Crossroads & Cauldrons Podcast

Amy Blackthorn is the award-winning author of the best-selling Blackthorn’s Botanicals series. She has been described as an “arcane horticulturalist” for her lifelong work with magical plants and teaching. She has a certification in aromatherapy and is ordained through the Order of the Golden Gryphon.

Amy’s company, Blackthorns Botanicals, creates tea based on magical associations. She has appeared on Netflix’s Top Ten Secrets and Mysteries in an episode: Supernatural Abilities.

Jacki Smith is the founder and president of Coventry Creations; a locally based, internationally known maker of spiritual products, and co-owner of Candle Wick Shoppe in Ferndale, MI. In 1992 Jacki was the first on the national market with her Blessed Herbal Candles. This line gave birth to the spiritual candle industry. Over the past 29 plus years she has created hundreds of magical candles, teaches spiritual development classes, podcasts, volunteers, and is a best-selling author of Coventry Magic, and co-author of DIY Akashic Wisdom, Access the Library of Your Soul.

Jason Miller (Inominandum) has devoted 35 years to studying practical magic in its many forms. He is the author of six books, including the now classic Protection and Reversal Magick. He teaches several courses online including the Strategic Sorcery One Year Course, The Sorcery of Hekate Training, and the Black School of Saint Cyprian.

Terence P Ward has been a journalist and practicing Pagan for more than thirty years, who has been bound to a Wiccan coven and communed with the earth as a backpacking Pagan, or Gaiaped. A member of the order of the occult hand, Ward is also a hiereus—temple priest— of Poseidon through Temenos Oikidios in Rhode Island, and holds ministerial credentials from the Vermont-based Church of the Sacred Earth: a Union of Pagan Congregations.

Christopher Penczak is a Witch, teacher, writer and healing practitioner. His practice draws upon the foundation of both modern and traditional Witchcraft blended with the wisdom of mystical traditions from across the globe as a practitioner and teacher of shamanism, tarot, Reiki healing, herbalism, astrology and Qabalah.

He is the founder of the Temple of Witchcraft tradition and system of magickal training based upon the material of his books and classes. He is an ordained minister primarily serving the New Hampshire and Massachusetts pagan and metaphysical communities through public rituals, private counsel and teaching, though he travels extensively teaching throughout the United States.

Sellena and Luna discuss Hands, Stars, Cards and Omens when exploring the 3rd part of the Gifts of the Goddess series, To Understand the Secret Signs.

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Mhara Starling was born in North Wales, raised on the Isle of Anglesey, and is a native Welsh speaker. She is a transgender woman who has been practicing witchcraft from a very young age, and her witchcraft videos on TikTok have more than a million views. Mhara is a celebrant and a tarot reader, and she runs moots, gatherings, and open rituals. Her latest book Welsh Witchcraft: a Guide to the Spirits, Lore, and Magic of Wales was released in February 2022. 

Sellena and Luna are back in the same room together and have so much to share with you! From book recommendations and upcoming guests to travel plans and occupation changes, they stir the cauldron and just enjoy this time together and with you.

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River Ouellet is an independent filmmaker soon to be based in Boston, Massachusetts. After a few collaborative experimental films with friends, he has now ventured out to create his first full-length documentary.  Love, Will, and Wisdom: The Temple of Witchcraft Documentary is the first feature-length film to be made about the temple and the community surrounding it. It's packed with familiar faces and deep dives into the faith and beliefs.  

Come join the Temple of Witchcraft for TempleHearth, an online weekend of magickal education and experience. The focus of this weekend is gathering together to share, and will feature nine teachers and presenters working in the Temple of Witchcraft community and special guests. TempleHearth classes will alternate from those that focus on lecture and information, and those that guide you through an experience as we work to do magick together in this modern online age.

Come join the Temple of Witchcraft for TempleHearth, an online weekend of magickal education and experience. The focus of this weekend is gathering together to share, and will feature nine teachers and presenters working in the Temple of Witchcraft community and special guests. TempleHearth classes will alternate from those that focus on lecture and information, and those that guide you through an experience as we work to do magick together in this modern online age.

Come join the Temple of Witchcraft for TempleHearth, an online weekend of magickal education and experience. The focus of this weekend is gathering together to share, and will feature nine teachers and presenters working in the Temple of Witchcraft community and special guests. TempleHearth classes will alternate from those that focus on lecture and information, and those that guide you through an experience as we work to do magick together in this modern online age.  

Laura Tempest Zakroff is a professional artist, author, dancer, designer, and Modern Traditional Witch based in New England. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her artwork has received awards and honors worldwide. Her work embodies myth and the esoteric through her drawings and paintings, jewelry, talismans, and other designs.  Laura is the author of the best-selling books Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft and Sigil Witchery: A Witch’s Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols, as well as the Liminal Spirits Oracle (artist/author) and Anatomy of a Witch. She blogs for Patheos as A Modern Traditional Witch, contributes to The Witches' Almanac, Ltd, and creates the Witchual Workout and other programming on her YouTube channel.

Luna and Sellena discuss the changing of the seasonal tides and the energies of the autumnal equinox, along with the introspection work that is often brought about this time of year.

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https://www.alchemy-works.com/

https://www.atlantacandlesandincense.com/

https://plentifulearth.com/

https://www.facebook.com/TheRedJasper/

http://zuzushealingarts.com/

https://www.ashevillepagansupply.store/

https://spiritusarcanum.com/

Elizabeth is a multi-generational witch who blends their work with the Spirits of Place, local seasonal cycles, and the art of storytelling into a practice that is fully their own.

Their focus is on animism and general spirit work and they offer Found Item/Bone readings deeply tied to that work.

Elizabeth has trained with many renowned witches, pagans and psychics such as Alix Wright, Christopher Penczak, Devin Hunter, Storm Faerywolf, and Chas Bogan. They also picked up many of their abilities from their mother, who is a professional psychic.

They are currently an initiate and student of the Temple of Witchcraft, training within the Sacred Fires Tradition of Witchcraft, and is a graduate of Black Rose Witchcraft.

Sellena and Luna are back! They catch you up on the goings on in their lives over the past few months and also delve into how to connect with your house and the spirits of the land when moving to a new place and how to honor the land you’re leaving and prepare it for new occupants. 

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Aoife and Sellena discuss various types of divination and talk about their experiences and practices in these methods. 

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We're back! Sellena and our surprise guest go over the events and personal experiences from the past few months and delve into some possible topics coming in the next few months!

Lilith Dorsey M.A. , hails from many magickal traditions, including Celtic, Afro-Caribbean, and Native American spirituality. Her traditional education focused on Plant Science, Anthropology, and Film at the University of R.I, New York University and the University of London, and her magickal training includes numerous initiations in Santeria also known as Lucumi, Haitian Vodoun, and New Orleans Voodoo.

Sellena recaps some of the workshops and concerts from this years Pagan Unity Festival and she and Luna answer a few listener questions.

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Sellena continues the Thirteen Goals of the Witch series with #3 - Learn and Grow. Luna talks about the proper feeding of Hummingbirds and the types of flowers and plants that will encourage them to come back year after year. 

Aoife, Sellena and Luna answer a few listener questions about contacting spirits and psychic awareness. This will also be our last podcast for 2019, but worry not we'll be back on January 6th with the first part of a brand new series! Happy Holidays!!

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Sellena, Luna and Aoife discuss the last segment of the Witch's Pyramid, To Go. 

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