Lux Occult

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata welcomes Literoin & Fr. Damiana to talk about the John Carpenter movie, They Live (1988) and a pop culture magic experiment inspired by the film. What did you see when you “put on the glasses”? Luxa shares about The Green Mushroom Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/ and Void House- creating consent centered magical spaces for conducting group work both i...

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata welcomes Charlie from It Cometh https://www.instagram.com/it_cometh?igsh=N2V1OWUwN3plNW9w to talk about the creation of a hypersigil metal album, using astral work for creative inspiration and magical instruction, the magician’s voice and vocal techniques, glamour magic and performance, tattoos, and more! Also hear an original track from It Cometh's upcoming a...

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata welcomes Michael Metatron Girard from Enochian Today https://enochiantoday.wordpress.com/ and author of the new book, Enochian Magic: An Introductory Guide, back to the show to talk about the Power in a Name, possible Risks and Rewards of using a powerful system like Enochian and how the approach to Enochian laid out in Michael's book is different than those w...

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata welcomes Micheal M Hughes  https://www.michaelmhughes.com/ , author of Magic for the Resistance: Rituals & Spells for Change to discuss magic in the media and the response from the right to his viral 2017 Binding Spell. How does the right wing grift play out in occult spaces? And why should we worry about what people in the news media and elsewhere are saying...

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata welcomes Aidan Wachter https://www.patreon.com/cw/aidanwachter/home , author of Six Ways, Weaving Fate, Changeling, and more, back to the show to discuss current events and looking forward with the new Black Book hypersigil project, After the Fall, as well to do a Retrospektive lookback at Aidan’s time with Thee Temple of Psychic Youth.  Luxa also shares historica...

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata hosts a panel of magic practitioners to discuss navigating issues related to mental health in one’s magical practice. Questions the panel will address: how do we define and delineate boundaries in our magical work and interpersonal lives? Is there intersection between how you protect yourself from potentially unhelpful magical forces and potentially unhelpful peop...

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata hosts a panel of magic practitioners to discuss navigating issues related to mental health in one’s magical practice. Questions the panel will address: how do we define and delineate boundaries in our magical work and interpersonal lives? Is there intersection between how you protect yourself from potentially unhelpful magical forces and potentially unhelpful peop...

Vittorio Benetti https://www.instagram.com/vittoriobenettihp, High Priest in the Temple of Witchcraft https://templeofwitchcraft.org/vittorio-benetti-hp/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata for a conversation about folk magic, including Vittorio’s contribution to Serpents of Circe, AI and magic, his time in the Italian horror punk band, Rival Skulls, working with the Norse Goddess, Hel and mor...

J.S. aka Jeffrey Groves https://www.patreon.com/cw/jsgroves returns to speak with Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata about how to recover from creative or magical burnout, and what to do when you’re starting to realize you're experiencing it. Jeffrey also shares about writing the series, The Prince’s Fighter’s, “ritual play” and xier photography work, including capturing magical operations like...

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata shares about the magic we’ll be doing to celebrate The Green Mushroom Project’s 5th Birthday, as well as some poetry snacks and a guided meditation. As always, Much Love and Mush Love to everyone participating in The Green Mushroom Project and Void House! Stay strong, stay curious, guard your mind, and continue to Resist! Thanks for listening to the Lux Occult Pod...

Ron Padrón of White Rose Witching https://www.whiterosewitching.com/about joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about organizing inclusive magical spaces and communities, and what to keep in mind when you’re getting people together to do magical work. Ron shares some perspectives about practicing magic as a member of the Latinx community, as well as about animal folk saints (like the bla...

Laura Tempest Zakroff , https://lauratempestzakroff.com/ , author of Anatomy of a Witch, Weave The Liminal, The Witch's Cauldron, Visual Alchemy, etc, as well as visual artist, dancer, and creatrix extraordinaire joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about Tarot, Numbers, the Archetypes of the Witch and the Magician, Sigil Craft, Embodied Magic and Dance, Authority and Authorship, Eg...

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata hosts a panel of magic practitioners to discuss navigating issues related to mental health in one’s magical practice. For this panel discussion, we address the following questions. How do we navigate the relationship between doing magic for things we desire in healthy ways (and how do we define this) vs. things we might desire that would be unhelpful for us, or wh...

