BTW E86: Finding Your Witch Mentor with Jamie Della

Samhain is the ancient Celtic word for summer's end, and is also the third and final harvest holiday in the Witches' Wheel of the Year. You may know this holiday as Halloween. Whatever you call it, this is the time of year when the veils are thin and spirits are said to walk the earth. Find out what this holiday means for contemporary witches and learn about what you can do to celebrate it at home with our special guest, writer and tarot reader, Jessica Jernigan, author of "A Postmodern Witches' Guide to Halloween."

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You can still get our workshop: QUEEN OF CUPS, SONG OF THE SIREN: Chants, Prayers, and Invocations.

To join Amanda's MYSTERY CULT on Substack click here.

Listen to Carolyn's podcast for artists and writers with Beth Pickens Mind Your Practice, and join their Homework Club.

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FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST JESSICA JERNIGAN

Jessica Jernigan has been working with books for more than twenty years—as a bookseller, a marketing professional, a copywriter, an editor, and a reviewer. She has also been working with Tarot since she acquired the Aquarian deck in 1984. She find Tarot to be a useful tool for meditation. What she finds, more than anything, is that Tarot cards take us outside the everyday chatter in our heads and encourage us to look at ourselves, our lives, and our worlds in new ways. Tarot has enriched her life, and she truly enjoys sharing Tarot with others.

Follow her on Instagram: @postmodernwitch - and visit postmodernwitch.com to purchase her zine, "A Postmodern Witch’s Guide to Samhain".

Read Jessica's interview essay in Bitch Magazine with host Amanda Yates Garcia and Starhawk, goddessmother of West Coast Witchcraft, here: Binding Harm - Generations of Witches Intertwine Rituals and Activism.

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A PROMOTION DEAR TO OUR HEARTS:

From Missing Witches authors Risa Dickens and Amy Torok comes a new book to help you harness the power of lunar magic.

New Moon Magic offers 13 anti-capitalist practices for the modern witch—one for each New Moon of the year—that will help you rediscover your magic and nurture a Witchcraft that creates instead of consumes.

Each practice is paired with a Witch who embodies the Craft, including The Word with Terry Tempest Williams and Toni Morrison, The Circle with Audre Lorde, The Garden with Mayumi Oda, and more.

New Moon Magic is available now wherever books are sold.

***North Atlantic Books is offering listeners 30% off (plus free shipping) on New Moon Magic with code NEWMOON (all one word) at www.northatlanticbooks.com now through December 31, 2023. This offer is limited to recipients with U.S.-based mailing addresses only⁠.***

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BETWEEN THE WORLDS QUEEN OF CUPS, SONG OF THE SIREN: CHANTS, PRAYERS, AND INVOCATIONS WORKSHOP

In this course, you'll learn how to call your longings into being through the timeless art of prayer, chanting, and invocation. You'll learn to create spells and rituals simply by using your voice, with the tarot as your guide. By the time you complete this course you'll be able to offer prayers at your gatherings, write chants to help you access your intuition, and devise invocations to call your intentions into the material world. Inspired by the Queen of Cups, this workshop will teach you to access your inner muse, awaken your creative spirit, use your voice as a tool for meditation, magic, and offerings from your heart to the world.

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