The Blackthorn Grove

Join The Blackthorn Grove in welcoming Victoria Laurie, author of the Psychic Eye Mysteries, as well as several other amazing series to talk about life as an author, questions she gets as a Medium, and how to balance it all and get words on the page!

Sponsored by Blackthorn's Botanicals tea shop.

Join Amy in exploring the steps needed to get your book idea to be seen by the traditional publishers in our niche.

Important: This is my personal experience, I don't speak for any publisher. I'm not available to read manuscripts.

It's a new year and that means a new visit with Cyndi Brannen from Keeping Her Keys! 

Content Warning: There will be discussions on chronic pain, chronic illness and a brief mention of Eating Disorders, listen appropriately.

Sponsored by Blackthorn's Botanicals dot com. 

Sponsored by BlackthornsBotanicals.com 

Blackthorn's Botanical Wellness, out October 31st, 2022 from Weiser Books.

Mortellus stopped by to catch up, and the amazing stories we exchanged were moving and empowering.

Content warning: frank discussion of parenting, aging, inter-personal relationships,  and brief mention of surviving s*icide towards the end of the episode. 

Mortellus at PanParaCon Sept 30th-Oct 2nd 2022 or at PanParaCon.com and Mortellus.com

Jennie Blonde: An eclectic Pagan witch with a love of hearth and home witchery, Jennie has been practicing witchcraft for twenty years. She lives in Pennsylvania with two furry familiars, one witchling, and her husband.

Hearth and Home Witchcraft

Blending storytelling, witchcraft, and warm advice, Jennie Blonde (the @comfycozywitch) offers recipes, rituals, and spell work, to nourish yourself and your family.

Hearth and Home Witchcraft explores the following topics:

• rituals for protection and cleansing the hearth and home
• kitchen witchery, creating a kitchen altar, and recipes and rituals for nourishment
• the witch’s altar, tools, and spells, and creating a sacred space, no matter the size of the home
• herbs and plants, grounding rituals, and meditations to connect you with the earth
• witchy self-care, complete with rituals and recipes for ritual bath salts, oils, balms, and more

Sponsored by AmyBlackthorn.com and BlackthornsBotanicals.com

Mentions:

So Potent Art: The Magic of Shakespeare by Emily Carding
The Ritual Deck by Cassie Uhl

Enfys is a nonbinary, bisexual clergy member within the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel, and the High Priest of the Fellowship of the Ancient White Stag (Near the District of Columbia). Enfys has been studying the Qabala since 2012 and teaching since 2015 including presenting at the Sacred Space conference. 

Lisa Wagoner stops by to talk about how to maintain a positive outlook when the world is out of control.

LisaWagoner.com for autographed copies

This episode sponsored by Blackthorn's Botanical Wellness, out November first wherever fine books are sold.

Rachele Walter stops by the podcast to talk about why secular voting is important for witchy and Pagan-umbrella voters.  She is a secular activist in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is Chair of Secular Democrats of Nebraska, President of Lincoln Atheists, and the Director for American Atheists-Nebraska. She has been involved in politics for over 35 years. 

Daily Magic is a perpetual calendar focused on days of spiritual and magical significance. April 30th for example, is perfect for spellcasting—especially spells for love, romance, fertility, and prosperity. Judika Illes teaches you how to create rituals and cast spells, provides recipes for potions, and offers advice on creating feasts to honor sacred beings.

Judika Illes is an independent scholar, educator, and author of several books of folklore, folkways, and mythology. Judika is a graduate of Rutgers University and has a certification in therapeutic aromatherapy from the Australasian College of Herbal Studies. Her books include Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells, Encyclopedia of Spirits, The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, The Weiser Field Guide to Witches, and The Weiser Field Guide to the Paranormal (published under the name Judith Joyce).

:This episode sponsored by Blackthorn's Botanicals:

Cassandra Snow has been a tarot reader in some capacity since they were eighteen years old and have gone pro for the last decade. Their work includes teaching and writing about tarot and witchcraft as well as doing readings. Cassandra is also calling on their BA in Theatre Arts and Humanities from Waldorf College for this project, and the decade-and-a-half experience they have leading creative teams as a theatre director, producer, and show curator with Gadfly Theatre Productions.

