Scott Cunningham

And then when we look at the 70s and the 80s, there's Starhawk and Mark Wadler for sure.

But also, then again, there's Raymond Buckland and Scott Cunningham.

So I think men have always been very involved in sort of those leadership positions in the witchcraft world.

I don't know.

And then there was a website, and I went to it, and I ordered a stack of books, and I remember opening them.

It was Scott Cunningham.

And I remember opening them and being like, "Oh my gosh," like I knew it.

I knew that this stuff was real.

Whatever it is that she didn't want me to know, I'm gonna find out.

So I peek into the dark recesses of this book bag, and it's Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham.

And so I tippy, tippy, tippy back into my bed, up over the edge.

I am now with my back to the window-

I'd also recommend keeping some kind of reference book for the magical correspondences of herbs and foods.

A few that are currently on my own wish list are Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Wicca in the Kitchen, Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, and The Green Witch's Herbal by Annabelle Margaret.

And finally, don't forget that literally any cookbook can become a spellbook.

Now, I promised you a recipe, and I want to leave you with something simple, nourishing, and adaptable.

When I was growing up, you know, as a teenager in the 90s, it just didn't seem to be like it was on the table.

2000s hit and everyone's a wiccan all of a sudden so that was fun um yeah i think silver raven wolf really blew the the door open on on wicca in a way that hadn't happened yet when i i grew up with scott cunningham you know so anyway let's get to the

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Alright, this is the show.

It's feminine, resonates with the planet Venus.

Oh, Scott got masculine.

Oh.

Yeah?

Well, I'm gonna trust Scott Cunningham.

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Yeah? Oh.

Yo, yeah, yeah.

I used to have a very secular, for lack of a better word, approach to it, and that was 'cause I needed that, right? I was coming out of Catholicism, and I sort of, you know, like a lot of queer teens in my 18, 19, I sort of danced with, there's that word again, with Wicca and Scott Cunningham a little bit.

But there I just found different kinds of binary dogmas-

Yeah

Most of it was probably just junk.

Um, but eventually what came from that was, um, a reference to Living Wicca by Scott Cunningham.

I read that, and I was like, "This."

Right.

And, of course, you can't come in here.

So that evening after Christine goes home and everyone goes to sleep, I, Pink Panther, Tippi, slide out of the bed in the darkness of the night on my tippy toes and go to her book bag to say, okay, what is this? What does she have? It's a copy of Wicca Guide for Sanitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham.

And I read it by the light of the gas station down the street, curled up in the window.

I can't risk a flashlight.