Big Crystal Energy Podcast - Crystals, Glamour, and Magic for Liminal Spaces

Ashleigh Bodell
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Big Crystal Energy Podcast 🎙️✨ Welcome to Big Crystal Energy—the witchcraft and crystals podcast for people living between worlds. Hosted by Ashleigh Bodell, an Orthopedic Physician Assistant and practicing witch, this show teaches you how to integrate magic, tarot, astrology, and energy work into your everyday life. Season 3: Season of the Veil explores liminal space, transformation, and the power of the in-between. Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or crystal-curious, you'll find deep dives into: ✨ Crystal healing & metaphysical properties ✨ Tarot & oracle card readings ✨ Witchcraft practices & pagan traditions ✨ Manifestation & energy work ✨ Astrology & the Wheel of the Year ✨ Occult wisdom & mystical living Through conversations with healers, spiritual guides, and magic-makers—plus solo episodes on everything from glamour magic to seasonal rituals—Ashleigh shows you how to be fully magical AND fully professional. Perfect for witches, spiritual seekers, crystal lovers, and anyone ready to embrace their power in the liminal. 🔮 Tune in, trust your intuition, and step through the veil.

  1. 15H AGO

    Jade Was Never Just a Luck Stone | The Real History of Jade

    In this deeply layered Crystal Library episode, Ashleigh explores the real story of jade — far beyond the “luck” and prosperity symbolism most people associate with the stone. From ancient China to the Māori, Maya, and even Imperial Russia, jade has long been trusted as a sacred threshold stone connected to death, transformation, ancestry, wisdom, and rebirth. Ashleigh dives into the surprising geology of jadeite and nephrite, the colonial origins of the word “jade,” and why so many ancient civilizations independently placed jade with their dead. This episode explores jade not as a simple abundance crystal, but as a stone that asks a far more difficult question: what version of yourself is ready to be released? Also included:  The difference between jadeite and nephrite  Jade in Chinese, Māori, and Maya traditions  Why jade is associated with courage and truth  Dreamwork and spiritual practices for working with jade  A guided ritual for releasing false identities and limiting beliefs This is an episode about transformation, honesty, and the sacred process of becoming who you truly are. Send me any questions or comments you may have and I will answer them on upcoming podcast episodes!! Looking forward to hearing from you! Please message me with any questions or comments.  bigcrystalenergypodcast @gmail.com

    30 min

  2. 4D AGO

    Astrocartography 101 with Aubrey Houdeshell: Can Your Birth Chart Reveal Where You Belong?

    In this episode of Big Crystal Energy, Ashleigh welcomes astrologer, writer, and astrocartographer Aubrey Houdeshell of Graveyard Roses for an introduction to the fascinating world of astrocartography. As part of May’s theme of travel as a liminal space, this conversation explores how our birth charts can be mapped across the globe, revealing places that may activate different parts of our lives — from love and creativity to career, identity, home, family, and transformation. Aubrey breaks down astrocartography in a grounded and approachable way, explaining how planetary lines work, why certain places may feel deeply familiar or magnetic, and how travel can become a form of spiritual self-discovery. Ashleigh also shares her own experiences with Iceland and the Philippines, and how those places showed up in her astrocartography map in surprising and meaningful ways. Together, they discuss:  What astrocartography is and how it works  How Jim Lewis helped popularize modern astrocartography  Why certain places may feel like “home”  The meaning of Sun, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Moon, I wC, MC, DC, and AC lines  How astrocartography can support travel, relocation, love, career, and self-understanding  Why couples may use astrocartography when choosing where to live or travel  The concept of remote activation and how to work with a place energetically without physically traveling there  How food, music, media, language, books, and even social media can help you connect with the energy of a place  Why accurate birth information and trustworthy sources matter when pulling up your map Aubrey also shares her journey into astrology, her work as a full-time astrologer, and her books, including The Cosmic Symposium, Stellar Sex: Unlock Your Sexual Power with Erotic Astrology, and her upcoming astrocartography book, The Global Horoscope, forthcoming in 2027 from Llewellyn. Whether you’re planning a trip, dreaming of a faraway place, or wondering why certain locations have always called to you, this episode is a beautiful beginner-friendly doorway into the magic of astrocartography. Connect with Aubrey Website: www.graveyardroses.com Instagram / Threads / Substack / Patreon: @aubreychoudeshell And don't make a mistake like I did!! Use www.astro.com Send me any questions or comments you may have and I will answer them on upcoming podcast episodes!! Looking forward to hearing from you! Please message me with any questions or comments.  bigcrystalenergypodcast @gmail.com

