The Witching Hour Spellcast

Special Surprise Guest, Circle Sanctuary Founder, Selena Fox joins us on the tenth anniversary of Selena and Pam's first podcast on 11/11/11  Special Warrior Blessing from Selena Tonight Bryon Ballard, the Village Witch of Asheville joins Pammit while serving up some Appalachian Folk Magick wisdom with a healthy serving of self love and Goddess Energy. We will be discussing her book Embracing Willendorf: A Witch's Way of Loving Your Body to Health and Fitness as well as anything else she has going on right now.   Follow her on facebook here: Village Witch A-Wandering

Join Pammit and the other pukas as we dance around the veil and celebrate what was, what is, and what will be Pammit's favorite Samhain or Halloween tunes to listen alone or with your CIRCLE of friends

Join Llewellyn Author Jason Mankey for lore of Mabon or the Autumn Equinox  

Jason Mankey breaks podcast silence with this Lammas Show.  

Join Hedera and guests for strategies for emerging from your caves with minimal emotional damage—you are not alone in feeling MORE than trepidatious.

A listener recently asked The Witches Next Door what we mean when we say "magick? So we thought we'd do a whole show detailing our definition of magik. Which, as it happens, we agree on and disagree on. Which is kinda cool.   The Witches Next Door, Phoenix & Gwion, are two witches who live together, work together, write about magick, teach magick, and generally live a pretty magickal life.

In tonight's episode we talk about covens - What's great about them, what's frustrating about them, and things you DEFINITELY want to avoid. The Witches Next Door are authors, bloggers, podcasters, metaphysical shop owners, magickal teachers,and  witches.

We wrote a book called Life Ritualized - It's all about rituals, rites of passage, and ways to honour the sacred and the mundane moments in life. The Witches Next Door, that's Gwion and Phoenix, teach witchcraft, write books, post blogs, and co-own a metaphysical shop in Northern California.    

The first rite of Spring.  What now?

Join us as we talk about our recent issues that kept us from being on air, stress, dreams, and how this all impacts our magick!

Money - Lots of people want it. Most people want more of it. Almost everyone does some kind of money magik spell work at some point. I mean, why would you not? So tonight we'll talk about practical and magical ways to bring more money in to your life and to keep it coming. The Witches Next Door are a pretty ordinary couple, doing normal stuff except when we're doing magick which is pretty much all the time. We're both authors, bloggers, metaphysical shop owners, teachers, and initiates in several different traditions.

Join us as we discuss antifascists. Call in to us LIVE! Raise your voice and join us. Unity comes from upholding a diverse democracy!

Daily practices are talked about in almost every spiritual  - From prayer, to ablutions, to altar tending - How do you start a magickal daily practice? How do you keep one going? And what happens if you suddenly find you've stopped?

Join is as we talk about Chaos, Order, feeling uncomfortable and how to utilize that magick!

Join is as we talk about Chaos, Order, feeling uncomfortable and how to utilize that magick

Join Bradwick and Neve as they delve into how paganisim is portrayed, the representation, adn why it is important during Covid times.

New Year's Day - No matter how you mark the occasion, the turning of the year is a potent time to do magick. Phoenix and Gwion discuss their own ritual practices, food, tea, divination, and Phoenix alludes to a time when Gwion may have fallen asleep on the driveway after some particularly spirited revelry. Not to be missed, right? The WItches Next Door are a regular couple of witches. We write books & blogs. We own a metaphysical shop. We do magick every day and teach all over the world.  

Join Pammit for tunes, poetry, and company as we light up the fire pit and fill the winter night with music of the season  Songs from Dar Williams, Ginger Doss, Spiral Dance, Celia, Emerald Rose, SJ Tucker, Bell Book and Canto, Ginger Ackley, Kari Tauring, Tuatha Dea, and John McCutcheon

Talking about the big stories in 2020, including how COVID-19 has changed the Pagan Community

WInter solstice, the longest night, Yule, Christmas - So many celebrations at this time of year. What's a witch to do?  Phoenix and Gwion, The Witches Next Door, recount favourite solstice rituals, spells, and practices connected to this time of year.   The Witches Next door are a pagan couple. We're witches. We practice. We own a metaphysical shopw. We write blogs. We write books. Jeez! When do we find time to record this show?

