The Hagstone Podcast

In this month’s episode of The Hagstone, Chaise Levy sits down with Dutch-based oral storyteller Simon Hodges, known as Lindenbauer, to wander the marshlands between land and fairy, cultivation and wildness, memory and responsibility. Beginning in the drowned farmlands of the Biesbosch, a tidal landscape shaped by flood, war, and beaver teeth, the conversation opens into a deeper inquiry. What happens when we slow down enough to perceive the intelligence of place?Drawing on lived encounters, landscape history, William Blake, David Abram, and the discipline of oral tradition, they explore the subtle threshold where land encounter becomes fairy encounter. The episode moves from childhood visions and ash tree vigils to hazel charms and dragon weather, asking what it means to enter into relationship with something more than human, and what happens when we fail to uphold that relationship.Throughout, storytelling emerges not as performance but as practice, a way of returning to the same place until it begins to speak through you. The teller becomes less a personality and more a threshold, someone willing to falter, to lose control, and to allow truth to move through the room. From Shakespearean stages to marsh edges, from cultivated Dutch peatlands to California’s flood prone plains, we trace how perception shifts when language becomes an organ of attention.Ultimately, the conversation gestures toward a quiet but demanding reorientation. Enchantment is not spectacle. Fairy is not novelty. Relationship requires responsibility. Story, carried mouth to mouth across centuries, may be one of the last bridges where the more than human world still waits for us to listen.New Theme Music: Taliesin, written and performed on Tenor Guitar and Mandolin by Chaise LevyPlease consider leaving a rating and review on your favorite podcasting platform! For more episodes follow us at hagstonepodcast.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

In this month’s episode of The Hagstone, Chaise Levy sits down with Scott Richardson-Read to trace the living force of story shapes nations, roots itself in land, and moves through communities as something more than metaphor. Beginning with the claim that “all we ever really have is story,” the conversation travels from Scottish political identity to digital worlds, from local hillsides to role-playing tables, asking what holds people together when institutions falter.Drawing on folklore, landscape memory, online gaming culture, and oral storytelling practice, they explore story as a form of belonging. We track how shared imaginative space also for identity to be tested, inhabited, and transformed. The episode considers how a wide variety of otherworlds can function as contemporary mythic terrain, how communal storytelling generates a kind of “group body,” and how the teller becomes less an author than a mouthpiece for something moving through the room.Ultimately, the conversation gestures toward a radical reorientation: imagination is not escape, but participation. Story is not distraction, but ground. What would it mean to recognize narrative not as illusion, but as the medium through which reality becomes livable, contested, and enchanted?New Theme Music: Taliesin, written and performed on Tenor Guitar and Mandolin by Chaise LevyScott Richardson-Read is a working-class writer, folklorist, and alternative cultural historian with a deep connection to Scotland’s folk heritage. As the creator of Cailleach’s Herbarium, a platform dedicated to reviving and preserving Scottish folk traditions, Scott has spent years researching and sharing the stories, practices, and beliefs that define the working-class and animistic roots of Scottish culture. His work reflects a blend of deep archival exploration, oral history, and personal experience in the landscapes of Scotland.With a background steeped in human rights, ecology, activism, and traditions, Scott’s writing bridges the past and present, offering fresh insights into the enduring significance of folk belief. Through his decades-long journey, he continues to advocate for the preservation of Scotland’s sacred sites and cultural heritage.When not writing, Scott is often found exploring Scotland’s wild spaces, old libraries, and archives, drinking tea with his cats, or engaging with the vibrant communities keeping traditions alive.You can find Scott’s work on his website Cailleachs Herbarium or in his incredible 2025 book Mill Dust and Dreaming Bread: Exploring Scottish Folk Belief and Folk Magic.This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

In this months episode of The Hagstone, Chaise Levy sits down with Chad Andro of Radical Elphame to explore what Chad calls fairy apologetics, a reexamination of fairy lore that pushes back against fear-based, extractive, and overly dualistic approaches to the Otherworld. Drawing from folklore, Romantic poetry, animist philosophy, entheogenic experience, and personal practice, the conversation challenges the modern tendency to demonize or sentimentalize fairies, arguing instead for a relational and ecological understanding rooted in openness and transformation.Together, they explore the collapse of strict boundaries between this world and the Otherworld, critique capitalist and colonial mindsets that seek to control spiritual experience, and trace how Romantic figures such as William Blake preserved a vision of fairy as a force of fullness that holds joy and terror, innocence and experience, creation and destruction in dynamic balance. The episode ultimately asks what it would mean culturally and spiritually to re-engage fairy not as danger or fantasy, but as a living mode of relationship with the animate world.Connect with Chad AndroInstagram: @radicalelphameSubstack: Chad Andro Podcast: Radical Elphame, available wherever you listenNew Theme Music: Taliesin written and performed on Tenor Guitar and Mandolin by Chaise Levy This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

