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Alright, Andrea, I'm giving a second for the riverside to settle and for the cats to settle. Specifically one.
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My listener, do I have a treat in store for you today? Happy 1111, my dear friend. And also happy Friday the 13th, the day of the Divine Feminine. It is perfectly timed for today's episode, which may honestly be one of the most Emily Core episodes I've ever recorded. I'm really, really excited for this one, you guys, because I'm gonna do a deep dive today into
My current personal spiritual practice, what I've been learning, what I've been working on over the last few months. And it's going to teach you a lot about some different aspects of the spiritual space that I have been obsessed with recently, including witchcraft, including shamanism, including the fairy world. And you guys know me as an Akashic Records practitioner and teacher.
And obviously the Akashic Records will forever hold a huge place in my heart. And I'll continue, of course, to offer Akashic Records trainings, my certification, reading sessions, and also I want to do a deep dive with you today into other forms of mysticism that your girl has been obsessed with. So
As I grow, as I shift, and you know, if you've been listening to the show for a while now, that I went through a big personal transition in 2025. And so 2026 for me has really been laying a strong foundation for myself personally in my spiritual practice, as well as professionally in my business, growing and expanding my skill set, learning new things, and honestly going through kind of a remembering journey. I've had a lot of
A big series of breakthroughs recently where I've started to connect the dots a bit with my spiritual gifts, with what I'm drawn to, with how I started this journey, with where I am now. And honestly, everything is connecting and it's finally all starting to make sense to me. And so this episode is gonna be a deep dive into all of that. So I'm really excited to get into it today because I think we're gonna have some fun and we're going to be
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Talking about different aspects of mysticism and in a new way. So, with that being said, I have really been learning a lot this past the last six months, I would say, about witchcraft and shamanism in particular. And so let's unpack what those terms mean and what they are. So, in this show, you know, I ask every single guest.
To explain to us what being a mystic means to them. And to me, being a mystic is being a multidimensional spiritual person, someone who is a connection between the physical world and the spirit world, and who uses any manner of practices, modalities, ways of connecting, ways of being to have that mind, body, spirit, soul connection. And also.
To be a human in this physical world that we have here on planet Earth, to again bridge the gap between the physical and the spiritual, which also includes working with planet Earth, Mother Earth, all the resources that we have here. So witchcraft and shamanism are to me two modalities or practices or ways of life, lifestyles within the mysticism umbrella. And again, this is my personal point of view. This is based on my experience.
This is not based on what I've learned from other people or, you know, any sort of formal training or formal certification that I've done. This is just really my takeaways from a lot of personal work over the last few months and connection with clients as well. And so for me, witchcraft, which to be honest, it's interesting because I haven't really talked a lot about it on this podcast, but has
Been a bit of a part of my life behind the scenes for a while now. And I've always identified as a witch, but for whatever reason, I don't often go by that title or talk about it much. I was very quick to call myself a psychic and a medium early on in my business, but calling myself a witch hasn't really, you know, been a part of my business at all. And it's funny because I mean, you guys know me as a witch. You know I love.
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Me some spooky seasons, some shadow work, some connection with the paranormal, the ethereal, the other realms. But I don't often advertise it or make it clear with the language that I use to communicate what I what I do, what I practice. So to me, witchcraft and being a witch means using the resources that we have here on planet Earth to.
manifest the spiritual into the physical. It's using again the resources. So plants, herbs, crystals, oils, essences, all kinds of things that we have here on this planet and bringing them together in connection with our spiritual work, our spiritual connection with the spirit world, with spirit guides, and bridging that gap.
And using witchcraft to cast spells for manifestation purposes. And a spell is really just an intention setting practice, a prayer of sorts, a devotion of sorts to use the power of your energy, your mind, your focus, your thought, your desire, and help call something into the physical world that you're you're wanting to create and bring forward. So witchcraft really it's just that.
Practice. It's a combination of working with the spirit guides, lighting candles sometimes, cultivating crystals, pulling cards. It also includes divination to me, meaning working with, like I said, oracle cards, tarot cards, doing a little bit of the future prediction work to help enhance your life and to make your life better and to like make your life even more magical.
And maybe I've been working on healing my witch wound a bit more. You know, it's it's something I have taught a lot about over the years. I've done summits on the witch wound. I have recorded trainings on the witch wound. I have a witch wound workshop on my website. I've talked about it quite a bit. But again, to advertise myself as a witch or call myself that in my title is not something that I've really done.
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Or been called to do until recently. So I think on some level, a lot of the spiritual work I've been doing behind the scenes has helped get me here and has helped get me into this practice, into this methodology, honestly. It's funny because I think back to my teenage years and I was obsessed with tarot cards when I was 11, 12, 13. And there was also this book, I can't even remember the the title, I wish I could, but there was the series of books that was a
That was a fantasy series about witches that I just loved. And they would do spells, they would do witchcraft, they would do rituals. And I remember just wanting to do those things. And it's funny because I've even gone back to visit my parents and they still live in the same home. And I've gone into my childhood bedroom and I have found.
