Creative Magic

A quick update on what I'm up to between seasons... and what's coming up next Tuesday!

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A special Creative Magic episode celebrating the most-mentioned book on the podcast over Seasons 1 &2, Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ iconic book, Women Who Run With the Wolves. This between-the-seasons episode weaving extracts from the book with reflections and interviews from former Creative Magic guests - Danielle Dulsky, Clare Jasmine Beloved, Dr Vanya Leilani, Elizabeth Kneafsey, Sarah Robinson and Molly Remer – on wolves, the Wild Woman archetype, and the impact that this book has had on their lives. Featuring an exclusive interview with Rachel S. Roberts, author of Lupa. She-Wolf of Rome, Mother of Destiny and Wolf. Embody your Inner Wolf.

Get the full episode exclusively from Patreon (which runs to 1 hour 50 mins). It includes:

An extended interview with Rachel S. Roberts as well as extended excerpts from Danielle Dulsky and Elizabeth Kneafsey.

Additional contributor stories from:

Kelly Barett and Zoe Genet Berthoud.

Readings from Lupa and The Witch & the Wildwood.

Reflections and enquiries from Lucy H. Pearce.

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Get Published with Lucy H. Pearce – e-course

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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 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 

And if you’re dreaming of being a published author

Lucy has experiences in every area of publishing:

As an author submitting book proposals to publishers.

As a mentor to other authors as they submit proposals or self-publish.

As a self-published author.

As publisher running a publishing company for over ten years,

As a teacher of all aspects of writing and self-publishing for a decade.

Start learning what you really want to know... and get to ask your questions.

Discover the reality... not the fantasy of book publishing today. Set yourself up for success with tried-and-tested tools for finding a publisher and making the best impression, selling yourself and your book, building an author platform, self-publishing what it is and how it works, and most importantly, how to earn a living from your writing at every step along the way.

Several tiers dependent on your budget and needs. Starts live Zoom classes 4th Feb. Exclusive discount for foks on the top tier of patreon

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Celeste Larsen, Mage by Moonlight is a pagan witch, ritualist, and facilitator of witchcraft retreats, courses, and workshops. Originally from the US, she is now based in County Cork, Ireland. Her first book, Heal the Witch Wound won a Nautilus Award.

https://www.instagram.com/magebymoonlight

https://magebymoonlight.com/

We talked about:

The difference between witchcraft and magical communities in the US and Ireland.

Her favourite sacred sites and stones in Ireland

The witch wound and her book Heal the Witch Wound

How she came to create her insanely popular Instagram account, Mage by Moonlight

Creating magical retreats

Resources

Beara Peninsula

Newgrange and Knowth

Uisneach

My book Burning Woman

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 

And if you’re dreaming of being a published author

Lucy has experiences in every area of publishing:

As an author submitting book proposals to publishers.

As a mentor to other authors as they submit proposals or self-publish.

As a self-published author.

As publisher running a publishing company for over ten years,

As a teacher of all aspects of writing and self-publishing for a decade.

Start learning what you really want to know... and get to ask your questions.

Discover the reality... not the fantasy of book publishing today. Set yourself up for success with tried-and-tested tools for finding a publisher and making the best impression, selling yourself and your book, building an author platform, self-publishing what it is and how it works, and most importantly, how to earn a living from your writing at every step along the way.

Several tiers dependent on your budget and needs. Live Zoom classes start 4th Feb. Exclusive discount for foks on the top tier of patreon

www.Womancraftpublishing.com

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Artist. Illustrator. Intuitive herbalist. Oracle Creator. Incense Maker. Stitch Witch. Traveller on the spirit roads. Dreamer.

 Deeply rooted in this ancient landscape of Dartmoor, her work draws heavily on folklore and mythology, and her magical practise ,and explores the deep connection, both physical and spiritual, between people and the land they inhabit. 

Her work, in all its threads, is at its heart a prayer to the numinous world around us. 

Website www.daniellebarlowart.com/

Instagram www.instagram.com/daniellebarlowart

Facebook www.facebook.com/p/Danielle-Barlow-100063671194886/

Etsy www.etsy.com/shop/daniellebarlowart

We talked about:

Why art school wasn’t what this artist needed

Spell wheels and mandalas

Stitching stories and ancestral crafts

Cauldron brewing and the creative process

The different sources of painting and stitching for her

The making and unmaking of menopause

In the Extended episode – just $3/month on Patreon.com/lucyhpearce

The life-changing magic of how to save as a PDF!

Her relationship with the algorithm and social media

Content creating versus sharing the real

Links

Phyllis Curott

Green Wheel Oracle

Witches Wisdom Tarot

Earth Pathways Diary

Crow Moon

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.

Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, publishing paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014.

lucyhpearce.com 

And if you’re dreaming of being a published author

Lucy has experiences in every area of publishing:

As an author submitting book proposals to publishers.

As a mentor to other authors as they submit proposals or self-publish.

