Waking Up The Witch

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Amy Blackthorn is the award-winning author of the best-sellers, ‘Blackthorn’s Botanicals’ series. She has been described as an “arcane horticulturalist” for her lifelong work with magical plants and teaching. She incorporates her experiences in British Traditional Witchcraft with her horticulture studies. 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 HuffPoLive, Netflix’s Top Ten Secrets and My...

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Bre’s a Tarot Reader & Educator who’s been enchanted by stories since before she could even read. The love of story as the human experience led Bre from her small hometown in Wisconsin, to living in 6 countries and traveling many more. She loves cats, coffee and creating.

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Bre's current offerings: Bre is currently working on finishing her tarot deck! Coming soon...

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Jenna Matlin holds an M.S. in Organizational Psychology and a B.A. in Anthropology, with end-of-life doula training through INELDA and specialized training in psychedelic integration support. Named Philadelphia Magazine’s Spiritual Guru of 2019, her book Will You Give Me a Reading? received the 2023 COVR Silver Visionary Award. Since 2012, she has maintained a full-time tarot practice built on highly intuitive, innovative techniques. Her revolutionary approach to tarot mediumship explicitly helps clients navigate grief, death, and communication with the dead—a practice that culminates in her definitive work, The Tarot Book of the Dead. Based in Durham, NC, she teac...

JoAnna Farrer is a diviner, priestess of Apollo and Dionysus, classical violinist, and the bestselling author of "The Diviner’s Path: A Nature-Led Approach to Divination with Tarot, Runes & Pendulums." She is the host of the Coffee & Divination podcast, where she explores divination, magic, animism, and spiritual practice with leading writers and practitioners. A Juilliard-trained violinist and concertmaster, JoAnna brings a lifelong engagement with listening, symbolism, and interpretation to her work as a teacher and diviner. She lives on a 40-acre farm in Vermont, where her permaculture work and relationship with the land deeply informs her spiritual practices.

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Ivy Bromius is a witch, occultist, and second-generation tarot reader with four decades experience. In addition, Ivy has been a professional project manager for over 20 years. She's spent the past decade sharing her integrated toolkit through Circle Thrice, where she teaches her proprietary Circle Method. Her approach to magic is practical, organized, and succinct. She supports her Inner Circle membership with astro-magic planning, courses, and coaching; helping amazing people build a more enchanted, beautiful future. Ivy is the author of The Cancer Grimoire, The Agile Magic Manifesto, and Doing Big Magic as well as a speaker at Ishtarfest 2026. Ivy...

Beth Bogren is a 46-year-old storyteller, retreat host, recovering wild child, and owner of Whisper Canyon Ranch which lies deep in the mountains of Southern Oregon.

Raised in the Mormon church, Beth broke free after her parents’ divorce and swung the pendulum pretty hard in the other direction, drinking, drugs, partying, and learning plenty of life lessons the hard way.

At 19, she became a mom to her daughter, Lauren, who is now grown, living in Seattle, and genuinely one of the coolest people Beth knows. She’s also been married to her husband, Brian, for 11 year...

Krissy Colasonno is a multidimensional channel and psychic medium that teaches you how to use your spiritual gifts to embody your True Self. Through focusing on discernment and sovereignty, she helps you to navigate through the inter-dimensional realms to fully integrate and embody your frequency of truth. As a guide who can walk through both the light and shadow, Krissy has focused on finding the peaceful balance of both while pushing the conventional boundaries of both 3D and Spiritual 'truths'.

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Krissy Colasonno is a multidimensional channel and psychic medium that teaches you how to use your spiritual gifts to embody your True Self. Through focusing on discernment and sovereignty, she helps you to navigate through the inter-dimensional realms to fully integrate and embody your frequency of truth. As a guide who can walk through both the light and shadow, Krissy has focused on finding the peaceful balance of both while pushing the conventional boundaries of both 3D and Spiritual 'truths'.

Follow Krissy on Socials: Instagram, tiktok, youtube @enlightened.channels

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Zara is a holistic nutritionist, herbalist, and writer who specializes in women’s health and reproductive education and holistic care.

She’s as advocate of women caring for their reproductive systems through all phases of life and hopes to change the culture around women believing their reproductive health to be obsolete if they don’t want kids or no longer menstruate. Her work focuses on the intersection of our physical health and emotional experience, and the culture and societal landscape we exist in. Zara believes our bodily autonomy starts with body and reproductive education and our relationship to our...

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.

Follow Courtney on Socials: @courtneyaweber on IG and TikTok

Visit her website: http://www.courtneyaweber.com

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Toni Nagy is a stand-up comedian, podcaster, and content creator most known for her viral videos where she interpretive dances her philosophies, spiritual curiosity, and political rants while pontificating, gyrating, and questioning culture.

