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Such a treat to have Tenae Stewart, the Witch of Lupine Hollow, back again to chat about her newest work, Botanical Cocktails! We get to chat all about life updates, creating a new book, herbalism, crafting cocktails, and more.
Be sure to attend The Modern Green Witches Summit - July 10-11, 2024 - Herbology class is in session for the witchy at-home herbalists! Join us for two days of herbalism classes to celebrate the launch of the new book, Botanical Cocktails. Free to attend - replays available until July 13.
Link: https://lupinehollow.krtra.com/t/HV1Uu8bWMha4
Find Tenae:
Botanical Cocktails by Tenae Stewart teaches how to make more than fifty seasonal cocktail (and mocktail) recipes using delicious, organic ingredients from your own yard or herb garden. It down the different types of plants that can be used in cocktails, where to source them, and how to grow them yourself.
I'm joined today by debut author Rosalind Moody to chat about her book, The Spark: Sex, Love & Spirituality in a Toxic Dating World. She’s turned the chaotic quest of her twenties — to find love at any cost — into an empowering memoir-manual for women looking to securely anchor their self-worth amidst the turbulent storm of the modern dating scene.
Find Rosalind:
https://septemberpublishing.org/product/the-spark-hb/
https://www.instagram.com/rosalindmoody/?hl=en
Meet Rosalind Moody, one time editor of a leading spirituality magazine and a woman on a mission to find a soul mate. Despite all her meditating and multiple tarot card readings she keeps manifesting the same guy in different bodies. Finally she learns the lessons she needs, her spirit guides rejoice and she is able to redefine her singledom and enjoy independence and self-esteem.
The Spark charts Rosalind’s adventures both physical and spiritual, offering love-summoning rituals, self-esteem building chakras, moon guidance, tarot card pulls and journaling practices to readers along the way.
All about the energies and magic of July plus a few July holidays to highlight.
I'm joined today by author and herbalist Jane Barlow Christensen to chat about herbalism and using common plants in your healing journey.
Simple Steps to Make Your Plants into Your Own Herbal Apothecary with full color pictures. Be Your Own Shaman by Jane Barlow Christensen and Brian Christensen features 101 plants with healing properties. The plants can be found worldwide, and many can be cultivated in your very own garden. Specific health conditions and their healing plants are included with preparation methods.
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About the Authors
Jane Barlow Christensen is an herbalist who owns and runs Barlow Herbal Specialties. Jane loves everything natural, holistic, wellness, fitness, and nutrition oriented. She believes it is our right as humans to be vibrantly healthy, that if given the right tools our body knows how to heal, and that each of us is responsible for ourselves and the love, joy, and spiritual and physical health we experience. Jane grew up in rural Idaho as the second of fourteen kids. She has two grown sons and two grandchildren. She lives in Salt Lake City and enjoys hiking all over the mountains of Utah.
Brian R. Christensen is Jane’s younger son and has worked with her professionally for eight years. He has spent hundreds of hours wildcrafting plants in the US Mountain West, notably Lomatium. Brian has a deep love and wisdom for herbs and healing plants. He loves to be with his dog and fiancée in nature, watch football, lift weights, play guitar, and cook up delicious food in the kitchen. Brian was born in a military hospital in Fort Campbell, KY, has lived in Germany and in Northern and Southern California, and currently resides in beautiful Salt Lake City.
I'm joined today by debut author Nathan King to chat about Awakening the Witch Blood. We chat all about the European folklore and mythology that relates to the practice of traditional witchcraft and how you can awaken your own Witchblood in your magical practice.
Find Nathan:
Nathan: https://www.instagram.com/Nathan_toilandtrouble
Witch-Path Magick & Occult: https://www.instagram.com/witchpath_magick_and_occult_/
Book: https://www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed-crow-books/p/awakeningthewitchblood
Nathan King is a Michigan based Witch, Occultist, psychic and High Priest (Minos) of the Minoan Brotherhood Tradition. He spent a good deal of his magical life being trained in historic Salem, Massachusetts. He has been featured on SYFY and Travel Channel during his time in witch-city, and has worked with several shops and events within his field. Nathan is also a practitioner of Folkloric Witchcraft and carries a deep passion for spiritual contact and pagan spirituality as a living art form. Nathan is an active ritualist and workshop lecturer at several events throughout the Midwest as well as being a theater enthusiast and animal lover.
Nathan’s debut book is Awakening the Witch Blood which will be released late in 2024. For more information about Nathan and his other magical work, visit his website at https://witch-path-readings.square.site/.
Today I'm joined by Kamden Cornell to chat about their newest book: The Tameless Path: Unleashing the Power of Invasive Plants in Witchcraft. There's so much you can do with the "weeds" in your area, don't dismiss them! They're so useful in your witchcraft practice. We also chat about classes, sourcing items, making oils and potions, and more!
