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Welcome to the 100th episode of The Oracle of Luna Podcast!
Join us for a special group panel show in honor of the Goddess Brigid in Her many aspects. At Imbolc-tide as Witches and Pagans, Brigid is celebrated as the powerful threshold Goddess standing between Winter and Spring on the Wheel of the Year. She is “The Exalted One” the Celtic Pagan high Goddess of Fire, Sacred Wells, Poetry, Smithcraft, Healing, Protection, Midwifery, and the Green Earth, A Vodun Lwa, Venerated Abbess and Catholic Saint. She is many things to many people. She is one the most beloved and popular Goddesses throughout history. And Brigid continues her legacy with fluidity in the present and into the future.

Our 3  esteemed Authors and Priestesses of Brigid have a dialogue about:

- Who Brigid is to them
- What Brigid’s Aspects/ and Symbologies/Mythologies align with them most
- Why they connect & devote themselves to Brigid and tend Her flame- 
- How is Brigid relevant now and into the future
Introducing these amazing episode guests:
Pauline Breen:
Pauline Breen is a Priestess of Brigid, Author, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Educator. Her deep connection to her homeland Ireland, inspires her work with Brigid, once revered as the Great Mother Goddess of the Emerald Isle. Through her extensive research, writing, and public speaking, Pauline illuminates the multifaceted and often overlooked aspects of Brigid's legacy. Pauline is the author of 'Maman Brigitte- Dark Goddess of Africa & Ireland', 'Brigantia-Warrior Goddess' and most recently 'Brigit, Lady of the Irish Otherworld.'

Courtney Weber:
Courtney Weber is a Witch, award-winning Author, Tarot adviser, and Influencer. She is the author of Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess; Tarot for One: The Art of Reading for Yourself; The Morrigan: Celtic Goddess of Magick and Might; Hekate: Goddess of Witches and Sacred Tears: A Witch’s Guide To Grief. Courtney has been featured in Maxim, Huffington Post, Vice, and the Thom Hartmann Show.   Visit her at: www.courtneyaweber.com
Marion Brigantia:
Marion 'Brigantia' van Eupen is a Priestess of Brighde-Brigantia, who shares her love for Brighid through Her teachings, workshops, tours and ceremonies. Marion has been journeying with Brighid for over 20 years and has recently published her first book:' Brighid Unraveled'. Marion also is a co-organizer of yearly The Glastonbury Goddess Conference, which celebrated Brighid as Goddess of Healing in 2024. Visit her at: www.marionbrigantia.com 

Tune into this illuminating &  significant Brigid group discussion and be enlightened!
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Get your prosperity on with Rachel Patterson! Rachel is an English Witch who has been walking the Pagan path for over thirty years.  She has had over 30 books published so far, some of them becoming best sellers.   Her newest book release is: “Prosperity Magic – Spell Working for Abundance, Money, and Prosperity” by Moon Books. She is the host of the Pagan Portal Podcast, Elder at the Kitchen Witch Online School of Witchcraft and High Priestess of the Kitchen Witch Coven. She is a regular columnist with Fate & Fortune magazine and Pagan Dawn. Rachel is an Editor and Publicist at Moon Books.
We chat about Rachel’s early beginnings and how her father always took her to sacred places when she was young like Stonehenge. She was drawn to magical stories and books especially about the Arthurian mysteries, witches and dragons. When she was in her early 20’s Rachel bought a book at a thrift store about the history of English Witchcraft and it really resonated with who she was and that was the beginning of her Witchcraft journey. After 35 plus more years; Rachel says she is still learning. 
Rachel started out reviewing books for Moon Books but then eventually started writing books about Kitchen Witchery in 2012 and now 33 books later Rachel just published her newest release: “Prosperity Magic – Spell Working for Abundance, Money, and Prosperity” by Moon Books. Rachel is a regular columnist with Fate & Fortune magazine in England called “The Witch that Gets You Rich” for 6 years. She thought it would be a good idea to pull all of those articles into a book since they are all about Money/Prosperity magic. This book includes hands- on practical spells that you can use to make your life more prosperous. Abundance comes in many forms, not just money. You can call in love, friends, support, good health, success..anything. There are even spells for cleaning out debt too which is the starting point for allowing the good prosperity to come in.
We jump into the many types of spellwork in Rachel’s book including: candle magic, spell pouches, knot work, color magic, fashion/clothing color, spell jars etc. Any of these spell items can be charged for magic . Rachel’s go to is Candle magic because it brings in color magic and flame which is about transformation.The bottom line is that it has to resonate with you! It is very important to give offerings and having gratitude in money magic spell work. There are checks and balances in any magic.  You can't keep asking deity or the divine to keep showering you with money over and over without giving back! 
We chat about how adding layers to a prosperity spell can boost the magic Lunar phases and certain days of the week can energetically  enhance our prosperity and money spells. If you want to work with the Sun’s energy then  you can do your spell in the morning or if you are releasing debts you could do this at sunset. Adding herbs like chili powder or mustard can boost the energy of the spell to make it work faster. Don’t forget to add a timeline with the wording and intent too. We end the show with Rachel offering us some great wealth and abundance tips. Tune into this bewitching conversation and be enlightened!   Visit Rachel at: www.rachelpatterson.co.uk

