# your practice IS your teacher [w/ Aidan Wachter]

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Podcast: [GRACEPILLED with Hanna Williams](https://stenobird.com/podcast/gracepilled-with-hanna-williams-7267150)
Published: 2025-06-12T14:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://gracepilled.simplecast.com/episodes/your-practice-is-your-teacher-w-aidan-wachter-gotAo9h4
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## Resource

Aidan Wachter is a self-described “mongrel animist” and magical practitioner whose path has been shaped less by systems and more by direct experience, dirt, string, and a willingness to listen deeply to the spirits that walk with him. In this conversation, Aidan shares how punk rock led him to magic, how a major breakdown clarified his role as a teacher and healer (even if those titles make him cringe), and why the tools we already have might be more than enough. We talk about animism, autonomy, spiritual hoarding, ancestor complications, embodied spirit work, and the dangers of trying to fix spiritual problems with material logic. If you’ve ever felt allergic to orthodoxy but deeply drawn to the unseen, you’re going to love this one.

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