Practically Magick w/ Courtney Pearl

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Practically Magick is a captivating podcast hosted by Courtney Pearl that delves into the enchanting world of magick and spirituality. Each episode explores various aspects of magick, from the power of words and spell creation to the significance of Celtic mythology and spirituality. Courtney shares her personal experiences and insights, offering practical tips on how to incorporate magick into everyday life. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or a curious beginner, “Practically Magick” provides a welcoming space to learn, grow, and connect with the mystical.

  1. 1d ago ·  Video

    Sin and Repentance: Beyond Religious Shame

    Practically Magick: Sin and Repentance Beyond Rigid Religion What does sin actually mean? And what happens when you leave a structured religious tradition and have to define it for yourself? Courtney explores the etymology of sin, from its proto-Germanic roots meaning "guilty" to the Hebrew concept of "missing the mark", and how that ancient language opens a completely different conversation about morality, shame, and what it means to return to your highest self. Drawing from the Gnostic Gospels, Buddhist philosophy, and her own deconstruction journey out of Mormonism, Courtney reframes repentance not as ritual confession or shame-based control, but as a simple return. A turning around. An alignment with the frequencies of love, compassion, and authenticity that resonate at the highest levels of being. She discusses how judgment and curiosity operate differently in the nervous system, why shame is the lowest frequency humans can experience, and how the work of healing, whether through energy work, therapy, or creative practice, is really just the practice of noticing when you've drifted off course and choosing to come back. The episode opens with a King of Pentacles card pull and weaves together mythology, neuroscience, parenting psychology, and the Tetris game as metaphor for how we navigate the blocks life sends us. Subscribe wherever you listen. Watch the full episode at https://www.youtube.com/@PracticallyMagickpodcast

    Sin and Repentance: Beyond Religious Shame

  2. Sep 10 ·  Video

    Human Design Chart Reading: Manifestors, Projectors & Strategy

    Show Notes: Human Design with Esther Graves Human Design is a system that combines astrology, numerology, the I Ching, Kabbalah, chakra work, and quantum physics to reveal your body's energetic blueprint. In this episode, Courtney sits down with psychic medium and Human Design expert Esther Graves to break down what this system actually tells you, and why it matters. Esther walks through the four aura types: manifestors (the initiators and fire starters), generators and manifesting generators (the worker bees with sacral energy), and projectors (the guides and quality control). She explains strategy and authority, the two most important pieces of any chart. Your strategy is how you're meant to move through life. Your authority is your body's way of communicating what's right for you. They discuss emotional authority specifically, why people with this authority need to sleep on big decisions before committing, and how this applies to parenting. Esther shares real examples: a nonverbal autistic child who wouldn't eat until his parents understood his food type (touch nervous), and how parents with undefined emotional centers can inadvertently amplify their child's emotional dysregulation. The conversation also covers environment (your scene), food types, and how Human Design validates what you've always felt about yourself, it's not telling you anything new, just confirming what's true. Resources mentioned: Ra Uruhu's foundational texts, Rachel Lieberman's A Modern Guide to Human Design, and Jenna Zoe's work on simplified terminology. Classes at the Conjuring Tree: Human Design 101 (September 18) and Light Circle mediumship development (September 25). Subscribe wherever you listen. Watch the full episode at https://www.youtube.com/@PracticallyMagickpodcast Human Design readings and mediumship sessions: lightuponthegraves.com Human Design classes and art healing: prism-healing.com Human Design resources and more from Ride The Wave Media: https://www.ridethewave.media

