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Embracing the Mystical: A Journey into Witchcraft, Intuition, and the Akashic Records with Robin Doxey
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As the veil between worlds thins, I sit down with Robin Doxey, intuitive psychic and adept of the Akashic Records, for an intimate journey into the realms of spirituality and witchcraft. Our conversation is a tapestry of personal anecdotes and profound insights, where Robin unveils her path to freedom through the craft and the pivotal role of witchcraft in defying societal norms. We meander through her childhood dalliances with Catholic mysticism, her family's magical legacies, and the empowering art of ancestral healing, all while reflecting on how the verdant whispers of nature and plant magic have shaped our spiritual sojourns.
Venturing further into the heart of our spiritual practices, we contemplate the transformation that blooms from recognizing and nurturing the unique gifts that lie within each of us. Robin and I share stories of the exuberance found in guiding souls to their power and the enchanting encounters with animal guides that often accompany such awakenings. Yet, even within these realms of wonder, shadows lurk, and we address the specter of imposter syndrome that haunts many practitioners. By reframing this insidious doubt as a beacon guiding us to inner trust, we cast light on the path to true acceptance of our magical identities.
The alchemy of our discussion culminates in a contemplation of the sacred ethics that underpin our community. With Robin's wisdom and my own experiences as a backdrop, we navigate the nuances of consent, the necessity of energetic hygiene, and the journey of sensitive souls in a bustling world. Our exchange is a testament to the healing and unity achievable through mentorship while underscoring the importance of grounding in practices that maintain our spiritual sanctity. From the magnetic pull of ley lines to the tender stories of personal transformations, this week's episode is an invitation to embrace the mystical currents that course through our lives.
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Kim:In this week's episode, I'm talking with Robin Doxey, an intuitive psychic here in Tucson. We talked about Akashic Records, her relationship with crystals and the reality of imposter syndrome. Now let's get to the stories syndrome. Now let's get to the stories. Robin, hello, welcome to the show.
Robin:Hi Kim, Thanks for having me.
Kim:Thank you for being here.
Robin:Can you please introduce yourself and let everybody know who you are and what you do and where they can find you. Sure, I am Robin Doxey. I'm an intuitive psychic and I channel Akashic Records for people to help them see their life path, their life purpose, past lives, any information that would pretty much help them explore their highest expression. Help them explore their highest expression. You can find me on, well, my website is robindoxycom. I have a YouTube channel let's see Intuitive Awakenings, and on Instagram I'm robindoxycom.
Kim:I'm just robindoxy. Links will be in the show notes, so be sure you go down and click them. I'm ordering you. What does it mean when you call yourself a witch?
Robin:For me, being a witch, it means freedom. It means freedom to explore my world and the natural energy of it without the constraints of telling me who I can and can't be. You know how I need to dim my light or behave as a good girl. So being a witch means like I get to like, I get to be powerful, I get to consciously interact with the energy around me and the energy with other people. So, yeah, which means freedom.
Kim:I had a full body experience. When you said good girl, that was not a pleasant experience.
Robin:So, yes, oh my God, the bane of my existence was people telling me I was a good girl, or to be a good girl was yeah, that was just a recipe for me to be like. Yeah, I'll wear my mask, but as soon as you're not around, I'm going to do what I damn well please.
Kim:I remember being in the lunchroom when I was like I don't know eight or nine and I was sitting backwards in my chair with my knees up on the chair back and a lady, a teacher, came and she said ladies, don't sit in chairs like that. And I put my legs down, but in my head I said I'm not a lady, you psycho. I'm nine. And why? Who can? Does that mean boys can be? Is that what you're telling me?
Robin:yeah, the whole lady thing, um, was super confusing to me. Uh, so for me ladies meant like those witches or those fairies in the long gowns, you know, like that's when you're a regal witch, you know. So I don't know.
Kim:A grownup, Not me. Do you have any family history with witchcraft or any? What was your childhood spiritual experience like?
Robin:So my childhood was immersed in Catholic mysticism. Oh so the the women on my mother's side are very, very spiritually powerful, but the only vehicle for expression of that was through Catholicism. So I learned the mysticism of Catholicism, the meaning behind the meanings, behind the veil of these rituals that we were supposed to do. So on my grandmother's side there was a lot of plant magic where it was. We didn't do medicines, we did plant magic, we did folk medicine. We did plant magic. We did folk medicine mainly because we lived in very small towns and growing the majority of your own food. We were ranchers, we just lived in very isolated ways.
Robin:So while prayer was integral to daily life, so was nature. So I grew up knowing that as a person. Well, how my grandfather explained it is that the Bible told man that they have dominion over the earth. But what that meant is we were responsible for taking good care of it. We were responsible for considering the needs and the welfare of the land and all the animals on it, and in return the land would provide abundance for us. So that was a little against kind of what the patriarchal message was. And then on my other side we had a lot of gardeners and miners.
Robin:So crystal magic was like since birth you know, going out and prospecting for minerals and gems and then getting to hold them and surround ourselves by that energy was really powerful. But I do a lot of ancestral healing and I do a lot of ancestral lineage and past lives, especially with my access to the Akashic records. So I've done two pilgrimages, one to Tennessee and one to Scotland, where I could actually connect with my ancestors, do some epigenetic healing, do some epigenetic healing and I have so many ancestral guides and then their familiars have trickled down to be guides for me also. So I mean I live for, like my little forays into the other realms that my ancestors made deals with and opened portals to. So I don't. Even when I look at the uber religion of my family upbringing it's still very, very witchy. We're just not allowed to call it witchy.
Kim:Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, well, let's move back to the present. What is your practice like now? Can you share any consistent things that you do?
