Word Witchery and the Poetry Priestess Path with Katie Ness

Send a textIs TikTok ruining witchcraft? In this episode of Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles talk candidly about WitchTok, discernment, and what happens when inexperienced witches end up teaching other beginners. They unpack the “keeping up with the Joneses” pressure social media can create—how polished, aesthetic spell videos can disconnect you from your own practice, and how public spellwork can leave energetic holes a seasoned practitioner can see. They also name a growing concern: AI-generated spells, recipes, and even bot accounts that imitate real people, muddying the waters of trust.Join monthly coven classes and experiences.  Join us March 19 & 20, 2026, for a free event that welcomes in Spring! The Healing Our Feminine Wounding Immersive is a sacred retreat devoted to untangling inherited shame, silence, and survival patterns carried in the feminine body. Through ritual, reflection, and land based temple arts, we work gently and honestly with what has been passed down so that a truer, steadier way of being can emerge. Sacred Wild Wednesdays is a live weekly gathering with Elyse Welles featuring tarot readings for participants, magickal musings, and grounded spiritual teaching. Held in real time, this space offers guidance, perspective, and connection for those walking the Path of the Sacred Wild.Support the Podcast! 🔮 The Witch’s Reset - A Five-Day Audio Program to Clear the Noise and Transform Your Practice. Join HERE- https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchs_reset 🌙 Join The Rebel Mystic Coven - a private online coven and academy with FREE monthly online lessons. Join for free HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/coven 🌳 The Rebel Mystic Witchcraft Skill Trees - a modular, intentional way to learn witchcraft without overwhelm. Explore the grove HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchcraft-skill-trees 🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com ✨Get Your Free Resources HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/resources 🌒🌕🌘 🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️ Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free gro...

Send a textIn this episode of The Magick Kitchen Podcast, we’re joined by Katie Ness, a witch and priestess whose practice weaves goddess devotion, ancestral connection, and folk magic through the living art of poetry. We talk about “word witchery” as a spiritual path, how listening and silence shape devotional language, and why poetry belongs to everyone, not only trained writers. Katie shares how her earliest experiences with spirit and grief became a lifelong practice of writing to the liminal, and we explore practical ways to begin, even if you think you are not creative. We also touch on sacred land, voice, and the healing of expression.Find Katie Ness at instagram.com/katie_wild_witchJoin monthly coven classes and experiences.  Join us March 19 & 20, 2026, for a free event that welcomes in Spring! The Healing Our Feminine Wounding Immersive is a sacred retreat devoted to untangling inherited shame, silence, and survival patterns carried in the feminine body. Through ritual, reflection, and land based temple arts, we work gently and honestly with what has been passed down so that a truer, steadier way of being can emerge. Sacred Wild Wednesdays is a live weekly gathering with Elyse Welles featuring tarot readings for participants, magickal musings, and grounded spiritual teaching. Held in real time, this space offers guidance, perspective, and connection for those walking the Path of the Sacred Wild.Support the Podcast! 🔮 The Witch’s Reset - A Five-Day Audio Program to Clear the Noise and Transform Your Practice. Join HERE- https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchs_reset 🌙 Join The Rebel Mystic Coven - a private online coven and academy with FREE monthly online lessons. Join for free HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/coven 🌳 The Rebel Mystic Witchcraft Skill Trees - a modular, intentional way to learn witchcraft without overwhelm. Explore the grove HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchcraft-skill-trees 🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com ✨Get Your Free Resources HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/resources 🌒🌕🌘 🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️ Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free gro...

Send a textWe’re joined by Patricia Robin Woodruff of The Roots of Slavic Magic to explore what Slavic magic is, and why it’s often misunderstood. From house spirits like the Domovoy to plant lore traditions involving mugwort and mullein, this conversation weaves animism, folklore, and ancestral cosmology into a grounded introduction for modern practitioners.Learn more at https://patriciarobinwoodruff.com/ and explore her book Slavic Deities: Their Worship and Roots here: https://www.amazon.com/Slavic-Deities-Their-Worship-Roots/dp/1735614920Join monthly coven classes and experiences.  Join us March 19 & 20, 2026, for a free event that welcomes in Spring! The Healing Our Feminine Wounding Immersive is a sacred retreat devoted to untangling inherited shame, silence, and survival patterns carried in the feminine body. Through ritual, reflection, and land based temple arts, we work gently and honestly with what has been passed down so that a truer, steadier way of being can emerge. Sacred Wild Wednesdays is a live weekly gathering with Elyse Welles featuring tarot readings for participants, magickal musings, and grounded spiritual teaching. Held in real time, this space offers guidance, perspective, and connection for those walking the Path of the Sacred Wild.Support the Podcast! 🔮 The Witch’s Reset - A Five-Day Audio Program to Clear the Noise and Transform Your Practice. Join HERE- https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchs_reset 🌙 Join The Rebel Mystic Coven - a private online coven and academy with FREE monthly online lessons. Join for free HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/coven 🌳 The Rebel Mystic Witchcraft Skill Trees - a modular, intentional way to learn witchcraft without overwhelm. Explore the grove HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchcraft-skill-trees 🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com ✨Get Your Free Resources HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/resources 🌒🌕🌘 🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️ Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free gro...

