A Conversation with Hilary Parry Haggerty and Christiana Gaudet
Join Christiana Gaudet for an unhurried conversation with tarot reader and witch Hilary Parry Haggerty, recorded to accompany Hilary’s in-person class in the Mindful Room. This is a quiet talk between two practitioners who have each spent decades at the work. There is no hype here and no promise of instant results. Instead, Hilary and Christiana sit with the real mechanics of magic: what actually makes a spell work, and why the simplest workings are so often the most powerful.
Hilary walks through the components of a successful spell (intention, vehicle, and energy) and the four levels a spell moves through, from the conscious mind to the spiritual. She and Christiana return again and again to a single grounding idea: magic supports the mundane work, it does not replace it. A manifestation is not a wish. If you want the new job, you still update the resume and send it out.
Tarot runs through the whole conversation. Hilary describes the deck as both a diagnostic tool, a way to ask whether you should cast at all, and a living vehicle you can charm and work with directly. Along the way there are stories, a white stone thrown into the ocean at sixteen, a tarot spread built to find out why a spell didn’t work out, and the small, humane reminders that come only from long practice. Look at the cards face up when you work magic. Choose the card that feels right to you, not the one a book prescribes. And be honest with yourself before you ever cast toward someone else.
Thoughtful, candid, and quietly funny, this is a conversation for anyone who reads the cards and senses there is more they could be doing with them.alyze.