BTW 85: The Postmodern Witch's Guide to Samhain with Jessica Jernigan
Between the Worlds Podcast
Samhain: A Tapestry of Tradition and Transformation
This chapter delves into the historical and cultural significance of Samhain, exploring its connections to fairies, ancestral practices, and agricultural shifts. It highlights the transformative nature of traditions from ancient Celtic practices to modern celebrations like Halloween, emphasizing community engagement and the emotive power of rituals like the Dumb Supper. The discussion underlines the importance of reflection and self-expression during this liminal time, linking it to the cyclical nature of life and death.
Samhain is the ancient Celtic word for summer's end, and is also the third and final harvest holiday in the Witches' Wheel of the Year. You may know this holiday as Halloween. Whatever you call it, this is the time of year when the veils are thin and spirits are said to walk the earth. Find out what this holiday means for contemporary witches and learn about what you can do to celebrate it at home with our special guest, writer and tarot reader, Jessica Jernigan, author of "A Postmodern Witches' Guide to Halloween."
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FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST JESSICA JERNIGAN
Jessica Jernigan has been working with books for more than twenty years—as a bookseller, a marketing professional, a copywriter, an editor, and a reviewer. She has also been working with Tarot since she acquired the Aquarian deck in 1984. She find Tarot to be a useful tool for meditation. What she finds, more than anything, is that Tarot cards take us outside the everyday chatter in our heads and encourage us to look at ourselves, our lives, and our worlds in new ways. Tarot has enriched her life, and she truly enjoys sharing Tarot with others.
Follow her on Instagram: @postmodernwitch - and visit postmodernwitch.com to purchase her zine, "A Postmodern Witch’s Guide to Samhain".
Read Jessica's interview essay in Bitch Magazine with host Amanda Yates Garcia and Starhawk, goddessmother of West Coast Witchcraft, here: Binding Harm - Generations of Witches Intertwine Rituals and Activism.
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BETWEEN THE WORLDS QUEEN OF CUPS, SONG OF THE SIREN: CHANTS, PRAYERS, AND INVOCATIONS WORKSHOP
In this course, you'll learn how to call your longings into being through the timeless art of prayer, chanting, and invocation. You'll learn to create spells and rituals simply by using your voice, with the tarot as your guide. By the time you complete this course you'll be able to offer prayers at your gatherings, write chants to help you access your intuition, and devise invocations to call your intentions into the material world. Inspired by the Queen of Cups, this workshop will teach you to access your inner muse, awaken your creative spirit, use your voice as a tool for meditation, magic, and offerings from your heart to the world.
You can buy this as a one off or become a member of our coven where you get workshops, monthly tarot studio classes, and lots of other goodies included in the cost of membership.
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Learn More About Your Host Amanda Yates Garcia
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Original MUSIC by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs
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Get in touch with sponsorship inquiries for Between the Worlds at betweentheworldspodcast@gmail.com.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Amanda Yates Garcia (host) & Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs (producer, composer). The BTW logo collage was created by Maria Minnis (tinyparsnip.com / instagram.com/tinyparsnip ) with text designed by Leah Hayes.
Learn More About Your Host Amanda Yates Garcia
To join Amanda's MYSTERY CULT on Substack click here.
To order Amanda's book, "Initiated: Memoir of a Witch" CLICK HERE.
To book an appointment with Amanda go to www.oracleoflosangeles.com
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Original MUSIC by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs
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Get in touch with sponsorship inquiries for Between the Worlds at betweentheworldspodcast@gmail.com.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Amanda Yates Garcia (host) & Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs (producer, composer). The BTW logo collage was created by Maria Minnis (tinyparsnip.com / instagram.com/tinyparsnip ) with text designed by Leah Hayes.
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