Hello and welcome to the Spiritual Shape Podcast I'm your host, Alia Lovely and today we have author of a really cool book called Intuition. We have Mia Magic. Hello dear, how are you doing?

Hi Queen, I'm doing great, so happy to be here. So happy to have you.

I've followed you on Instagram for a while and I'm just really bonded with your energy.

I love the energy you come to the table with you.

You are not a gatekeeper like I just love it. It's very very inclusive.

It's wonderful information. It's incredibly grounded.

So sometimes we get people on the show and no shade to them love them too that can be very like out there with things and you have a very out there way that I really enjoy however you always bring it back to the grounding you always bring it back to the grounding,

you always bring it back to things that people know

and are rooted in and understand

and trying to bring it back to that old wealth and knowledge,

which is super appreciate.

So before I ask you all the questions, I want to first like give an introduction to our audience kind of like what was your first notion of magic and why do you call yourself a witch?

Oh, great question.

I, my first notions of magic were in all of my books

as a little girl.

I just lived in a fantasy world and I had several I have been talking about them a lot lately had several books these like two quartets by Tamara Pierce the song of the Lioness and the Immortals.

And those eight books fundamentally

formed who I am as a person.

And even a beautiful, like fairy godmother in my life she was talking about your

gift oh your gift that you have your gift and in those books magic was called the

gift if you had magic it was called the gift right and so I I

experienced these magical worlds that felt so resonant and so true for me for my whole I was a very advanced reader so I started reading these books that were maybe for like 13 year olds when I was like seven like I just dove in and then Harry Potter came out and I was just very

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