Lux Occult

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata welcomes Literoin & Fr. Damiana to talk about the John Carpenter movie, They Live (1988) and a pop culture magic experiment inspired by the film. What did you see when you “put on the glasses”?

Luxa shares about The Green Mushroom Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/ and Void House- creating consent centered magical spaces for conducting group work both in person and online, investigating the magical and alchemical properties of consent, and providing consent education to magically inclined people.

Thanks for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break by giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult . Or, Buy Me a Coffee.com is an option for a one time donation: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod?new=1

We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ and on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/luxastrata919.bsky.social

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Community Protection Salt Ritual https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Atu6rNWkCSajdF6Fp6KYiMSHk7Sai-6IAlZfopNKFOU/edit?usp=sharing

Music for Good: A Mixtape for MN Mutual Aid by Community Aid Network MN (CANMN) https://canmn.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-good-a-mixtape-for-mn-mutual-aid

Check out The Consent Academy https://www.consent.academy/

Find Luxa’s work published in Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience edited by Laura Tempest Zakroff and Ron Padrón https://revelore.press/product/serpents-of-circe-a-manual-to-magical-resilience/

Referenced in today’s episode:
Project Spex All Out of Bubblegum Ceremony https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mVTyd4yi9T9IqCAram2WdJ4AnznvExAbxEM4hes0Xz4/edit?usp=sharing

‘They Live’: John Carpenter’s Brilliantly Simple and Hugely Enjoyable Assault on Reagan’s America by By Sven Mikulec https://cinephiliabeyond.org/live-john-carpenters-brilliantly-simple-hugely-enjoyable-assault-reagans-america/

John Carpenter Wants Internet to Stop Misinterpreting ‘They Live’ https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/john-carpenter-they-live-twitter-internet-nazis-jewish-control-capitalism-1201764730/

They Live: John Carpenter's action flick needs to be saved
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/jan/09/they-live-john-carpenter-neo-nazis

Gee, whiz: elephant relieves itself on floor of Texas Republican convention https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/13/texas-elephant-republican-convention

They Live Trivia https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/trivia/

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wretched_of_the_Earth

Saw the TV Glow (2024) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Saw_the_TV_Glow

Abby Hoffman and Steal This Book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman

Albert Hoffman and LSD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud,_Not_Buddy

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/#intcid=_wired-verso-hptrending_693ebede-53d6-4172-80db-00ed15bc0d62_popular4-2

How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-private-dialog-club-secretly-ranks-its-members/

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata welcomes Charlie from It Cometh https://www.instagram.com/it_cometh?igsh=N2V1OWUwN3plNW9w to talk about the creation of a hypersigil metal album, using astral work for creative inspiration and magical instruction, the magician’s voice and vocal techniques, glamour magic and performance, tattoos, and more! Also hear an original track from It Cometh's upcoming album. Hail Balsamus!

Luxa also shares thoughts about influence and persuasion and an update about The Green Mushroom Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/ and Void House- creating consent centered magical spaces for conducting group work both in person and online, investigating the magical and alchemical properties of consent, and providing consent education to magically inclined people.

Thanks for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break by giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult . Or, Buy Me a Coffee.com is an option for a one time donation: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod?new=1

We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ and on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/luxastrata919.bsky.social

Check out the Lux Occult YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB

It Cometh Bandcamp https://itcometh.bandcamp.com/
Charlie Horse Tattoo https://www.instagram.com/charlie.horse.tattoo/

Merch! https://www.etsy.com/shop/IlluminIndustries

Community Protection Salt Ritual https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Atu6rNWkCSajdF6Fp6KYiMSHk7Sai-6IAlZfopNKFOU/edit?usp=sharing

Music for Good: A Mixtape for MN Mutual Aid by Community Aid Network MN (CANMN) https://canmn.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-good-a-mixtape-for-mn-mutual-aid

Check out The Consent Academy https://www.consent.academy/

Find Luxa’s work published in Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience edited by Laura Tempest Zakroff and Ron Padrón https://revelore.press/product/serpents-of-circe-a-manual-to-magical-resilience/

Referenced in today’s episode:
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
Visual Magick by Jan Fries
Mind Games Podcast https://www.k-scope.com/mindgames

Lux Occult is produced by Luxa Strata. All Rights Reserved. 2026.

