we’re going to play with the concept of a magical syllabus, but I’d like you to think of this less as a giant to-do list (yuck) and more like the question you pose at the beginning of a tarot reading. Allow me to explain… When you frame a tarot reading with an opening question, you are then looking at the cards through that particular lens, and this...
11 months ago • 5 min read
Enchantment Lab: January #1 Crafting your magical system New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree (1857) by Utagawa Hiroshige Happy New Year, Reader! Here we are, with our fresh, sparkly calendars. What better time to assemble your personalized magical system and set yourself up for an enchanting 2024? There are as many ways to create magical systems as there are practitioners, so we’re going to approach this by first zooming way, way out and asking, “Why do you practice magic?” It’s easy...
11 months ago • 4 min read
I’m a total sucker for year-end retrospectives, and this month my inbox has been cheerfully full of them from fellow authors and entrepreneurs. I love hearing about lessons learned, epic wins (and epic flops), and sparkly plans for the future. So, here’s my Big Lesson of 2023… Little steps, consistently taken, can create surprisingly big change. Throughout the year, three smaller lessons helped drive this Big One home. Let's take a look... Little Lesson #1: Reality is way more amazing than...
11 months ago • 6 min read