Mystical Musings

In this episode, Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird continue exploring Samael’s message about a shift in our relationship with ancestors and guides: what if, at times, they are turning to us for wisdom and care? The conversation moves through intentional lack of control, compassion as a space we can hold without needing to fix anyone, and the possibility of loosening our grip on inherited stories. The...

Jennifer and Tava begin with a whirlwind of unusual experiences: Jennifer’s vivid, disorienting encounter in the night, a sense of energy moving and shifting through her body, and the discovery that Keith had also felt a touch. As they compare notes, Tava shares her own liminal experiences and a poem by Jennifer Jurlando that seems to echo their conversation about ancestors and time. The episode t...

In the second half of their fairy-minded conversation, Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird follow a hummingbird’s unexpected appearance toward questions of manifestation, change, reciprocity, and discernment. With reflections from Samael, they consider what it can mean to encounter a swift, shape-shifting energy; how grounding guides can help hold the center; and why a true exchange asks us to be hones...

What might we be seeing when we call something a fairy? Jennifer brings a student’s vivid encounter and a startling hummingbird visitation into the conversation, opening a much larger exploration with Samael about fae energy, messengers, gateways, exchange, and transformation. Together, Jennifer and Tava consider the difference between spirits of place, energetic expressions, and entities that app...

Jennifer and Tava return to their conversation about expectation, control, and the strange gifts that can appear when familiar certainty falls away. From sensory-deprivation tanks and walking through a dark forest without a flashlight to divination, self-worth, and the mystery of taking one step at a time, they explore what becomes possible when we loosen our grip on needing to know the whole path...

As the pace of change quickens and the future feels especially tempting to predict, hosts Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird explore the expectations we carry into rituals, relationships, divination, and everyday life. Through a channeled musical transmission with Archangel Michael and Samael, reflections on perception and possibility, and “bouquets of Lilithians,” they consider what may open when we...

This week hosts Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird continue their conversation with Alicia Enciso Litschi. Together, they follow the Corn Mother through the wild places between worlds—into Nepantla, the sacred work of reconfiguration, the wisdom of Little Deer, the living presence of ancestors, and the many forms of mothering that can meet us in community. Jennifer closes with a channeled musical tran...

Sometimes the relationships that shape us begin long before we have words for them.  In this first conversation with Alicia Enciso Litschi—the Wayward Curandera—Jennifer and Tava follow the threads of Corn Mother, Our Lady of Guadalupe/Tonantzin, ancestral memory, and the intelligence of the land. Alicia shares the stories, relationships, and unexpected spirals that have shaped her work, inviting...

In This Episode What might become possible when we step away from ordinary life long enough to listen for what is stirring beneath it? Returning guests Liz and Cael Jacobs join Jennifer and Tava for a glimpse inside Mystic Fire—a four-day retreat designed for deep exploration, reflection, and preparation for the dark of the year. Together they introduce four very different paths into personal powe...

What becomes possible when we stop gripping the formula and allow ourselves to be carried by the currents moving through our lives? Jennifer and Tava explore divine timing, the hidden support that gathers when we release the need to control every detail, and the difference between following prescribed words and speaking from the living truth of the heart. With channeled music from Amnivara, unexpe...

The Currents We Carry: Resistance, Reclamation, and the Courage to Be Held Mystical Musings celebrates its 100th episode before returning to the mysterious energetic currents flowing through our world—and through us. Why might the same spell produce different results for different people? What happens when something once created to protect us begins interfering with the energy trying to move throu...

Reflection, Relationship & Reciprocity Black Mirrors, Living Symbols & the Ways We Shape One Another In This Episode What begins with hag stones, black mirrors, and the ancient practice of scrying gradually opens into something far less expected. As Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird follow the threads of folklore, history, and lived spiritual experience, familiar ideas begin to shift, invitin...

