š®Hi everyone! This is a detailed resource on podcasts about witchcraft, spirituality, wellness, creativity, entrepreneurship, queer life, and everything in-between. I hope these become inspirational tools to give you something new for your practice or for your life. I have taken the time to listen to some episodes of the podcasts and I hope the info given is useful! I love listening to podcasts while I drive or while I write, and some of the episodes I recommended have been ones that made an impact on the way I think about my craft.
šMost of these podcasts can be found on iTouches, Stitcher, Patreon, YouTube, or on their own websites.š
*some of these paragraphs are paraphrases of the āaboutā page on the podcast*
(Also note that some of the recommended episodes cover similar topics across the board: I did that so people who are familiar with the concepts can see that they are offered many times with different perspectives, if that makes sense?).
Happy Listening!!šš¤
~āļøNova Rhea
ā¢š®WitchWave- with Pam Grossman, who is a writer, curator, and teacher of magic and its history. She is the author of What Is A Witch and her writings have been featured in Sabat, Huffington Post, MSN, and Abraxas Journal. Her art shows have been featured in The New York Times and Art in America. She also launched a WitchEmoji sticker pack for iMessage. She currently lives in Brooklyn. Each episode is an interview with someone who is a leading visionary in art, culture, or the occult and they discuss witchcraft. Recommended episodes: Judika Illes (author of 5,000 Spells and other essential witchcraft books), Jessyka Winston (of Haus of Hoodoo), and Gabriela Herstik (author of Craft: How to Be a Modern Witch).
ā¢š®Hippie Witch- with Joanna Devoe, who is a writer, an artist, and a front-woman of the band Obedient Waves. Sheās a very peppy, high-energy host with episodes that talk about Harry Potter philosophy in witchcraft, Stephen King book club, and discusses modern-day topics in a fun, newsie way. Recommended episodes: Rethinking Toxic Terms + Black Panther Magick, The Life of a Psycho-Spiritual Witch, and Spiritual Rewiliding.
ā¢š®Serpent Cast- a weekly podcast about sex and spirituality by VICE/Broadly astrologer Annabel Gat and GQ/Allure sex writer Sophie Saint Thomas. Featuring expert interviews, magical product reviews, esoteric books, and musings on aliens, herbs, feminism, queerness, and the occult. Recommended episodes: The Fitness Witch, Ammo OāDay, Bri Luna, Hoodwitch, Chelsea Selby, Witch Baby Soap, and Khi Armand: Shaman, Root Doctor, and Houngan.
ā¢š®Living Open- is a podcast for mystics and seekers hosted by Tarot reader, Reiki practitioner, and yoga teacher Eryn Johnson. Explore these topics along with crystals, meditation, travel, entrepreneurship, activism, and more. Recommended episodes: Folk Tarot Reader and Witch Tess Giberson on Magic as Your Birthright, Crystal Resonance Therapists Christel Alberez and Nerissa Alberts on Intuitive Crystal Healing, 11-Minute Chakra Opening Meditation, and Yoga Teacher Kassandra Reignhardet on Lunar Yoga and Yin Yoga as Shadow Work.
ā¢š®Self Service- with Jerico Mandybur, who is an LA-based writer and editor of Girlboss Radio. This is your cosmic comfort zone, an āinner-beauty schoolā where self-care is celebrated, where getting real with emotions is a treat, and an interest in thoughtful, funny conversations, weird wellness and astrology is unabashed. Episodes have astrology reports with Jessica Lanyadoo. Recommended episodes: How to Be a Spiritual Activist, Crystals 101 and What to Do with Crushes in Astrology, What About Women of Color in Wellness?, A Sober-Curious Guide to Sobriety with Ruby Warrington.
ā¢š®The Fat Feminist Witch- Paige, the self-acclaimed fat, feminist witch. Itās a podcast with ranting, raving, and wand-waving! Paige examines witchcraft and paganism from a modern perspective featuring topics such as author interviews, magical ethics, social justice, law, and witchcraft from around the world. Recommended episodes: Chakras Plain & Simple, #WitchNBitch-Witch, Ya Basic!, Glamour Magic with Deborah Castellano.
