The Blackthorn Grove

Sponsored by Amy Blackthorn School of Magic . Beck Ravenswood is back to update us on the ongoing lawsuit over their police interaction that led to the lawsuit hoping to abolish the 1863 law against 'fortune telling' for 'gain or lucre.' Beck owns The Serpent's Key Shoppe and Sanctuary in Hanover PA and welcomes the whole community, including Christian neighbors into their shop...

From the cultural, colonial, and maritime lore of New England comes a new set of oracle decks, steeped in the tea of our ancestors:  The Lantern  by Laura Tempest Zakroff. These hand-painted images by the artist and author glimmer with magic from the land and its spirits, as well as the spirits of the sea. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lapanthere/the-lantern This episode sponsored by Blackt...

Jen Sankey is an author, professional witch, teacher, and speaker. She has over thirty years of experience reading tarot and being an energetic healer. Visit her at  StardustWandererTarot.com  and  Instagram.com/StardustWandererTarot . Manifesting by the Moon: A Guide to Lunar Magic Paperback – February 8, 2026 by   Jen Sankey   (Author),  Lorriane Anderson   (Foreword) 5.0  5.0 out of 5 stars   ...

About the Author Dina Rosenberg is the co-owner of Amityville Apothecary and The Athenaeum at Amityville Apothecary, alongside her business partner Danielle Deacy. Dina and Danielle offer a thoughtfully curated selection of metaphysical products and experiences—ranging from crystals, meditation tools, and ritual supplies to tarot and oracle readings, classes, and transformative events. You can con...

Sponsored by Amy Blackthorn, Author (amyblackthorn.as.me) Queer Rites by Enfys J. Book: Embrace Your Personal Power with 20 Queer-Specific Rituals Queer people go through all kinds of unique milestones and rites of passage as we grow into our true selves. Whether you are coming out, attending your first Pride parade, or changing your pronouns, this book will help you enter these rites of passage t...

"Imposter syndrome is the human's natural predator." -Lauren Parker Spells for Success: Deck and Guidebook 40 Spells to Set Intentions and Manifest Everyday Wins by Lauren Parker Sponsored by Amy Blackthorn Intuitive (https://amyblackthorn.as.me/schedule/5eacb6fa) Lauren Parker stops by the Podcast to talk about growing up on the move, "My hometown is the back of a station wagon." After you listen...

Edited by Cassandra Snow. (Cassandra-Snow.com) Cassandra is a professional tarot card reader, and teacher, writer, and theather maker in Minneapolis, MN. Cassandra's writing focuses on tarot, paganism, arts journalism, queer lifestyle and personal storytelling. They are the author of Queering the Tarot and Queering your Craft: Witchcraft from the Margins and co-authored Lessons from the Empres...

In this episode I'll be answering listener emails! BlackthornGrovePodcast@gmail.com to submit your questions. Podcast sponsored by Blackthorn's Botanicals. Tea of the day: The White Witch (of Narnia), for an almond black tea, with cream and ginger. Topics discussed today: - Where does Witchcraft live? -Brief discussion of tarot -How Witchcraft works Agency. -How to write a spell Example: S...

Diana Rajchel, author of Hex Twisting: Countermagick Spells for the Irritated Witch, stopped by the podcast to talk the nature of curses! DianaRajchel.com Sponsored by AmyBlackthorn.com

Food has the power to nourish both our bodies and our spirits. The Kitchen Witch’s Culinary Oracle Deck harnesses this spiritual nutrition to provide guidance and inspiration from the foods and tools already in your home.  With recipe suggestions and simple spells, these 50 cards invite you to go beyond divination and to harness the power of food to nourish and energize. Come learn about the diffe...

Crystals for Psychic Self-Defense: 145 Gemstones for Banishing, Binding, and Magickal Protection Paperback – A full-color guide to protection, cleansing, and countermagick with crystals • Presents magickal techniques with crystals for warding off harmful energies, binding, and curse breaking, including crystal grids, amulets, spells, and rituals • Explains how to discern the symptoms of psychic at...