Robin:So I love a ritual. I am so chaotic and distracted by all the little spirit, orbs and sparkles that I see constantly around me. My rituals are my saving grace. So angels are a big part of my life. My grandmother is gifted with angels and one of the gifts she does is begin that relationship between babies and guardian angels. So the first thing I do in the morning is I greet my angels and I greet my guides and then I just lay in breath inviting that relationship with my guides. So then there are other things. Candles are a big deal in my life. Candles are kind of like a form of invocation for me, a form of greeting and invocation. I stir a spell into my morning beverage. I have like this little ritual blessing and gratitude.
Robin:My job is basically meditation, so I meditate in the morning. I have these one to three minute meditations interspersed throughout the day and those are basically where I am energetically connecting. So I do a lot of that. I have so many crystals Like you cannot find me without a crystal, a crystal for joy or abundance or grief, or a collection of crystals. I have three crystals around me. I have a bowl of crystals. I have a tree with about 30 pendulums on them, like right over there. Um, my life is crystals. It's one of the reasons that Persephone and I are besties is because of our shared love of crystals. Then I have altars, then I have travel altars, then I have travel crystals. I mean, this girl loves a ritual. I also am dedicated to moon and sun cycles, so my dreams revolve around them.
Kim:What do you mean by sun cycles?
Robin:So I am a sun worshiper, so light is super important. I'm a star worshiper, basically not just the sun stars, so I'm super sensitive to light and I have to be in the light. It's like I have to grow. I'm solar powered, so I'm very, very aware of kind of the activities, the flow of my year based around light and how that angles into my life. Then my moon cycles those, typically those are my dreams, those are the portals to downloads that I receive kind of follow a moon cycle. My productivity also follows a lunar month where my drive is in thirds within the lunar month. So I love the moon, I really love the moon, I love the moon.
Kim:I really love the moon. How would you say witchcraft has changed your life.
Robin:I don't know that it has changed my life. I think it is life. You know, I remember as a child playing with who I called the little people you know, creating houses, creating fanciful drinks and tea parties wearing literally wearing pine branches, because I believed I could fly. So I think magic is synonymous with life, is synonymous with life. How it's changed my life in this past decade is that it has given me the opportunity to move through my shadow work into my golden shadow, where my talents don't have to be cloaked or hidden, like I can just do it, like now I get to talk to people about it rather than, you know, just me and my sister, or just me and my imaginary friends, you know. So how it's changed lately is it's brought a community to me.
Kim:That's how we met it is right. What would you say is the biggest motivator in your practice, and has it changed since you first started?
Robin:Yes, it has definitely changed. My biggest motivator in the beginning was surrender. That I was going to surrender to my guides, I was going to surrender to universe. Instead of trying to manage how I moved through my life, I was like, okay, I surrender. I am tired of these headaches, I'm tired of these physical ailments. I just surrender. I am tired of these headaches, I'm tired of these physical ailments, I just surrender. I'm going to whatever you want. You know, like whatever you want, like I am done, I'm a grown up. Basically, I became a crone and I was like I just don't give a shit anymore.
Robin:What it has involved too, especially since I got into the Akashic Records and I could see people's souls and see people's other gifts so clearly that now what motivates me is helping empowering people into an expansive state of energy. So now it's now it's people that motivates me. Now it's like, hey, I see your power and I am desperate for you to see it too. I am desperate to help you own that incredible power within you. And I mean, like I, it's my favorite thing at looking at people is that, holy cow, you are amazing.
Kim:That's so nice.
Robin:It's not that altruistic because you know there's a payoff for me too. I'm getting like a huge charge out of it, Like it is such a source of joy, Like it's not just a one-way altruist I don't want to sound like a saint or anything because it empowers me too. I get like just hits all day when I'm surrounded by people who are like really claiming agency.
Kim:Well, it still sounds nice. I mean, it sounds like you should get some payback for doing things like that. Thanks, that's fair Tit for tat and whatnot. God, I hope that's the saying. I didn't just say something stupid.
Robin:I understood what you meant.
Kim:What's your biggest struggle when it comes to witchcraft?
Robin:My biggest struggle was oh so witchcraft came so naturally to me. My biggest struggle is when I see other people who are like this is what you have to do, and I will be like, oh my God, I don't do that. Oh no, have I been doing it wrong? Am I going to get punished? You know, I was raised Catholic. You dealt yourself. First I would be like, oh, wait a minute. And then it's like I got really good results and it felt amazing and it happened anyways. Could there be two truths? Could both be. So I have to. I am an evidentiary witch. I am an evidentiary intuitive. It's like I do look back and see okay, what was the evidence of the effectiveness of that? Mainly because I want to consistently evolve. So when I hear people say this is the way you do it or this is the way it's always been done, I will go into my past lives and I'll be like I don't, that's not the way I remember it. So perhaps both of these things can be true.
Kim:I just basically think who you're not the boss of me? I?
Robin:tell my husband that all the time.
Kim:Your way is nicer time. Your way is nicer, but I'm my face instantly goes into who are you talking to? But I think it's interesting that you can look back and say actually, my experience says otherwise, instead of me just being like no.
Robin:Well, I have mentored enough people where I have given my experience and it's just not working out for them that my experience is not the right way.
Kim:It was right for me experience is not the right way. It was right for me. When I'm trying to tell people things like that, I usually say this is what I do or that's what I mean. It might come out more like this is how you do it, but what I am trying to say is this is how I do it. Hopefully I come out saying what I mean, how I do it. Hopefully I come out saying what I mean.
Robin:Oh, my God, when I say what I mean, sometimes it is so confusing, because language is not my first language.
Kim:Wow, huh, that hurts my brain a little bit.
Robin:I just think language is hard.