Happy Winter Solstice Northern Spirit House community.Today we are sharing a conversation between Chaise Levy, John Wolfstone, and Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen on From the Dragon Heart, which took place just before Yule in 2023. We are so thankful for John hosting and sharing the original episode, and to Rune for his deep generosity of both knowledge and spirit.As we deepen into this dark season we are reminded that in the Old Solstice traditions it was the beings of the darkness who brought the light. At this very apex of the ritual year the processions of both the beautiful and the monstrous move through the world to remind us of these time forces on the earth. This conversation revolves around the possibility of reinvigorating Yule traditions may it nourish all those who listen as we prepare for the Yuletide festivities between now and the first full moon of the second Yule month in January.Podcast image shows a Yule Goat being led through Skansen, Bollnässtugan from the Nordic MuseumMay all be blessed, Happy Solstice! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

This week on the Hagstone Podcast Chaise is joined again by Nay Noordmans of the House of Gnomi. This time we dive into the magical history of Datura, and it nexus of lore across this wild green earth.In the conversation we dive deep into the well of Datura’s spirit, and find there a clarion call to find reconciliation with the stories of extraction that continue to unfold. In that spirit we invite listeners to begin to ask the question of how they might create deeper relationships and offer resources to first peoples of the lands that they might inhabit.Here are some places to consider supporting in recognition of the debt of gratitude owed to the spirit of Datura and her keepers.https://northernchumash.org/land-back/https://www.sychumashmuseum.org/get-involved/Kuruvungna Village Springs - Gabrielino-Tongva Springs FoundationCHIRLA - The Coalition for Humane Immigrant RightsSome of the resources mentioned in the episode include:Nay on Radical Elphame with Chad AndroNay’s Lecture at Viridis Genii Symposium This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

This week on the Hagstone Podcast Chaise and Andreas are joined by Carl Nordblom. Carl is the author of the wonderful book Historiola: the Power of Narrative Charms published in 2021 by Hadean Press. If you haven’t read this book we highly suggest finding yourself a copy.This is a deep conversation weaving threads of storytelling, charming, folk-magic and mantra into a tapestry that reflects the central theme: the power of story. We range wide taking a look at stories both old and new and how they function in our lives. From the personal to the vast political level the making of and employing of stories has massive implications for life, and learning to look critically at language not as an academic but from within is a deeply powerful tool in times such as these. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

This week on the Hagstone Podcast Chaise sits down with Rebecca Beyer of the Blood and Spicebush School of Old Craft. The conversation ranges through topics of land connectedness, connecting with ancestral traditions, and the particular power that the traditions of Appalachia have for showing a way of braiding cultures and lifeways. It is an amazing conversation, and we are so thankful to share it with you.Rebecca Beyer is the founder of the Blood and Spicebush School of Old Craft. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Plant and Soil Science from the University of Vermont and a Master’s degree in Appalachian Studies and Sustainability from the Appalachian State University. She lives in the mountains of western North Carolina where she manages a homestead and teaches traditional Witchcraft, foraging, and Appalachian folk medicine.Rebecca’s newest book The Complete Folk Herbal will be published in October of this year by Simon & Schuster. It is packed to the brim with medicinal and magical plant knowledge and we highly recommend getting a copy.You can find her on Instagram at bloodandspicebush or at her website www.bloodandspicebush.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

This week on the Hagstone Podcast Chaise sits down to chat with Rose Aurora for a lively conversation on Fairy and Elf lore, magical storytelling, and the fundamental power of Truth. Rose is a sorceress, seer, and trollkvinna. Born into a lineage of Celtic fairy seership & witchcraft, Rose has been interacting with spirits and practicing magic since a very young age. She has also apprenticed under Johannes Gårdbäck to learn the art of Trolldom, a traditional system of Scandinavian folk magic & sorcery - of which she has been approved to do professional spiritual work for others as well as teach. She has also received training in other spiritual traditions, including hoodoo/conjure, as well as initiation into other lineages of traditional witchcraft.As a professional sorceress, Rose specializes in helping others with fairy, elf, and troll-related troubles. She also conducts readings and spellwork, in addition to teaching the magical arts to students of many magical backgrounds & various levels of experience.In the episode Rose mentions her class Starlight, Forge-fire, and Hearth Embers: The Elves, Trolls, & Dwarves in Scandinavian Folklore and Practice for the Northern Folk Traditions Conference at Ritualcravt. As of the publishing of this episode the conference is over but you may be able to get a recording.Rose will be giving a class at the Salem Witchfest titled Goodly, Shining, & Terrible: An Introduction to the Celtic Fairies with Rose Aurora you can find the link here.You can find Rose on the web at roseauroras.com or on instagram @roseauroras This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

