Alexandra Hughes 0:12
Everyone and their cat is talking about witches. But what is a witch or medicine woman or priestess? How does one become one? And what is the common thread between women who identify as such magical creatures? Welcome to the witch hunt podcast, where we hold space for healing conversations that collectively explore these questions with the intention of celebrating of illuminating and elevating the rise of feminine energy magic and self sourced power. All in a world that's gone pretty much mental. Every new and full moon host is Aleksandra Beckel Hughes, who identifies as all three of these sacred tights, in her own weird way, invites you to brew some tea to light a candle, and to join her in her conversations with witches, medicine, women, priestesses, and other magical creatures from around the world. So come gather to share in the knowledge experience, magic and sacred stories of those women, who once hunted to be burned at the stake, are now hunted, to be held in the light so that they so that we can illuminate the way
Tara Magalski 1:30
the depth of your trauma is the space you will hold for others. So I guess I have just been somehow called to do this work. And I also like to say like when spirit has a copier life, and it's much bigger than you, no matter what you do in your life, when God is calling you right to do something, it doesn't matter. Like you can do all these other things, and you're going to still have that yearning. And it's like spirit won't let you stray.
Alexandra Hughes 2:04
Welcome to Episode 43 of the witch hunt podcast, the episode where Tara Magalski shares magical story after magical story most riveting is how this woman has learned from and transcended her traumas in a way that activates her capacity and wisdom to support the healing and transcendence of trauma in others. Get ready to hear about chilling stories of a child who speaks to the other side, a woman who forces illness and death in her Beloved's and wild plant medicine journeys. You're gonna love this episode. Enjoy.
Hey, Tara Magalski. I'm so excited to have you here. Welcome to the witch hunt podcast. Tara, could you give the listeners the privilege of your introduction? Please, can you introduce yourself for us?
Tara Magalski 3:03
Yes, my name is Tara Magalski. I live in lake Mahopac, New York, which is about one hour north of Manhattan. I am the founder of divine lifestyles, which is an amazing company that I've just really launched this year. It's really a soulful journey and a way of life. We host sacred gatherings and medicine circles, retreats locally and internationally. And we also provide amazing programming virtually for people to really ignite their spirit replenish their their mind and their body. So our mission, really with the collective that we're launching as well is to make holistic health and healing, accessible and attainable to everyone. And our ethos was divine lifestyles is remembering your true essence. It's a beautiful mission and gift that you're offering the world and I want to dive into your magic in a little bit. But first, I'd love to know and this is a question that I ask everyone who comes on the podcast what made you say yes to coming on to a podcast called Witch Hunt and what is your relationship with the words witch priestess, Medicine Woman sorceress? Let's get to know you a little bit. So interestingly enough, I haven't felt super comfortable with the word witch. And I have certainly not felt comfortable with the word priestess. Right? So one when you when we connected and you approached about the podcast, they said yeah, and I kept seeing things and reading things and understanding a little bit more about priestess and really the sacred beauty in it. But we're so I guess my Catholic
upbringing, right? Or my Christian upbringing was really had a lot to do with me kind of judging those words. But the more that I kind of really understand history, it's opened up my mind a bit more. So yeah, so Yeah, at first I was like, Oh, I don't consider myself that. And then I actually had some angel cards I was playing with the other day, and it was saying, like, you are a priestess, and I did an Akashic reading. And they were, you know, it was like, very much in my line. You know, my, my line of work in past lives was a prestigious.
Alexandra Hughes 5:38
Well, it's no surprise, given the work that you're, you know, attracted to doing and doing today is just, it seems to follow suit. So do you feel like in your earth walk now, today, when did you sort of become attracted to or see yourself as the sacred space holder, and healer and priestess that you are, and maybe it is that you first sort of identified as one and then as another and then as another, but I'm curious to know a little bit about how you knew what were the signs what happened.