    1h 3m
  3. Carried Through the Dark: Smoky Quartz and the Liminal Journey

    MAY 12

    Carried Through the Dark: Smoky Quartz and the Liminal Journey

    In this Crystal Library episode, Ashleigh explores Smoky Quartz, a grounding stone of protection, transmutation, and sacred threshold work. The episode opens with a milestone celebration: Big Crystal Energy has now been heard in 97 countries. But alongside the gratitude, Ashleigh reflects on her own liminal space — feeling called toward the next evolution of the podcast while not yet knowing exactly how to arrive there. That “in-between” energy becomes the doorway into Smoky Quartz. Formed deep within the Earth and colored by natural gamma radiation over millions of years, Smoky Quartz is a crystal that teaches us how to move through darkness rather than avoid it. Ashleigh explores its geology, Scottish and Celtic history, pre-Christian protective traditions, afterlife lore, and why this stone has long been carried through danger, transition, and transformation. This episode also includes a 3-card tarot or oracle spread for navigating liminal space: The Departure — what you’ve already left behind The Threshold — what the crossing is asking of you The Arrival — who you are becoming on the other side Whether you’re in a season of transition, identity shift, travel, grief, growth, or spiritual transformation, Smoky Quartz reminds us that crossing is not the same as being lost. Topics include: Smoky Quartz, liminal space, grounding, protection, transmutation, Scottish folklore, Celtic spirituality, crystal geology, tarot spreads, oracle cards, shadow work, thresholds, and spiritual transformation. Send me any questions or comments you may have and I will answer them on upcoming podcast episodes!! Looking forward to hearing from you! Please message me with any questions or comments.  bigcrystalenergypodcast @gmail.com

    25 min

  4. MAY 8

    Filipino Folklore: Manananggal, Aswangs, Diwata & Ancestral Magic with Anama O’Reilly

    In this episode of Big Crystal Energy, Ashleigh sits down with Anama O’Reilly, co-host of The Gods Must Be Crazy podcast, for a wildly fascinating conversation about Filipino folklore, mythology, monsters, ancestral beliefs, and the supernatural stories that still feel very alive today. After returning from a family trip through the Philippines and Japan, Ashleigh found herself deep in the rabbit hole of Filipino folklore — from eerie creatures to ancestral magic to the ways mythology lives inside culture, family, and everyday life. Anama brings humor, depth, and years of research to this conversation as she shares why she started her podcast, how Filipino folklore connects people back to their roots, and why these stories deserve to be as widely known as Greek, Norse, or Celtic mythology. Together, Ashleigh and Anama explore the legendary manananggal, the broader meaning of aswang, the mysterious diwata, the tree-dwelling kapre, Filipino witchcraft traditions like mangkukulam and mambabarang, ancestral spirits, haunted houses, evil eye beliefs, and the cultural power of stories passed through generations. This episode is funny, spooky, educational, and deeply magical — a perfect listen for anyone curious about folklore, mythology, ancestral traditions, Filipino culture, or the strange stories that shape the way we understand the unseen world. Listen to Anama's podcast Cozy Kwento: A Filipino Storytelling Podcast Follow on Instagram: @anamagirasol Send me any questions or comments you may have and I will answer them on upcoming podcast episodes!! Looking forward to hearing from you! Please message me with any questions or comments.  bigcrystalenergypodcast @gmail.com

