By knot of one, the spell’s begun...Blessed be, Witches! This week Lucy goes deep into the second season of A Discovery of Witches, which goes all Outlander on us as Diana and Matthew step back in time - to 1590, to be precise. It’s a feast for the fans of witchy history - alchemist Mary Sidney, The School of Night, Dr John Dee and a host of real-life magickal folks cross paths with our protagonists. Lucy explores real-life weavers, conducts a little how-to on knot magick, explains and explores the Witches Ladder and finds out just how Teresa Palmer (Diana Bishop) found her own elemental magick during the shoot for the show.

The Turn of a Card turns up a question on how to deepen the magick of a coven working from a share house - Lucy explores ways to keep a magickal group fresh, connected, and healthy - as well as how to introduce structure that can really focus your witchcrafting skills while respecting all members’ individual strengths. There are a host of occult-flavoured songs from Stevie Nix (no, it is NOT Rhiannon), the Pretenders and Donovan. A big big thankyou to our sponsors, Kohli Tea, Primal Healing and Blue Angel Publishing, and to the supporters who make the heart of this podcast beat into being every Friday - Patreon family, you are the best! And big thanks as always to Shayne Brian for his sound magick!

Songs:

• Sorcerer - Stevie Nicks (featuring Sheryl Crowe)
• Hymn to Her - the Pretenders
• Season of the Witch - Donovan

As always huge gratitude and love and thanks to all the Lucy Cavendish Patreon supporters, and to all the keen listeners who’ve written in, and to Talented Producer Shayne for making Lucy’s kitchen sound like a magickal recording studio! 

A HUGE THANKYOU to all the Witchcast sponsors – Naomi Manouge at Primal Healing, Blue Angel Publishing, Kohli Tea (having a cuppa right now) and if you would like to become a sponsor of the Witchcast, just head to Lucy’s Patreon page to see how to make this happen!

The intro music is "We Are One" by the band Nordic Daughter. Find the band on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nordicdaughter/

Or visit their website - http://nordicdaughter.com

Music throughout the show includes tracks from Darksphere EmpireDownload the Darksphere Empire album here - https://darksphere-empire.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-rain

Blessed be and welcome to the first soul to soul: connected conversation of 2021. Which is the one when two witches, namely Lucy, namely the legendary Fiona Horne, get together and get very intense about their shared love of sea witchery, the passions and pitfalls of growing up magickally, and how fate works its magick in the times of Covid. It’s a very loose magickal conversation and it is completely frank, and we both get into territory that we think you’ll relate to - and some that could be triggering as we discuss abuse, overcoming shame, and how trauma shaped us for so many years. There’s a lot to discuss, a lot to move through, and a lot for Fiona to share - as her experiences have led to a book called Teen Witch, which hopes to empower young people (and the young at heart) with magick, ritual, spellcasting, and ways to really, really get comfortable in your own witchy skin. It’s a great, burning, raw conversation, inspiring, warm, open and very very real, and we both hope you’ll love it. Fiona is touring the country both in person and virtually all throughout March so go to her website www.fionahorne.com or to her socials to find out when and where you can connect with her, and her insightful perspective on how to help raise healthy, magickal people. Honestly, if you have teenagers, you MUST listen to this episode.

Music this week is in the form of a track from her Def FX Days - I'll be Your Magick and a very tantalising sneak peek for Fiona’s new recordings with her new band, Seawitch. The song is Initiation and the lyrics are drawn from Fiona’s Book of Shadows. It’s heavy, gorgeous, and powerful pagan rock.

As always huge gratitude and love and thanks to all the Lucy Cavendish Patreon supporters, and to all the keen listeners who’ve written in, and to Talented Producer Shayne for making Lucy’s kitchen sound like a magickal recording studio! 

A HUGE THANKYOU to all the Witchcast sponsors – Naomi Manouge at Primal Healing, Blue Angel Publishing, Kohli Tea (having a cuppa right now) and if you would like to become a sponsor of the Witchcast, just head to Lucy’s Patreon page to see how to make this happen!

The intro music is "We Are One" by the band Nordic Daughter. Find the band on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nordicdaughter/ Or visit their website - http://nordicdaughter.comMusic throughout the show includes tracks from Darksphere EmpireDownload the Darksphere Empire album here - https://darksphere-empire.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-rain

Merry Meet Again! We are back, and there’s so much to share! Enter the Circle and get comfy, Witches, as we enter magickal season three of the Witchcast. Lucy discusses the healing power of listening and sharing, tackles some tricky esoteric questions about how we treat our physical selves and the power of being body positive, and shares how she stays grounded when compelling false narratives sweep through the spiritual communities. Lucy’s been book-witching throughout the southern hemisphere summer so she shares her fave enchanting books from solstice season, wonders why she couldn’t get through The Winx Saga, gets excited about a movie based on Sutton Hoo and old-school archeology, and delves into the legendary Paris fashion house who’s based their latest collection around an arcane 15th century Tarot. Aaand there’s a very ah-ha moment kind of story for Witches who’ve been paying attention to how the moon influences their sleep patterns – because yes, science is playing catch up – and the studies read like a magickal manuscript.

Gorgeous pagan music this episode: Black Snake by Wendy Rule from the album Black Snake; Lughnasad by Damh the Bard from the album Herne’s Apprenctice, and Into the Green by Spiral Dance from the Woman of the Earth album.

So much love to all the Lucy Cavendish Patreon supporters, to all the lovely listeners who’ve written in, and to Producer Shayne for making Lucy’s kitchen sound like a recording studio! 

And thankyou to all the Witchcast sponsors – Naomi Manouge at Primal Healing, Blue Angel Publishing, Kohli Tea (having a cuppa right now) and if you would like to become a sponsor of the Witchcast, just head to Lucy’s Patreon page to see how to make this happen!

The intro music is "We Are One" by the band Nordic Daughter. Find the band on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nordicdaughter/ Or visit their website - http://nordicdaughter.comMusic throughout the show includes tracks from Darksphere EmpireDownload the Darksphere Empire album here - https://darksphere-empire.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-rain