WitchSpace

Happy Pisces Full Moon Lunar Eclipse witches and what could be more fitting than to discuss how our hosts might just both be individually cursed? We considered titling the episode "What To Do When Everything Has Gone Absolutely Batty But The Cards Say You're Not Cursed" but it would be much harder to find on Spotify (and brevity is the soul of wit)! Tune in to see how Gemini and Scorpio are dealing with their troubles and what you might want to do if you've been feeling the same.  If you're looking for someone to tell you about the planets (who have been monsters this summer), run over to Cawnawyn Mor's website and dive into her offerings. And DEFINITELY text your witchy friend and ask her to check if you have the malocchio!

What's up witches and welcome to August's New Moon, New Book! Gemini and Scorpio dive into Workplace Spells by Marla Brooks, host of ParaX Radio's Stirring the Cauldron, a quick grimoire of spells for on the job. It's the Summer of Spellbooks and this one is another win - press play to find out which spells stood out the most!

It's not A Year That Exists if Monica Bodirsky isn't on the podcast at least once! For 2026 we're talking about her upcoming book, Nocturnum, a grimoire of her experiences and understanding of the shadow and just how important it is for witches to understand and value the Dark. Long time listeners know that episodes with Monica are thought-provoking, insightful and hilarious and new listeners will want to dive into the backlog of chats with her! Don't forget to pre-order Nocturnum at her website! 

What's up witches and happy Cancer New Moon! Our hosts get a little feral this episode talking about the grimoires they chose for this 2nd annual summer grimoire review. Not only do they discuss their very word witchy picks, but also the World Cup, Vanilla Coke, and some ideas for pods of the future - dive in and see what shenanigans they get up to! 

What's up witches and welcome to Witchspace: The Husband Edit! Gemini and Scorpio interviewed the Mr.s to see their perspectives on being married to witches. 

What's up witches and are you ready to give Pagan Portals a second try? Gemini and Scorpio read The Inner-City Path by Melusine Draco and, you guessed it, had some opinions! Stick around to the end for some audience participation questions! 

Happy Blue Moon witches! Inspired by the personal curriculum trend that was flitting through social media a while back, Scorpio and Gemini discuss books and music that help them live authentically and give you a little glimpse into how you could think more like Witchspace!

What's up witches and welcome to an interesting New Moon, New Book! To keep spoilers to a minimum, let's just say there's some opinions on this one. (But some fun lore too!)

What's up witches and welcome to the Scorpio Full Moon! Have you been feeling like crows and ravens get too much attention? Were you just thinking to yourself you wished you had some other cool birds to inspire your witchcraft practice? Have we got the episode for you! Gemini hosts "Name That Bird", where our lovely contestant Scorpio has to identify the (semi-)local bird and then our hosts brainstorm different spells, rituals and other practices to honor and work with our flying allies. 

Alternate subtitles for this episode include "A Hippie In Time" or "A Ornithologist In Time", and yes Gemini did consider using all three but brevity is the soul of wit an' all that! de Yampert's Crows and Ravens covers so much ground it's almost impossible to discuss in one episode, plus some interesting tangents AND a special surprise at the end! This episode has it all! 

What's up witches and how often do you think about glamour magic? If you're thinking it's all red lipstick and aesthetics, this episode is here to persuade you that it could be so much more! 

What's up witches! Today's New Moon, New Book is Rhonda McCrimmon's The Cauldron and the Drum and yes, you guessed it, Gemini has an epiphany! Scorpio also proposes a career change that both hosts think would be very interesting. Tune in and see what its all about! 

What's up witches and what do you do to take care of yourself? It's a given that we care for our physical hygiene - washing our hands, brushing our teeth, taking showers, etc - but what do witches do for spiritual hygiene? 