Siri Vincent Plouff is the brain behind the radical Heathenry podcast, Heathen’s Journey. Siri runs several flagship teaching programs, such as the annual Witchcraft Immersion, which is a witchcraft apprenticeship program, and Radical Runes. They have been a practicing witch for nearly twenty years and have been reading tarot and runes professionally for six.

Sponsored by Blackthorn's Botanicals dot com.

Natalie Meraki is the creator of Tarot Mood deck, the Mood Oracle, Young Witch Tarot deck and a raucous fun time was had by all. (There are some brief mature themes in this episode, so listen wisely.)

Check out Natalie's Create your own Tarot deck workshop!
https://nataliemeraki.com/

@TarotMood on Insta

@MerakiMetaphysical on TikTok

Other resources:
78 Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack

The Ultimate Guide to Tarot by Liz Dean

Tarot Teas: BlackthornsBotanicals.com

Today I'm answering questions about what it is like to own a Pagan business, what we experience that non-Pagan businesses don't have to navigate, and how to make your Pagan business happy, healthy, prosperous and protected.  

Blackthorn's Protection Magic out March 1st from Weiser Books.

Download the first two chapters free at AmyBlackthorn.com

Nicholas Pearson stops by to chat with us about his books, crystals and plant spirits.  

Nicholas Pearson is a flower essence practitioner and researcher whose love for plants grew alongside his love for the mineral kingdom. Best known for his work with crystal healing and Reiki, Nicholas is also a practicing witch and occultist. An internationally acclaimed presenter, Nicholas is the author of several books, including Crystals for Karmic Healing, Crystal Basics, and the forthcoming Flower Essences from the Witch’s Garden. He lives in Orlando, Florida. Find him at https://www.theluminouspearl.com

Cyndi Brannen of Keeping Her Keys and I got together for Beltane and chatted about:

 our favorite herbal allies

plant symbolism in magic

Aesthetics in Witchcraft 

maintaining healthy boundaries

communicating with plant spirits

and our top 3 plants to include in a witch's apothecary.

This is a great interview with a friend of the podcast who had some questions for me about how to get started in incorporating herbs into our magic.  

Check out AmyBlackthorn.com to book a reading with Amy! 

Brought to you by BlackthornsBotanicals.com 

It's our one year birthday!  

In this episode we have the fabulous Mortellus back with us to talk about the useful materials we can find to incorporate in our magical practice and how they demystify necromancy.  Hint: most of us are practicing necromancy, without even knowing it! 

Find Mortellus' book, "Do I Have To Wear Black? Rituals, Customs and Funerary Etiquette for Modern Pagans" and other handmade curios at Mortellus.com 

This is an hour-long salon discussion about botanical witchcraft with 'Keeping Her Keys' author Cyndi Brannen.  https://keepingherkeys.com Featuring tidbits from both authors Amy Blackthorn and Cyndi Brannen discussing protection of the home, how to begin a botanical magic practice, how to start a relationship with your Spirits of Place, and more! Cyndi discusses her new book, 'Entering Hekate's Garden' and what our 'weeds' are trying to tell us.  

It's 9 days to Halloween and I'm seeing more (Non-Pagan) people mentioning their fear of Witches.  I try to tease out those strands with past  experience and truth. 

There's an announcement about my brand new candle line as well! Find those at BlackthornsBotanicals.com 

As always you can email me your thoughts at blackthorngrovepodcast at Gmail dot com.

Is the competitive spirit destroying your practice? 'Comparison is the thief of joy' -Theodore Roosevelt

If you do the thing that makes your heart sing, you'll bring magic into the world.  

30-page preview of Blackthorn's Botanical Brews, out Oct 5th
tinyurl.com/blackthornsbotanicalbrews.com
Brought to you by BlackthornsBotanicals.com 

You can read the excerpt at TinyUrl.com/BlackthornsBotanicalBrews

There are ones for Sacred Smoke, and Blackthorn's Botanical Magic as well.

Tinyurl.com/SacredSmokeBook

Tinyurl.com/BlackthornsbotanicalMagic 

Interview with Thelemite, producer of Hexwork Burlesque and all around awesome human, Eyrie Twilight.