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Welcome to the 100th episode of The Oracle of Luna Podcast!
Join us for a special group panel show in honor of the Goddess Brigid in Her many aspects. At Imbolc-tide as Witches and Pagans, Brigid is celebrated as the powerful threshold Goddess standing between Winter and Spring on the Wheel of the Year. She is “The Exalted One” the Celtic Pagan high Goddess of Fire, Sacred Wells, Poetry, Smithcraft, Healing, Protection, Midwifery, and the Green Earth, A Vodun Lwa, Venerated Abbess and Catholic Saint. She is many things to many people. She is one the most beloved and popular Goddesses throughout history. And Brigid continues her legacy with fluidity in the present and into the future.

Our 3  esteemed Authors and Priestesses of Brigid have a dialogue about:

- Who Brigid is to them
- What Brigid’s Aspects/ and Symbologies/Mythologies align with them most
- Why they connect & devote themselves to Brigid and tend Her flame- 

- How is Brigid relevant now and into the future

Introducing these amazing episode guests:

Pauline Breen:

Pauline Breen is a Priestess of Brigid, Author, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Educator. Her deep connection to her homeland Ireland, inspires her work with Brigid, once revered as the Great Mother Goddess of the Emerald Isle. Through her extensive research, writing, and public speaking, Pauline illuminates the multifaceted and often overlooked aspects of Brigid's legacy. Pauline is the author of 'Maman Brigitte- Dark Goddess of Africa & Ireland', 'Brigantia-Warrior Goddess' and most recently 'Brigit, Lady of the Irish Otherworld.'

Courtney Weber:

Courtney Weber is a Witch, award-winning Author, Tarot adviser, and Influencer. She is the author of Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess; Tarot for One: The Art of Reading for Yourself; The Morrigan: Celtic Goddess of Magick and Might; Hekate: Goddess of Witches and Sacred Tears: A Witch’s Guide To Grief. Courtney has been featured in Maxim, Huffington Post, Vice, and the Thom Hartmann Show.   Visit her at: www.courtneyaweber.com

Marion Brigantia:

Marion 'Brigantia' van Eupen is a Priestess of Brighde-Brigantia, who shares her love for Brighid through Her teachings, workshops, tours and ceremonies. Marion has been journeying with Brighid for over 20 years and has recently published her first book:' Brighid Unraveled'. Marion also is a co-organizer of yearly The Glastonbury Goddess Conference, which celebrated Brighid as Goddess of Healing in 2024. Visit her at: www.marionbrigantia.com 

Tune into this illuminating &  significant Brigid group discussion and be enlightened!

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Get your prosperity on with Rachel Patterson! Rachel is an English Witch who has been walking the Pagan path for over thirty years.  She has had over 30 books published so far, some of them becoming best sellers.   Her newest book release is: “Prosperity Magic – Spell Working for Abundance, Money, and Prosperity” by Moon Books. She is the host of the Pagan Portal Podcast, Elder at the Kitchen Witch Online School of Witchcraft and High Priestess of the Kitchen Witch Coven. She is a regular columnist with Fate & Fortune magazine and Pagan Dawn. Rachel is an Editor and Publicist at Moon Books.

We chat about Rachel’s early beginnings and how her father always took her to sacred places when she was young like Stonehenge. She was drawn to magical stories and books especially about the Arthurian mysteries, witches and dragons. When she was in her early 20’s Rachel bought a book at a thrift store about the history of English Witchcraft and it really resonated with who she was and that was the beginning of her Witchcraft journey. After 35 plus more years; Rachel says she is still learning. 

Rachel started out reviewing books for Moon Books but then eventually started writing books about Kitchen Witchery in 2012 and now 33 books later Rachel just published her newest release: “Prosperity Magic – Spell Working for Abundance, Money, and Prosperity” by Moon Books. Rachel is a regular columnist with Fate & Fortune magazine in England called “The Witch that Gets You Rich” for 6 years. She thought it would be a good idea to pull all of those articles into a book since they are all about Money/Prosperity magic. This book includes hands- on practical spells that you can use to make your life more prosperous. Abundance comes in many forms, not just money. You can call in love, friends, support, good health, success..anything. There are even spells for cleaning out debt too which is the starting point for allowing the good prosperity to come in.

We jump into the many types of spellwork in Rachel’s book including: candle magic, spell pouches, knot work, color magic, fashion/clothing color, spell jars etc. Any of these spell items can be charged for magic . Rachel’s go to is Candle magic because it brings in color magic and flame which is about transformation.The bottom line is that it has to resonate with you! It is very important to give offerings and having gratitude in money magic spell work. There are checks and balances in any magic.  You can't keep asking deity or the divine to keep showering you with money over and over without giving back! 

