Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html
How to Enchant Your Audience & Put Them Under Your Spell: https://thedirtyalchemy.simplecast.com/episodes/006-enchantment
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Sun:
The sun aligns with the energy of consciousness, well-being, confidence. This is the planet that can help you with strengthening a positive sense of self and purpose in life. It’s also the ruler of vitality and health.
Colors: gold & yellow
Day: Sunday
Symbols and offerings: incense or essential oils like amber, cinnamon, and citrus fruits. Tiger’s eye, citrine, and gold. If you want to offer food or drink, start with sun tea (that’s tea that’s been steeped in the sun’s heat), cider, orange juice, and sunflower seeds.
Moon:
The moon holds the energy of the unconscious, emotions, and the soul. It’s perfect for magic that increases psychic intuition, feminine energy, and happy home life.
Color: white
Day: Monday
Symbols and offerings: eucalyptus, amethyst, quartz, salt water, any kind of milk, edible flowers, and seafood. Because the moon controls the tides, she is very connected with all things from the sea.
Mercury:
Mercury rules communication (including writing and speaking skills, and branding), technology, and travel. Mercury is also associated with fast cash & marketing, so that’s fun ;)
Color: orange
Day: Wednesday
Symbols and offerings: lavender, carnelian, jasper, honeysuckle, and any adaptogen. If offering food, offer coffee, tea, wine, bread, and olives
Mars:
Mars is the planet for motivation, beating the competition, and sex. For lighting a fire under your ass and going after what you want.
Color: red
Day: Tuesday
Symbols and offerings: garnet, red aventurine, and ruby. And any spicy food, like cayenne, chili powder, and ginger.
Venus:
Venus rules love, enchanting your attractiveness/desirability, and being charming and irresistible. She also rules artistry and success in creative endeavors. She’s the planet most associated with luxury, so if you’re interested in high ticket sales, she can help you with that.
Color: pink
Day: Friday
Symbols and offerings: roses and rose quartz, fancy perfumes, red wine, chocolate, and all foods lush and fancy
Jupiter:
Jupiter loves laughter, fun, and community.
Color: blue
Day: Thursday
Symbols and offerings: sapphire, turquoise, blue agate... plus plants like oak, chestnut, nutmeg. And expensive food and drink like fine whiskey and roasted meats.
Saturn:
Saturn rules the energy of law, reality, karma, fear, and mastery.
Color: black
Day: Saturn
Symbols and offerings: vetiver, lead, obsidian, and poisonous plants like belladonna and nightshade
Planetary Magic.
If you don’t know what that is, planetary magic is working with the planets to assist in our desired outcomes & desired realities here on earth.
Since ancient times, humans have worshiped the visible planets as deities, as gods and goddesses. You can imagine a time where there was no artificial lighting and the night sky was full of stars. Us as humans had a very real, and very meaningful relationship with the sky.
The stars move for the most part, together as one. But the planets, as you look in the sky, moved seemingly on their own volition. They had a mind of their own, a spirit of their own.
Shamanic practices would allow these ancient societies to commune with the energies of the planet. To know their essence. Their nature. Their desires.
And they would use these very large energies to empower what they wanted in their lives. To find more love, to build wealth, to expand psychic abilities, to protect their family.
This is very much a part of our human ancestry. Our evolution. We may have lost touch with our disconnection with the natural world & our disconnect from the night sky. But it is something immediately accessible (and something I’ve loved using myself). SO I’m so happy to be talking about this with you today.
In Planetary magic, each planet has its own unique energy. It’s based off of the idea that each planet rules over certain areas of our lives. Even if you’ve never heard of planetary magic before, you’re probably familiar with the idea that Venus symbolizes love & sex & often the feminine.
You can work with any of the nine planets (and yes, we’re including Pluto as a planet, because it’s part of our solar system). But the inner 7 planets are in general the most applicable to work with in our business because they govern our physical reality.
Plus they are what we can see with our naked eye in the night sky so we as humans have a longer tradition with working with them.
The first seven planets used in planetary magic are the Sun, moon (yes, the moon), mercury, mars, venus, jupiter, and saturn.
Any of the planets past Saturn are not visible to the human eye, so humans didn’t know about the other planets until after the invention of the telescope.
We recognize Magic through synchronicities. So when you’re invoking a planetary deity, you’re inviting those synchronicities into your life. You’re manipulating your vibration to reflect the energy of the planet you want to emulate. So you’re moving into that planet’s sphere of influence.
Maybe You’re thinking, “I want to improve my financial situation. Jupiter is the planetary deity most associated with money and expansion. So I’m going to talk to Jupiter and give him offerings and gratitude, I’m basically going to wave a big flag in his direction and get him to notice me. And when he does start to notice me, energetically, I’m going to make a lot more money.”
This is a little cheekier than what you’re actually practicing. You’re actually starting a RELATIONSHIP with Jupiter. Inviting his favor. As we talked about in episode 8, you’re a lot more likely to get $20 from your best friend when you ask them versus randomly asking a stranger on the street...
Maybe it sounds simple broken down like that… but that’s actually how it works. As long as you have the habits in place, working with the planetary deities can help you expand different parts of your life in whatever ways you can dream of. It’s something I’ve seen work for myself, but I’ve also seen lots of other people improve their lives in this way.
That’s why I suggest it to business owners looking for magical practices to grow their business. Because when you feel like you’re treading water (and I’m sure we’ve all felt this way)... it’s often because you need a bit of an energetic push in the direction you want to go in. The planets can give you that energetic push.
As I mentioned - Each planet rules something different, and we’re going to get into which planet rules what soon. But right now, I want to make the point that it’s easy to want to work with allllll of them at once. When you first discover planetary magic you might feel like you have so many different areas of your life or your business that need help (money, confidence, writing, business savvy) that you want to just go ahead and work with all the planets.
But that actually isn’t the most effective way to get started with this. Because you don’t want 7 half-hearted relationships that aren’t really going to make a notable impact in your life. You want to start with making one really strong relationship that can completely transform you. If you focus on multiple planets, you’ll just end up spreading your energy too thin and not making much headway with any of them.
It’s like having one best friend you tell everything to, someone you would trust with the world, versus having 7 friends you kind of know but don’t really spend much time with. That one relationship is going to fulfill you so much more.
Plus, let’s be real. Doing legit weekly rituals with 7 different planets is a lot less likely to happen than starting with one, proving to yourself that it makes a difference. You’re likely to continue that relationship in the long term instead of getting overwhelmed and dropping off after a few weeks.
So start with one planet and build a working relationship. Start with whichever can help you with your most pressing need (we’ll discuss in a few minutes how you can determine that). And build a really energetically powerful relationship with that planet.
The more energy you channel into the planet of your choice, the more it will return the favor and help you, even in areas that aren’t technically its area of expertise. So even if writing and communication belongs to the realm of Mercury, if you have a close relationship with the moon, you’ll discover that the moon can help you with that too.
I’ve found that this is a really incredible lesson in focus. In prioritizing. To look at your life or our business and say, these 12 things need to change, but which is the most important right now?
So let’s talk about deciding which planet you want to work with.
I recommend using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Ne
