Aidan Wachter https://www.instagram.com/aidan_wachter joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to discuss Aidan’s recent bicycle tour and the esoteric insights arrived at through such endeavors. Aidan also shares about the book he’s working on now, and about his new essay in the compilation This Is Chaos: Embracing the Future of Magic, edited by Pet…

Lee Harrington http://www.PassionAndSoul.com joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to discuss ritual, psychonautic exploration, body magic, and more! Lee also shares about his personal magical practice, and his Patron deity, Bear. During a break, enjoy a stroll through history as we honor Claud Cahun, Marcel Moore, and the Soldier with No Name. L…

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata is joined by Cressida Stone https://www.instagram.com/secretsofsantamuerte/?hl=en, author of Secrets of Santa Muerte: joins to discuss her book, Secrets of Santa Muerte: A Guide to the Prayers, Spells, Rituals, and Hexes, working with the folk saint, and her journey into becoming a devotee. Topics discussed include…

Co-directors of Consent Academy https://www.instagram.com/consentacademy/ Ariana and Ash, join Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to discuss how magical work with groups or solo (and activities or relationships of any kind) can be improved through learning about and using consent practices, and how the risk of consent incidents happening can be decr…

Melissa Jayne Marada https://www.instagram.com/saint.jayne/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share about their new book, The Witch's Workshop and about the power of creating one’s own magical tools and materials. Topics discussed include making your own incense and recipes for different types, dying your own magical chords, creating inks …

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata shares a guided meditation, “Get a Room With Yourself at The Green Mushroom Astral Space: A Solo-Sex Meditation for Healing, Wholeness, and Power” as well as setting the table with some context. What do you truly consent to when you're alone with yourself? How does respecting your own boundaries feel in your body? …

Erika Robinson https://www.instagram.com/divine_withme/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share about her new book, The Language of Lenormand (which is the first on the topic written by an American), as well as her journey into creating the deck, ‘Erika’s Lenormand of Hope’. Erika explains how divining with Lenormand deck is different from…

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata is joined by Becky Annison https://www.instagram.com/beckyannison/, creator of “Wreck This Deck”, the solo role playing and journaling game in which players modify standard playing cards for magical purposes. Topics discussed include the magical power of roleplaying, the intersections between games and rituals, how…

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata is joined by the hosts of Ex V Planis https://linktr.ee/Exvplanis and Unearthing Paranormalcy podcasts https://www.unpnormalcy.com/ for this special round table discussion about the Simulation Hypothesis, what it is and what its implications might mean for Magic, Death, Morality, and the nature of reality itself! I…

Author, psychologist, and longtime Thelemite, Dr. David Shoemaker livingthelema.com joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share about his new book, The Way of the Will:Thelema in action and about how Thelema might differ from other traditions or religions where thinking about the founder is concerned. Topics discussed include Aleister Crowley-…

A bonus mini-ep with the remote version of The Green Sphere. This simple magical working is to be performed for the first time on Saturday June 8, 2024 at 9:00 PM EST either solo or as a group. It is a companion to a Hekatean ceremony using The Green Mushroom Hyphosigil Project’s magical current for protection and healing for children and others wh…

Actor, director, and pagan performer extraordinaire, Cythia Beckert https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065653/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share about the intersections of a magical practice and theatrical practice, working with deities like Dionysus and Hekate, and about what can be learned about practices like invocation through explorin…

Michael M Hughes https://www.michaelmhughes.com/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share about experiences surrounding the ritual he created to bind the reality TV star the US elected as president in 2016 and which ended up being propelled to viral fame, becoming the largest magical working in history. There’s some great stuff about the hi…

In this bonus episode, Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata presents a talk given on the Green Musheen Discord server about the founding of The Green Mushroom Hyphosigil Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/ and about how this work will be continued with a new experiment, Void House: creating an inclusive, consent-forward space in which to conduct…

Albert Björn Shiell https://www.instagram.com/sussex_pellar/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about his new book, Icelandic Folk Magic: Witchcraft of the North Topics discussed include Galder and Sedir, the trolls, the elves and other denizens of the wild places, Oden’s complex role in the mythology, the role Christianity plays in th…

Isa Nakazawa https://www.instagram.com/isanaka joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share some approaches to astrology and tarot and discuss how such practice can be both a technology of freedom as well as something which gives one insight into meaningful patterns on a broader, social level. Isa is the host for the Stars and Stars with Isa po…

Angela Guyton https://www.angelaguyton.com/about/ (Nothing Rhymes w/ Rats, Paradoxical +) shares about the experience of being an accomplished comic book artist who would also like to be a comic book writer, and the sometimes uncomfortable journey of stretching one’s wings in a creative practice. The concepts discussed could be applied to a new end…

Aidan Wachter https://www.patreon.com/aidanwachter, author of Changeling, Six Ways, and Weaving Fate, joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to discuss ways of cultivating resilience and focusing on the bigger picture by aligning one’s attention with one’s intention. Aidan shares about the somatic work he’s been conducting to move through anxiety,…

