Welcoming back Danielle today for a conversation about fairy tales as living, breathing repositories of ancient wisdom and magick. 

In The Night House: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Rites, and Magick for the Wise and Wild, bestselling author and word-witch Danielle Dulsky peels back the layers of these timeless narratives to reveal their potent role as guides for navigating today’s world. Rich with insight and a deep reverence for the ancestral art of storytelling, Dulsky’s latest work reclaims the hidden power of fairy tales as spell books, treasure chests, and sacred rites.

Historically kept and transmitted by women, fairy tales are distinguishable from other types of folk tales for their magickal and supernatural elements, and because of this, they were often dismissed as trivial domestic fantasies for women and children. The Night House illuminates how this marginalization kept these stories safe from the witch-hunter’s noose and allowed women to safely store and transmit their ancient and sacred wisdom. 

Each of The Night House’s nine chapters is a door to an otherworldly realm, unveiling the spiritual and practical magick embedded in tales like “Little Red Riding Hood “and “Cinderella.” By decoding their “glamour spells” and ancestral rites, Dulksy offers a path for readers to reconnect with the Earth, their ancestors, and their own spirits. Mythic images and Jungian universal archetypes arise, and “old ways” are made visible, revealing the call to continue the medicinal work of story keeping for the modern world. 

Find Danielle: 

The Night House: https://amzn.to/3R7NuP3

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wolfwomanwitch

Website: DanielleDulsky.Com

Danielle Dulsky is the author of The Night House and numerous other titles including Woman Most Wild, The Holy Wild Grimoire, and Bones & Honey. A heathen visionary, painter, poet, storyteller, and word-witch, she teaches internationally and has facilitated circles, embodiment trainings, communal spell work, and seasonal rituals since 2007. She is the founder of The Hag School and believes in the emerging power of wild collectives and sudden circles of curious dreamers, cunning witches, and rebellious artists in healing our ailing world.

In a culture that often prioritizes and celebrates rugged individualism and separateness, Hestia welcomes us home. Her magick invites togetherness and shared resources by cultivating spaces of belonging andcommunity. May Hestia call her back to our homes to celebrate families of all shapes, sizes, and forms, creating sustainable structures for ongoing collaboration and nourishment.

Find Irisanya:

Book: Hestia: Goddess of Hearth, Home & Community

Website: www.irisanyamoon.com

Substack: irisanya.substack.com

Links: https://bio.site/irisanyamoon

Irisanya Moon (she/they) is an author, witch, international teacher, poet, and Reclaiming initiate who has practiced magick for 20+ years. She has taught in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, bringing her blend of grounded, graceful, and radically authentic facilitation to inspire transformation and liberation at the personal and collective levels. She has written a number of books. Plus she has written essays, articles, poems, and blogs for Witches & Pagans, Pagan Dawn, Coreopsis Journal, Moon Books, Revelore Press, Llewellyn, Epona Muse Publishing, and more. Irisanya cultivates spaces of self-care/devotion, divine relationship (whatever that means to you), and community service as part of her heart magick and activism.

A revolutionary take on hedge witchery that focuses on what it means to reconnect with the sacred hedge in a modern world, Celtic Hedge Witchery—A Modern Approach teaches the ways, ideas, and methods of the hedgerow, so they become accessible even to those who cannot visit the physical locations themselves. Delving into secret liminal spaces, Morris expands the knowledge and understanding of what it means to truly embody the witchcraft life. She connects readers to the wildcrafting elements of plants and natural remedies, realigning the soul to the vibrations of the spiritual ecosystem to reconnect with the Earth and all her spirits. In a time when modernity, technology, and disconnection from the land has caused so many of us to feel lost and disheartened, Morris helps foster our kinship with the land.

Weaving together Morris’s personal witchcraft gnosis, Celtic Hedge Witchery focuses on embracing the shadows within ourselves as a reflection of sacred spaces. Morris offers a revolutionary take on what it means to be a hedge witch in the modern era and empowers us to “come home” to both the Earth and to ourselves. 

https://www.starryeyedsupplies.com

Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/starryeyedlillady

Facebook: www.facebook.com/StarryEyedSupplies/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/starryeyedlillady/

Thrilled to have Crow Moon back again today to chat about so many topics including updates to his practice in the last year, teaching Living a Wiccan Life, creating folk music and witchy poetry (listen for the original Litha poem shared!), tips for beginner Wiccans and artists, and generally living in accordance with seasons and the Wheel of the Year.

