104. Recovering from Burnout & Ritual Play w/ J.S. Groves

About this episode

J.S. Groves returns to discuss recovering from burnout and the concept of ritual play with Luxa Strata.

J.S. aka Jeffrey Groves https://www.patreon.com/cw/jsgroves returns to speak with Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata about how to recover from creative or magical burnout, and what to do when you’re starting to realize you're experiencing it. Jeffrey also shares about writing the series, The Prince’s Fighter’s, “ritual play” and xier photography work, including capturing magical operations like invocation, experimenting with spirit photography and more. Luxa shares about the experience of modeling for such shoots, communion with Austin Osman Spare and invoking Venus Victrix. Diversions include paranormal investigation photography, talismanic jewelry, botthole haikus and more! 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…

People in this episode

Host: Luxa Strata

Guest: J.S. Groves

Topics covered

• burnout recovery
• ritual play
• creative processes
• spirit photography
• paranormal investigation
• talismanic jewelry

Keywords

• burnout
• ritual play
• spirit photography
• creative recovery
• paranormal investigation
• talismanic jewelry

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Patreon, Green Mushroom Project

Books & works: The Prince’s Fighter’s

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