Moon to Moon

In this episode, Britten LaRue is joined by Caroline Durlacher and Mellie Test for a conversation on staying with your magic when it's unclear, inspired by the Eight of Swords. Together they reflect on what it's like to be in a long creative process - where clarity doesn't always arrive on the timeline the mind wants - and how The Magician's Table can function as a container that supports devotion, experimentation, and self-recognition. They explore the tension between money as feedback and the ways it can distort our relationship to magic, while naming the relief and power of letting your practice be emergent: trusting transmission, honoring cave time, and creating without needing permission, justification, or proof.
 
Topics They Cover:
Returning to The Magician's Table twice: resistance, refinement, and the intelligence of coming back

Money as feedback vs. money as proof and how tying magic to material success can cloud clarity

Devotion to process: luxuriating in the process, experimentation, and letting your work evolve moment to moment

Cave time, invisibility, and staying with your magic during unclear or non-linear seasons

Self-recognition as the true initiation and claiming you are magical without needing external validation

 
About Caroline Durlacher:
Caroline Durlacher is a former literature & philosophy PhD candidate turned Emergent Business mentor for divergent thinkers & creative visionaries. She helps what she calls "Artists under Capitalism" & "Emergent Practitioners" turn their deep devotions & uncontainable work into online business ecosystems that generate wealth, visibility, and cultural power. When you're ready to make money by building worlds with your art, her work is for you.
INSTAGRAM: @carolinedurlacher
SUBSTACK: Ways of Knowing



About Mellie Test:
Mellie is a playful, multi-disciplinary practitioner and catalyst whose work spans movement, fitness, visual art, and design. She simultaneously holds the energies of The Fool and The Tower. Through her business, Magic with Mellie, magic becomes a lived practice of presence, perception, and showing up outside the box on a daily basis.
Whether leading a class, creating artwork, or supporting clients through branding and web-related work, she is known for her catalytic impact. Rather than delivering fixed outcomes, she luxuriates in evolving processes to open perception, shift fields, and offer magic that continues unfolding long after a moment has passed.
Mellie is a single mom and sole provider for a brilliant teenage son. They currently live in the mountains of Western Colorado, surrounded by landscapes that continually inspire.
WEBSITE: Https://magicwithmellie.com
INSTAGRAM: Https://instagram.com/magicwithmellie
 
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Learn More about The Magician's Table: 
The Magician's Table is a 3-month container for personal growth, community connection, and practice growing one's tools as an intuitive and magical practitioner. Doors open on Sunday, February 22nd, with an early bird window and a Pick Your Tuition model offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Britten invites you to take your time attuning to the container, exploring the course page, and feeling into whether this experience is a true yes for you.
Join the waitlist: ​​https://mailchi.mp/brittenlarue/tmt-2026-waitlist 
Visit the course page: https://brittenlarue.com/course/the-magicians-table/ 
 
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Introducing the 13th Readers for 2026: 
Arizona Smith: @arizonasmithhealing 
Leanne Thurogood: @oftheearthesoteric
Lily Hussey: @goodhussey
Suprasensory Shahir: @suprasensoryshahir
 
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Learn More about The Dream Real:
Coming February 20, as you may well know, we have a major astrological moment in time. The planet of Dream (Neptune) conjoins the planet of Realization (Saturn) at the ZERO degree of Aries, the very first degree of the whole zodiac.
This is rare. This matters. This is the moment.
You are invited to join us for The Dream Real: a global spell for personal and collective dream-realizing.
We're doing BIG MAGIC. It'll be wild, and weird, and effective. 
Sign up via the TMT Waitlist here: https://mailchi.mp/brittenlarue/tmt-2026-waitlist  
We hope to see you there!
 
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Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.

In this Dark Moon download, Britten speaks from the dark moon in Capricorn at the closing edge of the lunar cycle, as Saturn reaches the final degree of Pisces and prepares to move into Aries. She shares why these are a form of self-regulation and names the phrase that has been coming through really loud at the end of this cycle: living your refusals.
Britten explores refusal as a sacred Saturnian function. An integrity-based "no" that clarifies what is loving, fair, and generative, and locates agency and authority. Reflecting on how abundance begins with no, she invites listeners to refuse collapse, perfectionism, and silence. And explains how to move from compassion into action. As the energy shifts from Pisces to Aries, she calls forward self-trust, sacred irritation as information, and the courage to free up energy for the dreams that want to come into form.
 