Find Crow Moon:

Website: Crowmoonaz.com

Instagram: @crowmoon5

Meditations and Courses: https://insighttimer.com/crowmoon/courses

Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2RLlU7E1aRRb1Uxy1m6sT3

Crow Moon is the founder of the Corvidae Circle Wiccan Tradition. He teaches Wicca, nature-based spirituality, and meditation online. Crow Moon is also a musician and produces witchy, folk-inspired music.

Chatting all about tarot today with Natalie Labriola, author of Tarot - Timeless Secrets of the Ancient Mirror.

Who is the Hermit? And the High Priestess? What is the Fool’s Journey? How does tarot reveal your place in the Wheel of Fortune? Can a deck of cards really help you understand who you are? 

In this dense little book, packed with antique illustrations and worked examples, author Natalie Labriola reveals the ancient magic of the tarot, introducing us to the colorful characters and eternal principles whose placement in a spread of cards can mirror our everyday lives.

Find Natalie:

Book: Tarot - Timeless Secrets of the Ancient Mirror with Natalie Labriola - https://redwheelweiser.com/book/tarot-9781952178474/

Website: www.talis.studio

Instagram: www.instagram.com/natalielabriola

Natalie Labriola is an artist, astrologer, tarot practitioner, and founder of Talis Studio. She holds an MFA in sculpture from Bard College, and she lives in Los Angeles, California.

Today I'm chatting with Davezilla about tech, the internet/apps, AI, and their place in witchcraft.

Magical AI Grimoire helps you to understand how to work with technology in the practice of your magic. Whether you’re trying to use promptcraft to perfect a spell, ChatGPT to outline and strengthen a ritual, or Midjourney AI to recreate what you’ve only seen on the astral plane, Davezilla will be your guide. AI apps can write spells, tell you how to perform them, and give you a list of materials needed. AI learns and adapts to you, and likewise as you transform, so transforms your AI. It’s symbiosis on a chaos magic level.
 
Witches and magicians have been using computers to organize sabbats and ceremonies for years. Astrology apps were some of the first applications written, and in most covens, it’s a good bet that at least one of the members works with computers. All across the globe, witches and magicians are finding that technology can have a spiritual essence and mind of its own or, rather, that the spirit world enjoys playing with tech as much as we do. The internet could be one more astral plane, for all we know. Davezilla provides context and history for the evolving uses of AI—from Alexa to Spotify to ChatGPT and beyond—and leads the reader through a new magical realm with responsibility and clarity of insight.

Find Davezilla:

Website: https://hexsupport.club 

Book: Magical AI Grimoire (Weiser Books) 

Tarot Deck: Tarot of the Unexplained (Weiser Books)

Davezilla is a longtime member of the Detroit pagan community, with over forty years of experience in occult/new age religions. A Gardnerian witch (initiated 1979), Discordian, ngangalero (initiated 1993), and santero (initiated 2006), he got the itch to write from his father and sister, who were both outstanding copywriters.
 
Davezilla is a professional full-time illustrator and splits time between digital illustration and teaching business owners how to use AI. He is the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Platinum DotCOMM Award, Gold AVA Digital Award, Bloggie Award (seven-time recipient), and AdWeek People’s Choice Award. He lives in Royal Oak, Michigan, with his brilliant wife, precocious daughters, and menagerie of pets. He is the author and artist behind Weiser Books’s Tarot of the Unexplained.

Chatting today about so many topics with author Raven Digitalis, including navigating the world as an empath and his latest work of fiction, Black Magick.

Darkness is interpretive. It’s in our nature to explore the shadows. Through the 13 stories presented in Black Magick, the reader is transported into mysterious settings that blur the line between fiction and reality. Renowned writers have contributed their expert tales to this collection, including Storm Constantine, Tracy Cross, and even Edgar Allan Poe. Each story uniquely integrates occultism and magick, deepening the mysteries of the shadow. By acknowledging darkness through the written medium, we can better come to terms with the darkness within ourselves. And when we explore the darker aspects of life, we more accurately come to know what it means to be human.

Find Raven:

Website: www.ravendigitalis.com

Black Magick: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Raven-Digitalis/author/B001JS9TBI?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

Facebook: www.facebook.com/ravendigitalis 

Instagram: www.instagram.com/ravendigitalis

Originally trained in Georgian Witchcraft, Raven Digitalis has been an earth-based practitioner since 1999, a Priest since 2003, a Freemason since 2012, and an empath all of his life. He holds a degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Montana, co-operated a nonprofit Pagan Temple for 16 years, and is also a professional Tarot reader, DJ, card-carrying magician, and animal rights advocate. He lives in Missoula, MT.

