The WitchHunt Podcast

In this episode, we explore universal truths and the cyclical rhythms of nature, touching upon how these rhythms influence our lives and the way we interact with the world. The discussion delves into ancient practices that honoured the natural cycles and how Ceremony can help us reconnect with these sacred traditions. Emphasis is placed on the feminine energies of creation and how Ceremony can empower women to unlock their potential and align with their soul’s purpose.

Consider joining my upcoming June Solstice Ceremony, SHINE 👉 https://www.alexandrahughes.com/solstice  

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Welcome to episode 57 of the WitchHunt podcast: Empowerment, Play, and the Magic of Words: A Conversation with Spiritual Doula and Priestess Pamela French

In this episode, Pamela, a priestess with a passion for words, empowerment, and play, shares her journey from rural Ontario farm life to working with for the Canadian Government with the United Nations in Afghanistan, and eventually to becoming a spiritual leader, empowerment and communications coach. 

Pamela and I share our experiences with international development and how we each navigated this world as spiritual new world architects.  Throughout the conversation, Pamela emphasizes the power of self-compassion, consistent focus, and the creation of a new narrative to drive meaningful change both personally and in the broader community.

It’s an absolute delight to share this conversation with Pamela, with you. 

On June 20 I will be hosting an online Solstice Ceremony that’s open to all.

Sacred feminine ceremony is an women-centred modality that supports personal transformation in a cost effective, efficient and super fun way.  This ancient technology revived is for you if you’re a woman committed to stepping into the fullest potential of who you were born to be in order to create a life you love while making the impact you’re here to make. 

In ceremony you gather with sisters to root into and rise through the power that lies within.

You can learn more at alexandrahughes.com/solstice. 

More About Pamela

Pamela French is the Chief Empowerment Officer of Empowerment is Everything Inc. and Authentic Relating Ottawa. She is also a faculty member of Witch School Canada, a personal and professional leadership coach, and a pibling (a parent’s sibling) to 8 niblings (the children of siblings) whom she adores. She’s travelled and worked in Afghanistan, Washington, Thailand, Greece, and Mexico - devoting her life to the study and discovery of human potential. In addition to working within the Canadian Federal Government advancing policy and legislation to effect change.

At the root of all her learning and now teaching is Connection – human to human, self to self, human to nature, human to unseen – communication is at the heart of all of it! She is passionate about creating opportunities for participants to discover the tools of connection that leave us feeling enlivened and empowered to create our lives and the relationships in it, in previously unimagined ways. We are always in relationship, with ourselves and others. From birth to death. Pamela believes that learning how to navigate communicating in those relationships authentically is extremely empowering and will lead humanity into a new era of Love and Peace – together, more aligned than ever before.

You can find her:
www.seedsforpeace.world

www.arottawa.ca

  And: https://www.instagram.com/seedsforpeace.world https://www.instagram.com/authenticrelatingottawa https://www.instagram.com/empowermentiseverything

Welcome to Episode 56 of the Witchhunt podcast. This is a story of real life magic and miracles. And of what it takes to live a life of magicianship. Meet Danielle Brooks, serial without-a-plan-meanderer, conscious creator, self-healing cancer survivor and conduit of a healing frequency through song and touch. You are going to be blown away by Danielle’s story and enchanted by her voice. Sidenote: My personal challenge recording this episode was simply not going into deep relaxation and trance just by hearing her voice. Danielle shares her jaw-dropping story of how she went from the epitome of success to losing everything — cancer diagnosis and homeless at ground zero after 9/11. She tells us how she opened herself to the Mystery, learning from traditional healers of ancient lineages in the Phillipines and Brazil. And how she not only healed herself, but came to be a healer to others. And how one Easter weekend, she found herself in the sacred Cave of the White Lady in the Philippines, went into a deep trance to be sung through by the Mother of Creation, amongst other light beings. This is an unbelievable (and I don’t use that word lightly) story of surrender, humility and integrity. Of being broken down and cracked open into becoming a conduit of higher frequency, so as to support and uplift the sacred remembering in people. Get ready to be enchanted by Danielle’s voice, and blown away by her story. Enjoy!