As publisher running a publishing company for over ten years,

Start learning what you really want to know... and get to ask your questions.

Set yourself up for success with tried-and-tested tools for finding a publisher and making the best impression, selling yourself and your book, building an author platform, self-publishing what it is and how it works, and most importantly, how to earn a living from your writing at every step along the way.

Live Zoom classes start 4th Feb.

www.Womancraftpublishing.com

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Sarah Napoli, also known as The Woodland Witch, is a folk practitioner, herbalist, house witch and homesteader residing in the mountains of New England with her husband, daughter and fur babies. She owns and operates a digital apothecary known as Folkcraft and Flora Apothecary where she crafts herbal and magical goods for intentional daily living. 

www.FolkcraftandFlora.com

Instagram.com/thewoodlandwitchh

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We talked about:

Her early years and experience of Christian upbringing and the hurdles to claiming the title of witch

How she grew her Instagram and TikTok followings to over 100K

Dealing with scammers and impersonators

Building online community

Creating content for her channels

Her nightmare publishing story as a nearly author not once, but twice!

In the Extended Episode she reflects on:

Performative magic and integrity in sharing magic online

Deciding what to share online…and what to keep private

Her favourite witchy books

Her go to herbs

Get Published! with Lucy H. Pearce - Discover the reality... not the fantasy of book publishing today. Set yourself up for success with tried-and-tested tools for finding a publisher and making the best impression, selling yourself and your book, building an author platform, self-publishing what it is and how it works, and most importantly, how to earn a living from your writing at every step along the way.

Several tiers dependent on your budget and needs. Live on Zoom. Starts 4th Feb. Exclusive discount for foks on the top tier of patreon

www.Womancraftpublishing.com

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.

www.lucyhpearce.com 

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Chelan Harkin is a mystical poet whose poems have been shared tens of thousands of times. Her publishing journey is only four years old but her first two books, Susceptible to Light and Let Us Dance!, have been self-publishing successes with sales numbers to be envied by most poets today. Her third book, Wild Grace, published in November 2023 with Monkfish and her most recent The Prophetess was published this September by Hay House.

Find her on Instagram and Facebook

We talked about:

Mysticism and channeling

Ecstasy and the mundane- bringing ourselves back from the ecstatic

Growing up in the Bahai faith

Her pre-birth experience

The genius of Life

Self-publishing and the dream of being published

Neurodivergence

Writing 30 days of bad poems

Being seen

How she prays

Extended audio version - 20 more minutes of solid gold available on Patreon.com/lucyhpearce

Behind the scenes chat of how we first connected

The power of reading our work aloud

Integrating the medicine of our own creative work

The vulnerability and empowerment of self publishing

Creative collaboration and being approached by her favourite poet.

A story she has never told publically before of what led to her finally publishing her first book.

$6 a month or more, get the video version and my end of year bonus audio as well as this $9/ month gets you my new writing - Why Art Matters and an exclusive discount on my next e-course. Patreon.com/lucyhpearce

Purchase Womancraft Compendium - Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy

Check out my new ecourse - - Get Published - which is booking now, starting in February

Her e-course - Fierce Grace starts in January.

Books mentioned

Susceptible to Light

Let Us Dance

Wild Grace

The Prophetess

Burning Woman - Lucy H.Pearce

The Gift - Daniel Ladinsky

Your host - Lucy H. Pearce

www.lucyhpearce.com

Instagram

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Justine Aldersey-Williams is a textile activist, speaker and teacher specialising in natural fabric dyeing and regenerative clothing. She hand-dyes textiles at her studio, The Wild Dyery, in Hoylake UK, using many plants grown on her nearby food, fibre and dye allotment and teaches both live and online courses in botanical dyeing techniques.

Justine qualified as a teacher in 1998 and has since taught extensively to schools, colleges, universities and crafts groups. A yoga teacher since 2006, Justine’s textile work intersects creativity, spirituality and environmentalism. She devises creative rituals that reconnect people with nature and sees botanical dyeing as a gateway craft that can inspire people to feel more reverence for their ecosystems.

She founded the Northern England Fibreshed, part of the international Fibershed not-for-profit organisation in March 2020 and volunteers to help establish regenerative textile systems using 'local fibres, local dyes and local labour' throughout the region.

Justine’s website NaturalFabricDyeing.com/

Instagram @thewilddyery

Home Grown Colour

We talked about :

Growing slow textiles

Animism

Matrilineal textile craft

Finding the right language for what we do

The metaphor of weaving

Creative and growing rituals that reconnect people with nature

Her project making the first pair of locally-grown, dyed and woven jeans

Moving from being consumers to creators

How plants communicate to us

When creativity is disabling - burnout and being multi-passionate creatives

In the bonus episode we also discuss:

The fashion industry and environmentalism

Her relationship with being visible and being a channel

More on woad and indigo

Resources

Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy

Satish Kumar

Medicine Festival

Zach Bush

Uma Dinsmore Tuli

Women who Run with the Wolves

Vandana Shiva

The Feminist Lecture Program

Patrick Grant

Manda Scott Boudica books

TreeSisters

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Clare Jasmine Beloved is an artist based in Liverpool, UK. She says:

“Creating is in my blood and has saved my life over and over – transforming feelings, emotions, life stories, wounds and blocks, dreams and ideas into beauty. My art is awash with large lush goddesses, magic mermaids, sensual sistas, and sacred imagery, symbolism and feelings.The process and the way that I paint and create is very intuitive. I work with many layers to explore my own mythology, using acrylics and mixed media.

