Aidan Wachter: Hypersigils and Practical Magic
The Re-Patterning Podcast by Arden Leigh
Episode notes
Today on the Re-Patterning Podcast, we're joined by Aidan Wachter, a practicing witch and animist, and the author of books like Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic, Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past & Telling True Lies, and Changeling: A Book of Qualities. Our conversation explores magick, deconditioning, and how to move beyond inherited beliefs that keep people stuck in their patterns.
Aidan traces his path from punk rock and chaos magick into a more grounded animist worldview, explaining how he came to see “practice” as a way of rewiring the nervous system and learning what is actually true for oneself. Our conversation also explores hypersigils, Aidan's "black book" and "corridor" exercises, and his approach to trauma work as a form of imaginative repair and timeline ...