Blood Magick: Part One TRANSCRIPT

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Hello lovelies and welcome to another episode of squeaky call caulton. I’m your host. Sarah evergreen aka squeaky Thank you so much for being here today. This one’s coming out just a tad late. I had some technical difficulties with my mike yesterday. So here we are That means that the moon update for this episode is going to be slightly less than timeline. But we’re still all feeling the effects of the current moon state. So i think it’ll still be applicable to what year experiencing now and what you’ve been experiencing maybe over the last few days. I want to preface this particular episode with a little bit of a warning going to be diving into a subject that may have some inherent. S- squeaky nece attached to it. So i’m going to be talking about blood magic today. If this is a topic that is something that you don’t feel comfortable thinking about and exploring. Go ahead skip this episode. That’s totally fine. However if this is a subject that does peak your interest. I’m going to be going into a little bit of the history behind it The media presentation of blood magic and how you can incorporated into your own practice safely and effectively but before we do that of course updates. We just experienced a new moon in sagittarius Very close to mercury with a solar eclipse yesterday. So that’s a lot of energy. Moving around sagittarius is the ever burning flames thing. Steady and illuminating secretaries is the torchbearer trailblazer the visionary and coinciding with the solar eclipse. Where the sun which is representative of the ego is temporarily hidden by the moon which is representative of our inner world and our emotions the to energies navigating together create this particular kind of experience for us that well sagittarius carries with it the adventurous spirit of travel In normal times right now people will be doing a lot of traveling. of course. that’s not really an option that’s available to most of us right now so you’re kind of being asked especially with the eclipse to look at travel in a different way to look at that adventure in a different way for example. What kind of travel can you undertake from your own home This would be a great time to do. Some kind of deep meditation work or journeying work diving deeply into the self where the darkness of the moon already calls us to go to explorer new aspects of our inner workings so we can apply the curiosity and bravery of the archer sagittarius to an exploration of the inner world If you’re familiar with chamonix journey work is a great time to throw on some drums and to get travelling to journey which is exactly what sagittarius is wanting to do in two landscape that is unfamiliar to us Into places that we can be exposed to new things that are part of a different world. Without moving our bodies we can travel to different world. We can travel to different levels. We can travel to different realms if you’re not familiar with journeying and that’s not part of your practice then Like i said meditation is a great way to do this. Guided meditation in particular can help us access different planes. Without having to go anywhere you can find so many beautiful guided. Meditations online insight timer has a number of different medications. That are great for this. You can even just go on youtube or even spotify look for something that maybe is going to guide you to meeting a spirit guide or contacting a deity of some kind or working with your inner child that can drive us into places that are new unfamiliar territory to get that kind of adventurous wanderlust.

It tended to can also check back to episode eleven of squeaky cauldron. I have a guided meditations who activating your tukwila’s. That might be a nice approach. One of many ways that you could dive into this particular energy aside from journeying and meditation coming back into this plane in this realm now maybe a great time to create your own adventure through storytelling for example or even planning a trip for when we do have the option to travel again and by storytelling. I mean maybe this’ll be a good time to write a short story of some kind of far-flung advisory fantasy world where you get to make up your own world. You make up your own pass and whatever encounters your hero. The story is going to have with the world at large. That could be a great way to express this particular wandering going out and see new things energy in either case. Strive for something. Outside of the normal for you. Think expansion think tapping into jupiter which is sanitary says ruling planet. Jupiter is all about expansion. Enjoy so see if you can find a way to move into that without moving away from your home all right so blood magic blood magic another disclaimer. Please if if this is triggering to you If this is something that just doesn’t sit right definitely skipped episode If it’s something that’s a little uncomfortable but you’re willing to push into that discomfort kind of lean into it again. Tapping into sagittarius is energy of finding something new and exploring something new. Go ahead and listen and if at any point you do need to turn it off or take a pause you know. Feel free to do that. Obviously as with every episode of squeaky cauldron. Everything i’m saying is my opinion based on my experiences and my studies. I am not in any way. Shape or form advocating harm to any living creature. I wanna be very very clear about that. Blood magic is not about sacrifice blood. Magic is not about hurting yourself. Or others sacrificial. Magic is a totally different thing. And i’ll touch on that a bit in this episode. But it’s not what i see. As blood magic blood magic is utilization of a small amount of blood generally from your own person to increase the power of a particular working sacrifice. Very different thing not something. I’m interested in. Not something advocating so bled. Why would we work with blood. Why on earth would we want to open ourselves up in that way. Well it’s a very physical representation of opening ourselves up in all of the ways that. I think that we are trying to do when we work. Magic blood has a particular resonance to it. Has it’s a bodily fluid. It’s something that is within the body of the practitioner. It’s got unique and potent connection to the practitioner. Which can like i said. Just make a working more powerful combined you more intimately to a particular working after i decided on. That’s topic for this episode A couple nights. Later i went to sleep and i prayed to a and to saturn and to mercury for dreams. Because i hadn’t been having many lately. That i remembered Much less had been writing down which is a practice that i do like to engage with so i pray to them and i said essentially if you bring me dreams. Bring me messages in dreams. I will endeavour to do my best to get up and record them Which is a prayer that i have given multiple times in my pass ends almost always results in something important waking me up and this time the dream that i had was i i was doing some kind of magical working i. I don’t remember exactly what it was. But it was with a group of other people small group and it was very specifically around the holidays around christmas and the work that i was doing had to do with blood of some kind again. I don’t remember the details. But that was a very powerful and potent image. When i woke up upon reflecting on it i came to this idea that giving birth is one of the most incredibly powerful types of blood magic that any of us could can look to.