Written pieces of paper of new moon and full moon rituals that I did when I was in high school, you guys. Like I've been ups I've been into this stuff. I've been around the block for a while. I've been into this stuff for for a long time. so I think I've always had a fascination with it, with the occult in many ways. But I think when I first started my spiritual business back in 2020, I think there was a huge focus on love and light at that time.
I think there was a huge focus on working with the higher dimensions and higher realms, and not to say that witchcraft isn't that, but it's more physical, it's more tangible, it's more human in a lot of ways. It's like very connected to this planet, to planet Earth. And you guys know I talk a lot about the galactic realms and starseed groups and so forth. And witchcraft to me is very this dimension, very third dimensional. So I think because of the
The marketplace at the time and the teachers I was working with and so many things. I just, it wasn't really something that I put much of a focus on. And with a lot of the work I've been doing over the last few years, I really feel I'm coming back around, coming full circle, connecting with it again. And again, like I said, connecting the dots. So one of the cool things, the breakthroughs that I've had recently was I had Danny from that witch school.
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And that witch podcast here on The Emily the Mystic Show. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, highly recommend. It was really great. Danny's amazing. And Danny called herself on the podcast a death witch. I had never heard that term before in my life. And then Danny starts talking about it. And she's saying, you know, Death Witches, we work with the spirit world. We often practice mediumship. We work with.
Some of the shadow deities we work with beings like Hecate, Persephone, Hades. And she goes on and on and on. And I'm like, mm, shadow work, mm, all of these different things. I have been doing that since I started my business. Those were the courses, the foundational courses I took before I even learned the Akashic Records. That was a big foundation of what I taught myself and where I began this business journey. And it made me realize,
Everything that I've learned up until now has been death witchcraft. So to me, the defin definition of a death witch is someone who works with spirit and the afterlife, who is not afraid of going into the shadows.
Who is not afraid of working with the spirit world, especially spirits who have transitioned, the spirits of the dead, the spirits who again, the darker spirits, right? We do, I do spirit release, entity release work, exorcist work here in the Emily, the mystic world. And so a death witch is someone who guides you through those transitions. The transitions you go through in life here on planet Earth, as well as your transition into the afterlife.
And God knows I've been an old soul since the day I was born. And my first foray into learning my spiritual gifts was through mediumship, through learning to connect with loved ones who have passed. And from there, I took a shadow work course, which used the foundational principles of core shamanism, which I'm going to talk about a little bit later on. And then I learned about spirit release, entity release.
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And then I learned the Akashic records. And when I connect the dots of all of these things, and then I look at other people's practices and other spiritual practitioners out there and what people teach and offer, my combination of skills and gifts that I do actually is quite unique and different. And I never really realized that or saw it in that way. I have never been afraid of the darker stuff.
I have never been afraid of being a medium. I have never been afraid or have been an avoidance of, you know, the shadow stuff. And again, I may not have always advertised myself or marketed myself in that way. And it wasn't coming from a place of fear or like, you know, avoiding calling myself a witch by any means, as my cat Cleo is literally standing right in front of me, one of my familiars.
Witch has not has to have her cats, but a lot of witches have cats, right? And I have cats. I've been a cat lady my whole life. So not that I have avoided calling myself a witch, because it's not that at all. It's just I've really been focused on the records and channeling and the galactic realms and so forth. And now as my practice progresses and I learn new things, I'm connecting the dots with some of my other gifts and skill sets and seeing what's
That I was never conscious, fully conscious of, that I couldn't articulate or communicate to you guys, you know? So it's really cool to see everything come together. I even have a course that I created back in 2022 that's called The Embodied Priestess, where I taught the women in that course how to connect with goddesses: Freya, Isis, Aphrodite, Hecate, Persephone. Like I have, Bridget, there's this whole course that I made in 2022.
For each goddess with rituals, meditations, practices on goddess work, that priestess work that is sitting in my course library. that's really amazing. And I never fully sold it or talked about it or teach taught it in that way. And here I am, I've been doing this work with deities and guides for years now.
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It's just fascinating to me. So, anyway, this conversation with Danny really illuminated my journey so far and helped me see. I really like to see myself as someone who walks the middle path, someone who as a medium, I'm an intermediary, I'm a channel between the physical and the spirit and the spiritual. And I also like to balance the light and the dar.
A huge part of my work is not to be afraid of the darkness, not to be afraid of your shadow self, the parts of yourself that have been deemed to be not good enough or unacceptable, or that you've been judged for, or that are taboo, or that are wild or weird, or that other people have seen as something that could cause you harm or that.
Could lead you astray or to some, you know, negative path. And I think a lot of my Catholic school background and a lot of the conditioning and programming we have in this society, especially in the spiritual space and the new age space, says we have to avoid the darkness at all costs, like fighting the darkness always.
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And I have been on an integration journey recently of integrating the darkness, of not being afraid of myself, of all aspects of me, of parts of myself that I have hidden or repressed or avoided. I have really been cultivating and connecting with.
