Along the way in my journey I have studied many disciplines with many teachers. A list of my teachers – human, book, and more-than-human is below. This list is non-exhaustive but it should give you a sense of the most meaningful influences on my work.
Divination
Tarot
Lindsay Mack – Tarot for the Wild Soul, 2019
Tess Giberson – The Court Cards, 2018
Erin Aquarian – The Emperor, 2020
Samara Kasai – Decolonize the Tarot, 2020
Holistic Tarot by Benebell Wen
Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow
Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack
The Power of the Trumps by Camelia Elias
I must also credit my tarot knowledge to a childhood friend’s grandmother who first introduced me to the tarot, but who I do not name here for privacy reasons.
Runes
Siri Plouff – Radical Runes, 2021
Lara Veleda Vesta – Patreon
Wild Soul Runes by Lara Veleda Vesta
The Runes Revealed by Ingrid Kincaid and Lara Vesta
Playing Cards
54 Devils by Cory Thomas Hutcheson
Spiritwork
Ren Zatopek – Simple Spiritwork, 2017; Human Spiritwork, 2017-2020; Hedge-Riders, 2022-present
My spirit and energetic teachers, see below
Astrology
Davis Carr – How to Read Your Natal Chart Workshop, 2020
Amaya Rourke – The Path Chooses You, 2022; Lot of Cultivation, 2022
Diana Harper – Caeleste Natura, 2021; Patreon
Olivia Pepper – Star Poetry: Mercury, 2021; Saturn Intensive, 2020
Herbalism
Sarah Corbett – Seasonal Medicine Collective 2021-2022; Herbaria 2022-present; Caeleste Natura 2021
Southern Folk Medicine by Phyllis D. Light
Herbal Rituals by Judith Berger
Ancestor Work
Olivia Pepper – Ancestral Remediation 2018-2020
Sophie Macklin – Beyond the Blood, 2020
Sarah Corbett – Root Medicine, 2019
Darla Antoine – Anti-Racist Genealogical Research, 2018
Ancestral Medicine by Daniel Foor
(NOTE: This book has helped me and many folks, however there claims of issues with Daniel Foor’s business practices. I have never interacted with Foor, his classes, or his organization beyond this book. You can learn more here: https://openletteram.medium.com/open-letter-regardingdaniel-foor-ancestral-medicine-c035f2823d1f)
Folk Magic
General
Olivia Pepper (various)
Enrique Salmón – Trickster Consicousness, 2021
Six Ways by Aidan Wachter
Caliban and the Witch by Sylvia Federici
How To Do Nothing by Jenny O’Dell
Staying With The Trouble by Donna Haraway
Joyful Militancy by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery
New World Witchery by Cory Thomas Hutcheson
Occult Features of Anarchism by Erica Lagalisse
Pagan Anarchism by Christopher S. Thompson
Backwoods Witchcraft by Jake Richards
Another Mother Tongue by Judy Grahn
Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture by Arthur Evans
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Faggots and Their Friend Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
Mediterranean Folk Practices
Chleydoreus – Patreon, 2021-present
Kristin Mathis – Planetary Personalities in the Orphic Hymns, 2022
Orphic Hymns Grimoire by Sara Leanne Mastros
Myrto Daskaloudi – Mati Magic, 2022; Greek & Jewish Protection Plants, 2022
Italian Folk Magic by Mary Grace Fahrun
On the Ocean by Barry Cunliffe
Heathen/Norse Paganism
Siri Vincent Plouff – Patreon, one-on-one work
Lara Veleda Vesta – Patreon
The Way of Fire and Ice by Ryan Smith
Energetic and Spirit Teachers
The Great Black Swamp, the Birds, My Great Grandmother, My Mediterranean Ancestors, Lake Erie, Crow, Saddleback mountain, Rosemary, Linden, Dandelion, Yarrow, Oak, My Hidden Ancestors, my ancestral guides Ishma & Spirit Woman, Hermes, Persephone, Odin, the Planets and Stars, the Appalachian Mountains and my ancestors who called them home, Primrose, Ao