Tara Magalski 6:14
So it's a longer story. But in 2008, when I lost my mother, I had a big spiritual awakening. And I really, that's when I was able to really be connected, have a direct connection with spirit. So that usually happens when people lose someone very close to them, right? It kind of opens you up. And, you know, you want to connect so much more with, you know, especially my mother, so I was just very open and I was having a lot of supernatural experiences. One being, you know, there was also a lot of like, not so great spiritual experiences. So I was like, trying to, like decide or, like, understand the spiritual realm and world and, and, like, you know, also be really cautious and just careful. It's very sacred. And I heard divine lifestyles in a very, very, very deep moment. When I was in my bedroom, I was 27 years old. And I was like, crying out to God, universe, whoever you are, like, I don't want to live my life anymore like this. I want to figure out what it is I'm here to do. And I heard divine lifestyles, it was clear as day and I felt like this amazing energy of love and in like encapsulating me and like almost like lifting me like angels. Heavenly, right. Like God was lifting me up off my feet. And that was my first like, whoa, right, and then just really trying to communicate, and really hear and feel my mother. So that was kind of how it unfolded. And then over the years, I've done my own healing, and, you know, diving deep into all of my staff. And I've, I've realized that I, because I've had trauma. And because I've been through a lot in my life, I believe that I'm able to hold space for others walking through that journey. So it's like, I think the experiences of my life have kind of shaped this, it wasn't something that maybe I was looking for. I just kind of was dabbling after my mother died and understanding like this intuition that I was on on unmasking and my father recently passed away. And I was very much felt like it was an initiation for me. I felt like I was the one to shepherd him to the other side, I had seen a vision. And the vision was me playing sound bowls and doing a sound healing for him in the hospital. I knew the time he would take his last breath. And I saw the number and I knew the day he would die. And I called my sister and I was like, you have to come we have to do all of this stuff. Like we're you know, we did last rites, you know, the whole thing I was like, well that we made it ceremonial it was before was like you have to come like I keep seeing this number and I've had a vision so I believe this to be so and sure enough. It was so just really being like in tune in like I don't know, I don't know how you just kind of like when you get a knowing. And another thing was I knew my father was sick before he was diagnosed. I had this aching in my solar plexus. I just said something's going on with dad. I need to find out what's going on what's going on what's going on. Sure enough. I was just coming out of doing IVF I wasn't getting very, very clear messages while doing IVF. And I had gone to a medium Jeffrey Juan's, and, you know, I was asking him kind of about the IVF stuff. And sure enough, he was saying, Listen, you, you know, your dad, like, you know, all those feelings I had been feeling he was like a friend, he was like you should, you should really go see your dad. If he continues on this path, he doesn't have a lot of time left. I literally that was on a Tuesday, on a Saturday, I was driving to see my niece, and I had about 45 minutes in between, and I heard in the spirit, go to your father's house now. So I just went, and sure enough, there he was, and he was sick. And I had to take him to the hospital. And like, the rest is history, he was diagnosed with cancer and moved in with us. You know, the whole thing, but it's kind of like, so I don't know, like, I just think that spiritual like Spirit also, and your angels and all these things, they come to you, and they'll give you what you need, when you're ready to receive it. Maybe I wasn't ready before. But the more that I just stay into into like, my true essence. And like, who I am, and I just stop the noise, the more that I can cultivate this beautiful intuition, which is kind of what's opened me up to the work that I do. I've always been into health healing, and, you know, helping people be the best version of themselves and raise their vibration. And you know, now I'm feeling like, I'm really called to help people based on my experience, like transcend their trauma, and really use that, you know, your traumas are our teachers and really taking, I love this quote, because it sums it up, it's like, the depth of your trauma is the space you will hold for others. So I guess I have just been somehow called to do this work. And I also like to say like when spirit has a coffee or life, and it's much bigger than you, no matter what you do in your life, and when God is calling you right to do something, it doesn't matter. Like you can do all these other things, and you're gonna still have that yearning. And it's like, spirit won't let us stray. You know, like, I had my company in 2008, I'm sorry, 2010. And then I stepped away from it for a little while. And while I was building some other things, and it was like, calling me and pulling me back, calling me back. So I guess that's, that's kind of in a nutshell, just experiences. Yeah.
