Rachel is an English witch who has been walking the Pagan pathway for over thirty years. She is a working wife and mother who has been lucky enough to have had over 30 books published, some of them bestsellers. Her passion is to learn and she loves to study and research using books, online resources, schools and wonderful mentors. She’s learned a lot over the years and still continues to learn each and every day, but she has learned the most from actually getting outside and practicing her craft. Also, Rachel likes to like to laugh … and eat cake…

It is Rachel’s great pleasure to give talks to Pagan groups and co-run open rituals and workshops run by the Kitchen Witch Coven. She is also High Priestess of the Kitchen Witch Coven and an Elder at the online Kitchen Witch School of Natural Witchcraft. She’s also the host of the Pagan Portal Podcast which airs regular on the usual podcast platforms.

Rachel is also a columnist with Fate & Fortune magazine, and a contributor to several magazines such as Pagan Dawn and Witchcraft & Wicca. You can find her regular ramblings on her personal blog and YouTube channel.

Rachel’s craft is a combination of old religion witchcraft, Wicca, hedge witchery, kitchen witchery and folk magic. Her heart is that of an English Kitchen Witch. Finally, in 2023 she was listed in the Watkins Mind, Body, Spirit magazine’s “Spiritual 100.”

SUPPORT: You can purchase Rachel’s books or sign up for one of her classes at rachelpatterson.co.uk and a whole host of goodies from personal readings to spell kits to t-shirts at kitchenwitchhearth.net

FOLLOW: You can find and follow Rachel online at her website, on Instagram @racheltansypatterson, and on Facebook @rachelpattersonbooks and @kitchenwitchuk.

LISTEN: Watch/Listen to the Pagan Portal Podcast on YouTube at youtube.com/thepaganportal or your favorite audio streaming platform.

Falcon River is an ordained Dianic Priestess of the Guardian Path, dedicated to a magical partnership model that collaborates with other ritual facilitators to insure a safe and powerful ritual experience for participants. She has helped create and support women’s ritual circles since 1976 and is passionately committed to teaching practical energetic and magical skills for daily life. In 1999, Falcon co-founded Temple of Diana with Ruth Barrett, where she taught on the core faculty for The Spiral Door Women’s Mystery School of Magick and Ritual Arts for fifteen years. Falcon grew up in the Appalachian mountains of southern West Virginia, climbing the trees and crawling into every cave she could find. As a child, she was trained in traditional folk magic and medicine by her family elders. In her early 30s, Falcon studied and apprenticed intensively with Dr. Dawna Markova, author of The Open Mind, a body of work dealing with perceptual learning modalities. Falcon also studied for several years with Linda Tellington-Jones and Robin Hood, learning the Tellington Touch/TEAM Techniques for working with horses and other companion animals in their healing and training. For more than 30 years, she was a professional bodyworker, healer, and clairvoyant working with animals and people. Falcon is also a storyteller, a traditional archer and has brought “Amazon Archery” to women’s festivals and Pagan gatherings for decades as a tool for empowerment. She continues to teach online, do healing work, leather crafting and woodworking from her home with wife, Ruth Barrett in Michigan. Falcon has been teaching the Elder Futhark runes for about 40 years, bringing a female-centered perspective to her students online and at festivals nationally.

Falcon River was a major interviewee for Baby, You’re My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall, by Marie Cartier, Ph.D., (2013, Routledge) She was also an interviewee for Ruth Barrett’s Women’s Rites, Women’s Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation (3rd Edition, Tidal Time Publishing, LLC, 2018). She contributed a chapter entitled “The Bathroom” to the anthology, Female Erasure: What You Need To Know About Gender Politics’ War On Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights (Tidal Time Publishing, 2016) She is also included in Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, editor Barbara J. Love (2006).