Happy Lunar New Year Witches! This episode is a little bit of a two-fer, or more realistically it runs a gamut, because Gemini needed to have a chat about Witchtok and being kind to "baby witches" who are navigating their practice publicly online, which became a conversation about social media and the analogue movement, which pivoted to the book, Ancestral Magic, which covered some content specifically from the text and also inspired by it. Come for the book, stay for the shenanigans, with Witchspace!

Happy Leo Full Moon witches! Continuing the thread from last episode, Gemini and Scorpio discuss their personal understanding of and relationship to ancestral magic. 

Our hosts repeatedly refer to this book as a fever dream in this episode, and they're spot on. Dreaming Mother Earth: The Life and Wisdom of Native Cuban Cacique Francisco Panchito Ramirez Rojas by Jose Barreiro reads like sitting at the feet of an elder as they ramble about their life. It's heart-warming, informative and deeply interesting and you should immediately press play to learn more! 

Or "January, a Capitalist Imposition on the Natural Cycle", if you're feeling spicy. Welcome to year 8 witches and to Gemini and Scorpio discussing the importance of Not trying to fix stuff! 

Happy final NMNB of the year witches! Scorpio and Gemini discuss Melissa Jayne Madara's The Witch's Workshop, but in classic Witchspace fashion also discuss capitalism, unrealistic expectations and their own relationship with the Idea of the Witch. Also, there's a question about instagram at the end that we'd love if you chimed in for! Happy close of 2025 and we'll see you in 2026!

Happy Gemini New Moon witches and happy year end wrap up! You guys had some awesome questions, but we also got a taste of Scorpio's feeling about Frankenstein and Gemini's feelings about tea service. There's a little bit for everyone, so dive in you the penultimate episode of season 7! 

Happy New Moon, New Book! Can't believe it wasn't mentioned on the podcast, but this book definitely has Scorpio Moon energy. Courtney Webber's Sacred Tears: A Witch's Guide to Grief is personally vulnerable and deeply insightful about the nature of grief and how we navigate it. While our hosts both agree that this book is a Necessity for navigating both your own griefs and those of your loved ones, please take this episode at your own pace, especially if topics of grief (like infertility, miscarriage, and death) may be triggering to you. 

What's up witches? How do we follow two amazing interviews with two of our host's favorite witches? We could only do it by synthesizing the message of October into one of personal growth and self love, using our creativity to empower us as witches and women. Gemini asks Scorpio three questions to help craft a personal, witchy narrative to ensorcle one's life into something big, deeper and greater.

Happy Halloween witches! Okay, well, Halloween might still be a little ways away, but to celebrate our favorite Scorpio's favorite season, instead of a traditional New Moon, New Book, we have this amazing interview with Lydia O'Connor, Salem's first and only horror hostess. If you know her, you love her, and if you don't, this interview is a great introduction to the lore and the backstory that makes Wretched Lydia so captivating to her audience. And yes, she's a real witch! 

Not only did we get to read and discuss Pam Grossman's new book, Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path to Creativity, before it's release on October 14th, but for this Aries Super Moon, we got to talk to the magical maven herself! This episode has it all - we laughed, we got really close to crying, we had a beautiful conversation about a beautiful book.    Pam's Bio, from her website: Pam is a writer, curator, and teacher of magical practice and history. She is the host of The Witch Wave podcast (“the Terry Gross of Witches” - Vulture) and the author of Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power (Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster) and What Is A Witch (Tin Can Forest Press). She is also co-editor and co-author of the WITCHCRAFT volume of Taschen’s Library of Esoterica series. Her forthcoming book, Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path to Creativity, will be published by Penguin Life in October 2025.   Check out this link to access all things Magic Maker - where to pre-order, the events, and the blurbs! 

Happy New Moon, New Book witches! It is an absolute honor to bring your Pam Grossman's Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path to Creativity, releasing in October! Spoiler, we loved it, but it also took us on a typical Gemini-Scorpio journey. We discovered that Gemini has never listened to the Smiths and Scorpio recounted her experience with a ouija board and both hosts discussed the ways this book is distinctly applicable to their lives. You are definitely going to want to listen to this before you pre-order the book whereever you pre-order your books! 

