218. To Be Cringe Is to Be Free: Glamour, Voice, and Big Magic with Lily Hussey

In this conversation, Britten welcomes Lily Hussey - 13th Reader for The Magician's Table this year - to explore the connection of astrology, adornment, voice, and glamour magic. Together, they move through a rich dialogue about being seen in your wholeness: integrating taboo selves, unshaming performance and illusion, and finding the joy that makes it easier to show up in a year that asks for big magic, inner authority, and community.   Topics They Cover: Lily stepping into the role of a 13th Reader for The Magician's Table 2026, and the energy of returning leadership, trust, and devotion that comes with being invited back into the container Being a corporate marketing girly and a magician at the same time, and the work of integrating parts of the self that once felt dissonant, taboo, or out of place How glamour, illusion, and performance can be reclaimed as honest and skillful magical arts rather than something fake or inauthentic The experience of shame, embarrassment, and visibility The Magician's Table as a safe, community-based practice space where both beginners and experienced practitioners can develop voice, magic, and confidence without needing everything figured out Fashion, adornment, and jewelry as everyday ritual, including planetary correspondences and intentional aesthetics that support presence and potency Astrology as a form of parts work, and the practice of cultivating wholeness, sensitivity, and inner authority by deciding which voices get to lead Why community acts as an amplifier for magic, making it easier to take creative risks, go bigger, and stay in relationship with joy and devotion   About Lily Hussey: lily hussey is a multidisciplinary creatrix, astrologer and witch. she weaves together astrology + planetary magick, ritual, adornment, glamour + chaos magick, deity work and a dash of irreverance in her good hussey universe to support folx in navigating this wild human experience. as a lifelong student of esoteria, she's always studying something new to add to her grimoire. she believes we are all innately magickal and through her practice aims to help you remember, uncover and reclaim that magick. WEBSITE: goodhussey.com INSTAGRAM: goodhussey SUBSTACK: the stellar situation   +++ Introducing the 13th Readers for 2026: Arizona Smith: @arizonasmithhealing Leanne Thurogood: @oftheearthesoteric Lily Hussey: @goodhussey Suprasensory Shahir: @suprasensoryshahir +++ E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple. +++ Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.    

In this conversation, Britten is joined by returning guest Suprasensory Shahir for a wide-ranging meditation on magic and The Magician (both as an archetype and as the first card of the Major Arcana). Together, they explore how magic moves through individuals and groups, why it resists ownership or hoarding, and what it means to live in right relationship with power. Britten also shares context around The Magician's Table, including Shahir's unprecedented return as a 13th Reader for 2026, and reflects on why presence, resonance, and devotion (rather than credentials) are the true thresholds for this work.   Topics They Cover: Magic and The Magician as an archetype, and the tarot card that inspired The Magician's Table Why magic wants to circulate, move, and be shared - not contained or possessed Personal magic versus group magic, and how power moves through a collective field Shahir's role as a 13th Reader, and what it means to hold space for others while participating fully Why Britten trusts intuitive selection over logic when inviting 13th Readers The structure of The Magician's Table: 12 Magicians, one 13th Reader, and why every seat matters Presence as the primary commitment and the real work of showing up A shared belief that everyone is magical   About Suprasensory Shahir: Suprasensory Shahir (they/he) is a love devotee mystic who shows up as an astrologer of the moment & diviner of the future. They embrace the spiritual tools of tarot, astrology & spirit guide connections to help people embrace a magical life. Shahir is a Queer Muslim from Southeast Asia who aligns themselves with Sufism, a mystical and inward-focused dimension of Islam.  Consultation: https://suprasensory.as.me/schedule.php  Writing: https://suprasensory.substack.com/  YouTube: Suprasensory Astrology https://www.youtube.com/@suprasensory  Instagram & Threads: https://www.instagram.com/suprasensoryshahir    +++ Introducing the 13th Readers for 2026: Arizona Smith: @arizonasmithhealing Leanne Thurogood: @oftheearthesoteric Lily Hussey: @goodhussey Suprasensory Shahir: @suprasensoryshahir +++ E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple. +++ Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.    

