Amanda Yates Garcia + The Mystic Autistic
Empower Your Magical Self: the podcast (S2 Ep4)
Welcome to the fourth episode of the second season of my podcast, Empower Your Magical Self. My hope is that it inspires you to celebrate a dream you’ve made come true and to really savor how that feels.
Today’s episode is a bit of a dream come true for me. My guest today is author, witch, and truly one of my personal heroes, Amanda Yates Garcia, also known as the Oracle of LA.
Working backwards, I reckon it was 2018 when I found Amanda on social media, the year before her brilliant book Initiated (to which I’ll return in a moment) was published. I was immediately smitten.
Though I’ve considered myself a witch since I was 17 (almost 35 years ago), I’d just begun to center that reality in my life when I came upon Amanda, the Oracle of LA. For most of my life at that point I’d been drifting between the levels of my personal hell. I was depressed, but I’m coming to understand at long last that my undiagnosed autism was more likely the root of my struggles than the “chronic, hereditary depression and anxiety” that were diagnosed (repeatedly, over many decades).
In 2018 the very, very thin ice on which my so-called life was situated began to crack. That was an extremely precarious time in my life…