We chat about how adding layers to a prosperity spell can boost the magic Lunar phases and certain days of the week can energetically  enhance our prosperity and money spells. If you want to work with the Sun’s energy then  you can do your spell in the morning or if you are releasing debts you could do this at sunset. Adding herbs like chili powder or mustard can boost the energy of the spell to make it work faster. Don’t forget to add a timeline with the wording and intent too. We end the show with Rachel offering us some great wealth and abundance tips. Tune into this bewitching conversation and be enlightened!   Visit Rachel at: www.rachelpatterson.co.uk

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Join me on this episode as I speak with Karen Tate. Karen is a thought leader, speaker, author and activist, who bridges spirituality, personal transformation, culture and social justice. She has been named one of the Thirteen Most Influential Women in Goddess Spirituality and a Wisdom Keeper of the Women's Spirituality Movement.  She is a popular public speaker many public events on the role of the Goddess in history and in modern culture. Karen started the first Goddess tours before they were mainstream and the original and longest running Goddess-oriented radio show /podcast: Voices of the Sacred Feminine. Her several books include Walking an Ancient Path and Goddess Calling.

We begin by chatting about Karen’s early beginnings growing up in the South in New Orleans, Louisiana within a Catholic family. Later her family moved to California, and she discovered feminine faces of the Goddess in ISIS and Sekhmet. Karen became an independent scholar and studied with various Women's Goddess groups such as the Reformed Congregation of the Goddess before following her own interests.

Karen chats about how in the 90’s her and her husband were introducing people to the Goddess through the back door of sacred travel sites. They led sacred tours of the Goddess to places such as Israel, Turkey, Greece, France and England. Karen started writing travel stories which then evolved into her first book called Sacred Places of Goddess. That book kicked off her further books about how to incorporate Goddess Spirituality, spiritual psychology and sacred feminine values into one’s life or community.

Karen's mission is to educate and communicate the ideals and values of the Goddess. Partnership, collaboration, respect, equality and freedom from a dominator culture are part of sacred feminine theology that Karen learned from Riane Eisler’s iconic book: The Chalice and the Blade”. With its key message being that when we value power with rather than power over then that shifts everything. We talk about spiritual or sacred activism and what this means currently and how we can overcome rampant exploitation/abuse and oppression. Karen points out that women need archetypes and role models as many women have internal misogyny because of being damaged patriarchy. We must sit back and rethink what are our values and ethics are and what kind of world we want and then vote for people who support the issues that are important to us.

We chat about Karen’s long running radio show - now podcast, Voices of the Sacred Feminine. A weekly platform for interviews with spiritual leaders and visionaries such as Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Riane Eisler, Matthew Fox, Starhawk, etc. which is part of Karen’s mission to teach people about the big umbrella of deities, archetypes and the Sacred Feminine. There are so many people with common goals all over the world who share Sacred Feminine values and ideals that they can become our teachers and allies. Tune in and be enlightened!    More about Karen at: www.karentate.net 

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H. Byron Ballard, is a Folklorist, Author, Priestess and Teacher. She has served as a featured speaker and teacher at several festivals and conferences, including the Sacred Space Conference, Pagan Spirit Gathering, Starwood, Hexfest and many others. She serves as senior Priestess and co-founder of Mother Grove Goddess Temple and the Coalition of Earth Religions/CERES, both in Asheville, NC. She podcasts about Appalachian folkways on "Wyrd Mountain Gals." Her essays are featured in several anthologies, and she writes a regular column for SageWoman Magazine. Her books include four on mountain folk magic. The first was Staubs and Ditchwater, and the most recent (2025) is A Feral Church: A Guided Journey to Find Magic, Kinship and the Goddess.

Byron  grew up in the country in North Carolina; she only saw the Goddess within the soil, trees, water and wind around her in Appalachia running in the mountains and playing in her family’s small orchard playing with crawdads and salamanders. Outside in nature is where Byron felt the divine most strongly. She  sometimes saw the Goddess as anthropomorphic. Byron never saw the divine in male form. She calls herself an Animist at heart and also a polytheist.

