Magical Livelihood

What is Magical Livelihood? How can you use your gifts to create income? In this episode of Wisdom of Ages, host Ayn Cates Sullivan and guest Kris Seraphine talk about the interrelatedness of money, myth, and magic. They also revolve their conversation around ghosts and the process of navigating your psychic awareness. Tune in and discover how you can actively work on your gifts to create income and why business can be a grounded vision of a higher self. 

Ayn Cates Sullivan:

Welcome, friends and mystical travelers. This is Ayn Cates Sullivan, host of Wisdom of the Ages, where we invite the sacred, and often the magical, into modern-day reality. 

Many people do not connect money, work and sacred purpose. And yet my guest today, Kris Seraphine, is a master in connecting people with a magical livelihood. As she says, “You don’t have to barter your soul to pay the bills.” What a great idea, right? 

So today we’ll be discussing Kris Seraphine’s book Return to Enchantment: Your Guide to Creating a Magical Livelihood. This book enchantingly brings together archetypal psychology, personal practices, and down-to-earth business advice. This is business with a little touch of magic, right up my alley. I think you’ll find it fun.

Kris is a tenacious and magical business coach who knows how to help entrepreneurs succeed without hiding their true identities. She consults and coaches heart-centered business owners, helping them create brands that reflect their uniqueness. So Kris Seraphine, welcome to Wisdom of the Ages.

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Kris Seraphine:

Thank you so much, Ayn. I’m so pleased to be here. As you know, pleasure is super important and central to Goddess, as you are a Goddess-loving, magical woman yourself. 

Ayn Cates Sullivan:

Absolutely. And I love that we have this connection with Pacifica Graduate Institute and Glastonbury, so I think we could dive in and have a really great conversation today. 

Kris Seraphine:

Yes. 

Ayn Cates Sullivan:

Yeah. My first question: How did you connect myth, money, and magic? 

Kris Seraphine:

Well, myth was something I was drawn to very young. I loved Greek mythology. I had all these parakeets, and each one was named after a Greek god or goddess. And it was like people just got tired of hearing me talk about Greek mythology. I was just fascinated by the story. I was fascinated with The Little Mermaid, that was another. I think we might have had a connection there too, you and I. 

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But the myths and the stories always felt magical to me, but I didn’t really know how to … Maybe not “applies” is quite the right word, but I didn’t really analyze why are they feeling so magical? What is behind that?

And many years later, obviously, I went to Pacifica where I majored in mythological studies with an emphasis in depth psychology that all brought it together. 

But I was really into Joseph Campbell at age 12. Actually, my dad’s second wife. I’m really good friends with you. He’s had quite a few new wives now, but she was the one she played. I think it was the Bill Moyers series with Joseph Campbell. And I just rewatched that 1,000,001 times from the time I was very young.

I also saw dead people as a child. I was one of those kids that were very psychic, and I saw disembodied spirits. I was very much connected, I started reading Tarot at age 12 because my mom was really into going to … I don’t know if you remember The Bodhi Tree, it was a store.

Ayn Cates Sullivan:

Of course, of course, I remember The Bodhi Tree.

Kris Seraphine:

Yeah. Back in the day, they had a lot of workshops: How to develop your clairvoyant or your psychic skills and how to channel. My mom was really into that; she was a Pisces. She took all those classes and they all told her, “Your daughter’s really psychic and your daughter should have this.” My mom was really super supportive, but definitely, I got scared of seeing spirits, so I cut it off.

Then, well, fast forward to 2001, I was working for Disney. And at that point I’d been working in the entertainment industry for 15 years, something like that, maybe longer, doing marketing. And I always had a love/hate relationship with marketing, but it was my main source of livelihood. 

For some reason, I’d wake up at five in the morning and I’d email my boss, “Oh my God, I have this idea.” And they just loved it. 

It was like I was always channeling. But again, I didn’t call it that. It was like, “Oh, I woke up with an idea.” I think, I started off as someone’s assistant and I mean, I rose up to the ranks of producer within a year and a half, two years, I mean, fast. 

Ayn Cates Sullivan:

Wow. That’s amazing. That’s really amazing. And they didn’t know that really you were calling upon your muses, but-

Kris Seraphine:

Yeah. I mean, I didn’t know that, either. But-

Ayn Cates Sullivan:

I have to take an ad break. I’m sorry to jump right in the middle, but I got to take a little ad break. Can you give us your website? 

Kris Seraphine:

Sure. It’s goddessilluminated.com. You can learn more about me here, and also on Facebook. I have a Facebook group called Biz Goddess Unleashed. 

Ayn Cates Sullivan:

Okay, that sounds fabulous. When we come back from the short break, we’re going to talk more about the ways in which business can be grounded into the vision of your higher self, which I think is interesting for lots and lots of people.

And also hopefully we’ll dive more into Glastonbury, goddesses, and disembodied spirits and all sorts of things. So stay tuned. We’ll be right back.

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