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Explore Lunar Magic with Jen Sankey! Jen is an author, deck creator, tarot reader, professional witch, and speaker. She blends tarot, lunar magic, and spiritual guidance to create transformative tools. Her works include the award-winning Stardust Wanderer Tarot (Self-Published), Enchanted Forest Felines Tarot (Llewellyn), Manifesting by the Moon: A Lunar Guide to Magic (Llewellyn), Feb 2026, and Goblin Whispers Tarot (2027, Llewellyn). Jen shares her knowledge through workshops, events, and online platforms, inspiring others to enhance their intuition and magical potential.

We chat about Jen’s early beginnings and as a kid she spent a lot of time alone wandering in the woods in nature. Her family moved around several times, and she grew up poor.  This adversity taught her resiliency and independence. Coming of age pre-internet gives us a different perspective and makes us more self-disciplined in figuring out and learning about how to be a Witch we both agree!

Jen’s tells us about new book “Manifesting by The Moon” and how she wanted to teach people how to harness the energy and power of the moon phases and tie it in with manifesting. As Witches a lot of spell work is about bringing in our intentions to our lives. Jen wanted to write an uncomplicated workbook so people can harness the moon phases and to get them to trust their intuition. She invites the reader to use her book like a lunar map to bring in our manifestations. Jen helps us to reframe our thinking to incorporate the mind, the body and the spirit self to mirror each lunar phase with tarot spreads, magical exercises, spells, meditations, lunar teas and sigils so that the reader can explore through sections and a format that is easy to follow for each of the moon phases and for mind, body and spirit connection.

We jump into how the different lunar phases and Jen describes the energy of each phase and suggests what energies we can align our intentional spell work for physical, emotional and spiritual integration. We are the magicians of our lives and can co-create with the moon’s phases energies and so there is effort. This is intentional and grounding. It takes patience and trust. As we work with our intentions through each of the lunar phases and working towards our manifesting, we might change our minds and discover new ideas or information and in this process, we learn about ourselves.

Lunar Magic is a potent, cyclical, and embodied practice that is accessible to all of us which can enrich our bodies, minds and spirits, bringing us balance of the light and dark within and magic on many levels throughout our lives. The Moon is always there for us. Let's manifest our best life with Lunar Magic! Jen ends the episode with a very short Moon flower visualization. Tune into this enchanted conversation and be enlightened!  Visit Jen at: www.stardustwanderertarot.com 