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata welcomes Michael Metatron Girard from Enochian Today https://enochiantoday.wordpress.com/ and author of the new book, Enochian Magic: An Introductory Guide, back to the show to talk about the Power in a Name, possible Risks and Rewards of using a powerful system like Enochian and how the approach to Enochian laid out in Michael's book is different than those which are informed by or based on the work that the Golden Dawn. Also discussed is Michael’s work as a Certified Astrological Consultant. Luxa also shares an update about The Green Mushroom Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/ and Void House- creating consent centered magical spaces for conducting group work both in person and online, investigating the magical and alchemical properties of consent, and providing consent education to magically inclined people. Thanks for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break by giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult . Or, Buy Me a Coffee.com is an option for a one time donation: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod?new=1 We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ and on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/luxastrata919.bsky.socialCheck out the Lux Occult YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlBMerch! https://www.etsy.com/shop/IlluminIndustriesCommunity Protection Salt Ritual https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Atu6rNWkCSajdF6Fp6KYiMSHk7Sai-6IAlZfopNKFOU/edit?usp=sharing Music for Good: A Mixtape for MN Mutual Aid by Community Aid Network MN (CANMN) https://canmn.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-good-a-mixtape-for-mn-mutual-aidCheck out The Consent Academy https://www.consent.academy/Michael Metatron Girard:Enochian Today: https://enochiantoday.wordpress.com/For astrological consultations: https://skymirror.today/The new book is on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Enochian-Magic-Michael-Metatron-Girard-ebook/dp/B0GP9DB775/ (countries other than US will need to search for the title: “Enochian Magic: An Introductory Guide” by Michael Metatron Girard)Referenced in today’s episode:Psalm 595A by Luxa Strata from Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience edited by Laura Tempest Zakroff and Ron Padrón https://revelore.press/product/serpents-of-circe-a-manual-to-magical-resilience/Resistance notes created by Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, c.1940-1944https://www.jerseyheritage.org/research-and-collections/object-in-focus/resistance-notes/Claude Cahun. Brittanica.com https://www.britannica.com/biography/Claude-CahunClaude Cahun (Lucy Schwob).MOMA.com https://www.moma.org/artists/8195The Soldiers With No Name. TheTribuneMagazine.com https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/07/the-soldiers-with-no-nameLux Occult is produced by Luxa Strata. All Rights Reserved. 2026.

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata welcomes Micheal M Hughes  https://www.michaelmhughes.com/, author of Magic for the Resistance: Rituals & Spells for Change to discuss magic in the media and the response from the right to his viral 2017 Binding Spell. How does the right wing grift play out in occult spaces? And why should we worry about what people in the news media and elsewhere are saying about magical practitioners? 
Luxa also shares an update about The Green Mushroom Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/ and Void House- creating consent centered magical spaces for conducting group work both in person and online, investigating the magical and alchemical properties of consent, and providing consent education to magically inclined people. 

Thanks for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break by giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult . Or, Buy Me a Coffee.com is an option for a one time donation: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod?new=1 

We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ and on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/luxastrata919.bsky.social

Check out the Lux Occult YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB

Merch! https://www.etsy.com/shop/IlluminIndustries

Community Protection Salt Ritual https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Atu6rNWkCSajdF6Fp6KYiMSHk7Sai-6IAlZfopNKFOU/edit?usp=sharing
 
HAUNTQUINOX 2026 https://youtu.be/PNX6YR2A93M?si=l6MEE3wfLijf1yK-

Music for Good: A Mixtape for MN Mutual Aid by Community Aid Network MN (CANMN) https://canmn.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-good-a-mixtape-for-mn-mutual-aid

Check out The Consent Academy https://www.consent.academy/

Find Luxa’s work published in Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience edited by Laura Tempest Zakroff and Ron Padrón https://revelore.press/product/serpents-of-circe-a-manual-to-magical-resilience/

Music for Good: A Mixtape for MN Mutual Aid by Community Aid Network MN (CANMN) https://canmn.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-good-a-mixtape-for-mn-mutual-aid