This week on the Hagstone Podcast Chaise and Andreas sit down to chat with Johannes Gårdbäck to discuss trolldom and some of the amazing work he has brewing at Urhall.Johannes B. Gårdbäck is the author of “Trolldom – Spells and Methods of the Norse Folkmagic Tradition”, (Y.I.P.P.I.E, 2014). He is an internationally recognized teacher with more than 30 years of experience as a professional folk healer and a folk magic practitioner. Today he runs Urhall, a physical and online school of Trolldom and Scandinavian Folk wisdom in his home village of Hedekas, Sweden where he lives with his wife, two daughters and a dog called Bob.We are so thankful for this conversation, and the weaving of connection between what we are doing here at the Northern Spirit House with Urhall. Johannes is giving two teachings as a part of RitualCravt’s Northern Folk Traditions Conference taking place online June 2nd-8th. His sessions include Trolldom Herb, Tree, & Root Magic: All Good Things Are Three and Draugadrott: Necromancy, Spiritism and Relating to the Dead and the Ancestors in the Trolldom Tradition as a student of Johannes’s I can tell you they are not to be missed.Johannes also teaches an area of weekend, and year long courses throughout the year, and is debuting a Trolldom for the dark of the year immersion this year at his home in Hedekas, Sweden. More info can be found here.We have just entered the second year of the Hagstone Podcast and we could not be more excited to share the work of more incredible guests in the coming year. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

This week on the Hagstone Podcast we are speaking with Sydney Kale. Sydney is a Ph.D. student of Wisdom Studies at Ubiquity University, focusing on plant intelligence and phenomenology. Her plant-relationship practice culminates in an exploration of co-authorship with plants in both academic and creative works. While her primary focus is plant studies, these inquiries provide a lens to explore plantness, humanness, and aliveness through deep listening, attunement, and embodied knowing. She is the author of The Love Language of Plants, a collection of essays written with plants at her home in Asheville, North Carolina. Sydney can be found at her website sydneykale.com or on substack This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

On this week’s episode of the Hagstone Podcast Chaise is speaking with Arrowyn Craban Lauer. Arrowyn is an artist, a witch, and a mother who is based in Portland, Oregon. Arrowyn is the co-creator of Hex Magazine which ran from 2007-2014.It is a weaving conversation about the power of dreams, following your wyrd, the power of visual magical practice, and so much more.In the episode Arrowyn shares several stunning pieces of her art, she has generously offered high resolution versions of the images here for the show notes.Oak TreeStargazer LilyLiving the Goat Life Silk MothIf you want to find more of Arrowyn’s art you can find her on Etsy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/LittleGoldFoxDesignsand follow her on Instagram: little_gold_foxShow Notes:Arrowyn shares about the poetry of the Babylonian poet Enheduana, they can be found here:https://enheduana.org/enheduanas-poems/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

On this week’s episode of the Hagstone Podcast Chaise is speaking with Z. Hudelot. Z is an educator, historian, researcher, and a forager working at the intersection of folklore, folk practice and scientific study. It is a fascinating and wide ranging conversation covering Z’s work with the Mycoheterotrophs (including the Ghost Pipe), gnomes, Paracelsus, mummer’s plays and so much more. If you want to know more about the HMS Terror Z. has offered up this article.You can find Z on Instagram at : gnomecunningYou can also find Z’s lecture at the 2024 Viridis Genii Symposium on Mycoheterotrophs here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

This week on the Hagstone Podcast Chaise sat down with Nay Noordmans of House of Gnomi on Instagram to chat all things Gnomes. The conversation moves through topics of connection to place, the benefits of working from folklore to develop relationships with the ecology, and the ever present question are the Gnomes just mushrooms after all?References in the episode include:* A Book on Nymphs, Sylphs, Pygmies, and Salamanders, and on the Other Spirits by Paracelsus* Pagan Christmas: The Plants, Spirit, and Rituals at the Origins of Yuletide by Christian Rätsch and Claudia Müller-Ebeling* Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants by Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Christian Rätsch, Wolf-Dieter Storl* The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications by Christian RätschNay recommends that anyone interested in all things gnome, and mycology check out the work of gnome_cunning on Instagram, especially the workshop they gave on Ghost Pipe Mushrooms at Viridis Genii Symposium this year. You can find a lecture recording here.You can find Nay’s work on instagram at @houseofgnomi This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