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Learn More about The Magician's Table: 
The Magician's Table is a 3-month container for personal growth, community connection, and practice growing one's tools as an intuitive and magical practitioner. Doors open on Sunday, February 22nd, with an early bird window and a Pick Your Tuition model offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Britten invites you to take your time attuning to the container, exploring the course page, and feeling into whether this experience is a true yes for you.
Join the waitlist: ​​https://mailchi.mp/brittenlarue/tmt-2026-waitlist 
Visit the course page: https://brittenlarue.com/course/the-magicians-table/ 
 
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Introducing the 13th Readers for 2026: 
Arizona Smith: @arizonasmithhealing 
Leanne Thurogood: @oftheearthesoteric
Lily Hussey: @goodhussey
Suprasensory Shahir: @suprasensoryshahir
 
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Learn More about The Dream Real:
Coming February 20, as you may well know, we have a major astrological moment in time. The planet of Dream (Neptune) conjoins the planet of Realization (Saturn) at the ZERO degree of Aries, the very first degree of the whole zodiac.
This is rare. This matters. This is the moment.
You are invited to join us for The Dream Real: a global spell for personal and collective dream-realizing.
We're doing BIG MAGIC. It'll be wild, and weird, and effective. 
Sign up via the TMT Waitlist here: https://mailchi.mp/brittenlarue/tmt-2026-waitlist  
We hope to see you there!
 
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Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.

In this episode, Britten LaRue is joined by artist, astrologer, and mom extraordinaire, Janessa Quinn, for an intimate and revealing conversation about what it's like to live inside the active moment of political crisis in Minnesota. Janessa shares firsthand experiences of community response to ICE activity, the emergence of underground networks of care, and the psychological and logistical realities of daily life under what many are calling an occupation. Together, they reflect on astrology as a contextual anchor and explore what it means to stop asking systems to save us and instead build something new through relationship, proximity, and care.
 
Topics They Cover:
Janessa's personal and geographic context: growing up between South Florida and Minnesota, and how Minnesota's rule-following culture shapes both resistance and collective response

How the murder of George Floyd marked a turning point that seeded long-term mutual aid, underground care networks, and community organizing that are now being reactivated

What daily life looks like inside the current situation in Minnesota: hypervigilance, checking maps, encrypted group chats, anonymous coordination, and the emotional toll of living in multiple realities at once

Parenting through crisis: how Janessa talks with her children about ICE, safety, kidnapping, and the presence of helpers without sugarcoating what's happening

The concept of occupation: why that word fits, how it feels psychologically and physically, and how it echoes historical moments of wartime normalization

The role of local businesses, neighbors, and mutual aid becoming acts of resistance

Astrology as both a witness and compass: Pluto in Aquarius, Jupiter in Cancer, the Aries Point, and the tension between urgency, force, love, and long-term capacity-building

Capacity building and self-care as survival skills: tending energy, restoring capacity, and preparing for what may continue or spread beyond Minnesota




About Janessa Quinn:
Janessa Quinn is an artist, astrologer, and mom extraordinaire located in Minnesota. As a tender of flame and keeper of hearth, she is here to inspire and encourage others to liberate themselves by remembering their fire within. With the help of her 8th house Libra sun and fiery chart ruler, Jupiter in Aries, Janessa illuminates the treasure we can only find in the dark and boldly shares it with the world via her many offerings, including one-on-one consultations, workshops, writing, and her podcast, The Astro Garden. 
You can find out more about Janessa's work at her website, byjoveastrology.com or on Instagram at @byjoveastro. Janessa's podcast is available on all streaming platforms, including YouTube, and her writing is available both on her website and her Substack, https://byjoveastrology.substack.com/.
Website: byjoveastrology.com
Instagram: instagram.com/byjoveastro 
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@byjoveastro
Substack: https://byjoveastrology.substack.com/