This depth within me, this very Scorpionic energy within me. As a Taurus rising in my astrology chart with a Scorpio seventh house and a huge stallium and Scorpio and a North Node and Scorpio, a big part of my purpose is to go into the depth, the darkness, to balance the light and the dark, to balance the shadow, to go into those shadowy emotional waters. And again, not to be afraid of it.
And to teach it because the more I go into the things that are unknown, that are uncertain, the less fear I have in my own life. It's changed my life in so many ways, I can't even begin to articulate it to you all. It's really remarkable. I mean, I was a very fearful person for a lot of my life. I grew up and was raised with a lot of fear and anxiety about everything in life.
And I was a very cautious child. I avoided high-risk activities at all costs. I still catch myself doing that sometimes. It's something I'm working on. I've often been afraid of my body. I've had a lot of medical anxiety over the years, a big fear of death, big fear of hospitals, getting sick, having to go to a hospital. I have avoided a lot of that at all costs. And I used to have heart palpitations that made me feel like I could have a heart.
Condition, which could lead me to the hospital and a heart attack. But with this work that I have done in my life, with going into the things that I'm afraid of, doing the deeper healing on my body, doing some somatic work, which I'll talk about a little bit later on, it's really helped me not be afraid of my body, of death, of what's to come, especially all the work that I do bringing in.
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Spirit guides and loved ones on the other side, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that this physical reality is not all there is. There is so much more. The human soul is eternal. It is infinite. We have so many other lifetimes to look forward to. And also, we get to enjoy this one and the time that we have because no one really knows how much time we have left here on earth. So it's made me appreciate this physical human life so much more.
Because I can be present because I am not afraid of the future. I'm not afraid of my death, my passing. I'm not afraid of the unknown. I am not afraid of crazy things happening to me out of nowhere. And I've done a lot of the shadow work to look at things that have happened in my past in the eyes that I felt shameful of or guilty about.
Or where I felt like the villain or the bad guy or whatever. And to forgive myself for those things with grace, compassion, love, all of it, it has helped me become so much more present and at peace in my life and in where I am now. And to be fully transparent with you guys, September was a really difficult month for me. I was in a bit of a depressive, heavy energy. I go through it.
Just like you guys, too. I am not immune to it. I know a lot of what you see on social media is this very bubbly, effervescent, outgoing Emily who's extroverted and fun. And yes, that is me. That is how I show up in social settings. Like that's who I am. But also I have hard days too. I have hard moments too. And I went through a bit of a journey over the summer, leading to walking away from a friendship, leading to
A romantic relationship that I was in that ended on September 1st led to kind of a rock bottom moment during the month of September where a lot of the grief that I had been repressing, avoiding from the ending of my last major relationship came up. And a lot of the things within me that I had been avoiding came up to be, to be witnessed, to be felt because I needed to.
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Claim and lay a firmer foundation for myself, for Emily, for Emily, for the future, for my own life, to enjoy my life even more than I already am. And so September was very, very heavy for me. And I'm grateful for it because it pushed me to expand my spiritual practice, to connect more often and
To develop even deeper relationships with my guides than I ever have before. And it really helped me survive a very, very tough period. And I'm not here to say that that's never gonna happen to me again. You know, I know that life has ebbs and flows. I know that life is cyclical. The November energy update on the Emily the Mystic Show. I talk all about the wheel of fortune and the turning of the wheel and my journey with that in September a bit.
So I know that, you know, there will be times when things are difficult and feel challenging. And also I feel, because of the work that I did, so much more resilient and strong. And my nervous system feels so much more capable of handling the harder stuff. No matter what comes my way, I kind of am in a place where I feel like I can handle anything at this point. You know, I
I took the cats to the vet the other day alone as a single cat owner, two cats, two cat carriers in a brand new car in a city, driving to a vet that is in the city where I had to double not double park, but parallel park my car on a busy city street with two cats and carriers in a tiny parking spot in a brand new car on a busy street, Gerard Avenue, if you live in Philadelphia. It's not for the faint of heart, and take them into the vet.
All myself. No person to help me, no one to save me, no friend. And I could have asked a friend, sure. And I'm not here to like be misindependent here because that's something I'm working on. But I am here to say that a lot of the work that I've been doing has helped me have this very calm, peaceful energy, this nervous system that is very resilient, where I can handle those sort of situations without freaking out, like I may have in the past.
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And that's really what the shadow work does and what this is all about is to help you feel so much more peaceful in the here and now. So anyway, and I apologize here for I keep touching my lips. It's because Cleo's cat hair stuck to my lip gloss. Modern witchcraft 101 when your cat's fur is all of a sudden all over your face. anyway, I digress. So back to the month of September, I started.
Working with a shamanic teacher, the incredible Donnie Sodu of Highlight Rituals. Donnie is a priestess, a magician. She is a magical human being. I have known Donnie for a few years now. I had her on the podcast. I think Donnie found me actually. And we she sent me, she she has a company called Highlight Rituals that focuses on spiritual jewelry. And she sent me some of her jewelry originally.