Robin:It is, would you say that you have imposter syndrome and if you do, how do you beat it? So I don't actually think imposter syndrome is a syndrome. I think imposter what we call imposter syndrome is a shadow flag, that there is a shadow within us that is giving us a warning flag that we're not trusting ourselves and our golden shadow is saying it's okay to trust ourselves as we are today. So I frequently experience imposter syndrome because I have shadow. It's part of who I am. It's part of myself, Because you know, I have shadow. It's part of who I am. It's part of myself.
Robin:So when imposter syndrome shows up is when somebody is talking about like this is the right way to say it or they'll be like this is the message I got, and it wasn't the message that I got. Or when I'm looking at somebody's outside and I'm like, oh my God, they really have it together and I was just batshit crazy bouncing off the walls trying to figure out what the heck this means. So it's usually when I'm doing an inner insecurity comparison with somebody's outer seemingly success. Um. But what I have learned is that this is a shadow waving like an alarm flag of there is an insecurity you are trying to pretend doesn't exist and we need to go in and we need to do some work. Where you do some self-compassion, Maybe there is something that could benefit from a behavior change.
Robin:And this is about you not accepting yourself as you are today. This is about you playing wishes. You know that somebody bestow the lottery on you to be somebody else and I didn't come here to be somebody else. I have very, very specific instructions of who to be here, with very specific lessons that I should struggle, because they're lessons. I don't know them yet. So, for me, imposter syndrome is not an external thing. It's a shadow thing, and it's a beautiful shadow thing that gives me opportunity to truly accept myself, without judgment, without fear and without hate. You know, self-loathing is conditioned into us. It's not natural. It has to be overcome.
Kim:What brings you the most joy in your practice.
Robin:The souls, seeing people in their soul form. I'm high, I'm, I'm just on a high that, um, you know, I get to see the reality behind the illusions. Um, the other thing that brings me the most joy is animals. Uh, I love when people's animal guides show up. Sometimes they're so ridiculous, I'm like, when people's animal guides show up, sometimes they're so ridiculous, I'm like that cannot be true. I'm an animal communicator. So, yeah, animals, animals, animals bring me joy in the day. Souls bring me joy in my work.
Robin:And I am, you know, like I just I just don't. And I am, you know, like I just I just don't. I barely live in the material world. You know, it's not just an herb, it's an energetic. You know, it's not just a candle, it is a harnessing of light, you know it's, it's. It's not just, it's not just the microphone, it's like this incredible wave of energy. So, you know, I see guides everywhere, I see angels, I see spirits. I'm not really interested in ghosts, I mean, if I have to but there's like so much more interesting things going on there, like so much more interesting things going on, there's so much more interesting energy going on. So I would say, like, when I'm in my work when I'm in that alpha state alpha, not well, I am an alpha, but alpha brainwave state. That's joy, that's joy.
Kim:Have you always seen them? Seen colors and lights and whatever else you see yes, but I didn't know.
Robin:Like you didn't know, I would ask, I would ask things like I would come back. And I would ask, I would ask things Like I would come back. And I would be like, oh yeah, the little people told me this and they were like she is so imaginative. My angel would talk to me all the time. I not in words until I was about two, but previous to that it was like lullabies. Um, I actually didn't know. I was seeing ghosts. It took many, many years for me to understand that those were ghosts. You know, I just now, I know, oh, even around Tucson, I used to see this woman walking on Campbell and I'd be like wow, she's really out in the heat of the day for years, for years, and then finally one day I was like, yeah, she's not real. I was like I've never actually seen her shoes. She's not real.
Kim:That's all. You know everyone, Because ghosts don't wear shoes.
Robin:But the lights, the lights and the colors I've always seen. I just didn't know I was seeing it and then I spent a long time in shame trying not to see it.
Kim:I hate that For you and for everyone else who does it, who feels like they have to stop.
Robin:I don't know. I kind of think that there is some value in experiencing who we are not in order to step into who we are. I don't like the tragedy and trauma of it. I wish it didn't happen as long, but I think it's really important to find out who we're not happen as long, but I think it's really important to find out who we're not.
Kim:I agree, but are you talking about someone who like being someone who didn't experience this like me?
Robin:What do you mean? Who didn't experience?
Kim:Seeing those things growing up with that as their everyday experience, because I don't have that experience.
Robin:Sure, this is the experience for me and this is something that I see in akasha. Not everybody sees, not everybody sees with um, with their eye or their inner eye, and not everybody is meant to see. You know, we are a collective, we can't all do it the same way. So many people sense, many people smell, or perhaps there is that spiritual frisson where they have a physical reaction to spirit. So we all have different things and I've never seen a child without a clair ability. I've never seen a child. One of my favorite ages is two to six, because they are so developed and I remember back to my age when I was two. I didn't know different. It was conditioned into me that that is childish. So children sense all the time they are having. These clear senses happen all the time. However, it may be lucid dreaming. All children lucid dream. It is a natural part of the brain and brain development. So you might you very well might have grown up exhibiting your intuition through very unique, clear abilities. It was just so normal you didn't know.
Kim:I know stuff and I've always known stuff, but I don't see things. Sometimes I want to see and hear things. I just I want to. I don't want to just know it. I know I can't always have what I want, but that's what I want. Sometimes I want to just see something and I have since I moved to this house but it's not necessarily the things that we're talking about.
Robin:What is something you did early on in your practice that you don't do anymore, and why don't you? I thought this was such a powerful question because I had to examine it. So one of the things I did in my early practice is I reacted out of fear and anger. If somebody made me angry, I would just throw anger back. I hate to use the word curse, but my sister and I we did have a period of time where we cursed everybody who made us mad. Not big curses, curses like fall in a puddle or step on gum type of curse. Not like I hope your family lives in ruin. You know nothing like that, um, but I used to reciprocate anger.
