By Lucy Pearce
Join prolific author and artist Lucy H. Pearce and her creative guests - writers, artists, creatrixes - for profound and practical conversations about what creative magic means to us. We'll reflec
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Elizabeth Kneafsey, the Wild Wool Shepherdess, creates unique, wild and rugged woven rugs, tanned leather hides and felted sheeprugs with wool harvested from her own flock of organic, heritage breed sheep which conservation graze hay meadows to help support our declining wildlife and improve soil structure. A practitioner of traditional, ancestral skills is now teaching small holders and individuals through workshops and retreats how to bring back value to wool and live more sustainably in harmony and connection with our land, wildlife, waters and Mother Nature.
Her first book The Wild Wool Shepherdess: Weave the Ancient Path, Reignite Your Feminine Fire is out today from Hay House.
Wolves – yes she has a wolf!, dogs, sheep, herons and owls – being in relationship with animals and what it teaches us
Animal symbology
Reclaiming access to the land
How she became a shepherdess
Crafting with wool
The husband coat
Ancestral crafts – why they matter
Making her declaration of intention as a child… and a woman
Being a black sheep
Writing her book
Dreaming a gathering of women
Creating in community
The challenges of charging for our work and supporting what it takes to create and teach
Extended episode –
Her adopted Native name and the story of how she was the first white woman in several hundred years to be adopted by that tribe
Women as beacons
More on ancestors
How clothing impacts how we are in the world
Books we mentioned
The Wild Wool Shepherdess: Weave the Ancient Path, Reignite Your Feminine Fire
The Witch and the Wildwood
Women who Run with the Wolves
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Dee Mulrooney is a multi-disciplinary Irish artist. Inhabiting a female body and all that it entails is the main preoccupation of her work. Exile, class, displacement, social history, longing and belonging are some of the themes explored by Dee, through various media, including painting, drawing, film, storytelling, and performance. Her art is fiercely authentic, and she leaves no stone of her own personal healing journey unturned. Dee works with the alchemical aspect of transmutation in her art, using this process to deal with difficult topics, including, abuse, death and loss. Dee’s performance art is provocative and has a political point to make, highly social, collaborative and community building. She is driven by story and symbolism, how we remember and interpret history and women’s role and their bodies within that. She exhibits and performs regularly and had an award-winning show at Edinburgh Fringe 2023.
https://deirdre-mulrooney.com/
www.Instagram.com/deemulrooney
***Trigger warning re abuse and baby death, and Irish Mother and Baby homes – to skip this section 13:40-19:00 mins***
We talked about:
The central theme of womanhood in her work and contemporary vulva-tastic culture!
Her alter ego Growler – an 84 year old vulva and mother of God and creating ritual theatre
How one of the most traumatic events in recent Irish history emboldened her to draw
The colonisation of the creative space by patriarchy and capitalism
Art and activism
Women’s creativity, high art and the Establishment
Art as alchemy and transmuter of pain
In the extended episode we discussed:
The impact of empire…and how quickly things can change
Her experience of childhood hallucinations and being exorcised
Imbas – the Irish insight
Her advice on overcoming fear in order to make or share the work you are called to
We mentioned:
Empire podcast
Burning Woman
Tuam Mother and Baby Home
The Babog project
Meggan Watterson – Magdalene Revealed
Imbas
Sile na gigs
About your Host
Lucy H. Pearce is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award silver winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix: she who makes. Her writing focuses on women’s healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment, historical awareness and creativity.
Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, publishing paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014.
lucyhpearce.com
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Join me at The Witches Revival in Lancaster, UK 9-11 August
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Gina Martin is a founding mother and High Priestess of Triple Spiral of Dún na Sidhe, a pagan spiritual congregation in the Hudson Valley, New York State, US. She is a ritualist, teacher, healer, mother, and writer of sacred songs.
Gina is a practitioner of Classical Chinese medicine and a Board certified licensed acupuncturist.
The author of the When She Wakes trilogy: Sisters of the Solstice Moon, Walking the Threads of Time and She is Here. The backstories of the Thirteen for girls aged 8-80: Kiyia – Daughter of the Horse; Autakla – Daughter of the Seal; Maia – Daughter of Fire; and her newest book Io – Daughter of the Wild Hunt is out very soon. Her book of chants – WomEnchanting is available from her website.
All Gina’s books are 60% off on Kindle from 1-4th August. Buy the When She Wakes trilogy signed with digital goodies for a 10% discount for the month of August from Womancraft Publishing.
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We talked about:
The three creative acts of her life
The somatic magic and nature of writing
How her characters pester her
Magic realism in her work…and life
The many varied spiritual influences on her practice and creativity
Sigil magic and the weirdness of trying to put it into words
Becoming her own body of work - her tattoos
Her creative process
Writing groups
Self publishing and publishing
Being a channel
Writing spiritual books – ritual and ceremony
Creative collaboration within and between creative disciplines
Resistance and regrets
Maternal pride and envy – when our parents are the reason we cannot create
In the Extended Episode…
We reminisce about our trips together to ancient sites in Crete and Newgrange
The books that most influenced her as a writer – the author of The Road to Avalon is Joan Wolf.
A deep dive into channeling, hearing voices and mental illness.
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About your Host
Lucy H. Pearce is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award silver winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix: she who makes. Her other titles include Amazon #1 bestsellers: Moon Time, Reaching for the Moon, The Rainbow Way and Crow Moon. Her other books include: She of the Sea, Full Circle Health, Moods of Motherhood and she is the co-author and illustrator of The Kitchen Witch Companion. Her writing focuses on women’s healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment, historical awareness and creativity.
Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, publishing paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014.
lucyhpearce.com
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My guest today is Molly Remer, priestess, mystic, and poet in central Missouri. Molly and her husband Mark co-create Story Goddesses at Brigid’s Grove. Molly is the author of eleven books, including Walking with Persephone, which I edited and published at Womancraft Publishing, Whole and Holy, Womanrunes, the Goddess Devotional, and 365 Days of Goddess. She is the creator of the devotional experience #30DaysofGoddess and she loves savoring small magic and everyday enchantment.
Her newest book is The Great Between.
In this episode we talk about
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Kristin Lisenby is a Storyteller and Word Witch living in the Azores Islands. Inspired by the moon and garden, Kristin writes seasonal stories and reimagined fairy tales for the magically minded. She is the voice behind Little Witch Books and the co-founder of Pointy Hat Press, a publishing house exploring Witchcraft and Paganism through a modern lens. She co-hosts the Magick & Alchemy podcast alongside fellow Word Witch Kate Belew, as well as the Crossroads, a seasonal, creative coven for literary spellcraft.
A Cal Poly alumni, Kristin has a BA in Modern Language & Literature and has also studied at the University of Valladolid in Spain. She is passionate about plants, nearly-forgotten folklore, and all things Magical Realism. When she’s not writing, you can find Kristin digging in her garden, playing with her three goats, and working alongside her partner to infuse new life into their century-old farmhouse.
Kristin’s Instagram
Little Witch Books
Pointy Hat Press
Website
Magick and Alchemy Podcast
We talked about:
In the Extended Episode we discuss:
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Resources
Missing Witches – Kristin’s episode, Lucy’s episode
Telling the Bees – Kristin’s book
Purchase the recording of Lucy’s Becoming Visible Masterclass
Burning Woman
Crow Moon
Magick and Alchemy podcast
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Margaux Jones (AKA MJ) Cullinane is an award-winning Seattle-based artist, writer, mother, and lover of all things magical - especially crows. She attended Parsons School of Design, yet her unique technique for telling stories through digital collage is self-taught and has been her passion for over 10 years. Nature and its creatures are a familiar theme in MJ's work.
The Crow Tarot, MJ's first published deck, has achieved a significant following and recognition with crow lovers and the tarot community including winning the 2019 CARTA award for Best Tarot Deck and Best Illustrator of a Tarot Deck.
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If you are a crow lover, this is the episode for you. There are a couple of powerful crow stories, and we share our love for all things corvid.
We also talked about:
MJ’s award-winning Crow Tarot
What tarot means to MJ and how she uses it
Having the courage to follow your own intuition
Doing work that you love
Resources we mentioned
Crow Moon
The Crow Tarot
www.mjcullinane.com
Instagram : @crowtarotmjcullinane
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Womancraft Publishing
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My guest today is Sarah Robinson is the best-selling Womancraft Publishing author of multiple books on magic and witches including: Yoga for Witches (now in French, Chinese, Polish and Farsi), Yin Magic, Enchanted Journeys, The Kitchen Witch Companion, The Witch and the Wildwood and Womancraft Publishing’s fastest selling pre-order ever, Kitchen Witch: food, folklore and fairy tale.
A yoga teacher and author, she is based in Bath, UK. Her background is in science; she holds an MSc in Psychology & Neuroscience and has studied at Bath, Exeter and Harvard universities.
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We talked about:
Our shared longing to run away and live in the woods…
How she got started as a writer… and how long it took her to claim this title.
The patriarchal myth of the writer at their desk… and how we work instead.
Imposter syndrome.
Curating creative ideas and how she knows what works.
The cross overs between magic and creativity.
Reviews and how we handle them.
Showing up on the page and being seen.
How we give each other courage.
Find Sarah online:
Website: www.sentiayoga.com
Instagram: @Yogaforwitches @thisiswitchcountry
Podcast: Witch Country
Insight Timer: Enchanted Journeys with Sarah Robinson
Pre order Sarah’s new book The Witch and the Wildwood from Womancraft Publishing
Other things we mention include
Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods
Walking with Persephone – Molly Remer
Episode 10 of Creative Magic - Cali White - Creating Experiential Spaces
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Your host Lucy H. Pearce – www.lucyhpearce.com Instagram: @lucyhpearce Facebook
Womancaft Publishing
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Alice Grist – Pregnancy as Initiation to Creative Magic – You have to Be Willing to Be Changed
Introduced to spirituality from an early age, Alice’s Church of England father turned to Wicca and her journey into modern spirit began. Alice’s work is renowned for providing an earthy and everyday perspective on a spiritual life, making the divine accessible, welcoming and fun to anyone seeking it.
Author of five published books on spirituality / tarot and creator of two card decks including Rebel Heart. Alice's new book, Soulful Pregnancy is available to order now from Womancraft Publishing as signed copies, or wherever you get your books in paperback and ebook.
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Alongside her written work and card deck creation, Alice teaches and shares spirituality with a modern female audience through her Cosmic Sisterhood newsletter and frequent workshops which she both hosts (online and IRL). Alice is active and lively on all her social media channels. Come check her out most frequent on Instagram @alicegrist and on TikTok - @alicegristauthor
www.Alicegrist.co.uk
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We talked about…
Soulful pregnancy – her forthcoming book
Creative magic as it relates to pregnancy and motherhood
Pregnancy as initiation
Rites of passage
Raising and coming from creative families
Valuing our creative (and mothering) work
Selling our work
Social media and its effect on creativity
The creation of a tarot deck
Resources mentioned
The Rainbow Way: cultivating creativity in the midst of motherhood
Soulful Pregnancy
Dirty & Divine
Womancraft Publishing
Dear Poppyseed (the book she wrote during her first pregnangy that I reviewed)
Juno magazine
Rebel Heart Tarot
Alice’s Live Soulful Pregnancy event
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Womancaft Publishing
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