And then I had her on the podcast and we we we spoke about our journeys. Well, Donnie is an expert in fairy medicine and core shamanism, which I'm gonna talk about in a moment here. Two things I'm fascinated by. And so Donnie's relation, Donnie and my relationship has progressed over the last few years. And I was so excited to hire her as a teacher this year. And it has honestly been such a life-changing, magical experience.
Especially if if you know, again, if you've been in the Emily Domestic World for years now, some of you guys know I went through a crazy situation where I had to walk away from an old spiritual teacher of mine. it's a side note here. I feel like there are varying initiations in the spiritual teacher lifestyle, one of which includes the initiation of walking away from the job.
The initiation of walking away from the spiritual teacher, the initiation of walking away from the relationship, the initiation of walking away from the spiritual friendship, the codependent spiritual friendship. It's like I've been through it freaking all. Like I've been through it all. Thank God, knock on wood, I haven't had a near-death experience at this point. But like I said, anything is possible. And God knows I can handle a lot at this point in my journey. But
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And by the way, I'm not saying that any of those things are gonna happen to you if you're a spiritual business owner or teacher. So please, you know, don't stress or worry about it. If me saying that is like, God, or you know, do I have to go through that too? No. It's just my journey. I feel like I have been through a lot ticked a lot of boxes of the major initiations. And anyway, I walked away from a spiritual teacher a few years ago in her community, which is a whole journey in itself. There's an episode on the podcast about it about a year ago.
it's called the cult episode. And I have taken courses and worked with some people over the last couple of years since then, but I haven't hired someone to work with me one-on-one because I just haven't been in a space to trust people. And Donnie, gosh, my angel has really helped me in so many capacities with that.
And has helped me develop and understand my connection with core shamanism and with the fairy world and my gifts, my shamanic gifts that are in there. And I am not here to proclaim and call myself a shaman. I I really hold that title in high regard. I know that there are many indigenous groups and cultural groups who.
Shamanism is such a an important and integral part of their society, their practices. And I have not trained, you know, within a lineage like that. So I'm not here to to proclaim or call myself that. But when I think about the way my gifts are and my initial trainings that I took that have been focused on journey work, I know that.
Shamanism is really part of my identity. It's part of who I am as a spiritual practitioner. I learned to journey very early on in my spiritual practice. And by journeying, I mean guided meditation experiences where you astral travel to different realms, you talk to different beings, you heal in the astral.
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And that is how I built my Akashic Records certification. It is through the lens of shamanism. I had no idea, by the way. But if you've ever taken my Akashic certification, it's very shamanic. I teach tech connection with the records through journey work, where you travel into your records. You do guided meditations to connect with your record keepers who are your spirit guides.
And you learn how to channel through journeying. And eventually you learn how to pull information from the records without having to go into the journey, meaning a meditative space or in a deeper brainwave state. But at the beginning, you do the meditations to anchor into your practice. And so that's where I started. That's what I learned. I learned past life regression that way. I taught myself how to regress clients.
Through some of the tenets of what I have learned through classes that I've taken. And so when I say core shamanism, I mean the practices and rituals that are taught by Michael Harner, who is a famous shaman. It is really the connection with the earth, the connection with the four directions: north, south, east, and west, the connection with animal spirit, the connection with plant spirits.
And all beings associated again with planet Earth and with this realm. And to me, the difference between shamanism, witchcraft, and mysticism is that shamanism is really focused on healing. So when I am doing spirit release work, again, a shamanic practice, when I'm clearing negative beings from your field, when I'm releasing attachments, cutting cords, and helping you release things from your energetic field.
Heal your chakras, that is a shamanic practice. I have actually, this is gonna sound crazy to you. I have never been certified in Reiki. I have never learned Reiki healing. I do all of my healing through shamanic practice. It's always been that way in my business. I just didn't know that until now. Working with Donnie, I was like, I've been doing this stuff for years. Donnie, I had no idea.
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It's really cool. So shamanism is focused on healing. Witchcraft is really focused on to me, again, this is my definition, but a connection with the physical world through rituals, spells, intention setting practices, using herbs, candles, trinkets, physical altars, things that anchor the spiritual into the physical.
And mysticism is really an umbrella term to incorporate all of these different modalities that connect us to spirit.
So my shamanic journey with Donnie has taught me a lot about different ways to help my clients heal. I have been practicing soul retrieval work in my business for a long time now, which is the practice of bringing back lost parts of self, lost fragments of the soul that were separated due to trauma, whether in past lives or this lifetime. The symptoms of
A soul fragmentation can include disconnection with yourself, mental health challenges, depression, difficult physical conditions, chronic health conditions, you know, all kinds of things, all kinds of things can fall under the realm of needing a soul retrieval. So I've been working with Donnie to enhance my soul retrieval practice, as well as to incorporate a new form of healing into my, into my toolkit.