 
Resources:
ICE Observer Training: https://open.substack.com/pub/statesatthecore/p/community-defense-and-ice-watch (they have a website, https://www.stacup.org, but this substack post seems to be the best place for upcoming virtual trainings)
Stand With Minnesota: This link has multiple options for donating and as well as a really solid list of local and independent news sources to keep informed about what is actually happening here: https://www.standwithminnesota.com/ 
 
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Learn More about The Magician's Table: 
The Magician's Table is a 3-month container for personal growth, community connection, and practice growing one's tools as an intuitive and magical practitioner. Doors open on Sunday, February 22nd, with an early bird window and a Pick Your Tuition model offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Britten invites you to take your time attuning to the container, exploring the course page, and feeling into whether this experience is a true yes for you.
Join the waitlist: ​​https://mailchi.mp/brittenlarue/tmt-2026-waitlist 
Visit the course page: https://brittenlarue.com/course/the-magicians-table/ 
 
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Introducing the 13th Readers for 2026: 
Arizona Smith: @arizonasmithhealing 
Leanne Thurogood: @oftheearthesoteric
Lily Hussey: @goodhussey
Suprasensory Shahir: @suprasensoryshahir
 
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Learn More about The Dream Real:
Coming February 20, as you may well know, we have a major astrological moment in time. The planet of Dream (Neptune) conjoins the planet of Realization (Saturn) at the ZERO degree of Aries, the very first degree of the whole zodiac.
This is rare. This matters. This is the moment.
You are invited to join us for The Dream Real: a global spell for personal and collective dream-realizing.
We're doing BIG MAGIC. It'll be wild, and weird, and effective. 
Sign up via the TMT Waitlist here: https://mailchi.mp/brittenlarue/tmt-2026-waitlist  
We hope to see you there!
 
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Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.

In this conversation, Britten welcomes artist and healer Arizona Smith, a 13th Reader for The Magician's Table. Arizona shares stories from her life and practice that move between divination, art, dreaming, land attunement, and lineage repair. Together, they explore how meaning unfolds over time, how signs and omens ask for patience, and what it means to stay in relationship with mystery rather than rushing to interpretation. The conversation touches on inner child healing, devotion to land and ancestors, creative practice as medicine, and the slow, often surprising ways healing and protection can move across time.
 
Topics They Cover 
Arizona's relationship to being an artist and a seer, and how her practice weaves divination, ritual tools, dreaming, and art-making

The Purple Diamond as a lifelong presence, omen, and creative thread that took years to fully reveal its meaning

Crows, synchronicity, and the way signs and messages arrive through relationship with the natural world

Time-bending healing, inner child work, and the practice of offering blessings across past, present, and future selves

Dream-led land healing and listening for what the land is asking rather than trying to impose change

Lineage, repair, boundaries, and the ongoing work of protecting innocence in ourselves, in others, and in the world




About Arizona Smith:
Arizona is an artist and healer who works ceremonially with the tarot, talismanic artworks, and energetic healing.
She is the author of The Purple Diamond Tarot and The Book of Love: An Oracle Deck for Emotional Healing, and draws on decades of experience exploring creativity, divination, and subtle energy work.
Her practice is rooted in ritual, symbolism, and an attunement to unseen currents, guiding individuals to reconnect with their wild, inner power and innate capacity to self-heal.
Through one-to-one sessions, events, retreats, and teaching, she creates immersive spaces for exploration and transformation — where insight, imagination, and embodied wisdom come together, offering clarity, resonance, and a renewed sense of possibility.
WEBSITE: Arizonasmithhealing.com
INSTAGRAM: arizonasmithhealing
Purple Diamond deck:  https://www.arizonasmithhealing.com/product-page/purplediamondtarotdeck 
Book of Love: An Oracle deck for Emotional Healing - https://www.arizonasmithhealing.com/product-page/the-book-of-love-an-oracle-deck-for-emotional-healing 
1:1 Healing Tarot session - https://www.arizonasmithhealing.com/healingtarot 
Pay what you can monthly events - https://www.arizonasmithhealing.com/events 
Journey Through the Tarot mystery school - https://www.arizonasmithhealing.com/journeythroughthetarot 
Sanctum in person retreat in May - 3 spots left! - https://www.arizonasmithhealing.com/sanctum 
Sacred Art Readings - 5 spots left in 2026! - https://www.arizonasmithhealing.com/sacredartreadings 
 
