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Join me today for a fun chat with the Seed Sisters all about Witches’ Forbidden Herbs, a gorgeously illustrated grimoire of the witching herbs (including henbane, datura, and belladonna) that calls for these to be re incorporated into modern herbal medicine and contemporary magic.
This is a stunningly illustrated grimoire of some of the most notorious plants: henbane, datura, belladonna, among others. It is also a practical guide to plant magic, medicine and ritual, offering advice to professional and home herbalists, to those interested in forgotten lore and the old ways, and to all those who wish to reclaim control of their own wellbeing.
This book urges the resurrection of the ancient tradition of using these witching herbs in ritual and medicine. Now is the time to relink magic and medicine in the context of modern herbalism and contemporary witchcraft.
Find the book and the Seed Sistas:
Witches’ Forbidden Herbs: https://link.amazon/B0cJHxm3T
Website: seedsistas.co.uk
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/seed_sistas
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SeedSistAs/
Free PDF on the Witching Herbs - https://seedsistas.co.uk/land/unlock-the-magic-of-the-witching-herbs/
The Seed Sistas are Fiona Heckels and Kazz Goodweather. They are herbalists, eco-activists, speakers, modern plant folklorists, and the authors of The Sensory Herbal Handbook and The Sensory Herbal Oracle. Find out more at: seedsistas.co.uk.
Join me today for a chat with Courtney Weber all about her newest book, Pentacle: The Shape of Power.
Long before it was a symbol of religious identity or even a stylish fashion choice, the pentacle and its many variations served as powerful talismans, linked to and used by numerous esoteric orders. It was a tool for summoning spirits, creating magick, and casting spells. By creating and using a pentacle, a practitioner could establish a shorthand language with the spirit world and shape the physical world into one the practitioner wanted to see.
Drawing heavily from ancient texts like The Key of Solomon, Pentacle: The Shape of Power unveils the history and purpose of the five-sided star. Far from a village witch’s simple aid, the pentacle was a “diagram for magick,” a means for the ceremonial magician to transcend the mundane and tap into profound energies.
Explore the rich history, intricate symbolism, and powerful applications of the pentacle, from its earliest known instructions to its use in protection, divination, and ritual. Pentacle: The Shape of Power dives into the secrets of this often-misunderstood symbol, revealing its enduring power and significance in the world of true magick.
Find the book and Courtney:
Pentacle: The Shape of Power: https://link.amazon/B09lg0nP5
IG/TikTok: @courtneyaweber
Website: courtneyaweber.com
Courtney Weber is a witch, writer, tarot advisor, and teacher. She is the creator of Tarot of the Boroughs and the author of Hekate, The Morrigan, Brigid, and Tarot for One. She is also a contributor to Cancer Witch and a cohost of That Witch Life podcast. Visit her at CourtneyAWeber.com.
The Tarot Book of the Dead fills a major gap, as there is currently no comprehensive guide to tarot mediumship, grief work, and psychopomp practice, despite the growing interest in these areas. Matlin offers readers not just techniques but also a transformational experience that reclaims tarot’s deep historical and mythological relationship with death. Tarot can provide comfort and meaning for the grieving, help us center our own truth regarding mortality, and honor the spirit about to cross over. This book shows tarot readers that mediumship is absolutely within their birthright.
The Tarot Book of the Dead is structured as a chthonic journey, a descent into the Underworld, a trial within the depths, an ascent with wisdom, and a return to the living world forever changed. The structure honors the transformational paths in myths of descent, from Persephone’s underworld journey to Orpheus’s search for Eurydice. The book is divided into four parts. Each part has a collection of chapters that are headlined by a Major Arcana card that acts as a gatekeeper. That Major Arcana card offers an invitation, followed by a lesson to be learned, a challenge (activity) to do, and, finally, permission by that Major Arcana card to go on to the next gatekeeper. Through this mythic journey, readers will confront their own relationship to death, learn tarot mediumship, engage in grief work, and explore psychopomp practices.