Blackthorn's Protection Magic contains a 13,000 word escape and evasion course that includes how to evade a stalker, escape kidnapping, lose a tail and make it home safely. Take care of each other.

LTZ: Artist, Author, Witch. An artist, author, and fusion bellydance performer, Rhode Island-based Renaissance Witch Laura Tempest Zakroff is a simmering cauldron of talents and projects. They stopped by. TBG to talk about their work, Templefest shenanigans, book recs and more! https://lauratempestzakroff.com/ Stuff discussed in this episode includes: Adobe Fresco app Blackfeather Mystery School:...

Over Labor Day weekend (US) I was the keynote speaker for Templefest, put on by the amazing members of the Temple of Witchcraft. The lovely CD offered to record the speech and it is offered here for your listening enjoyment. I 100% endorse anyone attending Templefest and hope you find it as loving and inclusive as I did. Blackthorn's Book of Sacred Plant Magic is available now, wherever fine b...

Beck Lawrence (they/them) lunar witch, and polytheist, is battling an unjust law in the state of Pennsylvania, making it illegal to read tarot or engage in 'fortune telling' activities. This is their story. Please feel free to sign the petition to overturn this archaic law. https://www.change.org/p/challenge-the-constitutionality-of-pennsylvania-title-18-section-7104

Davezilla  became in 2001 the first blogger to be sued by a billion-dollar company (he won). Because of this, there is a Davezilla Wikipedia page and Dave has the dubious distinction of being a verb in the Urban Dictionary. He is a Gardnerian witch (initiated 1979), Discordian (hot dogs on Fridays), Ngangalero (initiated 1993), Santero (initiated 2006), and full-time illustrator. He prefers to pai...

Sabrina  is a teacher, diviner, writer, and coach. Over the last 40 years, she's developed her own system of reading and teaching tarot using round tarot cards. She's an Elder in the Blue Star Tradition of Wicca who also practices Buddhism, and a graduate of the Gryphon’s Grove School of Shamanism.  In a former life, Sabrina was a social scientist who loved being a professor. During her ac...

Jamie Anderson said, “Grief is just love with no place to go.” Today we hear from three experts on grief in their chosen fields and discuss how it applies to the witchcraft community. Lulu - @thesalemplantwitch on TT. Runs a therapeutic group for witches in berevement. Mortellus @acrowandthedead on Insta. Author of 'Do I Have to Wear Black? Rituals, Customs and Funerary Etiquette for Modern Pa...

“A beautiful blend of folklore, botanical science, acquired wisdom, and spiritual guidance.” —from the foreword by Luisah Teish Stephanie Rose Bird  is a painter and the author of several bestselling books on earth spirituality, hoodoo, and anthropology, including  Sticks, Stones, Roots and Bones; 365 Days of Hoodoo; Light, Bright and Damned Near White;  and  African American Magick.  Bird, who ho...

Deborah Castellano is author of 'Glamour Magic: The Witchcraft Revolution to Get What You Want' and 'Magic for Troubled Times: Rituals, Recipes and Real Talk for Witches' along with an assortment of short erotica pieces published by Cleis Press. She is an independent maker of ritual perfumes and other fineries and active in her local chosen communities. https://www.deborahcastellan...

The delightful Thumper Forge @fivefoldlaw has stopped by to to talk about divination, and their lithomancy/geomancy practice and other fun things along the way!

In this episode recorded March 2022, Devin Hunter from Modern Witch dot com interviews Amy. https://modernwitch.com/

Join The Blackthorn Grove in welcoming Victoria Laurie, author of the Psychic Eye Mysteries, as well as several other amazing series to talk about life as an author, questions she gets as a Medium, and how to balance it all and get words on the page! Sponsored by Blackthorn's Botanicals tea shop.

This episode features an hour-long summer thunderstorm on the east coast of the United States recorded by our hostess Amy Blackthorn at her home in Delaware. Episode sponsored by Blackthorn’s Botanicals tea shop.

Join Amy in exploring the steps needed to get your book idea to be seen by the traditional publishers in our niche. Important: This is my personal experience, I don't speak for any publisher. I'm not available to read manuscripts.