More about Danielle:

Danielle is a sacred singer, a globetrotting adventurer and torchbearer of the larger vision and higher realms. She carries the Creation codes that when sung, open Universal wisdom, initiate sacred expansion into Oneness and offer profound healing. She is a way shower to Divine Surrender, freedom and living in alignment with Soul Essence.
For the past 22 years, Danielle has been assisting people all over the world to reconnect to their truth, inner power and highest joy. She has dedicated the past 6 years to working primarily with Gaia and our oceans in remote parts of the world.
Her path has always been one of radical trust and transformation through the power of self love and acceptance. In 2001, diagnosed with cancer, she left an unhealthy marriage and moved across the world only to find herself alone, at ground zero, on 9/11. Pain was a patient teacher that ultimately led her into a joy filled way of living.
In 2005 the Divine Mother began to sing through Danielle and a new form of vibrational medicine emerged. Combined with her background in Philippine and Brazilian psychic surgery, mysticism and shamanism, Danielle offers a unique and powerful way to transform yourself and create a heart centred way of living that is natural and true. An eternal student of the light, Danielle holds a PhD in Human Development and Religion.
You may not realize it but your greatest gifts have come from the deepest challenges. Scars really do become marks of beauty. Danielle invites you to experience this transformation too.

For more information please contact Danielle at:
[email protected]
www.puregracelight.com 

Hello and welcome to episode 55 of the Witchhunt podcast.
You ready to talk about what it means to take our work as Witches, to the frontlines of change?

Meet Dawn Moore, an eclectic witch and social justice activist.

Dawn defines witchcraft as bending reality to spark change and discusses how it provides a spiritual framework for addressing injustice. she shares how witchcraft provides her with tools for inner strength and resilience in activism work. She also discusses creating safe spaces for LGBTQ+ youth and bringing healing to those in profound human suffering.

She discusses the interconnectedness of issues like inclusion, decolonization, and prison reform. And emphasizes that witches are healers, warriors, and catalysts for change, needed now more than ever.

If you’re an advocate for a different world, you are not going to want to miss this courageous, inspiring, and fresh conversation that sits at the intersection of social justice, activism and witchcraft.

Enjoy!

More about Dawn:

Dawn is a shadow witch who bridges light and dark through social justice work. A long time activist and advocate Dawn uses magic in support of her actions for social change and also helps other witches and seekers on their own activist paths through her work on activism and allyship in troubled times. Dawn lives in the wilds of Quebec with her children and familiar.

Welcome to episode 54 of the WitchHunt podcast.

This is a conversation that dances at the intersection of love, anger and the healing medicine of the sacred masculine.

We talk about the importance of not only normalizing struggle in our day-to-day lives, but of learning how to navigate it — and the plethora of feelings it offers up — with neutrality, wisdom, perspective and a good sense of humour.

We also talk about things nobody else talks about like how egoic growth accompanies our spiritual growth and why it’s important to stay conscious of this, of the importance of healing from empathy (especially for women) and of the magic that lives in your raging eye of the storm.

Hold onto your broomstick witches, as you take in the power, wisdom and healing words of Osa Natalie Fraser.

More About Osa:

Natalie Fraser, or as some know her, OSA, identifies as a Witch and has been working as a spiritual coach, minister and facilitator for over 25 years.

She is a teacher, Crone and alumni with WitchSchool Canada and also runs a complementary program for women called Unedited Woman. Her philosophy is to always be the student as well as the teacher.

She perpetually continues her studies in western modalities of counselling along with ancient and modern healing practices from around the world. Natalie takes this approach in order to be able to meet each client's needs rather than the client being limited to one treatment method or ceremony style. Her work has taken her into offices, schools, hospitals, community and retreat centres , seniors centres, spiritual spaces and family homes, making her work universal and adaptable to all.

