Stirring the Cauldron

It was a double header this week with Ron Kolek and Steve Parsons, the hosts of Ghost Chronicles International on toginet.com and the Paraxradionetwork.com. The subject matter this week was a smorgasbord of paranormal topics, from the legendary Harry Price to Automatic writing and pretty much everything else in between. It also served as an introduction to their show for those who had never tuned in and to share the news that I am now a once a month co-host with Ron and Steve and it's been a lot of fun. So listen in and have a taste of Ghost Chronicles International. Believe me when I say that there is never a dull moment.

The worldwide pandemic has robbed us of many things over the last few months, and one of life's little pleasures, the yearly Renaissance Faires all over the country have been cancelled which for many of us, leaves us with a bad case of MooNiE Withdrawal. Even though we can't go see MooNiE in person, it was possible for him to come to us, live, on this week's show and share some wonderful Moonie Tales. And as an extra added bonus, our very good friend Sam Miller joined us. When Phil was on my show last year, we talked about the qualities of The Magic of Laughter, and this week's show proved once again that laughter is the best medicine. So like I said in the show's opener, "Hunker down, get comfortable and if you start feeling a very strange sensation in your face during the show, do not panic. It’s just that big smile that has been tucked away lately, making a comeback."

Santa Muerte (Spanish for Holy Death or Sacred Death), is a female folk saint venerated primarily in Mexico and the Southwestern United States. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees. She generally appears as a female skeletal figure, clad in a long robe and holding one or more objects, usually a scythe and a globe. She also happens to be Tim Shaw's patron saint, and is considered to be the special matron of witches, magickal practitioners, and necromancers which is a very good reason to build a Rev and Witch show around her.

This book is your invitation to find the spirits that you sense around you, to connect with them, honor them, and share their stories. Within these pages you will find that you can interact with deities, the fae, and the beloved dead, both the known and unknown. All of these spirits can provide you with myriad gifts, but the channels of communication must be open first. Phoenix shows you how to reach out beyond the mundane world to other realms of existence. What is Remembered Lives shares hands on techniques you can use to honor and commune with spirits through realm travel or invitation. Learn how to work with intention, research, and your own place of power. Discover ways to open up to the experiences that await you and negotiate with the spirits that you contact. This book includes dozens of exercises and provides instructions. How many deities and ancestors have been lost to time, invasion, and changes in culture? How much distance has grown between us and the natural world of the fae? How many are hanging on by a thread right now, only remembered by a precious few?The experience of entering into relationship with spirit is unlike any other/ Now is a good time to start and this book shows you how.

The festival of Beltaine, May Day, is a celebration of the return of spring and the promise of summer, a time for love magic and spells for increasing the fertility of the land and the plants that grow upon it. Like Samhain in autumn, Beltaine is also a time when the veil between the physical and spiritual world is at its most transparent and the ancestors and denizens of the Otherworld easily interact with the world of humans. The Sacred Herbs of spring is a practical guide to the celebration of Beltaine, examining the plants, customs, foods, drinks, and rituals of May Day across many cultures. In the section on the sacred plants of Beltaine, the author explores more than 90 herbs and trees, offering spells, rituals, and recipes alongside their medicinal healing uses. She reveals sacred woods suitable for the Beltaine fires and Beltaine flowers for rituals and spells. She explores herbs for luck, magic, purification, abundance, and love; herbs for protection, herbs of the Faeries and Elves, and herbs for journeying to the Otherworld and contacting the high gods and goddesses. Woven throughout with mystical tales of folk, Faery, and sacred herbs, the readers are offered practical and magical ways to connect with Nature, the plant kingdom, and the Spirits that surround us in the season of spring.

Despite the government's best efforts to explain it away, after nearly 70 years, Roswell is a story that just won't disappear. Parents who were present during or immediately after the incident may have passed on, but their children know what happened‚ and have paid dearly for their knowledge. These are their stories. You will finally learn the truth about The daughter of a witness to an alien body who discovered that her phone had been bugged for years, how the US Air Force tried to change the mind of the son of the Roswell intelligence officer in 1995 and what really became of the son of the principle witness, who disappeared in 1960?

These are stories worth hearing that force you to think about why the government would go to such lengths to keep these families quiet. This was a very interesting and thought provoking show.

Valued by herbalists, midwives, and mothers throughout history, compresses and poultices are gentle yet highly effective natural remedies you can safely use at home. Easily made from materials you already have in your kitchen, such as ice cubes, herbs, cabbage leaves, lemon slices, clay, or beeswax, these simple preparations can quickly ease pain and inflammation, relieve congestion and edema, lower fever, drain abscesses, activate circulation, calm muscle spasms, and trigger the body’s natural self-healing abilities. In this step-by-step naturopathic guide to compresses and poultices, Christopher Vasey, N.D., shows how to use these time-tested folk remedies to treat 70 common ailments and conditions, including headache, asthma, acne, sinusitis, earache, arthritis ,shingles, anxiety, insomnia, and more. Offering an indispensable complement to your home first aid kit, this book provides you with a hands-on way to bring relief and healing to yourself and your loved ones.

Everyone knows Bruce Tango from Ghost Hunters, but lots of people don't know much about Bruce Tango the person. This archived episode dates back to 2013, and was the first time that Bruce came on to stir the cauldron with me. We talk about his past as a highly decorated police officer, his scary childhood experience with the Staring Man, paranormal investigations, ghosts and a whole lot more.

It’s time to get out your virtual work gloves and trowel because were’re going to do a little cyber gardening on this episode. My guest is Mandy Mitchell who knows a whole lot about magickal plants and gardens. Mandy is the author of The Hedgewitch Book of Days and since ours is a nature based religion and our wheel of the year is based on the annual cycle of seasonal festivals, the bounty of the land comes into play both in sowing and reaping. That means getting down to basics, digging around in the dirt being one with Mother Nature and getting hands on in creating beautiful gardens, planting food to harvest and watching beautiful floral plants come into bloom….and with Beltane just around the corner, who better than a Hedgewitch to talk with about the magic of gardening.

As within + so without = a healthy witch. But getting there takes the right magickal work. TJ Perkins' holistic witchy workbook combines medical knowledge with magickal healing to put you where you need to be to get the most out of your life. Learn to personalize your healing needs by fusing skills in magick and nutrition, conducting rituals, and employing specialized spells. Using the pentagram model, take a healing journey through each organ in your body, allowing you to gain optimal health via signs, suggestions, and practical tips. Examine each element, and discover how your organs interact and affect your magickal energy flow. The tools here will guide you to becoming a naturally healthy witch, enabling you to work with the Goddess from a place of sacred well-being. A healthy witch is a successful witch!