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@toninagy insta

@toni.nagy (tik tok)

@toninagycomedy (facebook)

Toni's current offerings:

Somatic offerings all on her website

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Rebecca Szymczak - aka Cardsy B- is an author, intuitive tarot reader, and wellness witch. Her work has been featured in Nylon, Elle, Bustle, Forbes, and The Zoe Report. She has collaborated with global brands like Gucci, BCBG MaxAzria, and HULU. She writes tarot-scope columns for various magazines and digital platforms and works as the "Wellness Witch in Residence" at NYC's The Algonquin Hotel. She also hosts the award-winning Hex and the City podcast and is the author of the acclaimed memoir The Saturn Diaries: A Modern Day Grimoire.

Follow Rebecca on Socials: @cardsyb

Cyndi Brannen is an author and spiritual teacher, founder and High Priestess of Covina: The Coven of Hekate. Her many books of Hekate have been bestsellers, including Keeping Her Keys, Entering Hekate's Garden, Entering Hekate's Cave, and her newest release, Entering Hekate's Cauldron.

Follow Cyndi on Socials: @Keeping_Her_Keys

Cyndi's current offerings:

https://keepingherkeys.com/

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Susan Morgan Taylor, MA is a specialist in women's sexuality and a sex therapist for couples who want to overcome mismatched libido. She is the creator of The Pleasure Revival Experience for women who want to stay wet, juicy, ad sexually alive at midlife and beyond using what they've already got--a vagina! She is chief shit shooter at her Substack, Shootin the Shit with Susan, and is the host of the popular Sex Talk Café Podcast.

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IG: @susanmorgantaylor

Substack: @susanmorgantaylor

FB: @susanmorgantaylorma

Wren Morrow is a multidisciplinary artist and creative based in the Pacific Northwest. She's best known for her outdoor boudoir and erotic adventure photography. She's got a knack for finding magic in the mundane, turning anything into an adventure, and telling a damn good story. Her work is moody, whimsical, and unflinchingly authentic. Someone once described her photos as "the crossroads of Fine Art and Fairytale". With Wren's art, the lines of Fantasy and reality are blurred and ANYTHING becomes possible.

Follow Wren on Socials: @_wrenmorror

Visit her website: https://www.wrenmorrow.com/

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Hana is a professional Tarot reader, Astrologer & Witch who helps spiritual seekers go from feeling confused, blocked and overwhelmed to feeling confident, connected and clear in their path through a variety of mediums.

Follow Hana on Socials: suburban_witchery on IG and suburban witchery everywhere else

Hana's current offerings: Hana is currently promoting my membership since I'm on semi-maternity leave. www.suburbanwitchery.com/society

Visit her website: www.suburbanwitchery.com

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The Tarot Lady is back for part 2 and she discusses with us the astro charts of DJT and the USA. There are some hard truths but a lot of hope for our future as well. Pull up a seat and let's get into it!

Theresa Reed (aka “The Tarot Lady”) has been a Tarot card reader and astrologer for 40 years. She’s the author of many books, including her latest, The Book of Astrological Returns: Your Complete Guide to Every Life Cycle from the Sun to Pluto.

She’s a featured writer for The Old Farmer’s...

Theresa Reed (aka “The Tarot Lady”) has been a Tarot card reader and astrologer for 40 years. She’s the author of many books, including her latest, The Book of Astrological Returns: Your Complete Guide to Every Life Cycle from the Sun to Pluto.

She’s a featured writer for The Old Farmer’s Almanac, where she writes about moon phases, zodiac elements, astrocartography, and more. When she's not gazing at the stars or flipping cards, you can find her in the kitchen whipping up meals for her fussy Virgo husband.

Follow Theresa on Socials: @thetarotlady

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This episode offers a deep dive into Taylar & Amber's astrology birth charts, personal transformation, and embracing authenticity. Join us as we explore the significance of planetary placements, past life connections, and practical tools for self-awareness and growth.

Follow Anna-Thea on Socials: @lovecardlady

Anna-Thea's current offerings:

Decode Your Astrology Chart - Free Class https://annathea.org/event-classes/

Visit her website: www.annathea.org

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Tenae Stewart is the Dark Moon Priestess, as well as a practicing cottage witch, a certified astrologer, and a spiritual mentor. She is also the author of three books on magick, astrology, plants, and self-care. Tenae's work empowers modern witches to weave together pleasure practices, shadow work, and intuitive self-trust so they can live their wildest, most magickal lives - all day, every day.

Follow Tenae on Socials: www.instagram.com/lupinehollow

Tenae's current offerings:

The Dark Moon Mysteries membership - www.lupinehollow.com/darkmoon The Starlight Coven...