Her “soul” purpose is to give you the tools to help you heal yourself. Her calling is to serve love.

How to find her:
www.nataliefraser.ca
www.moment-m.ca

On this potent Full Moon and Eclipse, that follows the energetic rebirth of the Spring Equinox, I have the privilege of introducing you to one of my teachers, now a dear friend on the Witchhunt podcast.

Meet Kiki Keskinen, creator of WitchSchool Canada, who's life is one magical story after another. 

>> Click here to tune in: Rewilding the Witch Within: Kiki Keskinen on Nature, Magic & Building a School for Modern Witches 

Kiki shares her incredible story as a child, her early professional years as a secret revolutionary witch agent behind the scenes of corporate Canada, and how Witchschool Canada came to be.

We discuss the power of rewilding, eclectic witchcraft, black magic, the intersection of feminism, earth love and spirituality. And so much more!

It's with delight that I share the deep wisdom and playful spirit of Kiki!

Enjoy!

xx


Alex


P.S. LAST CHANCE TO JOIN Witchhunt Collective: 13 Moons Together

I have 5 spaces left in my year-long Full Moon women’s circling experience that's dotted with 4 seasonal sacred feminine ceremonies (like RISE.

You can pay for as little as $37/ month for 12 months. Or for $400 for the full year. There are 13 gatherings in total — 4 ceremonies (hybrid events) and 9 full moon circles (virtual only).

Doors open until Thursday March 28. Hit reply if you'd like more details on the Collective.

Ready to meet a powerful and wise bruja?

Meet Maritza Schafer, a Chilean bruja by descent who defines witches as those who understand the true nature of reality — including the unexplainable, mysterious bits.

We talk about how western society today is set up “contra natura” andhow social conditioning teaches us to mistrust our inner knowing.

Maritza touches on the dangerously thin line between magical thinking and conspiracy theories, colonization and paganism in Latin America. And she offers us a detailed description of what working magic — aka, making shit happen.

I know you’re going to enjoy this refreshing, insightful episode!

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You're invited to join the WITCHHUNT COLLECTIVE: 13 Moons Together

I’m looking for 5 more witchy women to join me, some of our seasoned podcast guest Witches and listeners in the Witchhunt Collective.

The WitchHunt Collective is the coming together of 13 women under every Full Moon, Equinox and Solstice to connect with our souls and the soul mission we’re here to realize. We’ll plug into cosmic, lunar and Earthly energies to support our on-going growth and transformation.

When you join, you’ll get access to 13 Full Moon LIVE Women’s Circles, including 4 Ceremonial Workshops — led by yours truly.

You can join for as little as $37 a month. Or for $400, for the entire year.

Click here for all the details or to reserve your spot. Or email me at [email protected] with any questions. 

>> alexandrahughes.com/witchhuntcollective

Spaces for this year-long experience with me will be available until March 20.

 More about Maritza:

Maritza is a proud bruja (witch), coach, and consultant, heading a global company on transformational practices, the happy holder of 3 passports as evidence that the nation-state is a fantasy, and a hopeless music and dance addict.

She was born and raised a witch in Chile, with strong magical influence from both Indigenous (from Chile) and Italian witch lines.

She was initiated by her grandmother Nora Ilda Chiavegat Núñez, and has practiced her whole life. Since moving to the US when she was 18,  Maritza has studied as a solo practitioner, with a coven in upstate New York in the late 90’s, and with the Reclaiming tradition in the SF Bay Area for over 20 years. She is not currently a member of a coven, but she is the High Priestess for a handful of solo practitioners.

She is a communications expert with 30 years of experience in emotional growth techniques, spiritual development tools, spellcasting, healing, ritual, intuitive readings, Reiki, shamanic work, vision quests, past lives, constellations and the tarot.

The link to her magical offering, Liberation Magic, that you can chat about during the call is https://brujaschool.com/application-magic/.

