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New show art by Aki Hoshikawa, https://vgen.co/akihoshikawa Thank you for listening to my chat with Irisanya Moon! Below you can find links to all the resources we mentioned in the show. Resources and Links: Irisanya Moon's website Pagan Portals: Hecate by Irisanya Moon Pagan Portals: Athena by Irisanya Moon When Aphrodite Calls by Irisanya Moon Irisanya's other books! Heart Magick with Irisanya on Substack *Lavender Witchcraft by Sam Wise [my book!] Bloom: a Sapphic Solstice

Thank you for listening to the first ever episode of The Lavender Witch Podcast! Below you can find links to all the resources I mentioned in the show and a full list of the sources I used in writing this episode.

In the last few months, as I've been focusing on promoting my new book and supporting Reclaiming events , I've been speaking less publicly about my folk magic practice. My partner and I recently moved into a new home, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to share my current go-to magical home security system. This post goes over my process for cleansing and protecting a home that has never had any kind of magical protection done on it before, but you could also use bits and

Asexual, A-spectrum, and aromantic folks are an important part of the queer community, but these identities are often left out of discussions of queer history. Well, not today! To my ace* and aro* friends: you are valid, you have a place in this community, and today we're here to talk about gods and spirits associated with your identities! An asexual person is someone who does not experience sexual attraction. The term "asexuality" was first coined in the 1890s, but records o

Note: Many thanks to my wonderful sister for proofreading this post and offering feedback from a trans perspective. Love you! A transgender person is anyone whose gender identity is different from what they were assigned at birth. This includes binary transgender identities, i.e., trans men and trans women, as well as nonbinary identities. Importantly, someone does not need to medically transition to be transgender. "Transgender" as a term goes back to the mid-20th century, w

Achillean is a term for a man or masculine person who is attracted to men or masculine people. It is an alternative to the term men loving men (MLM) and is the masculine version of the term sapphic. Like sapphic, achillean is an umbrella term that includes men and masculine-identified people who are gay, bisexual, pansexual, queer, or any other identity that includes romantic or sexual attraction to men. In some ways, this is the easiest queer identity to research. We have n

New year, new blog series! For the next several months, I'm going to be working on a series of posts focused on queer devotion. In this series, we will explore deities and spirits associated with different LGBTQ+ identities and ideas for how to connect with them. We're starting off with sapphic devotion purely because I am a sapphic woman and like to talk about sapphic history. Researching sapphic history can be a challenge, because women's experiences are often less well-d

There's a lot of pressue to be happy during the holidays. After all, as the songs on the radio are constantly reminding us, "It's the most wonderful time of the year." Or, at least, that's how it's depicted in pop culture. The reality is that the winter holidays can be pretty miserable for some of us. Maybe you've recently lost a loved one and feel a lot of grief about celebrating without them. Maybe you aren't on good terms with your family and don't have the option to go ho

Holiday get-togethers in my family are an eclectic mix of traditions. I am a pagan. My spouse is also pagan, but we follow different traditions and celebrate different holidays. My family is culturally Christian (although mostly non-practicing) and celebrates Christian holidays. My brother-in-law is Jewish, and he and my sister are raising their kids with both Jewish and Christian holidays. Even with just my immediate family, there's a lot of traditions and beliefs to juggle!

I don't know about y'all, but in my corner of the world, this is about the time of year when winter starts to creep in. The days are...

This is the time of year when we make physical preparations for winter. In gardening, this is called overwintering. Overwintering tasks...

We're coming up on Samhain here in the northern hemisphere, which means it's peak ancestor work season for a lot of witches and pagans....

It's no secret that Halloween is related to an ancient Gaelic harvest festival called Samhain. (That's “SOW-en,” not “Sam-hane,” thank...

If you spend enough time in witchy spaces, at some point you will likely come into contact with other alternative spirituality and/or...

In the excellent book How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community, author Mia Birdsong writes about the importance of...

I am very excited to announce that I will be giving a talk at the 2025 Critical Thinking Witch Con next month! Critical Thinking Witch...

Many of us are drawn to magic, witchcraft, and paganism as a means of self-care. Whether we're living with a disability or chronic...

About this book: “The Empress tarot card is the key to understanding how creative expression is the foundation of true self-care. Our...

This is an oil I created for Spiralheart Convergence 2025, an online Reclaiming witch camp. The oil is inspired by the 2025 Convergence...

Note: This post is based on a workshop I taught at Spiralheart Convergence, an online Reclaiming witch camp, in 2025. That class was...