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Can you practice witchcraft alone without becoming isolated?
In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles explore the balance between solitary witchcraft and spiritual community. They talk about why a solitary practice can be deeply meaningful while still leaving room for covens, festivals, public rituals, workshops, and other forms of connection.
Together, they unpack the different levels of commitment that witchcraft communities can offer, from initiatory covens and ongoing groups to festivals and one-time classes. They also discuss social anxiety, group dynamics, spiritual growth, shadow work, unhealthy communities, leadership, and how difficult interactions can sometimes reveal important lessons about ourselves.
This is a grounded conversation about finding support without giving up your independence—and recognizing that being a solitary witch does not have to mean walking your path alone. 
A live 90-minute workshop teaching A Living Spell
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Samhainfest is a two-day celebration of witchcraft, folklore, ritual, music, and ancestor reverence, held October 31 to November 1, 2026, in Havre de Grace, Maryland.
Learn more and get tickets at samhainfest.com.
LeandraWitchwood.com A four-week LIVE Business Witch Experience. October 2026 
The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.
Learn more at elysewelles.com/visitgreece
Support the Podcast!
✨FREE Business Witch Grimoire - 5 Business Witch practices with step-by-step guidance. Get your copy: https://leandrawitchwood.com/ 
🔮 July 7, 2026, Rediscovering the Divine Feminine - A Nine-Week Live Online Small Group Immersion that sets you on the Priestess Path. Join HERE- https://leandrawitchwood.com/Rediscovering_Div_Fem_9wk
🌙 Join The Rebel Mystic Coven - a private online coven and academy with FREE monthly online lessons.  Join for free HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/coven
🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com 

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What changes when psychoactive and poisonous plants are approached as spirits and ceremonial allies rather than simply substances?
In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles welcome occult herbalist and author Coby Michael for a candid conversation about plant spirit medicine, psychedelics, ritual entheogens, poisonous plants, and sacred ceremony.
Coby, author of The Poison Path Herbal: Baneful Herbs, Medicinal Nightshades, and Ritual Entheogens, The Poison Path Grimoire, and The Poison Path Oracle, explores the important differences between recreational use, abuse, and spiritual relationship with mind-altering plants. Together, they discuss preparation and intention, surrender during altered states, animism, addiction and recovery, mushroom medicine, cannabis, tobacco, belladonna, and the commercialization of plant medicine.
They also explore how plant spirits can challenge our ideas about consciousness, interconnectedness, imagination, and spiritual transformation.
This conversation is educational and reflective, not an encouragement to use psychoactive or poisonous substances. Approach all plant medicines with appropriate caution, professional guidance, and respect. 
Connect with Coby Michael:
The Poisoner’s Apothecary
A live 90-minute workshop teaching A Living Spell
LeandraWitchwood.com
Samhainfest is a two-day celebration of witchcraft, folklore, ritual, music, and ancestor reverence, held October 31 to November 1, 2026, in Havre de Grace, Maryland.
Learn more and get tickets at samhainfest.com.
LeandraWitchwood.com A four-week LIVE Business Witch Experience. October 2026 
The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.
Learn more at elysewelles.com/visitgreece
Support the Podcast!
✨FREE Business Witch Grimoire - 5 Business Witch practices with step-by-step guidance. Get your copy: https://leandrawitchwood.com/ 
🔮 July 7, 2026, Rediscovering the Divine Feminine - A Nine-Week Live Online Small Group Immersion that sets you on the Priestess Path. Join HERE- https://leandrawitchwood.com/Rediscovering_Div_Fem_9wk
🌙 Join The Rebel Mystic Coven - a private online coven and academy with FREE monthly online lessons.  Join for free HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/coven
🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com 

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🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️
Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free group with weekly live lessons and readings. Join upcoming pilgrimages and container courses here: www.elysewelles.com/2026Immersive...

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What happens when divination moves beyond the tarot table and into relationship with the living world?
In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles welcome Joanna Farrar, author of The Diviner’s Path: A Nature-Led Approach to Divination with Tarot, Runes, and Pendulums, for a rich conversation about divination, animism, omens, and spirit communication.
Joanna explains what divination actually is, how symbolic systems like tarot and runes function as languages, and why observation and pattern recognition are essential when working with signs from birds, weather, animals, and the land. They also explore augury, pendulums, spiritual hygiene, discernment, journaling, fate versus free will, and how to build trustworthy relationships with spirits without surrendering your own agency.
This episode is a grounded guide to making divination more relational, practical, and deeply connected to place.
Connect with Joanna Farrar:
Coffee & Divination
Instagram
A live 90-minute workshop teaching A Living Spell
LeandraWitchwood.com
Samhainfest is a two-day celebration of witchcraft, folklore, ritual, music, and ancestor reverence, held October 31 to November 1, 2026, in Havre de Grace, Maryland.
Learn more and get tickets at samhainfest.com.
LeandraWitchwood.com A four-week LIVE Business Witch Experience. October 2026 
The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.
Learn more at elysewelles.com/visitgreece
Support the Podcast!
✨FREE Business Witch Grimoire - 5 Business Witch practices with step-by-step guidance. Get your copy: https://leandrawitchwood.com/ 
🔮 July 7, 2026, Rediscovering the Divine Feminine - A Nine-Week Live Online Small Group Immersion that sets you on the Priestess Path. Join HERE- https://leandrawitchwood.com/Rediscovering_Div_Fem_9wk
🌙 Join The Rebel Mystic Coven - a private online coven and academy with FREE monthly online lessons.  Join for free HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/coven
🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com 