Welcome to episode 51 of the Witchhunt podcast: Ancient magic in modern times: A paradigm-shifting conversation on the spirituality industry, shadows & shamanic modalities with  psychic medicine woman, shamanic practitioner and spiritual guide, Amber Jane Arquette 

The conversation was so rich, flowing from fascinating topic to fascinating topic. 

We took a critical look at the spirituality industry, highlighting the toxidity of guru culture and the importance of shifting from seeking answers outside of us, to strengthening our internal authority. We talked about how the concept, identity and practice of being a witch goes beyond “love and light”, and helps us to honor both the darkness and light in our lives. We talked shadow works plus the shaman modalities that are common amongst indigenous societies around the world, and how we personally relate to the word “shaman” as well as to our own indigeneity. And so much more.

This is a mind-expanding episode, even for the seasoned practitioner

 Enjoy!

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You're invited to join the WITCHHUNT COLLECTIVE

I’m looking for 20 witchy women to join me, some of our guests and listeners in the Witchhunt Collective.

The WitchHunt Collective is the coming together of 27 women under every Full Moon, Equinox and Solstice to connect with our souls and the soul mission we’re here to realize. We’ll plug into cosmic, lunar and Earthly energies to support our on-going growth and transformation.

When you join, you’ll get access to 13 Full Moon LIVE Women’s Circles, including 4 Ceremonial Workshops — led by yours truly.

You can join for as little as $37 a month. Or for $400, for the entire year.

Click here for all the details or to reserve your spot. Or email me at [email protected] with any questions. 

>> alexandrahughes.com/witchhuntcollective

Spaces for this year-long experience with me will be available until March 20.

We have, at the moment a small group of North American women — some podcast listeners and others guests. It's going to be such a beautiful exchange!

I’d love to have you join.

More About Amber Jane

Amber Jane is a  psychic medicine woman, shamanic practitioner and spiritual teacher who’s helped over a thousand people reclaim their sovereignty. Her clients reunite with parts of themselves they’ve been searching for centuries. Clearing Karmic cycles and healing from stubborn lifetime and lineage patterns. Liberating them to create life from a whole and healed place. She identifies that this time in history is an era of healing and human ascension. As a teacher, her students learn to master their natural gifts, and their energetic boundaries, and deepen their spiritual connection. 

You can find Amber Jane here: https://www.lightsong.net/heart-and-soul/

And the teachers she mentioned: 

Jan Engels Smith https://www.lightsong.net/about/jan-engels-smith/

Karen Heffner https://www.ignitingspirit.com/

Pamela Rico https://www.lightsong.net/heart-and-soul/

As soon as you hear astrologer Eve’s voice, you’ll know you’re in the hands of an old soul. And once you hear your story, you’ll know her wisdom and magic.

Evelyn Mari Crete was born to read the stars in a way that goes beyond one life. In this episode, she talks about the the history, complexity, dynamism and cyclical nature of astrology. She shares how she weaves in the elements of Earth, Wind, Fire and Water into her readings, and tells us how our birth charts can tell the story of our soul’s evolutionary journeys over time immemorial. Evelyn also gives us a super rundown of how to read and understand the basics of your own birth chart.

If you're curious about how astrology can support your karmic journey, this is an episode you aren’t going to want to miss! 

Enjoy!

Alex

You're invited to join the WITCHHUNT COLLECTIVE

I’m looking for 20 witchy women to join me, some of our guests and listeners in the Witchhunt Collective.

The WitchHunt Collective is the coming together of 27 women under every Full Moon, Equinox and Solstice to connect with our souls and the soul mission we’re here to realize. We’ll plug into cosmic, lunar and Earthly energies to support our on-going growth and transformation.

When you join, you’ll get access to 13 Full Moon LIVE Women’s Circles, including 4 Ceremonial Workshops — led by yours truly.

You can join for as little as $37 a month.

Click here for all the details or to reserve your spot. Or email me at [email protected] with any questions. 

>> alexandrahughes.com/witchhuntcollective

Spaces for this year-long experience with me will be available until March 20.