Navigating the Currents The Hunger of the Soul, Sacred Landscapes & Living in Flow In This Episode What if what we call luck is really our relationship with the unseen currents flowing through our lives? Beginning with a hauntingly beautiful transmission on the hunger of the soul, Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird find themselves drawn into an unexpected exploration of sacred symbols, feathers, s...

What happens when two ancient spiritual currents begin to weave themselves together? In this extraordinary episode, Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird share a behind-the-scenes experience unlike anything they've encountered before. While exploring the creation of a combined sigil for Michael and Samael, unexpected events unfold—visions, intense energetic sensations, mysterious power outages, spon...

In the second half of their exploration of thresholds, Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird dive deeply into Samael’s surprising teaching that: chaos is not the absence of divine pattern—it is divine pattern we do not yet recognize.   Through discussions of dance, music, relationships, gardening, cymatics, and personal transformation, they challenge the common belief that balance is good and chaos is ba...

As the summer solstice approaches, Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird find themselves exploring the mysterious power of thresholds—the liminal spaces between what has been and what is becoming. Beginning with Samael's reflections on solstices, equinoxes, tides, doorways, hallways, and windowsills, the conversation unfolds into an exploration of "edge states": those moments when life is...

Following the unexpected arrival of Ophan, Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird pause their exploration of angelic mysteries to examine the landscape through which all spiritual experiences flow: our own energy systems. In this episode, they unpack the relationship between chakras, the central channel, grounding, life-force energy, and the energetic patterns that shape our lives. Along the way, they exp...

What was supposed to be a practical discussion about energy systems and the chakras takes an unexpected turn when an entirely new presence enters the conversation. What follows is one of the most surprising, spontaneous, and energetically intense episodes of Mystical Musings to date.  After Jennifer's opening transmission, Tava receives a striking message from Samael in which he refers to a b...

In this deeply practical — and unexpectedly healing — episode of Mystical Musings , Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird begin what they think will be another exploration of “and/or” consciousness and multidimensional pathways… only to have the conversation completely redirected into an extensive discussion on hexbreaking, obsession, energetic entanglement, and the process of reclaiming the self. Follow...

This week on Mystical Musings , Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird continue their ever-expanding exploration of time, multidimensional existence, discernment, and the mysterious nature of consciousness itself. Following another deeply immersive energetic transmission from Jennifer — amplified by the intentional creation of a sacred stone circle before recording — the conversation launches into what Sa...

This episode of Mystical Musings opens yet another doorway. What begins as an energetic transmission quickly unfolds into one of the deepest conversations Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird have ever shared on the podcast — an exploration of sacred geometry, inversion, consciousness, the “left-hand” and “right-hand” paths, and the mysterious point where seemingly opposite spiritual approaches meet. Fo...

In this powerful continuation of last week’s conversation, Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird dive deeper into Samael’s teachings on time slipping, liminal travel, multidimensional movement, and energetic discernment. What began as a discussion about uncontrolled journeying evolves into a practical and deeply compassionate guide for those who feel they naturally move between realms, experience altered...

After several weeks away, Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird return for Season 4 of Mystical Musings — and immediately find themselves plunged into one of the most expansive and mind-bending conversations they’ve ever had on the podcast. What begins as a simple opening song quickly transforms into a powerful energetic transmission, complete with an unexpected period of silence that Jennifer describes...

Part 2 – Breaks As Signs of Evolution In this profound continuation of last week’s conversation, Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird dive deeper into the nature of edge states, oscillation, gates, sacred geometry, incarnation, and the spiritual significance of “falling.” Through channeled discussion, personal experiences, and energetic exploration, the episode unfolds into a fascinating examination of...

In this exciting kick off of Season 4 hosts Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird dive deep into the understandings of 'edge states' and the evolution of our soul.  It begins with a brief discussion of Samael and Archangel Michael's "spirit crowd control plan" for how they will balance the needs of the spirits with those of the embodied participants in the upcoming Power of Story...