The Booksmith is thrilled to be celebrating the release of A Confluence of Witches: A Modern Witches Anthology, edited and compiled by Casey Zabala. Joining Casey with readings and discussion are fellow writers and witches Amanda Yates Garcia, Jessie Susannah Karnatz aka Money Witch, and Sanyu Estelle. Please join us!

About the book

Featuring voices from the contemporary witchcraft community, A Confluence of Witches is an invitation to explore the authentic intersections of magic, spirituality, personal development, and social justice.

A Confluence of Witches aims to highlight how witchcraft has always been a diverse, constantly evolving, culturally specific practice with many lineages and rich traditions. It features essays, spells, and reflections from witches, traditional healers, herbalists, and artists on themes of magical activism, animism, and merging ancient practices with modern technologies, among other mystical subjects. The diverse representation of contributors will honor and celebrate the multicultural and multivalent ways that the witch operates within our society.

With an increased interest in and practice of witchcraft comes a greater need for authentic sources of wisdom that are culturally relevant and sensitive to the many lineages and traditions of witchcraft, healing work, and magic. A Confluence of Witches provides insights and perspectives from a diverse range of people who in one form or another identify as a “witch.” The anthology’s contributors are diverse, representing the African diaspora, Indigenous, Latine, and Romani traditions, as well as voices from the LGBTQ witch community—each with their own sacred blend of spirituality to share. These voices come together to illuminate the multitude of ways one can practice.

Contributors to this anthology include: adrienne maree brown, Aja Daashuur, Alejandra Luisa León, Amanda Yates Garcia, Angela Mary Magick, Ariella Daly, Aurora Luna (aka)Baby Reckless, Damiana Calvario, Dori Midnight, Edgar Fabián Frías, Eliza Swann, Jessie Susannah Karnatz, Jezmina Von Thiele, Kiki Robinson, Kimberly Rodriguez, Liz Migliorelli, Madre Jaguar, Maria Minnis, Olivia Ephraim Pepper, Rachel Howe, Sanyu Estelle, Star Feliz

About the writers

Amanda Yates Garcia is a writer, witch, the Oracle of Los Angeles. Currently PhD student in Culture and Performance at UCLA where she's researching ritual, decoloniality, and ecology, Amanda's 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. Amanda hosts monthly moon rituals online via their Mystery Cult on Substack, 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 starred reviews from Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly and has been translated into six languages.

Jessie Susannah Karnatz, aka the Money Witch, brings capitalism-critical, shame-free education to healers, hustlers, and creatives in order to catalyze change in their financial lives. She believes healing our finances will bring blessing to our lives, our lineages, and our communities. She offers education, Money Magic products, and Intuitive Financial Coaching online and in the Bay Area (unceded Ohlone land) and does it all with impeccable business lady style. Jessie Susannah is the cult leader at Money Coven, an online web of magical beings who are healing their relationship with money, showing up for their financial self care, and becoming powerful stewards to their resources. You can find more information on her work at moneywitch.com.

Casey Zabala is an artist, intuitive tarot reader, practicing witch, and author of the Wanderer’s Tarot deck and Guidebook (Weiser books, 2021 and 2023) and the Wyrd Sisters Oracle (Weiser, 2024.) Casey has a M.A. in Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness from CIIS, and has studied creative writing at Pratt Institute and Naropa University. Casey has been interviewed for Sabbat Magazine, Taschen’s Library of Esoterica: Witchcraft and has contributed to Witchology Magazine. Writing from the intersection of the seen and unseen, Casey’s work draws on dreams and divinations, and aims to remind us how to communicate with the other-than-human wisdom all around us.

Website: https://www.wandererstarot.com/

Substack: https://notesfromthehedge.substack.com/

Sanyu Estelle is a Claircognizant ("clear knowing") Soothsayer ("truth teller") that is also known as "The Word Witch" because of her deep love for word origins (etymology) and word culture (philology). These natural inclinations are bolstered by a 15+ year practice of Daoism, as well as a 10+ year relationship with Ifa, the indigenous tradition of the Yoruba people of now-Nigeria. As a Soothsayer, Sanyu Estelle's gift is truth-telling. With 15 years of card reading experience and 25 years of public speaking experience, her readings are often listened to over many years by her clients. She is a "1st generationish" (long, but great story) US-American of Ugandan and Belizean descent born, bred and buttered in Los Angeles on land traditionally stewarded by the Tongva. 

About the bookstore

The Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.

Please note:

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