Welcome to Magic School Vervain Helsdottir

Today’s lesson is all about simple, approachable, and actionable ways to upgrade the words we use every single day that shape our realities. You’ll walk away from this lesson with a new understanding of the power of your word, and six simple conscious language upgrades you can start using right away.
In Today’s Lesson:* What is conscious language and why is it important?
* What is the scale of emotions and how can it help you access your inner power?
* What is the responsibility line and how can you use this visualization to take personal responsibility and step into your power?
* Six simple but POWERFUL upgrades! Learn how to transform and upgrade these and similar phrases to new and empowering language patterns:
1. “I can’t/don’t know how…”
2. “It’s hard” / “It’s not working”
3. “I’m broke” / “I can’t afford…”
4. “I don’t have time”
5. “I’m busy”
BONUS: “try”
BONUS: “but” —> “and”
6. “I don’t want…”
* What does it mean to be casting broken spells, and how does this affect our present and future?
* What is possible for you if you claim the power of your word and choose to use it consistently in your favor?
“Often, our belief about what we can and can’t do is [us] playing the blame game and placing the blame on our ability or our power when the truth is that, often, we have the power to make any number of choices.”
~Vervain Helsdottir
“‘It’s hard’ is really the heart saying ‘this is difficult and I don’t know what to do.’ So that actually goes to the realm of shutdown, of ‘I don’t know,’ ‘this is hard,’ ‘I can’t,’ that clamming up and that going into protection mode of ‘it’s hard and I don’t want to.’ ‘It’s hard’ is ‘I don’t want to,’ because it’s scary, or whatever it is. You may not have all of the translation there, it depends on the scenario, but ‘it’s hard….’ Is it really hard? Or is it that you’re choosing not to do it and you’re not engaging with it?”
~Abigail Sitter
Additional Resources Episode 1: Crafting Empowering Questions for Divination https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/episodes/01-crafting-empowering-questions-for-divination Episode 8: How Good is Your Word? (Manifestation Magic part 1) https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/episodes/howgoodisyourword The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz: https://amzn.to/3GRi5Jo Conscious Language: The Logos of Now by Robert Tennyson Stevens https://amzn.to/3uaeJOL Abigail Sitter: https://instagram.com/earth_angel_abigail Alicia Ann Howery (founder of Sacred Stays): https://instagram.com/alicia.howery
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Resources:Whole Self Support Workshop - Text WHOLE SELF to 314-292-9919 for more information on this seasonal quarterly workshop! Find @heartshinedivine and @kitchen.mystic on Instagram to meet the facilitators.Wanna have some major breakthroughs and maybe cry about it while being virtually held in a loving supportive way? Book a Divinatory Coaching Session with me: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/divinatory-coachingGet 10% OFF your session through the end of January with the code 2022ISMYYEARMagic of I Astrological Planner: https://magicofi.com/ The Muse Tarot: https://themusetarot.com/ Try Noom (one of my most effective wellness tools): https://www.talkable.com/x/FTw6UL
Level Up with Plant Magic:Explore Bundles & Individual Products: https://www.myyl.com/oilcovenLearn more about Oil Coven: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/oilcoven
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HomeworkSubscribe, rate, & review (please)! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Welcome to Magic School can currently be reviewed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Podchaser, and Audible… AAAAND YOU CAN NOW RATE PODCASTS ON SPOTIFY! Please do this, it will mean the absolute world to me!For this week’s assignment, do this spread for yourself—Body, Mind, & Spirit with Problem/Challenge and Action/Solution for each—and tell me how it goes! Send me a voice note of your experience for a chance to be featured in a future episode.
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I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling REALLY GOOD about 2022.
I know you and I both have a lot of work to do—internally and externally—this year, but I just have a really good feeling about our ability to take care of ourselves and stick with it. I’m rooting for you, and I’m rooting for me.
That said, I know I could certainly use all the support I can get this year for my WHOLE DAMN SELF—my body, my mind, and my spirit—and wouldn’t you know, my badass boss witch friends Sam and Jennifer put together a little 3-day workshop for Whole Self Support!
I signed up for the workshop (details below!), and item number one on the agenda was this tarot/oracle spread, so I got down to business with it… and knew almost right away that I had to share my takeaways with you! I have the feeling that these messages are not JUST for me, and while I don’t expect ALL of it to resonate with you, I’d be pretty shocked if NONE of it did!
I ended up going SUPER DEEP with this one and had at LEAST two instances of Cry Sesh™ by the time it was over, so today I give you… PART ONE!
In Today's Lesson*:Listen to my cards call me out hardcore and use MY OWN VOICE to do it (rude!)Witness me having several earth-shattering and tear-inducing realizations in real timeFind out why tf I’m finally giving astrology a chanceA brief discussion of The Placebo Effect™ as real life magicWhy “abundance” and “money” are not the same thing and why this MATTERS in magic and manifestationMy struggle with being my whole authentic self on social media (bc I am grateful for you and I love you, Instagram, but also fuck you)Discover Evil Secret Knowledge™ regarding the making of a viral Instagram reel and the reason why I will probably never go viral again (lol)Probably a bunch of other stuff
*Yeah, the definition of “lesson” is getting looser around here—but you know what? This reading/divinatory coaching session is CHOCK FULL OF LESSONS. Live and learn, right? We’re living! We’re learning! Together! Let’s do this!