Alexandra Hughes 12:53
I think it's incredible. It that those are really very powerful. I
Tara Magalski 12:58
mean, oh, yeah, I've had so many more. But like, those are very, like, very concrete, easy things for people to kind of like understand. And I think, I don't always have like these, this intuition, but I have it, I'm cultivating it more times than none. And it really is something that can be easily cultivated. If you are just kind of picking up what's going on in the field around you.
Alexandra Hughes 13:27
Yeah, I want to dive into how you stop the noise because that has also been that was also like my entry point, which was much later on in life. But you know, I wasn't able to hear or see the signs and the messages in the call, by intuition, my soul, right until I paused, I call it the sacred pause. And I'm working on Yeah, and I want to talk about like this piece around, transcending your trauma, but I want to ask you something first. And lately, I've been asking a lot of the women on the podcast this and it is, you know, can you tell me because what I'm witnessing and women that come on to onto witch hunt, is that as children, they are magical creatures. And then there's something and you mentioned Catholicism. I also had, like, spent some of my younger years in the Catholic Church, but I'm just wondering, you know, there are different things that have sort of shut down the magic, let's say and then one day, whatever happens and you wake up to it again, right? What were you like, as a little girl, like do you remember?
Tara Magalski 14:35
So I don't remember. Well, I remember two important things, but I think that I always had an intuitive gift as a child because my mother told me that I would be like, waving and like kind of talking to her mother, who was passed. So she had said as a child, she kind of was Oh his leg. What That's like, you know, I feel like Oh, grandma or something. So that was one thing that I remember her saying. And then another thing was, I remember, as a child, almost having like spiritual attacks, I would get so fearful. And I would be like, it's bad energy, like, you know what I mean? Like, I would feel like something. And I remember getting really terrified. So yeah, that was where like things. So I think I was just kind of a more open, especially as children were so open. I think I was like, really, really open. And not I wasn't, let's say remembering seeing things, but I am an empath. Like, I feel so for me, I feel everything. And if something's wrong, I'm like, that doesn't feel right. You know. So it's usually how I lately I've been getting like numbers. So a lot of numbers have been coming through. It's kind of fun to like, as you get older, you like find new gifts, and new ways of like, spiritual communication with other side and God and your angels and people who are like, guiding you through this life. It's really beautiful. So, uh, yeah, I think that I was kind of born like that. And, you know, the funniest part is, and I didn't know this until my father passed, which was just this January. So it's just a few months ago. My father, I think, had this gift. Because he would say things to me. And I would like drop, like, me, like, where did that come from? It was like coming from somewhere else. It was like, so rich in truth. And my father wasn't really known to be that type of person. My father also struggled with drug addiction, which I now realized was because he was trying to calm the chatter in his head. I really had no idea like it like, this has been like a big eye opener for me to like, his death, I had always thought like, oh, gosh, he's got this bad addiction is he couldn't handle what was going on. And he was numbing out. So that I realized, literally, like recently, and I would remember all the things that he would say that I'd be like, Wow, that was really powerful. All right, I'm gonna tell you one more crazy story. My father moves in with so Well, I'll tell you two stories. But it's, it's the same thing about my father, my father was sitting at my kitchen table. I think it was last summer, it was last June. And I was telling him that I was going to see this doctor who was going to do a surgery and exploratory surgery to see if I had endometriosis. So I was having some infertility problems with and doing egg retrieval that were unsuccessful. And I was like, oh, man, is this guy like a cutter? You know what I mean? Like, he was like, really, really