This special bonus mini-episode features sound magick created by Luxa as part of a New Moon working as well as an introduction with some of the rationale that went into its creation. This particular creative outburst took the form of a strange ambient track featuring bibliomancy, procedurally generated haiku, automatic writing based on a tarot spread, spicy cut-ups, and 27 chimes of a church bell. Also, a sonic sigil in the form of the NATO phonetic alphabet and Tibetan Singing Bowls with freque...
May 12, 2021•17 min
Join Luxa for this second installment about sound and magick as she speaks with Kue Varo about the new album, Daffodil-11, the resonance of names, and using music and creativity to play with gender and explore the self, or selves. Also featured is an exploration of Marcotone and Tone-Color, as well as info about how one might incorporate this into their practice- big thanks to Matt from Chaos Tarot for the cool new toy! Hear Kue’s haunting melodies as well as a track composed for The Green Mushr...
May 01, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Join Luxa as she and other The Green Mushroom Council members Arspex, Joy and Dave Ardrey from Unearthing Paranormalcy podcast conduct an experimental exercise intended to create this “audio welcome tour” of the shared astral space ( imagination zone? ) associated with The Green Mushroom Hyphosigil. It’s a suitably psychedelic dive into the imaginal area that we have been constructing...or perhaps discovering- our experimentation has shown this distinction to be irrelevant at times! Whatever the...
Apr 27, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Join Luxa as she speaks with Keats Ross, the very talented host of the Pragmagick podcast, alter-ego of Dakota Slim, writer, organizer of We the Hallowed, and sonic escoterisist extraordinaire about his new audiomancy project, Bardos, and the new Dakota Slim album, Cactus Crown. Keats shares his thoughts about the tethers woven through music, magick, the self, and the other; plus, some of the techniques he has used in his work with audiomancy or sound magick. Luxa discusses the nature of sound i...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Join Luxa as she speaks with Fabeku Fatunmise about his new book of words and art, Exorcism, a stunning work of magick-as-art-as-magick, and the tech behind its creation. Also discussed are topics ranging from hypersigils and the use and significance of salt in an occult practice as well as divination and a whole lot more! Luxa shares a few thoughts about her own practice and an update about The Green Mushroom project as well as a sound sigil created with the intention of offering strength to th...
Apr 01, 2021•2 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 21
This is a track arranged by Luxa to accompany a healing working which The Green Mushroom Council conducted on March 13th, 2021. This track will be published as part of the ritual. Enjoy! To read a write-up about the ritual and see notes about this track, please click here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSYCYCjxzUrlkEYPfNzPPP2DOZ2Ki3F2Tc9VWQ_7JraLpOv0Rqtu2jyABlFPJXJNZPtCzVvRwZvUQC0/pub Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Please send your thoughts, questions, s...
Mar 14, 2021•6 min
Join Luxa as she speaks with Cliff from Enochian Today about Angelic Magick, Scrying the Aethyrs and his work transcribing Liber Logaeth. Cliff discusses what Enochian looks like in practice, and gives some tips about approaching the system for those who might feel intimidated by its complexity as well as letting us in on his plans to break orthodoxy in an upcoming ritual! Cliff also tells us about his work counseling gifted adults and the challenges faced by the exceptionally clever. Due to som...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Join Luxa as she speaks with Matt from Chaos Tarot about the Psychological Model of magick and keeping the Occult occult. After making fun of magick for most of his life, Matt now finds himself creating apps which other magicians can use in their practice, writing about magick on Chaos Tarot - Tools for Chaos Magick and practicing (secretly) right in front of his coworkers! We talk about Pop Culture and Tabletop RPGs, Social Media and hiding from your children in the Broomcloset. Invoke Matthew ...
