A Sore Throat, Tarot Card, and Scorpio Season Point You Back to Your Power

The energy shifts this week—subtle, electric, and honest—and our bodies notice before our brains do. We start with a story about October sore throats and end with a clear map for reclaiming your voice, weaving together Libra’s new moon, Scorpio’s first steps, and a tarot pull that says you’re steadier than you think. If themes like the witch wound, throat chakra, and embodied magic have tugged at you lately, you’ll feel at home here.

We unpack the Three of Wands as an anchor for grounded progress: a reminder to stand tall on the cliff of your own life and plan your next move with intention. From there, we get practical with simple grounding—calling your energy back, rooting into the earth, and asking for true rest if your nights feel like travel. Libra’s lunar reset invites justice-focused intentions written in plain language, while Scorpio season brings boundaries, discernment, and the courage to speak when it matters. Think fewer scattered yeses, more aligned noes, and language that lands like a well-placed wand tap instead of a swing in the dark.

Seasonal prompts help you let go with purpose: What can die with grace so new life can grow later? Which roles can you lay down to lighten your load? We talk hands-on creativity as nervous-system medicine—I signed up for a crochet class not to be perfect, but to finish something small and remember completion. If the witch wound resonates, trace where it lives in your body—throat, heart, gut—and offer it protection, education, and a boundary or two. 

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Chapters

• 0:23 Welcome, Week Overview
• 0:41 Sore Throats and the Witch Wound
• 4:34 Throat Chakra and Speaking Truth
• 5:01 Weekly Tarot: Three of Wands
• 6:13 Grounding and Soul-Calling Practices
• 7:24 New Moon in Libra Ritual Premiere
• 7:56 Justice, Balance, and Manifesting Fairness
• 8:31 Entering Scorpio Season
• 9:31 Seasonal Reflection Prompts and Water Element
• 11:00 Choosing Hands-On Hobbies: Crochet
• 12:19 Scorpio Energy: Boundaries and Careful Words
• 13:43 Mapping the Witch Wound in the Body
• 15:28 Podcast Recs: Witchcraft, Ouija, and Hauntings
• 18:06 Closing and YouTube Invite