excited to do this surgery. Like, it's exploratory, like, Let's slow your roll. You know, like, I was like, what, what's going on? And I was like, Okay, I don't know, guys, let me sleep on it. Let me see. So that like, an hour later, we're sitting in the living room, and he looks over at me and he's like, you have to do that surgery. And you have to do with that man. And I'm like, why? I'm like, I'm gonna cry. He's like, because when you were telling me before, something hit my heart. And I something hit my heart that this man was gonna get you pregnant. Okay, like crying just thinking about it. So I was like, okay, he goes, I know, you're scared. I know, you're really scared, but you have to do it. And I was like, Okay, Dad, like, was so beautiful. And I was like, okay, like, Thank you like, that was super wise. And like, yes. All right, thank you. I needed that. But the way he said it was like, was it just like a thing? It was like, very direct, and it kind of hit me really deep. So I ended up doing the surgery, and I ended up having a ton of endometriosis that they treated, right. So that was amazing. So fast forward. The following year, is that my house was just diagnosed with stage four cancer. And he is in my cottage. I'm literally looking at it right now. Which is like on my property, but not it's like next to the house. So we had his own privacy. And this was the very first week and we got home from the hospital. And he turns to me and he goes, go play with Michael in the sandbox. Like go have sex with your husband. So what they said was because he was basically saying, like, you've been giving all this attention to me and like, like, go play with your husband in the sandbox, but it was just so like, funny. Like, I get all that was like, oh, that's actually a really good idea. I think he'd appreciate that. Well, would you know, that was the day I got pregnant. I wasn't miscarrying at 10 weeks. But I ended up getting pregnant. I did not know I was pregnant. But when we went back, and I mean, I can tell you on my hands, how many times I had sex with my husband when my father was living with us. And he was going through stage four cancer treatment. And I can count because it was one month to the day right that he died. And with my ovulation, it was that week. And I really only have texted my husband though, that like I think that was like maybe twice. And the whole time my dad was there. Like that was what it was like, it was crazy. And so I found out that I was pregnant after his wake. It's crazy. Yeah, we haven't done the burial yet. We're doing that soon. So I'm just it's just crazy.
Alexandra Hughes 21:24
Yeah. Yeah. Think about your so we have similar stories with our fathers. My dad was an alcoholic. And the more I like, reflect on he died in 2005. So he died a long time ago. But the more I think about it, the more I realized he was such, he was an artist. He was a carpenter, he was a very sensitive person, he used to paint the Virgin Mary, but like, my mother being the Virgin Mary, so he so like very kind of interesting things. And I think that these men in this patriarchy with the super sensitive, and I remember when I took my husband now to meet him, he said to me, he was totally pissed, drunk. He looked at me in the eyes, and he said, He's the one. And like, so it's interesting, you know, the suffering these men, like there's the social context, right? That puts them into these boxes, but then like to have a spiritual gift or that kind of empathy and to receive those messages like no kidding that you become a drug addict or an alcoholic. Like it's just,
Tara Magalski 22:37
you don't know how to navigate
Alexandra Hughes 22:38
Yeah, what a gift to you. This is what thank you for sharing, saris. Beautiful witch hunt listeners, if you agree that it's time for women to stop living from a place of social conditioning, where we play small by over functioning and holding ourselves back. And you'd like to explore awakening your soul and rising into your calling as the version of yourself that's unstoppable. And full, then please check out my upcoming ceremonial workshop rise. We'll gather in sacred circle on Friday, September 29, at 10am. Eastern, you can learn more at Alexandra hughes.com/ries. Link is in the show notes. And I'd love to see you there. What do you think it was that I'm just curious to know, what do you think it was that like, turned off the magic in that little girl?
