Just me today! Responding to a Patreon request and chatting about witchcraft for seasonal transitions. If you feel anxious, unsettled, or overwhelmed this time of year, or during transitions in general, you are not alone. Let's chat about it today and talk about some ways to work with the changes and feel a little better. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/witchwednesdays/posts
Such a fun chat today with author Kylie Holmes, all about tea leaf reading, coffee reading, symbols, intuition, and more! Learn the ancient art of tasseography and how to read tea leaves and coffee grounds. This essential book covers the history of tea leaf and coffee cup reading, intuition, setting the intention, and preparation. Along with a dictionary of symbols, tea meditation, recipes, and advice on journaling, The Ancient Art of Tasseography is your complete guide. Find the Book and Kylie:...
If you have interest in this goddess of witchcraft, Hekate, then you're likely already familiar with today's guest, author Cyndi Brannen. She's already published two previous works on Hekate but today we're discussing the third in the series, Entering Hekate's Cauldron . Entering Hekate’s Cauldron is about practicing witchcraft, specifically witchery centered on the beloved goddess Hekate, with her etheric cauldron as the source. Written in the style of a traditional Book of Shadows, the content...
Such a great chat today about Feral Magick with Denny Sargent, although, he has the heart of a teacher and really didn't need me! In Feral Magick: Unleash Your Inner Animal Self , author Denny Sargent gives readers the tools they need to locate and work with their inner animal as well as with sacred deities and personal animal spirits. Through spells, rituals, and meditations, as well as shapeshifting and trance states, readers will learn how to tap into their natural instinct, intuition, and in...
Chatting all things tarot, butterflies, and cross-stitch today with Starla! Welcome the wisdom of butterflies to your Tarot practice for readings that heal and inspire. Perfect for life’s transformative periods, The Butterfly Wisdom Tarot is a gentle companion ready to guide your insights and uplift your spirits. Based on the classic Rider-Waite-Smith system, this charming deck features 78 intricately cross-stitched butterfly designs. Stitching the butterflies catalyzed a period of transformativ...
Sun-Steeped shines a light on our innermost selves, exploring themes of wonder and new beginnings. The deck consists of fifty-four uniquely illustrated cards, each designed to guide gentle and friendly inquiry into the user’s inner world. The cards explore themes of childlike wonder and new beginnings, offer affirmations that challenge negative self-perceptions, and explore newfound determination, self-realization, and loving awareness. The sixty-four-page guidebook aids in capturing the transfo...
Whether you’re new to tarot or a seasoned reader looking to go deeper, psychic medium Salicrow invites you to step beyond the basics and into the soul of the cards. Tarot as Storyteller (Destiny Books, June 2025) is a bold new take on cartomancy that blends psychic development, symbolic literacy, and spiritual storytelling. In this guide, Salicrow shows how to read tarot and oracle cards with greater precision and confidence by awakening your intuition, activating sacred space, and learning to s...
Visionary Woman Tarot is a seventy-eight-card deck featuring the magical art of Kristine Gorman and accompanied by a guidebook that captures the very essence of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. Gorman’s artwork has been displayed in galleries throughout the US and can also be found in private collections worldwide. Kristine is well known for her painting of her mentor, tarot icon Rachel Pollack, portraying her as The World card. This portrait of Rachel graced the cover of the Cartomancer magazine, ma...
Special guest Tess Traynor is here today to chat about The Witch Summit! Tess is the organizer of this upcoming event for witches of all backgrounds. We chat all about her background and ideas behind creating this event how important education and community is in the witch community. The Witch Summit is an immersive conference that will take place on October 4th in Phoenix, Arizona. It features a lineup of renowned authors, practitioners, and makers in the realm of witchcraft, magic, and the occ...
Christine Lang is an author, medical intuitive, wellness expert, and former attorney. Whether it’s health, relationship, or career struggles, Christine’s mission is to help people look inward and connect with themselves to get the answers and clarity they need. Christine’s upcoming book, Ask Your Spirit: Receiving Life Changing Wisdom from Your Elevated Intelligence (June 10, 2025, Hachette) is a practical and accessible guide that teaches readers how to converse directly with their enlightened ...
