Witch Wednesdays

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 contents cover many of the common practices of modern witchcraft, ranging from personal development to spells and rituals. This book is for anyone interested in deepening their spiritual journey as a witch. Entering Hekate’s Cauldron completes Cyndi Brannen’s trilogy of Hekate-themed books, including Entering Hekate’s Garden and Entering Hekate’s Cave, which may be read in any order.Find the book and Cyndi:Book: https://redwheelweiser.com/book/entering-hekates-cauldron-9781578638819/?srsltid=AfmBOorV5YgcTCD6uCPzFBakyRPcTMmm0t9Wr8RLL_SO0qqJj1GYf62kWebsite: https://keepingherkeys.com/

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 insight. Practicing feral magick will lead you to form deeper intuitive bonds with your animal allies and to find the inherent power you already possess. The operating principles of intuitive spiritual animistic practices will enable you to better acknowledge and engage with all sorts of woodland spirits and will remind you that you, too, are a spirit of nature.Find Denny:Feral Magick: Unleash Your Inner Animal Self: https://redwheelweiser.com/book/feral-magick-9781578638512/?srsltid=AfmBOopCIf1Rsj3dkozM3p89Itll-tQLrMJXn47EVAoFvY70AFM7utZVWebsite: ⁠feralmagick.com⁠Denny Sargent is an artist and university instructor in linguistics and TESOL whose many extensive global travels and esoteric studies have informed his books. Sargent has visited thirty countries and lived in Japan for four years, teaching at a university and studying Shinto at Kokugakuin University. Involved in a number of esoteric traditions and orders for decades, he has written about alternative religions, hermetic magick, Taoism, animism, Shinto, and Tantra. His published books include Your Guardian Angel and You, Werewolf Magick, Clean Sweep, and Naga Magick. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

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 transformative healing in the author's life. The Butterfly Wisdom Tarot offers comforting guidance for readers of all experience levels while providing support for life’s toughest moments. In the companion guidebook, discover allegorical short stories written both to inspire and delight, as well as questions to invite deeper interpretation. With approachable card imagery and text that includes simple keywords and stories, The Butterfly Wisdom Tarot is a great deck for readers of all experience levels. The guidebook also includes six butterfly patterns so readers can create their own, using supplies from home.Find the deck and Starla:Butterfly Wisdom Tarot: https://amzn.to/3FTFUFCWebsite: https://starlayilmaz.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starlayilmaztarot/

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 transformative moments of sunrise and sunset that that encourage and inspire us to grow into our most powerful and capable selves. (https://redwheelweiser.com/book/sun-steeped-9781590035801/?srsltid=AfmBOoqvA17ntThFwQ-oIpaX6ym1bkFgv5upgE7evwI9dt5O_5pF0beN) Sun-Steeped: A Golden Hour–Infused Affirmation Deck draws inspiration from the warmth and power of daylight. It is bright, cheerful, energetic, open, and bursting with creativity and inspiration. Shannon Christie (shannon-christie.com) is an illustrator and mental health care worker living in Portland, Oregon. Born in Southern California and transplanted to the Pacific Northwest as a child, she attended the University of Oregon where she majored in psychology and minored in music and studio art. She received a master of science applied psychology from Sacred Heart University. Her work is highly reflective of her background, exploring themes of identity and emotion while incorporating elements of whimsicality and surrealism. The focuses on both psychology and art in her life give her inspiration and perspective on how a piece moves a person and how creativity connects us all.

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 see each card as part of a rich, unfolding narrative. Readers will discover practices for empathic protection, body dowsing, sacred timing, and crafting a personal symbolic language that transforms each reading into a conversation with the unseen.Drawing on decades of experience, Salicrow shares unique methods for working with tarot and oracle cards through activated prayer, spell work, and guided journeys. She reintroduces the Major Arcana not as abstract archetypes but as vivid personal experiences that readers can feel, interpret, and integrate.You’ll also learn how to choose a deck that resonates with you, cleanse and store your cards, and use spreads for everything from relationships to healing to career insight. More than a how-to manual, Tarot as Storyteller is an invitation to become a sacred interpreter of fate—one card at a time.Find the book and author:Tarot as Storyteller: Psychic Development, Cartomancy, and Reading the Web of Fate by Salicrow: https://amzn.to/4n01Hw6Website:  www.salicrow.com⁠Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/salicrowpsychicmediumSalicrow is a natural psychic medium who weaves the wisdom of her Irish Traveler and Blackfoot heritage with modern magical practices. She’s spent over 30 years working as a spirit channel, seer, and intuitive healer, offering readings and teaching across the U.S. and internationally. Her previous books include Spirit Speaker and The Path of Elemental Witchcraft. She lives in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.