    1h 19m

  5. MAY 5

    What Tiger’s Eye Really Does (It’s Not Just Confidence)

    Tiger’s Eye is often labeled as a “confidence stone”… but what if that’s only scratching the surface? In this episode of The Crystal Library, we’re reframing Tiger’s Eye as something far more ancient and powerful: a guide through liminal space. A stone for thresholds. A companion for the in-between. Whether you’re physically traveling or navigating a major life transition, Tiger’s Eye offers clarity, discernment, and energetic protection when you need it most. We explore the stone’s fascinating geological origin, its consistent role across ancient civilizations, and why it may be better understood as a psychopomp in mineral form—a guide between worlds. If you’re in a season of change, uncertainty, or transformation… this is your stone. In this episode, we cover:  What “liminal space” really means (and why May is full of it)  The geology of Tiger’s Eye and its “ghost architecture”  Why Tiger’s Eye is a pseudomorph—and why that matters spiritually  Its use in ancient Egypt, Rome, China, and Africa  The concept of a psychopomp and how Tiger’s Eye fits that role  Why “confidence stone” is an oversimplification  Tiger’s Eye as a stone of discernment, clarity, and personal authority The three types of Tiger’s Eye:  Golden (the strategist / threshold navigator)  Blue / Hawk’s Eye (vision, scrying, inner journeying)  Red (grounding, integration, returning to self)  How to work with Tiger’s Eye during travel or life transitions Ways to work with Tiger’s Eye:  Use it when making decisions between what you want vs. what you need Meditate with its chatoyancy (the moving band of light)  Carry it while traveling for energetic protection  Use Blue Tiger’s Eye for inner work or root-cause exploration  Use Red Tiger’s Eye to ground after major life changes If this episode resonated, don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone navigating their own in-between season. And as always… stay magical 🖤 Send me any questions or comments you may have and I will answer them on upcoming podcast episodes!! Looking forward to hearing from you! Please message me with any questions or comments.  bigcrystalenergypodcast @gmail.com

    21 min

  6. MAY 1

    The Magic of Travel: What the Philippines and Japan Taught Me

    In this episode of Big Crystal Energy, Ashleigh opens the month of May with a deeply personal reflection on travel as a liminal space — those in-between places where we are away from home, outside of routine, and often more open to transformation, magic, discomfort, and wonder. Fresh from a hotel room in Portland while attending Spirit Northwest, Ashleigh shares the story of her family’s month-long trip through the Philippines and Japan. What began as a long-awaited pilgrimage for her husband to return to the Philippines and share his culture with their children became a powerful lesson in family, gratitude, culture shock, sensory overload, beauty, exhaustion, and the strange magic that happens when you are completely outside your normal life. Ashleigh reflects on traveling through Manila, Cebu, Boracay, Palawan, and Tokyo, including visiting family, seeing whale sharks in Oslob, discovering Filipino folklore, experiencing the stunning beaches of the Philippines, surprising her son with a trip to Japan, exploring Tokyo, visiting Sanrio stores, seeing cherry blossoms, eating ramen, and navigating Tokyo Disneyland with two very tired kids. This episode is less of a polished travel guide and more of an honest, magical, messy reflection on what travel can awaken in us — especially when we are moving through airports, hotels, unfamiliar cities, ancestral places, and the emotional threshold between leaving and coming home. Send me any questions or comments you may have and I will answer them on upcoming podcast episodes!! Looking forward to hearing from you! Please message me with any questions or comments.  bigcrystalenergypodcast @gmail.com

