Creative Magic

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

• Her book Walking with Persephone
• Everyday enchantment
• Making magic
• Why she writes
• The unseen connections between us all

Watch the original book club video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX9f9SuOSbo

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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:

• Sacred collaboration: the magic of finding your people
• Sharing and selling on social media: "sharing your art online is like putting up a soul flare so your people can find you".
• Living in the Azores, close to nature... how it has impacted her work, creativity and magic
• Being an introvert
• Reawakening of the magical self
• Reclaiming our weirdness
• The gift of slowing down
• Allowing ourselves to be seen
• Timelessness vs timeliness
• Growth and change and appreciating our younger selves

In the Extended Episode we discuss:

• The somatic sense of weirdness
• Automatic writing and channeling
• Saturn returns
• Seasons and creativity

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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.

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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

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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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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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