Micheal M Hughes:
The Art of Magical Living https://www.theartofmagicalliving.com/
YT https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelMHughes
FB https://www.facebook.com/michaelmhughes
BS https://bsky.app/profile/michaelmhughes.bsky.social
IG https://www.instagram.com/michaelmhughes/
Magic for the Resistance: Rituals & Spells for Change https://www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed-crow-books/p/magicfortheresistance
Kill the Robots “Humanifesto” https://michaelmhughes.medium.com/kill-the-robots-7bad904e3c9e

Charlie Kirk’s Murder Intersects with Jezebel’s Witchcraft Story, Raising Concerns for Pagans. Wild Hint.com
https://wildhunt.org/2025/09/charlie-kirks-murder-intersects-with-jezebels-witchcraft-story-raising-concerns-for-pagans.html

EYES OF YOUR EYES- Luxa Strata ft. Folds & Floods https://youtu.be/EfdQ-pJEBsg

News music by Squiddums https://freesound.org/people/Squidems/sounds/709973/

Lux Occult is produced by Luxa Strata. All Rights Reserved. 2026.

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata welcomes Aidan Wachter https://www.patreon.com/cw/aidanwachter/home, author of Six Ways, Weaving Fate, Changeling, and more, back to the show to discuss current events and looking forward with the new Black Book hypersigil project, After the Fall, as well to do a Retrospektive lookback at Aidan’s time with Thee Temple of Psychic Youth.  Luxa also shares historical context about gamergate, a track from Music for Good: A Mixtape for MN Mutual Aid by Community Aid Network MN (CANMN) https://canmn.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-good-a-mixtape-for-mn-mutual-aid, and an update about The Green Mushroom Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/ and Void House- creating consent centered magical spaces for conducting group work both in person and online, investigating the magical and alchemical properties of consent, and providing consent education to magically inclined people. 

Thanks for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! Support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break by giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult . Or, Buy Me a Coffee.com is an option for a one time donation: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod?new=1 

We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ and on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/luxastrata919.bsky.social

Check out the Lux Occult YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB

Merch! https://www.etsy.com/shop/IlluminIndustries

Aidan Wachter on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/aidanwachter.bsky.social

Books by Aidan Wachter https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/aidan-wachter/3469303/

Aidan Wachter.com https://www.aidanwachter.com/about

After the Fall by Aidan Wachter https://www.patreon.com/posts/after-fall-black-149530791

Music for Good: A Mixtape for MN Mutual Aid by Community Aid Network MN (CANMN) https://canmn.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-good-a-mixtape-for-mn-mutual-aid

Poetry by XYZ Arts https://www.xyzartsllc.com/

The Consent Academy https://www.consent.academy/

Find Luxa’s work published in Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience edited by Laura Tempest Zakroff and Ron Padrón https://revelore.press/product/serpents-of-circe-a-manual-to-magical-resilience/

TOPY Grey Book https://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/topy/topybook.txt

A Very Brief History of Gamergate, 2012-2016 by Caren Pagel Media Commons.org https://mediacommons.org/imr/content/very-brief-history-gamergate-2012-2016

Sounds Like a Cult Podcast: The Cult of Incels (feat. Last Podcast on the Left) https://youtu.be/ZuxTbzZ-D84?si=TbXenjN9vkyPM8Yy

American Hysteria Podcast: The Art of (Psychological) War with Annalee Newitz 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-of-psychological-war-with-annalee-newitz/id1441348407?i=1000746664238

A Bit Fruity w/ Matt Bernstein Podcast: The Incel to ICE Pipeline (with F.D Signifier and Caroline Kwan) https://youtu.be/p8Vf0wcYwOE?si=rsaKDpW-TKAqSQ4b

The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control by Steven Hassan https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Cult-of-Trump/Steven-Hassan/9781982127343

Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/289845/why-does-he-do-that-by-lundy-bancroft
PDF:  https://archive.org/download/LundyWhyDoesHeDoThat/Lundy_Why-does-he-do-that.pdf

Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich https://www.lalichcenter.org/take-back-your-life/

EYES OF YOUR EYES- Luxa Strata ft. Folds & Floods https://youtu.be/EfdQ-pJEBsg

MACHINA ABSTRACTA- Luxa Strata https://luxastrata.bandcamp.com/track/machina-abstracta

Lux Occult is produced by Luxa Strata. All Rights Reserved. 2026.