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Big Crystal Energy Podcast - Crystals, Glamour, and Magic for Liminal Spaces
Big Crystal Energy Podcast 🎙️✨
Welcome to Big Crystal Energy—the witchcraft and crystals podcast for people living between worlds. Hosted by Ashleigh Bodell, an Orthopedic Physician Assistant and practicing witch, this show teaches you how to integrate magic, tarot, astrology, and energy work into your everyday life.
Season 3: Season of the Veil explores liminal space, transformation, and the power of the in-between. Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or crystal-curious, you'll find deep dives into: ✨ Crystal healing & metaphysical properties ✨ Tarot & oracle card readings ✨ Witchcraft practices & pagan traditions ✨ Manifestation & energy work ✨ Astrology & the Wheel of the Year ✨ Occult wisdom & mystical living
Through conversations with healers, spiritual guides, and magic-makers—plus solo episodes on everything from glamour magic to seasonal rituals—Ashleigh shows you how to be fully magical AND fully professional.
Perfect for witches, spiritual seekers, crystal lovers, and anyone ready to embrace their power in the liminal.
đź”® Tune in, trust your intuition, and step through the veil.
Episodes
141 episodes
Carried Through the Dark: Smoky Quartz and the Liminal Journey
In this Crystal Library episode, Ashleigh explores Smoky Quartz, a grounding stone of protection, transmutation, and sacred threshold work.The episode opens with a milestone celebration: Big Crystal Energy has now been heard in...
Filipino Folklore: Manananggal, Aswangs, Diwata & Ancestral Magic with Anama O’Reilly
In this episode of Big Crystal Energy, Ashleigh sits down with Anama O’Reilly, co-host of The Gods Must Be Crazy podcast, for a wildly fascinating conversation about Filipino folklore, mythology, monsters, ancestral beli...
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What Tiger’s Eye Really Does (It’s Not Just Confidence)
Tiger’s Eye is often labeled as a “confidence stone”… but what if that’s only scratching the surface?In this episode of The Crystal Library, we’re reframing Tiger’s Eye as something far more ancient and powerful: a guide through liminal ...
The Magic of Travel: What the Philippines and Japan Taught Me
In this episode of Big Crystal Energy, Ashleigh opens the month of May with a deeply personal reflection on travel as a liminal space — those in-between places where we are away from home, outside of routine, and often more open t...
Chrysocolla: The Communication Stone That Teaches You When to Stay Silent
Welcome back to the Crystal Library 💙This week, we’re diving into chrysocolla—a crystal often labeled as a “communication stone”… but that description barely scratches the surface.This is not just about speaking your...
Beltane: Fire Festivals, Fairy Lore & How to Celebrate the May Day Sabbat
The Wheel of the Year keeps turning, and in this episode of Big Crystal Energy, we step into the bright, fiery threshold of Beltane.Ashleigh shares the history and modern meaning of this sacred spring festival, from the anc...
Side Quests, Storytelling & Living a Whimsical Life with Aryn the Alchemist
In this episode of Big Crystal Energy, Ashleigh sits down with Aryn Scanlon—also known as Aryn the Alchemist—for a deeply inspiring and expansive conversation on creativity, whimsy, and the magic of following your “side quests.”...
Staurolite: The Faery Cross That Predates Christianity
In this Crystal Library episode, Ashleigh explores Staurolite, also known as the Faery Cross—a rare stone that naturally forms into cross shapes deep within the Earth under intense pressure.But this isn’t just geology—it’...
Between Worlds: The Reality of the Fairy Realm with Morgan Daimler
In this episode of Big Crystal Energy, I’m joined by the incredible Morgan Daimler—author, folklorist, and one of the most fascinating modern voices in the world of fairy lore— magical conversation about the fae, the Otherworld, a...
Spirit Quartz: What the Faery Realm Actually Teaches About Ascension
This week in The Crystal Library, we’re stepping deeper into the fairy realm with Spirit Quartz—a crystal so sparkly, strange, and symbolically rich that it completely transformed the way Ashleigh thinks about spiritual practice.<...