All the things that I do, which is fairy medicine. So Donnie specializes in Celtic shamanism, connecting with the Celtic ancestry. She also does other things. So I'm by no means here to pigeonhole her into one thing, but she specializes in Celtic shamanism, working with the Celtic lineages. And I feel very connected to that through both sides of my ancestry. And by connection with
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Scotland, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Wales, all of it. And my connection with Avalon, the ancient civilization of Avalon, as well as the Avalon connected with Lyra, the star system, which is a story for another time. And I've been working with Merlin as a spear guide for a while now. And so, and I've been very connected with the fairies since I was a child. So Donnie has helped me connect a lot of dots to work.
With honing my connection with the Fae and with the other world, which is a realm within the spirit world that we can travel to through journeying, to work with the fairies for help with healing certain things in our human realm. The fairies, when we work with them in integrity, with an open mind, open heart, with good practice, good faith, with an intent to do no harm, the fairies can help us in.
really beautiful, miraculous ways here in the physical human world. And I've really been developing that connection with them as an adult, the connection that I had as a child to help me use these practices that are really a part of Emily, a part of who I am, to integrate that and
To bring it to you into a new way. There aren't a lot of people out there who are offering fairy medicine. So what is fairy medicine? Well, and again, I offer a lot of modalities, right? We've talked about soul retrieval, we've talked about spirit release, we've talked about the Akashic Records, we've talked about fairy medicine now, right? There's so many things. So what I do when I work with a client, whether for the first time or for a continuing session, is I connect with your energy and your spirit team.
And I ask them, what do you need today? What do they need? What are we doing today? And usually the client will come with some sort of intention of something that's going on in their life, could be finances and money, it could be physical health, it could be their physical body, you know, weight loss, it could be love and relationships or relationship with a family member, complicated soul connection, any number of things. And I say to the spirit guides, okay, what are we doing today? And they tell me.
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And then I work with them and we do magical things. So I may do a soul retrieval. I may go into your Akashic Records to get guidance for you. I may tap into your galactic teams. I may connect, I may release spirits from your field if that's what the issue is. or I may journey into the other world, the Fey realm, to work with my fairy guides and ancestors.
To go into your energy field to see what is out of place, what's not right. Is there a missing part of you that we need to return? Is there soul retrieval work that we need to do within the Fey realm? Are there certain things that the Fae can do to help you heal? And then I get homework for you, which I bring back and I tell you. And it's wild because, and listen, again, everything that I say, use with your own discernment. This is for entertainment purposes only. I am not a doctor or medical professional.
Okay. So you know, before I what I say here, the fa the fairies will give me certain protocols for people. They will tell me flower essences, supplements, all kinds of little things, crystals, homework for people to do. And a lot of these supplements I haven't worked with myself, I don't know of, but I research them before I send information to my clients and make sure that everything is safe and good.
And it's wild to me because the supplements, the essences, the things that they recommend are always linked to the intention that my client has set. The guides will be like, they need valerian root. And I'll be like, I don't know what that is. And then I will look and I will research it and it's for stress and anxiety. Okay, cool.
So-and-so needs to take clover flower essence. Okay, well, what's clover flower essence for? Well, it's for setting boundaries and it's for healthy intimacy. Okay, well, that's the client came to me with some relationship challenges. So that makes sense. It is really freaking cool, you guys. It is really cool. And I'm sure in this human journey, I will study herbalism or homeopathy or flower essence work at some point because I it is a passion of mine.
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We only have so many hours in a day, right? So I'll get there when I get there, but at least for now, I am able to translate the spiritual guidance into a physical practice or protocol that you can do to bring you real help and healing for whatever you're navigating. So you guys, I am obsessed with it. I'm obsessed with the work because every session is different. Every client question is different. I get to go all over the place in the spirit world.
So, for context, when it comes to the spirit world, there are many realms and dimensions. I journey first to the tree of life, which connects us all. The tree of life will take me into the upper world, which is the galactic realms, other star systems working with the angels, the archangels, the angelics, working with the Akashic Records, working with light beings. Or I will go into the middle world, which is where.
We live as humans, but it's also where our loved ones in spirit reside in the astral realm. It's also where the fairies reside in the other world in their own sort of dimensional realm, where all of the magical creatures reside, including the dragons and the mermaids and, you know, all of those beautiful creatures. And we may also go down into the underworld where the darker deities live, where I do a lot of spirit release work.
Where we clear all sorts of things, where we also integrate aspects of your shadow, you receive healing. There is, you know, this whole divine darkness work that's a component of it as well. And all of that makes up my shamanic practice. And then so I do that. I do it for myself too. I'm journeying every single day for the most part. Then I'll come out of the journey and then I'll cast a spell for myself. I'll light a candle.
I'll use oils. I will create little rituals. And it has made my life so magical, you guys, in so many ways. But the best part, okay, the best part, you're not gonna get the guess the best part. The best part has been the human embodiment. It has brought me so much more deeply into my physical body, in this world, in this realm. It has made me so much more Emily than I ever thought possible.
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I feel so connected here to this space. I love the fact that I can go and journey and then I can bring what I've learned back into the physical and live my real life. That I work with these deities, these beings in spirit. And then they give me information, and then I get to live it in my real physical human life through real lived experience. So, for example, I have.
