Stop Inviting Spirits Over Without A Plan

Taurus season always tells the truth through the body. I share why the days leading up to my birthday can feel like a full-on skin shed, then why the rest of the season brings me back to confidence, glow, and steady energy. 

Our tarot pull is the Two of Swords, and it lands like a gentle challenge: are you spending enough time alone with your own thoughts, or are you trapped in your head and spiraling. We talk boundaries in a totally connected world, what it looks like to protect your focus, and how news and social media can hijack your nervous system before your feet even hit the floor. Taurus season gives us a practical fix: feed your senses on purpose so your intuition can breathe.

Then we go deep on spiritual protection and casting a circle, including why so many Ouija board stories end badly when people dabble without protection or a closing practice. I walk through common signs your energy is too open, why empaths and tarot readers need consistent psychic protection, and simple options you can actually use daily: evil eye jewelry, talismans, protective crystals like obsidian or tourmaline, black salt, prayer, and calling on Archangel Michael. The biggest takeaway is simple and powerful: cleanse first, then protect.

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Transcript

Taurus Season Check In

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Hello, and welcome to another Cozy Coven chat. I am your host, Jenny C. Bell, and this is for the week of April 19th, which is also the beginning of Taurus season. So I'm a Taurus son, and I want to know if you listen, you can answer this in the little comments on the podcast or in our coven or on social media. But as a Taurus, I feel my most beautiful during Taurus season. There's a song called At My Most Beautiful by REM. Shout out to that song. So maybe take a listen. But I always feel like I shine my best in Taurus season. Now lead up to my birthday is often rough. It's like the snake getting ready to shed its skin, and I'm feeling like, ugh. But then the rest of like Taurus season, I always feel like at my like most energy, I feel my most luminous. I just feel really good. So I want to know if you feel the same way. So we have the beginning of Taurus season. And the card I pulled, we're still looking at magical hours tarot, is Two of Swords. And this is a really interesting tour, Two of Swords. So it's a myrrh woman on a rock in the ocean. She's holding the two swords over her chest. She's blindfolded, but then there's these two flowers kind of protruding from her, like not over her eyes, but like over her head. And then it's nighttime. So two of swords are night plants. There are times when we need to look inward, to exclude everything outside of us, and then bring our gaze back outward. The two of swords chronicles the need for this focus. In a totally connected world, it is difficult to carve out a space just for your own thoughts where you can focus on who you are and what you really want without outside influence tied to the advice or opinions of others. Where do your personal boundaries reside and how can you apply them in this situation? Conversely, this card may also signal an excessive self-closure. Perhaps there's something you refuse to see, but now need to address. If the card makes you feel uncomfortable, perhaps the time has come to lower your swords. So for me, whenever I get two of swords, I usually first thing I think about is am I meditating or journaling? Like, did I fall off the wagon? Or am I like just going through the motions? Sometimes we, you know, you meditate and you sit there and you're not really meditating, you're like thinking of all the things you want could be doing instead. So that's one of the first things I always ask because she is blindfolded in most of the depictions on this card, and it's like, am I taking time to go within? And then if so, am I doing that too much? Like am I within my head too much? That would be the other side of this card. So this may land for you as you're not taking enough time to go within, or it may land for you with you're a little too in your head, and you need to get out and be in your body. Because that happens to a lot of people on a spiritual path. Um, I was just talking about this on a podcast with someone else, was basically like a conversation about how like new age spirituality gets a bad name because a lot of those people are very ungrounded because they don't ground themselves like witches do. And that's could be like if you could be just a little ungrounded, a little too in the woo-woo, or too in the anxiety, or too in the spiraling thoughts. And honestly, it's really easy to do with the news right now. Um, something we talked about in the resistance circle in our coven was like, how do you like keep a healthy relationship with news? And someone shared they have a mantra, other people have shared like they limit their intake, like and something you know, I think to