Dr. Amy Hale is an Atlanta-based writer, curator, critic, ethnographer, and folklorist, who focuses on esoteric history, magic, art, culture, women, and Cornwall. She has written widely on the surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, and in 2009 she received a grant from the Paul Mellon Foundation for her research. Her biography of Colquhoun, Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved Gully (2020) is widely praised, and is just one of many ways that Amy has helped amplify Ithell’s impact on ar...
Feb 07, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 7Ep. 123
Chelsea Wolfe is a critically-acclaimed singer, guitarist, and songwriter, who has been hailed by Guitar World as “the queen of gothic industrial guitar.” Her dark and dreamy music has also been described as doom-folk and goth-folk, though her albums have spanned genre from rock to electronica. She’s been celebrated for her solo offerings and her collaborations, including her otherworldly contributions on the soundtrack to the 2022 horror film, X . Chelsea’s seventh studio album under her own na...
Jan 24, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 7Ep. 122
Lisa Stardust (they/she) is a New York City-based astrologer who has been part of the astrology community for over 15 years. She writes columns for O Magazine , Teen Vogue , The Hoodwitch , Cosmo , Bust , British Vogue , and more. She has also been featured in Vice , Refinery29 , Bustle , The Daily Mail , and InStyle to name a few. Lisa is the author of the book Saturn Return Survival Guide: Navigating this Cosmic Rite of Passage as well as two oracle decks : The Love Deck and The Astrology Deck...
Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 7Ep. 121
Renowned image alchemist Stephen Ellcock is a London-based curator, writer, researcher, and online collector of images who has spent the last decade creating an ever-expanding virtual museum of art that is open to all via social media, attracting more than 600,000 followers worldwide. He is the author of many art books including All Good Things , The Book of Change , and The Cosmic Dance , and he is co-author of England On Fire and Jeux de Mains . His new book is Underworlds: A Compelling Journe...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 7Ep. 120
Nikoo Bafti is an Iranian-British visual artist and illustrator currently based in Rome, Italy. After graduating with an honors BA degree in Illustration from the Arts University of Bournemouth, Nikoo began her early career as an animation intern at Disney Channel UK, and has since been working independently as an illustrator as well as exhibiting her fine art internationally. Inspired by the traditional miniature paintings of her Persian heritage, Nikoo combines intricate narrative imagery with...
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 7Ep. 119
Juliet Diaz returns to The Witch Wave! She is an Indigenous Taino Cubana from a long line of brujx and spiritualists. She is also a Behike, which is medicine woman and keeper of the Higuayagua Taino tribe. She is also a spiritual & literary activist, an award-winning writer, and a remarkable seven-time bestselling author, with her works being translated into twelve languages. Her literary contributions including the books Witchery , Plant Witchery, and her most recent, The Altar Within , as ...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Season 7Ep. 118
Ketzirah Lesser, haMa’agelet (The Circle Maker), is a maker and teacher of the sacred arts who is an ordained Kohenet and Celebrant as well as holding a BFA from the University of Miami. Through Devotaj Sacred Arts, she explores Jewishly-rooted making, mussar, and magick to connect past, present, & possible future(s); cræfting artifacts for a forgotten future that is more equitable, just, and spiritually alive. The second edition of her oracle deck, Eit/Aht: a Netivot Wisdom Oracle , which i...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Season 7Ep. 117
Bri Luna returns to the show in celebration of her new book, BLOOD, SEX, MAGIC , a gorgeous visual grimoire teeming with spells, photography, artwork, and personal anecdotes meant to inspire the reader’s own witchcraft and self-expression. Luna is the founder of The HoodWitch , a web platform and lifestyle brand dedicated to empowering, educating, and cultivating community through meaningful rituals supporting self-care and wellness. She is devoted to offering “Everyday Magic for the modern myst...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 7Ep. 116
Welcome to Season 7 of The Witch Wave! Chris Fleming is an American comedian whose viral videos and standup specials have earned him millions of fans. His blend of gender-bending fashion, elastic physicality, obscure observations, addictively silly original songs, and adoration of unhinged puppets is an irresistible comedic brew. He is perhaps best known for his YouTube series Gayle , in which he stars as the titular high-strung suburban mom Gayle Waters-Waters, though Pam first encountered his ...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 7Ep. 115