Welcoming back Lalania to the podcast today! Wise Earth Medicine Tarot endeavors to simplify the mysteries of the tarot and ground it in the natural world. Drawing upon Lalania Simone’s indigenous ancestral knowledge, this beautiful deck presents the tarot as a form of earth medicine. Focusing on the animistic realm, this tarot deck and guidebook takes us on an internal vision quest where we learn the wisdom of all natural things. Each of the seventy-eight cards features three keywords on the fr...
From fairy tales to your garden, Enchanted Plants is an illustrated treasure trove of the lore and magic in the kingdom of plants. Take a walk through mystical, magical, and folkloric gardens and discover the plants and flowers that have captured our hearts and minds for centuries. From the baneful bog to the garden gate, plant lover and lover of the bizarre Varla Ventura brings together forgotten lore of plants for the ultimate romp through a botanical wonderland, including excerpts from fairy ...
Empower your magickal teas with crystal grids! The author of the popular A Tea Witch’s Grimoire takes tea magick to a new level as she brings you into the enchanting realm where the art of tea-making intertwines with the power of crystal grids, creating a harmonious fusion of energies that will elevate your magickal practice. Tea magick has a profound connection to nature, mindfulness, and spiritual transformation. Here you’ll learn how to select and prepare teas that align with your intentions,...
Presented as a hardcover collector’s edition, Duets encompass two of the best-selling Pagan Portals titles under one cover. In the edition we chat about today, you will find Rhiannon and Blodeuwedd by Jhenah Telyndru. Rhiannon ... An exploration of Rhiannon that remembers her history, reclaims her divinity, and renews a pathway into relationship with this Welsh Goddess of Sovereignty. Blodeuwedd ... A reclamation of the true nature of Blodeuwedd, a widely misunderstood Welsh Goddess whose myth h...
In the flow of healing waters and the urgent cry of the Earth, we hear the voice of the Celtic mother goddess Modron, also known as Matrona. A goddess of fertility, abundance and healing, but also of grief and loss and ancestral wisdom, she is still present, although hidden, in today's world. We find her myths in the tales of the Mabinogi, the Welsh Triads and modern tales of Avalon, and her image and veneration in the ancient religions of Celtic Gaul, where she first emerged as a river goddess....
Welcoming back Danielle today for a conversation about fairy tales as living, breathing repositories of ancient wisdom and magick. In The Night House : Folklore, Fairy Tales, Rites, and Magick for the Wise and Wild , bestselling author and word-witch Danielle Dulsky peels back the layers of these timeless narratives to reveal their potent role as guides for navigating today’s world. Rich with insight and a deep reverence for the ancestral art of storytelling, Dulsky’s latest work reclaims the hi...
In a culture that often prioritizes and celebrates rugged individualism and separateness, Hestia welcomes us home. Her magick invites togetherness and shared resources by cultivating spaces of belonging andcommunity. May Hestia call her back to our homes to celebrate families of all shapes, sizes, and forms, creating sustainable structures for ongoing collaboration and nourishment. Find Irisanya: Book: Hestia: Goddess of Hearth, Home & Community Website: www.irisanyamoon.com Substack: irisan...
A revolutionary take on hedge witchery that focuses on what it means to reconnect with the sacred hedge in a modern world, Celtic Hedge Witchery—A Modern Approach teaches the ways, ideas, and methods of the hedgerow, so they become accessible even to those who cannot visit the physical locations themselves. Delving into secret liminal spaces, Morris expands the knowledge and understanding of what it means to truly embody the witchcraft life. She connects readers to the wildcrafting elements of p...
Thrilled to have Crow Moon back again today to chat about so many topics including updates to his practice in the last year, teaching Living a Wiccan Life, creating folk music and witchy poetry (listen for the original Litha poem shared!), tips for beginner Wiccans and artists, and generally living in accordance with seasons and the Wheel of the Year. Find Crow Moon: Website: Crowmoonaz.com Instagram: @crowmoon5 Meditations and Courses: https://insighttimer.com/crowmoon/courses Music: https://op...
Chatting all about tarot today with Natalie Labriola, author of Tarot - Timeless Secrets of the Ancient Mirror. Who is the Hermit? And the High Priestess? What is the Fool’s Journey? How does tarot reveal your place in the Wheel of Fortune? Can a deck of cards really help you understand who you are? In this dense little book, packed with antique illustrations and worked examples, author Natalie Labriola reveals the ancient magic of the tarot, introducing us to the colorful characters and eternal...
