It’s the Witch Wave Season 8 Finale! Tourmaline is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, writer, and activist whose work is dedicated to Black trans joy and freedom. She’s the author of the new book Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson , which is the first comprehensive – and utterly beautiful! - biography of the visionary trans activist. Her prior book, One Day in June , is a picture book about Marsha and the Stonewall Uprising. Tourmaline is a TIME 100 Most Influential Person in the...
Jun 25, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Season 8Ep. 153
Kelli Scarr is an American singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist based in New York's Hudson Valley. She is also the founder of Vera Jean Music, a pioneering record label dedicated to championing the talents of women artists over the age of 40. Raised in Northern California, Scarr’s musical journey began in church, eventually leading her to Berklee College of Music. Over the years, she has woven her way through an eclectic range of projects, from fronting the bands Moonraker and Salt & ...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Season 8Ep. 152
Cara Claymore is a strength athlete and strength & fitness coach as well as a filmmaker, artist, writer, speaker, and Tarotist. They are a polytheistic witch and syncretic magickal operator, who subscribes to a fully enspirited worldview, and strives to play and provoke on the frontier of the human imagination. Their animist lens centers relationality at the heart of their artistic, magickal and fitness work. They have competed and placed at the national level in the sport of strong(wo)man, ...
May 28, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Season 8Ep. 151
Hilma’s Ghost is a feminist artist collective co-founded by artists and educators Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray that fuses contemporary art with modern spirituality through forms of divination and ritual. Named after the Swedish artist and mystic, Hilma af Klint, the collective's work is a critique of gendered power structures, providing a critical and revolutionary platform for rethinking gender in the arts while recovering feminist histories as its ballast for critique. Their work range...
May 14, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Season 8Ep. 150
Olga Naiman has been a New York City-based magazine editor, freelance stylist, and interior designer for the past twenty-five years. Her work has been featured extensively in publications such as House Beautiful, Domino Magazine, The Washington Post, Real Simple, and many more. Her unique approach to design is called Spatial Alchemy, and unites the spirit, psyche, body and home for the purpose of self-realization and transformation. Her new book Spatial Alchemy: Design Your Home to Transform You...
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Season 8Ep. 149
Ronald Hutton is a professor of history at Bristol University. He is a leading authority on ancient and medieval paganism and magic, the British Isles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and on global context of witchcraft beliefs. He is the author of seventeen books, including The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft , The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present, and his recent book , Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An In...
Apr 16, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Season 8Ep. 148
Paulina Stevens and Jezmina Von Thiele are the co-hosts of Romanistan , a podcast that celebrates Romani identity, culture, and tradition. They are also the co-authors of the book, Secrets of Romani Fortune-Telling: Divining with Tarot, Palmistry, Tea Leaves, and More . Paulina Stevens is a California-based author, activist, and spiritual entrepreneur. She was the subject of the LA Times podcast Foretold , which chronicles her powerful personal journey of breaking away from her insular community...
Apr 02, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Season 8Ep. 147
Mitch Horowitz is one of today’s most literate voices of occultism, mysticism, and the unexplained. He has bylines in The New York Times , The Washington Post , Politico , Time , and The Wall Street Journal , and appearances in Sundance-premiering movies, popular TV docuseries, and award-winning documentaries, as well as on CBS Sunday Morning , Dateline NBC , NPR’s All Things Considered , and other major media. Mitch also worked for many years in publishing, including as a vice president at Peng...
Mar 19, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Season 8Ep. 146
Danielle Aykroyd is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who performs under the name Vera Sola . Sometimes called the "lost love child of Leonard Cohen and Nancy Sinatra," Vera Sola’s smoky vocalization and searing, soaring songs have a cinematic aspect to them, and would feel equally at home in a David Lynch film or a prairie full of phantoms. A trained poet, her lyrics are twisting and imagistic, marked alternatively by restrained mystery and a resplendent, wild-eyed rage. Her 2018 de...
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Season 8Ep. 145
Matt Marble is an artist, author, audio producer and director of the American Museum of Paramusicology ("brilliant and humbling," The Paris Review ). Both creatively and through historical research, his work explores the inspired intersections of art and metaphysics and the intuitive disciplines they mutually employ. Matt is the author of Buddhist Bubblegum: Esotericism in the Creative Process of Arthur Russell ("groundbreaking work ," New York Times), and the producer/host of Secret Sound , a p...