    Human Design Chart Reading: Manifestors, Projectors & Strategy

  3. Aug 25

    Womb Healing: Ancestral Trauma & Chakra Clearing Demonstration

    Practically Magick: A Live Healing Session Demonstration Courtney Pearl walks through a complete healing session on this episode, blending Reiki energy work, emotional processing, and somatic techniques in real time. This is not theory, it's a live demonstration of how practical magic shows up in the healing room. The session begins with chakra assessment using a pendulum, revealing where energy is blocked and flowing. The client's root and sacral chakras show restriction, while the heart remains open. The throat chakra, however, is completely still, a signal that speaks directly to the client's need to voice what she's been keeping hidden. Using muscle testing, Courtney identifies the age point for deep work: four months in the womb. What unfolds is a conversation with the fetal self about the mother's emotional state during pregnancy, family dynamics, and the imprint of uncertainty that shaped early trust patterns. The client discovers a "broken compass", an inability to discern who is trustworthy, rooted in her father's instability before she was even born. Through guided visualization, color work, and somatic release, the session extracts stored emotions (sadness, confusion, betrayal) and replaces them with new affirmations and symbols. By the end, all chakras are flowing. A rune pull confirms the work: Jera, the rune of joy, harmony, and family fellowship. This episode shows how ancestral patterns, womb imprints, and present-day trust issues connect, and how to rewire them. Subscribe wherever you listen. Watch the full episode at https://www.youtube.com/@PracticallyMagickpodcast More from the network at https://www.ridethewave.media

  4. Aug 18

    Healing Through Art: Watercolor Emotional Processing Workshop

    Healing Through Art: Transform Emotion Into Color In this episode, Courtney walks you through a complete Healing Through Art workshop designed for adults, one you can follow along with at home using watercolor, acrylic, crayons, or colored pencils. This isn't about creating a masterpiece. It's about moving heavy emotions out of your body and onto the page. The process begins with a card pull from the Inner Child Oracle Deck, setting intention for the work ahead. Courtney then guides you through identifying emotion points, fear, frustration, anger, self-image, overwhelm, resentment, shame, guilt, and assigning each one a color based on pure intuition, not logic. You paint or color these feelings as shapes and sizes that feel right, letting the medium do what it naturally does: spread, blend, create watermarks, surprise you. This integrated processing technique engages both hemispheres of your brain: language on the left, color and imagery on the right. As emotions move from body to canvas, you may yawn, sigh, or feel energy shift. That's the work happening. Once dry, you transmute the painting into something positive. You might trace every line and watermark with meditative music playing, or flip the image upside down to see it from a new perspective. You might discover an image hidden in the shapes and outline it with marker. Courtney also shares examples from past workshops and explains the color guide used in professional healing sessions, what purple, green, blue, and yellow typically represent in emotional processing. Subscribe wherever you listen. Watch the full episode at https://www.youtube.com/@PracticallyMagickpodcast. Book a private healing session at prism-healing.com.

    Healing Through Art: Watercolor Emotional Processing Workshop

  5. Aug 16

    Witch Trials to Today: Why We Still Fear the Word

    Show Notes: The Word Witch — Reclamation, History & What It Really Means The word "witch" carries centuries of weaponized fear. In this episode, Courtney traces its etymology from Old English wicca (magic, sorcery) back to German roots meaning "bending and shaping reality"—a definition that mirrors the actual work of energy healing, intention-setting, and neural rewiring that modern practitioners do every day. But somewhere between medieval Christianity's spread and King James's demonology texts, the word became a tool of control. Women who were healers, herbalists, independent, or simply in total control of themselves were burned and hanged. The witch trials weren't about devil worship. They were about silencing women's power, their livelihoods, their autonomy. Courtney refuses to sanitize her work anymore. She's done warping her brand to make others comfortable. When she stands in networking meetings and says "I'm your local witch," she's reclaiming a word that was meant to destroy her ancestors. Energy healing, tarot, spellwork, ritual—it's all witchcraft. And she's honored to say it. The episode also addresses the real tension: people still flinch at the word. Communities present themselves as inclusive, then edit her out of reels for using it. The bias runs deep. But Courtney's challenge is simple: check what you believe about witches, and ask yourself why. Subscribe wherever you listen. Watch the full episode at https://youtube.com/@PracticallyMagickpodcast. More from the network at https://ridethewave.media/practically-magick

