New Year's Resolutions abound! Are they effective? Lewanna and Maria explore one of the most common New Year's Resolutions in the witchy community; building a daily witchcraft practice. This advice is passed down from many witches in the community and new age spiritual authors, but is it necessary to have a daily practice to be a witch? Join us and find out how you can either create a daily practice and how it can fit into your life! The Holistic Psychologist- New Year's Resolution post: https://www.facebook.com/the.holistic.psychologist/posts/3261322200658026 Maria's Newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/mbadillowrites

Happy Holiday's! We know that spending the holiday season with family can often be messy and anxiety inducing for many. It can become even more complicated if you have different beliefs from your family. Many people feel compelled to come out to family during this time. What better time than when you have your family gathered all in one place?! Right?! Join us as we spin our coming out tales and offer words of advice for the season.

With Halloween fast approaching, we thought it would be a good idea to talk about divination! How it works, where it comes from, and what styles we like to practice. From pendulums to animal intestines, take a seat at the table with us!  Decks mentioned in the episode:  - Dark Wood Tarot by Abigail Larson    - Nightmare Before Christmas Tarot by Abigail Larson    - Somnia Tarot by Nicholas Bruno   *We were not paid to promote any items featured in this video*

The media has undoubtedly shaped the way people view us and what we do, both for good and for bad. On today’s episode, we discuss how news outlets affect society's views on witchcraft. Since the dawn of the Church as an institution, many things have been conflated with witchcraft and Satanism. We take a look at marketing and advertising and how that relates to propaganda in the news world, further exacerbating the idea that Witchcraft is the same as Satanism, and that Satanism is evil and violent. Take a seat at the table and join the discussion as we unravel witchcraft in the news! Links referenced in the episode: How marketing affects your brain- https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/marketing-your-brain/ BBC Story on the killer- https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-58191473 Citations Needed podcast episode on “‘neutral’ experts”- https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-79-how-neutral-experts-took-over-trumps-iran-policy Matthew Feldman’s article, Radical Right Terrorists Are Usually Self-Radicalized- https://www.radicalrightanalysis.com/2020/08/03/radical-right-terrorists-are-usually-self-radicalized-2/ *We do not own the rights to the music featured on this episode*

Take a seat at the Table and meet your hosts! Lewanna and Maria introduce themselves as well as the vision for this project. Join them in helping uplift local voices to learn more about their practices and their local businesses! If you would like to become a guest on the show to discuss your practice or unique witchy knowledge, email us at [email protected] To become a member of our Patreon to help keep this show and our other projects running, please check out our website at www.thewitchesaltar.com/membership or go directly to our Patreon at www.patreon.com/thewitchesaltar *We do not own the rights to the music featured on this episode*