A chat all about crystals today! In his newest work and full-color guide, crystal healing teacher Nicholas Pearson shows how crystals are ideally suited for confronting negative energies and providing enduring protection as he demonstrates how to partner with the mineral kingdom for protection, cleansing, and countermagick.
In the realm of protection, Pearson explores passive approaches—such as psychic shields, jewelry, and carrying gemstones—as well as more active practices—such as spells, meditations, and rituals. He shares magickal techniques for warding your home, vehicle, and work space and for counteracting geopathic stress, EMF pollution, and ill-wishing from those around you. To combat and neutralize psychic attack, he examines the necessary yet challenging territory of binding, banishing, reversal, curse-breaking, and exorcism, sharing crystal spells, grid layouts, and rituals for spirit release. He also looks at special techniques aimed at strengthening the boundaries of empaths and highly sensitive people.
The author’s in-depth directory of 145 of crystals and gemstones describes the uses of the most powerful and effective traditional gems and stones as well as more recent additions to the healer’s tool kit, teaching you everything you need to know to protect yourself and recover from psychic and magickal attacks.

Find Nicholas:

Crystals for Psychic Self-Defense: https://theluminouspearl.com/books/crystals-for-psychic-self-defense/

Website: www.theluminouspearl.com 

Instagram: www.instagram.com/theluminouspearl

More Links: www.linktr.ee/theluminouspearl

Nicholas Pearson has been immersed in all aspects of the mineral kingdom for more than 30 years. The award-winning author of several books, including Crystal Basics, he offers classes online and in-person around the globe. He lives in Orlando, Florida.

In your hands are the keys to bringing the gifts of the ancient magic-weavers, the storytellers, into your life. The Bards of old wove magic with their words. Through myth and legend, history and inspiration, they shaped the world around them. Just like them, you can connect with the magic of storytelling to create powerful change. Join professional performer, ritualist, bard, and witch Halo Quin, and discover how to use your voice in magic, how to unravel the secrets of stories, how to craft your own rituals to bring the power of myths and folk tales into your life, and how to find, learn, and tell stories to enchant the world inside and outside the circle.

Storytelling for Magic: https://haloquin.net/book-storytelling-for-magic/

Website: https://www.haloquin.net 

The Enchanted Academy: https://the-enchanted-academy.mn.co/

Author Bio

Dr Halo Quin is a practicing witch, storyteller, author, philosopher, and a lifelong lover of magic. She is a devotee of the Faery Queen, a lover of the Welsh gods and myths, and sensual witch exploring the divine erotic and sacred nature of pleasure and beauty, and working to (re)enchant the world. She lives in Aberystwyth, UK.

Witch Blood Rising is a celebration of the ways that witchcraft has stubbornly kept itself alive in Western culture—and a call to action for all seekers who yearn for a witch’s life.

Growing up in an endless sea of California suburbs, where sacred groves and wise women only existed in movies, Asa West spent her childhood chasing visions she didn’t understand. When she found a guide to witchcraft in a tiny bookshop, she knew she’d found her calling—despite a patriarchal society’s efforts to keep her away from a life of mysticism.

But it’s not easy to awaken your witch blood in a culture that laughs at magic and renders women powerless. Although the market abounds with practical guides to witchcraft, it’s harder to find books that chronicle the art of living a witch’s life. Asa West uses her almost thirty years of magical practice to bring warmth, humor, and insight to a spiritual path that's at once immeasurably ancient and continually reborn. She explores all the ways that witchcraft rises up from the blood of its devotees and through subjects like the online herbalism industry, Marvel movies, witch-hunting manuals, bee priestesses, and tarot.

Witch Blood Rising is a celebration of the ways that witchcraft has stubbornly kept itself alive in Western culture—and a call to action for all seekers who yearn for a witch’s life.

Asa West is the author of The Witch’s Kin and Five Principles of Green Witchcraft, and her work has appeared in The Offing, Joyland, Gods&Radicals, and other publications. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been covering feminism and media since 2007 under the name Julia Glassman. As a journalist for The Mary Sue and other outlets, she covers everything from Marvel movies to folk horror—and, of course, all things witchy. You can find her online at www.asawestauthor.com  and The Red Tail Witch (https://linktr.ee/theredtailwitch).