Started to work with a lot of different goddesses, priestesses, deities. It's been part of my practice, like I said, for years now. But these beings have been reaching out to me for months. And I had no idea. Again, literally all the dots are connecting in my life. Last spring, I was seeing keys everywhere. I would have friends call me.
Stressed out because they had lost their keys and they needed a place to be for a few hours until they could get back into their apartment. So they would come hang out with me at home. I would lose my keys and I would call my landlord in stress, you know, needing to get into my apartment. I would a physical key once on a counter at a CVS when I was checking out of the cash register. I have found keys on the ground. I was like, what the frick is going on? Why am I finding keys everywhere?
And then this past summer, I started seeing black dogs everywhere. I was dating someone who had a black dog. I was seeing black dog symbolism everywhere. I was like, what is this about? And then I learned. I was approached by Goddess Hecate and meditation. And I learned that Goddess Hecate, her symbols include black dogs and keys and the torch and the crossroads.
And you guys know I've been through a big life transition. I've been through a big crossroads, a big moment of.
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Releasing a lot of things in my life and starting a new rebirth energy. Hecate, the goddess of all of those things. I had no idea. She's been trying to reach out for me to me for months. Magical. Absolutely magical. Last year at this time, I had a retreat in Tennessee. On this Tennessee retreat, the ravens were following me everywhere. They would show up on my balcony, outside of my retreat room, my the room I was staying in the in the retreat house.
I bought a raven print that I'm staring at right now at a spiritual fair last fall. I bought a sweatshirt with a raven on it. I was dating someone briefly with a raven tattoo. I was like, Ravens! Cool, my spirit guide, one of my spirit guides. Then I learned that ravens are associated with the Morrigan. I had no idea. The Morrigan, again, another goddess of death and rebirth, transformation, huge identity shifts, of sovereignty, of personal power.
So I've recently started working with the Morrigan. And these goddesses are fierce, you know, they are fierce. And really, like I said, they've been helping me move through this big period of release and loss and grief and transition and endings and letting go and helping me feel so comfortable and confident in this physical human life. It's just miraculous.
And the coolest part about it is that they bring things to me to learn in my human life. So I made a post about this on Instagram the other day. But what I said in the post was when a spirit guide comes to you in meditation and they say to you, all in due time, or wait and see, you know, you're asking them a question and you're you're wanting to receive guidance. And your spirit guide says to you, just wait and see, or all in due time. What that really means is.
We are about to drop a physical experience in your real human life.
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That is going to teach you something. And it's going to be an opportunity to practice what you have learned. So if you have been working on identity work, personal power, communication, they may bring the opportunity for you to introduce yourself to someone new and explain what you do to this new person. They may, if you've been working on standing up for yourself, personal power, confidence.
They may bring in a s situation in your life like someone cutting you in line at the grocery store. And you may need to stand up for yourself. I literally may made this post in the post, the example I gave was someone cutting you in line at the grocery store. And then I had it happen to me a few days later. Someone cut me in line and I was like, no, sir. Please. I have been waiting here for 30 minutes. I need my drink. I was standing in line for a drink.
At a concert. Span cuts me in line. I'm like, Hello, I've been waiting here for thirty thirty minutes. And he goes, I work here.
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my God, I got such a laugh out of it. And if I hadn't known this stuff, if I hadn't, if I hadn't been so sort of like grounded in the way that reality works, I would have been embarrassed or sh you know, kind of ashamed or humiliated. But no, like I'm like, I laugh it off now. Because life to me has become so much of a video game. It's like.
I work with the spirit guides in my meditation experiences, they tell me things and they manifest in real life, or there's they give me like a little bit of a challenge or a test. And then I get to like pass the test or walk through the challenge. And then when I do it, I'm like, Yay, pass the test. But never not everything is easy. You know, some of them are like, whoa, they threw me, they throw they throw me for a loop. Or they're complex or confusing or whatever.
So, you know, I'm not here to say that it's easy, but it sure as hell has made my life a lot more fun and a lot more entertaining. And God, it has just made me so much more human, you know? I am realizing the deeper I get into this, that there are a lot of spiritual practitioners and people out there who are in a bit of a Dululu state with the spiritual work. And listen, I am all for being Dululu when it comes to manifestation. Dream your big dreams, you know.
Have your future vision for yourself, dream bigger. I talk about that all the time. I'm a huge proponent of that. But there are some practitioners out there who live in the realm of, well, you know, Jesus told me this, or my spirit guide told me this, and I have to do it, or
It starts to become this fantasy that distracts you from your real life. We start to use the meditation experiences as a way to bypass the pain of this human experience. And I know because I will be honest, I have done some of those things in the past. I have used the spiritual signs and so forth to distract me from things that I was feeling that I wanted to avoid. I mean, I feel like we all do it to some capacity.