Transcript

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Hey witches, welcome to another Cozy Cub and Chat. I'm your host, Jenny C. Bell, and this is for the week of October 19th. This week we have a new moon in Libra and the start of Scorpio season, which I think is the true season of the witch, in my opinion. So I first wanted to start off by talking a little bit about October and sore throats. And the reason why I bring this up is because for the longest time as a kid and a young adult, I would get sick around Halloween almost always. I remember one year I had strep throat, and my mom drove me around a little bit so I could, I was like running a fever, and my friend, a couple of my friends got candy and like brought it to the car. Like I like was completely laid out. And it's always been my favorite holiday. I remember another time in college, my geology club, we were part of this really cute harvest festival, and I was on the planning committee, and we were doing this game, which is like such a fun game for kids. It's just like I had this big cauldron and they just close their eyes and plunge their hand in and get whatever candy they can grab. I mean, it's like the best game. Everyone's a winner. And I had it all planned. I had the cauldron, I had the candy, I dressed up, I was running a fever with a horrible sore throat. And so I don't remember where I saw this. It was like probably in TikTok, but basically, there was a connection between the sore throat around this time and the witch wound. And it really makes a lot of sense to me. The throat chakra is our place of self-expression. The witch wound, not everybody believes in, but I do. And it's this idea that as a collective, we have a witch wound because almost all of us have an ancestor that was accused of witchcraft, that saw someone killed for witchcraft, or was an accuser of someone of witchcraft, right? I'm not saying everybody, and I'm saying like deep in ancestry, right? That's still happening in places today where people are accused of witchcraft and it's against the law. You know, we I'm in America and for fair now, we're allowed to do this, right? Um, and hopefully always. Um, but you know, there are places in the world where you cannot be a witch. Like it's not legal, it's still illegal to be a witch. And so, you know, I think those you can go by healer and other things, but you know, that fear is in the collective where it's, you know, dangerous, it's illegal, it's can be deadly if you practice. And so I think a lot of us who are drawn to witchcraft or we're witches in past lives, if you believe in past lives, have to work on healing and opening ourselves up from that witch wound. And I think that a sore throat around Halloween is a sign of someone who is dealing with a witch wound andor someone who is meant to be a witch. Now, if you're like, oh, I've never got a sore throat, maybe I wasn't meant to be a witch. No, no, no. No, you know, sore throat's not required. Um, but it's just something that I think is a truth, and not everything on I say on here is your truth, but I think that chronic sore throats or weird tightening around throat, or if you're trying to tell your truth and you're doing like a lot of like a lot of throat clearing, or I see people even like touch their throat when they're trying to get their truth out. That's all throat chakra. And so chronic sore throats are blocked throat chakra. And I know for sure as a child and as a young adult, I really was not speaking my truth. I was really dealing with a lot in general. So, food for thought. You know, tell me what you think. I'd love to hear comments and ideas about that. Okay, so let's get back to what we were actually talking about. Let me pull a card for this week. Hmm, we have three of wands, and it's interesting because last week we had three of cups. So three is the magic number, which by the way, I used to watch um schoolhouse rock, but at one point in the 90s there was a schoolhouse rock rock CD put out of like 90s musicians doing schoolhouse rock songs, and Blind Melon does three as the magic number, and it's absolutely beautiful. So, and I also really love Blind Melon's Nico album. If you've never heard it, you should listen to it. It's very beautiful, very raw. Anyway, three of wands. This is, you know, I'm using the Modern Witch Oracle or Modern Witch Tarot Deck, and it's a woman, she's standing on a mountain or a cliff. She has three wands standing straight around her. She's leaning on one, holding on one of them, but she's standing very strong, very firm, and she's overlooking water, and it's just like she looks powerful. And so this card is really about being grounded and supported, working hard, being in your power, manifesting. It's like this woman is enlarged and in charge. Like she is here, she's conquered something, she's made it to the top of the mountain, and she's standing firm in what she's doing next. And so when this card pops up in a reading for me, I often think I'm on the right track. That's what this card tells me. Like, I'm on the right track in my life. Like, success is here, success is coming, I'm in my power, I'm stable, I'm grounded. And if you're not feeling those things, then what you ask yourself is how can you get there? Right. So I personally felt very ungrounded after the equinox. And so something I've been doing is this is a little more new age, so it's not for everybody, but I've been calling back all the pieces of my soul and spirit and asking my guardian angel to cleanse them and return them into my body and anchor them in my body, and then I ground by going outside or imagining roots coming from my feet if the weather's not allowing me to go outside, and really imagine myself connecting with the heart of Mother Earth. And the reason why I call back all the pieces is because I want to make sure I'm completely in my body. It's my belief that a lot of us travel, especially in our sleep. Uh, if you're waking up very tired or you're not dreaming, you're like sleeping, but you're not dreaming, you could be traveling in your sleep. And you can always ask your angels and guides to make it so you're not doing that, so you can get some good sleep. But that's just a personal practice. I really like um, I realize this episode's gotten a little new agey, so hopefully I didn't lose some of you. Uh yeah, so we have that uh kind of idea of stability and grounded. So, you know, if you're not feeling balanced or grounded or in your power, what are things you can do to get there? This week we have a new moon, and that is when my um Witches New Year's portal is going to premiere on YouTube. I'm at Healing with Jenny, is my YouTube channel, it's going to premiere at 5 o'clock p.m. Pacific Standard Time. It'll be out afterwards, you know, for you to watch. But if you go to the premiere, you can ask me questions, and it can be related or not related. But it's a complete uh ritual for the new moon and kind of the opening of Sawan season. So if that sounds fun to you, join me. So that new moon is in Libra, and interesting because I was just talking about being grounded and stable, and Libra is very much um balancing energy, you know, Libra is the scales, but also justice, like balancing and harmony and all the Venus beauty and all those things about Libra that I really love, but also justice. So if there's been some kind of an injustice in your life or you're feeling like things haven't been fair, this is a new moon to manifest on that, on that justice or that fairness. And then the next day is the beginning of Scorpio season, which, like I said, is to me the season of the witch. They are the witchiest of all the signs. They are my opposite as a Taurus son, and I love Scorpios. I've had a lot of Scorpio friends over the years. They're just down for anything, and they often will pull me out of my little Taurus hermit mode. Um, but yeah, take advantage of Scorpio season is a really good season to get witchy to try spells and rituals maybe you didn't feel confident in, to dress witchy. It always makes me want to dress like Nancy from the craft. Like it's good vibes for sure. Um, today I've been sharing different kind of witchy things for Sawin from different books. I have this book, I found it at on sale at Barnes and Noble with a gift card, and it's become actually a favorite book. It's called The