Between Two Worlds

Between Two Worlds
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A bi-weekly exploration of authentic witchcraft and folk magic. We go beyond the basics through spaces between history and modernity, dogma and freedom. With a decade of experience I specialize in folk magic, spirit work, and helping witches deconstruct religious trauma while reconnecting with magic. Topics on necromancy, baneful magic, devil figures & hedge witchery, practical applications and honest discussions about the witch's path in all its complexity. MORE: betweenvworlds@gmail.com https://www.betweeniiworlds.com/ Insta: @betweeniiworlds

  1. 4d ago

    Ep. 53 / Venusian Love Magic

    Let's talk all things love magic, attraction, desire, and the much larger world of Venusian magic. Rather than approaching love magic as simply a means of finding a partner or making someone fall in love with you, I explore the many different things that can fall under this enormous magical category, from affection, sexual desire, and reconciliation to beauty, glamour, social favor, companionship, and prosperity. We get into the importance of understanding what we actually mean when we say we want love, and how distinguishing between attraction, attention, desire, and affection can help us build much more intentional and effective workings. I dive further into Venus herself, exploring her associations with attraction, pleasure, fertility, harmony, and the art of drawing things toward us, and why reducing her to the goddess of romantic love does a disservice to the richness of her planetary and divine sphere. Historically, I explore the complicated relationship between Aphrodite and Venus, their distinct histories and cults, and the much older Near Eastern traditions associated with the planet Venus, including Inanna and Ishtar. We wander through Aphrodite’s many origin stories, her geographical associations with Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean, and the ways these traditions reveal a much more complicated picture than the familiar modern image of the love goddess. I also dive into the world of planetary magic, looking at how Venus was approached through astrological timing, material correspondences, talismanic images, and ritual construction. We get into the practical side of things, exploring how these historical principles can inform modern Venusian workings. From charms for affection and remembrance to the use of perfume, written names, cords, knots, mirrors, sympathetic figures, and personal materials, I discuss the many ways we can give a particular desire a physical form and construct circumstances around the outcome we want to encourage. We get into erotic magic, dream workings, binding, and the use of figurines and other objects to embody desire and enact a desired condition, as well as the role of prayer, offerings, and direct engagement with Venus and other divine or spiritual powers. Along the way, I consider the ethical questions that arise when attraction magic begins to move toward coercion, obsession, and attempts to interfere with another person’s will, because if Venusian magic is ultimately concerned with attraction, pleasure, and the coming together of things, then perhaps we should be asking not only what we want to draw toward us, but what kind of relationship we actually want to cultivate once it arrives. Follow me on Insta! @betweeniiworldshttps://www.instagram.com/betweeniiworlds/ Check out the new website! https://www.betweeniiworlds.com/

  2. Sep 27

    Ep.52 / The House of Wax & Clay

    On this week's episode, we talk all things wax, clay, mud, and other natural materials for the use of building effigies, charms, vessels, and whatever else your heart desires. Aside from an extensive conversation on what we can do with these things once they are made, I dive further into the material itself like its physical properties, its origins, its correspondences, and what it might bring into the working beyond simply being the thing we happen to sculpt with. I explore the idea of creating a body from these materials and the enchanting act of molding something into existence with your own hands. We get into sympathetic and contagious magic, the ways a figure can become a miniature body, substitute, vessel, container, actor, or participant within a ritual, and how we can use these constructed bodies to physically enact things that would otherwise remain abstract. Rather than simply asking what a figure should look like, we explore the much more interesting question of what do you want this body to experience? However, I strain how crucial it may be to think about the correspondences to your material, in this case wax and clay, take into consideration things like planetary alignments, elemental qualities, the timing of gathering, where the material was gathered from, and the circumstances surrounding its collection.  Historically, I dive into the long and rich use of these materials for magical purposes, particularly their connection to the mythology of human creation. We wander through Ancient Mesopotamian ritual and creation traditions, the Maqlû tablets, Egyptian magical figures and the overthrow of Apophis, the PGM and its wax and clay figures, and the many ways ritual bodies have been burned, bound, pierced, buried, drowned, broken, destroyed, protected and transformed. I of course get into creating circumstances for the body you've made. The figure becomes almost like a tiny stage upon which the condition you're trying to create can actually be performed. Towards the end of the episode, I have some fun with the idea of the material itself being a crucial participant, sometimes your carefully planned figure suddenly refuses to stand or decides it has a completely different face than the one you intended. So at what point does the material become a collaborator rather than merely a tool? Follow me on Insta! @betweeniiworlds ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/betweeniiworlds/⁠⁠ Check out the new website! ⁠https://www.betweeniiworlds.com/

