Happy Halloween witches! Okay, well, Halloween might still be a little ways away, but to celebrate our favorite Scorpio's favorite season, instead of a traditional New Moon, New Book, we have this amazing interview with Lydia O'Connor, Salem's first and only horror hostess. If you know her, you love her, and if you don't, this interview is a great introduction to the lore and the backstory that makes Wretched Lydia so captivating to her audience. And yes, she's a real witch! 

Not only did we get to read and discuss Pam Grossman's new book, Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path to Creativity, before it's release on October 14th, but for this Aries Super Moon, we got to talk to the magical maven herself! This episode has it all - we laughed, we got really close to crying, we had a beautiful conversation about a beautiful book.    Pam's Bio, from her website: Pam is a writer, curator, and teacher of magical practice and history. She is the host of The Witch Wave podcast (“the Terry Gross of Witches” - Vulture) and the author of Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power (Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster) and What Is A Witch (Tin Can Forest Press). She is also co-editor and co-author of the WITCHCRAFT volume of Taschen’s Library of Esoterica series. Her forthcoming book, Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path to Creativity, will be published by Penguin Life in October 2025.   Check out this link to access all things Magic Maker - where to pre-order, the events, and the blurbs! 

Happy New Moon, New Book witches! It is an absolute honor to bring your Pam Grossman's Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path to Creativity, releasing in October! Spoiler, we loved it, but it also took us on a typical Gemini-Scorpio journey. We discovered that Gemini has never listened to the Smiths and Scorpio recounted her experience with a ouija board and both hosts discussed the ways this book is distinctly applicable to their lives. You are definitely going to want to listen to this before you pre-order the book whereever you pre-order your books! 

Happy Eclipse witches! Originally intended to be a discussion of harvest mythologies, Scorpio and Gemini had a chat about their relationships to the harvest and the various reasons and methods to banish the "shoulds" that are holding you back. 

Happy Virgo New Moon and welcome to our new series, the Great Grimoire Review! Each year, Scorpio and Gemini will grab a grimoire or spellbook from their vast collections and discuss and dissect them on the podcast! Also, there will be a middle section where Gemini becomes deeply philosophical about, and we quote, moral ecology. What books did they bring? You'll have to press play to find out! 

We simply can't turn down an opportunity to talk to Monica Bodirsky on the pod and once again she delivered! There's a little bit for everyone - she discusses her recent time in Salem, her brand new lenormand deck, Wicked Tales, her elemental retreat and the illustrious Obsidian Academy, plus she teases her 2026 plans. 

Happy New Moon witches! Gemini and Scorpio read How to Kill a Witch By Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, the Witches of Scotland, and had a LOT to say about it. The subtitle for this episode might just be "The Blood Magic of the Patriarchy" or "Resistance in the Face of a Witch Hunt" because this book managed to be not just a really fun read about a historical period for Scotland, but also a facilitator of conversation about the struggles of living in the version of America that is on fire. Also, we talk about Sinners and how y'all should watch that (not Gemini though, she's soft)!

We're baaaaack witches! For our first episode post maternity leave, we discuss our suggestions for a "dabbler's week" - one week to get into witchcraft for the first time. But don't worry, as usual, it's more than that, with ideas even a seasoned witch can use! 

Happy New Moon, New Book! This is the last episode of pre-recorded material, and Past Gemini and Scorpio are letting the veil drop a little from 6 months ago (how naïve they were). Want to know how they feel about palmistry? About the "A Little Bit of" series? Dive in! 

What's up witches? For June's Full Moon, we're talking about our more obscure divination systems. Have you tried them all? 

Happy New Moon, New Book and happy AWIT to all who celebrate! Ian Chamber's The Witch Compass: Working with the Winds in Traditional Witchcraft is a book that our hosts strongly, strongly recommend, but you might not expect why (unless you've read it, then you totally get why Gemini and Scorpio had such deep thoughts). 

Happy Scorpio Full Moon witches and welcome to a collection of Places Our Hosts Disagree! Scorpio and Gemini have agreed a lot in the last 7 years, but where do they disagree? Do they still disagree about things from the past or are they more aligned than ever? Press play to find out!

What's up witches and welcome to an episode that is one part "classic Witchspace shit" and a second, slightly larger part "Gemini reckoning". With what? A lot! Gemini and Scorpio read 7 Goddesses of the Hellenistic World by Jo Graham, and while it might not be for everyone, there are definitely some reasons you might want to dive in!

That's it, that's the whole episode! ;) (And when you're done, hop on over to Cawnawyn Mor's Dark Moon Chronicle, so you can get even more magic and motherhood content!)

Happy New Moon, New Book, Solar Eclipse! Gemini and Scorpio talk Mat Auryn's Psychic Witch, why gatekeeping can be Good Actually, and how Gemini doesn't want science in her witchcraft. 

Are you psychic? Are WE psychic? Not only do they answer that common question for themselves, your beloved hosts also discuss the way they define psychic, their internal biases when it comes to the concept of a psychic and their most intuitive and so-called psychic moments. 

Happy New Moon, New Book! For this episode, Gemini and Scorpio didn't read the same book - they read their respective sun signs from the Witch's Sun Sign Series (by Ivo Dominguez Jr, for Llewellyn). This episode might seem short but there's a lot of ground covered. Have you read your sign in Dominguez's series? 

Happy February witches! For an episode so close to love day, you know we had to talk about our greatest love - Reading! How did we decide to a be a book podcast, why reading is important (to us and in general), and everything in between. If you've been looking for some insight into our brains, this episode is coming in hot just for you! 

You knew it was coming, here's our review of Madame Pamita's new book The Witch's Guide to Animal Familiars! If you didn't hear our chat with her for January's Full Moon, you may have missed the spoiler that we LOVE this book, so tune in quick and find out why. 

Happy 2025 coven! We got to sit down with Madame Pamita and discuss all things magical - from Baba Yaga to the Wizard of Oz, to her new book, dropping later this month, The Witch's Guide to Animal Familiars.  Not only can you catch her on her website, Parlour of Wonders, on Instagram and Youtube, but you can get one of her many witchcraft tomes wherever books are sold! You might even hear about a NEW book dropping in 2026 if you start listening now ;)