Introduction to Witchcraft

Elise Oursa is a professional tarot reader and teacher, craniosacral therapist, artist and practising witch.

She approaches Tarot as an oral tradition with a focus on clarity, narrative, and personal empowerment.  Her teaching style encourages a fluid and contextual connection to the cards and she champions her students to discover their own unique Tarot voice.

She is the creator of the Blood & Ink Tarot, a channelled deck released as a limited edition in 2020.
You will find her most active on her tarot platform, Coffee & Cards where she hosts daily live Tarot Practice sessions on zoom open to readers and learners of all abilities.

American by birth she lives in London, UK with her daughter and two dogs.

Harold Roth, founder of Alchemy Works (https://www.alchemy-works.com) and author of “the Witching Herbs”, is a leading authority on plants and herbal magic.

His book “The Witching Herbs” is  an in-depth exploration of thirteen essential plants and herbs most closely associated with witchcraft and offers a vast amount of information that is not easily found elsewhere, ranging from mysticism and the esoteric, to practical instructions for growing each plants (based on Roth’s thirty years of gardening expertise).

He is not only a successful gardner, but a magician and a scholar of the occult.

Harold is now working on a new book, offers online classes and creates beautiful, metaphysical artwork.

Sara Mastros, author of Orphic Hymns Grimoire and Big Book of Magical Incense, is Pittsburgh’s leading Witch for Hire.

She teaches tarot, witchcraft, Greek and Near Eastern mythology, Pan-Levantine folk magic, and practical sorcery online and at festivals all over the east coast.

Additionally, she’s a co-owner of The Fool’s Dog Tarot, a leading tarot app for Apple and Android devices.  You can download a free sampler app at www.foolsdog.com, check out courses and lessons at www.witchlessons.com, sign up for her newsletter at www.mastroszealot.com, or follow all her witchy shenanigans on facebook at facebook.com/sara.mastros

Giulia is a contemporary witch, High Priestess and Teacher in the Ara Tradition. She graduated with honors in Classical Letters and Archaeology and Cultures of the Ancient world from Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, and her field of interest is centered in magical and religious tech in the Ancient Mediterranean area.

Her personal path focuses on the practice of Witchcraft as an indigenous form of shamanism and aims to rediscover and rebuild the sacred net that binds us to the Spirits and the Gods of the place we live in.

As a researcher of European witchcraft and magic in the Ancient World, she has participated to many conferences and events, both national and international.