  3. Sep 13

    Ep.51 / Divination and Diagnosis

    YESS!! I changed the intro music.. I hope you like it. I figured Episode 51 and all the changes deserved it. Well, join me this week as I’m getting into the often overlooked role of diagnosis within magical and divinatory practice. Before you cleanse, uncross, banish, reverse, protect, or start declaring war on an invisible enemy, how do you actually determine what the problem is? I talk about how different cultures and magical traditions have approached the question of finding hidden causes, from ancient Mesopotamian and Greek practices to cunning folk, Hoodoo and conjure, and more. I talk about dreams, omens, physical signs, sacred texts, eggs, candles, scrying, lots, spirit communication, and the many ways divination can become a method of investigation rather than simply a tool for prediction. Then, of course, I have to talk about the modern witchcraft internet spiel, where apparently being tired, having a bad week, experiencing a weird dream, and losing your keys are all perfectly reasonable evidence that someone has cursed you (not). So where is the line between intuition and assumption? How do you investigate a spiritual possibility without automatically deciding that everything is supernatural? How can you use divination to gather information, cross-check what you are seeing or experiencing, learn to recognize your own biases, and figure out what you are actually dealing with before deciding what to do about it? Follow me on Insta! @betweeniiworlds ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/betweeniiworlds/⁠ Check out the new website! https://www.betweeniiworlds.com/

  4. Aug 30

    Ep.50 / The Physical Experience of Witchcraft & Christian Influence

    This week, for a very grand Episode 50, I am diving into the witch’s relationship with the physical world and, more specifically, our bodies. I want to talk about just how deeply sensory witchcraft can be, from the things we taste, smell, touch, burn, carry and make, to the much subtler sensations we learn to recognize through spirit communication, intuition and ritual. But as I started thinking about what it means to experience witchcraft through the body, I inevitably found myself back in conversations about Christianity, religious conditioning and the ways we can be taught to understand, distrust, discipline or interpret our own physical experiences. This week we cover the embodied witch, the complicated relationship between Christianity and the body, the ways religious practice can train us physically as well as intellectually, and what happens when we leave a belief system but find that some of those old reactions are still living in us. This isn't an argument that Christianity hates the body or that witches somehow have a perfect relationship with theirs. Instead, I want to look at the similarities and differences, the wounds and the things worth keeping, and ultimately what it can mean to become familiar with yourself again. Follow me on Insta! @betweeniiworlds ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/betweeniiworlds/⁠ Support the show on Patreon! @BetweenIIWorlds ⁠⁠https://patreon.com/betweenIIworlds⁠ ⁠

  5. Aug 16

    Ep.49 / The Conditions of Hot, Cold, Sweet & Sour

    I really wanted to get into the fun of talking about working hot, cold, sweet, sour, and bitters into magic, and all the other ways we can change the “condition” of something through magic. This week I start with the very literal idea of heating something up and follow it through actions like boiling, and cooking, moving through the medical conditions of certain herbs and how they can be of use to us when choosing who will be the witches next top herb. I really wanted to talk on heating up, cooling down and working sweetness and sourness with spirit. We get into what it actually means to cool something down, whether we are trying to slow something down, stop it entirely, or just make it a little more manageable, and why putting something in cold water or burying it somewhere dark doesn't necessarily mean the exact same thing. Then we get into sweetening, souring and bittering, and how making something more pleasant, more disagreeable, or outright intolerable can become its own magical operation and because apparently I couldn't leave enough alone, we also get into spoiled food, fermentation, rotten things, vinegar, bitter herbs, wax, fire, water, and all the strange little physical behaviors we can steal from the world around us and put to work. Support the show on Patreon! @BetweenIIWorlds ⁠https://patreon.com/betweenIIworlds⁠ Follow me on Insta! @betweeniiworlds ⁠https://www.instagram.com/betweeniiworlds/