Send a textIn this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra and Elyse Welles break down why Imbolc matters on the Wheel of the Year, especially when winter feels heavy and motivation is low. They explore the difference between quarter days (solstices and equinoxes) and the often-misunderstood cross-quarter days, and why these seasonal turning points can be the most supportive when we feel least connected.You’ll also hear the roots of Imbolc as lambing season and its relationship to Candlemas, plus the heart of Brigid’s Day, Brigid as a goddess of hearth, craft, and creativity, and the ways her presence bridges traditions. From purification and decluttering to fire as release, they offer a gentle, practical Imbolc approach that includes kitchen magic, seasonal foods, and simple correspondences without getting stuck in “doing it perfectly.”Download your free Imbolc Workbook- https://leandrawitchwood.com/resourcesJoin monthly coven classes and experiences.  Join us March 19 & 20, 2026, for a free event that welcomes in Spring! The Healing Our Feminine Wounding Immersive is a sacred retreat devoted to untangling inherited shame, silence, and survival patterns carried in the feminine body. Through ritual, reflection, and land based temple arts, we work gently and honestly with what has been passed down so that a truer, steadier way of being can emerge. Sacred Wild Wednesdays is a live weekly gathering with Elyse Welles featuring tarot readings for participants, magickal musings, and grounded spiritual teaching. Held in real time, this space offers guidance, perspective, and connection for those walking the Path of the Sacred Wild.Support the Podcast! 🔮 The Witch’s Reset - A Five-Day Audio Program to Clear the Noise and Transform Your Practice. Join HERE- https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchs_reset 🌙 Join The Rebel Mystic Coven - a private online coven and academy with FREE monthly online lessons. Join for free HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/coven 🌳 The Rebel Mystic Witchcraft Skill Trees - a modular, intentional way to learn witchcraft without overwhelm. Explore the grove HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchcraft-skill-trees 🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com ✨Get Your Free Resources HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/resources 🌒🌕🌘 🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️ Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free gro...

Send a textThis time in the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles are joined by bestselling author and beloved witchcraft teacher Deborah Blake for a grounded, practical conversation on respectful, responsible deity work for witches and pagans.Together, they explore what changes when deity isn’t “a box you visit,” but part of everyday life, and why cultural context matters when working with ancient pantheons in the modern world. Deborah shares how her upcoming book, Everyday Witch’s Book of Deities (out in April and currently available for preorder), approaches deity work with both historical background and real-world practice. You’ll also hear thoughtful discussion on syncretism (when gods and goddesses overlap across cultures), what “perfect love and perfect trust” can mean in lived experience, and how to start small if you think a deity may be reaching out, including the physical signs both hosts and Deborah notice in their own work.Find Deborah at deborahblakeauthor.comJoin monthly coven classes and experiences.  Join us March 19 & 20, 2026, for a free event that welcomes in Spring! The Healing Our Feminine Wounding Immersive is a sacred retreat devoted to untangling inherited shame, silence, and survival patterns carried in the feminine body. Through ritual, reflection, and land based temple arts, we work gently and honestly with what has been passed down so that a truer, steadier way of being can emerge. Sacred Wild Wednesdays is a live weekly gathering with Elyse Welles featuring tarot readings for participants, magickal musings, and grounded spiritual teaching. Held in real time, this space offers guidance, perspective, and connection for those walking the Path of the Sacred Wild.Support the Podcast! 🔮 The Witch’s Reset - A Five-Day Audio Program to Clear the Noise and Transform Your Practice. Join HERE- https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchs_reset 🌙 Join The Rebel Mystic Coven - a private online coven and academy with FREE monthly online lessons. Join for free HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/coven 🌳 The Rebel Mystic Witchcraft Skill Trees - a modular, intentional way to learn witchcraft without overwhelm. Explore the grove HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchcraft-skill-trees 🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com ✨Get Your Free Resources HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/resources 🌒🌕🌘 🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️ Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free gro...

