Creative Magic

Dorrie Joy lives and works as a prolific multi-disciplinary Artist. She teaches ancestral skills and traditional crafts. She is also a herbalist, forager, poet, writer, international speaker and ceremonial leader. As a painter, she is largely self taught. Her formal studies are in Literature and Ceramics. For almost 30 years she has been initiated by and trained intimately with Indigenous women and Elders in many areas of ancient craft and ceremony.  Her paintings are held in private collections and public displays and her ceremonial craft is carried and respected globally. She has travelled widely and lives in the South West UK. A Mother of three and a Grandmother of two, her work is informed by her passion for sustainability, rooted in connection and reciprocity. We discussed what it means to be a prolific creative and all the ways Dorrie creates.The joy and tenderness of being a beginner and learning new crafts.Giving space to our human selves.Productivity and earning a living through creativity.Navigating the middle bit when it all just looks a bit of a mess.The grounding of home and family life: the devotion of motherhood.The role of intuition.What she learned about the creative process from her Indigenous teachers.Forbidden images, imposter syndrome and dealing with online criticism.Becoming feral and walking to the weathered edge.The spirit of her work and how she first discovered it. Dorrie’s website: www.dorriejoy.co.ukInstagram:@dorrie.joySign up to my Masterclass - Becoming Visible: undoing the spell of invisibilityMy most recent book Crow MoonFollow Creative Magic on Instagram: @CreativeMagicPodcastYour host Lucy H. Pearce – www.lucyhpearce.com Instagram: @lucyhpearce FacebookWomancaft Publishing

Hilary Rose, the charismatic host and CEO of Live Wild is a two-time IFTA nominee for her contributions to the entertainment industry, notably her role in the BBC TV show "The Young Offenders."Beyond her achievements on screen, Hilary is deeply connected to nature, embodying a love for living wild and free. Rooted in a desire to be of service to those seeking empowerment, Hilary brings a wealth of expertise and experience from her extensive career in media. Hilary's passion extends beyond the screen as she aspires to share the spirit of living wild with a wider audience through the enlightening conversations on Live Wild.www.livewild.ie and her podcast is Live Wild.The Young Offenders BBC iPlayer RTE PlayerWe talked about her move from being known in the mainstream as an actor, into a different more personal space with her Live Wild blog and podcast.Waiting to be chosen as a creative vs the joys of being your own gatekeeper and having creative control of your work.Acting and facing rejection.Beyond linearity – embracing the cycles of creativity. Her spiritual awakening that led her to see the world differently.Listening to nature.Feeling like the only weirdo in the village.The way the word witch has been used against women.Ancient Ireland and the landscape.The Young Offenders and its celebration of Cork.How she feels about watching herself on screen.Being multipassionate creatives and the need to define ourselves – or not – as creatives.My next book, Wired Weird.Resources we mentionedIf Women Rose Rooted Womancraft PublishingBurning WomanWitch – BBC podcast Staigue Fort, KerryThe Wild Atlantic WayThe English MarketSign up to Becoming Visible: undoing the spell of invisibilityMy most recent book Crow MoonFollow Creative Magic on Instagram: @CreativeMagicPodcastYour host Lucy H. Pearce – www.lucyhpearce.com Instagram: @lucyhpearce FacebookWomancaft Publishing

Looby is a permaculture teacher and author. She has been teaching permaculture for over 20 years and specialising in the people care ethic of permaculture. She has written 4 books People and Permaculture, 7 ways to think differently, Strands of Infinity and Cultural Emergence. She is co-founder of the Cultural Emergence project - developing a toolkit for personal and collective transformation. Her latest creation is the CEED deck - the Cultural Emergence Empowerment & Design deck. She lives on a 20 acre smallholding with her family, Applewood Permaculture Centre in Ludlow, UK, where they run courses She is mother to 2 daughters. And is one of the partners of the Mother Nature project, co-creating resources to empower mothers as natural leaders. She enjoys gardening, being creative, sitting round fires singing and listening to owls. Looby on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/loobymacnamara/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/looby.macnamaraJoin thenewsletter to get a free download of the Cultural Emergence principles colouring book and enjoy some easy creative magic www.cultural-emergence.comHer website for courses www.applewoodcourses.comWe DiscussedPermaculture and creativity.Cultural emergence and emergency.The importance of pattern-seeing.Expanding our view from breakdown to breakthrough.Quantum sheep – the fabulous slip of the tongue and where it came from.Move Your Tools – stop waiting for inspiration to strike.The emergence of AI art and the increasing need for the human touch.The power of agency and permission.The cyclical nature of creativity.Resources and People mentionedJUNOPeople and PermacultureTracy BreathnachJules HeavensCultural EmergenceSpiritual Emergency Strands of InfinityCEED DeckCreatrixJennifer LoudenWORD+image e-courseWomancraft CompendiumSARKFollow us on Instagram: @CreativeMagicPodcast @lucyhpearcewww.lucyhpearce.com