Feb 28, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 19
This is a track arranged by Luxa to accompany a healing working which The Green Mushroom Council conducted on February 14th, 2021. This track will be published as part of the ritual. Enjoy! To read a write-up about the ritual and see notes about this track, please click here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSuAyYZXkakDVicumyqOxZd5MOmnfHK01llXUN9ER03IwVZzAtmdP3ZMCEBmBLm8g8xztcbBQwCIy8d/pub Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Please send your thoughts, questions...
Feb 15, 2021•7 min
Join Luxa for a special Valentine's Day episode as she speaks with Derek Hunter, author of Love Chaos: A New Religion, A New Philosophy, A New Way Of Life , as well as Love Chaos In Theory and Practice and T he End Of The World: A Love Chaos Grimoire For The Survival And Evolution Of Human Beings. Derek shares about how his experience of developing the Love Chaos system was a means of finding his way out of a very dark time in his life, and using magick as a tool for recovery from drug addiction...
Feb 15, 2021•2 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Join Luxa as she speaks with Tyler Firth, sole proprietor and ritualist of Mage Tower Relics and host of the Mage Tower podcast. Tyler speaks on the topics of Magical and Spiritual Hygiene, using Planetary Energies and his process of integrating Ceremonial and Post-Modern/Chaos Magick in his work, as well as Technomany and planting the flag of Magick and Hermeticism in the digital terrain. There is also a special Bibliomancy Break and an angry rant from Luxa about ontology! Plus, Divination with...
Feb 05, 2021•1 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Join Luxa as she speaks with Taylor Ellwood, host of Magical Experiemnts.com https://www.magicalexperiments.com/ and author of over 30 books! Taylor shares his thoughts about using Art and Pop Culture in magick and the importance of the topic of identity, as well as giving some insight into how he has been able to produce so much work! Luxa overcomes the initial cringe to talk about emoji magick plus and an update on the collaborative workings of The Green Mushroom. Also featuring a sound sigil ...
Jan 28, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Join Luxa as she speaks with Joel of Dream Mirror (@droreemeerorb) about his occult practice, feedback worship and discovering the magic in discarded items. Hear Luxa wax esoteric on a favored obsession, the number three, and an update on the collaborative workings of The Green Mushroom project. Also featuring the song, “So We May Shape All Things” from Dream Mirror’s Desires in Motion project! EPISODE NOTES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ5nn13oBj4y4R5TUfRQlJhV0yq0muee_uNaPei3Gw-...
Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Join Luxa as she speaks with poet and magician, E.A. Toles about where the practice of writing poetry intersects with spirituality, sexuality and the dream of being truly understood. EA shares some of his thoughts about the role of the artist as an artisan- one who works for the purpose of producing something useful or perhaps helpful to others as well as reading a piece he wrote as part of The Green Mushroom working. Also, Luxa rants about an underpants company. EPISODE NOTES: https://docs.goog...
Jan 04, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Join Luxa as she talks to the hosts of the Faith Blind Council podcast about The Green Mushroom project, Meditation, Gorpfh flavored Twix, and why you shouldn’t try to win the lottery. The episode concludes with a short Green Mushroom meditation written by Luxa and read by Dave from the Unearthing Paranormalcy podcast. . For full notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vST_-pPXO69a2vZsaIW3j029TGSpZ2WkJ7UmCqKvaMBcTbc9YOskl1z7hi5wybzNCW1tKWzCBnCCz5y/pub To support the show, please consi...
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 13
This is a special bonus track I put together as I meditated on the Solstice and the Planetary Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter that, as I write this, is set to take place just a few hours from now! To be honest, I sort of made it for myself- to solidify my intentions going forward, but I hope others will find it enjoyable. This track features some ambient textures and beats, as well as some vocals of people celebrating different traditions and of me conducting bibliomancy, and reading nonsense ...
Dec 21, 2020•10 min
This is the meditation that is featured at the end of episode 13. Meditation Mas-up. Written by Luxa Strata and read by Dave Ardrey from the Unearthing Paranoarmalcy podcast. Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult ...