Find Kamden:
Website: Heart & Vine Apothecary Instagram: @heart_n_vine_apothecary
Book: https://www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed-crow-books/p/thetamelesspath
An apothecarist and wortcunner, Kamden S. Cornell has an avid love for plants of all kinds. As a bioregional animist and folk witch, they specialize in using the plants around them for their herbal and magical craft. As a non-binary, gay, queer, the outsider perspective is important to them and they are deeply drawn to invasive species, which have been much maligned and persecuted. That working relationship spurred the creation of The Tameless Path: Unleashing the Power of Invasive Plants in Witchcraft.
Kamden also teaches classes on foraging, survival, and field herbalism in the Sandia Mountains east of Albuquerque, NM, as well as classes on tarot, alchemy, and witchcraft practices. They own a small, witchcraft-based business called Heart &Vine Apothecary that focuses on herbal remedies and ritual goods. They are the author of two self-published works- Ars Granorum: The Six Seed Arts of Witchcraft and On Needles and Pins: A Witches’ Book of Poppetry and Figure Magic. They are also a regular columnist for Noumenia News, the periodical publication released by The Covenant of Hekate.
All about the energies and magic of June plus a few June holidays to highlight.
Zodiac Signs + Correspondences:
Crystals: pearl, chalcedony, alexandrite
Animals: deer, eagle, fox
Flower: rose
Deities: Artemis, Cerridwen, Hermes, Odin
The sun is in Gemini until June 20. Gemini is a mutable air sign.
Moon Phases
June 6: new moon in Gemini
June 14: second quarter moon in Virgo
June 21: full moon in Capricorn
June 28: fourth quarter moon in Aries
Ancient June Celebrations:
Ludi Piscatorii (Fishing Games)
Feast of Epona
Feast of Minerva
June 10: Duanwu Festival (Dragon Boat Festival)
June 16: Father's Day
June 20: Litha
I'm chatting today with channeler and psychic teacher, Jenny Zakrzewski. We talk all about the clairs, psychic soul gifts, find your purpose, awakening your spiritual self in a grounded way, starseeds, daily practice, and more!
Find Jenny:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@starseedacademyofficial
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starseedacademy/
Today I'm joined by author and clinical psychologist David Shoemaker to chat about Thelema and his newest book, The Way of the Will.
In THE WAY OF THE WILL, David Shoemaker explores how the spiritual discipline of Thelema, founded by Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), can be utilized to enhance your psychological and spiritual growth. The book grew out of the authors own teachings and experiences—podcast episodes, classes, and of course, many years of personal practice and supervision of other initiates. It is a compendium of useful tools and perspectives designed to serve as one of many useful guides in the magician’s library.
David Shoemaker is a clinical psychologist in private practice, specializing in Jungian and cognitive behavioral psychotherapy. David is the Chancellor and Prolocutor of the Temple of the Silver Star (totss.org), a Thelemic initiatory and educational organization. He is a long-standing member of O.T.O. and has many years of experience training initiates in these traditions.
Author/teacher website: livingthelema.com YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@livingthelema5221/featured ThelemaCon 2024: thelemacon.org Temple of the Silver Star: totss.org A.'.A.'.: onestarinsight.org Professional website: dr-shoemaker.com
I'm joined today by author and poet Amanda Lovelace to chat about their newest work, Make Your Own Magic. We have such a fun talk about beginner magic, re-finding yourself as an advanced practitioner, the importance of journaling and simple daily practices, and more!
Find Amanda:
Website: https://amandalovelace.com/ Instagram: @ladybookmad Threads: @ladybookmad Facebook: @poetessamandalovelace Tiktok: @ladybookmad
Drawing from amanda’s years of practical experience, this interactive beginner’s guide shows that magic doesn’t have to be fancy, time-consuming, or one-size-fits-all. MAKE YOUR OWN MAGIC introduces the tenets of witchcraft so that you can develop your own practice and relationship with magic in whatever way works for you. With simple explanations, twenty all-new inspiring poems, words of encouragement, magical journaling prompts, and more, this book sweeps away the gatekeeping and offers you the tools needed to begin building a strong, long-lasting practice focused on self-love.
amanda lovelace (she/they) is the author of several bestselling poetry titles, including her celebrated “women are some kind of magic” series as well as her “you are your own fairy tale” trilogy. they are also the co-creator of the believe in your own magic oracle deck & the cozy witch tarot deck, & they are now the author of their very first witchcraft book, make your own magic. when she isn’t reading, writing, or drinking a much-needed cup of coffee, you can find her casting spells from her home in a (very) small town on the jersey shore, where she resides with her poet-spouse & their three cats.
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