Robin:And the other thing that I used to do is I used to look upon entities with fear, what I call hungry entities or destructive entities. I used to be fearful about hungry ghosts. I used to be really fearful and react with fear. Now I have a little bit more pause to use discernment and understanding. So when I'm dealing with, maybe, entities that are trying to attach or hover around a person or a place or a thing I'm not I don't come at it from a fear-based mind. I come at it with a mind of curiosity and openness, because if it's a sentient being, it has a purpose and understanding the purpose, we can get to a solution. If it's a non-sentient being, there are very easy practices to be like on you go are very easy practices to be like on you go, so I no longer react with fear. There's a pause now where I'm like hmm, that is curious. Let's use some discernment and examine this before we just jump into assumptions this before we just jump into assumptions.
Kim:That reminds me of the Newkirk's latest documentary. Do you know what I'm talking about? I can't remember the name of the latest thing they've done, but the one about the, the image, the wooden image that they had to take back to the, wherever the cave they found. Somebody found it in.
Robin:Oh, you know what this is ringing a bell.
Kim:I can't remember the name of it. Yeah, the something. Everybody knows what I'm talking about. Anyway, it reminds me of that because they, with their haunted objects, they generally just sort of talk to, whatever it is. When the lay person notices the scary, dripping wet, naked lady in their living room who stood on the back of the couch and was freaked out, they're like let's look into this further instead of just losing it and moving.
Robin:Yeah, there are a lot of trauma echoes that have very simple solutions, and that's one of the things I've learned with energy is that the simple solutions are the most powerful solutions, but what they need is understanding.
Kim:Yeah, it's probably what everybody needs. What is your favorite tool? It does not have to be a physical object. And how do you use it?
Robin:not have to be a physical object, and how do you use it? So, uh, my favorite tool are crystals. They're my go-to, they're the ones I uh, I have so many crystals because I'll touch them and I'll be like, oh, it loves me because it knows I'll work with it. I truly do love working with crystals. I sometimes am embarrassed. You know what I'm not embarrassed? I have thousands of crystals. I have like collections upon collections. My husband laughs at me because they're all my friends. So I will be like where's my crystal? And he'll be like what crystal? And I'm like my short sulfur. Where's my short sulfur? It was right here. And he's like, how do you know? And I'm like, because it loves me and it's not here, Um, but then I also have a tool that I use for, for protection and um, it's, it's my.
Robin:I have a perba that I absolutely love, um, that I used to use in a past life. So when I found it I was like we've been separated for centuries. I'm so glad you're back in my life now and it's my, it's my anchor point. Like when I'm doing a circle, a protective circle, it's my anchor point. Or if I'm doing like closing a portal or something, it's, it's my anchor point that I will use and it's it's incredibly powerful. Um, it calls in um so many powerful, um, energetic deities or um. Some of them look like monsters. They're not really monsters, they're just so powerful. They're a little terrifying looking. They're not really monsters, they're just so powerful. They're a little terrifying looking. So that's my favorite tool when I'm doing like closing portals or clearing spaces or reclaiming spaces or healing spaces. That's my favorite.
Robin:What is it called? It's called a perba. It's a Tibetan tool. It's a prayer tool, um, but I use it, uh to anchor, um. It used to uh, it's. It's used for prayer and cleansing, but it's also really good for.
Kim:That's what I thought. Okay, when I heard you saying it, I was like I bet it's that thing shaped like that that I never knew what it was.
Robin:It is. It's that thing. You were right, it's the thing Yay me.
Kim:Yeah, that's interesting, that's cool.
Robin:Yeah, so that's one of my favorite tools when I'm doing some rituals or ritual work that needs extra anchoring or protection.
Kim:Hmm, neat, can you pick out one decision you've made that changed the direction of your life, and if so, can you tell us what it was?
Robin:you've made that changed the direction of your life and, if so, can you tell us what it was? So I've had I've had so many eras in my life. Um, so I'm a Gemini sun in the eighth house, so my life is basically birth, death and rebirth Basically, birth, death and rebirth. So I would say the first massive change in my life was I was talking with my grandmother, who was dying, and I was telling her what I really wanted to be a healer. I really wished I could be a healer, that I wasn't doing all these other things, and my Mormon great grandmother, just as proper and sweet as any woman, looked me in the eye and said well, sweetie, shit, or get off the pot. If you're going to be a healer, go heal. And I was looking, she was 92 years old and I was like you know, I can't find a single argument against that. So I made the decision to drop everything in my life and learn healing, and it started with massage, it moved into chakra healing, energy healing, channeling, mentorship, and I did that for 17 years and it was incredible.
Robin:But what I wouldn't do is psychic work. I refused, even though everyone and every message and I would get these massive downloads and these massive migraines, and I'd be like, no, I am not doing this. I don't want to be a psychic, I don't care. Like I really don't want to sit around with people and tell you if your husband or wife is cheating on you. I'm like you're here. What do you think? Like I'm not here for this? I could not care less about your cheating spouse. Please don't ask me. So I wouldn't do it, I wouldn't do it.
Robin:And then animal communication came on and people started finding out I was't do it, I wouldn't do it. And then animal communication came on and people started finding out I was doing animal communication. I was like, okay, I'll be a psychic for animals, not for people. But I started doing readings for animals and I was realizing, wow, I really don't like people anymore. I really don't. So I was like, yeah, the psychic stuff is not cut out for me. I don't want to do it, I don't want to do it, I don't want to do it.
