Tips, Interviews, and Personal Reflections from Amber Love’s Witchcraft Life
How inclusive is your witchcraft? Let these tips inspire more ethical choices whether you’re a solitary witch or in a group. Modern practitioners of Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft traditions have dangerous media bombarding us. Avoid pitfalls such as cultural appropriation. Make your magickal events as accessible as possible for all witches.
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I spent many years reading books on what witchcraft was and present is and studying the craft on my own. Then I got to experience the most charming and magical towns on the east coast of the US: New Hope, Pennsylvania and Salem, Massachusetts.
In New Hope, I found Ed Kimble and Eric Lee at the witchcraft supply shop, Mystickal Tymes. In Salem, I found the home base of Laurie Cabot, which at the time was Crow Haven Corner, the first witch shop (now there are many and she’s attached to the store Enchantments). Ed and Eric hosted Laurie Cabot at Mystickal Tymes and several of us were able to get the chance to take her Cabot Tradition Witchcraft as a Science courses that we would not have been able to do without great expense of traveling and staying in Salem.
My interview with Eric was not intended to be a podcast but rather a recording for notes that I could reference back to when writing. When he died, I felt like all of us who loved him would appreciate hearing his voice. I think all of understand completely that Ed needed to close Mystickal Tymes after the COVID pandemic and losing all around the same time. They had a thirty-year impact on witches in the Pennsylvania/New Jersey area.
Mystickal Tymes had a full calendar of workshops and special events. That’s where I got learn incense making with Ed; tarot lessons with Eric; and scrying lessons with Jason Miller (author of many books on magick and sorcery).
Yet, my goal with this book was to be inclusive and diverse. Although Eric and Ed were an out gay couple for decades which in New Hope was safe, they were still white. Jason Miller, also a white man though he has a multi-racial family.
This brought me to Twitter connections of all places (that’s how long this book was in process). Elizabeth V. and Nosa Igbinedion were two people I met back when that was my social network of choice. Elizabeth lives in Salem and reads runes. She’s Thai, white, and Native American. Nosa Igbinedion is a Nigerian filmmaker who lives in the UK making a series about Orishas.
This book is my love letter to HP Eric, HP Ed, and HPS Laurie, and to my witchkin (Ember, Meghan, and Borrius, and those who passed: Caith and Frank).