How the Faeries Led Me Back to Myself
In this deeply personal solo episode, I’m sharing the story of my lifelong connection to faeries and how that connection shaped my inner world, my spirituality, and ultimately the path that led to Big Crystal Energy.From childhood summer...
Prehnite: A Dream Stone for the Faery Threshold
Welcome back to The Crystal Library. In this episode, Ashleigh kicks off a month-long series on the faery realm with Prehnite: A Dream Stone for the Faery Threshold.Fresh home from a transformative family trip to the...
Veiled Power: Five Women Who Shaped Victorian Spiritualism
In this final deep dive of the Victorian Spiritualism series, Ashleigh closes the séance room door—then opens something much bigger: power. Victorian Spiritualism wasn’t only about ghosts, raps, and ectoplasm. It was also a rare cultural...
The Ghost Within: Phantom Quartz & Remembering Yourself
We are closing out the crystal portion of our Victorian Spiritualism series with a stone that quite literally contains a ghost.Phantom Quartz is a crystal that remembers who it used to be. Formed when growth pauses for thousands of years...
Spirits, SĂ©ances & the Victorian Imagination (with Steele Alexandra Douris)
We think we know what Victorian mysticism looked like.A crystal ball glowing in candlelight. A veiled medium seated at a round table. Ectoplasm drifting through a darkened parlor.But what was Victorian Spirituali...
Selenite: Moonlight, the Light Body, and the Victorian Art of Spirit Refinement
In this first deep dive of March, we explore selenite through the lens of Victorian Spiritualism — a 19th-century movement rooted in spirit communication, subtle bodies, and the belief that the soul could be refined through light and int...
Ostara: Spring Equinox Magic, Altars, Offerings + Crystal Allies (Wheel of the Year)
Spring is springing — and in this Wheel of the Year episode, Ashleigh turns the wheel toward Ostara, the Spring Equinox (March 20)—releasing this episode a week early so you have time to gather herbs, choose crystals, build an alt...
Moonstone: Peeking Beyond the Veil
This week we’re diving into a deeply personal stone for me: classic white moonstone.As we continue exploring March’s theme of the Veil Between Worlds — alongside Victorian Spiritualism, liminal spaces, and upcoming Ostara...
BCE Book Club: The Year of Sin and Smoke (with Stephanie Kemler)
Big Crystal Energy Book Club is in session 🕯️📚 In this episode, Ashleigh sits down with dark obsessive romance author Stephanie Kemler to talk about The Year of Sin and Smoke — a lush, unsettling dark academia story r...
Black Kyanite & the Lunar Eclipse: Sweeping the Veil Clean
This episode drops on March 3, the day of a total lunar eclipse, often called a Blood Moon. During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon passes fully into Earth’s shadow, sometimes appearing deep red. These eclipses are powerful ...
Crystals & Ghosts: Protection, Intuition, and the Woo-Woo Overlap (Ghost Gossip Crossover)
This episode originally aired on the podcast Ghost Gossip and is shared here with permission. Be sure to follow Ghost Gossip and leave Ashley a review to support this amazing paranormal show. I’m sharing a special cros...
Amber: Ancient Resin, Living Memory
Amber isn’t technically a stone — it’s fossilized tree resin, hardened sunlight, and ancient memory preserved in gold.In this episode of The Crystal Library, Ashleigh explores the science, mythology, and energetic properties of amber — f...
Mundane Magic with Molly Donlan: Everyday Rituals That Actually Work
In today’s episode of Big Crystal Energy, Ashleigh sits down with Molly Donlan — cohost of Demystify Magic and author of Mundane Magic: A Lazy Witch’s Guide to Hacking Your Brain, Building a Daily Practice, and...
Rutilated Quartz Explained: Healing, Magnetism & Lunar New Year Energy
The Crystal Library: Rutilated Quartz | Lunar New Year & the Year of the Fire HorseHappy Lunar New Year and welcome back to The Crystal Library. This episode airs on February 17, the first day of the Lunar Ne...
The Oracular Life: Channeling as a Practice (with Kim Charlson of Vessel & Voice Podcast)
In this special episode of Big Crystal Energy, Ashleigh sits down with Kim Charlson, the voice channel behind **Vessel & Voice—and a trans-channel who works closely with her guide, Monty.This conversation is inte...