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🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️
Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free group with weekly live lessons and readings. Join upcoming pilgrimages and container courses here: www.elysewelles.com/2026Immersive...

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How can working with the moon help you slow down, listen to yourself, and create meaningful change?
In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles welcome author and professional witch Jen Sankey to explore lunar magic and her book Manifesting by the Moon. Jen shares how the phases of the moon can become a practical framework for manifestation, tarot, spellwork, rest, reflection, and personal growth.
They explore why the often-overlooked dark moon may be one of the most important phases, how tarot cards can deepen lunar practice, and why manifestation requires more than simply wishing for something. The conversation also moves through shadow work, intuition, authentic desire, hustle culture, moon bathing, Hekate’s Deipnon, and learning to let your spiritual practice ebb and flow.
Rather than chasing perfect rituals or instant results, Jen encourages witches to work with the moon in accessible ways, trust themselves, and remember that done is better than perfect. 
Connect with Jen Sankey:
Visit Stardust Wanderer Tarot
Follow Stardust Wanderer Tarot on Instagram
A live 90-minute workshop teaching A Living Spell
LeandraWitchwood.com
Samhainfest is a two-day celebration of witchcraft, folklore, ritual, music, and ancestor reverence, held October 31 to November 1, 2026, in Havre de Grace, Maryland.
Learn more and get tickets at samhainfest.com.
LeandraWitchwood.com A four-week LIVE Business Witch Experience. October 2026 
The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.
Learn more at elysewelles.com/visitgreece
Support the Podcast!
✨FREE Business Witch Grimoire - 5 Business Witch practices with step-by-step guidance. Get your copy: https://leandrawitchwood.com/ 
🔮 July 7, 2026, Rediscovering the Divine Feminine - A Nine-Week Live Online Small Group Immersion that sets you on the Priestess Path. Join HERE- https://leandrawitchwood.com/Rediscovering_Div_Fem_9wk
🌙 Join The Rebel Mystic Coven - a private online coven and academy with FREE monthly online lessons.  Join for free HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/coven
🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com 

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🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️
Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free group with weekly live lessons and readings. Join upcoming pilgrimages and container courses here: www.elysewelles.com/2026Immersive...

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What does witchcraft look like when your mind needs movement, novelty, flexibility, or a different way into spiritual practice?
Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles welcome Jenny C. Bell, author of Divergent Witchcraft: An Inclusive Approach to Making Magic, for an honest and lively conversation about neurodivergent witchcraft. Together, they explore ADHD, autism, dyslexia, rejection sensitivity, hyperfocus, perfectionism, shame, and the fear of practicing magick “incorrectly.”
Jenny shares accessible alternatives to conventional meditation, including walking, chanting, drawing, dancing, gardening, mala beads, sensory tools, and working inside a private sacred space. They also discuss rotating between magical interests, adapting rituals to your needs, overcoming overwhelm, and recognizing that witchcraft does not require perfect focus, elaborate spells, a flawless altar, or anyone else’s permission.
Your practice can move with your mind instead of forcing your mind to conform to it. 
Learn more:
Visit Jenny C. Bell’s website
Explore Divergent Witchcraft
Join the Our Coven community
A live 90-minute workshop teaching A Living Spell
LeandraWitchwood.com
Samhainfest is a two-day celebration of witchcraft, folklore, ritual, music, and ancestor reverence, held October 31 to November 1, 2026, in Havre de Grace, Maryland.
Learn more and get tickets at samhainfest.com.
LeandraWitchwood.com A four-week LIVE Business Witch Experience. October 2026 
The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.
Learn more at elysewelles.com/visitgreece
Support the Podcast!
✨FREE Business Witch Grimoire - 5 Business Witch practices with step-by-step guidance. Get your copy: https://leandrawitchwood.com/ 
🔮 July 7, 2026, Rediscovering the Divine Feminine - A Nine-Week Live Online Small Group Immersion that sets you on the Priestess Path. Join HERE- https://leandrawitchwood.com/Rediscovering_Div_Fem_9wk
🌙 Join The Rebel Mystic Coven - a private online coven and academy with FREE monthly online lessons.  Join for free HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/coven
🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com 

🌒🌕🌘
🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️
Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free group with weekly live lessons and readings. Join upcoming pilgrimages and container courses here: www.elysewelles.com/2026Immersive...