The Alchemist's Inkwell

He's about to lose 85% of his video game library — because his mom says it's letting spirits into the house. And two roommates can't agree on a $90 spirit box... but one of them might believe in it more than he's willing to admit. This week on What in the Woo Woo, Emily and KristaLyn dive into two Reddit AITA posts that blur the line between belief and denial — and give their take...

Spirituality can be beautiful, healing, and life-changing — but when the world feels chaotic, uncertain, and intense, it can also get overwhelming fast. In this episode of The Alchemist’s Inkwell, Emily and KristaLyn talk about spiritual psychosis, spiritual awakening, grounded intuition, mental health, astrology, spiritual bypassing, and how to tell when your spiritual practice is helping you gro...

Books are more than entertainment — sometimes they are comfort, escape, healing, identity work, and the thing that helps us get through real life. In this Bookend Edition of The Alchemist’s Inkwell, Emily and KristaLyn talk about what they are reading, why fiction can be a healing modality, the comfort of returning to beloved stories, audiobook pacing, ADHD listening speeds, ancient Rome family tr...

America is turning 250, and the astrology around this moment is intense. In this episode of The Alchemist Inkwell, Emily and KristaLyn look at the astrology surrounding America’s 250th birthday, including Mars conjunct Uranus in Gemini, Pluto in Aquarius, Saturn and Neptune in Aries, and the larger 2026–2028 energetic pattern sometimes called Barbault’s Basket. What starts as a conversation about...

Today on What in the Woo-Woo, we’re reading two spiritual Reddit AITA stories about tarot, psychics, astrology, relationship boundaries, and what happens when people use “the universe” to avoid having an actual conversation. First: someone gives a tarot reading to a friend she has feelings for… and then lies when the cards suggest he may not end up with his girlfriend. Then: a boyfriend refuses to...

Mercury Retrograde is back, but this one is not just about broken phones, delayed flights, and miscommunication. This Mercury retrograde in Cancer is bringing up old feelings, unfinished emotional business, mental clutter, and the parts of ourselves we may have been avoiding. In this episode of The Alchemist’s Inkwell, Emily and KristaLyn talk about why this retrograde feels more emotional than us...

Welcome back to The Alchemist’s Inkwell: Woo Woo Edition — where we read spiritual Reddit AITA stories and ask the important questions: are they actually wrong, or is everyone just being weird? This week, we’re talking about Catholic school, ghost conversations with kids, spiritual therapy, shamanic astrology buzzwords, religious trauma, Amazon ghost-hunting kits, and one husband who apparently wa...

In this episode of The Alchemist Inkwell, Emily and KristaLyn talk about the magic of the Summer Solstice, Cancer season, dream work, ritual practices, timeline shifts, and how to check in with everything you’ve been manifesting since last year. The Summer Solstice is one of the major energetic turning points of the year, and this conversation explores how to work with that energy through dreams,...

This week on The Alchemist’s Inkwell, Emily and KristaLyn talk about the Venus-Jupiter conjunction in Cancer, the New Moon in Gemini, Pride Month, and how to find real joy while the world still feels heavy. This episode is about spiritual survival without spiritual bypassing. Yes, the astrology of the week has some beautiful, magical, benefic energy — but Saturn and Mars are also acting like heckl...

This week on What in the Woo-Woo, Emily and KristaLyn react to two Reddit stories about Reiki, tarot, skepticism, grief, boundaries, and spiritual consent. First, a grieving teenager is taken to a Reiki session by his mom after a rough year, but he becomes convinced the whole thing is fake after finding what he believes is a hidden speaker. Was he right to refuse another session, or was his mom ju...

This month’s spiritual book review turns into a cozy, chaotic, and deeply personal conversation about the books that helped us survive the month, the stories behind our tattoos, and the scars that made us who we are. Emily and Krista talk Dungeon Crawler Carl, Gilgamesh, Between Two Rivers, Witch Hat Atelier, healing through fiction, anti-capitalist book themes, Emily’s book going to print, and th...

The first half of 2026 was vibes. The second half is action. In this mid-year check-in, Emily and KristaLyn revisit their 2026 predictions and talk about what has already come true, what still feels like it’s building, and why this year has felt so slippery, chaotic, and impossible to fully grasp. They talk about 2026 as a Tower Card year, the Saturn-Neptune blur, propaganda and media discernment,...