Witch's Herbal Apothecary: Rituals and Recipes for a Year of Earth Magic and Sacred Medicine Making by Maresia Miranowski. Hopefully I said it right. And it's a fair winds book. And it's beautifully illustrated, and it's a go-to. And one of the things is it's seasonal, just like the last book I shared in the last episode. And she talks about that the fall portal is the water element, and she also gives you um journal questions. So I'm gonna give you some of them. What can give more death to what can you give more death to in order to create more life in moons to come? What is dead and asking to be released? How can you make your load lighter? How can you alchemize the fruits of your labor and slow down enough to savor the offerings of your creations? How can they feed you for months to come at the time of non-doing, which is winter? How can you prepare for winter? What roles and responsibilities can you release? What awakens your sensuality, creativity, and imagination? What are your hands asking for? Would they like to make something? What self-care practice practices bring you into deeper bliss and help you enter a restorative state? Which creative projects feel nourishing and can be your priority as you slow down your expectations of doing? How can you do less and be more? How can you do less and be more? That's a really good question. It's got me thinking already. Speaking of what to do with your hands, I talked a couple podcast episodes back about wanting to try crochet or knitting. And someone in our coven, but it was actually on Substack, was like, no, it was on YouTube. Someone from uh our coven in the past on YouTube was like, hey, I really prefer knitting. I really prefer crochet. What am I even saying? I really prefer prefer crochet, you should try it. So then we have a local like yarn store here, which is really cool in our downtown, and I signed up for crochet. So I actually will be taking my first crochet class on Sawin on November 1st. And I'll be making a headband that I will probably not wear. But the whole point is in this two hours I should hopefully be able to make something by the end. Um, I really want to do it in person because it's such a hands-on thing. I have a hard time learning hands-on activities through video or audio. So I did it. I signed up for something new, and we talked about two uh last episode with the Three of Cups for signing up for some kind of social activity, and so that's it. I signed up for crochet, and that's gonna bring me out of my shell and doing something I've never done in my life, and may not be good at it, and that's kind of the point. You know, sometimes we need hobbies just to have hobbies, they don't we don't need to be good at everything. Yeah, so this week we're really looking at fall energy, we're looking at the transition between Libra and Scorpio, which is like this beauty and this balance. And Scorpio has this other aspect to it, uh, with it having a stinger as a tail. And I've seen scorpions, I'm you know, originally lived in the Mojave Desert for a long time, and so I've seen a few scorpions in my life. They're actually very beautiful, and they're arachnids, so they're related to spiders, and they're very protective of like themselves and they're young, and so they only sting when absolutely necessary, like provoked, otherwise, they're pretty peaceful. And so I like to think about that when we enter Scorpio season, like being a little more cautious or careful, not saying to like stuff your anger away, but really like choosing the words wisely. But also, I think Scorpio season brings in boundaries. Like we need boundaries all the time. And so it asks you what boundaries are you needing at the moment? What boundaries are not being upheld, who is not upholding your boundaries, and are you not respecting someone else's boundaries? You know, um it goes both ways with boundaries, so that's something I think uh really important to think about. And then one more kind of reflective idea is if this idea of the witch wound was interesting to you, then I would definitely ask yourself, you know, what in your heart of hearts do you believe about that? Like, do you believe there's a witch wound? You know, do you think you've had an ancestry of persecution or being a persecutor? Um do you feel like you had a past life? I know for the like the longest time I felt I had a half past life where I was hanged. And I even have moles around my neck, and I remember some psychic at some point saying that that was a sign of having been hanged in a past life. And definitely don't like like I used to I had asthma as a kid, and then like not breathing that panic, it's it's very anxiety inducing. So, you know, just really thinking about you know, if you have a witch wound, where does it present in your body? Because for me, it definitely presents presents in the neck and the throat, and I've done a lot, a lot of work on my throat chakra. And I was really pleased when I first got an aura photo recently that she's like, Oh, your throat chakra is huge and healthy, and I was like, Yes, like I've been working on that baby for a long time, so you know that felt really good. But it may present somewhere else in your body, could be like in your heart where you feel like worried or scared to tell other people what you do, or it could be in your tummy and your guts and your solar plexus where you feel like you can't be in your power, like free of wands, you know, such and her power. And so, yeah, I think that's something I think, like I said, I think it's a collective. And I know some people don't subscribe to that idea, but if it's interesting to you, at least investigate it. There's been some, a really there's a really great podcast by the BBC on witchcraft, which gives a really good historical overview of witchcraft, but also it's the person, the host journey of deciding whether or not witchcraft is for them and trying different things and overcoming kind of mental barriers and prejudices, and really, really well done. It's probably one of my favorite podcasts. It's like a nice deep dive, it's perfect for this time of year. Speaking of podcasts, I also want to say I really love um Big Crystal Energy, it's super fun. Uh, recently she had an episode about the Ouija board, and it was uh the guy who is the like the museum curator for the museum of the Ouija board. He has two of them, one in Salem, and it's one in oh, Baltimore, I want to say. But it was such an endearing episode. Like you learn the entire history of the Ouija board, you learn about his passion for electing, but it was so wholesome, and it really makes you kind of strip away the fear of the Ouija board. So that's big crystal energy podcast with Ashley Bodel Bodell. Um, sorry, Ashley, if I said your name wrong. And then I really like um Embracing Magic podcast as well, uh, three lovely witches uh who just chatted up, but they have a really good one on the witch wound, and so highly recommend that. And if you don't already, um, and since it's kind of like spooky season, uh, two girls and a ghost is so fun. Like it's one that um you can do a deep dive in because they have a lot of episodes, and they basically research different hauntings and present them to one another. And so what's fun about that is because it's two girls, one ghost. Um, just to be correct. So two girls, one ghost, such a good podcast, and they way they present it to one another is like you know, one doesn't know what the other one's gonna say, so it'll be a lot of gasping and a lot of no, you know, it's like exactly how it would be if you were at a slumber party with your friends telling a ghost story, and it would be like the absolute like shock and awe of it all. So highly recommend those. Um the Ouija board episode, you gotta listen to that one because I want to talk about it with other people. Um, but then two girls, one ghost, so good. Like good for like just like sitting around campfire, and um I wouldn't listen to it with kids because not every episode is like some of them are kind of really kind of spooky and unnerving, um, but a good time for sure. So enjoy the season of the witch, and I hope um to see everybody on YouTube with me. I'm really looking forward to that. So hopefully I see you there. And if not, you can definitely catch the replay. And I hope you have a great week. Blessed to be.