Today I'm chatting with Davezilla about tech, the internet/apps, AI, and their place in witchcraft. Magical AI Grimoire helps you to understand how to work with technology in the practice of your magic. Whether you’re trying to use promptcraft to perfect a spell, ChatGPT to outline and strengthen a ritual, or Midjourney AI to recreate what you’ve only seen on the astral plane, Davezilla will be your guide. AI apps can write spells, tell you how to perform them, and give you a list of materials n...
Chatting today about so many topics with author Raven Digitalis, including navigating the world as an empath and his latest work of fiction, Black Magick. Darkness is interpretive. It’s in our nature to explore the shadows. Through the 13 stories presented in Black Magick, the reader is transported into mysterious settings that blur the line between fiction and reality. Renowned writers have contributed their expert tales to this collection, including Storm Constantine, Tracy Cross, and even Edg...
A chat all about crystals today! In his newest work and full-color guide, crystal healing teacher Nicholas Pearson shows how crystals are ideally suited for confronting negative energies and providing enduring protection as he demonstrates how to partner with the mineral kingdom for protection, cleansing, and countermagick. In the realm of protection, Pearson explores passive approaches—such as psychic shields, jewelry, and carrying gemstones—as well as more active practices—such as spells, medi...
In your hands are the keys to bringing the gifts of the ancient magic-weavers, the storytellers, into your life. The Bards of old wove magic with their words. Through myth and legend, history and inspiration, they shaped the world around them. Just like them, you can connect with the magic of storytelling to create powerful change. Join professional performer, ritualist, bard, and witch Halo Quin, and discover how to use your voice in magic, how to unravel the secrets of stories, how to craft yo...
Witch Blood Risin g is a celebration of the ways that witchcraft has stubbornly kept itself alive in Western culture—and a call to action for all seekers who yearn for a witch’s life. Growing up in an endless sea of California suburbs, where sacred groves and wise women only existed in movies, Asa West spent her childhood chasing visions she didn’t understand. When she found a guide to witchcraft in a tiny bookshop, she knew she’d found her calling—despite a patriarchal society’s efforts to keep...
Today I'm chatting with author and master astrologer Laurie Farrington to cover birth charts! Understanding the basics of signs, planets, houses, and aspects is the first step for anyone interested in this topic. How to Read and Interpret a Birth Chart will walk you through the next steps: how to determine what is most important and how to merge the many astrological patterns into a coherent whole. Laurie Farrington provides a unique perspective, gathered over years of practical service. How to ...
Today I get to chat with Jana Stern, a gifted psychic, astrologer, and spiritual activator. We attempted to focus on chakra wellness techniques, but we really covered so much more! (TW: We have a frank (but gentle) chat about some tough topics, such as mental health, depression (at the beginning of Jana’s story), cancer (at 14:50), and health/healing with energy work. Please take care if you’re sensitive to these topics and we’ll see you in the next episode!) Chakra wellness offers a simple yet ...
I'm joined today by author Angelica Merritt to chat about her upcoming book Womb Witch: Herbal Magick for Reproductive Health. Find Angelica and Womb Witch: Website: https://www.angelicamerritt.com/ Book: https://amzn.to/3PhtxnV Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dandeliondazed/ About the Book: Liberate your uterus - Herbal remedies and wise perspectives to help make your cycle less of a rollercoaster. Ever felt like your uterus is out to get you? Or experienced dismay at the politicians out t...
I'm chatting today with author and chaotic wellness witch, Mandi Em, about her newest book, Shadow Work for Hot Messes. Mandi Em's book, Shadow Work for Hot Messes , is the ultimate guide to self-awareness and healing, even if you're a certified hot mess. Mandi condenses the complex concept of shadow work into a three-step process: Perceive, Investigate, and Integrate. By delving into core wounds, inner child work, and feelings of shame and fear, readers are prompted to confront their inner shad...
I'm chatting today with Lalania Simone about Lalania's newest deck, Tarot of the Cosmic Seed. In an effort to decolonize the tarot, remove outdated ideas of hierarchy, and shift ingrained gender norms, Lalania, founder of Alchemy Ritual Goods, has created a lush and vibrant deck with unique imagery and symbolism and an array of people and cultures. Having renamed the royalty cards—including the Hierophant, Emperor, Empress, and the court cards—Lalania has expanded their interpretation into energ...