Feb 19, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Season 8Ep. 144
Leila Taylor is a Brooklyn-based writer, speaker, and designer whose work focuses on the intersection of history and horror and the gothic in contemporary culture. She’s the author of Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread (out Feb 11, 2025) and Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul , her essays have appeared in Us: The Complete Annotated Screenplay , The Repeater Book of the Occult , The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene , and the graphic...
Feb 05, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Season 8Ep. 143
Erica Feldmann is the owner and founder of HausWitch , a company devoted to helping people heal their spaces and love their homes. She holds a Master's degree in Gender and Cultural Studies, with a research concentration in Witches. Her innate interest in the connection between home spaces and wellness led to the creation of HausWitch in 2012, and what started as a “micro budget + magick = makeover” interiors blog would eventually become a thriving brick and mortar shop and online community base...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Season 8Ep. 142
Astraleyes is a Los Angeles-based occult collage artist, archivist, and curator. He is also the publisher of Bibliomancers , an independent press dedicated to exploring vintage print design and its ties to cultural movements, with a special focus on the esoteric. Through Bibliomancers , Astraleyes seeks to uncover the connections between historical design, mysticism, and the hidden stories within visual culture. The Bibliomancers series has 5 books and counting, from SPELL BOUND , which is a boo...
Jan 08, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Season 8Ep. 141
Lakshmi Ramgopal is a musician and dancer who performs under the name Lykanthea . Her electro-mythic debut EP, Migration , received much-deserved praise from such outlets as The Chicago Tribune , Noisey, and Public Radio International’s The World (and listeners will recognize its track “Hand and Eye” as The Witch Wave theme song). She’s collaborated with Savage Sister on their sundrowned EP, and she’s been creating and performing music via sound installations and performances for spaces such as ...
Dec 18, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 8Ep. 140
Laura Tempest Zakroff (she/they) is a professional artist, author, performer, and Modern Traditional Witch based in New England. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her artwork has received awards and honors worldwide. Her work embodies myth and the esoteric through her drawings and paintings, jewelry, talismans, and other designs. Laura is the author of several bestselling Llewellyn books including Weave the Liminal , Sigil Witchery , Visual Alchemy , and Anatomy of a Wi...
Dec 04, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Season 8Ep. 139
Damsel Elysium is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and experimental sound and visual artist who uses double bass, violin, and original recorded sounds to explore alternative communication and connections with space, nature, and the unseen world. Their performances combine improvisational music-making, ritual, costume, and fantastical worldbuilding, giving the audience a sensation of being transported to another realm while staying rooted wholly in their bodies. Damsel’s EPs include 2024’s Whis...
Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 8Ep. 138
Robert Shehu-Ansell is a publisher, curator and independent scholar. Through his publishing company Fulgur Press he has represented esoteric artists in book form since 1992. These books are exquisitely produced, highly collectible, and deeply magical. From grimoires to artist monographs to tarot decks, everything Fulgur publishes is meticulously crafted with eye towards elegance and deluxe beauty. Their most recent publication is the first English language edition of Surrealist founder André Bre...
Nov 06, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 8Ep. 137
Joanna Ebenstein is the founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy , which is the world’s leading community that focuses on, among other things, the culture and contemplation of death. Morbid Anatomy has taken many forms since its founding in 2007. It’s been a wildly popular blog, a library, a museum, a project-in-residence at Green-Wood Cemetery, just to name a few, and it’s currently both an in-person gathering space in Brooklyn’s Industry City, as well as a thriving online community that...
Oct 23, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 8Ep. 136
Judika Illes is the author of numerous books devoted to spells, spirits, and witchcraft, including Encyclopedia of Spirits , as well as Pure Magic, Daily Magic , Encyclopedia of Witchcraft , Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints, and Sages , and Magic When You Need It . Judika also was a significant contributor to the Witchcraft book Pam co-edited for Taschen’s Library of Esoterica Series, and she’s been a speaker at the Occult Humanities Conference as well. Her newest literary offering, Witches: A Co...
Oct 09, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Season 8Ep. 135
Welcome to Season 8 of The Witch Wave! Cécile McLorin Salvant is a three-time Grammy-winning singer and composer, considered by many to be the Ella Fitzgerald/Sarah Vaughan/Billie Holiday/choose-your-own-iconic-vocalist of our time. The late opera legend Jessye Norman described Salvant as “a unique voice supported by an intelligence and full-fledged musicality, which light up every note she sings.” Salvant’s style and repertoire are extensive and expansive connecting vaudeville, blues, theater, ...