Her grandmother and several cousins had the sight or prophetic dreams and also the ability to interact with spirits- even though their religion was Methodist. These abilities were deeply ingrained in the culture that Byron grew up in. Appalachia’s energy is deeply magical and broad and often manifests in deep spirituality which permeates the culture. It also has some of the oldest mountains in North America and two of the oldest rivers flowing through it in the world. There many different kinds of religion there. The intersection of Indigenous, African Scottish/Irish, Welsh and German cultures contributes to a unique Appalachian spiritual culture.

We chat about Byron’s newest book A Feral Church. She wrote it after the death of Carol Christ and her work was a great inspiration to Byron. She decided it was time to write another Goddess spirituality book. This book takes us Solstice to Solstice on inner and outer journeys to meet spiritual beings and connect with the Mother Goddess. It’s about stepping out of domesticity and accessing your wild essence in our own hearts. We encounter spiritual beings who teach us about aspects of our wild spirits in different parts of the world.

We chat about her role as a Priestess at the Mother Goddess Temple In Asheville NC which is a 501c3 church. She does interfaith work and outreach as well as holding Sabbats celebrating the wheel of the year with her community there. Byron believes that the Goddess is the root and foundation of all of us and from that we do the work that we are called to do in these perilous times. The Goddess is much needed especially for Women. Byron ends our episode by giving  us a truly beautiful Goddess meditation for love and support. More about Byron at www.myvillagewitch.com

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In this episode, I am very delighted to speak with Patricia "Trish" Telesco!
Trish is a passionate Author and fusion cook. She has been a part of the Neo-Pagan community for nearly 40 years. During that time, Trish has written several books including Victorian Grimoire, 365 Goddess, A Kitchen Witch’s Cookbook and her most recent book, Cooking with the Kitchen Witch. Her Wiccan, Witchcraft, & Pagan books provide real and practical information on magick, spells, rituals, Shamanism, animal familiars, Gods & Goddesses, Kitchen Witchery, and Earth-based spirituality. Trish considers herself a Kitchen Witch whose love of folklore flavor every spell and ritual. She believes that your kitchen is a sacred space where you can elevate even the most mundane meal prep into a spiritual ritual. Trish lives in Western New York.

*Trish will give us some Kitchen Witch Tips at the end of the episode! *

We begin by chatting about Trish’s childhood where she played in fields behind the house growing up and talking to trees as a young Pagan Witchling.  She tells us that her grandmother would get up at 5am to bake amazing fresh picked berry muffins that woke the family up in the morning. There was something in the love of her baking that influenced Patricia. She remembered her mom’s roast beef and the sacred way her mom created it in their family’s kitchen and her dad baking his delicious cookies.

Trish really didn't discover the magic of cooking until she got married and realized she could not cook. And she got a cookbook from her sister and made every single recipe in that cookbook for a year. The more Trish cooked the more she loved cooking and playing with the recipes. It became …FUN. Thats when her Kitchen Witchery journey started brewing!

She wrote a small newsletter for friends and family offering recipes and after contracting a case of adult chicken pox; she had the idea to write her first and very popular Kitchen Witchery cookbook over 30 years ago called: A Kitchen Witch’s Cookbook. She sent the manuscript to Llewellyn books, and they loved it. Her cookbook was published and it set the pace for Kitchen Witchery on the literary market.

Trish has written and published over 50 Witchcraft and Pagan books as well. Trish tells us that writing is who she is. She then took a little time off and after that she wrote a follow up cookbook. We chat about her new book: Cooking with the Kitchen Witch - Magical Recipes from the Hearth and what a Kitchen Witch is.

Staging, presentation, and decorations are also a part of creating kitchen magic and feasts - especially to celebrate the seasons and the Sabbats with your family, friends and community. Trish gives us some ideas on plating or placing food on the plate as it corresponds to the elements to draw in the energies of each direction and culinary astrology. We chat about how the visual impact of food is witchery and as Trish says: we eat with our eyes.

Trish is very committed to creating her recipes to make sure that they will last through the test of time. She has worked and experimented with food to create her unique culinary magic for several years. Her spellbinding new kitchen witchery book: Cooking with the Kitchen Witch - Magical Recipes from the

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Get ready to be amazed on this episode as I have a spellbinding conversation with Patti Negri! Patti is a Psychic-Medium and "Good Witch" best known for her recurring role on the Travel Channel & Discovery's #1 show Ghost Adventures and the #1 paranormal show on YouTube: TFIL Overnight with Elton Castee. @pattinegri is the international bestselling author of “Old World Magick for the Modern World”. She has a new book that came out in June 2025 from Llewellyn Books called “Dollcraft: A Witch’s Guide to Poppet Magick & Haunted Dolls” which we will discuss here. Patti has a popular weekly podcast called The Witching Hour and has a second weekly podcast, The Witch's Movie Coven.  Patti is a founding partner and VP of Paraflixx.com Streaming Service and founding partner and Headmistress at UniversityMagickus.com an online spirituality and mysticism school. *Tune in to the end when Patti gives us a short blessing on how to magickly charge a Poppet! *