It’s this bringing a new being into this world through pain and and through the blood that comes out of the birth canal as a child is born. There’s just such a potent magic to it. Like giving birth is magic. And we’ve got the christmas which is attached to the birth of this particular figure in history who enacted such incredible change on the world. That we’re still talking about him. We’re still talking about his teachings. Two thousand years later the connection between christmas and blood magic is just so apparent to me and so beautiful. And that’s something that we can look at especially as if you are like me a witch who also follows christ’s teachings and really has that as part of their practice rian vision christmas as this. This really big burst of like blood. Magic I think can be a unique and beautiful way of approaching this this time of year and that particular story the history of blood magic. You know this been something that is used in cultures around the world since time immemorial there’s a lot of different applications for this you can find it in who hoodoo and voodoo work As well as a lot of other folk magic kind of work. I came across a couple of interesting things in history that i just wanted to bring to you. ’cause i found them to be fascinating Definitely and a little bit Fucking wild one of these comes from pliny the elder whose full name as gayus. Please sue kundus. He was alive between eighty. Twenty three and eighty seventy nine so like up frigging longtime ago. He was a roman author and philosopher. Among other things and he wrote naturalists hysteria. Which is where this little anecdote comes from Nattrass hysteria translates to after history. This book that he wrote became the basically the template for how we write encyclopedias. Now like the way that they are made. So he’s definitely very firmly in our history stretching through to current day. Pliny the elder also curious thing He died in the eruption of mount vesuvius when he’s trying to rescue one of his friends from the eruption. Just a little side note. So in naturalists hysteria. Chapter seventy seven under the heading remedies for female diseases. He writes that according to astonishes or us they knees Who is a major in that time. That if a woman’s loins are rubbed with blood taken from the ticks found upon a black wild bowl. She will be inspired with an aversion to sexual intercourse. This little bit of harry. Strange and off pudding blood. Magic was a way to make a woman in theory faithful to a man or at the very least not want to have sex with anyone so bizarre to me that these are some of the things that people used to do and that this of all things made it into this document has then become Like i said a template for the encyclopedia that we use today says strange little bit of history another weird one from historian augustus. This is the history of justice. This particular anecdote comes from. The life. Of marcus aurelius part to marcus. Aurelius was mary. Toll woman named faustina and at some point faustina fell in love with a gladiator. The way that it’s written is that He was passing and she leave. Felt her loins aflame with passion and apparently this attraction slash adulterous relationship Developed and went on for some time and then faustina fell ill and deep into her illness probably several months. Ooh you know what occurs to me right now. Illness might be a substitute word for pregnancy. Because i was often seen as one in the same. this is a The woman is changed physically so a few months into her illness or pregnancy Faustina admitted to marcus aurelius.

