BTW 51: Spirits of the Land, Spirits of Place with Chiron Armand

Dear Listeners we’re so excited to dive with you into this episode with one of our favorite and dear guests, Chiron Armand. Chiron is is a shamanic practitioner holding initiations in Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Quimbanda, and is a trained hoodoo root doctor in the Southern Conjure tradition. He’s also the author of Deliverance!: Hoodoo Spells of Uncrossing, Healing, and Protection and Clearing Spaces: Inspirational Techniques to Heal Your Home. AND he holds an MA in Performance Studies from New York University and a BA in Ritual Anthropology and Queer Studies from Hampshire College. In short, Chiron is brilliant, thoroughly educated and initiated, and also kind, adorable, and super fun to talk to. We love him so much and know you will too. Today we’re talking about the Spirits of the Land, and the Spirits of Places. We talk about ancestral relationships to the land and how they show up in your childhood. We talk about techniques for communicating and forming bonds with the spirits of the land, and how to do that even if you’re living in a big city where you feel like any land spirits may be long gone. We discuss how the ocean can heal our relationships, and how the mountains can lead us to deeper integrity and purpose — but that we can’t approach them in an extractive way, wanting something. Instead, we need to approach the spirits of the land in an attitude of romantic reverence. Stay tuned to find out how. To find out more about our ACE OF PENTACLES: ABUNDANCE MAGICK WORKSHOP either scroll down or visit our website. www.betweentheworldspodcast.com/shop Questions to ask yourself if you're worried you're failing: by whose standards am I failing? who benefits from my believing myself a failure? who benefits if I love myself more in all my failure? Truly, like which groups of people or beings benefit from your resistance to imposed notions of success? how can you throw your failure back in the face of the status quo, or whomever it is that says that you’re failing? Like truly, what would it look like to thumb your nose? ask yourself, how can I open up a dialogue here, instead of operating on a dominator model? ********************************* Find out more about our special guest, Chiron Armand: writer, shamanic practitioner, and decolonial creative... . Visit his website: https://www.impactshamanism.com/ Check out his Instagram feed: @chironarmand And his YouTube: Impact Shamanism Grab some of his Quimbanda Supplies: https://osoldameianoite.com/ or here Quimbandasupplies.com (coming soon! follow him on Instagram in the meantime) Or buy his magnificent books: Deliverance!: Hoodoo Spells of Uncrossing, Healing, and Protection or Clearing Spaces: Inspirational Techniques to Clear Your Home ********************************* UPCOMING WORKSHOPS - ACE OF PENTACLES: ABUNDANCE MAGICK Abundance is already present, but remembering that can be a challenge in a culture that’s modeled on scarcity. True abundance includes rest, love, nourishment, inspiration, security, and pleasure. In this workshop we will establish a new relationship to abundance, inspired by the natural systems of the earth and the wisdom tradition of the tarot. 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Check out Carolyn's project - Homework Club -with with arts consultant and author , Beth Pickens: Homework Club offers creative people strategies for keeping their projects and practices a priority with monthly webinars, worksheets, live QnA’s, accountability pods, and actual homework (that you'll never be graded on. Ever!). Make 2024 a BIG PROJECT year - first month free with code: YourArt Mind Your Practice is our podcast. You can visit https://www.bethpickens.com/homework-club for more details or listen wherever you stream Between the Worlds. ********************************** Get in touch with sponsorship inquiries for Between the Worlds at betweentheworldspodcast@gmail.com . 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 .