BTW 11: 8 of Cups - Knowing When to Walk Away with guest Ann Friedman

In this episode we talk about … the 8 of Cups, knowing when to hold them, fold them, and walk away, with our very special guest, Ann Friedman, media wunderkind, writer, editor, and former host of the Going Through It Podcast. If you're not sure if it's time to move on from... that place you're living, that relationship you're in, or that job you have... this is the episode for you. We also give you some good tips on how to do decision-making tarot readings, and give a ritual for working with Hecate, Guardian of the Crossroads. Join us!

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Find out more about our special guest, writer, editor, and podcaster Ann Friedman...

Check out her website https://www.annfriedman.com/

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Quest of Cups 10-Week Online Workshop Information

Join us for our last workshop of the season, The Quest of Cups: In Pursuit of Your Deepest Heart’s Desire.

This 10-week course will help you deepen your knowledge of the tarot AND most importantly, figure out how to apply its lessons to your everyday life.

This Course Includes:

• 10 x 1-page (i.e. bite sized, 1 per week) PDFs to help you connect with the magic of each cup card in the suit.
• Spells you can used based on the card
• Meditations to help you connect with the suit of cups
• Numerological, herbal, crystal, and astrological correspondences to help you remember and work with the messages of each card
• Journal prompts to help you integrate the lessons of the cards
• Weekly ½ hour group video calls that include a brief meditation, discussion of that week’s card, and a Q&A session
• Altar strategies
• A full “album” of the cups songs from the Between the Worlds episodes you can listen to just for fun, and practice to be able to call in the energy of the cards
• Cups movement gestures to kinesthetically call in the energy of each card
• And more!

TO SIGN UP FOR THE WORKSHOP OR FIND OUT MORE, CLICK HERE

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Amanda's References This Episode Include:

• “Tarot as a Way of Life” by Karen Hamaker-Zondag
• “The Complete Book of Tarot Reversals” by Mary K. Greer
• “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Amanda talks about this book when she describes the mucky pond).

Also, the wand maker Amanda mentions is Daymoon Wands. You can find out more about them on Instagram @daymoonwands or on their website www.daymoonwands.com.

To order Amanda's book, "Initiated: Memoir of a Witch" CLICK HERE.

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Original MUSIC by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs.

Referenced excerpt: I'm Set Free by The Velvet Underground.

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Ritual for Hecate

Hecate is the guardian of the in between places so it’s good to go at dawn or twilight to do this ritual, leaving offerings for her at a crossroads where three roads come together.

This ritual is good for transitional moments. You’re asking for Hecate to guide you at this crossroads in your life, through this transition.

Before you set out to the crossroads do a ceremonial clearing with fumigation herbs like mugwort or cedar or rosemary, have a ritual bath and anoint yourself with oil of cypress, or brush yourself down with a soft brush.

Then go to a crossroads where three roads come together. You can leave coins for her, or pour a libation of water, milk (you can use any milk, oat milk, etc) - she is also the goddess of childbearing, wine or honey, snake skins for transformation, fish or eggs (for you non-vegan friends), or garlic also works, or onion, you can also leave cakes.

Leaving offerings for Hecate on the dark moon (the night before the new moon), in ancient Greece the ritual to Hecate (involving a ceremonial dinner for her) was called a Deipnon. After the dinner your supposed to leave offerings for her at the crossroads where three roads come together, and say,

“Torch bearing Hekate, powerful wanderer through realms of night, guide me through this crossroads of my life, lend your wisdom to mine and show me the way. Deliver me to the wisest course of action. Please accept these offerings as thanks for your wisdom and your guidance.”

After leaving the offerings, walk away and don’t look back

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CONTRIBUTORS:

Amanda Yates Garcia (host) & Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs (producer) & Ann Friedman (special guest). With editing help from Jiha Lee. The BTW image was created by Marian Minnis (tinyparsnip.com / instagram.com/tinyparsnip ) with text designed by Leah Hayes.

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To book an appointment with Amanda go to www.oracleoflosangeles.com

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Original MUSIC by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs

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CONTRIBUTORS:

Amanda Yates Garcia (host) & Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs (producer, composer). The BTW logo collage was created by Maria Minnis (tinyparsnip.com / instagram.com/tinyparsnip ) with text designed by Leah Hayes.