the limiting the intake is like just going on social media like first thing in the morning, you just don't know what you're gonna see. You wake up and you open up Instagram or TikTok, it could be like horrendous traumatic news. And think about like your ancestors wouldn't have done that, like they would have rolled out of the cave and greeted the day, and like, what am I gonna eat? You know, just like collected their thoughts, and you're in bed being subjected to something horrible, possibly. So I think that's something to think about, you know. Um, so yeah, are you too much in your head? Are you not giving yourself time to think your thoughts? Sometimes I'll say that to my son, he's such a Gemini, and I swear he was just born talking, and he just will sometimes like talk incessantly. And I'll be like, hang on, give me a moment to like think thoughts. Because like I can't think thoughts if I'm listening to you. Um, so yeah, so Taurus season, two of swords, and then we're still going through the Divergent Witchcraft book, and the next chapter is Casting a Circle, Spiritual Protection. If you found me first on TikTok, you and you've been following me for a while. You might know that I'm like slightly passionate about spiritual protection. I talk about it a lot. Um taking classes on it, there's classes in our coven about it, there's um obviously a chapter in the book about it. It's something I don't think people fully understand, and that's part of why it's in the book. And I think it's sometimes things people write off. So let's talk about the Ouija board for a second. Which um I actually don't have. I'm gonna see if my mom still has her copy and ask for it. She's an old one, and she's like typical of lots of Ouija board stories. She's like, I don't know where it came from. She's like, adds to the lore. So anyway, um, I always have we always had one in the house. Uh I would sometimes use it with friends, and in the traditional old school instructions, actually says it's supposed to go on the lap of a man and a woman. And I don't know if that's in the modern version, but it's in the one my mom has. And, you know, there's a really great podcast um uh about that. I think I've talked about it in here before. I'm gonna pull it up while I'm talking and see what the name of that episode is. It's from Big Crystal Energy, and it might just be called Ouija board. Let's see. Um, but Ashley interviewed the guy that has uh the Ouija board museum, and they he was like a wealth of knowledge. Yeah, it's called How the Ouija Board Became an Icon: Secrets from the Salem Witchboard Museum with John Kozick. And that's Ashley Baudell um interviewing him on Big Crystal Energy. Highly recommend that episode. It's so funny. I put that on one day and I just like listen to her um every Friday, and then I try to catch her other ones like later in the week. But when usually when I'm cleaning, and she thinks that's kind of funny. She's like, well, I'll do it just for you then. Um, but I was wearing my Ouija board sweatshirt. So I was like, oh, this is perfect. So anyway, back to the Ouija board. We all have heard the stories of people using it and then being haunted and or having like a negative experience. Like you probably, if you are a woman my age, you probably heard one of those stories at a sleepover. Um, everyone has those stories. And the reason why everybody has those stories is because that's what happens when you dabble. You aren't spiritually protected, and you're like, hey spirits, come chat, chit-chat, like let's have a hang. Um, but I'm not actually spiritually protected or really ready for that. And then you don't know what you invited in and you don't know how to get rid of it. So spiritual protection is so is so important. Let me give you some more examples. Have you ever had an experience where you're walking around like a mall, an antique store, thrift store, just crowded place, and you just suddenly feel really weird. Could be that you feel dizzy, lightheaded, um, could feel sweaty, and it's not a panic attack or anything, you know, health-related. It's just like all of a sudden you just feel really weird. That's because someone's energy, you either stumbled into like somebody's not good energy, there's a spirit around, something. Your body's like, well, what's this? Because you know, our bodies sense things, like our brain and bodies are connected, and we definitely have more than our regular senses. We have clear senses, and whether or not you know that you're using them, you have them, and we sense these things, and those that can be really horrible for a lot of people. It's like jarring. Um, if you are one of those people that gets easily drained when out in public places, um like school or work or malls or concerts, whatever, you just get like horribly drained, that's another sign that you might need spiritual protection. If you consider yourself an empath, you definitely need spiritual protection. Um if you read tarot cards and do other types of divination, you