About Alexandra Nic Bhé Chuille:

Alexandra is a multi-trad Polytheistic Pagan Mystic (Norse-Gaelic and Kemetic), an Oracular Cleric, a spiritual healer, and a modern urban hedgewitch. She has been a practicing pagan and witch since about 2003, though her path wandered through various traditions before settling down into its current form in 2015. As an Oracular Cleric, Alexandra works for several Deities in several different forms, from her Bright Moon Ritual for Bast and Sekhmet, to her Dark Moon visits to Na Morrigna, and she has also been trained in Hrafnar-style oracular spae, traveling to Helheim to answer questions from the people, through the Potomac Ondvegisulur Seidr Guild. Alexandra also has training and certification as an Usui Reiki Master-Teacher, through a lineage that stems from William Lee Rand, and that training was the foundation of her spiritual healing practice. As a hedgewitch, one of the main foci of Alexandra’s craft is divination done for herself, friends, family, and clients. Alexandra specializes in cartomancy of varying types (tarot, lenormand, and oracle cards) and is working on developing her own oracle deck. She also divines with Elder Futhark runes, and is currently studying Ogham. Another focus of Alexandra’s craft is spiritwork, and she has a particularly close relationship with the Fair Folk. She serves a Fairy Queen she calls the Starflower Queen, who has identified herself to Alexandra as the daughter of Bé Chuille, a sorceress of the Tuatha Dé Dannan (this is personal gnosis, and whence the matronymic Alexandra uses as her craft surname!). Alexandra also designs most of the devotional jewelry and does most of the blogging around here!

About Scott O’Manannán:

Scott is a polytheist pagan who mostly works with Celtic deities, especially Manannán Mac Lir, the Cailleach, and Arianrhod. Scott uses the patronym “O’Manannán” because of personal gnosis he received during a meditation, when Manannán Mac Lir claimed to be his paternal ancestor. Scott has been pagan since about 2012, and has been doing energy and spirit work about the same length of time. Scott is a spiritworker as well, and has quite a few animal allies, and close relationships with elemental spirits, especially those of deep earth, lava, and crystals. Some of his closest allies are a group of crystals spirits he calls the “Gem Seeds.” Scott’s work with crystal, gem, and mineral elemental spirits sets the foundations for the programming of most of our jewelry. The foundation of his healing practice is his training and certification as an Usui Reiki Master-Teacher, through a lineage that stems from William Lee Rand. His spirit allies, especially those of crystals, assist him in this work, and he uses his large collection of crystal, gem, and mineral specimens intuitively, creating grids, placing them beneath the client’s chair, or giving them to the client to hold as he works. Scott is also working on developing his own lithomancy stone casting set, using semi-precious gemstone cabochons for divination. His other main focus is on deepening his knowledge of spiritual defense and guardianship. He often sets wards and stands as a sentinel — assisted by his wolf allies — during rituals, healing ceremonies, and other gatherings.