Anthony Rella
Anthony Rella is a witch, writer, and psychotherapist living in Seattle, Washington. He has been a full-time therapist since 2013, and his professional experience includes counseling work with men of all kinds, people in the queer community, homeless and low-income folks, chronically mentally ill individuals, and people who have been incarcerated or sentenced for criminal charges. Anthony has studied and practiced witchcraft since starting in the Reclaiming witchcraft tradition in 2005. He is a student and teacher of Morningstar Mystery School and a founding member of the Fellowship of the Phoenix’s Seattle temple. His published books on psycho-spiritual healing and transformation includes Circling the Star (Gods & Radicals, 2018) and In the Midnight Hour (Gods & Radicals, 2020). More on his work is available at anthonyrella.com.
Barbara Rachel
"Though I have always been touched by the suffering of others, I was not able to be really helpful until I matured into the realization that there is really no difference between myself and people labeled as mentally ill. Thirty years ago I graduated from social work school and worked in community mental health and then found the therapy which has guided me ever since. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a skills-based treatment that is rooted in mindfulness and Buddhist thought. It has helped me and the traumatized people I work with find the path to reduce suffering and find a life worth living. I live by the four rules of life: show up, pay attention, tell the truth, and don’t be attached to the results. Namaste."
Courtney Weber is a witch, author, tarot adviser, and activist. She is the author of Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess and Tarot for One: the Art of Reading for Yourself, The Morrigan: Celtic Goddess of Magick and Might and Hekate: Goddess of Witches. She is a co-host of the “That Witch Life” podcast. She has been featured in Maxim, Playboy, Huffington Post, Vice, and the Thom Hartmann Show. Visit her online at courtneyaweber.com.
Ivo Dominguez, Jr. has been active in Wicca and the pagan community since 1978 and has been teaching since 1982. Ivo is a founding member and high priest of Keepers of the Holly Chalice, the first Assembly of the Sacred Wheel coven, for which he currently serves as an elder. Ivo has been published in numerous periodicals and is the author of several books. His newest title is The Four Elements of the Wise: Working with the Magickal Powers of Earth, Air, Water, Fire. Find out more at ivodominguezjr.com.
Joshua Tenpenny is a Freysman, a devotee of Shiva, and a retired sacred prostitute. His life is dedicated to the service of others, in various forms—through teaching and writing, as a massage therapist, as a council member of the First Kingdom Church of Asphodel, and most importantly, in his service to Raven Kaldera, helping him to change the world for the better.
Kari Tauring is a Norse cultural educator, folk musician, spiritual leader, and healer living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a völva, staff-carrying woman, and the originator of the Völva Stav mind/body/spirit philosophy and practice. Growing up in a Norwegian-American ethnic enclave, Tauring began digging below the surface of her immigrant culture in 1988 when a linguistics professor introduced her to the runes. Her life’s passion is to help other Americans with European roots excavate, mend, and reconnect to their own cultures of origin and the stories carried in the body through generations. Tauring maintains that reconnecting to root culture identity assists in moving us away from racialized identity. Family-of-origin stories point to the sources of trauma we carry. Root culture gives us the language, songs, dances, mythic allegories, metaphysics, and cosmologies to assist in our deep root healing. Tauring is the author of the book and iPhone app, The Runes: A Deeper Journey, several Nordic root musical recordings, a Nordic dance curriculum, and a series of online workshops for Nordic root healing, and maintains the website karitauring.com.
Kelden Mercury is a traditional witch and practicing mental health therapist. He is the author of The Crooked Path: An Introduction to Traditional Witchcraft.
Kirk White
Kirk White, M.A., L.Ac., is a healer, teacher, author, and state legislator. He has been a registered psychotherapist since 1996 and a licensed acupuncturist/Chinese herbalist for over twenty-five years. A practicing Witch and magician since 1973, he is past co-president of Covenant of the Goddess (North America’s oldest and largest association of Witches and Wiccans), and founder of both Cherry Hill Seminary, a professional pagan ministry program with faculty and students worldwide, and Standing Stone Academy, a pagan healer training program. He is author of several books on Paganism and Freemasonry.
Nimue Brown is a practicing Druid, taught by OBOD but feral in her instincts. She spends a great deal of time out of doors, reads omnivorously, is fascinated by everything, sings mournful songs, and daydreams a lot.
Orion Foxwood
Orion Foxwood is an eco-magical activist, traditional witch, conjure-man, and faery seer, and the author of The Faery Teachings (RJ Stewart Books), The Tree of Enchantment, Mountain Conjure and Southern Rootwork, and The Flame in the Cauldron (Weiser Books). Born with the veil in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, he was exposed to faith-healing, root-doctoring, faery lore, and southern and Appalachian folk magic which he teaches in workshops and other forums. He is the founder of the House of Brigh Faery Seership Institute and Foxwood Temple to pass on the traditional witchcraft of his elders, and co-founder of “Conjure-Craft,” “Witches in the Woods,” and "The Many Roads of Faery," gatherings aimed at fostering education, community, co-creative magic, and the healing and helping practices of the traditions he carries. He holds a master’s degree in human services. More can be found at orionfoxwood.com.
Raven Kaldera
Raven Kaldera is a Northern Tradition shaman, herbalist, astrologer, transgendered intersexual activist, homesteader, and founding member of the First Kingdom Church of Asphodel. He has been a practicing shaman for almost two decades now. He is the author of too many books to list here, including the Northern-Tradition Shamanism series, MythAstrology, Pagan Astrology, Dealing With Deities: Practical Polytheistic Theology, and Hermaphrodeities: The Transgender Spirituality Workbook. ‘Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
Sarah W.
Sarah W. is a Hellenic polytheist and devotee of Dionysos, the god who liberates minds and hearts but also heals us from destructive madness. She lives in the Pacific Northwest where she immerses herself in art, nature, and the unseen world.
Siobhan Johnson
Siobhan Johnson is a witch who focuses on the magic of stories, from archetypes to astrology and tarot, and the written word itself. She has been practicing for ten years. You can find her at siobhanjohnson.com.