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What can mushrooms teach us about being human—and about finding our way back into relationship with the world around us?

In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles welcome author and doula Madison Murphy Barney to explore the ideas behind Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms. Madison shares how mushrooms and mycelial networks offer a powerful blueprint for humility, reciprocity, decomposition, community, and living as part of an ecosystem rather than above it.

Together, they explore what “right relationship” can look like in everyday life: reconnecting with ancestral ways of knowing, tending the land and communities where we actually live, practicing curiosity, and relearning the ordinary skills of being a good neighbor. They also examine the limits of individualism and the self-help mindset, asking what becomes possible when spirituality moves beyond endless self-improvement and back toward embodiment, relationship, service, and the Earth.

Connect with Madison Murphy Barney:
Official Website: https://madisonmurphybarney.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madisonmurphybarney/
Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms: https://redwheelweiser.com/imprints/weiser-books/
Our Medicine: https://ourmedicine.substack.com/

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Can you practice witchcraft alone without becoming isolated?

In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles explore the balance between solitary witchcraft and spiritual community. They talk about why a solitary practice can be deeply meaningful while still leaving room for covens, festivals, public rituals, workshops, and other forms of connection.

Together, they unpack the different levels of commitment that witchcraft communities can offer, from initiatory covens and ongoing groups to festivals and one-time classes. They also discuss social anxiety, group dynamics, spiritual growth, shadow work, unhealthy communities, leadership, and how difficult interactions can sometimes reveal important lessons about ourselves.

This is a grounded conversation about finding support without giving up your independence—and recognizing that being a solitary witch does not have to mean walking your path alone. 

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The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.

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What changes when psychoactive and poisonous plants are approached as spirits and ceremonial allies rather than simply substances?

In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles welcome occult herbalist and author Coby Michael for a candid conversation about plant spirit medicine, psychedelics, ritual entheogens, poisonous plants, and sacred ceremony.

Coby, author of The Poison Path Herbal: Baneful Herbs, Medicinal Nightshades, and Ritual Entheogens, The Poison Path Grimoire, and The Poison Path Oracle, explores the important differences between recreational use, abuse, and spiritual relationship with mind-altering plants. Together, they discuss preparation and intention, surrender during altered states, animism, addiction and recovery, mushroom medicine, cannabis, tobacco, belladonna, and the commercialization of plant medicine.

They also explore how plant spirits can challenge our ideas about consciousness, interconnectedness, imagination, and spiritual transformation.

This conversation is educational and reflective, not an encouragement to use psychoactive or poisonous substances. Approach all plant medicines with appropriate caution, professional guidance, and respect. 

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The Poisoner’s Apothecary

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The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.

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What happens when divination moves beyond the tarot table and into relationship with the living world?

In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles welcome Joanna Farrar, author of The Diviner’s Path: A Nature-Led Approach to Divination with Tarot, Runes, and Pendulums, for a rich conversation about divination, animism, omens, and spirit communication.

Joanna explains what divination actually is, how symbolic systems like tarot and runes function as languages, and why observation and pattern recognition are essential when working with signs from birds, weather, animals, and the land. They also explore augury, pendulums, spiritual hygiene, discernment, journaling, fate versus free will, and how to build trustworthy relationships with spirits without surrendering your own agency.

This episode is a grounded guide to making divination more relational, practical, and deeply connected to place.

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Coffee & Divination
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The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.

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How can working with the moon help you slow down, listen to yourself, and create meaningful change?

In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles welcome author and professional witch Jen Sankey to explore lunar magic and her book Manifesting by the Moon. Jen shares how the phases of the moon can become a practical framework for manifestation, tarot, spellwork, rest, reflection, and personal growth.

They explore why the often-overlooked dark moon may be one of the most important phases, how tarot cards can deepen lunar practice, and why manifestation requires more than simply wishing for something. The conversation also moves through shadow work, intuition, authentic desire, hustle culture, moon bathing, Hekate’s Deipnon, and learning to let your spiritual practice ebb and flow.

Rather than chasing perfect rituals or instant results, Jen encourages witches to work with the moon in accessible ways, trust themselves, and remember that done is better than perfect. 

Connect with Jen Sankey:
Visit Stardust Wanderer Tarot
Follow Stardust Wanderer Tarot on Instagram

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The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.