Tara Magalski 23:38
You know, I guess it was probably fear. Fear is like a major thing. Like, I don't want to know what's going on, right, like outside of this realm. So I think fear. I also think in society, you know, you're judged. And I think it's only now that people are kind of changing the way that they view like, there's a collective raising of like, the collective consciousness right now. So that is really amazing. And you see it, and there's shifts, and people are really starting to, like, see things for what they are, they're starting to see the older systems that no longer serve us and work. And so I say chains are being broken for those Christians that need to hear that, you know, mindsets are being shifted belief systems are being expanded. Yeah, it's an interesting time. So I think that I was shut down just by like growing up in an area in upstate New York where, you know, that's not acceptable. And you know, there's a lot of I also was raised very Catholic. And so I do want to talk about this because, you know, I have this struggle sometimes, you know, like, there's some people in my Christian in a Christian community and I've actually, I pray in tongues. I pray in the Spirit, I've laid hands I've seen miracles like, I've done that too. And that's amazing. And I think that that was a gift that I was given, like, just along this process of like learning how to heal myself and be a healer, or facilitate, right. I'm not the healer, God's spirits, the healer, we're only about the facilitators, right. But to be able to be a vessel to hold space for that. And so I'm having a difficult time right now as I step into my fullness into my gifts that are really authentically true to what feels right. In my soul's journey. I you know, of course, there's a lot of people who want to judge and say, like, you're doing things that are bad, and I'm like, you're not understanding there is no worshipping of idols, there is no things of that nature, this is a remembering, this is a remembering of who we truly are, to get rid of that judgment, and all of those things, so we can come back to our true essence, to where we are fully 100% aligned in ourselves where we're expansive beings, you know, and I think the church has like another way of looking at this, and it's just been challenging to navigate. So I think that that was also part of what like, shut me down and kept me from fully moving and like expressing myself fully. It really took until I was getting like, boom, boom, boom, boom, download was I like, okay, like, alright, you know, like, it took for me to get a lot of pushes, for me to kind of step out, I had a dream the other night, when you wake up to six to six to six to like, answered exactly what I needed. I was asking God and I, and then I went to Bible page 262 womb, like, you know, I was, it's just taken me some time to trust that, you know, so I think, in a nutshell, religion, organized religion. It's all playsare in it.
Alexandra Hughes 27:09
It does. And I want to and I have to share with you, as you were talking, I just felt called to share with you this book that I am totally obsessed with, and maybe you know it already. It's called Magdalene mysteries, the left hand path of the feminine Christ. For me it's serving to, I mean, I know that the Divine Feminine has been deleted from all like, the scriptures in the Bible and the teachings of institutionalized religion today. But it actually dives into the full body of knowledge that includes, you know, the divine feminine and her role in pre Christian society and Christian society, and how, you know, the Catholic Church, it was it served the Catholic Church to like, throw it out the window, basically throw it out. Yeah. And so it's a really beautiful, beautiful, and it refers to the teachings of Yeshua and Magdalene as the teaching that invites people to do exactly what you're doing, and what the women that come to talk to me do, which is to be the interlocutor to be the vessel, right? And not to have a hierarchy of men between us and a male god, but rather to be the vessel ourselves and to hear the downloads that you're talking about. And then to heal in the way we're here to heal. Right. So I just wanted to share that with you. I'm sure you'll totally gobble it up. If you haven't already.
Tara Magalski 28:41
Oh, my gosh, yes. You're sending me the name of that. So I didn't write it down. And I am definitely going to read it. Yeah, I always when I lost my mother and I got involved with this amazing healing ministry, your friend. He was teaching me like, Listen, you need to open up your eyes and ears to hear directly. And that's what really drew me to like a lot of the stuff that he was doing, because he wasn't like, I on a pulpit. And you listen to me. And it's like, because that's man's interpretation. And you gotta figure out what spirit they're under. What are they speaking, you know? So it's like, what, you know what I mean? It can get all convoluted, which I think that institutionalized religion does. I think that a lot of times, you have a person who was just standing there and it becomes very separate, like, you're very separate. It's like gods out there, you know, and it's like, it's strange to me, whereas what I was taught was that, get yourself very clear, get the Holy Spirit in you get yourself, get your stuff cleaned up. And you will be able to be the vessel that here's exactly what you need to hear. So like when you're reading the Bible, or you're reading a thing or when you're doing this or you're getting an angel number like You can discern where you're getting the messages from. Like, it's about discernment. And I do want to come back to this, I know you had mentioned something about quieting the noise, right? And, and the only way that I'm able to stop my noise and my Chatter is by coming back to my breath, coming back to my body. How I do that is I center myself, I create these beautiful ceremonial settings, I do have like a little palo santo or whatnot, even rubbing my hands together and just opening and asking God, you know, I do my little prayer. And then I breathe, I breathe, I actually do breath work. And I love guided meditation. Because it can help create space in between those thoughts. So you become that witness. So that's kind of how I've done it. And it's a daily practice. And I'll tell you, it's not always perfect. You know, I'm on hormones right now I'm on IVF like, things can get woowoo you know, things can get a little crazy. And I go right back to my practice. I go to a bath calm, like, I go back to my, my center, I find my breath. I I imagine I said this this morning on my podcast, I imagine this golden light right from heaven, coming into my head or my third eye like that's the I imagined the you know, the energetic bubble protection of gold light always around me in radiating, and I visualize it. And I visualize it bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. And that's how I keep the crazies. You know, by protecting your energy.