ā¢š®Your Own Magic- hosted by Allie Michelle & Raquelle Mantra. This podcast connects you with inspiring artists, wellness experts, humanitarians, spiritual leaders, entrepreneurs, and other influential visionaries who are living magic and making an impact. Recommended episodes: Energy Muse: the Crystal Episode, Koi Fresco, Enlightenment, Soulmates, and Astral Projection, Jill Wintersteen: Astrology, Dreamcatchers, and Strengthening Intuition, Shaman Durek: The Spirit Hacker, Sahara Rose: Doshas, Dharma, Kriya, and Karma.
ā¢š®WitchCraftsy- with Amy Lynn. This podcast is a place for any Dreamweaver looking for healing, inspiration, and conversation about all things occult and taboo. Topics include healing heartbreak, spirit guides, astral planes, sex magick, death, community, and breaking patriarchy. Recommended episodes: Craft of Conjure: How do you Hoo Doo? With Loretta āLooā Ledesma, Spiritual Factors of Illness & Health with Herbalist Raven Rose, Queer Hip-Hop with Kitty Crimes, Witchy Spiritual Lessons- Where the People Are.
ā¢š®Sovereign Society- hosted by Sabrina Riccio, a medicine priestess, soulistic alchemist, and speaker from Joshua Tree ,California. This is a detailed, extensive podcast on topics such as kundalini yoga, astrology, psychedelics, shamanic breathwork, Reiki, sound medicine, chakra system, spiritual leadership, business design, metaphysics, self-love, and conscious health living. Recommended episodes: Upleveling to Your Authentic Radness with Luke Storey, Connecting With Loved Ones on the Other Side and Radiating Your Holiness with Arielle Ford, Spiritual Bypassing + Upleveling with Kundalini Yoga with Krisa Reierson, Aligning and Activating Your Sacred Business with Brianna Rose.
ā¢š®Priestess Podcast- with Julie Parker, founder of The Beautiful You Coaching Academy where she trains people to become life coaches, and is the Editor-in-Chief of COACH magazine. She is a published author and speaker. She is a priestess that focuses on Celtic, Balkan, Iberian, and Greek lineage. This podcast has interviews and intimate conversations about the divine feminine, goddess culture, womenās spirituality, and spiritual business. Recommended Episodes: Mariah McCarthy on the Divine Feminine & Being Non-Binary, Gala Darling on the Modern Witch, Jessica Reid on Clairvoyancy and Channeling, Sarah Magdalena Love on Queer Magic, and Hibiscus Moon on Crystal Power.
ā¢š®Almost 30- with Krista Williams, creator of The Hundred Blog and has been featured in Womenās Health, Self Magazine, and Refinery 29; and Lindsey Simsick, actress, singer, model, and SoulCycle instructor. This podcast focuses on wellness, entrepreneurship, spirituality & self-development. Recommended podcasts: How to Expand Your Consciousness + Align Your Chakras with Reiki Healer Milana Snow, Modern Mystic + Sexuality Goddess Alexandra Roxo, Relationship Coach + Teacher John Wineland Parts 1 & 2, and Jill Willard on Becoming Intuitive.
ā¢š®Highest Self with Sahara Rose- she is the best-selling author of the Idiotās Guide to Ayurveda, which is critically acclaimed by Deepak Chopra. She discusses how to tune into your life, find your purpose (or Dharma) and how to be the best person you can be. She goes into detail on Ayurveda and other similar practices that can transform your life. Recommended podcasts: How to Balance Your Chakras Through Dance, Activating Your Shamanic Roots with Shaman Durek, Who is Your Highest Self?, and How to Spiritually Grow Through Ease.
ā¢š®Thatās So Retrograde- Elizabeth Kott and Stephanie Simbari have been coined āthe Ab Fab of the new age.ā Merging pop culture, wellness, and spirituality together in one podcast, these women deliver conscious conversations with realness and humor, all while providing tips and expert insight to guide listeners to their most enlightened path. Recommended episodes: Magical Sabbatical with Sage Goddess, Fairy Godguru with Guru Jagat, The Genius Life with Max Lugavere, and Full Circle Moment with Andrea Bendawald.
