The "Calling the Quarters" Podcast

Bio: Jack Chanek is a Gardnerian Wiccan priest and the author of Qabalah for Wiccans and Tarot for Real Life. His new book, Queen of All Witcheries, looks at modern Goddess worship through a historical lens, exploring the thinkers, movements, and practitioners that shaped how the Goddess is known today. Jack began reading Tarot at eleven years old, and through Tarot he found his way into magic and Paganism. He lives in New Jersey, where he works as an academic philosopher specializing in Immanuel Kant's philosophy of science.

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Host Dean Jones is a Librarian, Cookbook Reviewer, and writer. Originally from San Diego and having lived his teen years in the Pacific Northwest, Dean has lived for over 20 years in the wonderful but barely affordable San Francisco Bay Area. Dean has been published in “Amoral Beatitudes Magazine” and writes on Medium for “One Table One World,” “The Cookbook for All,” “An Idea,” and “Authors what are you reading.” Contact Dean at [email protected] You can listen to my other podcast using the following link https://linktr.ee/thewellseasonedlibrarian

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Bio: Kristoffer Hughes

Kristoffer Hughes is Chief of the Anglesey Druid Order, a Mount Haemus Scholar, and a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. He is a teacher, writer, workshop leader, and guest speaker at Pagan conferences, camps, and festivals throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, and North America. Kristoffer has also contributed to Welsh and English television and radio. He's the author of four books and the creator of the Celtic Tarot. He works professionally for Her Majesty's Coroner Service and teaches Death Midwifery. He lives on the isle of Anglesey, just off the northern coast of Wales.

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Host Dean Jones is a Librarian, Cookbook Reviewer, and writer. Originally from San Diego and having lived his teen years in the Pacific Northwest, Dean has lived for over 20 years in the wonderful but barely affordable San Francisco Bay Area. Dean has been published in “Amoral Beatitudes Magazine” and writes on Medium for “One Table One World,” “The Cookbook for All,” “An Idea,” and “Authors what are you reading.” Contact Dean at [email protected] You can listen to my other podcast using the following link https://linktr.ee/thewellseasonedlibrarian

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Calling the Quarters Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/callingthequart⁠

Calling the Quarters Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/callingthequarterspodcast/⁠

To contact our podcast, email us at ⁠[email protected]⁠

Theme Music is by ⁠Lexin_Music⁠ from ⁠Pixabay⁠

We went to thank Llewllyn Worldwide for help in finding guests for the program. https://www.llewellyn.com/

Bio: T. Thorn Coyle worked in many strange and diverse occupations before settling in to write novels. Buy them a cup of tea and perhaps they’ll tell you about it.

Author of The Witches of Portland, the Seashell Cove Paranormal Mystery series, the Pride Street Paranormal Cozy Mysteries, The Steel Clan Saga, and The Panther Chronicles, Thorn’s multiple non-fiction books include Sigil Magic for Writers, Artists & Other Creatives, Crafting a Daily Practice, Kissing the Limitless, and Evolutionary Witchcraft. Thorn's work also appears in many anthologies, magazines, and collections. 

A student of the magical arts for forty years, Thorn has taught in nine countries, on four continents, and in twenty-five states. An interloper to the Pacific Northwest U.S., Thorn pays proper tribute to all the neighborhood cats, and talks to crows, squirrels, and trees.

You can find them at thorncoyle.com.

My new Mouse Thief Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thorncoyle/the-mouse-thief

Website: https://www.thorncoyle.comSigil Magic: https://books2read.com/sigil-magic

Books

Evolutionary Witchcraft: https://www.amazon.com/Evolutionary-Witchcraft-T-Thorn-Coyle/dp/1585424366/ref=sr_1_2?crid=19UC0QKAX1TL&keywords=t+thorn+coyle&qid=1684794256&s=books&sprefix=t+thorn+c%2Cstripbooks%2C210&sr=1-2

Kissing the Limitless: Deep Magic and the Great Work of Transforming Yourself and the World : https://www.amazon.com/Kissing-Limitless-Magic-Transforming-Yourself/dp/1578634350/ref=sr_1_1?

