Taisia Kitaiskaia is a Russian-American poet and writer of witchly words. She is the author of two books of experimental, enchanting advice from the infamous Slavic witch, Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles and its follow-up, Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times from Ask Baba Yaga . She has also written The Nightgown and Other Poems and Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers , the latter of which is a collaboration with artist (and former Witch Wave guest) K...
Mar 10, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 67
The Brujas of Brooklyn are Griselda Rodriguez-Solomon and Miguelina Rodriguez. They are identical twin PhDs who are professors of the Social Sciences within the City College of New York (CUNY). These brujas merge the magic of ancestral medicine with sharp intellect, combining the physical, the mental, and the spiritual to help people become more fully integrated beings. Their platform provides the balm to help folks heal from internalized oppression, particularly women. As certified kundalini an...
Feb 24, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 66
Douglas Little is a natural perfumer, creative director, product designer, and artist. He is the founding director of Heretic , a natural, artisanal fragrance brand that develops scents based on the mysterious, sensual and feral aspects of nature. He has collaborated with the likes of Lady Gaga, Dita Von Teese, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Alexander McQueen, and has also specialized in installation work, creating provocative window displays and other artful branded environments for luxury clientele like...
Feb 10, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 65
Leila Taylor is the author of Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul . She is a writer and designer whose work focuses on the gothic in Black culture, horror, and the aesthetics of melancholy. She’s been published in The Journal of Horror Studies , The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene , Dispatches from the Institute of Incoherent Geography, and The Repeater Book of the Occult. She has given talks for the International Gothic Association in Mexico and the U....
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 4Ep. 64
Jeanna Kadlec is a writer and astrologer whose work has been featured in such places as O Magazine , Allure , and Autostraddle . She is a culture columnist at Longreads and the author of the forthcoming memoir HERETIC . Jeanna describes herself as “native Midwesterner, ex-evangelical, recovering academic,” and she is also the founder of the now-closed Bluestockings Boutique, the first-ever lingerie boutique geared to the LGBTQ+ community. She now creates the Astrology for Writers newsletter and ...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 63
Sarah Chavez has dedicated her adult life to examining death and dying through an intersectional-feminist and inclusive lens. She one of the founders of the Death Positive movement , through which she examines the relationship between ritual, decolonization, and death itself. She is the executive director of the Order of the Good Death , a founding member of The Collective for Radical Death Studies , and co-founder of feminist site Death & the Maiden . She weaves together the relationship be...
Dec 23, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 62
Sarah Faith Gottesdiener is an artist, author, and business owner living in Los Angeles, California. She wrote the cult classic workbooks Many Moons from 2015-2018, and now creates the Many Moons Lunar Planners . She has sold over 80,000 copies of her limited edition publications, completely independent of any traditional publisher, and almost entirely through word-of-mouth. In addition, Sarah has created art, design, and apparel via her Modern Women line that have been seen in movies, televisio...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 4Ep. 61
Susan L. Aberth is the Edith C. Blum Professor of the Art History and Visual Culture Program at Bard College, and a world-renowned expert on occult art and surrealism. Her 2004 book, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (Lund Humphries) helped introduce Carrington’s magical work to the masses. She also recently co-authored The Tarot of Leonora Carrington (Fulgur Press, 2020) with Mexican curator Tere Arcq, which is an analysis of Carrington’s tarot paintings and original major arcana ...
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Season 4Ep. 60
Tayannah Lee McQuillar is a writer and researcher who focuses on shining a light on Black and Indigenous American spiritual and cultural history. She is the author of Rootwork: Using the Folk Magic of Black America for Love, Money, and Success , Astrology for Mystics , and the poetic novella Creole Fire , which imagines a relationship between historical occult figures Marie Laveau and Paschal Beverly Randolph. She is also the creator of two divination decks: The Sibyls Oraculum: Oracles of the B...
Nov 11, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Season 4Ep. 59
Clown is the percussionist, creative director, and co-founding member of Slipknot , one of the world’s biggest, most beloved bands, metal or otherwise. Slipknot has released 6 studio albums including their most recent, critically acclaimed, WE ARE NOT YOUR KIND, as well as 2 live albums, 1 compilation album, and 5 live DVDs. The band formed in 1995 and have since gone on to sell upwards of 30 million albums, receive 10 Grammy nominations, and win a Grammy in 2006 for Best Metal Performance with ...