ā¢š®Balanced Blonde- with Jordan Younger, an entrepreneurial and wellness blogger. She discusses everything from branding and writing to friendships and things that set your soul on fire. Recommended episodes: Jasmine Hemsley-Ayurveda Meets the West, Nicole Cogan-Girl Talk with NOBREAD: Numerology, Trevor Hall- The Spiritual Power of Writing Music, Psychic Medium Mayhem! With MaryAnn DiMarco, and Biet Simkin-WHO ARE YOU?
ā¢š®Elevator- with hosts Britt and Tara of Elevate the Globe, the spiritual lifestyle movement. Their mission: elevating the vibration of the planet, one person at a time. They discuss ancient and modern spiritual principles, practices, and tools to elevate the vibration of your own energy. Many episodes are interviews with guests who talk about their favorite way to elevate themselves and what their journeys are like. Recommended episodes: Elevate Your Intuition with Jill Willard, Helping Others Get Stronger + Heal by Taryn Toomey, Bringing Mysticism + Yogic Practice into the Arts with Jamie Wollrab, Britt + Tara on All Things Kundalini, Everyday Rituals to Tune into the Real You with Energy Muse, and RISE UP: Everything You Need to Know About Your Chakras + Allowing Yourself to Live a High-Vibrational Life.
Many years ago, before the famed Grimoire Spread post became popular, my most well-known article was my Potato Salad article.Ā Youāre welcome to go read it if you like, for context.Ā In that article, I shared my revelation that where witchcraft was concerned, differing paradigms of practices were very similar to differing potato salad recipes.Ā In a potato salad recipe, the only hard and fast rule is that there should be potatoes in it, and the rest is your own trappings.
The same is certainly true of witchcraft- like potatoes, witchcraft is a real and reliable thing in the world.Ā And like potatoes, witchcraft doesnāt solve everything, but it is certainly a staple in many peopleās diets.
Related to that subject, if one were to extrapolate from this metaphor, and decide that potatoes are a metaphor for magic, then it should be noted that not every potato dish is potato salad, and similarly, not all forms of magic are witchcraft.Ā They do all seem to share the one fundamental rule established for potato salad, though: in a potato dish, there must be potatoes.Ā In a magical paradigm, there must be actual magic.
Disclaimer: Anyone can reblog or share this post, but please only use it for your own practices if you are a rootworker/hoodoo practitioner of African descent.
If you were to ask me the basic skillset of Eurocentric witchcraft and magic practices, Iād say itād usually include warding/protecting, healing, cursing, cleansing, grounding, and divining. For those of us coming from a Eurocentric/mainstream mindset to Africana practices such as hoodoo, it can be challenging to change oneās old habits and break out of these frameworks of thinking about what we do. Thereās nothing wrong with blending hoodoo and witchcraft or mixing Africana traditions with Eurocentric ones, but I do think itās crucial when trying to learn a new path to understand the fundamental differences between it and other traditions.
As Iāve picked up new habits and ways of thinking that are more in tune and alignment with what Iāve learned as a practitioner of ATRs, everything that Iāve been doing with hoodoo has suddenly become much more natural – and very foreign to what I learned from my time in witchcraft communities. So I want to share with other folks with similar challenges some of the basic skills of hoodoo as I have come to understand them through a much more Afrocentric lens.
These skills areā¦
Intuiting: Channeling oneās own wisdom and ancestral wisdom together
Praying: Communicating with spirits and natural powers
Cleansing: Removing unwanted energy for spiritual elevation
Dressing: Anointing oneself, oneās space, or objects with energy
Feeding: Making pacts with spirits and forces of nature through offerings
More on each of these below the ākeep readingā lineā¦Ā
And USA Today has the skinny on what components witches will to use to hex Kavanaugh. Thatās excellent. š
Further, the article goes on to say they will be targeting āall rapists and the patriarchy which emboldens, rewards and protects them.ā
You canāt hex the patriarchy. It exists only as a system defined within the scope of feminism, but it is not an identity that is assumed by those who oppose feminism. You can hex the people you name who actively contribute to the erosion of womenās rights. You can hex white nationalists. You can hex ICE. You can hex the KKK. But in terms of magic, the patriarchy isnāt a thing that people are, at least not by that name.
