Magick Hour Studios
Hello!
I hope this post finds you all happy and well! Life has been a roller coaster the last couple years FOR SURE! This post might be a bit long. I’ll try to convey my message as concisely as I can, but please finish the whole thing, if at all possible. (It’s also after midnight, so I may come back and revise errors over the next few days… haha)
What is Magick Hour Studios? Well, right now it’s still forming. When fully complete, it will be an empowerment center.
What’s that? A place where people can come for portrait photography, energy work like: aura and crystal healings, Life Activation, meditation, etc., by me. Plus a variety of other services from other providers like massage, aesthetician, intentional movement, holistic approach healing modalities of many kinds, and more. I’m still looking for other service providers. If you’re interested in sharing a space to provide these healings under the umbrella of Magick Hour Studios please contact me! Meaning, we’ll share the space, and work closely together, but your business is your own and mine is my own. We file our own taxes, etc. People just know that this space has many options with similar missions: helping people uncover and ignite their self-worth and empowerment to experience more joy and Light in their lives.
For the services I will be providing now.
Photography: My favorite sessions are the ones where people saw their images and said things like, “I didn’t know I was beautiful before.” or “I’ve never felt more empowered in my life.” The sessions where people have started out nervous, unsure, self conscious, awkward but then somewhere during the session there’s this switch where they become the queen or king of the room. Nothing stops these people, they are throwing out ideas and we go over time because they are just in joy and the energy is too wonderful to end the session. Whether that’s via boudoir, it’s usually boudoir, or in a branding session or a family session, these moments are why I keep trying so hard to stay in this insanely oversaturated business. Sometimes the switch happens later, when they see their images. That’s ok too. I’ve watched people turn into forces of nature after their session, they applied for the job finally, they joined the group, they started the thing. I live for those moments where I see someone uncover and ignite their self-love and stand more fully in their power! I live for it!
Life Activation & Energy Healing: For the past 2 years I’ve been receiving these energy healings, slowly and reluctantly at first, and then after about the first year or so I really began digging into and unpacking it all and using all of the tools I had learned. For the last 8 months I put that into hyper drive and today I’m fully certified to do and lead some of them myself. All of these healings and classes are through The Modern Mystery School based out of Toronto, Canada.
At first, I was highly skeptical and reluctant. It’s so off from what I had believed in for so long. I was agnostic with a bit of a spiritual leaning, but not much of one. I did Seeds of Intention every Spring Equinox because I thought it was cool. I collected crystals because they made me feel good and they were pretty, and I used to be a geology major, but I wasn’t really too convinced that amethyst would promote healing. It was more likely that they were just be pretty. I still bought them. I still wore them on me sometimes, but that’s about it. My friend, Kelly Aho, however, was such a joy to be around, even if she was quiet and still, she was addicting to be around. There was just something about her energy that I wanted for me. So, I kept saying yes to coffee dates and conversation, and eventually, in April of 2019, I said yes to her weird Life Activation thing. I showed up with a permanent side-eye, arms crossed, but I showed up. I said yes. When I left her house I remember feeling calm, content, and lighter but somehow grounded too. I also thought she was totally crazy, but I liked it, and it was weird, but I liked it, but it was probably nonsense, but I liked it. haha. So silly, but valid emotions, too.
Over the next couple months some stuff started shifting. I started closing doors and turning away ideas and people and experiences that no longer served me positively. Some of which I was enjoying and grateful for, but knew they weren’t what I needed anymore. I needed to shift my focus inward. Those endings were hard to do, but I had the power to do them now. Depression was getting a bit better but that wasn’t an overnight fix. The Life Activation allowed me to feel more joy, and opened up channels in my mind and spirit to finally do the work, but the profound healing still took time and a lot more tools. More on that later.
In July of 2019, I finally said yes to Empower Thyself. It’s a 2-day class where at the end you get initiated (relax, it just means you are beginning a path, one you can quit anytime you want and go about your merry way for the rest of your long and healthy life) into an ancient lineage. All that sounded weird to me too, but I closely watched Kelly and those around her and I enjoyed their company. I enjoyed their energy. So I said yes. What an intense 2 days! Holy smoke, y’all! The amount of info and tools and energy you get during those two days are overwhelming and amazing and crazy and amazing hahaha. See a trend? haha!
Empower Thyself is to know thyself. You get tools to protect your energy and to dig into your shadows and clean out your traumas and bad programming so that you can become the highest version of yourself. There’s a lot more to it, a lot more, but it will be the best money and time you ever spend on yourself. If you want more info contact Kelly. She’s a guide, which means she teaches that class and many others. When you do Empower Thyself, the person who teaches the class and initiates you becomes your guide. For life. Or until you become a guide yourself. It’s basically a having a life coach who will help you through life. If they ever leave the school, you get a new one at no additional cost. Kelly has been my guide for almost 2 years now and she’s mentored me for countlesssss hours. Just ask her haha. I’m telling you, it’s the best money I ever spent in my world. Don’t get me wrong, I try to be mindful and respectful of her time and energy, but she’s there to help guide and she’s amazing at it.