Happy Eclipse witches! Originally intended to be a discussion of harvest mythologies, Scorpio and Gemini had a chat about their relationships to the harvest and the various reasons and methods to banish the "shoulds" that are holding you back. 

Happy Virgo New Moon and welcome to our new series, the Great Grimoire Review! Each year, Scorpio and Gemini will grab a grimoire or spellbook from their vast collections and discuss and dissect them on the podcast! Also, there will be a middle section where Gemini becomes deeply philosophical about, and we quote, moral ecology. What books did they bring? You'll have to press play to find out! 

We simply can't turn down an opportunity to talk to Monica Bodirsky on the pod and once again she delivered! There's a little bit for everyone - she discusses her recent time in Salem, her brand new lenormand deck, Wicked Tales, her elemental retreat and the illustrious Obsidian Academy, plus she teases her 2026 plans. 

Happy New Moon witches! Gemini and Scorpio read How to Kill a Witch By Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, the Witches of Scotland, and had a LOT to say about it. The subtitle for this episode might just be "The Blood Magic of the Patriarchy" or "Resistance in the Face of a Witch Hunt" because this book managed to be not just a really fun read about a historical period for Scotland, but also a facilitator of conversation about the struggles of living in the version of America that is on fire. Also, we talk about Sinners and how y'all should watch that (not Gemini though, she's soft)!

We're baaaaack witches! For our first episode post maternity leave, we discuss our suggestions for a "dabbler's week" - one week to get into witchcraft for the first time. But don't worry, as usual, it's more than that, with ideas even a seasoned witch can use! 

Happy New Moon, New Book! This is the last episode of pre-recorded material, and Past Gemini and Scorpio are letting the veil drop a little from 6 months ago (how naïve they were). Want to know how they feel about palmistry? About the "A Little Bit of" series? Dive in! 

What's up witches? For June's Full Moon, we're talking about our more obscure divination systems. Have you tried them all? 

Happy New Moon, New Book and happy AWIT to all who celebrate! Ian Chamber's The Witch Compass: Working with the Winds in Traditional Witchcraft is a book that our hosts strongly, strongly recommend, but you might not expect why (unless you've read it, then you totally get why Gemini and Scorpio had such deep thoughts). 

Happy Scorpio Full Moon witches and welcome to a collection of Places Our Hosts Disagree! Scorpio and Gemini have agreed a lot in the last 7 years, but where do they disagree? Do they still disagree about things from the past or are they more aligned than ever? Press play to find out!

What's up witches and welcome to an episode that is one part "classic Witchspace shit" and a second, slightly larger part "Gemini reckoning". With what? A lot! Gemini and Scorpio read 7 Goddesses of the Hellenistic World by Jo Graham, and while it might not be for everyone, there are definitely some reasons you might want to dive in!

That's it, that's the whole episode! ;) (And when you're done, hop on over to Cawnawyn Mor's Dark Moon Chronicle, so you can get even more magic and motherhood content!)

Happy New Moon, New Book, Solar Eclipse! Gemini and Scorpio talk Mat Auryn's Psychic Witch, why gatekeeping can be Good Actually, and how Gemini doesn't want science in her witchcraft. 

Are you psychic? Are WE psychic? Not only do they answer that common question for themselves, your beloved hosts also discuss the way they define psychic, their internal biases when it comes to the concept of a psychic and their most intuitive and so-called psychic moments. 

Happy New Moon, New Book! For this episode, Gemini and Scorpio didn't read the same book - they read their respective sun signs from the Witch's Sun Sign Series (by Ivo Dominguez Jr, for Llewellyn). This episode might seem short but there's a lot of ground covered. Have you read your sign in Dominguez's series? 