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So, you know, no sh no shade, no, no you know, not making anyone wrong for it. But I have noticed that there are practitioners out there who are a bit in the clouds, you know, they kind of put themselves on a pedestal a little bit. And I'm like, that's not the point. The point is to be human. The point is to be here. I just want to be more of Emily. I just want to have fun, you know. I wanna like be in Philadelphia doing my human thing. I like going to the grocery store, cooking my meals, you know, I like having
funny experiences where I meet new people and, you know, meet run into someone at the gym or deliver a mediumship message to my Starbucks breezer, like whatever it is. I love it. I like to be the bridge between the physical and the spiritual. I really think that that's what this is all about. I not that I think. I know that's what this is all about. And I'm so passionate about teaching that way because I want you to live a more embodied life.
Where we're not bypassing the pain and the stress of this human experience. We are in it. We are enjoying it. We are living it. We are present.
just it's such a breath of fresh air, you know? It brings a lot of lightness to some of the harder stuff and some of the fear. And I think as humans, we fear what we don't know. We fear things that we perceive as evil or dark or bad. But really, that fear, it keeps us from embracing our humanness. It keeps us from curiosity. It keeps us from getting to know parts of ourselves that.
May teach us something that may bring humor or, you know, a new perspective or a new way of living your life into, you know, your everyday experience. So to me, this episode is for 11-11. It's coming out on the 1111 portal. The 1111 day is really all about manifestation and your vision for yourself and what you're manifesting. And in order to manifest things, you need to be in the human.
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You need to be living your human life. You need to be in the physical reality. We can be doing all this work in the astral. Trust me, I get it. I do the work in the astral for you. But then I'm gonna give you physical homework and tangible action of what to do after. Because if the spirit guides are telling you that you're gonna be a spiritual business owner someday and you're really talented and you are really good with your gifts, and they're telling you all these things, but you're not posting to social media.
You are not practicing client sessions. You don't have a calendar for your work. What are you doing? When is the someday? You're gonna be a spiritual business owner someday? When is the someday? We have to like do things in the physical, right? I mean, we talk about this all the time, but I think we forget. and there's a balance. It's also owning honoring the spiritual too, because I have had phases of my life where I've been so in the physical, where I've been so working hard, being a workaholic.
Hustling, doing the most, that I forget I can use my magic and my spirit connection to make things easier and to ask questions and to channel great ideas that are gonna make my life better. Work smarter, not harder, you know? So it's balance. It's all about the balance. And so this 1111 to me is all about that integration, that balance of the physical and the spiritual, the light and the dark, the masculine and the feminine.
For you to bring these parts of yourself inwards, into you, to own them, to not be afraid of them, because what you don't own owns you. What you reject ends up being a blind spot, ends up, you know, controlling you in a way. And we don't want that.
You'll be so much more relaxed when these things that you're avoiding are brought into your present reality, into this present moment.
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I'm so passionate about that. And so, in the work that I offer my clients, we do the spiritual work, I do the journey work, I give you the physical practices. And then I also use a somatic tool called Psych K that helps rewire the brain and balance the left and right sides of your body to reduce the stress response, to lower the heightened nervous system response to bring you back to baseline.
So that things that provoke fear or stress, anxiety, shame, guilt, whatever the emotion is, grief, we can feel them, release them, let them go, and come back to neutral again. Because that makes you so much more resilient. That makes you so much more present. That makes you so much more here, tangible in this reality. And that is when you're gonna manifest the money, you know?
And you're gonna find the home of your dreams and you're gonna meet the love of your life. And like all these things that you're trying to manifest will happen when you're here, not when you're living in the delusion of sa the someday, you know? It's here, it's now, it's the day-by-day practices that help you get there a little bit at a time, a day at a time. So, with that being said, I am really excited. I've been wanting to do this for a long time, and this is the year.
I have been wanting to create a an adult advent calendar where you get a little mini practice ritual, meditation, spell to do every day for 31 days during the Christmas season, during the Yule season, to make your life a bit more fun, a bit more magical. When Yule and Christmas, it's all about giving. It's all about.
Also about receiving. It's about giving and receiving, right? It's about magic, it's about miracles, it's about blessings. And it's an opportunity when you're doing a lot for others and you're balancing a lot of things and you're busy and you're running around everywhere to focus on yourself for self-care, for fun and for connecting with yourself again. And when we do that now, in the midst of the busiest season of the year, you start the new year fresh with a foundation.
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Of practices that are going to help you do everything I've shared in this episode and help you manifest your desires in the new year. So if you're listening to this episode and you're like, my God, Emily, I love this. Where do I even begin? Well, guess what? I am creating a 31-day practice for you to completely rewire your brain for magic, to completely help you integrate.
The mystical and the tangible, the spiritual and the human to help you make your life more magical, but also more grounded, to bring you back down to earth, but also to remind you that you're connected and that your spirit guides are here. And to help bring new practices into your work, into your toolkit that you may not have done before. It's gonna be like a little potpourri of exercises and the purpose of it as a 31-day advent calendar.
It's kind of like a 31-day foundation setting challenge to yourself to manifest your desires as a vessel for the physical. Whether it be money or a new home that you're manifesting, or love, or peaceful relationships, or physical things that you're wanting to bring in, or travel, or clients in your business, or the next big business idea, the purpose of this.
witchy advent calendar is to help you tap into the more mystical side of yourself. We're bringing in the witchcraft, the shamanism, the Akashic records, all of these magical practices I've shared with you.