Sadie Dupuis is the guitarist, songwriter, and singer of rock band Speedy Ortiz , whose albums include Major Arcana, Foil Deer, Twerp Verse, and their forthcoming album, Rabbit Rabbit which is about to be released on Sept 1 of this year. She is also the producer and multi-instrumentalist behind the pop project Sad13 , through which she’s released the albums Slugger and Haunted Painting. She’s also collaborated with artists such as Lizzo, Ben Lee, and the New Pornographers. In addition to all tha...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Season 6Ep. 114
Priestess Stephanie Rose Bird is the author of numerous books of magic including the COVR award-winning Sticks, Stones, Roots and Bones , as well as The Healing Power of African American Spirituality , A Healing Grove , Four Seasons of Mojo , 365 Days of Hoodoo , and her most recent book, African American Magick: A Modern Grimoire for the Natural Home . She also illustrated two of her published books and is illustrator for the upcoming book, Motherland Herbal. Priestess Stephanie is a Black magi...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 6Ep. 113
Brian Cotnoir is an alchemist, artist and award-winning filmmaker. He is the author of many books including Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter . Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work , The Emerald Tablet , Alchemical Meditations. and a series of Alchemical ‘Zines . His newest book, On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy will be out on June 13th, and is available for pre-order now. Brian has also presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of alchemy in...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 6Ep. 112
Untitled Queen is a queer Filipinx / Boricua artist based on the stolen land of LenapeHoking otherwise known as Brooklyn. She is a storyteller creating deeply emotional and visceral performances while exploring what it means to be a queer millennial working artist in New York. Through an interplay of drag, installation, and drawing her work explores the growing pains and joys of queer adolescence into adulthood, while challenging and dissolving colonial notions of culture and belonging. Untitled...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 6Ep. 111
Katherine May is an internationally bestselling author and podcaster based in Whitstable, UK. Her most recent book, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age became an instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. Her internationally bestselling hybrid memoir Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times was adapted as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, and was shortlisted for the Porchlight and Barnes and Noble Book of the Year. The Electricity of Every Living Thing , her...
May 03, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 6Ep. 110
The Witch Wave fairy podmother and sonic sensei, CC Paschal , has been on a spiritual - and material - journey to save their family's ancestral home *by the end of this month!* Please share CC's GoFundMe widely and do contribute if you are able to! CC Paschal (she/they) currently heads editorial content and development at the audio production house, Molten Heart . She also teaches audio documentary art, most recently at The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies at Maine College of Art & Des...
Apr 26, 2023•56 min
Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik is a therapist who specializes in treating trauma and PTSD/c-PTSD for women and queer & trans folks, using EMDR, IFS, and feminist therapy practices to help clients come home to themselves. She began as a crisis counselor at a peer led, grassroots organization and quickly found her calling, going on to serve at many organizations and non-profits that provide therapeutic services for women & LGBTQ folks. Over the years Andrea has been able to serve the LGBTQ+, femini...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 6Ep. 109
BONUS EPISODE: In honor of the brilliant Rachel Pollack who passed away on April 7th, we're rereleasing our episode with her. May you rest in peace and power, Rachel, our eternal High Priestess of Heresy. <3 *** Rachel Pollack was 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 Bu...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 19 min
Evan Doherty is the Toronto-based creator of Arcane Bullshit , a darkly hilarious, many-tentacled project with a cult following that encompasses weird merch , macabre memes , the Arcane Bullshit Oracle Deck - and now an upcoming book. Arcane Bullshit juxtaposes vintage found imagery from mythology, biology, and history with surreal, absurdist captions. The Arcane Bullshit Oracle Deck is Evan’s twisted send-up of tarot, with 106 cards designed by him, and he’s been making these cards since 2011. ...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 6Ep. 108
Tessa Perlow is an artist specializing in embroidery and beading. Her work is inspired by magic and nature, and she uses stitching to transform second hand materials into special, one of a kind pieces. Tessa was born and raised in New Jersey and grew up with a passion for arts and crafts. She went on to study fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC and then fell in love with embroidery post-grad while pursuing a path as an independent working artist. Symbols play a large rol...