❄️ LIVE tonight at 8pm!  ❄️ INCANTATION NATION: the podcast for the Revolution with Hedera Bindwood.  ❄️ TONIGHT: Hearing the Silenced, Seeing the Disappeared, and Witching the sole viable resolution to this chaos; E Q U A L I T Y.  ❄️ Let's talk Veilish! Let's collabo w the Old Gods! Let's Oracle some plan for Truth, snow-ball this Fable of Justice, and mount a socially INCLUSIVE REBELLION against this bullshit white supremacy smash-and-grab! ❄️ Let's listen for omission, Witches!  Make wide this Incantion Nation for all those who fear getting overlooked or being lost in the shuffle. It can be done if we Listen. Hold our people close, curb-stomp the next 5.5 weeks, and all of our Village—introverts, extroverts, metroverts, and thoughtroverts, will witch diversely to live equally.  Join us.  ☃️ LIVE on FRIDAYS @8pm Blogtalk Radio: The Witching Hour Spellcast Station, or  ☃️ DOWNLOAD Incantation Nation wherever you get your podcasts! ❄️ Witches raise our Voices so the silenced get heard!  

In a world of fake news and alternative facts you can always trust your local librarian! Join Jason and Ash as they talk about what makes a good Witchcraft book, and what makes a publisher (and other sources) trustworthy. We'll also chat about Wiccan and Witch history, Gardnerian practice, and probably half a dozen other things.

Join Hedera tonight at 8PM as we honor the deity Krampus with his lore and history and the timelessness of his mythos. Hedera will read her newest piece—a fable for the ages and a Krampus carol for 2020. Come celebrate the Feast Day of this ancient Horned God of the Alps, you won't soon forget it!

Taliesin Govannon is a writer, film-maker, and provacateur. He's also a popular speaker on the Pagan lecture circuit. The first time I ever heard of Taliesin  was at the Starwood festival, where a friend came back from one his workshops and said "Jason he's a better presenter than you are."  I was dumbfounded, no one is a better Pagan festival speaker than I am, but Tal comes pretty close. (I'm kidding, I'm not that good.)  "Dark of Moon" is Taliesin's Pagan movie, and it's worth a watch just for the Doreen Valiente references alone.  He's also a big heavy metal fan, so we should have fun chatting.  

Full moon magick - New moon magick - Moon water magick? Tonight Phoenix and Gwion take a look at all different types of moon magic and why witches are drawn to cavorting under the full moon. There's also a side discussion about bottled essences where Gwion talks about his true feelings on the matter! The Witches Next Door are an ordinary Pagan couple who write books, do magick, opine greatly and run a little metaphysical shop too. Listen in. It's fun This episode does contain a few "f-bombs" so cover any delicate ears.    

Join us on Hedera's anniversary of her marriage to Hekate

In this episode we will talk about what FAMILY means to Haus Laughingbrook Coven, what ritual looks like, what we condem and celebrate; and why Pagan communities are so important right now. So gather around the cauldron and join us!

In this episode we will talk about what FAMILY means to Haus Laughingbrook Coven, what ritual looks like, what we condem and celebrate; and why Pagan communities are so important right now.

So I just had a book come out, Llewellyn's Little Book of Yule, which is all about the history, traditions, customs, and magick that make up the Yuletide season. On this special episode of the podcast I'll spend the whole hour plus talking about the book and sharing a short presentation on the history of Yuletide. Amazon your friends with all of your Holiday knowledge!  I love talking about Yule so this should be lots of fun. 

In this episode we will speak about the current standing of the election, and get an insiders scoop as to what is going on within her walls. We'll discuss the importance of our Gebo Tree initiative again, and Hedera issues a prayer to the people, and an incantation to Trump?

Remember Remember the 5th of November... or just remember the fifth of Whisky consumed as we watch the 2020 Election Results We dug up an oldie but goodie show from 2015.  Resurrecting Raise The Horns Radio and the Samhain Extravaganza

We've heard from many pagans and witches that politics and paganism aren't or shouldn't be connected, but they are. Tonight's episode, recorded on the day of the 2020 U.S. election we discuss exactly how polictics and paganism go together. The Witches Next Door are an ordinary Pagan couple who teach magick, own a witch shop, deal with real world stuff just like everyone else, and in their spare time write books and blogs and host rituals.

Here we go folks! Join us for a special Election Eve Episode where we delve into a discussion about Samhain, and then discuss the thing that is on everyones mind....the election!