In this episode, Britten shares a candid transmission on the challenges that emerge at six figures and beyond - when your work is already valued, momentum is real, and the next level asks for deeper self-trust and a different relationship to growth. She names common signals you've reached an edge (like resentment, overwhelm, and the vulnerability of becoming a beginner again), reframing them as invitations to cross a new river in your business and to meet what's here with more honesty, playfulness, and capacity. She weaves in the medicine of Mars and Saturn as allies in leadership so your business becomes more contained, sustainable, and aligned. From this foundation, Britten introduces ABLAZE: an intimate container for 12 entrepreneurial mystics who are ready for a potent initiation into their leadership frequency, supported through the real-world thresholds of visibility, support (automated or human), and building a resentment-free, overwhelm-free business rooted in trust.   Learn More: ABLAZE is a high intensity group initiation space for big-hearted leaders craving to distill, embody, and amplify their most authentic voice. Inside of 4 months, you will be held to the fires of your own sublime heart. You say Yes because you crave the courage to truly see how big you are.  Starting January 29, we join to gather in a community capped at 12 participants for intimacy, vulnerability, and true transformation. You will not be the same leader on the other side of this. You will be more of who you already are. Spots are available until filled, with the latest entry set at February 6. There will be a waitlist for the next round once all spots are filled.  Claim your seat inside the inaugural cohort of ABLAZE. There will never be a first one again! Learn more here: https://brittenlarue.com/course/ablaze/  Questions? Feel free to DM me with questions. Give me a 2-minute voice message sharing where you're at, where you're going, and the edge you're crossing right now.   +++ E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple. +++ Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.  

In this conversation, Britten welcomes back Teagan West to explore the lore of The Magician's Table and answer a question listeners often ask: what is a 13th Reader? Britten shares how the container emerged through her journaling practice, why it's structured as 12 Magicians plus a 13th Reader, and what makes it a living, intelligent space that works quickly and deeply. Together, they reflect on the edge of being both leader and peer, the way each cohort carries its own distinct medicine, and why the work is less about managing outcomes and more about trusting the intelligence of the container itself.   Topics They Cover: The origin of The Magician's Table and why resonance (not experience) is the true threshold What it means to be a 13th Reader: holding the space while also fully participating Teagan's spiral path of resistance, invitation, and stepping into leadership Each cohort's unique medicine and the living intelligence of the container Tracking the perimeter: fox and skunk as metaphors for devotion, boundaries, and polarity The real work beneath the surface: Saturn, showing up, and consenting to deep internal alchemy   About Teagan West: Teagan West (she/they) is a Ritualist, Astrologer, Drum Maker & Ancestral Healing Practitioner from Ho:di:no:saunee Land, home of the Seneca Nation. The core of her work focuses on restoring Animist Lifeways as a form of Cultural Repair, re-membering our ancestral cosmologies as guideposts for the future. Teagan's Ancestors come from Ireland, Syria, Egypt + Eastern Anishinaabe Territory, whose legacy is at the center of her work + ritual praxis. She weaves together threads of Astrological Storytelling, Land Reconnection, Ancestral Tending and Community Ritual as a unique tapestry of culture work + animist remembrance. In her free time, you can find her making ritual tools such as Drums + Rattles, or communing with the Land and Ancestors through Song + Dance. Teagan is humbled to be back at the Magician's Table in the role of Staffholder, with the high honor of supporting 13th Readers and fellow Magicians through this year's cycle. This container had a huge impact on Teagan's life + practice, so it is an immense gift to be able to support others in experiencing the alchemy that this space has to offer. She will be present throughout the year to uplift Magicians + 13th Readers as they deepen into their gifts + soften into their growth edges. WEBSITE: thealtarhealing.com  INSTAGRAM: altar.ritual.west  SUBSTACK: Altar of Stars    +++   Introducing the 13th Readers for 2026: Arizona Smith: @arizonasmithhealing Leanne Thurogood: @oftheearthesoteric Lily Hussey: @goodhussey Suprasensory Shahir: @suprasensoryshahir   +++   Learn More: The Magician's Table is a 3-month container for personal growth, community connection, and practice growing one's tools as an intuitive and magical practitioner. Doors open on Sunday, February 22nd, with an early bird window and a Pick Your Tuition model offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Britten invites you to take your time attuning to the container, exploring the course page, and feeling into whether this experience is a true yes for you. Join the waitlist: ​​https://mailchi.mp/brittenlarue/tmt-2026-waitlist  Visit the course page: https://brittenlarue.com/course/the-magicians-table/    +++ E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple. +++ Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.  