Oct 28, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 4Ep. 58
Phyllis Curott is one of America’s first “out” Witches, an activist attorney for the rights of Witches, and author of four internationally bestselling books including the groundbreaking Book of Shadows: A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddess . Her newest project, The Witches' Wisdom Tarot , is releasing in late October 2020. Phyllis was named one of the Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year by Jane Magazine , and in 2014 was inducted into the Martin Luther K...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Season 4Ep. 57
Welcome to Season 4! Camille Rose Garcia is a world renowned painter, illustrator, and author whose work is steeped in warped fairy tales and (super)natural magic. The child of a Mexican activist filmmaker father and a muralist/painter mother, she apprenticed at age 14 working on murals with her mother while growing up in the suburbs of Orange County, visiting Disneyland, and going to punk shows with the other disenchanted youth of that era. Her fine art has been displayed internationally and fe...
Sep 30, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Season 4Ep. 56
Season Finale! Rachel Pollack is a legend who is perhaps best known as one of the world’s foremost tarot experts, having written such classics as Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom and The New Tarot Handbook . She’s also the creator of The Shining Tribe Tarot and co-creator with Robert Place of The Burning Serpent Oracle and the Raziel Deck . But tarot is just of tip of the iceberg, as she is the author of 43 books of fiction and non-fiction, many of them in the speculative or sci-fi genres, includ...
Jun 24, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 3Ep. 55
Brooklynn is an Atlanta-based singer, songwriter, and producer who makes magical pop music. Her latest album, My Shadow and I , is an introspective excavation of her multidimensional identity as a queer, black woman and witch. She is also an accomplished visual artist and designer, who runs the online shop Bébé Vaudou , which carries her jewelry and clothing line and other mystical merch, including her viral WITCHES AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY t-shirts, posters, and stickers. And she is donating 100...
Jun 10, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 54
Bonus episode! The Witch Wave is thrilled to introduce Predictions , a new daily episodic story told over 30 days, written and performed by Matthew Freeman. Listen to Predictions to discover what the signs portend, what the stars reveal, and what the cards foretell. Predictions is an audio drama produced by Theater Accident. Subscribe now to start the story from the beginning on June 1st ....
Jun 01, 2020•5 min
Kim Krans is a visionary artist , author, and creator of the New York Times bestseller, The Wild Unknown Tarot , The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit deck , The Wild Unknown Journal , and The Wild Unknown Archetypes Deck and Guidebook , as well as several children’s books including ABC DREAM and Whose Moon Is That? Her new book for adults, Blossoms and Bones: Drawing a Life Back Together, was recently published by HarperOne, and is a graphic memoir about using art and ritual as tools of shadow excavat...
May 27, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 53
Robin Rose Bennett is a writer, green witch, and wisewoman who has been practicing herbalism for over 30 years - and Pam’s teacher. As a practitioner of WiseWoman Healing Ways of Herbal Medicine and EarthSpirit teachings, she offers her knowledge in many formats from in-person classes and conference workshops all over the world, to online videos, and via her herbal apprenticeship circles. Robin is the author of Healing Magic: A Green Witch Guidebook to Conscious Living and The Gift of Healing He...
May 13, 2020•1 hr 43 min•Season 3Ep. 52
Edgar Fabián Frías is a nonbinary, queer, indigenous and Latinx multidisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and psychotherapist. They work in a variety of media including photography, video art, installations, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, and other emergent genres, and they incorporate magical practice into their artwork - and vice versa. They also conduct ceremonial, divinatory, and healing services through their offering called Our Sacred Web . For 2019/2020, Frías is a visual arts fe...
Apr 29, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 51
Lisa Marie Basile is a poet, essayist and editor who focuses on witchcraft, shadow work, and using the power of language to heal from trauma. She's author of the non-fiction book Light Magic for Dark Times: More Than 100 Spells, Rituals, and Practices for Coping in a Crisis and The Magical Writing Grimoire: Use the Word as Your Wand, for Magic, Manifestation, and Ritual which is out this month. She is also the founder and creative director of Luna Luna Magazine , an editor at Ingram’s poetry sit...
Apr 15, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 50
Christina Oakley Harrington is the founder and presiding spirit of Treadwell’s , an esoteric bookshop in London with a feverishly devoted following. As both a former academic with a doctorate in Medieval History and a decades-long pagan, she also happens to be a rare example of a scholar practitioner, which is a combination we happen to find utterly irresistible. Christina is a respected author, consultant and authority on paganism and witchcraft, and her media appearances have included Channel ...
