Your Creative & Magical Life
Episodes
Signs, Synchronicities & Skepticism w/ Arianna smith
14 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Message the show & share your thoughts!A mountain lion shows up in a dream, you turn the page in your calendar and there's an image of the sa...
The Generative Act of Receiving: Reflections on the Art of Manifestation
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Message the show & share your thoughts!Manifestation can feel like a promise and a threat at the same time. Promise, because we want change. Threa...
What's a Decan Walk? And Why You Should Try One! w/ Sara Pettit
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Doors to the Creative Magic Collective are open! And you're invited to join our 2026 Astrological Pilgrimage through the Tarot... which is a fanc...
Human First: Navigating AI as Creative Spirits w/ Arianna Smith
17 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode with guest co-host Arianna Smith, we weigh AI’s promise against its costs through a creative, mystical lens, stepping into the messy...
Walking with The Hermit: Deepening My Relationship with Reading, Creativity, Money & Service
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
2025 was The Year of The Hermit (and still is for a couple more weeks).While I didn't move to a mountaintop cave (and you probably didn't ei...
Holiday Rest, Creative Cycles & the Fours of the Tarot w/ Arianna Smith
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dreading the holiday push as your creative well runs low? In this episode, featuring recurring guest Arianna Smith, we explore the tricky balance of ...
Reading Tarot in Groups, Play Personalities & Growing Up in Alaska w/ Arianna Smith
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cecily welcomes back to the show Ariana Smith — twin, Alaskan homestead kid, IFS-certified therapist, copywriter, and professional tarot reader — ...
THE STAR: Naked in the Water w/ Chantal de Felice
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the tower that has confined you for decades finally falls? Artist Chantal de Felice spent twenty years as the primary caregiver for ...
Creative Channel: A 6-Week Journey for Creative Spirits
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Starting Monday, I'm opening doors to a six-week guided adventure to refresh, revitalize, and re-enchant your creative practice! In this shorter...
Using Tarot in Therapy & Allowing Your Witchy Side to Be Seen w/ Arianna Smith
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk with Arianna Smith, a licensed therapist, copywriter, and Tarot reader who helps therapists, spiritual seekers, and healers ta...
Pulling Cards for Listener Questions: Seeking 'Holy Strangeness' Yet Avoiding the Cards & Dreaming of Floods
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I pull cards for a community member's quandaries and questions. This seeker writes that they SEE the cards sitting there across...
5 THINGS: Creativity & Academia
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
✨ If you're finding this in June... CHECK OUT THE SUMMER SYNERGY SPECTACULAR — to support and celebrate 8 years of Typewriter Tarot! ✨In th...
5 THINGS: Capitalism & Creativity
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I dive into the HUGE topic of Capitalism and how it impacts our Creativity. I share 5 BIG THINGS I see within this tense relationship...
THE TOWER: Reaching into the Fire w/ writer Robin Gow
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore The Tower (no one's favorite card to receive!). The Tower is a card that can shake things up, to put it mildly, and b...
5 THINGS: Creativity as an Energy
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk about one of the foundational beliefs of my work — that creativity is an energy, not a personality trait, nor an exclusively...
Using Tarot to Make Decisions — Part 2
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a follow-up on a previous episode (Using Tarot to Make Decisions — Part 1), where I talked about how I used Tarot as part of my process for ...
The Magic, Art & Myth of Plants w/ Artist Kevin Jay Stanton
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk with artist and illustrator Kevin Jay Stanton, creator of the Botanica Tarot, a deck comprised of 78 gorgeous paintings depict...
THE DEVIL: I Can Tell My Story Too (without Feeling Shame) w/ Khadi Oluwatoyin
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode exploring The Devil card, I talk with Khadi (Khadijat) Oluwatoyin, founder and director of Sober Black Girls Club, an organization tha...
Reading & Soul-Searching Octavia Butler's Parables in Times of Crisis
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded on an auspicious Martin Luther King Day that coincides with the inauguration of a new and former extremist US president... in the wake of the...
The Year of The Hermit
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's the year of The Hermit (because 2 + 0 + 2 + 5 = 9, The Hermit's number). And it's sure to be a wild year all around — politicall...
Using Tarot to Make Decisions — Part 1
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I share how I recently used Tarot to help me make a decision that felt risky and challenging, and how I fell into a hierarchical para...
TEMPERANCE: Tending Our Aliveness w/ Natalie Ross
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To explore the Temperance card, I connected with Natalie Ross, a trauma-informed marketing coach and the creator of one of my favorite podcasts, the n...