Douglass Batchelor of the ‘What Magic is This?’ podcast https://whatmagicisthis.com/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata for a discussion about the phenomena and the conversations surrounding government disclosure about “non-human intelligences”, etc. from a perspective which is informed by an occult or magical practice. What does it look like …

23 skidoo! Psychoanalyst, author, artist, occultist and host of Rendering Unconscious, Dr. Vanessa Sincalir https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about the cut-up technique and how it can be applied in one’s magical practice. Dr. Sinclair shares some advice about magical praxis and about some of her expe…

Eric J. Millar https://substack.com/@ngbmo joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to share some philosophical outlooks on the creation process, what it means to be a magician in the machine and about his newest book, WOMBAT. Despite the title, which stands for Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time, WOMBAT is a very cool collection of creative curiosity…

Dave Ardrey of Unearthing Paranormalcy podcast https://www.unpnormalcy.com/, The the Ancient Order of Druids in America https://aoda.org/ and The Green Mushroom Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/ joins Luxa https://anchor.fm/luxa-strata to talk about Mycocultus, a project which explores core concepts found in neophyte or beginner work from m…

Professor Patricia MacCormack, author of The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about the Death of anthropos, Queerying, Queering and Queer(y)ing Chaos Magick, Death Activism, Cunt Chaos Magick, and much more! Find out why the Professor doesn’t mind being called a cunt and why …

Flood from Ex V Planis https://www.exvplanis.com joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata for a fun and impromptu conversation about dark energy, dark matter, entropy, magic and more. Luxa shares thoughts about the Monroe Institute’s Hemi-Sync recordings and some of the work that went into the recent album of audio magic, Void/Machine: Adjustment, a…

Rocket https://www.instagram.com/eyeandy/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about Spinoza, Pantheism, the idea of a Transcendent vs. an Immanent divine (and what that translates into for humans). What does this look like when religious philosophy is translated into political doctrine? We also talk about Kabbalah (with a K), and why th…

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata is joined by Laurel to talk about her Catholic Saints practice, which she does outside of the purview of the Church in a Chaos Magic context, working directly with the Saints rather than involving “big G” god. She shares about how the Saints appear differently in different cultures, and about some of the family tra…

Luxa joins Dave, Amy, and Chad from the Unearthing Paranormalcy podcast as well as Flood from Ex V Planis to tell ghost stories, talk about disclosure and lab grown meat and discuss what makes a place haunted. Hosts share local legends and spooky antidotes as well as getting into some of the scarier topics which arose during 2023. A track from Fuck…

SM Kennedy and Co-Host of Chaos Magick News https://linktr.ee/chaosmagicknews?fbclid=PAAab1TYdUqqjo2m_1Ex9DW6fcvPZ23QJ6OFFhmaZsh8-xWAXQwya4iOzBj2M join Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata for a conversation about Chaos Magick and modern occultism. Austin Osman Spare and Peter Carroll, approaches to divination, the importance of aesthetics in a magica…

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata speaks with JS Groves http://jsgroves.com/, about some of the many irons xi has in the fire, creatively and magically. JS shares about working with the Picatrix and using planetary elections to make talismanic jewelry, and the process and rationale that xi uses in this work. We talk about the god, Dionysus, and mod…

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata speaks with author Phil Hine http://enfolding.org, about his new collections of essays, Queerying Occultures (available from Original Falcon Publications https://originalfalcon.com/products.php?a=phil_hine ) and Acts of Magical Resistance (available on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Acts-Magical-Resistance-Phil-Hine…

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata speaks with author Chris Allaun http://chrisallaun.com/, about his new title, The Black Book of Johnathan Knotbristle, a Devil's Parable and Guide for Witches, available from Crossed Crow Books https://www.crossedcrowbooks.com/. Chris speaks about the importance of narrative as a teaching tool as well as his tradit…

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata speaks with author, Ramon Castellanos https://www.theancestralnow.com/, about the concept of Wildness, and his upcoming book, In Praise of the Wild Spirit. Ramon shares some fascinating perspectives about how we, as modern humans, interact with what he calls the current of domestication and what this force looks li…

In this special celebration of May 23rd, 2023, Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata reads the first 9 books of The Green Mushroom Project 23:Bibliomancy scripture accompanied by the “23” track produced for the experiment out of samples with the number 23 in their titles. Much Love and Mush Love to everyone participating in the Green Mushroom Project, …

Luxa speaks with Keats Ross https://twitter.com/KeatsRoss, host of the Pragmagick Podcast and central haunt of the We The Hallowed international anarchic artist’s collective about his new project, Haunt Manual and his practice of producing esoteric audio and using sound in magical contexts. There’s also an episode within the episode ft. Loue That 1…

Luxa speaks with Menw, https://twitter.com/occultboyscout host of the Woodlands Show Podcast about his love of Grimoires and how to approach working with them. Also discussed is the solomonic technique, falling in love with learning, the joys of geomancy, being your own divination boy, and much more. In an episode within the episode, Patrick https:…