SUPPORT: Shop Falcon’s Etsy store: etsy.com/shop/DancingTreeLeather

FOLLOW: You can find Falcon online at guardiansofthegrove.org and templeofdiana.org

Dawn Morningstar is an award-winning author, women’s self-empowerment coach, podcast host, educator, TEDx Speaker, former radio talk show host and devoted advocate for women’s self-empowerment. Dear to her heart is being co-founder of New World Women, a global women's self-empowerment sisterhood. She's also the creator of the amazing Facial Serum 18. Since her book “Venerable Women: Transform Ourselves, Transform the World” was published in 2016, Dawn has spoken to groups of women over 1,500 times. After coaching women for 37 years, Dawn founded Venerable Women in 2013 and then co-founded New World Women with Mecca Page and Shawn Vougeot in 2020.

SUPPORT: You can support Dawn’s work by purchasing a copy of her book, Venerable Women: Transform Ourselves, Transform the World, her product, Facial Serum 18, and by becoming a member of New World Women.

FOLLOW: You can find Dawn online at Facebook and Instagram @newworldwomen_sisterhood

LISTEN: Listen to the New World Women podcast, Collaboration is Queen

Michele Rae is a Transformational Intuitive Coach and Spiritual Teacher, founder of The Center Within, author of Living From the Center Within: Co-Creating Who You Are Becoming, graduate faculty at University of California Irvine, and luminary in New World Women. She offers guidance, coaching, and classes for individuals and groups as we navigate through accelerated changes and opportunities during this emerging new era. She believes we are co-creating a world that supports flourishing for all beings. It is time for every person to realize their full potential. Working with Michele accelerates and amplifies her clients’ natural process of becoming their most empowered authentic multidimensional self.

SUPPORT: You can support Michele’s work by purchasing a copy of her book, Living From the Center Within: Co-Create Who You Are Becoming, subscribe to her newsletter at centerwithin.com, take a class centerwithin.com/courses, or sign up for coaching sessions centerwithin.com/consultation.

FOLLOW: You can find Michele online at Facebook @centerwithin, Instagram @michelerae and LinkedIn

LISTEN: Listen to her recorded teachings and podcasts centerwithin.com/recordings

Ruth Barrett is an acknowledged feminist spirituality foremother, ordained Dianic High Priestess, seasoned ritualist, educator, author, and a musician whose numerous recordings beginning in 1980 have been among the pioneering musical works in the U. S. Goddess Spirituality Movement. She is author of Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation (Expanded 3rd Edition), and has contributed to other anthologies celebrating goddess spirituality including Stepping Into Ourselves: An Anthology of Writings of Priestesses, Elders and Visionaries: Foremothers of the Women’s Spirituality Movement, Female Erasure: What You Need To Know About Gender Politics’ War On Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights, and Women In World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History. Ruth and her life partner Falcon River co-founded the Temple of Diana, Inc. (www.templeofdiana.org). Ruth has taught at conferences and festivals nationally and internationally, and currently teaches online classes on a variety of witchy topics through her Temple of Diana branch, Guardians of the Grove.

SUPPORT: To take a class or workshop, register for a pilgrimage to Crete, schedule a private consultation, or apply to the Spiral Door Mystery School, visit guardiansofthegrove.org

FOLLOW: You can find Ruth online at guardiansofthegrove.org, dancingtreemusic.org, templeofdiana.org, and the-spiral-door-mystery-school.org.

Natalie Bovis is a freelance lifestyle writer, cat mom to five feisty felines, and enthusiast of all things fantastical, historical, and mythological. She has an English mum and French dad but grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a place renown for being a magical energy vortex and refuge for artists of all kinds. Natalie is an animal advocate, kitten fosterer, and fundraiser for rescue organizations. Her hobbies include hiking, traveling, and vegetarian cooking. Natalie also produces culinary events and cultural vacation yoga retreats in the U.S. and Europe. She is the author of several mixology books, including Drinking with My Dog and Cocktails with My Cat.

