MONEY with Lucy Baldwin and Laila Bernhardt

The Story Behind MONEY

Through a series of bizarre events – our entrepreneurial network of witches discovered a small number of counter-intuitive approaches to Money Magic that do actually work.

This is what the course teaches: what works.

That’s why it’s called “the life-changing course on money magic,” and not the “kind of okay course on quasi-effective money clichés.”

The Root Of All Evil

Money for us always represented everything wrong with the world.

I don’t mean the many layers of stress, anxiety, and annoyance that it seemed to cause…

I mean the imperialism,

The planet-destroying greed,

And the sociopathic hoarding that it seemed to inevitably produce.

If I hadn’t been terrible with money on a personal level, I never would have explored it at all. I would have dealt with it simply as a necessary evil, thinking about it as little as possible, and feeling suspicion and disgust any time I did.

But we were terrible with money, so we got forced to go a little deeper.

A Big Ol’ Effin’ Mess

Our own challenges with money included (but were in no way limited to):

• immediately spending any money we made
• having our cards regularly declined at coffee shops
• routinely tasting the very specific flavor of humiliating anxiety that comes from always paying friends back late for personal loans

These experiences eventually brought us to a point where we had no choice but to immerse ourselves in the study of money…

And what we learned from doing so came as one of our greatest ideological shocks, though not at all in the way we expected.

The New Age Prosperity Gospel Con

Naturally, as we began to study money, we encountered various versions of quasi-spiritual spins on the subject.

The most pervasive was a cluster of certain new-age idioms that sounded something like this:

• “money is just energy”
• “cash is material freedom”
• “the universe wants us to be wealthy”

And while some of these ideas half-resonated with various ideas we already had, they all carried the subtle scent of spoiled eggs and self-deception.

We did our best to practice some of these principles, and learned a few things in the process.

But by far our greatest learning was that they are all incomplete truths.

Money is “just energy” in the way that literally everything is “just energy.” You could just as accurately say that anxiety, murder, and Justin Bieber are “just energy.” That doesn’t change the horrible experiential nature of these things. (Just kidding Biebs, some of us love you ;)

As for cash being “material freedom”—plenty of people we knew with loads of cash felt more trapped and desperate for freedom than just about all of our ‘broke’ artist friends.

And if “the universe wants us to be wealthy,” then why in the fuck are so many people not?! The universe makes black holes and massive microbial ecosystems. If it wanted universal prosperity, why wouldn’t it make that happen too?

So if all these tropes were half-truths… what was the other half?

The Unfathomable Power of The Shadow

Thankfully, during our explorations, we had the incredible luck of being friends and students of Carolyn Elliott.

Her take on the inherent darkness of money was something we had heard no one else talking about.

We were hooked. Her explanation of money being “calcified resentment” made perfect sense to us. And her example—as a joyfully wicked and wildly successful witch—was a profound inspiration.

We began to use the tools she shared about—most notably the life-changing practice of Existential Kink—and began to actively explore the real history of financial currency.

Multiple years and a whooooole lot of magical experimentation later, we had come to three important conclusions (and built thriving businesses along the way):

• Money is not an object. It’s a living spirit, born out of interactions between Mercury and Skuld (Norn of the Future; origin of the word ‘Should). 
• The spirit carries some of the darkest shadows of anything in our culture—and these shadows of greed, shame, vengeance, dominion, resentment, and envy are inherent to its very nature
• Working consciously with these shadows—and relating intimately to the nature of Money as the powerful trickster that it is—not only transforms one’s capacity to manifest large amounts of cash, it also transforms one’s experience of daily life in astonishing ways.

In short: everything we hated about money was true… so was it’s opposite. And… that made it one of the most powerful magical substances to work with in existence.

MONEY

Having transformed our own relationship with money from one ideological hatred and near-constant frustration to one of reverent, intimate, hyper-magical partnership and joyfully synchronistic manifestation…

We are committed to sharing that transformation with the witches who know, deep-down, that the shadows that surround money…

Just like the shadows that surround sex, medicinal plants, and witchcraft itself…

Are the key to true freedom and magical power.

So we want to invite you to face these shadows head-on, sign up for the course, and save your spot.

Registration is open only this weekend, and space is limited.