Send a textA new year invites new rhythms, and the kitchen is one of the most powerful places to begin. In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles explore how to start — or refresh — a kitchen witchery practice rooted in green magic, balance, and everyday life.They discuss why kitchen witchery and green witchcraft are inseparable paths, how perfection and rigid planning can block magical flow, and why the hearth has always been the energetic heart of the home. From cooking with seasonal ingredients to working with what’s already in your spice cabinet, this conversation offers grounded ways to make magic sustainable, nourishing, and intuitive.You’ll also learn how food connects us to cycles — the moon, the body, the land — and why honoring ingredients through use, reuse, and gratitude matters deeply in the craft. The episode closes with a simple cinnamon–apple tea or simmer pot practice you can make right away using common kitchen ingredients.Join monthly coven classes and experiences.  Join us March 19 & 20, 2026, for a free event that welcomes in Spring! The Healing Our Feminine Wounding Immersive is a sacred retreat devoted to untangling inherited shame, silence, and survival patterns carried in the feminine body. Through ritual, reflection, and land based temple arts, we work gently and honestly with what has been passed down so that a truer, steadier way of being can emerge. Sacred Wild Wednesdays is a live weekly gathering with Elyse Welles featuring tarot readings for participants, magickal musings, and grounded spiritual teaching. Held in real time, this space offers guidance, perspective, and connection for those walking the Path of the Sacred Wild.Support the Podcast! 🔮 The Witch’s Reset - A Five-Day Audio Program to Clear the Noise and Transform Your Practice. Join HERE- https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchs_reset 🌙 Join The Rebel Mystic Coven - a private online coven and academy with FREE monthly online lessons. Join for free HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/coven 🌳 The Rebel Mystic Witchcraft Skill Trees - a modular, intentional way to learn witchcraft without overwhelm. Explore the grove HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchcraft-skill-trees 🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com ✨Get Your Free Resources HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/resources 🌒🌕🌘 🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️ Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free gro...

Send a textIn this Yuletide episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles are joined by fiber artist and co-host of the Knit a Spell podcast, Katie Rempe, for a deep and soulful conversation about fiber magic, stitch witchery, and ancestral craft.Together they explore knitting, embroidery, mending, sewing, spinning, and textile arts as ancient magical practices — ways of weaving intention, prayer, and protection directly into everyday life. From blood, sweat, and tears stitched into garments, to repetitive motion as meditation, to crafting as a gateway for intuition and ancestral connection, this episode invites listeners to remember the sacred power held in thread and cloth.The conversation weaves through grief and healing, pandemic-era crafting, reclaiming lost communal arts, ethical making, and how working with fiber can become both spellwork and spiritual refuge. Whether you knit daily or have never picked up a needle, this episode offers a gentle invitation to slow down, listen to your hands, and reconnect with the magic humans have practiced for millennia.Join monthly coven classes and experiences.  Join us March 19 & 20, 2026, for a free event that welcomes in Spring! The Healing Our Feminine Wounding Immersive is a sacred retreat devoted to untangling inherited shame, silence, and survival patterns carried in the feminine body. Through ritual, reflection, and land based temple arts, we work gently and honestly with what has been passed down so that a truer, steadier way of being can emerge. Sacred Wild Wednesdays is a live weekly gathering with Elyse Welles featuring tarot readings for participants, magickal musings, and grounded spiritual teaching. Held in real time, this space offers guidance, perspective, and connection for those walking the Path of the Sacred Wild.Support the Podcast! 🔮 The Witch’s Reset - A Five-Day Audio Program to Clear the Noise and Transform Your Practice. Join HERE- https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchs_reset 🌙 Join The Rebel Mystic Coven - a private online coven and academy with FREE monthly online lessons. Join for free HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/coven 🌳 The Rebel Mystic Witchcraft Skill Trees - a modular, intentional way to learn witchcraft without overwhelm. Explore the grove HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchcraft-skill-trees 🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com ✨Get Your Free Resources HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/resources 🌒🌕🌘 🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️ Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free gro...