That she was in love with his. Gladiator aurelius went to the chaldeans. Who are a group of people. one one source. i found. Call them astrologers so they were no the wise men mystics is kind of thing and told them what happened and they advised him to murder. The gladiator have faustina bathe in his blood and while she was still soaked in blood to have sex with. Marcus aurelius and that would cure her of her love for this gladiator Not unsurprisingly it. Did the trick if you could put yourself in fast. Dina’s shoes for a second. I imagine that having to go through this particular experience would probably kill one sexual desire for fucking anyone for a while Not the least of which would be murdering husband. This did not have any effect on her pregnancy and a few months later she gave birth to twins. We have a lot of weird stuff in history. You know people doing some strange things. And i did not know this about. Marcus aurelius He’s got his own reputation. That is apparently goes a lot deeper than i had. I imagined the portrayal of blood magic in media has unsurprisingly been kind of bonkers as well even find it a lot and an in many of these cases when we’re looking at human sacrifice which again is its own thing when we’re looking at just blood magic. The practitioner will take a knife and like slash the hill out of the palm of their hand and then drips and blood into whatever working. They’re doing highly highly not recommended. This is like so destructive and so completely unnecessary to working with blood. That is a place in your body where you would be extremely prone to having difficulty healing getting infections. It’s something that’s hard to bandage. It’s something that you use all the time and yeah don’t do it. Don’t follow the media. Obviously i think that that pretty much goes without saying but you know i. I found my way into the crafts In a very specific way through the movie the craft. And that has this this kind of blood. Leading in it many of us do get keyed in to the practice through portrayals in media unfortunately we can’t go out and make all of these portrayals actually realistic there’s a lot less drama involved in the actual practice of magic in there is in the media representation of the practice of magic. Be that as it may different places that i found this in the media Buffy the vampire slayer letsie. Blood is used to open and close portals for vampires and demons traveled to the underworld also willow Which in that. Tv show uses blood to both tear a hole in the fabric of the universe and restore character who’s fading out of existence Charmed of course uses blood magic to summon an ancestor. Which i think is totally cool away that i read about them using blood magic in that particular show. At least these couple of instances makes a lot of sense to me so summoning an ancestor. The ancestors going to have the same dna. Lineage that the practitioner has so there’s a direct link from one to the other so that makes a lot of sense to me and in order for banishing potions to work in that show. They have to have the blood of the demon that. They’re trying to banish again. This is a direct corollary to how you can use blood magic. Now you’ve got this thing that is directly linked to the person or entity that you are working with. I don’t recommend using blood from someone else to do. What kind of banishing spell That is taking something from them that they have not willingly given. And that’s an cool in my book but i can see like the logic here that they use in that show Let’s see game of thrones. There’s a witch maggie. She predicts future but in order to do that she. I has to taste her blood practical magic. Sabrina craft again. They all use palm slicing to seal their magic again.

Don’t do this in many ways. Blood magic is still seen as ghoulish impart because of the media portrayal of it but and this is a big but times are changing absolutely one of the biggest aspects to blood. Magic that i’ve worked with is using menstrual blood and the menstruation process has been in many ways kind of demonized and pushed down as the patriarchy grew women’s place women’s power that was diminished and the menstrual cycle is one big element of that because it has linked people who bleed so intimately wissam cycles. And it’s this thing that men don’t do and often when we see something that is something that we are not used to we attach fear to it and because of how it’s linked with the a can of bringing child into the world bringing a new being into the world it can. It has been made into a kind of dangerous or at the very least unseemly process. However i found an article in teen vote of all places instructing readers in three different ways to use their menstrual blood particularly in magical spells one of which includes a protection spell involving broken glass and nails. What’s article leaves out is literally any kind of grounding self reflection or clear intention going into work and that’s something that i really want to emphasize here you have to have a clear intention when going into any kind of work whether it’s using any kind of bodily fluid or not at all having clear intention is paramount and this comes with meditation and reflection and really thinking through what you want to achieve with any particular kind of working related to the general perception. That blood magic is evil. The use of blood from oneself or a willing participant does introduce a question of harm and with that the resultant need for harm reduction so again the slicing of the palms. That’s a very harmful destructive thing. That’s not a great way to approach getting blood to us the magic anytime. An individual commits any kind of harm or or uses any kind of bodily fluid way outside of the norm whether that’s through spell work or artwork or political statements. Anything like this. It’s looked out sideways because it has so much inherent power using bodily fluid in any of these ways kind of makes a statement that always has the ability to shock because it is so outside of the norm and because it is so intimately connected to the practitioner or to the artist or to the activist. They’re using a part of themselves as usually inside and hidden and bringing it out onto display for the world particularly in artwork and political activism but even spell work. It’s not you know on display for the world necessarily but it’s definitely outside of the body being used in a unique way in a way that we don’t generally do when you use it within your personal practice like i said it’s not on display. It’s not about what anyone else thinks about whether you are doing something that is bad or evil it’s about what resonates with you. It’s about what you need. And what your practice is calling you to blend. Magic isn’t something that should be undertaken lightly but it’s also not something that should be in my opinion shied away from just because of this particular perception of it. If it’s something that is intriguing. You and calling to you stephanie. Worth exploring so again. Why why would we wanna use blood to increase the connectivity of spell or working to the practitioner really deepens that even just that memory of it and that in turn can be utilized as a way to do the groundwork that spell casting does call us to do because it’s not just. I’m going to do a spell and then forget about it and not do anything to support it. We do the work we do the spell and then we make those changes in our own life with the spell as support. That is how i approach magic. That is how i approach. Witchcraft is that i am doing these workings in order to help me more fully support myself in the changes that i need to make on a daily basis with my feet on the ground with my hands again.