 We begin our conversation unveiling Patti’s early beginnings as a Witch growing up in Long Beach, CA. She said she was communicating with spirits as early as she could talk. She was not raised with any kind of religious belief system but as a teenager she became a spiritual seeker. She then went to a Long Beach WomanSpirit meeting; there she found her magickal tribe. And that was her starting point on her winding path as a Witch. 

Patti was also an actor, dancer and teen model but kept her spirituality separate for many years. In her 30’s she started producing corporate entertainment shows for banks and large companies nationwide. Years later, in 2008 the recession hit, and also Reality TV started growing. Patti tells us that she came out of the broom closet and became the person to call for anything paranormal shows as a witch, psychic or medium and she has not looked back. Her acting training in Hollywood and in media/TV has experience helped her.

We delve into Patti’s newest book “Dollcraft: A Witch’s Guide to Poppet Magick & Haunted Dolls”. Patti saw a need for a guidebook about the acquiring, owning and caring for haunted dolls. She has been a doll collector all her life and some of her dolls she has acquired through her paranormal investigations. Patti talks about Peggi, the very haunted doll that is currently on display atThe Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, NV owned by Zak Bagans from the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures TV show. Patti tells us some more experiences with evil energies/spirits residing in a doll - especially with her haunted doll: Belle.

 We discover poppets and how to charge them for magickal purposes and empowerment and the difference between a Haunted Doll and a Poppet. Poppets have been used for sympathetic magic through the ages in a variety of cultures. Patti suggests making a poppet for spiritual empowerment, health, love, abundance etc. 

Patti’s expertise is about balancing energies in people, places, situations, using the forces of the universe to create transformation whether it be in a séance or on TV with or her private clients. She wraps up the episode by giving us a short, charging blessing for your poppet. ️More about Patti at: www.pattinegri.com

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Join us in this episode for a fascinating conversation with Nikki Wardwell Sleath. Nikki is a formally trained Witch and professional Occult teacher. She is the founder of the Society of Witchcraft and Old Magick, holds a master’s degree in Integrative Health and Healing, is a Reiki Master/Teacher, and is trained through the highest level of shamanic dream teacher/facilitator training in Robert Moss’s School of Active Dreaming. She has worked with clients and students for many years. Nikki is also a longtime priestess of the Morrigan and acts as a co-facilitator for the annual Morrigan's Call Retreat. In addition to Dream Sorcery, Nikki is the author of The Goddess Seals and You Might Be a Witch and has more books forthcoming. She lives in Connecticut, USA.  *Stay tuned until the end where Nikki gives us a short, guided meditation to prepare for lucid dreaming*

We start out by chatting about Nikki’s early spiritual/witchcraft beginnings. Growing up she became aware of voices and spirits in her family’s house. She noticed her psychic abilities would sharpen in her college years every Fall. Nikki started researching The Wheel of the Year and modern-day witchcraft. This was a huge spiritual awakening for her and from then on, she knew she was a witch for life. 

After college, she became a physical therapist and tells us she would not be where she is as an occult teacher had it not been for her studies of healing on a holistic level. Nikki then began studying reiki, yoga, meditation and eventually got her master’s degree in Integrative Health & Healing which then led to her Shamanic certifications and skills that inform her magick and lucid dream practice. She also interned with Robert Moss a well renown shamanic dream teacher.

Lucid dreaming is being fully aware of yourself while you are dreaming and so essentially, you’re conscious within a dream state. Adding magick and cultivating spell work to lucid dreaming is what her newest Dream Sorcery book explores. She gives the reader tools to engage in dream sorcery even if you are not a seasoned magickal practitioner. This book is important for the magical or enchanted community because it’s not written from the viewpoint of western psychiatry. 

Nikki firmly believes that dream sorcery can evolve our spiritual practice, and she hopes that the magickal reader will read her book and explore their own dream world where the rules of physics don’t limit the effect of the endless possibilities and realities. Nikki believes we can go from spectator to active magician in our dreams.  Tune in and be enlightened!  Nikki’s website: www.nikkiwardwellsleath.com

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