In this solo episode, Britten LaRue announces the return of The Magician's Table for its sixth year, sharing details about the 2026 container, timing, and themes. She introduces the structure for this year - 5 cohorts, 50 magicians, and 4 13th Readers - and speaks to why this space continues to grow in reputation, resonance, and demand as more people pass through and the webs continue to weave. Britten introduces a new support role for the container, reflects on what it means to choose a cohort and a tuition as an intentional act, and shares the guiding theme for 2026: go big for your magic, go big for our world. She invites listeners to begin attuning to the 13th Readers, to feel into resonance over time, and to explore whether this intensive, high-touch space is a true yes - offering this episode as the first in a series of sneak peeks into what will unfold inside The Magician's Table this spring.  Learn More: The Magician's Table is a 3-month container for personal growth, community connection, and practice growing one's tools as an intuitive and magical practitioner. Doors open on Sunday, February 22nd, with an early bird window and a Pick Your Tuition model offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Britten invites you to take your time attuning to the container, exploring the course page, and feeling into whether this experience is a true yes for you. Learn more and get on the waitlist here: https://brittenlarue.com/course/the-magicians-table/    +++ Introducing the 13th Readers for 2026: Arizona Smith: @arizonasmithhealing Leanne Thurogood: @oftheearthesoteric Lily Hussey: @goodhussey Suprasensory Shahir: @suprasensoryshahir   +++ E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple. +++ Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.    

In this Dark Moon download, Britten offers an intuitive transmission from the closing edge of the lunar cycle that began with the New Moon in Sagittarius, as the New Moon in Capricorn approaches. Speaking with "one eye closed," she reflects on voice as something enacted not only through words, but through choices - what we say, what we don't say, where we show up, and where we don't - and names how deeply these choices shape our shared reality. Britten explores the shame-based imagination and its impact on time, decision-making, and our capacity to dream, offering a reframe of Saturn that moves beyond discipline and punishment toward repair, maturity, and self-trust. She weaves in a behind-the-scenes glimpse of her creative process, including the tarot archetypes guiding her current work, and invites listeners to consider what becomes possible when imagination is repaired, intuition is trusted, and we allow ourselves to meet the future with greater courage, care, and spaciousness.   Learn More: Britten invites listeners to join her in the 4th installment of Mystics Making Money: Revolutions, Not Resolutions on January 15-18, ending on the new moon in Capricorn, where she'll be teaching her time practices and supporting people in their reorientation as they release 2025 and move into 2026. Registration is now open and you can read more by clicking here.   +++ E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple. +++ Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.  