Robin:And then I made the surrender. I was like, okay, I am so tired of these migraines, I feel like my head is going to split open. I am so tired. I will do what you want me to do. And that's when they gave me the Akashic records and that changed everything that my whole life I hid. And now suddenly I am so exposed, like now it's out on Instagram, now it's out on the web, now it's out in the professional, you know, like people are talking to people state to state. And now it's like, yeah, I know this psychic, she can look at your records. And it's when I was like, okay, I'll be, I'll be public. And that has changed everything. I have not had a migraine since everything. I have not had a migraine since I have not felt as much joy and settlement in my life. I've never been bigger. I take up so much space now and I've lost my apologetic nature. Yay, so that surrender to be a public psychic was the big game changer.
Robin:That sounds scary. Coming up to the decision was scary. No, actually, it is really scary. My YouTube is about to start and I was like, ooh, that means people are going to see my face. I hate I'm a Scorpio rising. I hate people looking at my face.
Kim:Yeah, but you look so cute. You look adorable today your perspective. Thank you, I appreciate your compliment I mean, I'm a taurus and we're right a lot of the time you you know I've come to you with asking for so much advice.
Robin:You're right. You have been right every single time. That's astonishing. Yeah, I'm very careful about what I ask you, cause now I'm like, oh man, now I got to do that.
Kim:How do you pull yourself out of a magical slump?
Robin:Meds and meditation.
Kim:Nobody's ever said meds before.
Robin:So I do benefit from medications, especially for my brain. I am neuro spicy and I've had severe mental health episodes in my life, so I I think there is a place for Western medicine, and in this case this type of Western medicine has kept me alive, and I can't follow my life path if I'm not alive.
Kim:Same.
Robin:But I also take earth meds. Also, there are some very real plants that saved my life. I mean without my elderberry and my turmeric? I mean those, those are my, that's my medicine. You know magnesium's my medicine. You know, magnesium is my medicine. Mushrooms are my medicine. So those are my meds. How are my meds? How am I taking care of my meat suit with the meat of the earth? You know, like, give me my mushrooms. You know, give me my black pepper. Yum, yes, so I do take minerals.
Robin:I find that when I'm in a slump I'm usually deficient in some sort. And then, you know, the physical supports the emotional, the emotional supports the mental and all of those support the spiritual, and it's a two-way thing. So then the meditation Within my meditation, it's that energetic connection. When I'm in a slump, I'm usually isolated myself in some way from the abundant energy, or I've isolated myself from those parts of myself, I've isolated myself from my inner child. And that's where my meditation practice comes in, where I connect again. Basically, whether it's my earth star to the center of the earth, whether it's my soul star to Akasha, or whether it's my earth star to the center of the earth, whether it's my soul star to Akasha, or whether it's my heart to my inner child and my compassion for my ego, you know wherever it is. The meditation brings all of that back into the physical, and then I'm out of my slump. Oh, and then the third part is community. Yay, I wrap myself out. I am as sick as my secrets, so I wrap myself out.
Kim:That's usually my first go-to, besides Okay, let's be honest, besides the fridge.
Robin:But then it's my friends. I truly believe cookie medicine has its place I am a cookie phd.
Kim:I know that didn't make sense you know what?
Robin:okay, what's your top three cookies. If we're gonna get into cookie, talk now.
Kim:Chocolate chip, large, thick, actually, maybe some oatmeal Not very many chocolate chips, because I actually like the cookie itself. Lorna Dunes, Mmm. Lorna Dunes, I don't know. After that, a bar of some sort A brownie, which I know isn't a cookie, but that's what I would go to next Interesting, very interesting.
Robin:That is a wide range of flavors. What about you? You know I am also a chocolate chip girl. I do like, I do like a well-made chocolate chip. So most of my chocolate chip favorites are, you know, gift from somebody who baked them or from a bakery. I like a real chocolate chip, baked them, or from a bakery, I like a real chocolate chip. And then after that I have 10 cookies that buy. For second place, there's a bakery here in Tucson that makes a pumpkin panuche cookie that I just adore. I just adore it. I love ginger cookies, like I love a good snap to a cookie. What are some other? I mean the white chocolate macadamias make their way to our house a lot because those are my husband's favorite. I love a shortbread, love a shortbread, love a shortbread. But again, it needs to have a, needs to have a snap with just the right amount of softness.
Kim:I was thinking a good soft crumb yeah.
Robin:Um, I don't like chocolate cookies. If it's a chocolate batter, I'm like it overpowers the cookie. Yeah.
Kim:Mexican wedding. If I have two, I'm probably going to choose the not chocolate, double chocolate.
Robin:Yeah, the Mexican wedding cookies. Yum, yes, oh, my God Delight. I call those angel farts. That's great Because they taste like heaven. They taste like heaven, but if you bite too quickly, all that powdered sugar flies off, Making a mess. I know that's not really a nice thing to say about a cookie, but yeah, oh, we really veered off witches.
Kim:Yeah but it's my podcast and I'm a taurus and it's taurus season I know we're gonna talk about cookies. Sometimes, what's something you wish was discussed more in the witch community besides cookies ethics ethics is the hill I die on.
Robin:I don't think it's. I don't think consent is discussed enough. I have so many people and and I am I do have a tolerance for newbies, I do have a special tolerance for newbies, but someone coming up to me and giving me unsolicited information, oh, I am like. I did not consent for you to read me. You are being voyeuristic and unethical.
Kim:This just came up in my group, yeah.
Robin:So consent in the witch community is really, really, you know, really under talked about.
Kim:Especially considering all the scammers who are using that to their advantage. That we don't talk about.
