The Hagstone Podcast

A New Hearth from Old Embers

A Northern Spirit House Community podcast for lively and emergent conversations on all topics magical. northernspirithouse.substack.com

  1. JAN 20

    The Sublime Dread of Faery: A Faerie Apologetics with Chad Andro

    In this months episode of The Hagstone, Chaise Levy sits down with Chad Andro of Radical Elphame to explore what Chad calls fairy apologetics, a reexamination of fairy lore that pushes back against fear-based, extractive, and overly dualistic approaches to the Otherworld. Drawing from folklore, Romantic poetry, animist philosophy, entheogenic experience, and personal practice, the conversation challenges the modern tendency to demonize or sentimentalize fairies, arguing instead for a relational and ecological understanding rooted in openness and transformation. Together, they explore the collapse of strict boundaries between this world and the Otherworld, critique capitalist and colonial mindsets that seek to control spiritual experience, and trace how Romantic figures such as William Blake preserved a vision of fairy as a force of fullness that holds joy and terror, innocence and experience, creation and destruction in dynamic balance. The episode ultimately asks what it would mean culturally and spiritually to re-engage fairy not as danger or fantasy, but as a living mode of relationship with the animate world. Connect with Chad Andro Instagram: @radicalelphameSubstack: Chad Andro Podcast: Radical Elphame, available wherever you listen New Theme Music: Taliesin written and performed on Tenor Guitar and Mandolin by Chaise Levy This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com

    1h 19m
  2. 06/19/2025

    Words of Truth and Power: Finding the Others

    This week on the Hagstone Podcast Chaise sits down to chat with Rose Aurora for a lively conversation on Fairy and Elf lore, magical storytelling, and the fundamental power of Truth. Rose is a sorceress, seer, and trollkvinna. Born into a lineage of Celtic fairy seership & witchcraft, Rose has been interacting with spirits and practicing magic since a very young age. She has also apprenticed under Johannes Gårdbäck to learn the art of Trolldom, a traditional system of Scandinavian folk magic & sorcery - of which she has been approved to do professional spiritual work for others as well as teach. She has also received training in other spiritual traditions, including hoodoo/conjure, as well as initiation into other lineages of traditional witchcraft. As a professional sorceress, Rose specializes in helping others with fairy, elf, and troll-related troubles. She also conducts readings and spellwork, in addition to teaching the magical arts to students of many magical backgrounds & various levels of experience. In the episode Rose mentions her class Starlight, Forge-fire, and Hearth Embers: The Elves, Trolls, & Dwarves in Scandinavian Folklore and Practice for the Northern Folk Traditions Conference at Ritualcravt. As of the publishing of this episode the conference is over but you may be able to get a recording.Rose will be giving a class at the Salem Witchfest titled Goodly, Shining, & Terrible: An Introduction to the Celtic Fairies with Rose Aurora you can find the link here. You can find Rose on the web at roseauroras.com or on instagram @roseauroras This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com

    1h 15m
  3. 05/29/2025

    A Candle burns brighter in the Dark: Trolldom with Johannes Gårdbäck

    This week on the Hagstone Podcast Chaise and Andreas sit down to chat with Johannes Gårdbäck to discuss trolldom and some of the amazing work he has brewing at Urhall. Johannes B. Gårdbäck is the author of “Trolldom – Spells and Methods of the Norse Folkmagic Tradition”, (Y.I.P.P.I.E, 2014). He is an internationally recognized teacher with more than 30 years of experience as a professional folk healer and a folk magic practitioner. Today he runs Urhall, a physical and online school of Trolldom and Scandinavian Folk wisdom in his home village of Hedekas, Sweden where he lives with his wife, two daughters and a dog called Bob. We are so thankful for this conversation, and the weaving of connection between what we are doing here at the Northern Spirit House with Urhall. Johannes is giving two teachings as a part of RitualCravt’s Northern Folk Traditions Conference taking place online June 2nd-8th. His sessions include Trolldom Herb, Tree, & Root Magic: All Good Things Are Three and Draugadrott: Necromancy, Spiritism and Relating to the Dead and the Ancestors in the Trolldom Tradition as a student of Johannes’s I can tell you they are not to be missed.Johannes also teaches an area of weekend, and year long courses throughout the year, and is debuting a Trolldom for the dark of the year immersion this year at his home in Hedekas, Sweden. More info can be found here. We have just entered the second year of the Hagstone Podcast and we could not be more excited to share the work of more incredible guests in the coming year. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit northernspirithouse.substack.com

    44 min

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A Northern Spirit House Community podcast for lively and emergent conversations on all topics magical. northernspirithouse.substack.com

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