In this episode, Britten records her final episode of 2025 under a Taurus moon, waxing toward the full moon in Cancer. She reflects on the year that has passed, sharing intimate thoughts on time, grief, the poignancy of being human, and her relationship to the Gregorian calendar turn. Britten opens by describing a grief portal she moved through at the winter solstice - one she had been avoiding for weeks but that finally came for her. She speaks to the heaviness of the year, acknowledging both the beauty and magic of 2025 alongside its brutality, and the importance of letting her body honor all of it.   Topics She Explores: The terror of time and how it loops back to our fear of death and losing the ones we love, which ultimately returns us to presence and the sweetness of being here together How the Western insistence that the holidays are only about wonder and magic makes it harder, when the truth is there is always grief and wonder together The Hermit year (2025 as a 9 year) and the lantern as a tool for turning toward life so it can reveal itself to us - including ourselves revealing ourselves to ourselves Her year-end practices of data collection and looking back: skimming journals without judgment or pathologizing, seeing everything as evidence first before recognizing patterns and curriculum Why only after collecting data does she bring in the archetypes (transits, cards) so they don't override what actually happened The concept of reveals and revelations as a major theme of 2025 - how running, journaling, relationships, and creative work are all self-revelation processes where life reveals itself when we turn our lantern toward it   Learn More: Britten invites listeners to join her in the 4th installment of Mystics Making Money: Revolutions, Not Resolutions on January 15-18, ending on the new moon in Capricorn, where she'll be teaching her time practices and supporting people in their reorientation as they release 2025 and move into 2026. Registration opens around January 9th and you can join the newsletter to be the first to know by clicking here.   +++ E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple. +++ Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.  

In this conversation, Britten welcomes back astrologer Erin Kelley for her third solo appearance on Moon to Moon. They explore what Living Emergence means through the lens of devotion, acceptance, and being approachable to what's already present. Erin shares how emergence, for her, is about acknowledging and accepting what's here - whether that's an emotion, a truth, or a realization - and saying hello to it, no matter how she feels about it. The conversation weaves through themes of devotional practice, the relationship between divination and emergence, and how astrology can help us name and court the moment.   Topics They Cover: How emergence means acknowledging what's present and becoming approachable to what's already here, rather than constantly seeking potential elsewhere Devotion as a practice of showing up consistently, tending to what emerges, and building real relationship with the cosmos over time rather than love-bombing and burning out Erin's Jupiter in Taurus and Venus in Sagittarius in mutual reception as her devotional signature, bridging heaven and earth through optimism and embodied presence The Uranus transit to her chart ruler Jupiter and realizing not everyone needs liberation from hierarchical systems - her overflow of passion needed a different container Why acceptance and surrender are skills that create space for co-creation with mystery, allowing something more magical than we could plan alone How astrology and tarot reveal their secrets through sustained relationship, and why 5-10 minutes daily can create profound transformation over six months to a year   Erin emphasizes that devotion is about being in relationship with the world around us, and that astrology helps us give language to what's emergent and sing to the moment through naming it. She encourages listeners to start small with devotional practices, reminding them that time passes either way, and building real connection with the cosmos is more powerful than love-bombing a practice only to burn out and disappear.   Learn More:  Erin Kelley is a writer, devotional astrologer, and esoteric strategist with a feral heart. Her intuitive gift for right timing is at the core of her work, affectionately known as Slow Magick. Erin believes desire is holy, change happens when it is time, and that Eros is the driving impulse connecting this moment to the next. She finds much joy and satisfaction in sharing her love of the divinatory arts, helping others reconnect with the magick within and re-enchant their lives. Before leaping into her second act, Erin spent over a decade creating award-winning go-to-market strategies. She now uses her instinctual abilities with her well-honed analytical skills to craft practical, effective recommendations for engaging with the subtle realm in everyday life. Erin offers astrological consultations, private mentorship, and is the steward and facilitator of several charmed offerings—including SACRED SHAPES: Storying the astrology of your personal lore to transform the past, engage the present, and enchant the future, now open for registration. You can find Erin @slow.magick on Instagram and on Substack at The Nature of Invisible Things.   +++   Britten's course Unshaming Your Chart begins December 17th inside Living Emergence. The class includes a two-hour initiation, access to the pre-recorded library of Unshaming the Signs, Unshaming the Houses, and Unshaming the Planets, and meetups in January and February with breakout groups for deep community processing. Doors are now open. You can join as a Living Emergence member for $95/month to access Unshaming Your Chart plus the entire ecosystem, or purchase Unshaming Your Chart as a standalone class for $400.   +++ E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple. +++ Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.

