Coffee & Divination

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined by author, teacher, editor, and longtime professional Kitchen Witch Rachel Patterson for a wonderfully practical conversation about divination, creativity, and what happens when we allow our magical practices to evolve and change over time. Rachel has written more than thirty books on witchcraft, folk magic, plants, food, divination, deity work, and eve...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined by Lonnie Scott - Heathen practitioner, author, paranormal investigator, and longtime host of Weird Web Radio. This was a really interesting, wide-ranging conversation, talking through chaos magic, the runes, paranormal investigation and much more. Lonnie shares how his tarot practice has evolved over the years, and how Heathen cosmology (including Frey...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Coffee and Divination, I’m joined by Amy Blackthorn: award-winning author, professional intuitive, Witch, aromatherapist, and longtime teacher whose work brings together magical plants, horticulture, divination, and traditional Witchcraft. Amy is the author of numerous books, including Blackthorn’s Botanical Magic, Sacred Smoke, Blackthorn’s Protection Magic, an...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Coffee and Divination, I’m joined once again by Irene Glasse — Heathen Witch, teacher, author, and spiritworker. Irene is the co-author, with Caine Dreamwalker, of the newly released Foundations of Witchcraft: A Blackfeather Mystery School Training Manual, from Crossed Crow Books, as well as Blackfeather Mystery School: The Magpie Training. She is also a contrib...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Coffee and Divination, I’m joined by Deborah Lipp — author, Witch, High Priestess, tarot reader, and teacher who has been practicing and teaching Wicca, magic, and occult subjects for more than forty years. Deborah is the author of numerous books on Witchcraft, ritual, magical practice, tarot, and polarity, including The Elements of Ritual , Tarot Interactions ,...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Coffee and Divination, I'm joined by Leandra Witchwood — modern witch, wortcunner, herbalist, author, teacher, and founder of The Magick Kitchen podcast. Leandra's work brings together witchcraft, herbalism, plant-spirit relationships, shadow work, divination, and decades of magical practice. She is a Master Herbalist and Reiki Master, and through The...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Coffee and Divination, I'm joined once again by Dr. Gwendolyn Reece — Pagan priestess, Theosophist, librarian, and author of "The Waters of Mnemosyne: Ancient Greek Religion for Modern Pagans"  This time, we go deeper into Neoplatonism: what it actually is, how the gods fit into a monistic cosmos, and what any of that has to do with recognizing an...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined once again by John Michael Greer, this time to discuss his newest Aeon Books volume, The Magical Writings of W. B. Yeats. Together, we discuss Yeats as a poet, magician, and highly-trained occult philosopher, with a special focus on the original 1925 edition of his great work, A Vision. We talk about George Yeats and the automatic writing that helped sh...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined by Isaac Hill — occultist, astrologer, musician, gardener, and co-host of the always-fascinating Plant Cunning Podcast. Isaac lives on an herb farm in Central New York State with his wife, AC, and together they have interviewed some of the most important herbalists, occultists, astrologers, and permaculturists working today. He is also the author of The...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I welcome Kimberly Steele, author of Sacred Homemaking: A Magical Approach to a Tidier Home. Kimberly’s work invites us to approach the home as a living, ensouled place — one shaped by gratitude, attention, care, and relationship. We talk about her path from tarot into Druidry, why she wrote Sacred Homemaking as a practical entry point for people returning to spir...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I welcome my friend and returning guest Ivy Bromius of Circle Thrice back to the show. Ivy and I have known each other for a number of years, and her work brings together a wonderfully unusual - and extremely useful -combination of professional project management, practical enchantment, and magical timing through tarot and other divinatory arts. We begin with risk...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I welcome my friend Beck Ravenswood to the show - witch, tarot reader, and owner of The Serpent’s Key Shoppe in Hanover, PA. Beck shares the story of discovering tarot as a teenager, receiving the dream that helped inspire The Serpent’s Key, and creating a thriving, interfaith community space devoted to magic, education, and connection. We also discuss the legal f...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Coffee and Divination , I welcome author, witch, educator, and biological scientist Sian Sibley for a fascinating conversation on plant spirits, pagan ecology, animism, geomancy, and ethical magical practice. We explore what it means to truly treat plants, stones, incense, trees, and the land itself as living beings in relationship with us — and why that changes...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined once again by Dr. Alexander Cummins — historian of magic, diviner, and teacher of early modern cunning craft—for a deep and grounded conversation on working with spirits as allies in magical and divinatory practice. Together, we explore what it really means to work with ancestral practitioners—the spirits of the magical dead—and how these relationships...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined by the brilliant Laura Tempest Zakroff — artist, author, performer, and modern Traditional Witch, whose work sits at the crossroads of art, embodiment, divination, and magic.  We discuss Laura’s newest book, Tarot by Tempest: Playing with Numbers, Meaning & Movement , and why play is a vital part of divination: it's often the doorway back into...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined by Solomon Pakal - founder of the Mayan Mystery School, historian, and longtime occult practitioner - for a conversation on astrology, tarot, and the depth of Maya traditions of magic and divination. We speak about his perspective on tarot, the importance of understanding divination within a larger cultural and cosmological framework, and the vastness o...