Happy February witches! For an episode so close to love day, you know we had to talk about our greatest love - Reading! How did we decide to a be a book podcast, why reading is important (to us and in general), and everything in between. If you've been looking for some insight into our brains, this episode is coming in hot just for you! 

You knew it was coming, here's our review of Madame Pamita's new book The Witch's Guide to Animal Familiars! If you didn't hear our chat with her for January's Full Moon, you may have missed the spoiler that we LOVE this book, so tune in quick and find out why. 

Happy 2025 coven! We got to sit down with Madame Pamita and discuss all things magical - from Baba Yaga to the Wizard of Oz, to her new book, dropping later this month, The Witch's Guide to Animal Familiars.  Not only can you catch her on her website, Parlour of Wonders, on Instagram and Youtube, but you can get one of her many witchcraft tomes wherever books are sold! You might even hear about a NEW book dropping in 2026 if you start listening now ;)

A shortie but a goodie for the last episode of 2024! Scorpio introduces Gemini to the Llewellyn calendar. Not only do they discuss the value of the calendar conceptually, they also cover their favorite months, tips and tricks from the 2025 calendar specifically. And yes, Gemini does make an otherwise lighthearted episode unnecessarily deep! Happy New Year coven and see you in 2025!

Happy December! Scorpio and Gemini discuss year six as well as plans for year seven!!! As always, thank you so much for being such an amazing audience and giving us the opportunity to continue making podcasts like this year after year! And keep an ear out at the end for a surprise coming your way on Yule! 

In honor of the 2nd New Moon of November, this #newmoonnewbook is all about Hecate, Goddess of the Crossroads, of Witchcraft, and a whole host of other things. You may have heard Gemini talk about Deipnon in an earlier season, but now our hosts have a chance to dive more deeply into the lore and mythos surrounding this goddess. 

Gemini and Scorpio talk to Jamie Waggoner, the author of Hades: Myth, Magic, and Modern Devotion. They follow Jamie through her witchcraft path to discover the immense power and value that trance and community bring to the magical table, not just in the context of Hades devotional work, but in general. A fun, flowing, and interesting conversation with some fantastic insights for those witches looking for a sense of connection to both their peers and the divine.  Jamie is a co-founder of the Way of the Weaver, with fantastic programs, including Traversing the Realms, a trance journey experience starting in January for anyone interested in learning to do what Jamie describes in this episode!  

New Moon, New Book! Scorpio and Gemini dive into Arin Hiscock-Murphy's The House Witch. Gemini has a bunch of epiphanies, we learn the kind of witch Scorpio wants to be in the future, and some fun and useful tips and tricks for incorporating hearthcraft into your witchy path.

This fiery Aries full moon is the perfect time to tuck into to this thought-provoking and motivating interview with Dr. Witch. If you're in the Tri-State area and even remotely interested in witchcraft, you've definitely heard her name once or twice, but to learn about her offerings and the ways she strengthens and reinforces the witchcraft community, that's a whole 'nother conversation. And if you're not in the Tri-State area, don't worry, as Scorpio described it, this interview was like going to Witch Church!   Follow Dr. Witch on Instagram and check out her website for more information on the myriad offerings she has available! 

Happy New Moon, New Book! Athena Laz might not consider herself a witch, but our hosts dive into The Alchemy of Your Dreams to discuss why it's useful for the witchy and witch-adjacent. 

We wanted to talk to a Freemason (or in this case Mason), but we got so much more than that! We spoke to Scorpio's mom, Pisces, just in time for this Pisces full moon, and while she couldn't tell us any of the Masonic secrets, she gave a glimpse into how Masonry, Espiritismo and religion blended together to create something magical. 

Happy New Moon, New Book! "September came in swinging" as Gemini says towards the end of this episode, as our academic witches tackle Payam Nabarz's The Square and The Circle: The Influences of Freemasonry on Wicca and Paganism and learn a lot more about Freemasonry than they expected to!