Albert Shiell is a practicing folk magician and seiðkarl from Lewes, Sussex, England. Today he lives in Reykjavík, Iceland where he spends time in the land and working with spirits. He is the author of the two books: Icelandic Folk Magic, Witchcraft of the North and Icelandic Plant Magic: Folk Herbalism of the North. His work focuses mostly on the union of Iceland magical plants, folklore and magical staves. We speak to him about his life, about grimoires, plants, and what it is like to take spirit flights through the Icelandic landscapes.More of Albert’s work can be found on his website or his Instagram:https://pellarcrafts.comsussexpellar This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

Marcus McCoyA student of plants since he was a child, Marcus R. McCoy holds a A student of plants since he was a child, Marcus R. McCoy holds a degree in Transpersonal Anthropology with a focus on the ethnobotany of magical plants. He is the progenitor of Bioregional Animism, and has published his works on the subject of plant teacher shamanry in Reality Sandwich. Marcus has also been published in Verdant Gnosis Volume 1, and is one of three editors of the book series. Marcus studied south american vegetalismo for many years, which is where he started his focus on perfumerismo. He is a professional perfumer and proprietor of House of Orpheus and alchemical practitioner, studying with Robert Bartlett. Marcus is also an established blacksmith and metal artist with special interest focusing on the occult art of herbal quenches working within the context of alchemical philosophy and folk magic. His smithy is called Troll Cunning Forge, and he produces custom made occult iron work for the occult community. Marcus is also a teacher of folk magic and has ongoing classes on the Botany of the Dead as well as the folklore of the magical projectile. He lives in the forests of the Olympic Mountain range in Washington with his lovely partner in the cunning crafts, Catamara Rosarium.https://viridisgenii.com/symposium-organizers/https://www.instagram.com/trollcunningforge?igsh=Z3l1eGI1eWVreGtz This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

Audrey Nova di Mola is a Queens, New York City-born oral tradition storyteller, lifelong writer/artist, creative facilitator, and sacred space-holder; a wing-footed accompanist through the wilds of the deep heart.She is underworld-grown, grounded in the learnings of her descents and dedicated to carrying the revivifying waters of re-story-ation into our modern society. The sacred ecology of earth, story, spirit, and community were what literally saved her life. Through her mythopoetic heart-work (adventurous, care-oriented online/in-person gatherings, 1-on-1 journeys, and unique mythic-inspired support) Audrey offers wondrous embodied experiences with the old stories in the oral tradition as well as journeys into the urban mythic and our own personal legends. They are uniquely enriched by her somatic sensitivity, mental and holistic health advocacy, and inborn capacity for “seeing with the eyes of the heart.”For over a decade (15 years and counting?!), Audrey has been lovingly gathering souls to safely/bravely and artistically explore their inner and outer landscapes. She has hosted and curated many (MANY!) multidisciplinary events, workshops, and performances such as Nature of the Muse, Church of the Sacred Body, How We Create & How We Cope: Intersections of Art & Mental Illness, and countless outdoor happenings for hundreds of thousands at Socrates Sculpture Park, the waterfront art-park and community space where she served as Director of Public Programs from 2016-2021.Prior to more fully living into the dream of carrying the old stories, Audrey’s performative artistic career has spanned theatre, movement, song, and the spoken and written word. This encompasses arts journalism and writing/editing, four books of original poetry and prose (most recently “WILDLIGHT” and “The Book of Legend”), a few brief but utterly depth-full years in the core ensemble of Gurdjieff-inspired experimental theatre company, Dzieci (2019-2021), offerings in venues both intimate and massive (from The Cathedral of Saint John The Divine to the School of Myth in Devon UK to the addiction treatment center in her neighborhood), work published in Mad in America and Dark Mountain Project, and large-scale immersive art and poetry graffiti installations including “trusting the inmost angel” and “go slowly, see miracles.”Audrey holds the mythic “both/and space” of depth and play, warming light and fertile dark. She is assistant to the first Steward of the Mythsinger Legacy Project, gratefully and enthusiastically carrying on the work of her late great storytelling teacher Daniel “3D” Deardorff; was the resident storyteller for Dr. Sharon Blackie’s Mythic Imagination Network from 2022-2023 (and continues to be featured on her popular “The Art of Enchantment” Substack!); and has deeply enjoyed immersive courses with Dr. Martin Shaw, Francis Weller, and Perdita Finn, among many others.We encourage those who find this podcast moving to check out this piece of writing Audrey shared with the northern spirit house, entitled knowing your own mythology: the life saving act. Find her in the Turtle Hut. Search your heart, you’ll Know the way.Find her in the digital otherlands here:Instagram: @wildbodydreamingSubstack: Audrey Nova di Mola audreydimola.com Join Audrey and Chaise for an exploration of suicidality and madness, stringing a weave between personal and mythic stories. September 22nd, 2024 at 11-2 PM EST / 8-11 AM PST on ZoomREGISTER HERE This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

