12: Pride and Purity

12: Pride and Purity

Pride Is Better Than Purity: Deconstructing Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and Reclaiming Sovereignty In this Pride Month episode of Cauldron Her Daddy, Sarai Johnson and Meredith Holley discuss how purity culture and rape culture function as control systems rooted in shame, bodily control, and compulsory heteronormativity/monogamy, and frame Pride as an antidote built on self-ownership. They share personal stories of deconstructing anti-queer religious conditioning, including Meredith’s journey to identifying as pansexual while married, questions around coming out, and the costs of self-erasure. Sarai outlines the “seven deadly sins of purity culture” (stripping autonomy, pleasure, agency, instilling self-loathing, stifling self-expression, stripping insight, and cutting off spiritual connection) through a chakra lens, connecting these dynamics to larger cultural and political forces, grief, and suicidal ideation. They close with resources and ways to work with Sarai (chakra/Reiki offerings) and Meredith (natal chart readings). How to Understand Your Gender [https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-understand-your-gender-a-practical-guide-for-exploring-who-you-are-alex-iantaffi/1b9632c984ceddc5?ean=9781785927461&next=t] How to Understand Your Sexuality [https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-understand-your-sexuality-a-practical-guide-for-exploring-who-you-are-alex-iantaffi/04eeb8d4aa6b55cf?ean=9781787756182&next=t] On Our Best Behavior [https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-our-best-behavior-the-seven-deadly-sins-and-the-price-women-pay-to-be-good-elise-loehnen/6b17ed0599901f5f?ean=9780593243053&next=t] 00:00 Welcome and Pride 00:40 Purity Culture Exposed 02:44 Pride as Antidote 06:53 Witchcraft and Liminality 08:18 Meredith Coming Out Story 18:08 Labels and Identity Integration 38:49 Community Boundaries and Bots 42:26 Seven Deadly Sins Intro 45:47 Autonomy and Root Chakra 48:13 Pleasure and Sacral Chakra 50:29 Suffering as a Virtue 53:12 Work as Servitude 54:29 Stripping Your Agency 56:26 Learned Helplessness Trap 58:55 Instilling Self Loathing 01:06:12 Radical Self Acceptance 01:10:49 Stifling Self Expression 01:16:43 Stripping Your Insight 01:19:39 Cutting Spiritual Connection 01:31:04 Sovereignty Over Suffering 01:34:32 Resources and Closing Work with Meredith: fourthcupastrology.com Work with Sarai: saraijohnson.com

11: June 2026 Month Ahead Astrology and Tarot

Energies of June 2026! This month-ahead forecast starts with a tarot reading for June 2026, and then looks at the astrological energies. The R&R Tarot Spread is from Interobang Tarot and is available here [https://www.interrobangtarot.com/blog/summer-solstice-tarot-spread]. Sarai used the Fifth Spirit Tarot Deck here [https://www.hayhouse.com/fifth-spirit-tarot-card-deck?srsltid=AfmBOopRDXlOxPL4QzkdiVDJD6Yr00zGoIF7vGZdiI55I1kOvtb2X3er]. In this tarot reading has the Sun card in the center and then these are the other cards: * Recover & Renew: 8 of Wands * Rumpus & Romp: Heirophant * Release & Re-block: 8 of Cups Reversed * Rest & Relax: Hanged One These are the major transits happening in June: June 1: Mercury to Cancer at 4:55am June 2: Sun sextile saturn 3:48pm June 3: Mercury square neptune 5:18pm June 9: Venus conjunct Jupiter at 12:59pm Mercury square saturn at 10:38pm June 12: Mercury goes to pre shadow 5:53pm Venus square chiron 10:23pm June 13: venus into leo 3:46am June 14: GEMINI NEW MOON at 7:54pm June 15: Venus sextile Uranus at 3:52pm June 16: Venus trine neptune at 8:40pm June 17: Venus opposite pluto at 1:38pm June 19: chiron into Taurus June 21: SUMMER SOLSTICE/Litha Sun into Cancer at 1:24am Sun sextile chiron at 2:47am June 25: Venus trine saturn at 5:01am Sun square neptune at 3:38pm June 27: Mars sextile Jupiter at 9:50pm June 28: Mars into Gemini at 12:29pm June 29: Mercury retrograde at 10:35am FULL MOON Capricorn at 4:56pm Jupiter into leo at 10:52pm Work with Meredith: fourthcupastrology.com Work with Sarai: saraijohnson.com