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What does witchcraft look like when your mind needs movement, novelty, flexibility, or a different way into spiritual practice?

Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles welcome Jenny C. Bell, author of Divergent Witchcraft: An Inclusive Approach to Making Magic, for an honest and lively conversation about neurodivergent witchcraft. Together, they explore ADHD, autism, dyslexia, rejection sensitivity, hyperfocus, perfectionism, shame, and the fear of practicing magick “incorrectly.”

Jenny shares accessible alternatives to conventional meditation, including walking, chanting, drawing, dancing, gardening, mala beads, sensory tools, and working inside a private sacred space. They also discuss rotating between magical interests, adapting rituals to your needs, overcoming overwhelm, and recognizing that witchcraft does not require perfect focus, elaborate spells, a flawless altar, or anyone else’s permission.

Your practice can move with your mind instead of forcing your mind to conform to it. 

Learn more:
Visit Jenny C. Bell’s website
Explore Divergent Witchcraft
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The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.

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What does kitchen witchery look like once it becomes second nature?

In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles explore the lived reality of an advanced kitchen witch practice. They talk about working with fresh ingredients, blessing food, treating the kitchen as sacred space, staying flexible when life gets chaotic, and letting magick become a natural part of how you cook, clean, nourish yourself, and care for your home.

This conversation also dives into the deeper purpose behind kitchen witchery: embodiment, gratitude, mindful eating, seasonal ingredients, local food, food ethics, and the subtle ways ritual can happen in seconds instead of hours. If you have ever wondered how to move beyond beginner kitchen witch tips and into a practice that feels intuitive, grounded, and sustainable, this episode is for you. 

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The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.

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In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles welcome returning guest Ivo Dominguez Jr for a practical, thoughtful conversation on protection magic. Together, they explore spiritual immunity, cleansing, shielding, warding, miasma, sacred space, and the difference between grounded protection and overprotection.

Ivo shares accessible wisdom on everyday spiritual hygiene, how to clear energy in simple ways, why protection magic is really a whole family of practices, and how to choose the right tool for the job. The conversation also touches on selective shielding, the evil eye, spirit relationships, salt, Epsom fire, house wards, and why claiming your space matters.

This episode is a reminder that protection in witchcraft does not have to be fear-based or overly complicated. It can be practical, adaptive, and woven into ordinary life. Learn more with Ivo Dominguez Jr. at https://www.ivodominguezjr.com/

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The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.

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In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles explore the patriarchal wounding of the divine feminine and what it actually means to reclaim feminine power in a world built on imbalance. This conversation goes far beyond gender binaries and into the spiritual, emotional, and cultural conditioning that teaches people to stay small, abandon themselves, and seek external approval.

Together, they unpack the difference between the divine feminine and toxic femininity, the misuse of sacred union in witchcraft history, the wounds created by patriarchy, and the ways those wounds show up in everyday life through self-abandonment, purity culture, people-pleasing, competition, and fear of being seen. They also speak about feminine archetypes, healing, sisterhood, boundaries, and how to return to a more cyclical, embodied, life-giving path.

If you are working to heal the feminine wound, reconnect with your intuition, and reclaim your wholeness, this episode is a powerful place to begin. 

Explore Elyse’s Divine Feminine Masterclass here: Seekers of the Sacred Wild
Take Leandra’s quiz here: Which Divine Feminine Archetype Calls to You?

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The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.

Learn more at elysewelles.com/visitgreece

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In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles dive deeper into protection magic and the ethical nuance of baneful magick. This is not a fear-driven conversation about cursing for revenge. It is a grounded discussion about boundaries, spiritual self-protection, and what it means to keep yourself safe in difficult times.

Together, they explore why protection magic is really a form of boundary-setting, why boundaries can feel painful even when they are necessary, and how mirror spells, bindings, cord cutting, and energetic cleansing can be used without creating harmful ties. They also unpack the difference between banishing and cursing, why intention matters, and how to think about protection in relationships, creative work, and everyday life.

If you have ever wondered when stronger magical boundaries are appropriate, how to protect your energy without losing your integrity, or how to cut cords while still holding love, this episode offers a thoughtful, practical place to begin.

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The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.

Learn more at elysewelles.com/visitgreece

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