Witchcraft and Shadow with Monica Bodirsky

After the ecstasy, the laundry. Once the Samhain ritual is completed and the spell for good health is done, back we go to everyday life. But witchcraft isn’t something we only put on for special occasions. In episode 29 of TABI’s Tarot World podcast, your hosts Victoria and Gwen speak to author, deck creator, artist, educator, practising witch and let’s face it, general polymath Monica Bodirsky about what it really means to be a witch. We talk spells and intention, integration, ancestor veneration, and then, yes, the laundry. And yet – Magic settles like dust on things we love, things that are nearby when we’re frightened, and in the special items we ask to help us. Monica keeps us grounded in the here and now while giving us tools to explore the Otherworld, and that includes the Otherworld you carry with you. Shadowland Tarot and the Between the Worlds Bone and Curio Casting Oracle Deck are designed to help us find what it is at the root of our expectations and desires so that we can make the unconscious conscious. We don’t need to call it fate if we can look behind the walls and ask what’s knocking. Monica tells us about her forthcoming book, Nocturnum, a Grimoire of recipes, rituals, and reflections for the modern mystic, which leads us to Icelandic sorcerers’ staves and what it’s like to grow up in a haunted house. Monica reminds us that our space is ours, and in the end, the act of living magic is learning how to walk in the work with everyone else who lives here alongside us. You can find Monica on her website www.monicabodirsky.com on IG as @monicabodirsky and on Facebook as Monica Bodirsky. She offers regular classes on witchcraft on her teaching platform Obsidian Academy of Esoteric Arts, and The Awakening Residency, an annual, earth-based spirituality and arts retreat near Toronto. To find out more about TABI, visit our website: www.tabi.org.uk and if you have any questions about the podcast, you can email Victoria and Gwen at podcast@tabi.org.uk