10: Scapegoating And Healing From Nonprofits With Mazarine Treyz

Scapegoating And Healing From Nonprofits With Mazarine Treyz CW: Death and Grief In this episode, Mazarine Treyz joins Sarai and Meredith to talk about her new book (and workbook), Healing From The Nonprofit Sector [https://www.healingfromnonprofits.com/]. Mazarine and Sarai both have extensive history working in nonprofits, and recovering from them. In this episode, Mazarine talks about the dynamics of scapegoating, which might be something you've experienced if you've ever considered yourself a witch. The episode covers the anger that is normal from that experience, as well as the systemic and institutional dynamics that underpin it such as white supremacy and cultures of silence. If you have experienced unhealthy dynamics in the nonprofit sector or if you have found yourself over-giving, be sure to check out Mazarine's book! Also mentioned in this episode: Sarai's work with Leave in Love [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojyDvEC2X78] and Holy Ghosting [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/holy-ghosting/id1627628186] Meredith's books Career Defense 101 [https://careerdefense101.com] and The Inclusive Leader's Guide to Healthy Workplace Culture [https://healthyworkplaceculture.com] WhiteSupremacyCulture.info [https://WhiteSupremacyCulture.info] GriefHouse.org [https://GriefHouse.org] Feelings Wheel [https://feelingswheel.com/] Needs Wheel [https://galiacollaborative.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Galia-Needs-Wheel.pdf] Wheel of Power/Privilege [https://libguides.pratt.edu/gcpe-social-justice-resource-guide/deij-primer/understanding-power-privilege-intersectionality] Julie Ann Wambach's book The Battle Between Somebodies and Nobodies [https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/battles-between-somebodies-and-nobodies-combat-abuse-of-rank-at-work-and-at-home_robert-w-fuller_julie-ann-wambach/896139/?srsltid=AfmBOopRpHBhOrd8IB-4ykr_yI_mBKYvux3_mo3uLAl2Y5cATnJ3uRiK#edition=4918795] Gabor Mate's book The Myth of Normal [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-myth-of-normal-exp-trauma-illness-and-healing-in-a-toxic-culture-gabor-mat-md/62a15730b7505a5c?ean=9780593083888&next=t] Sara Ahmed's book Complaint! [https://bookshop.org/p/books/complaint-sara-ahmed/46c9da4cb0dd5159?ean=9781478017714&next=t] Modern Witch Tarot [https://www.lisasterle.com/mwt] Work with Meredith: fourthcupastrology.com Work with Sarai: saraijohnson.com

9: Twin Flame or Hot Stove?

Twin Flame or Hot Stove? In this episode, Sarai and Meredith unpack the concept of Twin Flames. That concept was originally coined by Elizabeth Clare Prophet [https://www.eprophet.info/elizabeth-clare-prophet] in the 1970s, but it reaches back to Greek and Christian myth in the way we think of it today. The concept refers to a fated relationship that feels like it has a karmic component to it, and is somewhat different than the concept of soulmates, although there is overlap between the two concepts. In this episode, Sarai describes the Twin Flame Universe (watch Escaping Twin Flames on Netflix [https://www.netflix.com/title/81615919]), and the cohosts discuss the draw of the concept of twin flames and some of the pitfalls in how that concept plays out as a practical matter, from stalking to obsessive relationships to enmeshment. If you might be in a twin flame relationship, the cohosts have been there and hopefully this episode does not judge that experience. Instead, they talk about some steps you can take to relieve the suffering component of a twin flame relationship if necessary and move toward healthy sovereignty and community. We all need each other, we all need growth, and also twin flame relationships can stifle personal power and create annihilation in a way that can become unhealthy. Also mentioned in this episode: Lucy Maude Montgomery [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Maud_Montgomery]'s books, Anne of Green Gables, [https://bookshop.org/p/books/anne-of-green-gables-l-m-montgomery/e5e6a0af5abbb038?ean=9780147514004&next=t] Emily of New Moon [https://bookshop.org/p/books/emily-of-new-moon-the-first-book-of-the-emily-trilogy-l-m-montgomery/8970409c0856faea?ean=9781515439820&next=t], and The Blue Castle [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-blue-castle-lucy-maud-montgomery/02770f7c87a53dc8?ean=9781774715031&next=t] Zora Neale Hurston's book Their Eyes Were Watching God [https://bookshop.org/p/books/their-eyes-were-watching-god-a-novel-zora-neale-hurston/ddab738a0c95ef04?ean=9780060838676&next=t] CNN's article exposing an online rape academy [https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2026/03/world/expose-rape-assault-online-vis-intl/index.html] Work with Meredith: fourthcupastrology.com Work with Sarai: saraijohnson.com

8: Sex Magic

Sex Magic In this episode, Sarai and Meredith dive into one of the most misunderstood — and most human — forms of magic: sex magic. Not the dramatic, velvet-robed version you've seen online. The real kind. The kind that lives in your body, in your breath, in the quiet space between who you've been told to be and who you actually are. They start with the basics. What sex magic actually is, why so much of the information out there feels either inaccessible or performative, and why that matters — especially if you grew up being taught that your body was something to manage rather than inhabit. From there, the conversation gets honest. They talk about the way purity culture, capitalism, and spiritual frameworks that trade on shame have separated so many of us from our own pleasure and power. About the idea that sex is simultaneously more sacred and more ordinary than we make it — a doorway into transformation, yes, but also just a deeply human thing that most of us are already doing. Sarai shares real stories of using sex magic for manifestation — solo practice, partnered practice, the unexpected downloads that arrive in liminal moments — and both hosts get into what consent, sovereignty, and genuine healing actually look like in this space. Plus: what your astrology chart and human design can reveal about your relationship with sexuality, and the gentlest possible places to start if your body still feels like unfamiliar territory. This one is for anyone who was taught that their desire was a problem — and is ready to find out it was always a gift. Work with Meredith: fourthcupastrology.com Work with Sarai: saraijohnson.com