That 2-day class overwhelmed me a lot, but it taught me a lot about the traumas I had to uncover, process, and heal. I spent the next several months unpacking everything, processing it, and figuring out what I felt about it all. This is why this is the first most of you will have heard anything about this from me. Normally, when I love something this much, I shout it from the rooftops all the time, but I really needed to vet this out, figure out how I felt about it. I needed to use all the tools, see if they worked, and if they did, what was the outcome before I said a word. I needed to see what fruit it yielded before I recommended it to anyone.
One of my traumas and stumbling blocks is that I fear people thinking I’m stupid. As an ADHD kid then adult, I got that a lot. “She’s just not that bright, that one. Always with her head in the clouds.” Stuff like that. Considering how agnostic I was telling the world I was, to suddenly say I believe in aura healings, life activations and all the other crazy things the Mystery School talks about, I was really scared of being judged, so I kept this all to myself. I only talked about it to a few people. Well, with these tools, I’ve healed a lot of that. Still some work to do, but I’m standing in my power and using my voice.
In December, I used a lot of the tools, with every fiber of my being, along with the tools in a book called, “Get Rich, Lucky Bitch,” and had the best month for my business in my whole life. I unpacked and healed so many layers of several traumas that I got addicted to HEALING! That’s when I decided to take a giant leap and do the 10-month Universal Hermetic Ray Kabbalah. I had NO idea how I was going to pay for it, which for me, included a flight and hotel stay 4 times throughout the 10 months because this tree was out of Sacramento, on top of each of those in-person classes. However, I sent Erin Wallace, my Kabbalah teacher the deposit, did all my tools I learned through the mystery school that were reinforced in the book I mentioned, and I’ve never, so far, not had the money to go, and in plenty of time. I made the commitment and the universe has moved mountains every time.
Kabbalah. This program has been around for 5000+ years. There are a few different versions, but at their core they’re basically the same, as I understand it. If the Empower Thyself class was intense, I don’t even know a word for Kabbalah. It’s intense times 10,000 in a wonderful way that is also quite fucking hard at times. It’s not just the work you put in, the studying, the meditating, and all the other homework and study groups, it’s also working on an alchemical level too. You want to BLITZ through LAYERS UPON LAYERS of trauma and really H E A L heal? Sign up. It will rock your whole freaking world and sometimes it’s painful and messy and obliterates things you’re attached (unhealthily) to before you think you’re ready for it, but you heal on levels you never thought possible too. This isn’t hyperbole. We have a little over 3 months left out of 9 and I’m already changed in ways I never thought possible. I can’t wait to meet the me I’ll be in October when we’ve completed this tree. She’s going to be a force of nature! I’m already in awe.
One of the best things to come from ALL of these steps, so far, however, is all the inner wounded child work that we’ve done. Our 2nd in-person Kabbalah meeting ended with me having gathered all my inner wounded children from all ages under my wings and this amazing protector arose out of me. NO ONE is allowed to hurt me anymore, not even me. The moment those negative voices in my head start trash talking me, she comes out and says, NOPE! This is a safe space and not a being in existence gets to harm this woman, not even this woman. Those negative voices barely show up anymore. I haven’t healed them completely, but it takes very little effort to shut them down these days. I also don’t allow people to walk all over me, disrespect me, or belittle me. While remaining kind at the same time. Learning to enforce boundaries, gently, is a fun new skill. Using discernment over judgment is still a work in progress, but it’s going well. Lately that protectiveness has spread out to incorporate others. More about that in another blog, though.
In June of 2021 I went to Healer’s Academy and became a certified Life Activation Practitioner! The Life Activation is one of the most loving things we can ever do for another human. It opens the door to so much healing. It anchors so much light into people. I’ve watched it shift many people’s mindsets and lives into positive directions, that I just don’t have any doubt that it works. Learning how to do it and feeling the energy shift. I don’t doubt that it works. It works.
Energy exchange. A lot of people, myself included in the beginning, assumes that since we think this is such a wonderful thing that we should provide it for free. Sure, gifting these healings and activations is fine for people like your parents, grandparents, children, partners, sibling maybe even, but energy exchanges are very important. We need to empower people to prioritize their healing, to make those commitments to themselves, to say yes to possibility, while honoring the energy of the person providing the healing. We don’t ask massage therapists, reiki practitioners, acupuncturists, etc. to work for free. These healings are wonderful and we honor the provider’s energy by paying with money or via a trade of some sorts. While most of the time I need the energy exchange to be money, so that I can continue pay for all the things that allow me to provide the healings, just like my photography services, I am most willing to discuss trade options and payment plans. More info on the Energy Healings page or you can contact me directly.
Over the coming weeks I’ll be doing deep dives into individual points of this general post. If you have any questions please reach out to me or to Kelly, I’ve linked to her page a couple times above.
Magick Hour Studios is partially here and operating so be on the lookout for updates and news! I’m excited!