My work is also translated into limited edition textile ranges in silks and velvet as well as a beautiful jewellery range.

I am passionate about words – my bed is always laden with books! My first poetry collection Love, Hope and High Heels was published in 2010. It was shortlisted for The Polari Book Prize for new gay and lesbian writing. I have since published poetry and art books and journals and am currently finishing a book about my love story with my late wife and navigating life after her death. Pre-order Somewhere Between Derelict and Divine: Magical Stories to Carry Us All Home…

I developed and curated a large-scale project based on my own way of creating with over 1000 women and girls, which was exhibited at The Tate in a ground-breaking exhibition. This was then taken into many settings and also developed into Big Love Sista, Big Love My Brother.

I am dedicated to creating a body of work in the world and spaces that are ethical, inclusive, diverse, real and down to earth and magical and deeply rooted in community.”

www.clarebeloved.com

Instagram.com@clarebeloved

We talked about:

Facilitating creativity in a range of different settings

Creating safe and inclusive creative spaces

Overcoming a legacy of creative repression

Coming into her own creative power

Art as therapeutic and alchemical

On becoming an accidental wild woman

The power of sharing our stories

Magic and imagination as a way to survive childhood

Seeing the magic in your own story

The magic of the sea - selkies and mermaids

Creating from and through grief

In the Extended Episode we discussed

More about group facilitation.

Her creative haven in Greece

How poems come through to her

A deeper dive into creatively navigating her wife's death from breast cancer and “widow’s fire”.

Access extended episodes for just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

Books we mentioned:

Somewhere Between Derelict and Divine: Magical Stories to Carry Us All Home…

She of the Sea

Creatrix: she who makes

Red Tents

Women Who Run with the Wolves

The Way You Do Anything is the Way You Do Everything

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Nicole Barton is a witch on a mission to help Secret Witches - aka secretly magical healers who hide their magic - to live their true destiny by expressing their magic. She does this by helping women to heal themselves, discover their soul map of gifts and heal the fear of expressing their unique remedy.

Through her Archetypal Apothecary™ path (which is a unique combination of the three ancient wisdom bodies of homeopathy, archetypal psychology and energy healing, and provides a clear map to your soul) - and with over a decade’s experience of being a healer of sensitive souls and healers - Nicole guides women to understand their soul’s plan and harness it to heal themselves so they can become the unapologetically magical healer witches their souls were born to be.

See more from Nicole via her website (www.nicolebarton.co.uk) and listen to her podcast The Secret Witch Show www.secretwitch.co.uk 

 Email her if you want to find out more about Luna - [email protected] 

 Instagram - www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton 

 TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@archetypalapothecary 

We talked about:

Her initiation to the witch

The archetypal apothecary

The homeopathic remedy of Luna

Manifestation and creation

Marketing as gift and curse

Logic vs magic

People as remedies

Extended episode – the lost years - a tear jerking part as Lucy dives into a very personal experience of initiation

Animals as remedies

Nicole’s favourite books

The motherwound

Initiations of birth

The Secret Witch Show – Ep. 1 How to know if you're a secret witch

Universal laws of healing episode, Lucy’s episode

Creatrix: she who makes

Burning Woman

Medicine Woman

The Peculiar People – Mark Sorrell

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Vanya Leilani is a depth psychologist, writer, teacher and storyteller.Her first book, The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression is out this week from Womancraft Publishing. She has spent decades exploring the threshold where the external “shoulds” in our lives

Vanya holds a PhD in Depth Psychology with emphasis in Jungian and Archetypal Studies.n She has also completed a certificate training intensive with Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes and has served as an adjunct professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute teaching on the creative power of archetypes.  

Vanya was born and raised in southeastern Brazil and currently lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, where she tends to the land and many animals. 

Instagram.com/drvanyaleilani

www.drvanyaleilani.com

We talked about:

Her first book – The Flesh and the Fruit

Creative transgression – why disobedience is vital

Belonging to ourselves

Her upbringing in a fundamentalist Christian community

Spiritual crisis

Archetypal psychology

In the extended episode we discussed:

Her curse

How our unconscious often helps us to stay invisible

Drumming and midlife women

Resources

Her first book – The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression

Women who Run with the Wolves

Care of the Soul

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Thomas Moore

Her podcast – Belonging to the Wild

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