    57 min

  7. APR 28

    Chrysocolla: The Communication Stone That Teaches You When to Stay Silent

    Welcome back to the Crystal Library 💙 This week, we’re diving into chrysocolla—a crystal often labeled as a “communication stone”… but that description barely scratches the surface. This is not just about speaking your truth.  This is about knowing when not to speak. 🔮 In This Episode:  The true meaning of chrysocolla (“gold glue”) and why it matters  How this stone forms from breakdown and transformation Its connection to Hathor and ancient Egyptian mining sites like Serabit el-Khadim Why Cleopatra used it for strategy and influence The deeper truth of the throat chakra—discernment over constant expression  Chrysocolla as a stone of feminine wisdom, healing, and earned power🧿 Core Message ✨ What if your power isn’t in being the gold… but in being the thing that holds it together? 🌿 How to Work With It  Meditate with it at the throat or heart Use it during emotional or hormonal transitions  Practice intentional silence and observe what comes up 🔥 This Week’s Invitation Instead of explaining yourself… pause.  Instead of filling the silence… hold it. 👉 Step into the energy of the gold glue Let me know if this episode resonated with you 💙 Send me any questions or comments you may have and I will answer them on upcoming podcast episodes!! Looking forward to hearing from you! Please message me with any questions or comments.  bigcrystalenergypodcast @gmail.com

    24 min

  8. APR 24

    Beltane: Fire Festivals, Fairy Lore & How to Celebrate the May Day Sabbat

    The Wheel of the Year keeps turning, and in this episode of Big Crystal Energy, we step into the bright, fiery threshold of Beltane. Ashleigh shares the history and modern meaning of this sacred spring festival, from the ancient Gaelic fire celebrations to the maypole traditions, fertility symbolism, and the sense of life force fully coming alive in the natural world. This is the season of passion, creativity, abundance, vitality, and blooming into what is ready to come forth. In this episode, Ashleigh explores:  the origins and symbolism of Beltane  why Beltane and Samhain are often seen as mirror festivals  the sacred role of communal fire, protection, and purification  the maypole as a symbol of co-creation, weaving, and union  May Day baskets and other folk traditions of spring joy  Beltane’s connection to fairy lore and the Otherworld  the difference between romanticized fairies and the more powerful, unpredictable beings of traditional lore  simple modern ways to celebrate Beltane, even in everyday life Ashleigh also shares crystal correspondences for the season, including rose quartz, emerald, malachite, carnelian, garnet, citrine, clear quartz, and green aventurine, along with botanicals and altar ideas to help you work intentionally with Beltane energy. To close the episode, Ashleigh pulls a card from the Seasons of the Witch: Beltane Oracle, and the message of Fire Festival arrives right on time: a reminder to shift perspective, release fear, and stop blocking the blessings trying to find you. This episode is both a celebration of Beltane and a closing doorway to April’s fairy-themed journey on the podcast. Send me any questions or comments you may have and I will answer them on upcoming podcast episodes!! Looking forward to hearing from you! Please message me with any questions or comments.  bigcrystalenergypodcast @gmail.com

    42 min
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Big Crystal Energy Podcast 🎙️✨ Welcome to Big Crystal Energy—the witchcraft and crystals podcast for people living between worlds. Hosted by Ashleigh Bodell, an Orthopedic Physician Assistant and practicing witch, this show teaches you how to integrate magic, tarot, astrology, and energy work into your everyday life. Season 3: Season of the Veil explores liminal space, transformation, and the power of the in-between. Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or crystal-curious, you'll find deep dives into: ✨ Crystal healing & metaphysical properties ✨ Tarot & oracle card readings ✨ Witchcraft practices & pagan traditions ✨ Manifestation & energy work ✨ Astrology & the Wheel of the Year ✨ Occult wisdom & mystical living Through conversations with healers, spiritual guides, and magic-makers—plus solo episodes on everything from glamour magic to seasonal rituals—Ashleigh shows you how to be fully magical AND fully professional. Perfect for witches, spiritual seekers, crystal lovers, and anyone ready to embrace their power in the liminal. 🔮 Tune in, trust your intuition, and step through the veil.

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