Sep 25, 2024•1 hr 40 min•Season 8Ep. 134
This season finale of The Witch Wave features Suranne Jones , the award-winning English actor, producer, and series creator. She’s been nominated for several awards for acting and won a BAFTA for her starring role in the hit series Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned . Some highlights from her decades long television career include starring roles in Gentleman Jack , Vigil , and Scott and Bailey , and she’s also appeared in such British television intuitions as Coronation Street and Doctor Who . She’s...
Jun 26, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Season 7Ep. 133
Cat Willett is a Brooklyn-based artist. She has written, illustrated, and published two full-length books. The first is The Queen of Wands: The Story of Pamela Colman Smith, the Artist Behind the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck . Her newest book, Women of Tarot, An Illustrated History of Divinators, Card Readers, and Mystics is out next week. Cat is fascinated by tarot as a facet of art history, and her work aims to elevate the women behind its evolution. She’s dedicated the last few years to telling the...
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 7Ep. 132
Kimberly Rodriguez ( @poetagoddess ) is a first-generation Indigenous Mexican artist and writer based in the Bay Area, CA. Her art reflects her journey toward reclaiming her indigenous roots and exploring different forms of self-expression. As an artist, Kimberly is deeply committed to creating work that is inclusive and accessible to all. She believes that art has the power to heal, connect, and inspire and strives to use her platform to promote positivity and self-love. In addition to her art,...
May 29, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 7Ep. 131
Pati Dubroff is an iconic, world-renowned makeup artist. She has worked with such glamazons as Margot Robbie, Kirsten Dunst, Elizabeth Olsen, Laura Dern, Christy Turlington, Priyanka Chopra, and Emma Watson to name but a few. She’s also collaborated with such photographic phenoms as Annie Leibovitz, Peter Lindbergh, and Tom Munro, and her artistry has been featured on countless covers, red carpets, photo shoots, and brand ambassadorships. She is an ambassador for Chanel beauty, and she has amass...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Season 7Ep. 130
Christopher Marmolejo is a Brown, queer, and trans writer, diviner, and educator. They use divination to promote a literacy of liberation, and their new book Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy is an in-depth exploration of how tarot can be a tool of freedom, magical interrogation, and energetic support for anyone, and particularly for BIPOC folks. Christopher was born and raised in San Bernardino, California, among the pines, in community with the Serrano clan. With nine-plus y...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 7Ep. 129
Ron Regé, Jr. is a Los Angeles-based cartoonist who began drawing and self-publishing comics in the early 1990s in Cambridge, MA. Though he came out of zine culture and the underground comics scene, his work took a distinctly mystical turn thanks to a spiritual awakening he had the early 2000s. From that point on, his comics turned cosmic, exploring ideas of the occult, esotericism, and magic all in his signature psychedelic style. Though whimsical and whirling at first glance, Ron’s work belies...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Season 7Ep. 128
Jodi Wille is a director and producer of the critically acclaimed documentary The Source Family and her brand new feature documentary Welcome Space Brothers which is about The Unarius Academy of Science. Her work explores people whose extraordinary true stories and creations leave us with new ways of seeing, and she has a special interest in so-called outside artists, alternative spiritual seekers, and radical intentional communities. Jodi has a background in commercial, editorial, and rock band...
Apr 03, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 7Ep. 127
Penny Slinger is a Los Angeles–based artist whose work investigates the feminine, the magical and the erotic. In the late 1960s, her encounters with the work of Max Ernst initiated an enduring involvement with both the Surrealist movement and the medium of collage. Her groundbreaking publications such as 50% The Visible Woman (1971) and An Exorcism: A Photo Romance (1977) explore the image of woman through a series of often provocative photomontage self-portraits, and a new expanded edition of A...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 7Ep. 126
Robin Ha is an award-winning author and illustrator of several graphic novels including the best-selling comic recipe book Cook Korean!: A Comic Book With Recipes and the illustrated memoir Almost American Girl which is about her move from South Korea to America when she was 14. Robin’s new graphic novel, The Fox Maidens is her first foray into fiction, and is based on the Korean folklore of her ancestors. Robin’s comics and illustrations have appeared in various publications, such as the Washin...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 7Ep. 125
Soull & Dynasty Ogun are identical twins who together are the forces behind their design and thought incubator, L’Enchanteur , which they founded in 2017. L'Enchanteur is a multifaceted design house, creating unique and ethereal fine jewelry, accessories, and garments which draw from esoterica and alchemical symbolism, the mystical practices of their Nigerian and Dominican ancestors, and their own inventive style and magical intentions. Both Soull and Dynasty are autodidactic artisans in the...
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 7Ep. 124