But Natalie doesn’t just write about mixology! Today, we’ll be talking about Natalie’s new book and oracle deck, Cat Gods, Goddesses, Deities and Demons, which will be released in April. In this gorgeously illustrated collection, you’ll discover 51 of the most common and not-so-common cat gods, goddesses, deities, and demons from around the world and how to incorporate their Divine Feline Energy into your daily life. You’ll meet 51 feline deities and demons from four geographical families around the world—Africa, Americas, Asia, and Europe. You’ll also encounter mystical cats who work in alliance with human gods and goddesses. The feline entities come from different eras and cultures all over the world. Some are angelic guides, and others, demonic adversaries, but all play a role in our understanding of feline deities and why they became to be so. Learn all about these sacred godlike creatures, including what they look like, what they symbolize, and how you can use their spirit and ancient wisdom to tap into your own Divine Feline Energy.

GUIDEBOOK

Throughout time, felines have played a sacred role in human life. Archeologists have found cat remains buried with humans as far back as the tenth millennium BCE in Cyprus, and the Greek goddess Hecate is said to have regularly assumed the form of a cat. Hieroglyphics tell us that ancient Egyptians worshipped cat gods, and their queen Cleopatra had a kitty companion in her palace whom she called Tivali. A Chinese cat goddess called Li Shou is said to have protected farmers from mice, and Ai Apaec was a pre-Inca god with fangs and whiskers said to have descended from an even more ancient cat god.

This book is more than a guide to ancient cat gods. It’s an exploration of the way humans have observed, interacted with, learned from, and revered another species who share the Earth with us. Ancient folklore is rife with examples of animal cunning and compassion, and many humans invoked other species as spiritual guides or flat out worshipped them as gods. Arguably, cats are the most intriguing of animals because of how we can relate to them. Much like us, they are free spirits and adaptable survivors. We admire them for their dignity, independence, and ferocity.

In this gorgeously illustrated guidebook, you’ll meet 51 feline deities and demons from four geographical families around the world—Africa, Americas, Asia, and Europe. You’ll also encounter mystical cats who work in alliance with human gods and goddesses. The feline entities come from different eras and cultures all over the world. Some are angelic guides, and others, demonic adversaries, but all play a role in our understanding of feline deities and why they became to be so. Learn all about these sacred godlike creatures, including what they look like, what they symbolize, and how you can use their spirit and ancient wisdom to tap into your own Divine Feline Energy.

SUPPORT: To purchase Natalie’s mixology books or to pre-order your copy of Cat Gods, Goddesses, Deities and Demons, visit theliquidmuse.com

FOLLOW: You can find Natalie at her website, theliquidmuse.com and on Instagram @theliquidmuse.

Sara Aranel is an anthropologist by degree and by heart. She has been forever fascinated and inspired by the depths and complexity of human existence. She's been walking her spiritual path since her mid-teens and has always balanced her spiritual self with her curious rational mind.

As a teacher and organizer of women's circles, she experienced firsthand how important this balance is for people. In a safe space where all aspects of our being are supported, people can relax as they feel safe, and in that state, they start healing.

For a little over a decade, Sara has been exploring the wisdom of the cycles of nature through the teachings of our ancient ancestral heritage. Turns out that they knew much about how to navigate our human life in different periods of a yearly cycle so that one doesn't burn out but builds a fulfilling life.

FOLLOW: You can find and follow Sara online @aranelsara on Instagram and Facebook.

Kori Hahn is the author of the newly released book, "A Temple of Her Own." which is not an ordinary self-help book. This book is a mix of memoir, spirituality and travel narrative which dives into the mythological world of ancient Hindu goddesses while seeing the ways to use these stories to embody their “superwoman” powers into a woman’s moder day life.

Kori is a dedicated yoga and meditation teacher, an avid surfer, an adventurous traveler, and a passionate writer living in the serene surroundings of Bali with her son. She has devoted her life to exploring the depths of self-discovery and fostering spiritual growth, both for herself and for those she teaches.

Her debut book, "Rituals of the Soul," beautifully unpacks the significance of yoga and daily rituals, presenting them in an accessible and engaging manner. This book has resonated deeply within the yoga community, selling thousands of copies and earning widespread acclaim for its insightful and practical approach.

