Creative Magic

A celebration of Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ iconic book,   Women Who Run With the Wolves   This episode is a magical weaving of extracts and interviews with women about wolves and the Wild Woman archetype, and the impact this book has had on their lives. Full episode available for $3/ month at www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Mini interview: Rachel S. Roberts is the author of  Lupa. She-Wol...

A quick update on what I'm up to between seasons... and what's coming up next Tuesday! NEW FULL EPISODE IS LIVE NOW FOR ALL $3/MONTH+ PATREON SUBSCRIBERS (subscribe now at www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce to grab it for yourself ) A special Creative Magic episode celebrating the most-mentioned book on the podcast over Seasons 1 &2, Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ iconic book, Women Who Run With the Wolves....

About Your Host Lucy H. Pearce is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award silver winners  Medicine Woman, Burning Woman , and  Creatrix: she who makes . Her writing focuses on women’s healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment, historical awareness and creativity. Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, publishing paradigm-shifting bo...

Celeste Larsen, Mage by Moonlight is a pagan witch, ritualist, and facilitator of witchcraft retreats, courses, and workshops. Originally from the US, she is now based in County Cork, Ireland. Her first book, Heal the Witch Wound won a Nautilus Award. https://www.instagram.com/magebymoonlight https://magebymoonlight.com/ We talked about: The difference between witchcraft and magical communities in...

Artist. Illustrator. Intuitive herbalist. Oracle Creator. Incense Maker. Stitch Witch. Traveller on the spirit roads. Dreamer.  Deeply rooted in this ancient landscape of Dartmoor, her work draws heavily on folklore and mythology, and her magical practise ,and explores the deep connection, both physical and spiritual, between people and the land they inhabit.  Her work, in all its thread...

Sarah Napoli, also known as The Woodland Witch, is a folk practitioner, herbalist, house witch and homesteader residing in the mountains of New England with her husband, daughter and fur babies. She owns and operates a digital apothecary known as Folkcraft and Flora Apothecary where she crafts herbal and magical goods for intentional daily living.  www. FolkcraftandFlora.com Instagram.com/the...

Chelan Harkin is a mystical poet whose poems have been shared tens of thousands of times. Her publishing journey is only four years old but her first two books, Susceptible to Light and Let Us Dance!, have been self-publishing successes with sales numbers to be envied by most poets today. Her third book, Wild Grace, published in November 2023 with Monkfish and her most recent The Prophetess was pu...

Justine Aldersey-Williams is a textile activist, speaker and teacher specialising in natural fabric dyeing and regenerative clothing. She hand-dyes textiles at her studio, The Wild Dyery, in Hoylake UK, using many plants grown on her nearby food, fibre and dye allotment and teaches both live and online courses in botanical dyeing techniques. Justine qualified as a teacher in 1998 and has since tau...

Clare Jasmine Beloved is an artist based in Liverpool, UK. She says: “Creating is in my blood and has saved my life over and over – transforming feelings, emotions, life stories, wounds and blocks, dreams and ideas into beauty. My art is awash with large lush goddesses, magic mermaids, sensual sistas, and sacred imagery, symbolism and feelings. The process and the way that I paint and create is ve...

Follow us www.instagram.com/creativemagicpodcast Access extended episodes and bonus content for just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Nicole Barton is a witch on a mission to help Secret Witches - aka secretly magical healers who hide their magic - to live their true destiny by expressing their magic. She does this by helping women to heal themselves, discover their soul map of gifts and hea...

Follow us www.instagram.com/creativemagicpodcast Access extended episodes and bonus content for just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Vanya Leilani is a depth psychologist, writer, teacher and storyteller. Her first book, The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression is out this week from Womancraft Publishing .  She has spent decades exploring the threshol...

Elizabeth Kneafsey, the Wild Wool Shepherdess, creates unique, wild and rugged woven rugs, tanned leather hides and felted sheeprugs with wool harvested from her own flock of organic, heritage breed sheep which conservation graze hay meadows to help support our declining wildlife and improve soil structure. A practitioner of traditional, ancestral skills is now teaching small holders and individua...