The patriarchy is a loose amalgamation of systems that actively contribute to the humiliation and declassing of women and femmes. But those systems have names. Those systems are also bound up in the legal code. Hex the people who allowed those laws to be passed, and those who keep dreaming up new ones. Think of it this way: you can hex specific capitalists, but you canāt hex capitalism.
Hereās a thought: hex the members of the political parties that allow these things to happen on their watch, who stand to financially benefit from these laws and systems being in place. They also have proper names.
What Iām saying is, if youāre going to hex rapists, their apologists, and the patriarchy, use their actual names. Sure, those things exist, but they are nebulous definitions of antagonists defined by their victims and political and legal theorists more than actual titles and name that are assumed by people.
I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isnāt safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.
Me, passionately petting my cat as I fall asleep: whoa look at this funky little beast. this small boye lives with me by choice and we take care of each other. how superb! a divine being! part of my witchcraft! lovely little darling!
My cat: *bites my hand*
Me: listen here you stinky little bitchboy-
Me with Peter Parker
holy shit I spent 30 fucking minutes desperately trying to figure out what you meant because I thought you meant like actually Peter Parker until I looked at the tags I canāt breathe ahsjdjka
Omfg Iām so sorry you spent thirty minutes trying to figure that out but that is the funniest thing someone has ever said in response to my comments, Iām isjehdjshh
this has been my best interaction of the day oh my gosh jsiejhhsaaa
Me, passionately petting my cat as I fall asleep: whoa look at this funky little beast. this small boye lives with me by choice and we take care of each other. how superb! a divine being! part of my witchcraft! lovely little darling!
My cat: *bites my hand*
Me: listen here you stinky little bitchboy-
Me with Peter Parker
holy shit I spent 30 fucking minutes desperately trying to figure out what you meant because I thought you meant like actually Peter Parker until I looked at the tags I canāt breathe ahsjdjka
Omfg Iām so sorry you spent thirty minutes trying to figure that out but that is the funniest thing someone has ever said in response to my comments, Iām isjehdjshh
Okay, so I realized something today. I always see posts detailing the various correspondences of different types of water. Moon water, sun water, eclipse water, rain water, storm water, snow water, even *dew* water. Water from a lake, a river, an ocean, a stream, a brook. Even water collected from mist.
But y’all know what I havenāt seen?
Rainbow water.
So hold on to your seats yall because Iām about to take ya on a ride.
Rainbow water is something I use quite often in my craft. Why? Because itās got so many uses! I use it for:
LBGTQ+ spells
Spells for positivity
Spells for luck
Spells for change
Spells for perserverance
Spells for hope
Spells for connection (I call them ābridge spellsā)
Spells for happiness
Spells for creativity/imagination
Honestly, I have no idea why I havenāt seen rainbow water being mentioned before. It canāt be because itās too difficult to collect because, y’all,
You can make your own rainbows. You donāt have to wait for one to show up in the sky.
Observe:
That right there is a bona fide rainbow that i created with nothing but a hose on the mist option and natural sunlight. Get yourself a pretty (or ugly) bottle with a wide mouth and you can very easily make your own rainbow water!
āBut wait, Eiolrin, what if I donāt have a hose?ā
Nothing to fear. Iāve got your back. You can also collect rainbow water by:
Shine a light through a prismatic crystal, then placing a bottle of regular water in the rainbow thatās created. Just like making sun/moon water! You donāt need to put it in the rainbow for more than maybe 1-5 minutes.
Get a plastic spray bottle that mists and spray the mist into natural sunlight until you find a rainbow. Hold bottle against the rainbow and *keep misting*.
Hell, you know what? Who needs an *actual* rainbow?
Draw a rainbow. Print out a picture of a picture of a rainbow. This rainbow is in my grimoire in the form of a magic circle (enchantment circle) and iāve imbued it with the energy of a rainbow. I use this to make rainbow water sometimes.
So go forth and conquer, my lovelies! Be the witch/mage/occultist that uses rainbow water! Spread this around and make sure this is something that becomes a thing because in my opinion, rainbow water is just too useful to be ignored as a valid component in spells and other things.
As a bonus, hereās my rainbow water!
Perfect for iris devotees!! And sun/rainbow witches!!
Candlelight-magick 