We can increase the power of a spell with the blood one example of this from my practice for several years i had what i might term as a possession of a kind namely an obsession around a particular person and i’m not saying that they possessed me. I’m saying that there was a Some kind of energetic between us that had this way of possessing both of us and the relationship was entered into under influence of a lot of drugs which are substances. That can open us up to energetics that we may not be necessarily ready to interact with particularly if it’s not done with an in an intentional way if it’s not done inside some boundaries and with a lot of care given to what happens afterwards and integrating which this particular relationship this particular experience in general Had none of that. It was just using drugs. ’cause drugs are fun and i ended up in this kind of attachment to this person for many years. That didn’t make any sense when i could get objective about it but there was still this draw and it wasn’t healthy. It wasn’t nurturing. it wasn’t productive definitely a hurt a lot of people. I hurt a lot of people while in this place acting from From these desires from this attachment from this this level of obsession. I heard a lot of people and they did as well when acting from this place so it just. It was a bad bad news. All round and i tried over and over and over to just be like no. That’s it i’m done. I’m outta here. But i would still detachment was still there and finally i got to place where i just. I really needed to be done with it. So i went out into the woods and i took this this thing that had become almost fetish attached to this person. It was something that had belonged to them. That i’d been carrying around and it was a piece of trash essentially but had been given so much power by me seeing it touching in thinking about this person. Every time i saw every time. I touched it that it was really leave significant to me so i took that. I took some of my menstrual blood and i. I went out into the woods. And i did a spell of releasing this person releasing attachments to this person and talk through it all in the ground and i covered it up. I buried it and i laughed and finally like something big shifted in the weeks following that working to where i was finally free and i still have a lot of love for this person. I i still want the best for them. In fact i can. I can love them and want the best for them. In a way that is a more powerful and more clear and more clean than i was able to. Before i can actually wish them good on their own pass away from line whereas before there was still this element of clinging and attachments and wanting things to be different so that’s just one example of how one can use their blood to increase the power of his paul. Another way of using blood Menstrual blood or blood. That you take from your body is a is a good way to connect with your own body and your own power as a way to explore your relationship with your body and that such an important relationship for the which have his deep embodiment this deep knowing of the body of the power of the body of the power of the individual in order to move through this world and enact change on this world on our lives. It’s also a good way to break down the internal stigma around ministration and blood in general. ’cause like i said we’ve got so much stigma we’ve got so much negative perception in the world around us over culture around blood and administration.

