103. Leaving Social Media & Reclaiming the Sacred Offline w/ Edgar Fabián Frías + Liz Migliorelli
Modern Witches✨Show Notes
How does social media impact our magical and spiritual practices? Join Casey Zabala, Edgar Fabián Frías, and Liz Migliorelli in questioning the benefits and drawbacks of living our lives online as both spiritual beings and business witches. As community space holders, artists, and magicians in our own ways, we are actively shifting the ways we use and rely on social media. Are you in dialogue about your relationship with social media, or curious about the addictive qualities of social media? Ready to reclaim your energy from the algorithm? This conversation is for you! Witchcraft is woven into this topic, and we share ways that our magical practices can support us in logging off and being more embodied in the world – at a moment when our attention and presence are revolutionary. ~✨✨✨~✨✨✨~✨✨✨~✨✨✨~ Edgar Fabián Frías is a boundary-breaking multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles with degrees in Psychology, Studio Art, and an MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley. Their immersive works blend diverse artistic disciplines, challenging conventional categories. Frías explores resiliency and radical imagination through Indigenous Futurism, spirituality, and queer aesthetics. Edgar’s website: https://www.edgarfabianfrias.org/ Your Art is a Spell podcast: https://www.edgarfabianfrias.org/your-art-is-a-spell
Liz Migliorelli is a herbalist, educator and storyteller who lives in the Hudson Valley of New York on Munsee-Lenape-Esopus lands. She has a clinical herbal practice where she works one-on-one with clients. Her classes focus on medicine making, folk magic and ancestral remembrance. She grows lots and lots of flowers. Liz’s website: https://sisterspinster.net/About-1 Sign up for Liz’s newsletter: https://sisterspinster.net/Newsletter-Archive
Casey Zabala is an artist, author, and intuitive witch living in Northern California on Miwok territory. Alongside her art and writing practice, Casey offers intuitive counseling to those who seek spiritual grounding on their personal path. Through tarot, astrology, divination, and insight, Casey’s work is devoted to ree-nchanting our worlds. Her publications include, Wanderer’s Tarot, Wryd Sisters, and A Confluence of Witches: Celebrating Our Lunar Roots, Decolonizing the Craft, and Re-enchanting Our World. Find Casey talking to plants with her toddler, baking bread, and communing with her spirit allies. Sign up for Casey’s newsletter: https://www.wandererstarot.com/ Subscribe to Casey’s substack, Hedge Spells: https://notesfromthehedge.substack.com/
~✨✨✨~✨✨✨~✨✨✨~✨✨✨~ 💌 SHOUT OUT: to the Off the Grid podcast, and Amelia Hruby for inspiring this episode. ~✨✨✨~✨✨✨~✨✨✨~✨✨✨~
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