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Tom Benjamin (He/Him/Your Highness) @tombenjamintarot.bsky.social Tarot reader and teacher. Witchboy ๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ. โThe Modern Fortune Tellerโs Field Guideโ coming Autumn 2025 from Crossed Crow. ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ๐ต๐ธ
Tehlor Mejia @tehlormejia.bsky.social mostly I write books and look at the stars
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Joseph @neonhierophant.bsky.social Portland, OR based ๐
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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A redheaded snippet who loves Sondheim. Once fainted into Hugh Jackman.
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claire @clairecomstockgay.bsky.social horoscopes at the cut, other stuff too
Thorn Mooney @thornthewitch.bsky.social Religious Studies PhD candidate: paranormal, secularism, magic, spiritualism, ethnography. Lit MA. Publishing production day job. Witch author, Gard priestess, guitarist, fountain pen person, Swiftie, probably a werewolf.
https://linktr.ee/thornthewitch
S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social S. Elizabeth | weird little guy
Blog: unquietthings.com
The Art of the Unknown: A Visual Treasury of the Esoteric, Uncanny, and Unexplained is available now! โจ๐ธ๐ง๐ฎ๐ญโจ
https://geni.us/TheArtOfTheUnknown
Sasha Ravitch โ๏ธ @sasharavitch.bsky.social writer & educator & academic.
cthulhu(s)cene queen.
hwa; codex.
banff writer residency '25.
words in strange horizons, ergot., cosmic horror monthly, & more.
co-founder antilogos press.
pioneered a field of posthuman witchcraft.
Jessica Lanyadoo @jessicalanyadoo.bsky.social Humanistic Astrologer+๐ฎ+๐ป&๐
Host of @GhostofaPodcast + horoscopes weekly on my site ๐ช @astrologyfordays
โ๏ธAstrology for Real Relationships ๐
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Offerings : https://linktr.ee/jessica_lanyadoo
hannah eve @hannaheve.com writer. poet. founder/editor of @therebis.com, an annual print anthology that celebrates the depth & diversity of tarot, one card at a time.
besides #tarot, mostly #poetry, the cosmos, music, eroticism & parenting a witchy child
hannaheve.substack.com
๐ฉ ๐๐โฟ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ @npeg.bsky.social ๐ฟ she/her ๐ฟ ๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ง๐ซ๐ท๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต
relational astrologer โจ card slinger โจ word nerd
traditions: hellenistic (natal, horary)
skills: natal, timing (retrospective & predictive)
๐๏ธ๐: https://calendly.com/npe_g
Ryan Smith @rysmith.bsky.social (he/they) Heathen anti-fascist, author of "The Way of Fire & Ice" and "Spinning Wyrd", host of the Wayward Wanderer Pagan podcast
Patreon: patreon.com/waywardwanderer
Classes in Inclusive Norse Paganism: onblackwings.com/classes
baxstar jonmarie ferguson @bjthehetheygay.ca (gender+neuro)queer writer, researcher, aspiring novelist. white ๐จ๐ฆ immigrant in ๐ฒ๐ฝ. animist. anarchist. abolitionist. reparationist. landbacker.
journalist @well.beings.news
portfolio at bjthehetheygay.ca
Eric Purdue @ericesoteric.bsky.social - Translator of Agrippa's "Three Books of Occult Philosophy"
- America's favorite translator
- Traditional (not trad) astrologer
- PNW, queer, ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
My site and link for consultations:
https://linktr.ee/ericpurdue
Aidan Wachter @aidanwachter.bsky.social Author of Six Ways, Weaving Fate, and Changeling. Amateur fungi photographer. I don't offer any services. patreon.com/aidanwachter
๐ฏ๐. ๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ @phoebehildegard.bsky.social Punk Goth Witch,
Currently Studying Conjure Down South,
Slinging Magical Makeup to Enchant the World ๐
https://drfinchconjure.com
Katy Swallow @katyswallowtarot.bsky.social Tarot/bone/tea leaf reader, mage, herbalist, teacher of intuitive things, shop owner https://deathsdoor.info Always open for readings.
Lane Smith ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ค๐ป๐ค๐ฅ @leftlanesmith.bsky.social Author of "78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World" (2024) Macmillan/
St. Martins Essentials/Sounds True
Tarot & Politics zine editor โข they/he
๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Bi Trans GenX Anarchist in Baltimore City
www.mxlanesmith.com
The Rebis ใฐ๏ธ Literary Magazine @therebis.com Annual #tarot literary anthology. Each print issue explores a tarot card through art & creative writing.