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Join us in this episode as we discover  the importance & potentiality of  the liminal with Sande Hart! Sande is an award-winning leader in the fields of Women’s empowerment and interfaith community building, and Author of Nautilus Award winning The Liminal Odyssey - The Alchemical Power of the Spaces In-Between. She is the Founding President of The Global Woman’s Village, since 2001, originally named S.A.R.A.H. (The Spiritual And Religious Alliance for Hope.) Sande developed and served as Director for the Women and Girls sector for the Charter for Compassion and served on the Women’s Task Force for The Parliament of The World’s Religions 2015-2023. 
We delve into Sande’s book: “The Liminal Odyssey”. This is about her stories, wild experiences and synchronicities woven together as a guide on how we can understand and embrace our threshold in between times. Each chapter or story is anchored in a methodology of social psychology, science, indigenous wisdom, the trust wisdom philosophy, etc. Jean Shinoda Bolen told Sande about a word that she loved called: Liminal and from there Sande thought about her own experiences and thresholds and what made them possible and what was the seed or life lesson within her thresholds experiences. All these chapters lead us towards cultivating awareness of  potentiality and our divine assignment(s) within a threshold or liminal time/experience. It’s this questioning that Sande believes is the greatest gift that we can give our soul.

Sande says that what The Liminal Odyssey is all about is how she slowed down and created a condition of “tunefulness” to notice all the seeds of truth and meaning behind significant threshold experiences in her life we need to slow down in order to see/understand/embrace them. It's our job to say yes to them because who knows what they will grow into?We chat about the significance of the Heroes/Sheroes journey and how the signposts of where we are headed most often do not show up in a linear fashion. We need a new construct and be open to what wants to emerge as the new myth of our life. The steps were developed by Carl Jung and popularized by Joseph Campbell, Disney and George Lucas since its in every movie plot as the arc of a character’s story from beginning to end where the character after going through the heroes’ journey finds their actualized agency. And every day we can find ourselves at a new beginning. Sande thinks we should enjoy the struggle and pain involved in change and inner work. We get to experience and feel the struggle, pain and confusion of the liminal phases and heroes/sheroes journey to get to our next actualized evolved state. We end with Sande giving us a guided meditation on learning a new way of being and the power of the feminine principle from the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. Tune in and be enlightened!     Visit Sande at: www.sandehart.com

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Unleash your spirit as we kick off Season 5 with Phoenix LeFae! Phoenix is a Witch, Author, and owner of a witchy shop called: Milk & Honey in Sebastopol, CA. She is trained in several Witchcraft traditions and is initiated into the Reclaiming Tradition of Witchcraft, the Avalon Druid Order, and Gardnerian Wicca. She offers readings and spell crafting support to her students and clients. She is also a published Author of several books including her newest book: Spirit Magic by Llewellyn Worldwide released on January 8, 2026. *Stay tuned to the end when Phoenix offers us a lovely grounding visualization to connect with your Spirit!*

We delve into what Spirit means from a Wiccan/Pagan perspective which is the “Spirit is Me” philosophy which that we are the center and not a separate external force. Spirit is the divine substance and the animating force of the universe that binds all the other Elements together. It’s the energy behind all of nature and humanity that makes everything work.  Spirit is also intertwined with all the other Elements by the relationship with Animism. Recognizing that everything human, animal, plant, trees, rocks etc. has its own distinct animating life force and energy and that is its spirit.

Gods, Goddesses and Deities are also in connection with Spirit. Phoenix is a polytheist, and she teaches workshops about many Gods/Goddesses/Deities. Her favorite is the primordial Star Goddess. Phoenix feels that the Star Goddess is the perfect representation of Spirit. Ritual connects us with the spirit world, and we discuss how different Wiccan/Pagan traditions invoke spirit in sacred ritual each with their own unique emphasis and structure on how spirit moves through the individual within a coven or circle.

Phoenix was inspired to write this book about the ethereal 5th Element (Spirit) since she loves paradox, liminality, quintessence, and dark matter. She researched and did deep dives into all the other Elements individually (Air, Fire Water, Earth). ‘Spirit Magic” is part of the Elements series by Llewellyn Worldwide and follows the same format of the other 4 books in this series. The entire Elements series an amazing deep dive into foundational Witchcraft!
There are a multitude of ways from very elaborate to simple everyday practices to connect with something greater than yourself. Pausing every day from your busy - ness in the mundane world to take a moment and recognize that the world is full of magic and spiritual energy and that we are part of this divine web.Phoenix wraps up our episode with her visualization offering for us to connect with the element of Spirit within us. Tune in and be enlightened! More about Phoenix at: www.phoenixlefae.com 

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