Crafting a Daily Practice: https://www.amazon.com/Crafting-Daily-Practice-Revised-Practical-ebook/dp/B007QPHKKK/ref=sr_1_9?crid=19UC0QKAX1TL&keywords=t+thorn+coyle&qid=1684794256&s=books&sprefix=t+thorn+c%2Cstripbooks%2C210&sr=1-9

Make Magic of your life: https://www.amazon.com/Make-Magic-Your-Life-Passion-ebook/dp/B00B7L3HFG/ref=sr_1_12?crid=19UC0QKAX1TL&keywords=t+thorn+coyle&qid=1684794256&s=books&sprefix=t+thorn+c%2Cstripbooks%2C210&sr=1-12

crid=19UC0QKAX1TL&keywords=t+thorn+coyle&qid=1684794120&s=books&sprefix=t+thorn+c%2Cstripbooks%2C210&sr=1-1

Witches of Portland Book One: https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Witches-Portland-Book-ebook/dp/B07CJ3ZG71/ref=sr_1_7?crid=19UC0QKAX1TL&keywords=t+thorn+coyle&qid=1684794256&s=books&sprefix=t+thorn+c%2Cstripbooks%2C210&sr=1-7

Sigil Magic for Artists and other Creatives (Revised) https://www.amazon.com/Sigil-Magic-Writers-Artists-Creatives/dp/1946476439/ref=sr_1_18?crid=19UC0QKAX1TL&keywords=t+thorn+coyle&qid=1684794523&s=books&sprefix=t+thorn+c%2Cstripbooks%2C210&sr=1-18

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Host Dean Jones is a Librarian, Cookbook Reviewer, and writer. Originally from San Diego and having lived his teen years in the Pacific Northwest, Dean has lived for over 20 years in the wonderful but barely affordable San Francisco Bay Area. Dean has been published in “Amoral Beatitudes Magazine” and writes on Medium for “One Table One World,” “The Cookbook for All,” “An Idea,” and “Authors what are you reading.” Contact Dean at [email protected] You can listen to my other podcast using the following link https://linktr.ee/thewellseasonedlibrarian

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Calling the Quarters Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/callingthequart⁠

Calling the Quarters Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/callingthequarterspodcast/⁠

To contact our podcast, email us at ⁠[email protected]⁠

Theme Music is by ⁠Lexin_Music⁠ from ⁠Pixabay⁠

We went to thank Llewllyn Worldwide for help in finding guests for the program. https://www.llewellyn.com/

H. Byron Ballard, BA, MFA (Asheville, NC) is a western NC native, teacher,
folklorist, and writer. She has served as a featured speaker and teacher
at several festivals and conferences, including the Sacred Space
Conference, Pagan Spirit Gathering, Starwood, Hexfest and many others.
She serves as senior priestess and co-founder of Mother Grove Goddess
Temple and the Coalition of Earth Religions/CERES, both in Asheville, NC.
She podcasts about Appalachian folkways on "Wyrd Mountain Gals." Her
essays are featured in several anthologies and she writes a regular column
for SageWoman Magazine.

Find her online at www.myvillagewitch.com.

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Bio:Judika Illes (pronounced Illis) is an independent scholar, educator, and author of several books of folklore, folkways, and mythology about the subjects of magic, the occult, divination, diverse spiritual traditions, witchcraft, and the paranormal.

She is the author of four popular encyclopedias: The Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells, The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft. The Encyclopedia of Spirits, and the brand new Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints, and Sages. Her other books include Pure Magic, Magic When You Need It, and The Weiser Field Guide to Witches as well as The Weiser Field Guide to the Paranormal (published under the alias Judith Joyce).

Judika’s frequent radio appearances include Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, Ripley Radio Oddcast, Fangoria Radio, the Hilly Rose Show and the X-Zone with Rob McConnell. She has been featured in publications including The Witches’ Almanac, The Spirit Guide to Spellcraft (Australia), and Prediction Magazine (UK).