Kori is thrilled to introduce her latest work, "A Temple of Her Own: Unfiltered Confessions of One Woman’s Self-Love Adventure." This new book delves into her personal journey of transformation and self-love, offering candid insights and heartfelt guidance for those on their own paths to spiritual and personal growth.

Introduction to "A Temple of Her Own"

Prepare to embark on a transformative journey with Kori in her new book, "A Temple of Her Own: Unfiltered Confessions of One Woman’s Self-Love Adventure." This compelling narrative delves deep into the power of self-love and spiritual autonomy.

Traveling through the mystical landscapes of India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia, Kori visited numerous Hindu goddess temples, absorbing their ancient mythologies and timeless wisdom. Through these experiences, she discovered a profound path to greater self-appreciation and began to see herself as a modern-day superwoman and goddess.

In "A Temple of Her Own," Kori guides readers to find their inner sanctuary, offering a heartfelt exploration of how women, in particular, can reclaim their spiritual autonomy and cultivate lives filled with meaning and fulfillment. This book is more than a memoir; it's an invitation to embrace your inner strength and create a sacred space where you can truly thrive.

FOLLOW: You can find Kori online, take her self-love course, or book a Yoga retreat in Sri Lanka or India at korihahn.com, and follow her on social media at Instagram, Facebook, and Substack.

BUY THE BOOK: Get your copy of A Temple of Her Own: Unfiltered Confessions of One Woman’s Self-Love Adventure at korihahn.com/templeofherown

LISTEN: You can find Kori’s podcast, The Soul Sessions, on Spotify, iTunes, and most other popular pod streaming platforms.

D’vorah Grenn, Ph.D is a Yoreshet, lineage-holder of a female Kabbalist tradition, a Kohenet/priestess, and ordained Mashpi’ah/spiritual life coach and guide. She founded The Lilith Institute, A Center for Feminist Spirituality (1997), co-directed the Women & Spirituality MA Program at ITP/Sofia University, and was a founding theorist of the Kohenet priestess movement, serving on their Founding Advisory Board. She created and taught in her Institute’s Women’s Leadership Program and has taught for a number of colleges and synagogues on feminist thealogy and philosophies, women’s history, sacred arts, literature, Jewish mysticism. She taught Humanities and Philosophy classes at Napa Valley College, co-teaches an annual course on the Tree of Life with Yerusha’s Rabbi Nadya Gross, and serves on the Aquarian Minyan’s Education Advisory Board.

One of D’vorah’s favorite subjects to teach is Jewish Magic & Folklore, and she will be teaching a course through Yerusha on December 10th, and December 17th, we’ve posted the link in the show notes for this episode.

Her publications include:Lilith’s Fire; Talking to Goddess, an anthology of writings from 72 women in 25 traditions; “Lilith’s Fire: Examining Original Sources of Power”, Feminist Theology Journal; Jewish priestess and Lilith entries in Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions; “Spiritual Brokenness and Healing Presence of the Sacred Feminine”, FEMSPEC feminist journal. She has been a guest on podcasts including this one, as wellas the Revelation Podcast Project and Breaking Down Patriarchy, and co-created and co-hosted 50 episodes of the “Tending Lilith’s Fire” broadcast with Kohenet Annie Matan.

SUPPORT: To take D’vorah’s Jewish Magic and Folklore class,register at yerusha.org.

To receive D’vorah’s newsletter you can contact her via email at dvorah@lillithinstitute.com

To purchase D’vorah’s books visit lilithinstitute.com or you can purchase "What Would Lilith Do?" T-shirts and other merch at redbubble.com/shop/ap/84226530

FOLLOW: You can find D’vorah online at lilithinstitute.com or @lilithinstitute on Instagram and facebook.com/idvorah99 on Facebook

LISTEN: Listen to the past recordings of Priestessingthe Priestesses at youtube.com/@tendinglilithsfire