The Tarot Book of the Dead focuses on several main themes: the dying, the dead, and the grieving. A reader could use this book just for their own personal work, but the book also has guidance for people in fields that touch on death, such as death midwives and doulas, grief workers, hospice carers, and mediums. The Tarot Book of the Dead is, at its heart, an initiatory process that functions as a hands-on how-to manual in which the reader will deepen their practice with tarot and death. Like its namesakes The Egyptian Book of the Dead and The Tibetan Book of the Dead, it guides readers on a journey to death and the afterlife.
Find the book and Jenna:
The Tarot Book of the Dead: https://link.amazon/B0aUWFnJx
Website: www.jennamatlin.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennamatlin
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChkaIjthLbRgTZNaqpcJzxw
Jenna Matlin holds an MS in organizational psychology and a BA in anthropology, with end-of-life doula training through INELDA as well as training in psychedelic integration support. Since 2012, she has maintained a full-time tarot practice, which is known for its highly intuitive and innovative techniques. She has been involved with the Masters of Tarot Conference at the Omega Institute. Her revolutionary approach to tarot mediumship specifically helps clients navigate grief, death, and communication with the dead. Based in Chapel Hill, NC, Jenna teaches internationally and domestically and speaks at conferences.
Witchcraft is not always about what tools you have or how detailed and drawn-out the ritual is, but how you live each day. Cottage of the Woodland Witch shows practitioners of all paths how to begin living more intentionally and purposefully in the home.
Throughout her journey of becoming a mother, homemaker, and business owner, Sarah Burns-Napoli, also known as The Woodland Witch, discovered not just the enchantment that is to be found in the day-to-day but also the necessity of that enchantment. Sarah shows you how to focus on intentional living within the home and how to create magic in everyday tasks such as cooking, cleaning, and self-care. You can make the mundane magical and bring accessibility to the craft—with this book you will learn how to create an entire tool kit with items already present in the home, whether foraged or handmade.
Offering spells, recipes, rituals, and incantations, this practical guide highlights the importance of animism in the craft, inviting you to see the home as a living, spiritual presence—and offering heartfelt ways to connect with and honor the spirits that dwell within it.
Find the book and Sarah:
Pre-order Cottage of the Woodland Witch: https://link.amazon/B00sg3r8r
Folkcraft & Flora Apothecary: https://www.folkcraftandflora.com/
Sarah Burns-Napoli, also known as The Woodland Witch on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, is a practicing house witch, herbalist, folk practitioner, wife, and mother residing in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with her husband, daughter, two pups, and a kitty. She is the proprietor of the Folkcraft and Flora Apothecary (https://www.folkcraftandflora.com/), an online emporium of herbal and magical goods that has experienced exponential growth and success since its launch in 2022.
Sarah and her work have been featured in many publications, including Botanical Anthology magazine and The Kitchen Witch Companion. Physical displays of her writings are located at the destination wellness cottage Glenn Hollow in Naples, New York. After the birth of her daughter, Sarah felt a shift in her craft. She found it hard to balance her personal practice in this new stage of motherhood. She began embracing this new role and, meshing it with her craft, created a more intentional and magical life for herself and for her family that she shares with her many followers.
Just a quick update today. Well, 3 times longer than I planned but I am a chatter. Episodes to return soon!
Ever wonder how those outer planets interact within your birth chart? How their positions in the sky and relative to each other influence the things going on in our world? Join me today to chat with Julia Sophia all about these astrological outer planets and more!
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto proposes that the three outer planets may be understood as three facets of one consciousness—a Holy Trinity of spiritual qualities: freedom (Uranus), creativity (Neptune), and evolution (Pluto). This teaching is underpinned by the authors’ central innovation: a new midpoint calculation in astrological analysis that encourages a novel way of looking at the outer planets’ transpersonal functions, serving as guidance for individual spiritual practices and self-realization.