Robin:Don't read me their advantage that we don't talk about. Don't read me. I am uber careful about being an energy voyeur because I see energy so, so easily that when I'm in public because I love people, I love going to functions I am not. Those people are like I'm so drained I am not going to functions. I am not. Those people are like I'm so drained, I am not. I'm like I have my own energy battery, you know, and I'm not letting people siphon off of me. You know it's kind of live and let live world. So I do enjoy going out and being around people, but I'm very, very careful about voyeurism. That, yes, everybody's colors and lights, but they kind of just blur around me, kind of like I noticed their eye color, I noticed their hair color, I noticed what top they're wearing, but I'm not going to read into their energy. I'm not going to read into messages. The caveat is, if my guides hit me over the head and be like you must approach this person, I will approach the person but I will still ask for consent.
Robin:You know, there's been so much unsolicited information given to me and sometimes I was not in a space to be able to receive it. It was actually more hurtful and sent me into a tailspin. And again that imposter syndrome of like, oh my God, do I not know something that's really bad for me? Yeah, so it's something I've had to evolve. So it's something I've had to evolve.
Robin:The other thing is hygiene. Like it hurts my heart to hear people talk about how drained they are. I'm like, ooh, what's your hygiene? What's the hygiene happening? Are you? Why are you not giving yourself the care to be able to move? You know, like, just because we're sensitive doesn't mean we need to be isolated. The collective needs sensitive people, the collective needs energetic people and if you don't have the hygiene to be able to engage with the collective, that hurts my heart. Be able to engage with the collective, that hurts my heart. You're more powerful than that and you're also entitled to your cleanliness and your protection, you know. So, yeah, that's my soapbox, that's my. It's the ethics, it's the ethics of it all. You are not entitled to my energy but, with consent, I would love to share with you. I would love to share energy.
Robin:So I started the Patreon because of accessibility. It is expensive to get a reading with a psychic. It's really expensive, and some people will come to me and we'll get so much information on, like, what are the blocks, what's preventing these cycles from breaking, what are these soul connections that can benefit you, don't benefit you, but it's expensive and I only do so many readings a week. So that's why I decided to do the Patreon, because it's a different way to get access. It is a more community-based access, but it's also a community, so people can benefit from the other patrons. So people can benefit from the other patrons. So in the Patreon I do a once a month Q&A where people can have access to me, where I can channel Akasha for people, but at a very reasonable price. So my goal for Patreon is to make it accessible. My goal for Patreon is to make it accessible. That it is, you know, it's the price of a cocktail or a coffee, but you can still have access to me.
Kim:That is cool, so everyone go do that immediately On the first.
Robin:June 1st. Thanks, Kim. Oh, my God Kim, I keep getting distracted by your guides. I'm like oh, hello.
Kim:Oh, hello ancestors. I have to get a reading with you because I want to know what's going on there.
Robin:I love the little brownie in the corner being like I'm going to screw with her shoes today. She is ignoring me. Oh, are you? Okay? You just went blank.
Kim:I don't know what you're talking about. Okay, now I have to. I can't do this right now. I have to do the interview.
Robin:We'll do it after. Put a pin. Put a pin in your house, in your house, worker.
Kim:Please, please, please. Just let me get through this. Okay, think of the three biggest influences on your practice, whether it's a person or a philosophy you heard about once, or a song or a pet. Thank them for the influence they have had on your practice and your life.
Robin:You know, it takes dimensions to raise a robin. So I would say the grandmothers, the grandmothers carried forth the wisdom, carried forth the modeling Carried forth, the modeling Carried forth like the breadcrumbs to help me find my way. You know the stories. They gave me the stories. They also gave me the tools to be sneaky about it. I know this sounds weird, but they gave me the roundabouts. You know, this is what you present, but this is the power that's important. Yeah, I really like that, especially for women.
Robin:The other one there was a man in. I met him when I was 25. And I was in a room. I was really vulnerable and I was. It was kind of like I was put on the spot and I looked across this room and I saw this man. But what I saw was light behind his eyes and I don't know what happened. I was so scared.
Robin:I think it was my inner child said that's safety, that is a safe person. His name he's passed, but I'm going to say his name was Bob Locke and he became a beacon of spirituality for me and the first thing he told me to do he said you're going to be okay when you wake up in the morning. Told me to do. He said you're going to be okay. When you wake up in the morning, put your feet on the floor and breathe for three minutes. Those three minutes changed my life. Those three minutes connected me. Those three minutes in the morning, it's just three minutes before you go to the bathroom, before you get up, before you think, before you check your phone. Three minutes, just sit and breathe. That's when the messages started coming. That's when the opening happened. You know, I went from sleep, where the world doesn't really exist, to this liminal space of like. Everything exists, every possibility exists in this space, and that's what that man gave me. He gave me a lot more. I had a beautiful relationship. He became a mentor of mine. I had a wonderful relationship, but Bob Locke gave me three minutes. I had a wonderful relationship, but Bob Locke gave me three minutes.
Robin:And the other one are the angelic realms. That's where my downloads come from. That's where my wisdom and understanding comes from. It's because of the angels that I was able to access Akasha. I was able to access Akasha. It's the angels that you know, the elemental angels that you know, hold my circles. For me, they're my best friends. Some of them are absolutely terrifying. I was like, hey, can you tone it down a little bit? I, I have to have a conversation here, like still in a meat suit here. You know like, dim it down, buddy. You look terrifying. You know, close some of those eyes, oh, no, oh no.
Robin:But um so, off the top of my head, those are the three that I identify in this moment.
Kim:Huh, what advice do you have for somebody just starting out in their practice?
Robin:Cleanse everything, Get good at cleaning. Clean. You know it's hard to wake up your house spirit if it's covered in gunk. Clean out your house, Clean your tools. By cleaning you're going to build your relationship with water, with fire, with incense. You're going to start building your relationship with the elements If you start with cleaning. You know, from there you're going to play. You're going to start to play with the elements. You're going to start to get to know. You know you're going to. You're going to start with home. That's your center, right, that's, that's your safety. So now you're going to to get your home goddesses who are going to like, push you out of the nest into other things. So for me, whenever I start mentoring with somebody, we talk about cleanliness, we talk about hygiene, we talk about clearing, cleansing, grounding, protecting, but it starts with cleaning, cleansing, grounding, protecting, but it starts with cleaning so, now that you've seen what it's like to be in this interview, who do you think I should have on the show?
