104. Recovering from Burnout & Ritual Play w/ J.S. Groves

J.S. aka Jeffrey Groves https://www.patreon.com/cw/jsgroves returns to speak with Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata about how to recover from creative or magical burnout, and what to do when you’re starting to realize you're experiencing it. Jeffrey also shares about writing the series, The Prince’s Fighter’s, “ritual play” and xier photography work, including capturing magical operations like invocation, experimenting with spirit photography and more. Luxa shares about the experience of modeling for such shoots, communion with Austin Osman Spare and invoking Venus Victrix. Diversions include paranormal investigation photography, talismanic jewelry, botthole haikus and more!

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Referenced in today’s episode:

66. Dionysus and the Sorcerer’s Workbench w/ JS Groves & the Game of Identity w/ Art Worldbuilding https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/luxa-strata/episodes/66--Dionysus-and-the-Sorcerers-Workbench-w-JS-Groves--the-Game-of-Identity-w-Art-Worldbuilding-e28numn

Void House Presents: Trauma Informed Practices or “Just the TIPs”

https://youtu.be/gCrTpfsAAHc

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_von_Sacher-Masoch

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Podcast Part One: Riot Dogs Are Very Good Dogs

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cool-people-who-did-cool-96003360/episode/part-one-riot-dogs-are-very-115624059/?embed=true

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Podcast Part Two: Riot Dogs Are Very Good Dogs

https://www.tapesearch.com/episode/part-two-riot-dogs-are-very-good-dogs/NFEvDfVGVECcS3HywsnVy4

‘The Tradition’ by Jericho Brown https://poets.org/poem/tradition

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