Heathen's Journey Podcast

An important announcement from Siri:

Too long, didn't listen summary: Some of the music that I use to make the Heathen's Journey Podcast has been flagged as copyrighted. I'm working with an artist to create original intro and outro music,

In the meantime, you can listen to all episodes of the Heathen's Journey Podcast on my website, heathensjourneypod.com. You can support this podcast over on my Patreon at patreon.com/sirivincentplouff.

I am so thrilled to have Donyelle Headington, local Minneapolis folk ways practitioner, on the podcast! Donyelle Headington is the founder and lead practitioner of Folkway LLC, a living sanctuary where ancestral traditions, community care, and healing justice converge. Donyelle was raised within African American and Northern/Eastern European families and co-raised by a Colombian family. That mix taught her that food, story, and ceremony bind us back to ourselves. 

Her practice blends sacred listening, Curanderismo, spiritual herbalism, African Diasporic wisdom, Afrocentric Kemetic studies, and Norse Germanic wise woman ways (Völva Stav). She also work across traditions as an invited guest in a Mesoamerican Indigenous tradition. Donyelle is a practicing healer and folk magician based in Minneapolis, MN.

In this episode, we talk about balancing different folklore traditions, creating community spaces, and ancestor work as liberation.

Links:

Check out Donyelle’s work on her website: https://www.folkwayllc.com/

You can read a transcript of this episode on my website: https://heathensjourneypod.com/episodes

I'm now accepting students for my Queering the Runes online course! ⁠⁠You can register here.⁠⁠

Listen to my other podcast Chaos and Cunning wherever you get your podcasts!

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Cultural appropriation is a challenging topic in the occult community, and it is also a topic that is incredibly nuanced. It's important to understand why cultural appropriation happens, what it looks like, and how to avoid it. It's also important not to silo our experiences, to segregate ourselves from other areas of the pagan community. In this episode Siri goes deep on these nuances and helps listeners understand their importance.

Links:

I'm now accepting students for my Queering the Runes online course! ⁠You can register here.⁠

Listen to my other podcast Chaos and Cunning wherever you get your podcasts!

Love my work? ⁠Consider supporting me on Patreon! ⁠

⁠Transcript available on the Heathen's Journey Website

References:

Schnurbein, Stefanie von. Norse Revival: Transformations of Germanic Neopaganism. Brill, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w76v8x.

Jung, Carl. "Wotan." Neue Schweizer Rundschau (Zurich). n.s., III (March, 1936), 657-69. Republished in AUFSATZE ZURZEITGESCHICHTE (Zurich, 1946), 1-23. Trans. by Barbara Hannah in ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORARY EVENTS Accessed at: https://www.philosopher.eu/others-writings/essay-on-wotan-w-nietzsche-c-g-jung/

In this episode, Siri interviews Máire Durkan. Máire Durkan is an author, ordained Heathen minister, devoted Friggswoman, and respected voice in contemporary Heathen spirituality. She serves as Clergy Coordinator for The Troth, one of the oldest international inclusive Heathen organizations, and works as both an interfaith hospital chaplain and birth doula, bringing together theological scholarship and compassionate pastoral care. In this episode, we talk about Frigg and her retinue of goddesses that specialize in confronting patriarchal violence, systemic racism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression.

Read a transcript of this interview on our website

Purchase a copy of "Frigg's Twelvefold Flame" anywhere you buy books! Here's a handy link to Bookshop.org

Support the podcast on Patreon

Register for the Queering the Runes Course

Well hello there! I'm officially back for another season of the Heathen's Journey Podcast!

In this first episode of Season 3, I wanted to look back on my previous work talking about heathen ways of fighting fascism, catch us up to speed as to where we are not at the time of recording, and provide more context about the importance of heathenry as the United States slips further into Christofascism. I go deep into the concept of Frith as a guiding principle for creating welcoming communities.

Announcements:

I'm now accepting students for my Queering the Runes online course! You can register here.

Listen to my other podcast Chaos and Cunning wherever you get your podcasts!

Love my work? Consider supporting me on Patreon!

Transcript available on the Heathen's Journey Website

Sources:

Durkan, Maire. Frigg's Twelvefold Flame: Creating Justice and Healing with the Goddess and Her Court. Llewellyn Worldwide, Woodbury, MN. 2026.

Rose, Winnifred Hodge. "Frith, Friendship, and Freedom" https://heathensoullore.net/frith-friendship-and-freedom/ accessed on 6/7/2026 and preserved at web.archive.org

Getting experimental and immersing myself in runes for a full year! After healing from magical burnout, I'm more interested than ever in experimentation. The "Queering the Runes" course has inspired me to undertake a full year immersion of experimentation with the runes.

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I have a new podcast! It's called Chaos and Cunning and it is all about the intersection of culture, folk magic, and chaos magic. Basically, I wanted a place to talk about occult things that I engage with that aren't explicitly heathen in nature. Enter: Chaos and Cunning.

This episode is an intro and an explainer. Learn more about host Siri, as well as the general philosophy behind the podcast.

Join us next week over on that feed for our first interview with the one and only Kelly-Ann Maddox!

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Queering the Runes Course is currently open for registration! Check it out and register here: https://lore-academy.teachable.com/p/queering-the-runes

This is a little bit of a different podcast! I'm actually posting an interview I did with Haley over at Opening the Door Podcast. This episode was originally titled "Exploring Nordic Folklore and Folk Witchcraft with Siri Vincent Plouff."

Because it was released very close to Halloween, we ended up talking almost exclusively about Draugr. Now, posting this over a month later, it is still timely because Christmas is actually a very spooky time of year.

Exciting announcements!

I'm teaching "Queering the Runes" as a FULL ONLINE COURSE! Early bird pricing is $300, and the price goes up to $400 on 12/16.

Learn more and register here

The intro to Chaos and Cunning is OUT as a teaser now! Go and follow/subscribe/check it out!

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This episode was recorded the Friday after election day. In this episode I talk about the ideas of localized resistance. I have a feeling I'll be putting out more episodes like this, probably with more research and heft behind them. I will also be launching a new podcast next month called Chaos and Cunning, which will be a space where I can expand beyond the confines of heathenry to talk about other magical practices.

I had a file mishap and the wrong file uploaded, so I'm sorry if you're seeing this twice! I've had quite the autumn for podcasting errors. It was obviously not my intention to release this incorrectly, but mistakes happen. Ya got me this time, Loki.

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Read a transcript of this episode here

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Ryan Smith's fantastic post-election episode: On Endings and Beginnings

Nicolette Miele is an an author, herbalist, pagan witch, and animal advocate. Her first book, "Runes for the Green Witch," is a magical grimoire that immerses readers in the widsom and folklore of the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark.

Check out Nicolette's links, including her apothecary Handfuls Of Dust: handfulsofdust.com

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Read a transcript of this episode here: https://www.heathensjourneypod.com/episodes/runes-for-the-green-witch-with-nicolette-miele

Support the podcast on Patreon at patreon.com/sirivincentplouff