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What does it really mean to be prosperous, and how can witchcraft help us cultivate lasting prosperity rather than constantly chasing money?
In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles welcome bestselling author and occult scholar Judika Illes to explore prosperity magic, money spells, and her new Prosperity Spells oracle deck.
Together, they discuss the difference between prosperity, wealth, and abundance, and why specificity matters when casting spells. Judika shares how traditional symbols like rabbits, frogs, and ladybugs can support prosperity workings, while the hosts explore maintaining prosperity altars, replenishing magical energy, and making spellwork part of everyday life.
The conversation also examines the relationship between prosperity and protection magic, including the evil eye, jealousy, energetic boundaries, and the importance of knowing when to share your successes.
Discover how discernment, magical protection, and consistent spiritual practice can help you approach prosperity as an ongoing state of being rather than a temporary financial fix.
Connect with Judika Illes:
Instagram: www.instagram.com/judikailles/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AuthorJudikaIlles/
Prosperity Spells Deck: https://redwheelweiser.com/book/prosperity-spells-9781578639496/
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The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.
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What can mushrooms teach us about being human—and about finding our way back into relationship with the world around us?
In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles welcome author and doula Madison Murphy Barney to explore the ideas behind Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms. Madison shares how mushrooms and mycelial networks offer a powerful blueprint for humility, reciprocity, decomposition, community, and living as part of an ecosystem rather than above it.
Together, they explore what “right relationship” can look like in everyday life: reconnecting with ancestral ways of knowing, tending the land and communities where we actually live, practicing curiosity, and relearning the ordinary skills of being a good neighbor. They also examine the limits of individualism and the self-help mindset, asking what becomes possible when spirituality moves beyond endless self-improvement and back toward embodiment, relationship, service, and the Earth.
Connect with Madison Murphy Barney:
Official Website: https://madisonmurphybarney.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madisonmurphybarney/
Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms: https://redwheelweiser.com/imprints/weiser-books/
Our Medicine: https://ourmedicine.substack.com/
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Samhainfest is a two-day celebration of witchcraft, folklore, ritual, music, and ancestor reverence, held October 31 to November 1, 2026, in Havre de Grace, Maryland.
Learn more and get tickets at samhainfest.com.
The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.
Learn more at elysewelles.com/visitgreece
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Can you practice witchcraft alone without becoming isolated?
In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles explore the balance between solitary witchcraft and spiritual community. They talk about why a solitary practice can be deeply meaningful while still leaving room for covens, festivals, public rituals, workshops, and other forms of connection.
Together, they unpack the different levels of commitment that witchcraft communities can offer, from initiatory covens and ongoing groups to festivals and one-time classes. They also discuss social anxiety, group dynamics, spiritual growth, shadow work, unhealthy communities, leadership, and how difficult interactions can sometimes reveal important lessons about ourselves.
This is a grounded conversation about finding support without giving up your independence—and recognizing that being a solitary witch does not have to mean walking your path alone. 
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Samhainfest is a two-day celebration of witchcraft, folklore, ritual, music, and ancestor reverence, held October 31 to November 1, 2026, in Havre de Grace, Maryland.
Learn more and get tickets at samhainfest.com.
The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.
Learn more at elysewelles.com/visitgreece
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Join the Rebel Mystic Coven Inner Circle before December 1, 2026, and keep the current rate as you enter the coven's new year-long Cauldrons in 2027. Something is brewing, and founding members get the first seat at the fire.
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What changes when psychoactive and poisonous plants are approached as spirits and ceremonial allies rather than simply substances?
In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles welcome occult herbalist and author Coby Michael for a candid conversation about plant spirit medicine, psychedelics, ritual entheogens, poisonous plants, and sacred ceremony.
Coby, author of The Poison Path Herbal: Baneful Herbs, Medicinal Nightshades, and Ritual Entheogens, The Poison Path Grimoire, and The Poison Path Oracle, explores the important differences between recreational use, abuse, and spiritual relationship with mind-altering plants. Together, they discuss preparation and intention, surrender during altered states, animism, addiction and recovery, mushroom medicine, cannabis, tobacco, belladonna, and the commercialization of plant medicine.
They also explore how plant spirits can challenge our ideas about consciousness, interconnectedness, imagination, and spiritual transformation.
This conversation is educational and reflective, not an encouragement to use psychoactive or poisonous substances. Approach all plant medicines with appropriate caution, professional guidance, and respect. 
Connect with Coby Michael:
The Poisoner’s Apothecary
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Samhainfest is a two-day celebration of witchcraft, folklore, ritual, music, and ancestor reverence, held October 31 to November 1, 2026, in Havre de Grace, Maryland.
Learn more and get tickets at samhainfest.com.
The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.
Learn more at elysewelles.com/visitgreece
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Join the Rebel Mystic Coven Inner Circle before December 1, 2026, and keep the current rate as you enter the coven's new year-long Cauldrons in 2027. Something is brewing, and founding members get the first seat at the fire.
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🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com 

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🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️
Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free group with weekly live lessons and readings. Join upcoming pilgrimages and container courses here: www.elysewelles.com/2026Immersive
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What happens when divination moves beyond the tarot table and into relationship with the living world?
In this episode of the Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles welcome Joanna Farrar, author of The Diviner’s Path: A Nature-Led Approach to Divination with Tarot, Runes, and Pendulums, for a rich conversation about divination, animism, omens, and spirit communication.
Joanna explains what divination actually is, how symbolic systems like tarot and runes function as languages, and why observation and pattern recognition are essential when working with signs from birds, weather, animals, and the land. They also explore augury, pendulums, spiritual hygiene, discernment, journaling, fate versus free will, and how to build trustworthy relationships with spirits without surrendering your own agency.
This episode is a grounded guide to making divination more relational, practical, and deeply connected to place.
Connect with Joanna Farrar:
Coffee & Divination
Instagram
Special Rate - Lock in by December 1st
Samhainfest is a two-day celebration of witchcraft, folklore, ritual, music, and ancestor reverence, held October 31 to November 1, 2026, in Havre de Grace, Maryland.
Learn more and get tickets at samhainfest.com.
The Sacred Waters Retreat is a four-day pilgrimage through Greece’s healing springs, volcanic islands, sea caves, and sacred coastal landscapes. Through ritual, ceremony, and time on the water, you will reconnect with emotional renewal, embodied softness, and the ancient wisdom held by the sea.
Learn more at elysewelles.com/visitgreece
Support the Podcast!
Join the Rebel Mystic Coven Inner Circle before December 1, 2026, and keep the current rate as you enter the coven's new year-long Cauldrons in 2027. Something is brewing, and founding members get the first seat at the fire.
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🫖 The Witchwood Teahouse! Check out Leandra's uniquely hand-blended teas - www.thewitchwoodteahouse.com 

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🗝️ 🕯️CLICK HERE for Elyse's free Guide to Energy Protection. 🌟🧙‍♀️
Follow Elyse @seekingnumina, & join Seekers of the Sacred Wild, a free group with weekly live lessons and readings. Join upcoming pilgrimages and container courses here: www.elysewelles.com/2026Immersive
Support on Patreon here for book club, a ritual library, and exclusive videos!