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"Imposter syndrome is the human's natural predator."

-Lauren Parker

Spells for Success: Deck and Guidebook 40 Spells to Set Intentions and Manifest Everyday Wins by Lauren Parker

Sponsored by Amy Blackthorn Intuitive (https://amyblackthorn.as.me/schedule/5eacb6fa)

Lauren Parker stops by the Podcast to talk about growing up on the move, "My hometown is the back of a station wagon."

After you listen, go read 'Wise Child,' by Monica Furlo...

Edited by Cassandra Snow. (Cassandra-Snow.com)

Cassandra is a professional tarot card reader, and teacher, writer, and theather maker in Minneapolis, MN. Cassandra's writing focuses on tarot, paganism, arts journalism, queer lifestyle and personal storytelling. They are the author of Queering the Tarot and Queering your Craft: Witchcraft from the Margins and co-authored Lessons from the Empress: a Tarot Workbook for Self-Care an...

In this episode I'll be answering listener emails!

BlackthornGrovePodcast@gmail.com to submit your questions.

Podcast sponsored by Blackthorn's Botanicals. Tea of the day: The White Witch (of Narnia), for an almond black tea, with cream and ginger.

Topics discussed today:

- Where does Witchcraft live?

-Brief discussion of tarot

-How Witchcraft works

Agency.

-How to write a spell

Example: Stabilizing finances

Ancestor...

Food has the power to nourish both our bodies and our spirits. The Kitchen Witch’s Culinary Oracle Deck harnesses this spiritual nutrition to provide guidance and inspiration from the foods and tools already in your home. 
With recipe suggestions and simple spells, these 50 cards invite you to go beyond divination and to harness the power of food to nourish and energize. Come learn about the different associations, connections, ...

Crystals for Psychic Self-Defense: 145 Gemstones for Banishing, Binding, and Magickal Protection Paperback – A full-color guide to protection, cleansing, and countermagick with crystals
• Presents magickal techniques with crystals for warding off harmful energies, binding, and curse breaking, including crystal grids, amulets, spells, and rituals
• Explains how to discern the symptoms of psychic attack and offers multiple meth...

LTZ: Artist, Author, Witch.

An artist, author, and fusion bellydance performer, Rhode Island-based Renaissance Witch Laura Tempest Zakroff is a simmering cauldron of talents and projects. They stopped by. TBG to talk about their work, Templefest shenanigans, book recs and more!

https://lauratempestzakroff.com/

Stuff discussed in this episode includes:

Adobe Fresco app

Blackfeather Mystery School: The Magpie Training by Irene Glasse...

Davezilla became in 2001 the first blogger to be sued by a billion-dollar company (he won). Because of this, there is a Davezilla Wikipedia page and Dave has the dubious distinction of being a verb in the Urban Dictionary. He is a Gardnerian witch (initiated 1979), Discordian (hot dogs on Fridays), Ngangalero (initiated 1993), Santero (initiated 2006), and full-time illustrator. He prefers to paint occult, cryptid, alien, and other...

Sabrina is a teacher, diviner, writer, and coach. Over the last 40 years, she's developed her own system of reading and teaching tarot using round tarot cards. She's an Elder in the Blue Star Tradition of Wicca who also practices Buddhism, and a graduate of the Gryphon’s Grove School of Shamanism.  In a former life, Sabrina was a social scientist who loved being a professor. During her academic career, she excavated Mayan r...

Jamie Anderson said, “Grief is just love with no place to go.”

Today we hear from three experts on grief in their chosen fields and discuss how it applies to the witchcraft community.

Lulu- @thesalemplantwitch on TT. Runs a therapeutic group for witches in berevement.

Mortellus @acrowandthedead on Insta. Author of 'Do I Have to Wear Black? Rituals, Customs and Funerary Etiquette for Modern Pagans' and 'The Bones Fa...

“A beautiful blend of folklore, botanical science, acquired wisdom, and spiritual guidance.” —from the foreword by Luisah Teish

Stephanie Rose Bird is a painter and the author of several bestselling books on earth spirituality, hoodoo, and anthropology, including Sticks, Stones, Roots and Bones; 365 Days of Hoodoo; Light, Bright and Damned Near White; and African American Magick. Bird, who holds a BFA cum laude and MFA, is a devote...

Deborah Castellano is author of 'Glamour Magic: The Witchcraft Revolution to Get What You Want' and 'Magic for Troubled Times: Rituals, Recipes and Real Talk for Witches' along with an assortment of short erotica pieces published by Cleis Press. She is an independent maker of ritual perfumes and other fineries and active in her local chosen communities. https://www.deborahcastellano.com/

Sponsored by Blackthorn'...