Marcella Kroll https://www.marcellakroll.com/ , author of Healing the Liminal, joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about what it means to exist in, navigate and heal liminality, as well as about discovering ways to connect with unknown ancestors and lost family members through meditative, artistic and magical practices.  Topics discussed include the Family Tree exercise outlined in Hea...

Spencer Sunshine https://www.patreon.com/c/spencersunshine/home?redirect=true, https://spencersunshine.com/, author of Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism, joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about Satanism and the Far-right. Topics discussed include accelerationism, the history of nazis in Satanist circles and other fringe areas of culture, and about how the situation has e...

Asher, Co-host of Ad Hoc History Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/0HLqy3W7LtnuMxRxl0ei0Q?si=d1c727b897604262 joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata   to talk about J.R.R. Tolkien’s work and Legendarium, the mythology found therein. Topics discussed include: What spiritual ideas might have informed Tolkien’s work? How might his time as a soldier in WWI have impacted him and his storytelling?...

Per Andreassen who performs as The Tom O’Bedlam joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to discuss his new album and hypersigil Everyday Elegies. Topics discussed include feedback loops and the ritual of performance, identity and art, The Invisibles by Grant Morrison, and the character, The Tom O’Bedlam. A few tracks from Everyday Elegies, Grow Old and Chapel Perilous, are featured. Luxa shares ab...

Anthony Rella https://anthonyrella.com/ , author of Slow Magic: Cultivate Lasting Transformation Through Spellwork and Self-Growth , joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about playing the long game in one’s magical practice and working with different parts of the self. Some of the concepts which inform Slow Magic as a Paradigm are discussed, such as Internal Families Systems, the Mornin...

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata hosts a panel of magic practitioners to discuss navigating issues related to mental health in one’s magical practice.   Questions the panel will address: How do you know when you're getting into potential trouble by going "too far", or do you not consider this to be a risk? What have you done in the past to get yourself out of potential trouble, if y...

Paul Wyld, https://paulwyld.com/ author of Jim Morrison Secret Teacher of the Occult: A Journey to the Other Side joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to discuss how Jim Morrison, lead singer of the legendary rock group, The Doors, can be thought of as someone on the type of spiritual journey that author Manly Palmer Hall references in his influential classic, The Secret Teachings of All Ages....

Tom Banger https://www.instagram.com/tombanger/?hl=en joins Luxa https://bsky.app/profile/luxastrata919.bsky.social to discuss the history, magic and exploits of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth. TOPY's work (with things like the cut-up method, experimenting with non-structuralist magic, art as magic, the use of sexual fluids in ritual, experimenting with language, experimenting with gender and i...

Harold Roth https://www.instagram.com/haroldrothart/?hl=en joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to discuss his new book, The Forbidden Knowledge of the Book of Enoch: The Watchers, Nephilim, Fallen Angels, and the End of the World (Weiser Enochian Library) and the magical and historical significance of the biblical text, the Book of Enoch. We’ll get into the stories and the magic in the text, d...

Allen Greenfield joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata (and later Flood https://exvplanis.com/) for a special episode to discuss his new book, The Secrets of the Real Black Lodge Revealed and the intersections of UFOs, Occultism, Magick, politics and more. Topics discussed include Robert Anton Wilson, Kerry Thornley and Discordianism, the robotic head of Philip K. Dick, the TV Series, Twin Peaks...

Cliff from Enochian Today https://enochiantoday.wordpress.com/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to discuss his work creating Enochian Mandalas and how they might or might not be related to Western Qabala, using one’s training in the Enochian system to find inroads into other types of work, hypnosis, his updated Enochian Zodiacal tables, some encounters with the phenomenon he’s had since sta...

Casey Zabala https://www.instagram.com/wandererstarot/?hl=en joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to discuss her grimoire oracle deck, Wyrd Sisters: A Deck of Spells and Rituals and about her process and rationale in crafting it. Also discussed are the Mushroom as a symbol, and how working with Saturn can teach us about forgiveness. We also talk about decolonizing witchcraft and Casey’s educati...