Uranus, Neptune, and Plutoconstitutes a practical guide that studies the diversity of life expression at the highest level of sacredness. By engaging with these energies consciously, readers can realize their highest spiritual potential.
Find the book and Julia:
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto: https://amzn.to/4pJi4z1
Instagram: @itsjuliasophia
Substack: quietportal.substack.com
Website: www.julia-sophia.com
James Burgess is the founder and leader of Sabian Mysteries, a modern training platform for students of the seminal Sabian symbols work of influential astrologers Marc Edmund Jones and Dane Rudhyar. Julia Sophia is an astrologer, tarot card reader, spiritual teacher, writer, and artist. She works at ZenPass, a London-based practitioner community for holistic health and wellbeing.
Excited to welcome back Susan Ottaviano to chat about her newest book, Plants That Heal.
Plants That Heal by Susan Ottaviano and Chris Young is an illustrated guide that beautifully intertwines practical plant wisdom with soulful reflections, offering readers accessible methods to nurture their bodies, calm their minds, and reconnect with nature. This collaboration follows their prior success with The Green Witch’s Guide to Magical Plants and Flowers (Skyhorse, 2023). Plants That Heal presents simple, approachable recipes ranging from teas, tonics, and elixirs to body care, home remedies, and seasonal dishes.
Eight core themes—healing the mind, body, home, soul, heart, skin, hair, sleep, and life equips readers with tools to integrate wellness practices into their daily routines. It features easy-to-follow instructions for crafting herbal infusions, soothing bath blends, and delectable dishes like lavender-infused chocolates, watermelon and mint granita, and hibiscus-poached pears. Every recipe is vegan-friendly, designed to enhance well-being, relaxation, and joy.
What sets this book apart is its stunning illustrations and wellness insights, making it both art and guide. Plants That Heal is a keepsake meant for display by your bed, in your kitchen, or on your altar. You'll find:
- Intentional Entertaining: Host gatherings from summer garden parties to intimate rituals, incorporating healing foods and plant-based elements such as garden goddess dips, refreshing strawberry cocktails, and vegan cakes.
- World of Beauty: Create your own tincture and oils for rejuvenation, including Inner Peace Oil, Cleopatra’s Seducing Oil, and Josephine’s Violet Serenity Bath Salts, among others.
- Eat Healthy to Heal: Enjoy salads and seasonal recipes that nourish the body, featuring delights like Blood Orange Tonic, Cherry and Oatmeal Energy Balls, and Chilled Carrot and Ginger Soup.
- Real Life Plant-Based Living: Find simple, approachable ways to weave plant wisdom into daily routines for improved health and balance, with ideas like Lavender and Sage Cleansing Sticks, Pomander Balls, and Orange and Eucalyptus Cleaning Spray.
Find the book and Susan:
Book: https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510785380/plants-that-heal/
Website: 2greenwitches.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/2greenwitches
Susan has been a groundbreaking food stylist and recipe developer for over twenty years. Her work has been featured in magazines, cookbooks, and advertisements from Bon Appétit to Grey Goose to Uber Eats.
Best known as the lead singer for the pop band Book of Love, Susan and her bandmates recorded five albums for Warner Brothers Records/Sire Records. Book of Love was a fixture on the Billboard Dance Club charts throughout the 1980s and 1990s, with multiple hits in the top ten. The group reunited in 2016 for a sold-out world tour to mark their 30th Anniversary.
Her evocative artwork, which explores food, femininity, and sexuality, has been featured in numerous gallery shows, including a Spring 2023 group show titled “Eat It” at Collar Works Arts Organization.
She earned a BFA in Painting from The Philadelphia College of Art and has been awarded post-graduate certificates from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park and the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City. She lives in New York’s East Village.
Come join the chat today with Toni Savory, creator of The Four Selves Oracle: Pathways to Integrating Shadow and Light.