ATTENTION NATION! Tonight's show is going to be dedicated to addressing the Mental Health of our community. We will address the lack of Pagan Mental Health Resources, what is currently effecting us, and invite callers to talk about their own issues. We encourage you to call in to speak with Hedera about whatever ails you.   For those of you who had the opportunity to enter the shop (Laughingbrook Spellcrafting & Ancestral Arts), this is going to essentially bring us all home. Make no mistake, the shop has transcended its physical space by the way of our Facebook Group Village Laughingbrook. It has NOW transcended again to a new medium where it can travel the airwaves in the form of Incantation Nation. So pull up a seat at the round table in the purple room, Hedera will offer you tea or coffee, and now tell her what ails you.   For those of you just discovering our Podcast and Village, we encourage you to call in as well. This is our home, this is where your voices can be heard, this is where our sparks of revolution are nurtured into the blazing hell-fire infernos of change they need to be.   To contact the show during tonight's broadcast please call: 516-387-1776 and press 1 to talk to the host or you can email us at IncantationNation2020@yahoo.com    

One of the most common images at Samhain-tide is the skull. Most witches we know have skulls, antlers, bones, skins, and all sorts of former living things stashed abouot their homes. Why? What do we do with these curious objects The Witches Next Door are an ordinary Pagan couple who teach magick, own a witch shop, deal with real world stuff just like everyone else, and in their spare time write books and blogs and host rituals.

Join Hedera, Neve, and Bradwick as they discuss how the show is helping our community, go over "required" reading material for all Pagans, and Hedera shares some great back story and guided meditation.         

When I have a question about Heathenry, I go to Ryan Smith. It's as simple as that. His book "The Way of Fire & Ice" is the "intro" book Heathenry has needed for the last twenty years. Ryan has also lived in Edignburgh Scotland (one of my favorite places), and has excellent taste in heavy metal music.  We've also done a couple of rituals together that went exceedingly well.  Join us as we chat about the state of the Pagan world, weeding out racists in Heathen spaces, and why doom metal is good for you.    

JOIN INCANTATION NATION: a podcast for the Revolution, THIS FRIDAY, OCT 9th, @8pm, as your Incantress, Hedera Bindwood entertains a most beloved geist, ROBIN ARTISSON, author of innumerable titles such as, ‘Letters From the Devil's Forest' and ‘The Clovenstone Workings: A Manual of Early Modern Witchcraft' published only weeks ago!!  Let's get lost in the Devil's Forest with Robin.... because where else would INCANTATION NATION raise our voices?!  

Samhain is almost here! For The Witches Next Door, Samhain is a season not just one night. We start our Samhain practices in early October and carry them through right up to the WInter Solstice. Listen in and we'll tell you about our favourite Samhain-tide pratices. The Witches Next Door are an ordinary Pagan couple who teach magick, own a witch shop, deal with real world stuff just like everyone else, and in their spare time write books and blogs and host rituals.

Episode 3: The New Colossus - Incantation: Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name, Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these—the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Emma Lazarus, 1883 We are tempest-tost, my beautiful nation, but we are anything but lost. Each and EVERY voice is a Revolution!

To put it simply, Meg Rosenbriar is changing the Witchcraft world. You may have not heard of her, but you undoubtedly will! Meg is one of the founders of Witch With Me, an online Witchcraft Community with a huge presence of Instagram (70,000 followers!), and she's helping put together "Gather the Witches" a huge virtual online festival that will take place October 24-25.  She's also the author of "The Healing Power of Witchcraft: A New Witch's Guide to Spells and Rituals to Renew Yourself and Your World," which is really terrific (I was lucky enough to read an advance copy).    

Pammit has the fire pit going and hot chocolate is her drink of choice today as the days grow cooler and the leaves change color Erin Lale, Author and Educator, will be joining us today.   Erin's Book "Asatru: A Beginner's Guide to the Heathen Path" came out in August and is a must have in your library.  From the Amazon page for the book: "A clear and simple introduction to the history, beliefs, rituals, and gods and goddesses of this popular form of Neo-Pagan belief drawn from ancient northern European traditions. Asatru is a modern pagan tradition whose roots lie in the ancient myths, folklore, sagas, and historical artifacts of those who lived in pre-Christian times in what is now Iceland, Scandinavia, Scandinavian-influenced Scotland, Germany, and other parts of northern Europe." Erin also leads an extremely important project for Pagans of today called "The Heathen Visibility Project"  Find the origin story of the project here:  https://witchesandpagans.com/pagan-paths-blogs/gnosis-diary/the-comics-scandal-that-fueled-the-heathen-visibility-project.html

You know, there was a lot made over groups of Witches getting together to Hex the Orange Baboon a few years ago, and good for them! BUT NOW IS THE TIME for organizing, strategizing and implementing a Pagan response to the current fuckery! We have voices and THEY MUST RISE! We have feet THEY MUST MARCH! We as a UNIFIED Pagan community must not let this moment pass!! YOUR VOICE MATTERS! This (INCANTATION NATION) Podcast, thru this inclusive forum, OUR VILLAGE MUST UNITE AND STAND IN SOLIDARITY AGAINST THIS CURRENT EVIL! We've had one helluva week y'all, let's talk about it! • Give YOUR input! • Find EMPOWERMENT! • CHALLENGE the status quo! • EDUCATE YOURSELF! and • LETS RISE!!!! Join Hedera Bindwood this Friday at 8pm for the INCANTATION NATION podcast and let's get our shit together!!! ~Amen Morningstar, Salisbury NC HEAR THE INCANTRESS REMIND YOU, EVERY VOICE IS A REVOLUTION!!