need spiritual protection. If you call on goddesses, gods, angels, beings, spirits to do work with you for your spellcraft, you need spiritual protection. I think for some people they like to roll the dice because they like drama. There's like an element of that on witch talk, where's like young witches who like don't use spiritual protection because they just want to see what shows up and it's like exciting to them, which I think is stupid, in my humble opinion. Um, so you know, spiritual protection is so important. I had a conversation with Jenny on Unturned Pages about this, about how you know she does ghost hunting and she went to some haunted place and did not know about spiritual protection and was like laid out by the entities. And it's just important. And so, what does it mean? It means many things for many people. If you wear an evil eye bracelet, that's a form of spiritual protection. Um, and I have a funny story to tell about that. I I grew up in New Jersey, and my mom was a house cleaner. She had a few jobs, but one of them was house cleaning, and she would house clean for this woman named Maria, who had like a big house. And Maria didn't mind if my mom took me. She's like, yeah, she liked she liked us both. She was like an older woman and she was like very kindly, very wealthy. She had an altar. It was the first in-home altar I ever saw. And she'd wear evil eye jewelry, and she gave my mom those beautiful gold evil eye necklace. Um, it was a heart with the blue eye in the middle. And that was my first experience. Like, oh, this is something that you, you know, need. I would think it was like four, three or four of my got that necklace. So it's like ingrained in my brain, like, hmm, you should be spiritually protected. And then I started studying witchcraft and I learned about ritual circles, which I have a YouTube video on how to cast a ritual circle. If you've never done one, you're interested. And then um, I was taking some pagan classes, like with my friend and in person, and the inst the lady there, she was like, Do you feel trained? Like when you go to school and this and that. She's asking me, I was in college at the time. I was like, Yeah, she's like, Yeah, I can tell you're not really spiritually protected. And I was like, Well, I do like call on a ritual circle, and she's like, Yeah, but what do you do every day? I was like, Well, I wear my pentacle, and she's like, I don't think it's enough. Like, I think you need to do more. And so there's different things you can do. You can have a talisman like you wear every day to protect yourself, piece of jewelry. You can use different crystals. Um, in my opinion, and I talk about this on my Substack, every crystal is naturally protective, and then and every herb is cleansing. So I think every crystal it's will protect you. Now there's some that people rely on more than others, like anything that's black. Obsidian, um, tourmaline, onyx, those are extra protective. A lot of people use them. Um, amber is not necessarily a rock, but it is kind of, it's very protective. But yeah, there's labradorite is protective. They're all they're protective, especially if you ask them to be. Wake them up and ask them to be. Hey, will you protect me? Um, there are certain uh Bible verses that are protective. People will recite them in the morning or they'll carry them with them. There are certain angels that people call on protection, call for on protection. Really any angel will do, but Archangel Michael is usually the go-to. He's my homeboy, as I like to say. He has his big fiery sword. He's very protective. Um, and he's a good one to call on to protect yourself. Um, but yeah, there's lots of different ways. Witches use black salt. There's ways to put there's many ways to protect your home with like runes and talismans and witch jars, and then there's ways to protect yourself, like I said, with jewelry, with prayer, with ritual. Um, and then there's ways to protect what you do, your business, your home, your land, your phone. I personally, when I ask to be protected, I ask to be protected online as well as in person. You know. And then if you've ever heard of people rolling an egg on themselves, that's usually that most likely comes from like Mexican folk magic, and that's called Olympia. And that is the idea of like using the egg to cleanse the negative energy, and that's kind of the other half of spiritual protection, is you have to cleanse the energy in the space. I'm definitely not one of those witches that says you can just let your altar be dusty. I 100% strongly disagree with that because no. And if you look at like any book on voodoo or voodoo, and a lot of folk magic, they talk about the importance of cleanliness in your space. And yeah, so anyway, cleansing your energy, cleansing the space, and then protecting it afterwards, I think is really important. I think it's like it just makes sense. You don't want to put a circle of protection around yourself when you there's already possibly