Judika Isles Website: http://judikailles.com/

Photo credit: Photo By Don Woods - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57130215

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Bio JD Walker is the vice chancellor of the House of Akasha, a North Carolina pagan group. She is an award-winning author, journalist, and magazine editor as well as a frequent contributor to the Llewellyn annuals. Walker has written a regular garden column for over thirty years, and she is the author of A Witch's Guide to Wildcraft and Under the Sacred Canopy. She resides in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Witches Guide to Wildcrafting https://www.amazon.com/Witchs-Guide-Wildcraft-Common-Uncommon/dp/0738765430

Under the Sacred Canopy https://www.amazon.com/Under-Sacred-Canopy-Working-Mystical-ebook/dp/B0B1XSPH68/ref=sr_1_18?qid=1681160177&refinements=p_27%3AJD+Walker&s=books&sr=1-18&text=JD+Walker

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Bio: A spiritual pioneer, Phyllis Curott is an attorney,

writer and one of America’s first public Witches. Her 5

international best-selling books have been published

in 14 languages, making her the most widely published

Wiccan author. An outspoken advocate in the courts

and media, she handled or consulted on

groundbreaking cases securing the legal rights of

Witches, including cases of child custody, religious

assembly, organization, expression, and free speech.

Phyllis was named one of The Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year by Jane Magazine and

inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Clergy and Scholars. She

received the 2018 Service to Humanity Award from the One Spirit Interfaith Seminary

and the 2020 Person of the Year Award from Kindred Spirit. Phyllis was the first

Wiccan Trustee of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, and was elected Vice Chair of

the 2015 Parliament, creating the Women’s Assembly, and served as the Program Chair

for the historic 2021 Parliament attended by Patriarch Bartholomew of the Eastern

Orthodox Church and blessed by Pope Francis. New York Magazine has called her

teaching on Witchcraft the culture’s “next big idea” and Time Magazine has published

her as one of America’s leading thinkers. Her You-Tube series on Wicca has almost 3

million views. Phyllis continues to write, teach, and lecture internationally on the

embodied spiritual wisdom of Mother Earth, Nature’s “secret magic” and why the world

needs its Witches. She is the Program Chair for the 2023 Parliament of the World’s

Religions in Chicago.

Website: phylliscurott.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/phylliscurott

Instagram: www.instagram.com/phylliscurott/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/phylliscurott

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PhyllisCurottWitchcrafting

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Bio: Jenay Marontate began learning the secrets of kitchen witchery at an early age from her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Now, she applies her knowledge of herbs, oil, magic, and kitchen witchery to her loose-leaf tea and spice business, Kitchen Witch Gourmet. Here, she infuses tea with magic, wellness, happiness, and love to brew the perfect cup. She also teaches tea leaf reading and other tea magic in the US and in China.

Website: https://kitchenwitchgourmet.com/

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Bio: * Lisanna Wallace is the author of The Natural Witches Cookbook) Wallace is a nutritional chef and clinical herbalist. Born and raised in New York City. She moved to Paris and splits her time between there and Marthas Vinyard. She is passionate about culinary arts. She always turns to food and plants to treat and heal her pains.

She shares her knowledge and her recipes to help everyone live a healthier and happier life. Check out her stunning website: www.culinarywitch.com.

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Bio: Laurel Woodward has been a witch for 20 years and is also a tarot reader. She has written for magazines and e-zines on the subjects of healthy living, organic gardening, sustainable living, and the magic of tapping creative energy in Witchery), Her books are Backyard Garden Witchery and Kitchen Witchery.

Website: http://laurelwoodward.com/

Books: Kitchen Witchery: https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Witchery-Unlocking-Everyday-Ingredients/dp/0738767840

Books: Backyard Garden Witchery: https://www.amazon.com/Backyard-Garden-Witchery-Creating-Magickal-ebook/dp/B09GMHD5H2?ref_=ast_author_dp

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