THE HANGED ONE: Now I Can't Unsee It w/ Amelia Hruby
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For an exploration of The Hanged One, I had to talk to Amelia Hruby, creator and host of the podcast Off the Grid, a show for small business owners wh...
DEATH: How Do We Want to Live? w/ Mara June
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I've deferred The Hanged One episode briefly (it would normally appear here), because this conversation on the Death card unexpectedly took on mu...
JUSTICE: You Are an Agent of Change w/ Maria Minnis
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For the Justice card, I HAD TO talk to Maria Minnis, the liberatory Tarot goddess and author of Tarot for the Hard Work: An Archetypal Journey to Conf...
Why You Need Alone Time so You Can Deal with LIFE TIME
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this microdose episode (un-edited and ALMOST under 30 minutes!), I follow up on our Hermit and Wheel of Fortune conversations to explore why it&apo...
WHEEL OF FORTUNE: Seeing Where the World is Gonna Take Me w/ Ami Plasse
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore the Wheel of Fortune archetype with visual artist Ami Plasse, who I first met in group therapy! We start out this conversa...
THE HERMIT: Trying to Find the Light w/ Chad Hutchinson
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore The Hermit card with poet and writer Chad Hutchinson, who is also a friend of mine. In our conversation, Chad talks about ...
Loving ALL of Your Creative Parts
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this microdose episode, we apply one lesson of the Strength card (self-acceptance and self-love) to help us explore, name, describe, and meet diffe...
STRENGTH: Embracing Self-Love & Inner Resilience w/ Madeleine Gunhart
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can the path to healing and self-love be found within the cards of the Tarot? Join me as we explore the profound lessons of the Strength card in the M...
Discussing TAROT (the Supernatural Horror Film) w/ The Basement Girls
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this collaborative episode with The Basement Girls podcast, we discuss the recent supernatural / horror film TAROT by Anna Holberg and Spenser Cohe...
What's Fueling Your Creative Journey and How Would You Like to Travel?
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This shorter episode is a follow-up to our conversation about The Chariot, where we apply Chariot-inspired questions to our creative work. I talk abou...
THE CHARIOT: Moving with Aligned Purpose w/ Hannah Levy
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore The Chariot card with Hannah Levy, writer and editor of the Tarot journal The Rebis, which publishes annually, featuring a...
Your Art is a Transmission & an Act of LOVE!
18 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This shorter episode is a follow-up to our conversations about The Hierophant and The Lovers, where we turn those cards into guides for our creative w...
THE LOVERS: That Much Closer to Madness w/ Bianca Alyssa Pérez
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore The Lovers card with poet, teacher, and lover Bianca Alyssa Pérez, whose poetry chapbook Gemini Gospel dances with themes...
THE HIEROPHANT: I Am a Messenger w/ Becky Bullard (aka Democrasexy)
27 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore The Hierophant with guest Becky Bullard, the creatrix, messenger, and megaphone behind Democrasexy, a project that aims to...
Why You Need CREATIVE SPACE & How to Get it…
20 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this shorter episode, I stay with The Emperor just a moment longer (see previous episode), and invoke his energy to talk about creative space and w...
THE EMPEROR: Power Beyond Patriarchy & Embodying Nonbinary Daddy Energy w/ Kelly Marshall
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore The Emperor with Kelly Marshall, a nonbinary writer and yoga therapist who supports people with nervous system recalibrati...
You "Abandoned" a Creative Project and You Have FEELINGS About That...
07 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This first shorter episode is for Creative Spirits who've abandoned, ghosted, or otherwise fallen out with a creative project they used to love. ...
THE EMPRESS: Resting in Power w/ Christina Rosales
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore The Empress, the vast creative force that moves through nature and gives us LIFE! Our guest is an Empress herself — Chri...
THE HIGH PRIESTESS: Unclench Your Butt Cheeks w/ Ebony Isis Booth
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore The High Priestess with Ebony Isis Booth, a coach who supports primarily Black and Indigenous folks in transformation, lea...
THE MAGICIAN: Bringing Something Into Existence That Wasn't There Before w/ Jessica Jernigan
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since this show is just getting started, and this episode focuses on THE MAGICIAN, I spend a little time explaining what I mean by Your Creative &...
THE FOOL: We Can Always Begin Again w/ Annar Veröld
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this inaugural episode, I kick things off with a little tribute to Mom and Dad, then we dive right in to explore The Fool and the elements and symb...