Send a textIn this cozy Yule edition of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles gather around the stove for a heartwarming, fully intuitive simmer pot ritual. Together they explore how scent, memory, and elemental magic weave into one of witchcraft’s simplest yet most profound seasonal practices.Join them as they build two simmer pots — one on the stove and one in a tiny cast-iron cauldron — sharing the magical correspondences of rosemary, alfalfa, apple, clove, motherwort, lavender, bay, nutmeg, and more. Along the way, they reflect on the blessings of the past year, the lineage of their craft, the art of releasing what no longer serves, and the nourishment that kitchen witchery offers in the dark months.This is an episode filled with warmth, laughter, history, and heartfelt magic — a perfect way to honor the turning of the year and welcome the returning light.✨ Want to dive deeper into seasonal kitchen magic? Join Leandra’s free two-day Kitchen Witchery Event on December 18–19, where you’ll learn to create teas, salts, simmer pots, and more. 👉 Register at: leandrawitchwood.com✨ Ready to walk in the footsteps of ancient priestesses? Join Elyse in Greece for a four-day immersive Feminine Wounding Pilgrimage, where you will meet Artemis, Hekate, Hera, Aphrodite, Medusa, Persephone, and more through ritual, sacred sites, and guided healing. This intimate journey is limited to just six participants and is designed to help you release old wounds, reclaim your power, and remember your divine lineage.👉 Learn more and apply at: elysewelles.com/femininewoundSupport the Podcast! 🔮 The Witch’s Reset - A Five-Day Audio Program to Clear the Noise and Transform Your Practice. Join HERE- https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchs_reset 🌙 Join The Rebel Mystic Coven - a private online coven and academy with FREE monthly online lessons. Join for free HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/coven 🌳 The Rebel Mystic Witchcraft Skill Trees - a modular, intentional way to learn witchcraft without overwhelm. Explore the grove HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchcraft-skill-trees 🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com ✨Get Your Free Resources HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/resources 🌒🌕🌘 🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️ Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free gro...

Send a textIn this thought-provoking episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles dive deep into one of the most urgent topics in modern spirituality — the rise of AI in witchcraft. From spellwriting and herbalism to tarot and dream interpretation, witches everywhere are turning to AI for answers — but at what cost?Leandra and Elyse unpack the hidden dangers of using artificial intelligence for magical work, including misinformation, environmental damage, and the loss of personal intuition. They explore how AI erodes discernment, replaces community with false connection, and disconnects us from Earth-based practices. Yet, they also discuss how to use technology mindfully as a tool, without losing your sovereignty or spiritual depth.Whether you’re curious, skeptical, or caught in the algorithmic web, this episode offers grounded, witch-tested insight on how to keep your magic human, sacred, and alive.This episode is both a warning and a call back to embodied, earth-rooted magic. If you’ve been feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, or unsure of your intuitive path, don’t miss the Feminine Wound Masterclass referenced in this episode — a free live event exploring intuition, inner truth, and the healing of ancestral feminine wounds. 👉 Register at: www.elysewelles.com/femininewoundSupport the Podcast! 🔮 The Witch’s Reset - A Five-Day Audio Program to Clear the Noise and Transform Your Practice. Join HERE- https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchs_reset 🌙 Join The Rebel Mystic Coven - a private online coven and academy with FREE monthly online lessons. Join for free HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/coven 🌳 The Rebel Mystic Witchcraft Skill Trees - a modular, intentional way to learn witchcraft without overwhelm. Explore the grove HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchcraft-skill-trees 🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com ✨Get Your Free Resources HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/resources 🌒🌕🌘 🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️ Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free gro...

Send a textIn this landmark episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, hosts Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles sit down with spiritual teacher, psychic healer, and bestselling author George Lizos to explore the modern revival of Hellenic polytheism — the living religion of the ancient Greek gods.George shares his groundbreaking experience performing the first Hellenic polytheist wedding in Cyprus, what it means to practice an evolving ancient faith, and how community, ritual, and activism are helping restore sacred traditions to modern life. Together, they dive deep into the real essence of the Greek gods — beyond myth — and explore how these deities represent universal laws, virtues, and living forces that guide us today.From the mysteries of Zeus and Aphrodite to the misunderstood roles of Hekate and Dionysus, this conversation bridges witchcraft and religion, exploring how the old ways are alive, evolving, and deeply needed in our world.Support the Podcast! 🔮 The Witch’s Reset - A Five-Day Audio Program to Clear the Noise and Transform Your Practice. Join HERE- https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchs_reset 🌙 Join The Rebel Mystic Coven - a private online coven and academy with FREE monthly online lessons. Join for free HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/coven 🌳 The Rebel Mystic Witchcraft Skill Trees - a modular, intentional way to learn witchcraft without overwhelm. Explore the grove HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/witchcraft-skill-trees 🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com ✨Get Your Free Resources HERE - https://leandrawitchwood.com/resources 🌒🌕🌘 🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️ Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free gro...