The Four Selves Oracle presents a system to marry the four selves—the physical self, the conscious self, the subconscious self, and the superconscious self—which exist within us all, bringing them into balance and communion so we may each be a whole, healed being. The Four Selves Oracleinvites you to look deeper into the aspects of yourself that are affecting your ability to work at a superconscious/divine level. Card spreads present in such a way to clearly see shadow aspects, light aspects, and pathways to find balance. With beautiful illustrations by Carrie Paris, this deck will take you on an enriching and empowering journey into yourself.
Find the deck and Toni:
Toni Savory is the founder of the World Divination Association. She is the author of Siren’s Song Oracle, winner of Best Deck Release, World Divination Association 2023. Carrie Paris has a passion for divination and ancient ceremonial rites that invoke the spirit of divining communities.
Having the most fun chat today with fellow podcaster, Zoey, about all things intuition, overcoming anxiety, numerology and so much more!
Zoey Greco is the spiritual teacher, numerology expert, and intuitive guide known for helping thoughtful, sensitive people reconnect with their inner voice in a world that constantly tells them who they should be.
For more than a decade, Zoey has worked with thousands of people around the world navigating identity shifts, life transitions, and moments of deep personal redirection. Her work blends intuition, emotional intelligence, and grounded spirituality in a way that feels both wise and refreshingly magnetic and is shaped by a lifelong relationship with intuitive perception. At a very young age Zoey began recognizing and exploring her gifts before eventually dedicating her career to helping others develop trust in their own.
Her philosophy, You Already Are, challenges the idea that transformation requires becoming someone new. Instead, Zoey teaches that real change happens when we learn to recognize and embody who we already are beneath all the conditioning, fear, and performance. Part of what makes Zoey’s voice resonate is her ability to bring warmth, humor, and cultural awareness into rich, nuanced spiritual topics. Her guidance feels less like traditional self-help and more like the kind of late-night conversation where a friend finally says the thing that helps everything click into place.
In addition to intuitive development, Zoey is also known for her work with numerology; using this ancient wisdom as a tool to understand personal patterns, relationship dynamics, and the larger life cycles we all move through.
Find Zoey and everything we talked about:
Free access to Zoey's monthly pajama party
Intuition Quiz
Website
Instagram
TikTok
YouTube
Podcast
Zoey Greco is a spiritual teacher, intuitive guide, and the host of the podcast Higher Self Hotline. Her work explores the intersection of intuition, emotional intelligence, and ethical spirituality, helping people rebuild trust with themselves in a world full of external noise. Through her You Already are philosophy, Zoey teaches that transformation is not about becoming someone new, but about remembering and embodying who you already are beneath conditioning, fear, and performance.
Thrilled to welcome a favorite author of mine, Lorraine Anderson, to chat about her newest book in the Apothecary series, Beauty Apothecary: Soulful Remedies to Foster Beauty Inside and Out.
Beauty Apothecary is for anyone who wants to explore and cultivate beauty, from the inside out. Anderson invites readers to embracing a holistic self-care practice that they can complete at home (complete with recipes for homemade body treatments, ointments, moisturizers and more) split into three sections: the foundations of beauty, inner beauty (exploring a beautiful mind, heart, and soul), and outer beauty (recipes to help look and feel our best). She wants readers to take a moment for themselves and understand that beauty isn't just physical. It's about what "uplifts, inspires, grounds, and nourishes you and brings you a sense of harmony...Living beautifully simply means living intentionally and authentically."
Find the book and Lorraine:
Beauty Apothecary: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Beauty-Apothecary/Lorriane-Anderson/Sacred-Apothecary-Series/9781923208018
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiritelement/?hl=en
Website: https://www.spiritelement.co
Lorraine Anderson is an LA-based bestselling author (author of The Witch’s Apothecary ) as well as a tarot reader, astrologer, spiritual teacher, and more.
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