something with you. You need to cut the ties, cleanse energy, remove anything, and then put the protection on. So it's like a two-step process. It's always cleanse and then protect. And it's you know, up to you. There are so many ways, like I said, so many ways to do spiritual protection. I think you should do it every day. You some people like to do that spiritual protection in the morning and then at night. And then I think when you do ritual, at the very least, you should be spiritually protected when you do ritual and you do divination. And then if you want to go further, you might want to be spiritually protected every day. Um because why would you not want to be? Like, you know, it's such a huge can I tell you it's such a huge difference to daily cleansing and spiritual protection in my energy level than when I didn't do that. I was constantly like drained because I was just open, like you're just wide open to anything, right? And that's how people get easily influenced. Like, if you really do consider yourself an empath and you pick up on other people's emotions, like you really need to double down on your spiritual protection because like for instance, I really can turn on and off my psychic slash medium abilities. When I want to really tap in, I open up under spiritual protection. But for the most part, I'm pretty closed up. Like, I don't want to be open to anybody because I have been in the past, and then it's like you're seeing spirits or people's grandmothers are trying to talk to you, and it's like, I don't I don't feel like I should be doing this right now. So that's another thing is like a lot of um psychics and mediums, they really like turn it on and off for their own like mental health, emotional health, and it's through spiritual protection. Now, some of them can't, depending on like if you ever read about the medical um medical medium, like his guide just he can't shut that guy off. He calls him spirit. There's just like funny stories, but like he can't he can't shut it off. And whether you believe that or not, it's up to you. Um, but like Tyler Henry, if you notice, like he doesn't drive because he's already opened up on the way to his like his job to be a medium, and messages are already coming in. It really wouldn't be safe for Tyler to drive. Actually, pretty pretty dangerous. Um, I remember John the medium John Edward, he said that show Crossing Over. I read his book and he talked about how important it was for him to have a spirit team and connect to them and ask them to protect him. And he talked in that book about having like somebody come in to one of his readings, and he could just feel like this darkness, like this horrible negative energy. But he knew he was protected, but he could feel it come in, and sure enough, she was just this hateful person that was there to like say that he was a fake and all this. Um, but he could sense it, but he wasn't harmed by it. So there's ways that you can protect yourself, you're not gonna cut off all your abilities. Like the way I kind of envision it is like instead of walking around with all your chakras wide open, you're walking around with them like ajar, like the door, they all have a door, and the door's ajar, like you can see light coming through, but it's not wide open. Now, when I'm doing a Reiki session or I'm doing a card reading, it's wide open because I want to like really tune in with this person, I want all the messages to come through, and then I close it back up. So it should definitely be it's just something to practice, and you're gonna find your way, your rhythm. Like I give lots of options in my book about different things to do. Some people believe you should always have three to four ways of protecting yourself, and I am a big believer in that you should change it up. Like, it's usually in April that I change it up because it's right before my birthday. So I'll start reading some books, get some new books on spiritual protection, maybe take a class, and then be like, okay, instead of doing this, this, and this each day, I'm gonna add this new thing in because it keeps it guessing, keeps energies guessing, but it's also good for you. So don't leave your house without being spiritually protected, please. Um, and it's can be as simple as putting on jewelry or as complicated as doing a ritual. Totally up to you. So let's look at our questions. So it seems like first, I want you to ask yourself first question for two of swords. Are you in your head too much? Or are you not spending time in your thoughts enough? Because it's meaning one of the two things for us. Um, since it's Taurus season, what can you do to feed your senses, your physical senses? So it could be a new perfume, buy yourself flowers, it could be going out and touching grass, it could be eating chocolates, like what can you do to feed those senses? And then last question is what are you doing to protect yourself spiritually? And then reflect on that. And thank you so much for listening. Blessed to be.