To help you really embody your most authentic self. And what a cool way to start off the new year. Like you're gonna have a full transformation in 31 days. I know this because I dedicated myself to a 30-day practice. Actually, it was a 40-day practice from September into mid-October, where I journeyed every single day for 40 days. I worked with my guides every single day for 40 days. I cut out a lot of things that were bad habits at the time, and it changed my life.
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And so it's about the habitual action, the day-to-day little things that you can do that are really gonna move the needle for you. And when you start your new year from there, like imagine what's possible. you're just gonna be off to the races. You're gonna be on a rocket ship to the stars, especially because 2027 is supposed to be a really big year with a lot of change. All of the shifts and transitions you've been through over the last two years since 2025 are to prepare you for 2027.
So, what better way than to reconnect with your spiritual practices to help you prepare for that, right? So it is a 31-day digital advent calendar. You purchase it, you get access. Every day there will be a new drop in the calendar of something new that you are going to enjoy that day. The practices are going to be short and sweet and fun. And we're going to have a telegram group community where we can share our wins and like signs that we're getting and cool experiences that we're having and things that we're manifesting.
And it's gonna be really fun. So I hope you join us. I really hope you do. The link to register is gonna be in the show notes of this episode. And I know it's really gonna bring you joy. I participated in something like this back in, I want to say 2023. And it was again, it was during a phase of life where I was feeling a little down on my luck. And I did something like this for 31 days over the Christmas season, and it just
made it brought me so much joy. It brought me so much joy. And I want to bring that joy to you. I want to create something like this for you. And you'll have access to it year round. So if you loved it and then you know March comes around and you want to repeat the process, maybe more intentionally with something specific that you want to manifest, you can do it again and again and again. So it is of course I'm offering this now as a Yule magic ritual because of the magic of the Christmas season. But
It will not be seasonally specific in that you can do the practices year round. So come join us for it. It's such an easy win. And yeah, I can't wait to share this with you. And also with that being said, I am taking deposits for work in 2027. If you are ready to start a mentorship experience with me.
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And my mentorships are a combination of all of the mystical work that I've talked about today, the fairy medicine, the shamanism, the soul retrieval. It helps you claim a new identity. It helps you step into who you've you've always meant to be in this lifetime, releasing the stress, releasing the fear, releasing the shame, releasing the stuff that has been weighing you down for a lifetime now.
And my clients feel better and better, lighter and lighter, brighter and brighter, and their spiritual gifts just pop off. It's amazing. Read all my testimonials. Like you'll see. You'll see. You'll see. It's a cool, it's a cool world over here if you come to work with Emily the Mystic. And I am also going to be in the process here of restructuring the Emily the Mystic world a little bit so that you can have access to my courses and offerings in a new way.
So I am working on a bit of a mystic academy over here where you're gonna be able to participate in a lot of the Emily the Mystic courses throughout the course of 2027. So this mystical advent calendar is just the beginning. Lots to come. I'm just excited for this new chapter. I feel like it's been a long time coming. And I'm so grateful that you're here. So thank you for listening to this.
Really personal episode about my practice and what I've learned this year. And I'm so grateful that even the hard times have led me to where I am today. And I'm so excited for what's next. I'm so excited for what's next. Who knows? What's waiting around the corner for me? But I feel ready for I feel ready for it. And I'm happy that you're here with me. And if you live in the Philly area, come to a Philly Mystics event. I now have an in-person community called Philly Mystics.
Where we're meeting a couple times a month. We're doing coffee hangouts. We're doing mocktail hangouts, all kinds of things. So go follow the Philly Mystics Instagram account for information about upcoming events. Lots of things coming for the holiday season. Hope to see you there. And I will leave it at that with this episode. Do not forget, you are a human and you are also a magical spiritual being. You have so many gifts inside of you. If anything, I want you to leave this episode.
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With knowing that Emily the Mystic, she wasn't born this way. I cultivated this over my life, right? I am 32 years old, soon to be 33. I cultivated this throughout the course of my life, but it is the remembering and the connecting of all of the breadcrumbs that have led me to this wild spiritual skill set that I have today. So, what is living inside of you? What is in your living library? What little breadcrumbs can we connect?
Can we uncover, unpack in this 31-day adult, adult mystical witchcraft experience? This yule magic experience. What breadcrumbs can we connect? How can we connect the dots for you to help you see the person that you've always meant to be in this lifetime? It's all in there. I am not special. So don't put me on that pedestal. I don't want to be there. You, you, my listener, this.
Episode is for you to remember, help you remember who you really are. That is my purpose, is to help you remember. Okay. So go be open to remembering something about your most mystical, ancient, magical self and who you're meant to be in this lifetime. And I'm excited to see who you become in this process and also to honor who you already are as a human. So I love you so much. Thanks for being here. And I'll see you in the next episode. Happy 1111.
or whenever you're listening to this, or happy Friday the 13th, the day of the Divine Feminine. Love you so much and I'll see you soon.