Receive bonus content and extended episodes for just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Dee Mulrooney is a multi-disciplinary Irish artist. Inhabiting a female body and all that it entails is the main preoccupation of her work. Exile, class, displacement, social history, longing and belonging are some of the themes explored by Dee, through various media, including painting, drawing, film, storytell...

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Gina Martin is a founding mother and High Priestess of Triple Spiral of Dún na Sidhe, a pagan spiritual congregation in the Hudson Valley, New York State, US. She is a ritualist, teacher, healer, mother, and writer of sacred songs. Gina is a practitioner of Classical Chinese medicine and a Board certified licensed acupuncturist. The author of the When She Wakes trilogy: Sisters of the Solstice Moo...

My guest today is Molly Remer, priestess, mystic, and poet in central Missouri. Molly and her husband Mark co-create   Story Goddesses  at  Brigid’s Grove . Molly is the author of eleven books, including   Walking with Persephone , which I edited and published at Womancraft Publishing,  Whole and Holy ,  Womanrunes , the   Goddess Devotional , and   365 Days...

Access the extended episode at www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Kristin Lisenby is a Storyteller and Word Witch living in the Azores Islands. Inspired by the moon and garden, Kristin writes seasonal stories and reimagined fairy tales for the magically minded. She is the voice behind Little Witch Books and the co-founder of Pointy Hat Press, a publishing house exploring Witchcraft and Paganism through a...

Margaux Jones (AKA MJ) Cullinane is an award-winning Seattle-based artist, writer, mother, and lover of all things magical - especially crows. She attended Parsons School of Design, yet her unique technique for telling stories through digital collage is self-taught and has been her passion for over 10 years. Nature and its creatures are a familiar theme in MJ's work. ​ The Crow Tarot, MJ's fi...

My guest today is Sarah Robinson is the best-selling Womancraft Publishing author of multiple books on magic and witches including: Yoga for Witches (now in French, Chinese, Polish and Farsi), Yin Magic, Enchanted Journeys, The Kitchen Witch Companion, The Witch and the Wildwood and Womancraft Publishing’s fastest selling pre-order ever, Kitchen Witch: food, folklore and fairy tale . A yoga teache...

Alice Grist – Pregnancy as Initiation to Creative Magic – You have to Be Willing to Be Changed Introduced to spirituality from an early age, Alice’s Church of England father turned to Wicca and her journey into modern spirit began. Alice’s work is renowned for providing an earthy and everyday perspective on a spiritual life, making the divine accessible, welcoming and fun to anyone seeking it. Aut...

Rima Staines  is an artist whose work straddles myth, magical realism and the folk arts. Her visual world is an umber and madder-infused chapel of misfits and magicians, story-rich and alchemical. Her paintings, which feel both ancient and familiar at once, have been exhibited and published internationally. In 2018 she was a finalist in the 'Best Artist' category of the World Fantasy awards....

My guest today is Seren Bertrand, an award-winning author on feminine magic and wisdom; a storyteller, spirit keeper and chantress, with a degree in English literature & modern philosophy, who lives in the mountains of Appalachia. She weaves together mythology, spirit vision, symbology, embodied ecology, with feminine philosophy traditions. She is informed by her ancestral lineage of Mam Tor,...

Twenty years ago, Cali White left a corporate career and followed a calling to the healing path. Initially training in psychotherapy, she spent many years immersing herself in the world of psychological and spiritual development and was privileged to find teachers that opened her up to Native American wisdom through Vision Questing, Sweat Lodges, and Shamanic Healing, and then more deeply into rit...

My guest today is Danielle Dulsky is a poet, painter, teacher, and word-witch. The author of Bones & Honey, The Holy Wild Grimoire, The Sacred Hags Oracle, Seasons of Moon and Flame, Woman Most Wild, and The Holy Wild. She teaches internationally and has facilitated circles, embodiment trainings, communal spell-work, and seasonal rituals since 2007. She holds a BA in painting from Arcadia Univ...