Episodes

  • Meditation - Reading Frigga's Loom

    Meditation - Reading Frigga's Loom
    Jun 9 2025
    Reading Frigga's Loom is a meditation that helps you better understand how you are connected with others in the world and your relationship with wyrd, the force that unites and binds all things in existence. It works by using images and symbols of connection to give shape to our relationships with other entities, forces, and institutions.

    Link to the Calming the Sea & Sky meditation

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    11 mins
  • Explainer 17 - Why Fire & Ice?

    Explainer 17 - Why Fire & Ice?
    Jun 6 2025
    Let's talk about why my book, community, and tradition is so much about fire & ice. Join your host for a journey through two of the great cosmic forces of Nordic myth, the dialectics of creation, what ice & fire represent, and more!

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    29 mins
  • Basics of Hexing and Warding Workshop

    Basics of Hexing and Warding Workshop
    Jun 3 2025
    I am teaching an online workshop on Hexing & Warding next week on Tuesday, June 10th! In this class, we'll be covering the basics of offensive and defensive magic, how these techniques can be used for direct action, why they may have more power than ever thanks to the widespread Christian Nationalist belief in spiritual warfare, and more!

    You can register for this and other classes and workshops at the following link:

    https://forms.gle/HWpi18JVyXjPHpkE7
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    2 mins
  • In Their Own Words feat. Malu Reynaud

    In Their Own Words feat. Malu Reynaud
    May 28 2025
    Joining us on the show today is Malu Reynaud! Malu Reynaud is Brazilian and passionate about religion and spirituality. After a change in career teaching and practicing Law, she decided to pursue a master's degree in Religious Studies (University of South Florida), where she is a teaching assistant. She is currently focusing her research on Afro-Brazilian Religions and Spiritism.

    We talk about Brazilian Spiritism, its relationship with Afro-Brazilian faiths like Candomble & Umbanda, the "Pope of Samba" Zeca Pagodinho's open incorporation of spiritism into his music, and more!

    You can find Malu on Insight Timer here: https://insig.ht/vJJTe6odDTb

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    37 mins
  • Episode 48 - Odin

    Episode 48 - Odin
    May 26 2025
    Odin is one of the best-known of all the Nordic Gods. Join your host for a dive into this mysterious, multi-faceted deity who often defies all attempts at definition.

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    53 mins
  • In Their Own Words feat. Mhara Starling

    In Their Own Words feat. Mhara Starling
    May 14 2025
    Joining us on the podcast is Mhara Starling! Mhara was born in North Wales, raised on the Isle of Anglesey, is a native Welsh speaker, and has been practicing witchcraft from a very young age. Mhara is a celebrant and tarot reader who runs moots, gatherings & open rituals. She is the author of Welsh Witchcraft and Welsh Faires, has been featured on the BBC Wales documentary series Young, Welsh and Pretty Religious and is a prolific TikTok video creator.

    We spoke about Welsh folk magic, why Welsh witchcraft is the tradition of cheese, tits, & toads, the myth, folklore, & history of Wales, Cerridwen, and more!

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Meditation - Reaching the Divine

    Meditation - Reaching the Divine
    May 12 2025
    Reaching the divine is a meditation that helps the practitioner establish and reinforce their connections with one of the many Nordic Gods. It works by tapping into the power of names, kennings, and symbols associated with each of the Nordic deities. This meditation and supporting information for it can be found in Ch. 3 of The Way of Fire & Ice.

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    11 mins
  • Explainer 16 - Folk Magic

    Explainer 16 - Folk Magic
    May 7 2025
    Folk magic is easily the most widespread form of magic in human history. Join your host for a discussion of what folk magic is, black vs white magic, developing your own practice, and more!

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    27 mins