Between the Worlds Podcast

Here are some of the resources Sarah mentioned: Native Land project The Sogorea Te Land Trust Wishtoyo's Chumash Village project Shayne Case's Toki Amanwani  project North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems All My Relations Podcast Learn More About Your Host Amanda Yates Garcia To join Amanda's MYSTERY CULT on Substack click here. To order Amanda's book, "Initiated: Memoir of a Witch" CL...

This week’s episode is sponsored by our favorite NON-Tarot deck of cards: Polemic! - the game of small differences. Find out more at: http://www.gardenpathgames.com *** Win A Free Session With Amanda To enter to win a free tarot session with Amanda (and get a downloadable altar prayer PDF, guaranteed), all readers of Initiated need to do is review Amanda's book on Amazon or Goodreads or their Inst...

A huge thank you to Casey Zabala of the Witch's confluence for organizing a beautiful event. A huge thank you to everyone there that participated.  To learn more about the Witch's Confluence, go here. ************************************ Links! Amanda Yates Garcia (art witch, healer, writer): www.oracleoflosangeles.com To sign up for Amanda's newsletter, CLICK HERE. To order Amanda's book, "Initia...

This episode is sponsored by: Embodied Manifestation, a free workshop, hosted by Thérèse Cator. Sign up for free at www. EmbodiedManifestation.com/strangemagic   To support and learn more about the talented witches featured in this episode: Asali Earthwork/ www.asaliearthwork.com / instagram.com/asaliearthwork Erica Feldman / hauswitchstore.com / instagram.com/hauswitch Chiron Armand / impactshama...

Strange Magic endorses the Living Altar. To get a copy of this oracle deck, click here, and help to support witches making magic! References from the Show Amanda's book events: Thursday, 10/31 7pm, Brooklyn, NY: Halloween Ritual and Reading at powerHouse Arena Monday, 11/4 7pm, Los Angeles, CA at Booksoup Friday, 11/15, time TBD, Los Angeles, CA at Stories Bookstore and Café 11/24 Miami, FL: Miami...

Strange Magic endorses the Living Altar. To get a copy of this oracle deck, click here, and help to support witches making magic! References from the Show Amanda's book events: Saturday, 10/26, 6pm Los Angeles, CA: LA BOOK LAUNCH!! Skylight Books with Pam Grossman on Q & A; Thursday 10/31, 7pm, Brooklyn, NY: Halloween Ritual and Reading at powerHouse Arena; Monday, 11/4 7pm, Los Angeles, CA at Boo...

Today we ride the party train through the troubled territories of jealousy, betrayal, and failure. We look at how the tarot can help us deal with the most difficult aspects of our lives, and talk about how we reckon with these hard feelings personally. It sounds difficult, but when we're together witches can make anything fun. It's magic! Join us!  ********************************** References fro...

Listener discretion is advised in this episode. We get kinky, dirty, and have a whole lot of fun discussing Major Arcana XV - The Devil. Think power, BDSM, the Matrix, David Bowie's bulge, addictions, snakes, goats billowing black sabbath smoke from the top of a snow storming mountain. Only the Gothest of witches need apply. Tune in, if you dare! ********************************** References from...

We're back with Season 3 of Strange Magic! In this episode we review our Empress and Hanged Man predictions from the beginning of the year to look at what's come true and how it's all played out. We also take a deep dive into a review of our own cards of the year in the hopes that you'll be inspired to check back in with your cards as well. xo ********************************** References from the...

In this episode we talk Temperance: the card that teaches how to heal. When this card appears we know we've got the angels on our side. Tune in to this, our last episode of the season, to hear us dish on turning struggle and strife into pure alchemical gold. This is the episode for you if: you’re just coming out of a period of loss, and now you’re in recovery you feel lost or bereft spiritually yo...

In this episode we discuss every witch's favorite subject: spells. Do they work? HOW do they work? Are they safe? And we dish some delish spells stories of our own. ***** Links! *Amanda Yates Garcia * (art witch, healer, writer): www.oracleoflosangeles.com CONTRIBUTORS Amanda Yates Garcia, Sarah, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs. Learn More About Your Host Amanda Yates Garcia To join Amanda's MYSTERY CUL...

Also known as the Nameless Card, the Death card, Major Arcana XIII, is the key to helping us face the unknown and allow change to happen. Tune in if you're facing grief or loss. Tune in if you're ready to move on, or even if you never want to let go; either way, this is the card for you. You might want to listen to this episode if: You've been experiencing loss and are finding it difficult to cope...

