Practically Magick: Green Witchcraft, Herbalism & the Spiritual Warrior

Courtney welcomes Sage, a green witch and psychic reader who works with plants as a primary spiritual practice. What emerges is a conversation about herbalism as ancestral medicine, the reclamation of the word "witch," and what it means to practice witchcraft as a man in a tradition historically rooted in feminine power.

Sage shares the origin story of Healing Hand Apothecary, named for the healing magic passed down through generations of women in his family. He discusses his signature brews, Witches Brew (a heart-opening, mood-elevating blend), Frog's Breath (a respiratory and communication tonic), Moon Milk (for dream work and liminal spaces), and Blood Moon (a feminine-centered tea curated with intention). Each blend carries both medicinal and magical properties, rooted in the belief that plants have evolved alongside humans to meet our needs.

The conversation touches on epigenetics, ancestral connection, and how witchcraft itself is a spiritual practice available to anyone willing to claim it. Sage speaks candidly about masculinity within witchcraft, the witch wound, and what it means to be a spiritual warrior in a world that has historically weaponized the word "witch" against women and the marginalized.

They also explore ritual as simple connection, not theatrical performance, and the importance of asking permission from plants before harvest, a practice grounded in relationship rather than extraction.

Find Sage: Instagram @healing_hand_apoth and @sage_jones13 | The Conjuring Tree, West Jordan (Tuesdays)

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Practically Magick: Mabon, Manifestation & Moving Forward

As autumn arrives, Courtney and Jaime sit down at Rising Moon Minerals to talk about what it means to harvest the year's work and trust the timing of your own expansion.

Jaime's been away from the shop for ten days, reconnecting with family at Flaming Gorge and sourcing new inventory in Denver. But the real conversation centers on what happens when you're ready for something the universe isn't quite ready to give you yet. After eight months of searching for a new space, Jaime finally found the right location, with landlords who actually respond and move things forward. The lesson: patience isn't about waiting passively. It's about understanding that what you want may not be ready for you yet.

They pull the Fawn card from the Season of the Witch deck, which opens into a conversation about inner child healing, resilience, and the belief systems that keep us stuck. Courtney shares her work with a business coach on a core limiting belief: that you can't make money doing what you love. This belief has shaped her entire adult life, from career choices to how she shows up in her business now.

The episode weaves together Mabon traditions, the Wheel of the Year, and practical crystal wisdom with Petrified Site, a transformative stone that supports protection, power, and deep personal change.

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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.

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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).

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Human Design readings and mediumship sessions: lightuponthegraves.com

Human Design classes and art healing: prism-healing.com

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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.

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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.

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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.

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In this season-finale episode of Practically Magick, Courtney Pearl invites you into the quiet, sacred energy of Imbolc, the midpoint of winter where healing, intention, and renewal begin beneath the surface. Rather than pushing change or chasing resolutions, this conversation explores how witchcraft, spirituality, and ritual can support gentle manifestation through awareness, devotion, and compassion.

Blending Celtic mythology, seasonal wisdom, and deeply personal reflection, Courtney reframes Imbolc as a time of germination, not transformation. From the mythology of St. Brigid and the Wheel of the Year to crystal magic, animal guides, and emotional alchemy, this episode encourages listeners to slow down, release shame, and honor the natural rhythms of winter. Topics include journaling as devotional practice, working with intuition, seasonal rituals, body image and healing, and why small, mindful steps create lasting spiritual growth.

This episode is especially powerful for anyone feeling burned out by “new year, new me” culture and craving a more grounded, soulful approach to manifestation and spiritual practice. Imbolc reminds us that growth begins quietly, with patience, presence, and trust in the cycles of nature.

✨ Resources & Mentions

• Imbolc and the Wheel of the Year
• St. Brigid (Celtic goddess and saint)
• Crystal magic: Moss Agate, Sunstone, Moonstone
• Oracle & tarot practices
• Animal spirit guides
• Book mention: Atomic Habits
• Prism Healing sessions and dream interpretation
• Sponsor: Rising Moon Minerals (Riverton, Utah)

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