Send us Fan Mail My guest in this episode is Ethony Dawn—author, professional tarot reader, and teacher, known for her clear, supportive approach to helping readers build confidence and consistency with the cards. In this conversation, we keep things practical and accessible as we talk about how to learn tarot well: building real skill through repetition and reflection, learning to trust what you’...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined once again by Ivo Dominguez Jr. prolific author and long-time leader in the modern occult community. We’re discussing the newly updated, re-released edition of his book Spirit Speak: A Comprehensive Guide to Connect Beyond the Veil , and what it offers practitioners seeking clear, safe, grounded methods of spirit contact for divination and magical work....

Send us Fan Mail My guest in this episode is Thumper Forge , a Chaos Witch, Gardnerian High Priest, writer, and diviner from Houston, Texas. Thumper is the author of The Chaos Apple: Magic & Discordianism for the Postmodern Witch (Llewellyn), and it was a delight to have them on the show! In this conversation, we explore Chaos Magic in real life - how to think with paradigms, work with gods an...

Send us Fan Mail My guest in this episode is Mhara Starling , a Welsh folk Witch raised on the Isle of Anglesey. Mhara is a fantastic speaker, teacher, and author, and I met her for the first time at the Sacred Space conference this past year. It was wonderful to have her on the show! In this conversation, we focused on Welsh Fairy lore and practices, and how that living tradition of relationship...

Send us Fan Mail Author, teacher, and Druid priest Kristoffer Hughes joins JoAnna to explore the living current of Awen: how song, poetry, and art become vessels for spiritual knowing—and how the currents of awen can inform divination in real, grounded practice. We also discuss Welsh Druidry as a living tradition, and tarot as a vibrant, constantly evolving language. If this conversation resonates...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Coffee and Divination, I’m joined by Dr. Gwendolyn Reece: Pagan priestess, theosophist, witch, and author of "The Waters of Mnemosyne." We discuss her wonderful new book, her work leading sacred pilgrimages to Greece, and her role in fostering deep spiritual community through ritual, scholarship, and devotion. Our discussion touched on sacred memory in...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I'm joined once again by author and esoteric scholar Peter Mark Adams, whose newest work - Ritual and Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras: The Secret Cult of Saturn in Imperial Rome - offers a profound look into one of the most enigmatic mystery traditions of the ancient world. We explore the sacred cosmology of Mithras, the structure and symbolism of the cu...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, it was wonderful to speak with my friend and fellow Priestess, Elyse Welles. Elyse is a Witch, sacred travel leader, and the author behind Seeking Numina . Elyse is also the co-host of the Magick Kitchen Podcast , a top spirituality podcast where she shares wisdom on Witchcraft, ritual, and more. In today's episode, we talked about the act of pilgrimage to an...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, our guest is Witch and Heathen priestess Irene Glasse. Irene is a teacher, tarot reader, oracular trance practitioner, musician with the Pagan band Kindred Crow, and a powerful ritualist and community leader based in Western Maryland. She serves as president of Frederick CUUPS, and is on the board of the Sacred Space Foundation. I had the pleasure of meeting Irene...