This month on the Northern Spirit House Podcast Chaise speaks with Roy Arthur Blodgett. Roy is a naturalist and writer currently living in Jerusalem Valley, within the ancestral homeland of the Lake Miwok. In the episode they speak about the braid of the love of language with the love of the land, what the duty of the poet might be in these times, and the possibilities of becoming “of a place.”Roy Arthur Blodgett is a naturalist and writer currently living in Jerusalem Valley, within the ancestral homeland of the Lake Miwok. His work explores the intersections of natural and cultural history, power and privilege, ancestry, memory, and human responsibility in the cosmos. Roy is a graduate of three years at Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education, where he studied nature connection, social and environmental justice, permaculture, and traditional ecological knowledge, among other devotions. In addition to being a writer of poetry and prose, he is a certified wildlife tracker, master herpetologist, novice woodcarver, herpetoculturist, and an enamored apprentice to all that animates this world. He has self-published two chapbooks - Usal Beach to Ferndale (2015), and Soil and Shadow (2018, with Heavy Letters Press) - and has completed a third, Five Years, which is soon forthcoming. You can find Roy online at https://www.royarthurblodgett.com or on Instagram @roy_arthurGreetings dear subscribers of the Northern Spirit House,Andreas and myself are so grateful for the last 18 months we have shared here on substack. Your comments, engagement, submissions, and continuing of the work fill us with joy and keep wind in the sails when the seas of life get rocky. We are writing because we are going to turn on a paid subscriptions function of the substack. All essays, and our monthly podcast will remain free for all but in the coming months we will begin sending out essays on practical matters such as ritual development, spell-work, connecting with land-spirits, utiseta, and so much more. If you would like access to these practitioner invitations you can join us around the Hearth Fire. Any contribution supports the both of us to bring more life and energy to this work, as well as supports the thriving of both of our families.With deep gratitude, and spell-songs of blessing surrounding your life. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

Simon Hodges has a lifelong love affair with both myth and non-duality - a combination he attempts to make sense of in his newsletter the Linden Bower. He organises storytelling locally and for disadvantaged groups, and writes for a living. His work with story focuses on the electric contact possible between ourselves and the nature to sustain inspiration in a disordered world.In our conversation, Simon takes us on a journey with a traditional story from Friesland in the Netherlands. We talk about how it amplified certain realisations at this stage of his life and contact with the intense wideness of Friesland. We talked about wonder as the base camp of experience and how stories can return us to it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

For Episode 4 of the Northern Spirit House Podcast, Chaise sat down with Lien de Coster to speak about the practice of Utiseta. Lien is a Soul-centric Ceremonialist, Nature Connection Mentor, and Permaculturalist based on the West Coast of Sweden. Lien’s love of the landscape and story was born at the end of a cobblestone street in Flanders and has been a golden-thread leading her ever since. Through Leaves of Lien Lien is reviving the practice of ‘sitting out’ (Utiseta) as a vital pathway for those longing to become of place. As well as developing place-based grief rituals, pilgrimages, and soul-centered mentoring.Lien’s upcoming Utiseta on the West Coast of Sweden is linked here:The Well of Memory: July 27th- August 5thMore info on this Winter’s Tears of Amber and Gold (a place-based grief ritual) can be found here:Tears of Amber and Gold This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com

In today’s episode of the Northern Spirit House Podcast Tyler and Chaise dive into their thinking and practice with Techno-Animism 8 months on from the first dialogue. They muse on the core values of empathy, and dignity and the necessity of re-evaluating our value judgements on what is and is not animate. In the second half of the conversation they take the theory into the realm of practice and speak about AI generated sigil magic, smart-phone magic, and the interpenetration of these seemingly “new” fields of practice and more traditional magical arts. The whole conversation casts a weird-magic aimed directly at the human heart; moving us to widen the ontological frame and cooperate for the liberation of all beings.References:Perelandra -Machaelle Small WrightAnimism: Respecting the Living World - Graham HarveyJosephine McCarthy Martín PrechtelSigil Witchery - Laura Tempest Zakroff This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hagstonepodcast.substack.com