Alexandra Hughes 31:46
Yeah, yeah, that's, that is exactly what I was going to ask you. So thank you for answering before before I even ask, but yes, so in a world like ours, where there's so much stimulation, those kinds of practices are so important, so important. Let's talk about trauma, and how you help people to transcend their trauma, how you have transcended and navigated through your own trauma. I'm a firm believer that trauma is you know, the karmic journey that allows us to be the gift that we are which is exactly in line with your get around the depth of the trauma, right?
Tara Magalski 32:28
Yeah, that's not my quote. That is my friend Lindsey Simmons healing with Lulus quote, the depth of your trauma is the depth of the space that you will hold for others. She's an amazing healer that I speak is speaking, let me just sidebar for a minute I sat around in medicine Sarkar. Okay, this is amazing story. Let me go back. Okay, so I'm on a retreat, and then we're gonna get to that question, but like this ties it all together, how I met Lou, I was inbox alarm Mexico, about a month ago, I was at a retreat. I had, we were at a coffee at this amazing retreat, then I decided that we're gonna go over to hobby to stay there for a few days. And when I got the hobby task that looked at my husband, he wants to kill me because like, he knows that I'm right. He wants to kill me all the time. And, and I go, we have to go back. And he's like, we just got here and I spent all this money. And I go, I'm gonna get I'll get the money back. We're gonna stay one night. I'm gonna get them. I'm gonna figure this out. We're supposed to be at a coffee. He's like, I realized this. Like when I was there for like, three hours. I was like, something was telling me that I needed to go. So I figured it out. We got her. We stayed for whatever. We got our money back for like the other two nights and we went back to a coffee. Soon as I get back to a coffee. There's a medicine circle that I was invited into 10 minutes from arriving, Lulus there. And I'm there with a couple that I met some other people that I knew from the retreat that were also extending their trip. So we did this beautiful Medicine Circle, which was a healing circle and it was a Yoni, Yoni steaming around the fight. It was like this amazing, amazing thing that we did a Temazcal that we ended up naked in the lagoon. I mean, it was like, amazing. It was just like a full moon. And we're like, all of us naked, like howling at the moon just holding space for each other. It was amazing. Because I looked over at Lulu during this whole it was like five hours long and I was like, we're gonna work together. And like when I'm sure right after and I was like, Hi. Like, we connect. It turns out her and I are going to be doing a retreat together and fall like, it was just amazing. But like, I knew I had to go back I walked I stumbled upon in Medicine Circle. I stumble upon Lulu. I'm like, I feel like I'm supposed to work with her. Now. I'm co creating with her. She's going to be on my podcast. Like crazy. So Lulu He was the one who said the trauma thing. But like, that's just I'm just I say that example because that is just like being in the flow, right? Like, just like riding that wave of flow and allowing yourself to just be like, surrender and be guided and stop getting in your head. So what So what I do is with trauma is because I have had the gifts of transcending my own traumas, I've had many traumas, sexual traumas, as a child, mother's death, very young age, tragically, she passed from a lethal combination of pharmaceutical pills. And she died in her sleep. It was not it was accidental. But there was a lot of trauma there because I thought it was suicide at the beginning there was you know, there's layers to all that to my father using crack cocaine for you know, half of my life to You know, him actually coming home passing stage for cancer and then suffering and miscarriage so I just came out of a lot of trauma. That all happened within about six weeks. Diagnosis move in death, miscarriage. So really understanding like and connecting to, to that trauma, and like it's a work in progress, you know, we think that like we feel something and then something comes up and it gets retriggered again, and then really looking at that from a holistic lens. So I look