What happens when it's time to leave the place you live? How do you magickally say goodbye? What happens when you move into a new place? How do you magickally say hello? Tonight, we'll discuss how we do House Magick The Witches Next Door are an ordinary Pagan couple who teach magick, own a witch shop, deal with real world stuff just like everyone else, and in their spare time write books and blogs and host rituals.

The PREMIER LIVE SHOW of the INCANTATION NATION podcast with Hedera Bindwood, Founder of Laughingbrook Spellcrafting & Ancestral Arts and the Village Laughingbrook occult community. JOIN Hedera and producers Brad Tarnowsky and Neve Cromer as we assemble the CITISINS of INCANTATION NATION to celebrate the personalities and forces behind this red-hot live kick-off to this revolutionary podcast! INCANTATION NATION—WHERE EVERY VOICE IS A REVOLUTION.

I met Najah in June of 2019, back in the long long ago when we could travel and actually meet other people face to face. I was in Denver for INATS, the International New Age Trade Show, and we were both signing books there, plus that's the area Najah lives in. Anyways, we really hit it off. I was enchanted and I don't use that word lightly.   I was super looking forward to seeing Najah again at INATS in 2020, but fate had other plans. Speaking of INATS, Najah won an award from INATS in 2020 for Good Juju, beating out dozens of other books, including one of mine! We'll talk about her being a gracious winner and me being a poor loser, plus her terrific book, new projects she has coming up, and lots of other stuff. 

Grab your favorite beverage and find a comfy spot on the porch This week Pammit welcomes modern day bard, Mama Gina.  What does a bard do who cannot travel?  Join us and find out how Mama Gina has been making the most of her time in Pandemic and how you can still enjoy her music.

No surprise here, I met Martha through Patheos Pagans. She started contributing to the Agora a few years ago as "The Corner Crone." Back then I was editing the Agora and we struck up a friendship through Facebook and shared emails. Eventually she took over the entire Agora, becoming both the editor and contiuing as a contributor.  On this episode of the show we'll be chatting about againg in the Pagan Community, embracing the Crone, and practicing Witchcraft when your husband is a UU Minister. 

Grab your favorite beverage.  Relax however you wish.  Draw the curtain and step out on the porch with Pammit and guests. This week Pammit and Llewellyn Author, Mortellus will talk about their book, "Do I Have to Wear Black?: Rituals, Customs & Funerary Etiquette for Modern Pagans " Also classes Mortellus teaches, blogs, and whatever other rabbit holes we dive down. Explore the myriad of customs that have emerged around death and dying in the magical and Pagan communities. Filled with rituals, meditations, legal considerations, and deep insights into death as a spiritual process, this book can be used by magical practitioners or shared with non-Pagan professionals who support Pagans in their final transitions. Within these pages, you will discover more than fifty rituals for funerals, memorials, and remembrances as well as meditations for mourning and letting go. Each chapter shares the beliefs and specific rituals of a distinct tradition, including British Traditional Wicca, Discordianism, Eclectic Wicca, Heathenry, Hellenic Reconstructionism, Kemetism, Neo-Druidry, and Thelema. With contributions from ten practitioners, Do I Have to Wear Black? delivers a multitude of magical rites and detailed explanations in one convenient practical manual.

I've known Debra probably before I even moved to California nearly ten years ago through my epxeriences at PantheaCon. She's been a tireless advocate and promoter of my writing, and I feel like I would not have gotten to where I'm at today without her. Anyways, Debra is really great, and a super talented writer. Before writing books for the likes of Llewellyn she worked in journalism for years, eventually becoming the editor of her local paper.   I'll admit that I don't know much about horses, so I'm really excited to be talking to Deborah about them. In this episode of the podcast we'll be discussing her book, her practice, and the joys that were those absinthe parties at Pantheacon so long ago. I think this also might be Deborah's first Pagan-related podcast, so that should be fun! I might try and put her on the spot and make her say something embarassing about another author, or Llewellyn's book process!  Nah, I won't do that, probably.   

SJ Tucker has many many times to catch her, including festivals.  One of those festivals is Hexenfest with Sharon Knight.   Join Pammit, Sooj, and Sharon as we talk Hexenfest, online shows, and how concerts have changed for Pagan Music and its fans in the time of the pandemic