In this Dark Moon download, Britten offers a collective tarot reading under the Dark Scorpio Moon, reflecting on the lunar cycle that began on November 20th at 28 degrees of Scorpio. She explores the themes that have been alive during this cycle: navigating dichotomies, polarities, and paradoxes in the human experience.  Britten shares how this lunar cycle has brought up the tension between abundance and scarcity, feasting and fasting, expansion and contraction, and the challenge of holding these oppositions without becoming paralyzed by confusion. She emphasizes that one of the gifts of this time is learning to hold ourselves through uncertainty and to trust the process, even when we don't have all the answers. Learn More: Britten invites listeners to join Unshaming Your Chart, which begins December 17th (Wednesday) with a two-hour initiation. After a three-week break for the holidays, the course continues in January with meetups and deep community processing. The class includes access to pre-recorded teachings on Unshaming the Signs, Unshaming the Houses, and Unshaming the Planets.  It is a life-changing course that offers tools and skills to see surrender as part of your magic, where it doesn't have to feel like failure, loss, or lack. While the topic is shame, the experience is healing, opening, and unfolding—offering life skills to navigate into more spaciousness, lightness, and empowerment with your chart as your partner. +++ Britten's course Unshaming Your Chart begins December 17th inside Living Emergence. The class includes a two-hour initiation, access to the pre-recorded library of Unshaming the Signs, Unshaming the Houses, and Unshaming the Planets, and meetups in January and February with breakout groups for deep community processing. Doors are now open.   You can join as a Living Emergence member for $95/month to access Unshaming Your Chart plus the entire ecosystem, or purchase Unshaming Your Chart as a standalone class for $400.   +++ E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple. +++ Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.  

In this solo episode, Britten continues her "Chapters of My Career" series, sharing the pivotal year when shame became central to her work and the word "unshaming" emerged as the name for what she'd been doing all along. This installment explores the period from Spring 2022 through early 2023, a time of deep personal transformation, relationship repair, and the crystallization of her signature teaching approach. She explains that one of shame's most powerful spells is that we don't recognize it as such - we think it's just who we are, rather than something that came from outside and isn't native to our being.   Topics She Explores: The seven-year Saturn cycle in her business and how her 3-5 Human Design profile shapes her experiential learning and teaching voice A transformative mushroom journey that revealed codependency patterns, the teaching that everyone is on their own trip, and that she's resisting being special because she doesn't want people to be sad Learning to navigate shame spirals in her relationship and discovering how shame was showing up in her parenting Taking The Shame Clinic with Simone Seol and David Bedrick in Fall 2022, where she first encountered the word "unshaming" The disappointment when Astrology as Praxis enrollment was lower than expected, and how that contraction taught her to return to why she truly wants to create Leading her first Unshaming the Signs workshop in February 2023 with her astrology students, and the birth of what would become Unshaming Your Chart   Britten closes by inviting listeners to join Unshaming Your Chart, which returns December 17th as a two-month offering inside Living Emergence. The class includes a face-melting initiation, a bank of pre-recorded teachings on Unshaming the Signs, Houses, and Planets, and meetups in January and February. She emphasizes that while the topic is shame, the experience is playful and fun - because laughter alchemizes and helps us stay real, vulnerable, and spacious as humans learning to be here.   +++   Britten's course Unshaming Your Chart begins December 17th inside Living Emergence. The class includes a two-hour initiation, access to the pre-recorded library of Unshaming the Signs, Unshaming the Houses, and Unshaming the Planets, and meetups in January and February with breakout groups for deep community processing. Doors open on December 12th.   You can join as a Living Emergence member for $95/month to access Unshaming Your Chart plus the entire ecosystem, or purchase Unshaming Your Chart as a standalone class for $400.   +++ E M E R G E N C E  A S T R O L O G Y ⁠⁠https://brittenlarue.com/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple. +++ Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.