The Devil issue shipping now โค๏ธโ๐ฅ
We're a not-for-profit #litmag that redistributes sales profits to social justice orgs.
www.therebis.com
Yoshi Yoshitani @yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social Freelance Illustrator, Tarot & Oracle of the Divine Creator
Eisner Nominated
๐ง yoshi@yoshiyoshitani.com
Literary Agent: Thao Le at Sandra Dijkstra Lit Agency
Shop & Links yoshiyoshitani.com/click-me
Using #tarot #oracledeck #art
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diana rose | relational astrologer @ddamascenaa.bsky.social everything is relationships
repeat guest on the astrology podcast
jupiterian saturnian venusian
patreon.com/ddamascenaa
ddamascenaa.com
instagram.com/ddamascenaa
lechusita (old hag type) ๐ต๐ง๐ @hijadelsobota.bsky.social Moonbeing. she/they. Diviner of fate's tight-woven tapestry. Dreams in textiles. Born to speak all mirth and no matter.
Asali @asaliearthwork.bsky.social black queer femme
#TarotoftheQTPOC
also on ๐งตs
Thumper Forge @fivefoldlaw.bsky.social Witch. Warlock. Minos/Melos.
Spicy Shopkeep. Notary Public. fivefoldlaw.mayhem.my
Chelb ๐ฏ๏ธ @phasecraftmagic.bsky.social they/them โญ ๐ต๐ธ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
๐ฎ tarot reader โจ๐งน witchcraft teacher
Podcast๐งreadings๐ดand classes โคต๏ธ
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Robyn Valentine ๐ @atiredwitch.bsky.social Author of Magickal Tarot, Coffee and Cauldrons Podcast cohost, general occult annoyance (she/her)
Marshall the Witch of Southern Light @wsl.bsky.social A queer witch living in Texas. Author of Cunning Words & The Red Mother. Cohost of Southern Bramble: a Podcast of Crooked Ways
Al Cummins @drcummins.bsky.social Cunning-craft. Geomancy. Folk Necromancy.
What Would Gomez Addams Do.
Nordic Animism @nordic-animism.bsky.social Reclaiming Nordic culture of land-connectedness, ecological knowledge and kinship with the greater community of beings. แฌแแแฆแซแแ
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https://linktr.ee/nordicanimism
Pam Grossman @phantasmaphile.bsky.social ๐งโโ๏ธAuthor of WAKING THE WITCH (Gallery Books) and MAGIC MAKER (Penguin Life Oct 2025)
๐Co-editor of WITCHCRAFT (Taschen)
๐Host of The Witch Wave
๐ฑCreator of WitchEmoji
Chelsea Wolfe @chelsea-wolfe.bsky.social linktr.ee/chelseawolfeofficial // The Dark out now
Vic Vestalis @vicvestalis.bsky.social he/they
โslโค๏ธโ๐ฅtty priest-xxx-ing sh*tโ
Votary of the Divine Spark
Devotee of Sacred Sacrilege
Energetic healing & erotic transformation for life & liberation.
Lex Hesperus (they/them) @thelexhesperus.bsky.social ๐ฆ Cosmic Slut
โค๏ธโ๐ฅ Votary of the Divine Spark
๐ธ๏ธ Reweaving sacred relationship
โจ Follow me & learn to love your fate by engaging with spirit body & soul!
Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Gender anarchist, dirty Aquarius, devoted heretic, that witch // books: QUEER DEVOTION (5.20.25), RADICAL TAROT // decks: FIFTH SPIRIT TAROT, THE GAY MARSEILLE TAROT // www.thewordwitchtarot.com
The Hoodwitch @thehoodwitch.bsky.social "Everyday Magic for the modern mystic"ยฉ
๐ Web-store + Visual Storytelling by Bri Luna
๐ Author of BLOOD, SEX, MAGIC Available now @ HarperOne 
maeg @maegkeane.bsky.social โจ astrologer, herbalist, writer
๐๏ธ booking calendar in link
https://www.third-sister.com/astrology
๐ writing the gleaming feast
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Hawk ๐ชฝ omens & gods guy @omenhawk.bsky.social
๐ Apollo's student in all things
๐งโโก๏ธ polytheist๐ง๐ผ
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๐๏ธ co-conspirator of North Star campout (pnw)
https://northstarcampout.org
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Mhara Starling @mharastarling.bsky.social Welsh Witch | Swynwraig
Llen Gwerin, hudoliaeth, a mwy! | Folklore, Magic, and more!
Author, Cauldron and Troll doll hoarder. Whimsy and chaos embodied โจ
Tommie Kelly @tommiekelly.com Irish Artist, Writer, Musician, hopepunk, and Wizard. Creator of The Forty Servants and The Four Devils & AdventuresInWooWoo.com
Prof. Porterfield @profporterfield.bsky.social "I have three spirits, and their names are Foe, Faith, and Truth."