Kim:who would you like to see or hear from?
Robin:I would love to hear Jess Baker. I, I, um, I have some bath salts from Jess Baker Best bath salts I've ever used, better than anything I've ever made. With all of my intent, man, I am like an herb whore, Like I love plants. Um, I, I am like an herb whore. Like I love plants, I take salt baths regularly. I take a ritual bath at least once a week. Her salts are incredible. She does a lot. They do a lot of other. They do a lot of products. They do a lot of products. She's an amazing healer. They have written a couple of amazing books. I just, I'm just awed by the power, cool.
Kim:Is there anything else you wanted to bring up?
Robin:Anything I didn't ask you or any questions you had for me. I facilitate past life healings and part of my mission is to empower people to be able to access their own gifts, and inherent within each of us is health. We all have the power for healing. Sometimes we just need a little external nudge and sometimes we can't get the full effects of healing because past lives echo into this one, because a past life trauma or tragedy or pattern didn't get resolved. We're kind of trying to deal with the healing in our own life as well as past life things. So for me, past life healings kind of have like a it's a little missing ingredient to like propel our healing in this life, you know, kind of like really give it a next level. So in facilitating that, I'm really hoping to teach people how to do that themselves. I'm really hoping to teach people how to do that themselves, and I think the question that I would have for you is um, I don't want to be too pushy, I also don't want to overstep. When are you creating your community space?
Kim:What do you mean? You mean a physical one? Yeah, do you mean an event? Because I have never planned on. I don't recall. Maybe I did, but I don't think I wanted to do a physical space. I I know Christina did, but I want to do an event that people come to and I was going to do it this year as a chest run, but then, surprise, new hip again. So next year in March I'm going to do my first one of those.
Robin:I just I see you as a hub. I just I see you as a hub and I also see you as such a huge creator, like a very powerful creator. So my question for you is um, what are you creating short-term, but what is the long-term creation? What are you leaving on this earth?
Kim:I think about that more than I should like. In a vanity sort of way I feel a little bit.
Robin:I wouldn't categorize it as vanity, I would. I would categorize it as, like you influence space, like you're such a hub, like you draw things in, but you also extend into space, like your connection with the land is um, it's wild, it's absolutely wild and we need more wild in our lives.
Kim:It's like we feel funny, You're going to tell us evil stuff that I didn't know about.
Robin:So it's like what are, what are you? What is that creation that you are? You are birthing and building and leaving on this planet.
Kim:Okay, so you know how I go on about. On a hottest purpose all the time I want to make something like that, but here in our area, because that's in Philadelphia, that's far away from me. I live in the desert. Now I want something here like that and I want that feeling that I got that first time. I want everyone to feel that, whether it's out on a hottest purpose or it's here at an event that I've facilitate, that's what I want. I want people to have that sudden awakening that I can do things myself. I am good, I am capable. That's what I want to leave, and I am in the process of figuring out how to do that.
Robin:I absolutely love that, but not only I believe that, Like I truly believe in you. Well, thank you. Oh my gosh, this looks like exactly something you would do.
Kim:Well, I'm working on it. I found teachers, I just got to actually do it.
Robin:Oh, you know how you are. It doesn't actually look like anything's happening and then it all poofs. Yeah, I'm looking forward to this.
Kim:So am I. I'm excited, yeah. So the last two things that I ask every guest thing. Number one is recommend something to the listeners. It does not have to be witch-related, it can be anything out of your life. It can be the restaurant that I asked you about earlier, even though I don't think you've been there yet. That will become everyone. Go to La Frida. If you're in Tucson, go to La Frida. That's my rec. What's yours?
Robin:My recommendation is walk on a ley line. Ooh, just take a walk on a ley line. Just recharge yourself Like it's free.
Kim:It's absolutely free, do something free there's one near here, right there are so many near here I mean you're, I mean no, sedona is near relatively.
Robin:Oh no, you know there are two very big vortices here in t. Okay, I want to know more about that.
Robin:So one is out by Twin Peaks and the other one, you know, because humankind recognizes a vortex. So there's pretty much. We got to build a sacred building here, or even a government building. We're going to put an important building here, so it's actually a really nice building. It's the Redemptorist Center. Oh, I'm not going to remember, I only remember how to get there. Oh, I'm not going to remember, I only remember how to get there. So my husband rides his motorcycle in this loop out of Ina Road back through Gates Pass, and it goes right past it. I swear to God, he comes back so beautifully recharged and relaxed and I'm like, oh, you went through the vortex, huh.
Kim:I'm going to have to tell Ken about that. So he can ride his motorcycle through it.
Robin:Downtown we have a walk called the Turquoise Line. It's one of those tourist things, but parts of that turquoise line are actually a ley line. And then another ley line is out at Javier Javier. What is it? The White Dove of the Desert. What am I thinking of?
Kim:I have no idea.
Robin:San Javier has another ley line out there that you can walk on, and then Even more.
Kim:Oh my gosh, when I Googled, I didn't find any of this Of ley lines.
Robin:Yeah, oh no, there's a ton of them, maybe.
Kim:I'm using the wrong. I know it's spelled L-E, Y. I ley lines yeah, oh no, there's a ton of them. Maybe I'm using the wrong. I know it's spelled L-E-Y. I know that at least, but I couldn't. I didn't. I saw something south of my house, but that's it.
Robin:Where were you looking?
