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What is Witch Camp?
Let your inner-witch out to play! Witch Camp is a FREE year-round offering; my gift to you!
Each equinox and solstice, you’ll receive a new Witch Camp lesson. Plus there will be links to Witch Camp merch (cause everybody wants a Witch Camp t-shirt!). Additionally, each season, you’ll receive an exclusive invitation to a live recording of Maybe Magic where you can ask your favorite authors questions about their witchy ways. Your lesson page will be updated with fresh rituals and reflections, as well as a new study guide, each quarter.
CLICK HERE and join me to flow through the seasons, celebrate the magic, and awaken your inner-witch!
What is Maybe Magic?
Maybe Magic is a video series where I invite authors to sit around the table with me and discuss the myriad of ways we define and use magic in our writing and everyday lives. Check out Maybe Magic here!
Witch Campers get invited to live recordings! Check out Witch Camp (it’s free)!
After each episode, I send my newsletter subscribers as well as Witch Campers an email with our visiting authors’ magical book recommendations. Sign up for the newsletter here!
What advice would you give people just beginning their journey into the magical and mystical?
Trust yourself.
While the work appears to be outward facing, ultimately, it’s inward facing. In order to be a clear channel for energy, you have to keep clearing your own energies, including your feelings and thoughts. Which essentially makes walking a witchy path quite similar to working with a Jungian therapist. When you get to know yourself and your own inner-worlds of thought and emotion intimately, you’ll begin to trust yourself and your own intuition.
Articles to get you started are: This is How I Call Myself Home, 3 Signs You’re Ignoring Your Intuition, and Don’t Pass the Tissues.
What books do you suggest for those beginning a magical path?
The books below had an impact at the beginning of Maia’s journey. They didn’t tell her what to do necessarily, but they got her thinking in new directions. Note that these are all older books and haven’t been revisited lately to see how they hold up to modern sensibilities!
- The Twelve Wild Swans by Starhawk
- Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler
- Herbal Rituals by Judith Berger
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
- Barefoot on Holy Ground by Gloria Karpinski
- Owning Your Own Shadow by Robert Johnson
- Story by Robert McKee
How did you end up an apprentice to a traditional healer in Ireland?
My journey to Ireland was all about serendipity and my willingness to follow the dictates of a dream.
Many ask me how I found my teacher and, also, how they can find theirs. My best advice is to keep your eyes and ears open, but don’t force the river… allow it to flow. Brainstorm, do a Google search on your interests, see what names keep coming up for you… then sleep on it a few times.
To hear me tell my story, skip to the 23 minute mark in the episode of Medicine Stories below.
Do you call yourself a witch?
I prefer to describe myself as witchy… but I suspect this is a difference that is no difference at all! My heart lives at the intersection of the physical world and the spirit world which, when you go back to folk and fairytales, is a crossroads usually inhabited by a woman called witch. Witch has been my awakening, and working with the word has given me a path home to myself.
Read more about my journey with the word witch HERE and dance with the word witch with me in Witch Camp (it’s free)!