We’ve got that inside of us to all of us have certain structures inside of us that were built through upbringing. And just living in this world that we have to work to dismantle. That aren’t true to our deeper cells and the idea that plied is bad and dirty in the administration is bad in thirty. Like that’s part of it. Part of being able to really come into one’s full power is being able to stand very deeply in everything that our body does all of the the stuff. That’s uncomfortable the stuff that is really strong. You know every bit of it. That’s part of who we are. That’s part of where we have to come from. It’s part of where our feet are like. Physically our feet ground us and then from there up all of this stretching up to our heads and then out into the heavens like our temple starts at our heads and goes all the way down to our toes and when we can reside in our temple and operate from that place without any of the the negative attachments that the culture around us or that other people have tried to attach to that temple. That’s when we get really really powerful as when we get a really deep into who we are and what we can do here. Reasons not to practice blood magic Don’t practice blood magic because you wanna feel like a bad ass. Don’t practice any kind of magic just because you wanna feel about us. This is not an approach to doing anything again. Like this kind of thing is based off of other people’s perceptions. If i do this. I’m going to be so cool because other people will think i’m cool. no do it because you are called to it individually which has nothing to do with what person on the corner or person on instagram or persons. Some facebook group is going to think about you do it. Because you want to or don’t do it if you don’t want to. It’s that simple course. Being able to tell what you actually want You know that comes with reflection and meditation and getting into your body and being honest with yourself about your butt of asians another reason not to again related because someone else says that you have to for whatever reason you don’t you absolutely don’t there are incredibly powerful ways to do work to do magic to practice witchcraft. That have nothing to do with your blood. You absolutely don’t have to and someone on the internet saying that you have to for this particular working kind of bullshit so keep that in mind another reason or maybe mindset in which not to practice blood. Magic is before you have considered your own personal reasons and the possible effects of the working for a while like reflection internal reflection and the thinking about what this work is going to bring out in the world all of the possible ways that this could have an effect on things and this is not specific to blood. Magic this magic. In general we need to get intimate with our reasons for doing things. We need to get intimate with the possible repercussions and we need to get intimate with our personal responsibility. In both of those cases We have to own the consequences of our actions positive and negative. I think that is really. The root of personal power is is being able to do that while still coming from a place of ultimate goodness ultimate divinity in ourselves because we all are divine creatures. We all have sat as our grounding which means that we can then admit when something that we’ve done has heard other people We can then i dunno. Give ourselves a little bit of a more clear vision of the future. Even as to what possible outcomes may come from this working and then to be able to decide if we want to actually do the work do that particular work or maybe shifted somehow blood magic like all magic asks us to approach with a healthy level of respect awareness and caution so like getting really clear on your intention for doing any work before you do it.

This will not only exponentially increase the power of the work because it gives the universe and your deities a very clear idea to work with but it also gives you the necessary space and clarity again to consider the consequences. Consider the possible consequences. Obviously we can’t think of everything but we can do our best to approach things with clear sight. Many times this level of premeditation emphasis on the meditation will illuminate forward. That we didn’t recognize before that don’t even require the use of traditional spot work. It can illuminate ways that we can move through the situation that are maybe just internal work and interpersonal work. We don’t need to solve our problems by doing a stump. Many of our problems can be navigated very effectively through personal accountability and through boundaries If you want more information on boundaries check out one of the several episodes that i’ve done around boundaries or brennan brown’s work Also very good place to start. Obviously i do practice witchcraft. And i do love power and and i love this particular work and it is. It’s a support. It’s not the first spear in my arsenal so to speak. It’s not the first and even best thing. It’s it’s part of the approach included in my approach to navigating issues to navigating problems. Is meditation divination talking non violent communication yoga dancing reading things that support me like it’s all part of it. I think that witchcraft is not something that needs to be treated as. Oh i’m only going to do. This is my last resort. Absolutely not it but it’s also not something that needs to be treated as this is my only resort and this is all i’m going to do. There’s an interweaving. it’s witchcraft. His life which craft as part of all of it. Gosh i hope that makes sense. I can see it in my head. It’s like a web and it’s part of the entire web but for me. Yoga is also part of the entire web. The whole the whole system of yoga terro is part of the entire web because i utilize the tarot as these examples of different experiences that we have so i can see myself in the three of wands. I can see myself in the death card. I can see my life. Experience reflected in these cards and so i can really live the tarot. I can live witchcraft. I can live yoga. it’s all connected. This episode is getting a little long in the tooth. And i thought that it might be because i have over six pages of notes so i’m going to make this a two parter today. We’ve covered some of the history of blood magic. Some of the reasons why we would want to use blood magic while would not want to use blood magic and some of the media representations and perceptions of utilizing this particular kind of magic and the next episode will go into more of the details of how to use it where to get your blood how to get your blood what kind of workings this can be particularly beneficial for. Here’s a hint pretty much. All of them so tune in next time for further exploration of blood magic. I’m really enjoying this topic. And i hope that you are too. I would love to hear from you. Any thoughts Any questions you might have that. I can leave into the next episode. Please reach out. You can reach me at my website. Www dot squeakyscauldron dot com. You can email me. Squeaky cauldron at gmail.com. You can reach out to me on instagram at squeaky underscore cauldron on my website. You can find a sign up for my newsletter that comes out roughly two times month just a few days before each new moon and full moon exploring that energy of the moon different kind of spells that you can do with it.

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