    Witch Trials to Today: Why We Still Fear the Word

  6. Aug 12

    Your Body Knows You Did Too Much: Listen Before Fall Arrives

    Practically Magick: Harvest Season Crafting & The Knight of Cups The Wheel of the Year has turned to Lunasa, the first harvest. This episode opens with the Knight of Cups, a card about grand gestures, emotional investment, and recognizing when effort flows one direction in a relationship. Courtney unpacks what this card reveals about love spells, commitment, and the red flags worth paying attention to. But today's real work happens in the dining room, where Courtney is making smoke-cleansing bundles from foraged materials: mullein leaves, lavender, pine, and Utah sagebrush. This is practical magic for the season, the time when we sort what we've cultivated all year and decide what stays, what goes, and what deserves our energy moving forward. Courtney addresses an important distinction: smoke cleansing is not the same as smudging. She explains the difference between clearing residual energy and blessing a space, and why it matters to honor indigenous practices rather than appropriate them. She walks through her own process for home cleansings, using sound and intention alongside smoke. The larger theme is burnout. If you didn't rest during summer's peak, your body will confront you now. Courtney shares her own experience of overcommitting, only to hit the harvest season depleted. This is the moment to look at what's actually on your table and choose what matters. Plus, details on the Practically Magick 2 screening event and free ticket giveaway happening September 10th. Subscribe wherever you listen. Watch the full episode at https://www.youtube.com/@PracticallyMagickpodcast

    Your Body Knows You Did Too Much: Listen Before Fall Arrives

  7. Jul 28

    Magic Is Real: The Words, Will & Way Framework

    Practically Magick: The Three Pillars of Magic — Words, Will & Way Magic isn't wand-waving or Hollywood fantasy. It's the deliberate alignment of your inner belief with your outer action—and Courtney Pearl breaks down exactly how that works. In this season four premiere, Courtney revisits the foundational framework she introduced in season one: the three pillars of practical magic. The Words you speak—both aloud and in thought—carry frequency. They shape the vibrational signature of your intention. The Will is the subconscious belief underneath those words. If shame or unworthiness runs deep, no affirmation will land. That's where inner child work, breathwork, and energy healing become essential. The Way is the ritual or daily practice that anchors your magic into physical reality. Courtney draws on neuroscience, the law of attraction, and her own healing practice to explain why so many people hit walls with manifestation. The Secret promised that visualization alone would work—but it left out the subconscious sabotage. She walks through real examples: how to reframe a prayer from fear-based to gratitude-based, why changing your spouse requires changing yourself first, and how to build spells that actually align with your deepest beliefs. The episode also announces season four launches, a Practical Magic 2 screening event (September 10th in Riverton, Utah), new partnerships with Prism Healing, and Courtney's new Tuesday tarot readings at the Conjuring Tree. Subscribe wherever you listen. Watch the full episode at https://youtube.com/@PracticallyMagickpodcast More from the network at https://ridethewave.media/practically-magick

    Magic Is Real: The Words, Will & Way Framework

  8. Jul 21

    Tarot Cards Explained: Courtney Pearl on Real vs Fake Readers

    Practically Magick Season 4 Premiere: Tarot, Intuition & The Real Work Behind the Cards Courtney Pearl sits down with the hosts of Make Me a Believer to answer the question everyone's asking: Is tarot insight or illusion? Healing or fraud? What unfolds is a masterclass in separating genuine practice from the scams that give witchcraft a bad name. Courtney walks through the actual mechanics of tarot reading—the difference between oracle and tarot decks, why the death card isn't something to fear, and how readers spot clients who are desperately seeking certainty instead of clarity. She's direct about the ethics: readers who tell you how to live your life aren't serving your highest good. They're taking advantage. The conversation moves beyond the cards themselves into the real work—energy healing, shadow work, inner child processing. Tarot is a tool. The transformation happens in the sessions after, when you're willing to look at what the cards are actually showing you about yourself. Courtney also addresses the misconceptions head-on. No, you don't need to believe in tarot for it to work. No, you can't accidentally curse your future by asking the wrong question. And yes, you can absolutely be spiritual and religious at the same time. This is tarot without the mystique. Without the performance. Just the work. Subscribe wherever you listen. Watch the full episode at https://youtube.com/@PracticallyMagickpodcast More from the network at https://ridethewave.media

    Tarot Cards Explained: Courtney Pearl on Real vs Fake Readers
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Practically Magick is a captivating podcast hosted by Courtney Pearl that delves into the enchanting world of magick and spirituality. Each episode explores various aspects of magick, from the power of words and spell creation to the significance of Celtic mythology and spirituality. Courtney shares her personal experiences and insights, offering practical tips on how to incorporate magick into everyday life. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or a curious beginner, “Practically Magick” provides a welcoming space to learn, grow, and connect with the mystical.

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