Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined by Isaac Hill — occultist, astrologer, musician, gardener, and co-host of the always-fascinating Plant Cunning Podcast. Isaac lives on an herb farm in Central New York State with his wife, AC, and together they have interviewed some of the most important herbalists, occultists, astrologers, and permaculturists working today. He is also the author of The Heathen Golden Dawn and his new book, The Zodiac Garden Guide, which we discuss in this episode....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I welcome Kimberly Steele, author of Sacred Homemaking: A Magical Approach to a Tidier Home. Kimberly’s work invites us to approach the home as a living, ensouled place — one shaped by gratitude, attention, care, and relationship. We talk about her path from tarot into Druidry, why she wrote Sacred Homemaking as a practical entry point for people returning to spiritual life, and how small acts like cleaning one corner, thanking the bed, sweeping the floor, or...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I welcome my friend and returning guest Ivy Bromius of Circle Thrice back to the show. Ivy and I have known each other for a number of years, and her work brings together a wonderfully unusual - and extremely useful -combination of professional project management, practical enchantment, and magical timing through tarot and other divinatory arts. We begin with risk: how can divination help us look toward the future without becoming trapped by fear? Ivy explain...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I welcome my friend Beck Ravenswood to the show - witch, tarot reader, and owner of The Serpent’s Key Shoppe in Hanover, PA. Beck shares the story of discovering tarot as a teenager, receiving the dream that helped inspire The Serpent’s Key, and creating a thriving, interfaith community space devoted to magic, education, and connection. We also discuss the legal fight that has placed Beck and their shop at the center of a much larger conversation about divi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Coffee and Divination, I welcome author, witch, educator, and biological scientist Sian Sibley for a fascinating conversation on plant spirits, pagan ecology, animism, geomancy, and ethical magical practice. We explore what it means to truly treat plants, stones, incense, trees, and the land itself as living beings in relationship with us — and why that changes how we practice magic. This conversation also dives into “doubt devils,” discernment in divinatio...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined once again by Dr. Alexander Cummins — historian of magic, diviner, and teacher of early modern cunning craft—for a deep and grounded conversation on working with spirits as allies in magical and divinatory practice. Together, we explore what it really means to work with ancestral practitioners—the spirits of the magical dead—and how these relationships were understood historically, as well as how they can be approached with clarity and integrity t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined by the brilliant Laura Tempest Zakroff — artist, author, performer, and modern Traditional Witch, whose work sits at the crossroads of art, embodiment, divination, and magic. We discuss Laura’s newest book, Tarot by Tempest: Playing with Numbers, Meaning & Movement, and why play is a vital part of divination: it's often the doorway back into creativity, intuition, and real insight. (A topic I'm very passionate about as well!) In this epis...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined by Solomon Pakal - founder of the Mayan Mystery School, historian, and longtime occult practitioner - for a conversation on astrology, tarot, and the depth of Maya traditions of magic and divination. We speak about his perspective on tarot, the importance of understanding divination within a larger cultural and cosmological framework, and the vastness of Maya magical and divinatory traditions. This is a conversation about worldviews as much as me...

Send us Fan Mail My guest in this episode is Ethony Dawn—author, professional tarot reader, and teacher, known for her clear, supportive approach to helping readers build confidence and consistency with the cards. In this conversation, we keep things practical and accessible as we talk about how to learn tarot well: building real skill through repetition and reflection, learning to trust what you’re seeing, and developing your own unique style as a reader. We also explore different approache...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined once again by Ivo Dominguez Jr. prolific author and long-time leader in the modern occult community. We’re discussing the newly updated, re-released edition of his book Spirit Speak: A Comprehensive Guide to Connect Beyond the Veil, and what it offers practitioners seeking clear, safe, grounded methods of spirit contact for divination and magical work. Ivo is not only one of my favorite guests to speak with and learn from - he was also one of...