Resources:Whole Self Support Workshop - REGISTRATION DETAILS COMING SOON! Message @heartshinedivine on Instagram in the meantime if you need the hookup!Wanna have some major breakthroughs and maybe cry about it while being virtually held in a loving supportive way? Book a Divinatory Coaching Session with me: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/divinatory-coachingGet 10% OFF your session through the end of January with the code 2022ISMYYEARMagic of I Astrological Planner: https://magicofi.com/ The Muse Tarot: https://themusetarot.com/ Try Noom (one of my most effective wellness tools): https://www.talkable.com/x/FTw6UL
Level Up with Plant Magic:Explore Bundles & Individual Products: https://www.myyl.com/oilcovenLearn more about Oil Coven: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/oilcoven
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Happy New Year! Or, you know, happy whenever-you-get-here!
Today’s lesson is about the very heart and center of manifestation magic: intention.
Without intention, there’s nothing to manifest! So, let’s talk about it.
In Today's Lesson:What is intention? Why do we need it?Why is it so important to know CLEARLY what you want and/or need?How to go deeper and determine your TRUE INTENTION and your WHY beneath the surfaceAnd how I’ve been fucking this all up PLUS my plan to set it right in 2022
Resources:Get clarity on your own intentions (and how to move forward from there) by booking a Divinatory Coaching Session with me: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/divinatory-coachingManifestation Magic series: https://feeds.captivate.fm/magicschool/manifestation-magic/ Try Noom (one of my most effective wellness tools): https://www.talkable.com/x/FTw6UL
Level Up with Plant Magic:
Explore Bundles & Individual Products: https://www.myyl.com/oilcovenLearn more about Oil Coven: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/oilcoven
And More…Support my music (and this podcast) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vervainandtheroses/
HomeworkSubscribe, rate, & review (please)! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Welcome to Magic School can currently be reviewed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Podchaser, and Audible.For this week’s assignment, get clarity on your intention—both your Big Picture Vision (BPV) and your Current Primary Goal (CPG)—and tell me how it goes! Send me a voice note of your experience for a chance to be featured in a future episode.
Contact the Professor:https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/contact
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In Today's Lesson:Is sacrifice relevant to modern magical practice?What sort of sacrifices are helpful in manifestation magic?How does NEED vs. WANT affect manifestation?
Homework:Subscribe, rate, and review, please!Ask yourself the following questions:What are you sacrificing?What are you sacrificing it TO or FOR?Are you happy with those answers? If not, what has to change?For Extra Credit, ask yourself the following:What are you willing to sacrifice to get what you want?What are you willing to sacrifice to get what you NEED?
Resources: Books:
Modern Runes: Discover the Magic of Casting and Divination for Everyday Life by Vervain Helsdottir https://amzn.to/3qEnbCyThe Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo https://amzn.to/3Jq6IdBSpark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up by Marie Kondo https://amzn.to/3qAftJkJoy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie Kondo https://amzn.to/3pzCBbzClear Your Clutter with Feng Shui: Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever by Karen Kingston https://amzn.to/3qAN9GXDecluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff by Dana K. White https://amzn.to/3zlgclX
Online Resources:
The Possibility Department (home of Get Your Shit Together With the Pentacle) https://thepossibilitydept.com/ Book a Divinatory Coaching session with me: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/divinatory-coaching
Contact/Homework Submissions:https://www.welcometomagicschool.com/contact

Solstice Blessings, and a happy new year to you!!
Today’s episode is a little different from the usual… instead of the typical lecture lesson, today we’re getting hands on with some tarot cards, my juniper runes, and a sneak peek into the year ahead!
This is partially a demonstration of one way I like to use divinatory tools, and partially an experiment in prediction and magical preparation—we’ll check back throughout the year to see how the cards and runes from this reading play out in real time across the seasons.
In Today's Lesson:I spend the night of the Winter Solstice performing a year-ahead reading with my Pam's Vintage Tarot and my Juniper runesmy interpretations of twelve tarot cards and twelve elder futhark runes (and how they play together) as they apply to the next twelve monthslanguage upgrades that have helped me level up my attitudeand probably a lot of other stuff, honestly... this episode IS three hours long...
Resources:The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz: https://amzn.to/3GRi5Jo Pam's Vintage Tarot https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/pam-s-vintage-tarot-size The Making of my Juniper Runes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcrOMhasjgY Modern Runes: Discover the Magic of Casting and Divination for Everyday Life by Vervain Helsdottir (that's me!) https://amzn.to/3mUxYGS View the Rune Resources page on my personal website: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/resources/runes (this page will continue to be updated with more resources, including a book list and website directory, as time goes on)Essential Oil Magic: Natural Spells for the Green Witch (to complement this episode, I specifically recommend the chapter on Divination) by Vervain Helsdottir (that's me!) https://amzn.to/3i6ZOhK Level Up with Plant Magic:Plant Magic for Kitchen Witchery: https://www.myyl.com/oilcoven#bwm/kitchen-witch-kit Explore Bundles & Individual Products: https://www.myyl.com/oilcoven Learn more about Oil Coven: https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/oilcoven And More...Book a Divinatory Coaching Session (20% OFF through 12/31/2021 with code 2022LETSGO): https://www.vervainandtheroses.com/divinatory-coaching Support my music (and this podcast) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vervainandtheroses/
HomeworkSubscribe, rate, & review (please)! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Welcome to Magic School can currently be reviewed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Podchaser, and Audible.For this week’s assignment, do a year ahead reading for yourself and...