at a lot of different things. I'm looking at trauma, you know, there's a lot of different therapies that you can or more doubt, modalities that you can try. But I think it's like whatever, like i That's why I feel like I'm here for my clients. It's like, Okay, now let's try this, like I, you know, Shadow Work, inner child work, Family Constellations, let's do breath work. I also work with plant medicines psilocybin. So what, like, let's allow your body knows that. I also think that like we have this amazing intelligence that we like, know what we need. And just by connecting to our breath, sounds and creating a space where someone is safe. I mean, you can release a lot of stuff. Also, through a lot of body work. I am a huge, huge lover of like, energy work, and bodywork and massage, and working with different healers in that space. So I think that it you know, trauma is such a crazy buzzword these days. And I think that it really just depends on where someone is on their journey. And what it is that they're open to receive. And then you kind of just go from there, and you just meet that person wherever they are. And I have done so many different things between past life regressions. I mean, I love all of this stuff. So I, I love to try it all like you know, from Akashic readings, I just didn't Akashic dowsing. I do human design, my friend goes really deep into human design, where he does sound and plant medicine. And I also am a big, big fan of psychedelics. I'm a huge fan of psychedelics for trauma. I have gotten a lot of my clarity and a lot of my answers through my own experiences with psilocybin and with Bufo. So boufal is an excretion of a frog that comes from like in northern Mexico. There's also in Peru, but this is Bufo Allah Varus. So there's different types. It's the excretion from the back of the frog, that then gets kind of like free like frozen, it gets hardened, and then you actually smoke it. And that was a really like life. I did it twice with a shaman. And it's not even like when I say shaman, he's just, he's a warrior of God. I mean, his family's name is Hey, Soos he was amazing. And I feel like the word shaman is kind of overused. So I don't want to use that word, but he is just an amazing guy who has been trained to under his father and it's been through passed down through his his father and through the Wello, which is his grandpa. And so he's younger, and he travels all over and does ceremonies. So that was really amazing. That opened up my eyes that showed me that was the first time they call it the death drug. Because it's where the ego dies. It's literally where you have to release is the ultimate surrender. And, for me, I was able to release and I'm a control freak. So I was kind of like scared to see what would happen, but I just felt safe. Like, I was like, I feel safe. Like, let's just fly, like, let my spirit fly. Like, let's just see what this is. And I view leave your body in a sense, and you just, you're in the one you're in an alternate consciousness universe, I had had the first time I did it. I had had a lot of elders, like kind of coming to me and surrounding me. And it was like, these women, these medicine women were like, coming, and they were like, it was beautiful. And they were supporting me and they were loving me and they were like, you like, you know, holding space for me. And it was like, it was like generations and generations and many generations of these medicine women. And when that was happening, I was feeling a lot of like energy moving through my body but it was so lovely and beautiful and song and it just show it was it was just a warming experience heartwarming, but I and I also was really activating my Reiki during that and and he Sue's kept bringing my hands over because we would do it in a small circle. So when my husband and we're both on it, you know, in the psychedelic only lasts about 20 minutes. He's bringing me over to do the Reiki like, call it Reiki call it like lifeforce like to feel you could feel in that state. I could feel the thickness. And it was like zoom, and it was actually pushing me backwards. It was so intense. He would keep pulling me back. You know, lay your
Alexandra Hughes 41:49
hand over your Husband
Tara Magalski 41:51
Husband.
Yeah. Oh, and the energy was pushing me
Alexandra Hughes 41:56
backwards.