I’d love to have you join.

More About Evelyn

Evelyn, also known as Astrologer Eve, is an evolutionary astrologer, spiritual counsellor and mystic whose guiding light is to help her clients connect to the beauty and magic of their soul’s purpose found encoded in the birth chart. 

Her approach comes from the heart and is spoken in truth and with kindness, creating purposeful readings that support healing, and the type of self understanding that leads to self acceptance, healthier relationships, breakthroughs and inner peace.  

She has been practicing and teaching soul-focused and Jungian astrology for over 20 years across Canada and internationally. Evelyn weaves together many medicines into her practice including herbal medicine, flower remedies, energy healing, mind-body therapies, breath work, and divination. 

You can find her...

https://www.innertemplehealingarts.com/about - website 

https://www.facebook.com/astrologereve/  - facebook

https://www.instagram.com/astrologer.eve/ - instagram

Meet Jessica Medellin — a woman born in Utah, raised to conform to conservative patriarchal values, who faced blatant sexism in the school system as a teacher and who found herself leaning into the rise of the Divine Feminine. This is the story about a  mother who decided that enough was enough. And that she would take her experience and gifts in a way that ensured her daughter wouldn’t have to face what she did. And so the first of sn evolving series of red thread honoring manuals was born — "First Moon Manual: Letters to Our Daughters"/

Here's to the next generation of menstruating humans being liberated from the internal narrative that bleeding makes us dirty and sinful. Here's to our daughters being  able to honor their bodies, their cycles — to find power in the red thread lineage we are all a part of. I am so excited to be sharing with you this conversation and all of Jessica's magic.

Enjoy!
 

**DOORS ARE NOW *OPEN for the beta round of Witchhunt Collective** 

The Witchhunt Collective is about taking this podcast experience to the next level by offering a series of sacred women’s circles — regular opportunities to  remember and embody your power you were born with to honor your soul mission. 

This Collective is something for you to consider, if you desire:

🐌 slowing right down, exhaling and tuning into your wisest self at an auspicious moment in time and space

🕸️ experiencing a true sense of sisterhood and belonging that includes learning from, and sharing with women who get you

꩜ a scheduled sacred space and opportunity to both release what no longer serves you and manifest what does

🌍 connecting more deeply with nature’s cyclical wisdom, including mastering how to work with the energy of the moon, and the Earth’s Seasonal holy days

We’ll gather in circle 13 times over the course of the coming year on (or around) every Full Moon and seasonal Ceremonial gatherings. 

You can join for as little as $37CAD per month or $400CAD for the entire year if you buy before 31 January. (Prices shift into USD on 1 Feb.) Doors are open until March 20, but we start circling next week!  

Email me with your questions at Alex[at]inessencecoaching.com ,

And if you’re a full body yes, save your spot  —> https://www.alexandrahughes.com/witchhuntcollective 

Here's more about Jesica and her magic:

J.M. Medellin is an author and speaker, her superpower is connecting. She is the creative author behind the book "First Moon Manual: Letters to Our Daughters", a compilation of letters, art, and poetry and more advocating for period positivity. 

Medellin has a Master's degree in Education with an emphasis in Curriculum and Instruction Design from Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. She also has a Bachelor's degree in Communication/Journalism with a minor in Technical Writing from Weber State University. She spent over a decade working in public and charter schools with students who were brilliant and misunderstood. Which led to her passion around helping young women feel informed, empowered, and positive about their menstrual cycles. She believes that menstruation is a natural and beautiful part of being a woman, and she wants to help young women celebrate their bodies and their cycles.

Medellin was a 2023 Utah Humanities Book Festival speaker. She is currently working on the next manual that will encourage and support women as they embrace their sexuality. You can find her and the manual via email  [email protected], through her website JMMedellin.com, or IG @firstmoonmanual

 And if you're interested in cyclical living, please check out The Cycle: Your Guide to Cyclical Living. It's a free download I have to get you started.