The "Calling the Quarters" Podcast

Bio: Thorn Mooney  is a Witch of more than twenty years and the high priestess of Foxfire, a traditional Gardnerian coven thriving in the American South. She holds graduate degrees in religious studies and English literature and has worked as a university lecturer, public school teacher, academic journal manager, tarot reader, writer, and musician. Thorn maintains a longstanding YouTube channel, h...

Bio: Linda Raedisch  has been contributing crafts, recipes, and ethnobotanical lore to  Llewellyn's   Herbal Almanac  since 2012. She is the author of  The Old Magic of Christmas  and  The Lore of Old Elfland.  Outside the kitchen, she has special interests in papercrafts, minority languages, and exploring the suburban jungle. You can follow her culinary, crafting, and linguistic adventures on...

Bio: JAMIE MICHELLE WAGGONER (she/her) is a pagan priestess, philosopher, author, and teacher with 25+ years of study and practice. Jamie’s work centers around eclectic theurgic and folk magic, mythology, oracular traditions, trance arts, and liminal rites. Jamie has studied esoteric and occult subjects since 1995. She began her priestess path as a member of the Sisterhood of Avalon for 13 years (...

bio: Ryan Smith has been a practicing Pagan since his teens with over fifteen years of experience in inclusive and anti-racist Heathen spirituality.  He is the author of The Way of Fire & Ice: The Living Tradition of Norse Paganism and Spinning Wyrd: A Journey Through the Nordic Mysteries, has contributed to Bringing Race to the Table: Exploring Racism in the Pagan Community and No Pasaran: An...

Bio: Ivo Dominguez, Jr. has been active in Wiccan and the Pagan community since 1978 and has been teaching since 1982. Ivo is a founding member and former High Priest of Keepers of the Holly Chalice, the first Assembly of the Sacred Wheel coven. He currently serves as one of the Elders of the 14 ASW covens. Ivo has been published in numerous periodicals and is the author of The Four Elements of th...

Bio: Jack Chanek is a Gardnerian Wiccan priest and the author of Qabalah for Wiccans and Tarot for Real Life. His new book, Queen of All Witcheries, looks at modern Goddess worship through a historical lens, exploring the thinkers, movements, and practitioners that shaped how the Goddess is known today. Jack began reading Tarot at eleven years old, and through Tarot he found his way into magic and...

Bio: Kristoffer Hughes Kristoffer Hughes is Chief of the Anglesey Druid Order, a Mount Haemus Scholar, and a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. He is a teacher, writer, workshop leader, and guest speaker at Pagan conferences, camps, and festivals throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, and North America. Kristoffer has also contributed to Welsh and English television and radio. He&#39...

Bio: T. Thorn Coyle worked in many strange and diverse occupations before settling in to write novels. Buy them a cup of tea and perhaps they’ll tell you about it. Author of The Witches of Portland, the Seashell Cove Paranormal Mystery series, the Pride Street Paranormal Cozy Mysteries, The Steel Clan Saga, and The Panther Chronicles, Thorn’s multiple non-fiction books include Sigil Magic for Writ...

H. Byron Ballard, BA, MFA (Asheville, NC) is a western NC native, teacher, folklorist, and writer. 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/CE...

Bio:Judika Illes (pronounced Illis) is an independent scholar, educator, and author of several books of folklore, folkways, and mythology about the subjects of magic, the occult, divination, diverse spiritual traditions, witchcraft, and the paranormal. She is the author of four popular encyclopedias:  The Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells ,  The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft .  The Encyclopedia of...

Bio JD Walker is the vice chancellor of the House of Akasha, a North Carolina pagan group. She is an award-winning author, journalist, and magazine editor as well as a frequent contributor to the Llewellyn annuals. Walker has written a regular garden column for over thirty years, and she is the author of A Witch's Guide to Wildcraft and Under the Sacred Canopy . She resides in Greensboro, Nort...

Bio: A spiritual pioneer, Phyllis Curott is an attorney, writer and one of America’s first public Witches. Her 5 international best-selling books have been published in 14 languages, making her the most widely published Wiccan author. An outspoken advocate in the courts and media, she handled or consulted on groundbreaking cases securing the legal rights of Witches, including cases of child custod...

Bio: Jenay Marontate began learning the secrets of kitchen witchery at an early age from her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Now, she applies her knowledge of herbs, oil, magic, and kitchen witchery to her loose-leaf tea and spice business, Kitchen Witch Gourmet. Here, she infuses tea with magic, wellness, happiness, and love to brew the perfect cup. She also teaches tea leaf reading a...

Bio: * Lisanna Wallace is the author of The Natural Witches Cookbook) Wallace is a nutritional chef and clinical herbalist. Born and raised in New York City. She moved to Paris and splits her time between there and Marthas Vinyard. She is passionate about culinary arts. She always turns to food and plants to treat and heal her pains. She shares her knowledge and her recipes to help everyone live a...

Bio: Laurel Woodward has been a witch for 20 years and is also a tarot reader. She has written for magazines and e-zines on the subjects of healthy living, organic gardening, sustainable living, and the magic of tapping creative energy in Witchery), Her books are Backyard Garden Witchery and Kitchen Witchery. Website: http://laurelwoodward.com/ Books: Kitchen Witchery: https://www.amazon.com/Kitch...

My name is Dean Jones, and I have a new podcast called “Calling the Quarters. This is a series of interviews with authors who identify under the titles of Witchcraft, Paganism and more. Witchcraft is a nature-based pagan religion or folkway loosely constructed under an umbrella of numerous traditions and formal groups. Though rituals and practices vary among people who identify as a Witch, most ri...