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Lisa Quigley (mentioned throughout this podcast):
WEBSITE: theglitchwitch.com/
INSTAGRAM: @the.glitch.witch
 
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Introducing the 13th Readers for 2026:
Arizona Smith: @arizonasmithhealing
Leanne Thurogood: @oftheearthesoteric
Lily Hussey: @goodhussey
Suprasensory Shahir: @suprasensoryshahir
 
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Learn More:
Coming February 20, as you may well know, we have a major astrological moment in time. The planet of Dream (Neptune) conjoins the planet of Realization (Saturn) at the ZERO degree of Aries, the very first degree of the whole zodiac.
This is rare. This matters. This is the moment.
You are invited to join us for The Dream Real: a global spell for personal and collective dream-realizing.
We're doing BIG MAGIC. It'll be wild, and weird, and effective. 
Sign up via the TMT Waitlist here: https://mailchi.mp/brittenlarue/tmt-2026-waitlist  
We hope to see you there!
 
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Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.

In this conversation, Britten LaRue is joined by multidisciplinary esoteric practitioner Leanne Thurogood for a deep, land-rooted exploration of ancestry, magic, and what happens when we say yes to a call we don't fully understand yet. Leanne shares the story of being pulled into The Magician's Table through literal and energetic portals, her pilgrimage back to Scotland, and the emergence of the Three Cauldrons as a sovereign, ancestral energy practice. Together, they reflect on lineage, fear, vulnerability, and the kind of magic that asks us to trust before it gives us a plan.
 
Topics They Cover: 
How land, etymology, and ancestry quietly shape our magical identities

What it means to feel the call of The Magician's Table, resist it, circle it, and eventually step through a doorway that makes change inevitable

The Cailleach as land, elemental force, and bone mother: cycles of death and rebirth, mythic memory, and remembering what the land already knows

Letting go of pre-planned offerings and trusted tools in order to birth something new, unknown, and guided

The Three Cauldrons as a Celtic cosmology of sovereign energy management rooted in sea, land, and sky

Community as an amplifier of magic: how witnessing, reflection, and shared vulnerability turn peers into kin and create lasting webs of connection


 
About Leanne Thurogood:
Leanne is a multidisciplinary esoteric practitioner weaving Celtic ancestral wisdom through Astrology, Energy healing and Tarot.
Her work is devoted to remembering and reawakening the bone stories of her motherland, carried through the living lens of personal lore - including her reclamation of WITCH.
Originally from Scotland, now living on unceded Wurundjerri land. Her practice is held in deep reverence to its elders past, present and future.
You can find Leanne on Instagram @oftheearthesoteric and over on Substack with her publication The Void.
WEBSITE: oftheearthesoteric.com/celtic-witch
INSTAGRAM: oftheearthesoteric
SUBSTACK: The Void 
 
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Introducing the 13th Readers for 2026:
Arizona Smith: @arizonasmithhealing
Leanne Thurogood: @oftheearthesoteric
Lily Hussey: @goodhussey
Suprasensory Shahir: @suprasensoryshahir
 
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Learn More:
Coming February 20, as you may well know, we have a major astrological moment in time. The planet of Dream (Neptune) conjoins the planet of Realization (Saturn) at the ZERO degree of Aries, the very first degree of the whole zodiac.
This is rare. This matters. This is the moment.
You are invited to join us for The Dream Real: a global spell for personal and collective dream-realizing.
We're doing BIG MAGIC. It'll be wild, and weird, and effective. 
Sign up via the TMT Waitlist here: https://mailchi.mp/brittenlarue/tmt-2026-waitlist  
We hope to see you there!
 
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E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y
⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue
Order Living Astrology
Join my newsletter here
Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple.
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Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.