Sign up to my WORD+mage ecourse or the Discovering Your Inner Symbols WORD+image MasterclassI am joined by Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee, writer, artist, educator and spiritual companion in the interspiritual tradition. She is an ordained interfaith minister as well as an Associate Professor in a large medical college in New York City. Her vocation straddles cutting edge biomedical research technology, and a spirituality imbued with magic and wonder.·       Our conversation started in the dark woods of the psyche and her quote I used in my new book, Crow Moon.·       We talked about darkness - the problems with how we talk about darkness within Western thought and the binary…and how we can move beyond this.·       We discuss Individuation – a mainstay of Jungian thought – why it’s problematic and why it’s necessary.·       Learning to live beyond our rational minds. We discover many shared guide to this including Mary Oliver, Jung, Krista Tippet and John O’Donohue.·       Find out about the via creativa and how she now teaches about the shadow.·       She speaks about Hospicing Modernity – an approach to the question: What comes next for our culture?·       How she discovered the beauty of our biology.·       Nature and privilege, and finding the wild in the heart of urban spaces.More About Sushmita:Her psyche thrives at the interface of image, imagination and creative innovation. Sushmita’s spiritual work draws on Eastern and Western myths, Earth-based traditions, Taoism, Sufism, and Perennial Philosophy. Her work is deeply influenced by the teachings of Carl Jung and James Hillman. Some of her interests include myths, dreams, poetry and art, including Jungian-influenced Dreamwork, SoulCollage® and Chakradance. Sushmita is deeply committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in all fields of engagement.Sushmita's website: on-seeing.com

My guest today is Molly Remer, priestess, mystic, and poet in central Missouri. Molly and her husband Mark co-create Story Goddesses at Brigid’s Grove. Molly is the author of eleven books, including Walking with Persephone, which I edited and published at Womancraft Publishing, Whole and Holy, Womanrunes, the Goddess Devotional, and 365 Days of Goddess. She is the creator of the devotional experience #30DaysofGoddess and she loves savoring small magic and everyday enchantment. WORD + image ecourseCrow MoonWalking with PersephoneIn the Temple of the Ordinary Volume 2Womancraft PublishingMolly's Interview on the Womancraft YouTube channel

Today’s guest, Amanda Yates Garcia is a writer, witch, and the Oracle of Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The LA Times, The SF Chronicle, The London Times, CNN, BRAVO, as well as a viral appearance on FOX. She has led rituals, classes and workshops on magic and witchcraft at UCLA, UC Irvine, MOCA, The Hammer Museum, LACMA, The Getty and many other venues. Amanda hosts monthly moon rituals online, and the popular Between the Worlds podcast, which looks at the Western Mystery traditions through a mythopoetic lens. Her book, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch, received a starred review from Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly and has been translated into six languages. To find out more about her work become a member of her Mystery Cult on Substack. https://amandayatesgarcia.substack.com/www.Oracleofla.cominstagram.com/oracleofla We talked aboutHearing and following the inner call.The vital role of artists and poets in our culture.Magical realism and living a magical life.Witchcraft, what it actually is. I love her focus on creativity and reclaiming.Overcoming fears that prevent you stepping into your creative magic.Migraine, illness and creativity.The empowerment of having a secret life.Books Mentioned:Initiated - Amanda Yate GarciaCrow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods - Lucy H. Pearce

My guest today is Phyllis Curott, a writer and one of America’s first public Witches. Her 5 international best-selling books have been published in 14 languages, making her the most widely published Wiccan author. Aas a lawyer, she has been an outspoken advocate in the courts and media securing the legal rights of Witches.Phyllis was named one of The Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year by Jane Magazine. She received the 2018 Service to Humanity Award from the One Spirit Interfaith Seminary and the 2020 Person of the Year Award from Kindred Spirit. Phyllis was the first Wiccan Trustee of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, and was elected Vice Chair of the 2015 Parliament, creating the Women’s Assembly. New York Magazine has called her teaching on Witchcraft the culture’s “next big idea” and Time Magazine has published her as one of America’s leading thinkers. Her You-Tube series on Wicca has almost 3 million views. Phyllis continues to write, teach, and lecture internationally on the embodied spiritual wisdom of Mother Earth, Nature’s “secret magic” and why the world needs its Witches.www,phylliscurott.comInstagram.com/phylliscurott"There's a wildness within us that yearns to be physical, sensual, animal, free. But fear of this unknown part, of where it might take us and who it might make us, has left us all only half alive." Phyllis Curott, The Witches Wisdom Tarot GuidebookWe started by talking about The Witches Wisdom Tarot that she created with Danielle Barlow. From there we move on to the wisdom of the body and following our instincts. The theme of murmurations comes back again and again...to do with birds, women and magic it is an incredible deep dive conversation weaving magic, books, art and ways of knowing, finding the courage to be out and seen in our creative magic. We also discuss:Awe, wonder and the power of the liminalComing back into the public eye after a period of retreatCalling women crazy as a way of shutting them downBreaking the spell of patriarchy."It starts with you...but very quickly you realize it's not about you, the world needs you. You've been called." Phyllis CurottResources MentionedCrow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods - Lucy H. PearceThe Witches Wisdom Tarot - Phyllis Curott and Danielle BarlowBook of Shadows - Phyllis CurottBurning Woman - Lucy H. PearceMusic: Alice in Dark Wonderland, Lexin Music

Welcome to the Creative Magic podcast - I am your host, Lucy H. Pearce, Creativity is at the heart of my life as an author of 12 books, visual artist, editor and creativity teacher. I've always been fascinated about the creative process and those who dedicate their lives to it. It is a strange, unseen path. On this podcast I hope to shed a little more light on it. Join me and my guests - writers, artists, creatrixes, magical woman - for profound and practical conversations about what creative magic means to us. We'll reflect on what, how and why we create, what drives us...and what stops us in our tracks. We share honestly how we find the time and energy to make magic in the midst of life's challenges and why we keep on saying yes to our creativity. The conversations are raw, real deep dives into our creative magic, to inspire, encourage and nourish youThe first season of is the Wild Initiation series, featuring my immensely popular intimate conversation series recorded to celebrate the launch of my new book Crow Moon... I will be joined by Toko Pa Turner, Phyllis Curott, Amanda Yates Garcia, Molly Remer, Sushmita Mukherjee, Seren Bertrandas well as new guests diving into the themes of wild nature, symbols, initiation and creative magic. Creative Magic starts April 2nd