Texan, Typesetter, Conjurer, Author, Bookworm, Modeler, Teacher, Student, and Self. As steady and yet changeable as the hands of a clock.
http://www.professorporterfield.com/
rebecca scolnick @beescolnick.bsky.social ๐งฟ writer. witch. weirdo. ๐ queer | she/her ๐ THE WITCH'S BOOK OF NUMBERS, MARRIAGE BY THE NUMBERS ๐ง 1/3rd of CALL YOUR COVEN ๐ฅฃ swimming in the soup on Substack โจ https://www.rebeccascolnick.com
Kadmus @kadmusauthor.bsky.social Occultist, Pagan, Writer, Researcher, Teacher, Philosophy Ph.D. and College Professor. Check out my book "True to the Earth: Pagan Political Theology"
www.starandsystem.com
Joanna Tarnawska | Polish Folk Witch ๐น @polishfolkwitch.bsky.social ยท Author of ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐
๐จ๐ฅ๐ค ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ ยท
ยท Animism ยท Folklore ยท Heresy ยท
ยท In the mountains of Lower Silesia ยท
โ Learn Polish folk magic & traditions with me โ
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The Astrology Podcast @astrologypodcast.bsky.social A weekly podcast on the history, philosophy, and practice of astrology, hosted by Chris Brennan.
Folkloring Podcast @folkloringpodcast.bsky.social Welcome to 'Folkloring,' the podcast that invites you to actively engage with practical folklore in your daily life. Created by writer and folklore researcher Tracy Nicholas Find us online at: https://folkloringlife.com/ #folklore
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
sam ๐ค valentine @valentine-tarot.bsky.social ร (tarot) reader & writer
ร curator / purveyor of vibes
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Spiritus Arcanum @spiritusarcanum.bsky.social 
The Cauldron Black @the-cauldron-black.bsky.social Purveyors of Fine Occult Goods & Services.
We are a safe space - Altar and Chapel Space Available for Spiritual Consultations & Prayer - Community Resources - Classes & Workshops- T โจewโจ @ts-brookhouse.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธโจ๐งฟ Fix your hearts or die๐งฟโจ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Theresa Reed | The Tarot Lady @thetarotlady.bsky.social Author of ๐ฎThe Book of Astrological Returns @weiserbooks | Email: hello@thetarotlady.com. NO DMs
MxCassandraSnow @mxcassandrasnow.bsky.social + I wrote Queering the Tarot plus 3 more!
+ Co-Host of "Chaos and Cunning, A Witchcraft podcast at the Crossroads of Magic and Daily Living."
+ Co-Artistic producer & performer with TiTteRPiGs Productions
https://linktr.ee/mxcassandrasnow
meg jones wall // 3am.tarot @megjoneswall.bsky.social โท transformational tarot for seekers, misfits & rebels
โฟ CARD TALK // CALL YOUR COVEN
โฝ author of TAROT SPREADS & FINDING THE FOOL
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Siri // ๐ฅ๐บ @sirivplouff.bsky.social they/them
Cryptid? No Iโm a crypdidnโt.
Queer | Witch | Author | Heathen
Support me monthly: https://patreon.com/sirivincentplouff
Sarenth รรฐinsson @sarenth.bsky.social Heathen vaettirverkr (spiritworker), erilaz, and goรฐi of Mimirsbrunnr Kindred. He/him/they.
WordPress:
http://Sarenth.wordpress.com
Patreon:
http://Patreon.com/sarenthodinsson
YouTube:
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Alyssa Marie โจ๐ค @fortherising.bsky.social โจ Magick & Mindfulness for the Modern Witch
๐ฎ Eclectic Witch ๐ด Tarot Reader ๐ Astrologer
๐ฅ Poet ๐ค Dreamer ๐ฆ Alchemist ๐โโฌ Cat Mom
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Nat the Horse Witch ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฎ @horsesandhockey.bsky.social Vegans DNI. Misandrist. Lover of romance novels. #Equestrian. #Hockey nerd. Horse #Witch. I have a crush on all the Forged in Fire judges. #tarot
https://www.youtube.com/@NatTheHorseWitch
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Hexes + Heauxs @hexesandheauxs.bsky.social The Devilโs Astrologer, Witch, and Museโconjuring brimstone and decadence, hexes & heauxs. Witchcraft for the unrepentant. NSFW 18+ Only. ๐Married.
The Cigaverse @thecigaverse.swifties.social Reliable news source
Main: @cigs.blue
Maureen Craig @mocraig.bsky.social Social psychologist investigating how people navigate diverse and inequitable contexts.
Cydney Hurston Dupree @cydneydupree.bsky.social Social psychologist specializing in stereotypes and inequality. www.cydneydupree.com
Teri Kirby @teriak.bsky.social Social psychologist | Associate Prof @ Purdue psych | Diversity, inclusion, & identity | First-gen | she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | Opinions are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer