Desperate House Witches

Author Gypsey Elaine Teague joins Raina to discuss her latest book, "Norse Divination: Illuminating Your Path with the Wisdom of the Gods".

Gypsey Teague is a Heathen Gyðja and an Elder in the Georgian Wiccan Tradition. She is the author of Steampunk Magic: Working Magic Aboard the Airship and The Witch’s Guide to Wands: A Complete Botanical, Magical, and Elemental Guide to Making, Choosing, and Using the Right Wand, both published by Red Wheel/Weiser, nineteen novels, and three edited collections on gender. She is the owner of Goðan Daginn, an agro-educational Icelandic farm where she teaches wood, leather, fiber, and metal crafts as the Icelanders practiced them.

She may be reached through her website at www.gypseyteague.com.

Ethony Dawn is a Tarot Reader, Author, Headmistress of The Tarot Readers Academy, and a Witch 

Please join us as we discuss her book, Your Tarot Court: Read Any Deck With Confidence!

To learn more, please visit:

ethony.com

Author Byron Ballard and I discuss her newest book!  For more about Byron Ballard, please visit: http://www.myvillagewitch.com/

From Amazon:

An invitation to return to a simpler time of earth-based spirituality and ritual living, through writings from a small forest-farm in the Appalachian Highlands.

This book looks at the agricultural year as a starting space for a deepening of earth-centered spirituality. It gives a set of backstories to ease the reader into a time between the pre-industrial era and the modern one, into a place where the fast-moving stress of American life can be affected by a better connection not only to the natural world but to the elegant expression of the year as expressed through seasonal festivals and celebrations.

The chapters are broken into four seasons, with the quarter days a highlight within each, and feature simple skills that accompany each marker in the year. Author H. Byron Ballard offers advice on spiritual and physical immersion into the seasons that applies to readers from all areas: rural, urban, and suburban.

This is also a deeply practical book, including insights into the following:

A glossary is included for any unfamiliar terms.

Farming & gardening: composting, manure, soil preparation, pests, seed-savingFood: cooking, preserving, foraging, the summer kitchen, mushrooms and myceliumFiber arts: knitting, crocheting, spinning, weaving, decorative cut-work, and embroiderySewing: treadle machines, electric machines, hand sewingHousehold crafts: candle-making, soap-making, broom-making, sharpening toolsHealth: medicines, tending the dying, death and death rituals

Diana Rajchel and I discuss her latest book!

Diana Rajchel is the author of Paganism and witchcraft related titles Urban Magick: a Guide for the City Witch and the Samhain and Mabon installments of Llewellyn Sabbat Essentials. She has 25+ years experience as a witch, spirit worker, and writer. Her style of witchcraft is experiential and experimental, based on taking certain universal principles of magick and applying them to new situations in order to expand her understanding of the possible in the spiritual arts. Diana is the co-owner of Golden Apple Metaphysical in San Francisco, and co-runs Sun & Earth Spiritual: Metaphysical Solutions in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She is available for consultations via her practice the Spirited Witch.

For more information, please visit: https://www.dianarajchel.com/

Mortellus is a lineaged Third Degree Gardnerian High Priestex of the Long Island Line. Presently busy at work on a second book for Llewellyn Worldwide, with the first, Do I Have To Wear Black? Rituals, Customs & Funerary Etiquette for Modern Pagans, which hit the shelves February 8, 2021. In addition to their role as High Priestex, Lady Mortellus is a Mortician, and holds degrees in Design, Education, Fine Arts, and Mortuary Sciences. Their areas of expertise include necromancy, necrobotany, mediumship, and the funerary rites of minority faith groups. Currently residing in Western North Carolina on three acres that doubles as the Covenstead for the Coven of Leaves with their spouse, adult child, AMAB/AFAB twins, and dog; generally wishing there was more time in the day for hiding in the studio and playing with clay.

For more about Mortellius, please visit their website: https://www.mortellus.com/

FIRST FRIDAYS - POLITICS WITH TALIESIN AND RAINA - November 5th, 2021

Join Star Bustamonte (News Editor - The Wild Hunt) and Raina Starr (Host/Producer - Desperate House Witches) for this month's news!

Please note, the opinions expressed on this show belong to the hosts, and do not represent the opinions of the Wild Hunt or any of it's subsidiaries.

The incredible author, Deborah Blake, joins me to discuss her newest book - "The Eclectic Witch's Book of Shadows".  

Please visit: https://deborahblakeauthor.com

An abundant source of magical information, The Eclectic Witch's Book of Shadows is perfect for both Wiccans and eclectic Witches interested in building their own practice from the ground up. This beginner-friendly guide is modeled on a traditional Book of Shadows but is flexible enough to be personalized. With helpful sections on herbs, stones, spells, rituals, and more, this beautiful hardcover book makes practicing Witchcraft easier, simpler, and more fun.

Popular author and eclectic Witch Deborah Blake shares her wisdom on a variety of topics, including candle magic, divination, correspondences, and magical recipes. You’ll meet the gods and goddesses, discover powerful invocations, and explore ways to celebration Pagan festivals and holidays. Extensive color illustrations by well-known artist Mickie Mueller enhance your magical journey, inspiring you to achieve your goals.

Author Patti Wigington visits to discuss her latest release, "Wicca Journal For Begiiners, With Spells, Rituals, and Remedies".

Wicca Journal for Beginners will be available October 19!

From the author's website:

I’ve been practicing as a witch and a Pagan since about 1987ish, and in that time I’ve learned a lot. I’m the founder and high priestess of a local coven, I read Tarot for funsies, and am a licensed minister in my home state of Ohio. In addition to having a Real Grownup Job (with the world’s most patient boss), I spent thirteen years, from 2007 to 2020, as the host of the Paganism & Wicca pages on About.com, which later became ThoughtCo and then LearnReligions. That led to a lot of opportunities, including speaking engagements and the chance to teach workshops, as well as the ability to write a few really cool books on witchy stuff.

For more information, please visit: https://www.pattiwigington.com/

It's that time of the year again!  Join me and my dear friend Dr. Debra Burris (http://www.buckthornfarms.com/) for an hour of conversation and hanging out.