Woot, woot! It's summer Solstice, the holiday where witches in the northern hemisphere light up their grills, put on their frills and... collect rain water in crystal bowls. Tune in to find out simple ways to celebrate with your people. We give you alllll our magical Solstice tips. Notes from the show: This year, in Los Angeles, Solstice comes on June 21st at 8:54am PST. For more information about...

Hang tight, the Hanged One is here to show you how to get through difficult times. The Hanged One tarot card gets a bad wrap, but we show you the bright side on this episode of Strange Magic. You might need this episode if: You feel like no matter what they do nothing changes, i.e. you feel stuck in an uncomfortable position You are in an uncomfortable and groundless time period in your life You f...

We were so excited about this episode we put it out a day early! Intuition. Is it real? Is it just wishful thinking? Can you trust it? How do you listen to it? In this episode we answer these questions and more. In this episode, you'll find out just what intuition is and why it's useful. Also, Sarah and Amanda share some of the things they wish someone had told them when they first started practic...

In this episode, we go into every witch's favorite subject: feminism! Sarah and Amanda discuss friendship and the 3 of Cups; to complete or not to complete with the 4 of Wands; getting frisky with the Page of Cups; powering up with the Queens; and yes, we finally address the Motherpeace controversy. Tune in! Feminism and the tarot is one of our favorite subjects and we could go on about it all day...

In this episode Sarah and Amanda talk about Major Arcana XI, the Justice card. If you're having legal issues, have fallen out with a friend or loved one, or keeping running in to the same old drama, this is the episode for you. We talk about goddesses of wisdom and their bloodthirsty, devouring shadows. We talk about squaring up with your values (remember those?). We talk numbers (if you ever want...

In this episode we give witchy advice for some of our listeners' most pressing problems. Tune in to hear Sarah and Amanda roll up their sleeves and become life hacktivists, tarot-style. We answer questions about patriarchy and questions about ambition. We tell you the secret tricks that helped us create lives we love. We problem-solve about what to do when that one pesky card KEEPS showing up. AND...

In this episode we interview some of our favorite witches to find out what witchcraft means to them. Tune in to hear from an art witch, a sex witch, a decolonialist witch, and a famous astrologer witch, and remember... there's a witch wherever you arrrrrreeeee. In fact, hearing from all of these other witches can help you understand where witchcraft fits into your world. We want to hear from you!...

In this episode we discuss the weird and wonderful world of the Wheel of Fortune, including as many wheel puns as possible -- wheely, wheely good ones! But seriously folks, this card is special. Full of arcane symbols, great wisdom about luck, acceptance, surrender, fate, destiny, and recognizing that to everything there is a season. Respect that the universe works according to its own laws of tim...

In today's episode, Amanda interviews Sarah about her slow tarot journey into becoming a professional reader. Sarah gets personal and talks about her initial resistance to being a reader, discussing some of what she's learned in her 15 years with the cards, and gets deep into her love of the tarot. Thanks for tuning in!     ********************************* Links! Amanda Yates Garcia (art witch, h...

In this episode, Sarah interviews Amanda about how she came to tarot and when she became a witch. Our hope is that by listening to our stories about how we came to make tarot, magic, and witchcraft such a huge part of our lives, that you will be inspired to think about your OWN tarot journey. The world comes to us in the form of stories. As we tell our stories of how we came to our beliefs, we rev...

In this episode Sarah and Amanda discuss Major Arcana 9, The Hermit card. This is the card for you if you want to Netflix and chill... with yourself, like, in a spiritual way. The Hermit corresponds to the number 9, which represents the completion of a cycle. The Hermit appears in your life when you're ready to stop looking outside yourself for answers. You already have all the information you nee...

Most of the time when we pull tarot cards, we arrange them into spreads basically at random. But that doesn't really help us understand the story of the cards as it was intended by tarot's inventors. When we lay the Major Arcana out in grids, we can understand how the "Fool's Journey" evolves and also get a better understanding of how the cards relate to each other when they come up in a reading....

The wild witches of the west are back with Season 2 of Strange Magic! In this episode we discuss Major Arcana 8, the Strength card. Also known as The Lady of the Beasts, and sometimes simply, Lust, this card helps us find and celebrate our inner wild thing. If you're: having to endure a situation you’re not sure you can endure trying (maybe struggling) to get in touch with your creativity if uncon...