Apr 01, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 49
Yugen Blakrok is a critically-acclaimed hip-hop artist who hails from the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Her occult-flavored rhymes draw from world mythology and an eclectic blend of various spiritual systems, while sounding entirely unique and future-forward. Her 2013 album, Return of the Astro-Goth caught the attention of musical maestros such as Chuck D, who makes a cameo appearance on her newest album, Anima Mysterium (2019). Many might recognize her from her blazing performance on the Black ...
Mar 18, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 3Ep. 48
Jessica Dore is a licensed social worker and tarot practitioner, teacher, and writer who is interested in using tarot cards to, as she puts it, “help people understand the interplay between internal and external life, and to behave flexibly and in alignment with what is most precious.” In other words, she uses tarot as a means for helping the mind and the spirit work in more interconnected ways. Jessica’s hugely popular Twitter and Instagram accounts and beautifully written newsletter all delve ...
Mar 04, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 47
Staci Ivori is an extraordinary circle leader and ritual facilitator for women and feminine folks throughout the world. Her mission has been to create brave and sacred spaces that foster growth and re-connection with one’s true essence of self. She teaches and leads workshops, moon ceremonies, and other magical gatherings, and she also an intuitive guide, tarot reader, reiki practitioner, and herbalist. In addition to all that she is a representative for the nonprofit organization Woman Within I...
Feb 19, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 46
Chelsea Selby is the creative visionary and CEO of Witch Baby Soap , a witchy bath and body care company with a cult following. Her line of soaps, bath bombs, body creams, and spell boxes are infused with magical ingredients and adorned with magical symbols. Not only is Witch Baby Soap lauded and obsessed over via their online shop and their massive social media presence on Instagram and TikTok, but Chelsea recently opened the Witch Baby Soap store which one can visit in Cranford, NJ. Chelsea an...
Feb 05, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 45
Benebell Wen is a writer and practitioner of many Western and Eastern esoteric systems including tarot, astrology, numerology, Feng Shui, and I Ching. She’s author of the books Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth and The Tao of Craft: Fu Talismans and Casting Sigils in the Eastern Esoteric Tradition . She’s also creator of the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot deck and her annual Metaphysician’s Day Planner, and she has also taught many classes on a plethora of occult ...
Jan 22, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 44
Augusten Burroughs is the author of many best-selling books and memoirs, including Dry, Magical Thinking, Lust and Wonder, and the literary behemoth, Running with Scissors . Despite his consistently confessional approach, Burroughs’s latest book, Toil & Trouble , explores a subject he had yet to broach: the fact that he identifies as a witch, and has been practicing witchcraft throughout his whole life. On this episode, he shares some of his spell casting techniques, discusses how magic has ...
Jan 08, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 43
Dianca London is a writer whose articles about witchcraft, literature, and black occulture have appeared in such places as VICE, Bitch, Glamour, The Washington Post, Shondaland, SELF, Nylon, Electric Literature, and more, and her memoir PLANNING FOR THE APOCALYPSE is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster’s 37 Ink. She is a Kimbilio Fiction fellow, the former online editor of Well-Read Black Girl, and the former prose editor of Lit Magazine. She also teaches writing at The New School and Pratt In...
Dec 25, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 42
Amanda Yates Garcia is a writer, artist, professional witch, who is also known as the Oracle of Los Angeles. Her book INITIATED: MEMOIR OF A WITCH has gotten glowing, starred accolades from places like Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus Review, and she and her work have been featured in The New York Times , The LA Times , The Believer, CNN, and via a viral appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight . She has led classes and workshops on magic and witchcraft at institutions including UCLA, Museum of Contemp...
Dec 11, 2019•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 41
Twin Temple bandmates – and real-life couple – Alexandra and Zachary James describe their music as Satanic Doo-Wop. Their classic 50s and 60s rock 'n roll sound is an irresistibly catchy contrast to their deliciously diabolical lyrics about witches, magic, sex, and liberation. As occult practitioners, Twin Temple also draw from their magical beliefs to create provocative and irreverent rituals on stage and on screen, and their albums have garnered praise from such outlets as VICE, NYLON , and Th...
Nov 27, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 40
Dorothea Lasky is a poet who has published five full-length collections of poetry including Milk , Thunderbird , and Rome and a new book of essays called Animal , as well as appearing in various literary journals and illustrious publications like The New Yorker , Paris Review , and American Poetry Review . She and Alex Dmitrov together are the Astro Poets , and their phenomenally popular Twitter account of poetic horoscopes and salty astrology insights has led them to writing the newly released ...
Nov 13, 2019•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 39