Mars is not playing nice, and this Full Moon in Sagittarius is bringing big “rage against the status quo” energy. In this episode of The Alchemist’s Inkwell, Emily and KristaLyn talk about the Full Moon in Sagittarius, Mars moving through Taurus, collective frustration, physical release, broken systems, spiritual rage, and what it actually means to embody magic instead of just believing in it. Thi...

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Join our new LIVE show, The Alchemist's Inkspill, every Friday at 1pm EST/10am PST here on ⁠YouTube⁠ (and ⁠Instagram⁠ Live)!Connect with us across the internet + IRL! 🌈Follow Emily: Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠   / likerofwords   ⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠   / likerofwords⁠⁠   YouTube: ⁠⁠    / @likerofwords   Bluesky: ⁠ https://bsky.app/profile/likerofwords... Website (join the mailing list!): ⁠⁠ https://www.emilydext...

Excuse our delay in posting, tech hates us! This Taurus New Moon was supposed to feel grounding, abundant, and stable…Instead, it feels like feminine rage. In this episode of The Alchemist’s Inkwell, Emily and KristaLyn explore the astrology behind this emotionally charged New Moon, including the ancient fixed star Algol — historically associated with Medusa, Lilith archetypes, and even “the pile...

Three Reddit posters think they did nothing wrong. Two psychics have thoughts. This week on What in the Woo Woo — a 19 year old Gemini gets called manipulative by her aunt who refuses to see a Gemini doctor, a man questions whether his sister is joining a cult by marrying Jesus as a consecrated virgin, and a boyfriend leaves his girlfriend's family reunion after her uncle tried to hypnotize hi...

We had Machu Picchu to ourselves at sunset. That part we planned. What happened on the mountain was not planned at all. Four people in our group independently saw and heard a shaman on Machu Picchu Mountain — in the mist, near the top. There was one way up and one way down. He wasn't physically there. And yet four of us saw him. This is the final Peru recap and it covers everything — the Templ...

It's a Wednesday which means it's time for our cozy little corner of the internet. This week we're combining our April Bookend with Hygge — Emily is deep in Dungeon Crawler Carl and has feelings about it, KristaLyn read a lesbian Bedazzled book and we need to talk about it. Then we pull some Hygge cards and somehow end up talking about three days without sleep, childhood smells, and a...

We didn't go looking for magic on this day. It came looking for us. Part 3 of our Peru recap covers the day everything stopped being coincidence. A shaman we didn't plan to meet gave us a private worldview lesson in his shop. The tarot cards on the train predicted the exact day before it happened — mountain, woman walking, flowers in a bunch. And then a full ceremonial procession appeared on the t...

Two Reddit posters think they did the right thing. Emily and KristaLyn aren't so sure. This week on What in the Woo Woo — a psychic gets ambushed at her own coffee shop, and someone accidentally summons a Victorian ghost therapist named Agnes Butterworth to save their friend's marriage. No we are not making that up. The Alchemist's Inkwell duo reacts with their signature mix of spiritu...

We went to Peru expecting magic. We didn't expect it to prove itself this hard. In Part 2 of our Peru recap, we walk through Day 1 of our spiritual tour through Cusco — and the ancient sites kept showing up with undeniable energy. From the impossible megalithic stones of Sacsayhuaman, to the underground chamber at Kenko where our entire group saw the same thing with their physical eyes, to a s...

"In this episode of  What in the Woo Woo? ,  Emily and Krista  dive into  Reddit stories  about  spiritual red flags . We discuss  spiritual ego ,  toxic spirituality , and the  enlightenment trap  where people use  manifestation  as an excuse for bad behavior. From  roommate horror stories  to  narcissism  disguised as  mindfulness , we expose the  spiritual bypassing  that happens when  spi...

April has felt… cursed. And honestly, we can’t ignore it anymore. From everything going wrong to what happened on the plane (yes… including a broken bra strap at the worst possible moment), we started wondering if this month is just chaotic—or if something bigger is going on. In this episode, we talk through the strange run of events this April, the upcoming Saturn–Mars conjunction, and whether as...