  6. Aug 2

    Ep.48 / The Epithets of Hekate I: Triformis, Not Maiden, Mother, Crone

    This week we start a bit of a series going through Hekate's epithets one at a time, and we are beginning with the one everybody thinks they already know, Triformis, the triple-formed goddess. First order of business is dragging the maiden, mother, crone reading out into the light and showing how modern it actually is, before we get into what her three form was really about. We go all the way back to the Carian origins and Hesiod talking about her a share of earth and sea and sky, the animal heads and the temperaments assigned to each, and the strange fact that the graveyard witch-queen of the crossroads and the vast cosmic World-Soul of the philosophers are somehow the exact same goddess seen at two different scales. I talk about her significance of being triple bodied and tri-directional, then we get practical, the hekataion at the threshold and how she was honored there, why witches belonged to her and how you can actually work the three form yourself, across the three worlds, the three times, and your own many selves. Because she is not three ages of a woman, she is the goddess who never faces only one direction, the one who does not tell you which road to take but teaches you to stand still at the center long enough to see. Support the show on Patreon! @BetweenIIWorlds https://patreon.com/betweenIIworlds Follow me on Insta! @betweeniiworlds https://www.instagram.com/betweeniiworlds/

  7. Jul 19

    Ep.47 / The Magic of Mirrors: The Glass That Looks Back

    Mirrors are one of the oldest and maybe most obscured tools in all of witchcraft and sorcery, and this week we discover the first mirror there ever was, obsidian and bronze, the Aztec god who wore a smoking mirror and saw the destinies and fates of humans, black scrying glasses and even a mention of the witches of Thessaly writing in blood and drawing down the moon. I talk about the grimoire traditions and consecrated mirrors buried at a crossroads, and the queens who kept magic mirrors to spy on their enemies. The belief that your reflection is your soul runs deep so as fitting, the mirror may capture a piece of it. Finally, we get into scrying and how the black mirror works, moonlight and mirror work, conjuring a part of yourself for shadow work, mirror boxes and reversal magic, spirit and witch bottles, glamour and mirrors dedicated to Venus, how to dispose of a mirror and mirror hygiene for living sorcerer. Support the show on Patreon! @BetweenIIWorlds ⁠⁠⁠https://patreon.com/betweenIIworlds⁠⁠⁠ Follow me on Insta! @betweeniiworlds ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/betweeniiworlds/

  8. Jul 5

    Ep.46 / Intention: New Age BS or the Heart of Magical Execution

    This week we dig into intention, maybe the most misused word in modern witchcraft. It got watered down into "set your intention and hope for the best," and then a backlash swung the other way and decided intention is fluff and real magic is all cold hard technique. So we go looking at how it actually worked. The magicians of the grimoires and the PGM didn't hope, they commanded, they issued orders and even threatened the gods themselves, but always on the back of days of purification and fasting and trained will. We get into the curse tablets and their flat commanding voice, the Neoplatonic idea of cosmic sympathy that explains why the herbs and the timing and the correspondences work at all, the Orphic hymns sung to draw a god down by the accuracy of the sound, and the whole apparatus of ceremony as a machine for reaching the state where the will can actually command. I yap about what intention actually is and where it lives, the difference between attention and intention, the evil eye as proof that focused will was always felt as a real force, working with spirits versus working alone, and what it actually means to set an intention Support the show on Patreon! @BetweenIIWorlds ⁠⁠https://patreon.com/betweenIIworlds⁠⁠ Follow me on Insta! @betweeniiworlds ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/betweeniiworlds/

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A bi-weekly exploration of authentic witchcraft and folk magic. We go beyond the basics through spaces between history and modernity, dogma and freedom. With a decade of experience I specialize in folk magic, spirit work, and helping witches deconstruct religious trauma while reconnecting with magic. Topics on necromancy, baneful magic, devil figures & hedge witchery, practical applications and honest discussions about the witch's path in all its complexity. MORE: betweenvworlds@gmail.com https://www.betweeniiworlds.com/ Insta: @betweeniiworlds

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  • Creator
    Between Two Worlds
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    54
  • Rating
    Explicit
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