Folk Magic, Personal Power, and Creating Your Own Labels with Lex Ritchie

On this episode, Lali and Samara talk with Lex Ritchie (IG @thelexritchie) about their definition of folk magic, how to use tarot as a tool for self-empowerment, and creating your own labels in terms of tarot card groups, gender, and life philosophies. Learn more about Samara's Tarot for Justice course: https://www.kasaithrive.com/tarotforjustice Show notes 1. Lex: “Folk magic is this intertwining of the magic of an individual with the magic of the land on which they live, and the magic of their sort of context, right, like their ancestors both literal blood ancestors and also ancestors of affinity and identity.” (05:16) 2. Lex: “From my perspective, the place where the physical realm and our ability to interact with the non-physical realm intersect is like where we should be working. Yeah, where we are working within that realm, where we have agency, where we can choose, like, that's how we take action, make change, and make magic as physical beings.” (12:49) 3. Lex: “As I have thought more about my gender, I don't really personally understand myself to have one, and so what I do with the [Tarot] court cards is I look at them as their elemental aspects. (23:16) 4. Lex: “Something that's like given me a lot of trouble in tarot in general is the hierarchy and until this summer I was still calling the major arcana the major arcana and the minor arcana the minor arcana, even though I hated it.” (28:54) 5. Lex: “I was thinking about how Saturn is like these external like non binary transgender, gender fluid right these categories that we use to present ourselves to the external world, and then Jupiter as this like sort of expansive joyful, but not so easily described bubble way of like understanding ourselves. And so, like, them coming together in Aquarius as being like how we interface the self to the collective.” (34:40) Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q6Uqis6boBPtsRm40c1bBWZSIWBK5gQ_zBYPU-1jJMI/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about Lex's work at https://dayseyetarot.com Form to submit review for your free gifts: https://forms.gle/xzGY74dRUygCNNg38