Magik - Enchanting the World One Word at a Time Podcast

Bethany A. Beeler (she/her)•www.bethanybeeler.com

I’m a witch who writes, paints, and bakes for the world as I feel it, from where I stand, where I’ve been, who I am, who I’m becoming. Papa Culture fears Magik.

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Would We Also Say Light Holds No Sway?

You have to allow yourself to be an artist … you have to allow yourself to open to experience reality. We spend so much time resisting reality that, if we’re going to create art, we have to gently open the door to ourselves,in the spirit of appreciation and acceptance.It’s astonishing what can come from just loving, listening, and allowing. ~David Price This is an in-between time. A marriage of culture (i.e., the capricious time we choose to end the calendar year) and cosmos (the darkness has ha...

Dec 31, 2023•10 min

How We Happen—Like Yeast

There are no manuals for the construction of the individual you would like to become. You are the only one who can decide this and take up the lifetime of work that it demands. This is a wonderful privilege and such an exciting adventure. To grow into the person that your deepest longing desires is a great blessing. If you can find a creative harmony between your soul and your life, you will have found something infinitely precious. You may not be able to do much about the great problems of the ...

Dec 01, 2023•10 min

Aura Lea & Why I Write

No recipe for this week’s newsletter. It’s not because I’m out of them. In fact, this weekend, I made bread pudding, focaccia, and a hideously sunken banana walnut bread (still goes good down the hatch). This blog really isn’t a way to make money, though that would be welcomed. I write about what I witch, and I don’t always get the choice to witch what I choose. The mood hits me, and I’m painting, baking, writing, or throwing hatchets (that last one will be material for an upcoming post). Lately...

Nov 06, 2023•7 min

You Could Have Done A Million Things …

Pam says I get a tone. And she’s right. It’s when I get preachy. A long time ago, in a lifetime far away, I used to preach for a living. There were a million things I could have done with my life, and I set my sights on becoming a Methodist minister. I don’t regret any of the thousand choices I’ve made, at least in the sense of damning myself for them. Knowing what I know now, being who I am now, I realize I wouldn’t have made those choices. I don’t get a rewind button. I have right-now life. I ...

Oct 12, 2023•5 min

Sinead and Me

There’s a soul-sickening here that steals dreams. We live amid wonders. And hideous peril that makes us wonder what we’ve done. Future ages will call this a wartime, like we called the Civil War. World Wars I and II. Now We Dangle In those wars and others, we knew all hung in the balance. Now we dangle, for we don’t even know we’re at war. We feel it but haven’t the words. We’ve stolen meaning—and worse, we handed over, without a qualm, our magik. Magik never leaves us. It stands with us. In us....

Jul 28, 2023•14 min

Paralyzed—Life at the Perimeter of Sanity

I was 25 years old. Married to a beautiful lifemate whom I couldn’t have dreamt up, yet who was a living dream. Paul, our first-born, only two months old. A grad degree. A job (a shitty one, albeit, but it was a start) that paid the bills. Going for my PhD. I was living my life, though, like it was wartime. Life in Wartime It had been that way since I was 10 years old, when my parents divorced. School had been a hellhole of bullying and pointless regimentation to make me a properly functioning c...

Jul 27, 2023•10 min

Gavasto Touched Me

The other day, I scanned Amazon and selected an immersive blender that fit my needs and budget … and I was touched. (I realize that sounds kinda pornographic, but I’m NOT immersion-blender kinky, people.) I was so touched that I wrote the folks at Gavasto an email as to why/how they touched me, seeing as how immersion blenders may not be the first thing that comes to mind when we think about making a connection in this haggard world. But it happened … and my note to Gavasto tells the story: Folk...

Jul 19, 2023•4 min

Witch Haps: A Pesto-Recipe Day in the Life of An Art Witch

[Welcome to the first of what I hope to be a regular installment: Witch Haps, in which I tell you about my moment-by-moment happenings as the witch I be.] Last night, our dear friend, Trey-Trey, was over for our once-a-month or so movie night. That’s where he, Pam, and I watch a movie of one of our triumvirate’s choosing, accompanied by a munchable picnic-spread, or, in this case, a dinner of homemade linguine with chicken and fresh pesto, and a yummy dessert of baked-right-then Bomboloni (both ...

Jul 09, 2023•9 min

Are You A Good Witch or A Bad Witch?

“a deadly system doesn’t have to seem like it’s targeting you directly to kill you consistently.”— Alexis Pauline Grumbs The roots of the word, “witch,” also mean “to be strong, lively.” Which is why the ruling order tries to consistently strip us away. Witches are living bridges to desire so in keeping with the surrounding landscape that Papa Culture doesn’t notice he treads our backs to cross chasms he’d otherwise fall into. When he spots us, he strips the tree-bridge and burns us—but only aft...

Jul 05, 2023•9 min

Of Witches, Leaves, and Saving the Planet

Humankind’s attention is a Humpty-Dumpty pile of eggshells. Though we can talk to our sisters in the cosmos, we haven’t really tried, all the time muttering that anything but our lot has to be better. We’re confused about the correlation of ourselves and the world. Distinguishing between those two helps us devise nature-dominating technology. That activity also distances us from desire. How, if we are part of this world, can we behave as if we’re not—to the point of endangering Earth herself? Ot...

Jun 28, 2023•6 min

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