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 6Ep. 107
Andrea Stein is a children's book author and the owner of Moon Dust Press , an independent publisher of magical books for kids based in Austin, Texas. As a mother of 3 and practicing Pagan witch herself, she’s committed to creating resources for kids in earth-based households and changing the narrative around witchcraft in children’s literature. Andrea started writing books about witchcraft for kids in 2019 and has since made it her full time job, creating her own books and publishing other auth...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 6Ep. 106
Diana Rose is a relational astrologer, tarot reader, writer, and facilitator currently living near the Angeles National Forest in southern California. Her practice aims to bring fellow humans into a more ferociously loving and compassionately honest relationship with themselves, the Earth, and the heavens. She has been a three-time invited speaker at the Northwest Astrology Conference, is a repeat guest on The Astrology Podcast, and has been a guest on many, many other podcasts including Jonatha...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 6Ep. 105
Tino Rodriguez and Virgo Paraiso are metaphysical painters who create solo work and collaborative work. Tino Rodriguez expertly weaves together elements from Catholic idolatry, European Fairy Tales, Celtic fables, Mexican myths, and Native American legends as he explores the complexity of spirituality, sexuality, and transformation. The duality found in Western religions- good and evil, heaven and hell, spirit and body- intermingle in a vision that makes such distinctions irrelevant. Tino was bo...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 6Ep. 104
Shantelle Malawski is a Canadian professional wrestler . She is signed with Impact Wrestling , where she performs under the ring name Taylor Wilde - otherwise known as “The People’s Witch.” Taylor was under a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) contract from 2006 to 2007. She then joined TNA in 2008 and would go on to become a one-time TNA Women's Knockout Champion and also went on to become the inaugural and two-time TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion while also becoming the first wrestler to have...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 6Ep. 103
Nanse Kawashima is a Japanese artist and founder of Sibylline Vein where she offers a variety of spiritual services. She is certified in Advanced Reiki and has been reading Tarot for clients since 2011. Her approach to tarot reading is a combination of wisdom derived from tarot archetypes and intuitive insight which is made applicable for our modern day lives. In 2016 she started studying Western Astrology (Placidus System) and has been infusing it in her sessions with her clients. Many of the w...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 6Ep. 102
Rena Anakwe is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, poet and healer working primarily with sound, visuals, and scent. Exploring intersections between traditional healing practices, spirituality and performance, she creates works focused on sensory-based, experiential interactions using creative technology. She has performed or composed music for such venues as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, Pioneer Works, and Le Poisson Rouge, and she has been awarded countless honors ...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 6Ep. 101
Starhawk is the legendary author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She is the author or co-author of thirteen books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess and the eco-topian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing , and its sequel City of Refuge . Her most recent non-fiction book is The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups , on group dynamics, power, conflict an...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 6Ep. 100
Jamie Della is the co-author of The Wicca Cookbook which is now available in its second edition. She is also the author of eight other books, including The Book of Spells: The Magick of Witchcraft , and she writes the “Herbal Journeys” column for Witches & Pagans magazine, Writing the Magick and Homesteading the Hollows blogs, and launched Every Last Drop: Exposés on the LA Eastern Sierra water wars. She offers a Spellcrafting course online, bi-monthly newsletters, and leads creativity and S...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 6Ep. 99
Steven Intermill is the director of the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick in Cleveland, Ohio. The Buckland collection includes artifacts from Raymond Buckland, Gerald Gardner, Lady Rowan, Aleister Crowley, Sybil Leek, Anton LaVey, Israel Regardie, Scott Cunningham, and many other leaders of the Pagan community. Featuring artifacts from the original collection, the museum’s mission is to display the tools and imagery of Witchcraft and Magick, while celebrating the First Amendment and the p...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 6Ep. 98
Najah Lightfoot is a multi-award-winning writer. She is the author of the bestselling Good Juju: Mojos, Rites & Practices for the Magical Soul , and her new book Powerful Juju: Goddesses, Music & Magic for Comfort, Guidance & Protection . She is a regular contributor to the Llewellyn annuals and a contributor to The Library of Esoterica -Volume III - Witchcraft. Her magickal staff is on display and part of the permanent collection of the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft, located in Clev...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 6Ep. 97
Ezra Rose is an illustrator, zinester & multi-disciplinary creator living on a small farm with queer chosen family. Their work explores monsters, magic, queer/trans identity, and Jewish culture, and has been published in tabletop games, comics, literary anthologies & more. In addition to the beautiful and radical drawings that Ezra creates, they are also a brilliant writer and researcher, and their mystical poetry and zines about Jewish folklore figures are marvelous as well. Ezra’s most...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 6Ep. 96