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, making Rachel a cover girl at age seventy-five! The World card featuring Rachel is among Kristine’s series of vision-inspired oil paintings that make up Visionary Woman Tarot. Tying the mystical to the everyday, Visionary Woman Tarot stimulates the unconscious and psychic parts of oneself in order to obtain practical, real-life answers to personal and profound questions. The deck’s seventy-eight images are uniquely suited to all levels of tarot knowledge, as well as lovers of Gorman’s art and those seeking to develop their psychic muscles. The creator’s intention is for Visionary Woman Tarot to be an instrument of self-healing, as well as a divinatory tool. These cards are intended as a refresh, bringing life back into the journey of self-discovery through tarot and providing a more direct route to an intimate conversation with your higher self to address personal circumstances in the most constructive way.Find the deck and Kristine:Visionary Woman Tarot: https://amzn.to/3G161KKInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/visionarywomantarot

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 occult. Attendees will have the chance to learn from these experts through a series of presentations and hands-on workshops. Plus, there will be a bewitching ball at night for attendees to get to know each other and have fun!Find The Witch Summit:Instagram: @thewitchsummitWebsite: www.thewitchsummit.com

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 spirit. It goes beyond the “trust your gut” trope so often associated with tapping into your intuition by teaching readers how to converse directly with their enlightened spirit.Find Christine:https://www.christinelang.orghttps://www.amazon.com/Ask-Your-Spirit-Christine-Lang/dp/1538773910https://www.instagram.com/christinelang_intuitive/

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 front for instant access to the traditional tarot meanings. The four suits have been renamed according to their element rather than their symbol, which further enhances the deck’s connection to nature: water rather than cups, fire rather than wands, wind rather than swords, and earth rather than pentacles. The ninety-six-page full-color booklet includes the traditional tarot meanings as well as an oracle-style message. The message presents “the medicine,” a word used in indigenous spiritual traditions to refer to the spiritual healing power with which each animal or plant is endowed.Find the deck and Lalania:Deck: https://redwheelweiser.com/book/wise-earth-medicine-tarot-9781578638635/Website: ⁠www.cosmicseedstudio.com⁠Lalania Simone is an indigenous artist, author, and mystic devoted to a path of personal expansion and collective liberation. She understands the power of images and words and is dedicated to using both to empower people. Lalania is the creator of Tarot of the Cosmic Seed and Oracle of Awakening. These decks feature diverse representations of people and cultures from around the world. She is also the co-owner of Alchemy Ritual Goods, a popular spiritual shop in Denver that offers Ancestral Medicine Clinic, a sliding-scale clinic offering multiple modalities dedicated to healing and spiritual liberation.

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 tales and a lively discussion of each plant’s legendary magical and medicinal properties. Enchanted Plants is arranged by general environment:cultivated plants and edibles;toxic plants;meadowlands;the woods;marshes and swamps; andtropical plants.Each chapter contains a cultivated selection of plants, arranged alphabetically by popular common name, with additional information including botanical name, common names, folklore, ethnobotanical properties, magical and occult properties, and modern usage if applicable.Find the book and author:Book: https://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Plants-Treasury-Botanical-Folklore/dp/1578638607Author: https://www.varlaventura.net/Varla A. Ventura is the author of several books, including Fairies, Pookas, and Changelings: A Complete Guide to the Wild and Wicked Enchanted Realm. As a lover of all things strange, Varla’s interests extend into the weirdness and magic of the plant kingdom. With a deep fascination for folklore and medicinal plants, she has been studying herbalism and botany for more than thirty years. Her plant knowledge comes from a combination of experimentation, formal classes in botany, and working in the horticultural industry for fifteen years.