Tara Magalski 41:58
Wow. And I was like, putting my hands back. And he kept pushing the shaman, he says, kept pushing me forward. Know, come back, come back, come back to it feel it feel like, you know, like, he could sense that there. He was like, come on, you know, feel like you have that gift, feel the gift, feel the gift? What is this gift, explore the gift, you know what I mean? So he was encouraging me. And that was amazing. And then I was getting senses over my husband's body of like, what was happening with our infertility journey and how we needed to be more connected, like the figure eight and our hearts weren't aligned. And like I was getting all these downloads from you know. So that was the first time and the second time which was in the same night, we did it again. I completely left my body this time. This time I was in the stratosphere. I was I was just one with all I was I guess when you die, that's what you feel. I think. I mean, it's the only thing my my best friend Catherine was there like kind of watching and she was like, when I came out of it. All I remember is I was just kind of like laughing and giggling. I was euphoric. And when I sat up, they both were like this with big grins just kind of watching me. And I was like, and they were like, where to go. And they were like, wow, that was beautiful. And like, they're like that was so powerful to witness. And I was like, what did it look like? They're like, you were just so free. And just completely opened. And there was like pure radiance and bliss. And I was like, I felt that. They were like, oh, yeah, we could feel it. I mean, it was insane. So yeah, so psychedelics,
Alexandra Hughes 43:52
there's great, great power in, in these journeys, you know, and great healing and thank you for sharing. And there's also stigma still, I think, maybe not amongst the people that are listening here. But or maybe, you know, we don't know. But yeah, yeah, thanks for sharing that I'm gonna close off because I know you have to go. But I think this is a beautiful question to ask at this point. How do you define magic and what is your unique magic? Mm hmm.
Tara Magalski 44:29
I think magic is being 100% in alignment with divinity like being aligned open clear, like vessel like, of highest frequency like that's where magic and miracles can come when we're like out of the brain and into like the fields of possibilities infinite possibility. He's. So I think that it's almost like a frequency of vibration. And I think that how I can, My gift is that as I'm having hard time expressing it is I really almost feel like because I have this emotional empathy part of me and I'm a human design, one, manifester generator, one, three, and I have an open Solar Plexus with an authority of emotion. So I think that my gifts are to be able to authentically express through my gifts. Okay, so that's my magic. So my gifts can be a retreat that I'm creating with my gifts of being, you know, an amazing producer. My gifts could be through breath work by holding this space for you in this moment, to being present. You know, the gifts show up differently. But it's, I think it's the expression, My gift is the expression of the gift. That makes sense.
Alexandra Hughes 46:17
Gift is the expression of the gift, which is you in the magic state.
Tara Magalski 46:22
Yeah, it's like, it's almost like, the gift is the expression, how the expression comes out, in whatever form, like I was drawn to acting, right. I was drawn to singing and dance, whatever form, it's a form of expression. So I think that's my gift expression. That's the gift. It's broad. And it can be expressed in different ways.
Alexandra Hughes 46:51
Okay, so now I'm gonna ask you Where can people find you your magic your gifts? Yes.
Tara Magalski 46:58
So online at divine lifestyles.com on Instagram at Terra, Miguel offski. At divine lifestyles. Yeah, podcast, Spotify, divine lifestyles podcast, I think we just put it on like Google. Now it's on. I think like SoundCloud all them, but I guess most people would listen through like iTunes or Spotify. But, again, go to my website, and you'll see everything there.
Alexandra Hughes 47:24
So we're gonna put all these links in the show notes so that people can find them there. So listeners you can find. You can find Tara through our show notes. And we'll put all the links in there, because there's a lot of magic to be offered here. Thank you so much.
Tara Magalski 47:42
Oh, thank you so much for having me. It was really wonderful. You kind of ignited something inside of me that needed to be expressed. Clearly, because I just was like, I got really excited just being in your presence today.
Alexandra Hughes 47:59
That's what it's all about. Well, wonderful to meet you like this while we've met before but wonderful to reconnect and to really dive deep. It's been really, really fun. Thanks again. Thank you
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