Dec 15, 2020•13 min
Join Luxa as she interviews Aidan Wachter, magician, author, podcaster and talismanic jeweler about framing our approach to the practice of magick (and life, in general!). Aidan’s books, Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past and Telling True Lies and Six Ways: Approaches and Entries for Practical Magic are both highly recommended! Plus, an update on The Green Mushroom project and even more nonsense, this time with an element of Tarot! Works Cited and Notes: https://docs.google.com/documen...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 49 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Find your dragon and climb aboard! In this episode of Lux Occult, Luxa is joined by her guest, Becky, to discuss the powerful symbol of the Dragon, and also to nerd out about the Fantasy genre of literature! Having studied dragons in the context of art history, Becky lends her insight into what we might learn and how we might improve our practices and ourselves by incorporating this powerful creature into our lives. Plus, updates on The Green Mushroom Project and, as requested, more nonsense cut...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Luxa is joined by Dr. Rob C. Thompson of the Occult Confessions and Dark Pool Podcasts to talk Ritual and Performance Art and how these things allow us access to deeper levels of consciousness. Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod or @the_memetic_disease. To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/luxocc...
Nov 12, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In this episode, Luxa is joined by an old friend, Scav, to hear his thoughts on costumes, chaos magick and his practice, in general. Also, more information about The Green Mushroom Project, an ongoing group magickal working that you can be a part of! Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod. Check out Luxa’s ongoing sigil and art project, The M...
Nov 01, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this episode of Lux Occult, Luxa is joined by Douglas Batchelor, magician, bibliophile and host of the What Magic is This? podcast to talk about everything from Discordianism, time loops, the history of the occult and the magick and worldview of the Ancient Egyptians to dreaming and expressing oneself authentically. Luxa announces an ongoing group magickal working that you can be a part of! There were too many books to list here, so please see the show notes for WORKS CITED: https://docs.goog...
Oct 24, 2020•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Luxa’s bro, Asher (host of Ad Hoc History), returns to talk more Chaos Magick concepts and practice! In this episode we talk about making Servitors as well as go into other thoughtforms like Egregores and Godforms. We also talk about Hypersigils and building your Astral Temple. We even touch on Warhammer and D&D... this is a juicy one! Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com Note: th...
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Dave Ardrey from the Unearthing Paranormalcy Podcast returns to discuss Ogham Pathworking and scrying as well as some specifics about how to use the Druid’s Wheel of the Year (The Wheel of Life) for planning rituals and invoking the energies of certain times of year. Dave and Luxa go through the Ogham fews (letters of the alphabet) and discuss some botanical aspects of each of the plants represented. Please refer to this diagram: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQoCt0LOYrfr_-E0bdM2nQ...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Dave Ardrey from the Unearthing Paranormalcy podcast joins Luxa in this first installment of a two episode series about Druidism to discuss his path of independent Druidry and how he draws the inspiration to create from his practice and from the natural world. A somewhat short episode, but Part II will make up for that! Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com Or the show's new Instagram https://...
Sep 21, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this episode, Luxa is joined once again by special guest, Asher, host of the Ad Hoc History podcast and also her brother! An exploration of more Chaos Magick concepts- Models of Magick and how Divination might work within them. We also talk about some pitfalls to avoid, plus more bibliomancy and a discussion about the ethics of sorcery! We close out with some stuff to try and some tips about automatic writing. To support the show, please consider giving on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/lux...
Aug 25, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Hello and welcome to Lux Occult, a podcast where we gleefully taunt the mundane, butcher the Latin language and also discuss a variety of occult topics! This show, and magick, is FOR YOU, if you want- there are lots of ways to be more free and magick can be one. In this episode, Luxa explains some core concepts of Chaos Magick to her brother, and host of the Ad Hoc History Podcast, Asher. *PS sorry about the sound quality, had some tech issues on this one. Send your questions, thoughts and comme...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