✨ Conjured From The Archives ✨

Every once in a while, we reach into the depths of our magical back catalog and pull out an episode worth revisiting. Whether you're hearing it for the first time or returning for another listen — some stories are just too good to stay buried.

We're taking you WAY BACK to the very beginning with our second guest ever, Danielle Rosado. This conversation helped unlock so much understanding around astrology when we were first getting started. It's truly a gem, and we hope you enjoy it.

Discover how astrology can illumi...

I'm a Nurse Midwife with 25 years experience in Women's Health and my holistic approach to perimenopause guides women to connect with the inner wise woman in the midlife rite of passage. My work combines medicine, energetics and spirituality to help balance hormones, cultivate a closer relationship with the body and find deeper meaning in one's personal journey. As a Witch, I lead a local coven and host retreats bridging the physical and spiritual accessing the body as a portal between worlds. I live in a rural community on the California Central Coast and have a close relationship with the...

Paula Victoria Dai is a Filipino-Jewish palmist, author and interior designer living in Los Angeles. She is the palmist behind P is for Palmistry, offering palmistry readings focused on personal strengths for children and adults.

Follow Paula on Socials: @p.isforpalmistry

Paula's current offerings:

Her first book is was just released on May 6th with Moon Dust Press and Red Wheel/Weiser. You can order anywhere you buy books. She offer online readings (video or PDF) via her website. And she also offers in person readings in LA.

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Emily Logan Lewis, aka Emily the Mystic, is an Intuitive Mentor, Akashic Records Expert + Teacher, Galactic Channel, PSYCH-K® facilitator, and host of The Emily the Mystic Show podcast. She guides old souls and visionary leaders to awaken their intuitive gifts, manifest aligned dreams, and live with joy and freedom.

Follow Emily on Socials: @emilythemystic

Emily current offering:

Divine Trust Manifestation Mentorship: https://www.emilythemystic.com/divinetrust

Akashic Records Certification: https://www.emilythemystic.com/akashic-records-training

Book a Session: https://calendly.com/emILYLOGANLEWIS/

Visit Emily's website: https://www.emilythemystic.c...

Jenny C. Bell is the author of Spirit Crystals: Discover Your Crystal Guide for Healing and Empowerment, Divergent Witchcraft: An Inclusive Approach to Making Magic (June 2026) and the Cosmic Creator Oracle deck. She is the founder of the Our Coven online community, host of the Cozy Coven Chats podcast and a practicing witch. Jenny lives in the PNW with her family and pets where she reads far too much Romantasy. Jenny is a former classroom English teacher where she focused on diversity, inclusion and equity.

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Dana B. Myers is a Miami-based joy witch, transformational mentor, speaker, and event facilitator who helps people get clear, get unstuck, and move toward what they actually want.

With a master’s degree in Business + Entertainment from NYU and 20 years of entrepreneurial experience, Dana designs experiences and workshops that blend intention-setting, archetypal work, spell-casting, and real-world strategy—so attendees leave with clarity, connection, and momentum.

She’s a transformative tarot reader who uses the cards as a practical tool for self-discovery—helping clients name what’s true, move through blocks, and take confident next steps in life, l...

Join us in this heartfelt episode as we dive deep into Paula Kirsch's journey from childhood to becoming an herbalist, psychedelic minister, and community builder in Maine. We explore her experiences growing up amid adversity, her passion for nature's healing gifts, and her inspiring work supporting authentic community spaces and sacred practices.

Paula’s story is a testament to resilience, curiosity, and the power of nature-centered healing. You'll be inspired to support local communities and explore your own healing journey ~ there’s magic everywhere, waiting to be discovered.

Follow Paula on IG @botanically_curious

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Eileen March is a spiritual coach, energy healer, podcast host, author, and slow-living witch devoted to helping women reclaim their power, reconnect with their bodies, and re-enchant their everyday lives. With a background in both midwifery and religious studies, Eileen bridges the sacred and the practical, weaving together science, spirit, and soul. Eileen is the founder of My Luminous Life and the creator of Unleash Your Inner Witch, a powerful program designed to help spiritually curious women remember their magic and live with more meaning, fulfillment, rest, and joy. She’s passionate about dismantling hustle culture, listening to the bo...

Eileen March is a spiritual coach, energy healer, podcast host, author, and slow-living witch devoted to helping women reclaim their power, reconnect with their bodies, and re-enchant their everyday lives. With a background in both midwifery and religious studies, Eileen bridges the sacred and the practical, weaving together science, spirit, and soul. Eileen is the founder of My Luminous Life and the creator of Unleash Your Inner Witch, a powerful program designed to help spiritually curious women remember their magic and live with more meaning, fulfillment, rest, and joy. She’s passionate about dismantling hustle culture, listening to the bo...