Kim:What do you mean? Were you looking on ley lines Tucson and then maybe vortex?
Robin:So lay lines are simply electromagnetic lines that crisscross the earth. You know the magnetism of the earth coming up to the surface. But another way is humans can create a ley line with intentional walking. So, for instance, thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk in France, created Plum Village and he brought his students. They did walking meditation. Well, those walks created ley lines. Because of the intention, the electromagnetism of the humans interacting with the electromagnetic magma of the earth created a ley line, an energetic ley line. So people can create ley lines.
Robin:The El Camino pilgrimage in Spain, those are all ley lines that people created. Because hundreds of thousands of people walk on those lines in a mindful spiritual space, in an increase in the electromagnetic energy of their own bodies. You know they lay their tears, they lay their pain and their anger and their joy and their hopes and their dreams on that path. That creates a ley line. You know they're not. And ley lines can also move as the earth moves, as tectonic plates move. These are not, you know. Know these aren't highways. You know they're not. Earth is constantly growing and moving.
Robin:Ley lines can move you know, that, that coven of witches, you know, as you're coming in from the four directions over and over and over again, you're creating a vortex, an intersection of the lines that you walk in. Ley lines are fun, they're really fun. One of my favorites is on Mount Lemmon that I walk into. You can see ley lines by how the plants grow. There'll be a twist or there'll be a curve. There's this amazing portal that once you step over that ley line if you step over it in the right manner, you can go into a completely different realm. It creates a portal. I absolutely love it. I go in there. I lose track of time. I let my husband know like, yeah, I'll be back in four hours, and seven hours later I'm coming home. All I know is like don't touch anything, don't eat anything, don't drink anything. You have to get back out. Huh. So yeah, ley lines are a lot of fun. It's actually gonna. One of the things in my patreon is going to be about ley lines cool.
Kim:Yeah, again, everyone go look at her patreon. So the very last thing that I ask of my guests is please tell me a story. It can be from your life, or it can be a story you heard in childhood that you really like.
Robin:Hmm, oh, I like a good story. Oh, you stumped me. You absolutely stumped me on this. I immediately went to fairy tales. I can't think of a single story in my life Like, all of a sudden, everything rushed in and now I'm like oh, which one? Oh, my God, is this a good one? Is this a good one? This one's too long.
Kim:Oh, this one's too personal.
Robin:How did you meet your pet? So I am an animal person. I have had many, many pets. So right now I'll talk about happy and joy. I have two dogs that are well, I have more than two dogs, but these are brother and sister. They are half hound, half lab. They both have the markings of their mother. Joy looks like a hound, happy looks like a lab.
Robin:One day, in the midst of a very, very heavy depression due to loss after loss in my life it's just too much the waves just took me under, barely hanging on by a thread, barely hanging on like not functioning, not able to work anymore, super, super depressed anymore. I'm super, super depressed. I went to a pet store to buy some dog food for my other dogs and they had puppies for sale or for adoption, but you had to buy them. So I went there and I saw these squirmy little puppies, these beautiful hound dog eyes. Love hound dogs. My first, my first dog, was a beagle. I have a special place for hound dogs, um and I. I saw this little boy and I was like, oh my God, I love this little boy. Like we speak the same language. But then a sister came up and I was like, oh, my God, I love this little girl. I love this little girl and I, I'm texting my husband, who's not answering me.
Robin:I'm calling him, I'm texting him, I send him a picture and I'm like look at this puppy. And then I send him a picture of the other. I'm like, look at this puppy. And then I text him. I'm like you better call me right now because I'm getting a dog. So he doesn't. So I'm like, oh my gosh, which one do I get? Which one do I get? So I pick up the little girl and I was like, okay, I'll pick the little girl. They're a little easier for me to raise. And as I'm filling out the paperwork for me to raise, and as I'm filling out the paperwork, this young woman picks up the little boy. And I was overcome with the biggest wave of jealousy and anger. How dare she pick up my dog? How dare she pick up my dog? So the poor guy who's filling out my paperwork. I'm like I'll take both of them. Go get my dog out of her arms.
Kim:Good for you, and I had these two little puppies.
Robin:That's insane, but good for you. He felt so bad, winning over to her and saying I'm sorry this dog is adopted and I'm just like that's my dog, yes, that's mine. Put him down. So I go home and I have these puppies and I'm like you know, life exists. I need to remember that life exists. So I named the little boy happy because I wasn't feeling it then, but I remembered that at one point in my life I was happy. And I named the little girl joy because I knew that life could bring me joy back. So every time I'm hollering at those dogs, reminding myself happy and joy exists, and when I'm hugging them I'm hugging happy and I'm hugging joy. And yeah, those puppies saved my life that day. So it took my husband a little bit longer to get used to two brand new dogs in addition to the three dogs we already had at home. Oh good, but he got over it and they just turned seven years old good.
Kim:Yay, babies, my babies. Well, thank you for the story and thank you for coming on the show. It was a good time to talk to you again kim, I always love talking to you oh yay you are one of the most fascinating people I know.
Robin:Oh, thanks, way to take a compliment.
Kim:I don't know how to do that.
Robin:Anyways, thank you so so much for this opportunity.
Kim:Thank you for coming on the show. Everybody, be sure you go, scroll to wherever show notes are on your phone and click and follow and join robin's patreon and I will see you on instagram. Bye, bye, robin. Welcome to hiveive House. Oh, hello Say when.
Robin:When.
Kim:This is once weird. I have not. I didn't know this was in here. What was your worst Uber or Lyft experience?
Robin:Oh my God, oh, you have one. Oh, it was bad. I got proselytized in an Uber on the way to an airport. It was a 20-minute drive of Mormonism, wow, and you know my duties as a woman.
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