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata speaks with Lon Milo DuQuettehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Milo_DuQuette, Laurelei Black https://www.laureleiblack.com/, & Yaramarud https://twitter.com/yaramarud about the Return of the Babalon Rising Pan-Thelemic Festival this year, 2023. A few different conceptualizations of the Red Goddess are explored. Lon…

The Green Mushroom Project Audio Grimoire series returns! Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata is joined by fellow Fungi, Miguel, Menw, Shane https://buildingthephilosophersstone.wordpress.com/, and Joy https://www.instagram.com/occulture_jammer for a foray into a new astral environment. During this group experiment, participants were led in a guided …

Mme. Vendredi https://www.instagram.com/mmvndri/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about the topics of Perception, working with the Djinn, Demon Bowls, and the practice of Black Magick; as well as for a discussion about Love Magic and Ethics. In an episode within the episode, Ramon Castellanos https://www.theancestralnow.com/ speaks a…

Dr. Cyndi Brannen https://keepingherkeys.com/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata for a very special hybrid edition of the Lux Occult and Keeping Her Keys podcasts. In exploring Dr. Brannen’s book, Entering Hekate’s Garden, the topics of Pharmakeia and The Poison that Heals are discussed. Dr. Brannen shares about her contextualization of Hekate…

Sophie Saint Thomas, author of Sex Witch, Glamour Witch, and other titles, joins Luxa to discuss the topic of Glamour Magick and how it might be thought of in a much more broad context than what might immediately spring to mind. Sophie speaks on how the concepts of glamour and magick have always been intertwined, and how the idea of going back to t…

Rev. Erik, https://arnemancy.com/ host of Arnemancy and co-host of Wiz Biz, joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata for this special spooky holiday episode to talk about ways math(s) shows up in an occult practice and how it can be used for all types of magical operations like sigil creation, meditation, etc. Topics include cryptology, prime number…

Ramsey Janini https://www.instagram.com/ramostotle/ author of the existential comic, Nothing Rhymes with Rats https://www.instagram.com/nrwr_comic/, (Illustrated by Angela Guyton https://www.instagram.com/angieastronaut/ ) joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about gallows humor, finding joy in meaninglesness, and the fascinating journey…

Luxa expresses Gratitude, shares a poetry snack, and announces that Fuck Around and Find Out: Offerings of Magical Sovergnty from The Green Mushroom Project Zine is now available digitally! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cKu6-PNAZl8qpafAw_C-wTdsveVaUydu/view?usp=sharing Many thanks to Joy the Sporeceress https://www.instagram.com/occulture_jammer…

Jason Miller https://www.strategicsorcery.net/, author of the new book, Consorting with Spirits, joins Luxa to talk about working with non-corporeal entities in one’s practice. Some of the topics explored are how we should frame our thinking when it comes to issues like consent in dealing with spiritual entities, and ways of contextualizing the inf…

Join Luxa for a Special Halloween/Samhain/Birthday celebration ft. a conversation with Britt from the Primordia podcast https://www.instagram.com/pr1mordia/ about her thoughts on the topic of Fear, her lifelong obsession with all things spooky, building a psychomanteum, Nikola Tesla’s ghost radio, and much more. There is an episode within the episo…

Luxa is joined by Melissa Madara, author of The Witch's Feast: A Kitchen Grimoire https://www.instagram.com/saint.jayne/, to talk about enjoying the history of occultism through food, eating SATOR squares, Witchcakes from the Salem Witch Trials (sans urine) and why Kitchen Witchcraft isn’t really a thing, but we can’t seem to stop doing it. Erudite…

Adel Souto, aka Adel 156 https://adelsouto.com/AS.html, joins Luxa for a conversation about his album, Memento Mori, which was produced using human bones as instruments, as well as “throw away poetry” and discovering art as it emerges from one’s environment. Loki Lumerian also stops in for an episode within the episode to chat about a bibliomancy o…

Zach Budd, consent and polyamory educator and Golf Coast advocate for the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom https://ncsfreedom.org/, joins Luxa and Deep, co-host of the Smut’s Up podcast, to speak about a system Zach’s developed to help people understand consent, called the 5 Pillars of Consent, as well as discussing the problems with the “no m…

This short meditation was written, read and produced by Luxa Stata (https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata) and features graphic design by T. Grady (https://www.instagram.com/mirthandwoe/). It was made for the purposes of guiding participants to The Green Mushroom Astral Space during Fungal Friday voice chats. Now, you too can join us in the Astral Tavern as…

Josh, aka Jr. C https://www.instagram.com/juniorc_is_people/ joins Luxa for a conversation about Future Optimism and the Solar Punk aesthetic, and how it ties into Chaos Magick and concepts like Hypersigils. There is also a discussion about approaching one’s magical practice from the context of a scientific point of view and why sustainability is i…