Dana Whitby is the author of The Inner Compass Oracle, a 48-card deck and guidebook designed to help empaths activate their intuition and trust their inner guidance. With a B.A. in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Counseling, Dana began her career in traditional mental health before a spiritual awakening expanded her work into the mystical realms. She has been reading Tarot and Oracle cards since 1999 and is certified in Regression Therapy, Holy Fire Karuna Reiki, and Meditation. Through her readings, teachings, sound healing, and community offerings, Dana helps intuitives witness their shadow, embody their light, and co...

Join us for an inspiring discussion with Madison Murphy Barney, a two-spirit author, doula, and community builder, as she explores the deep wisdom found in mushrooms, navigating life's thresholds, and fostering authentic community care. This episode is a call to reconnect with nature, ancestral knowledge, and each other to create a more sustainable and whole world.

Themes we explore in this conversation:

Danielle Mercurio reads patterns most people can't see; across birth charts, energy fields, spaces, relationships, and business dynamics. A metaphysical and intuitive guide based in Austin, TX, Danielle works at the intersection of astrology, energetic architecture, and pattern recognition; blending astrocartography, feng shui, hypnotherapy, and deep psychic knowing. She hosts The Danielle Mercurio Show, facilitates workshops and retreats, and reaches hundreds of thousands on TikTok and Instagram. She also performs comedy through her one-woman show Does This Make Me Look Spiritual? and Astrology Roasts.

In this episode we dive deep with Danielle and explore:

In this episode, Amber Renee shares her inspiring journey of self-discovery, shedding shame, and reembodying her divine feminine. We delve into her personal stories of awakening, sexual healing, and embracing her authentic power as a witch, priestess, and leader. Tune in for raw insights on motherhood, spirituality, and how to reclaim your true self in a patriarchal world.

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In this episode, Taylar and Amber are joined by Kaytlin Bailey, a passionate sex worker rights advocate, stand up comedian, and notorious old pro. Kaytlin candidly shares personal stories, insights on policy, and her journey through activism for the oldest profession. Your Witches deep dive about the histories, myths, and realities of sex work and witchcraft, exploring their intersections, societal stigmas, and what it truly means to reclaim agency over one's body and story.

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In this episode, we explore the profound journey of embracing spiritual practices, debunking societal misconceptions about witches, and the power of community and activism in shaping collective change. Our guest, Maritza Schäfer, shares her inspiring story from growing up in Chile to becoming a witch and activist in California, highlighting how spirituality and activism intertwine.

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In this heartfelt episode, Stefanie Caponi shares her transformative journey from childhood moves to becoming a renowned astrologer, tarot reader, and author. Dive deep into her story of resilience, shadow work, and embracing the magic within to create a life aligned with true authenticity and purpose.

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This week on Waking Up The Witch, Amber and Taylar sit down with Sadie Olson for a juicy, joy-filled conversation about confidence, magic, and letting your inner witch have some fun.

Sadie shares her journey from growing up Catholic to fully embracing her identity as a witch and psychic medium—one shaped by travel, healing, and deep trust in divine timing. From sacred sites across the globe to the everyday rituals that anchor her, this episode is an invitation to loosen your grip, follow your intuition, and let play be part of your spiritual practice.

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What if connecting with Spirit was less fear… and more fun?

This week on Waking Up The Witch, we’re joined by Barbra Banner, a psychic evidential trance medium who said yes to her gifts later in life—and never looked back. Barbra shares how Spirit shows up through laughter, love, and unmistakable signs, reminding us that the veil is thinner (and friendlier) than we think.

We talk about reincarnation, soul evolution, and the healing that happens when messages from loved ones come through exactly when we need them. This episode is full of warmth, humor...

This week on Waking Up The Witch, Amber and Taylar sit down with the powerful Danielle Crease, a personal trainer and breathwork coach whose story is rooted in survival, embodiment, and radical self-trust.

Danielle shares her journey from a challenging childhood in Miami to a life-altering near-death experience caused by a boating accident—an initiation that cracked her open and reshaped everything she thought she knew about herself, her body, and her purpose. She speaks candidly about navigating depression, reclaiming her strength, and learning how breath, movement, and community became her medicine.

Together, we explore wh...

This week on Waking Up The Witch, Amber and Taylar welcome Mike Mayes, also known as the Blue Collar Astrologer, for a raw and real conversation about authenticity, astrology, and carving your own path.

Mike shares stories from his upbringing in Louisville, Kentucky—shaped by contrasting parental influences, punk rock energy, skate culture, and a father involved in a motorcycle gang. His early life was anything but conventional, and those experiences became the fuel for a winding journey through skateboarding, acting, stand-up comedy, and eventually, astrology.

We talk about what it means to live truthfully, ev...