Elena Rego - The Holy Witch’s Guide to Sacred Soul Magic
“Belief is a spell, and we carry a particular type of belief about the world and the way the world behaves around us.” - Elena Rego
If you’re a regular listener, or you know me, you know I’m a bit hesitant about the term “spiritual” and this episode did push me to my edges, I’m not going to lie. Not in the sense of not believing, but it poked at all the religious trauma I’m still working on in myself. Sarah and I touch on that in our intro. So whatever your beliefs and your history, listen to this episode with an open mind, but be aware of what you feel as you listen to it. After all, that’s part of what Elena invites us to do.
Witchcraft has always been a radical act. My co-host Sarah is in her element than when she’s using her tarot, crystals, and houseplants. This tracks with her conversation with Elena because witches often work with the elements of earth, air, fire, water, and spirit to enact personal or societal transformation. Elena Rego is the force behind The Holy Witch and The School of Holy Witchery, and their conversation explores rituals that reconnect us to our inherent wholeness. They reclaim honest, inclusive dialogue, and revel in Lilith: the original witch.
“What I do at The Holy Witch,” says Elena, “combines my social work, mental health background, and deep feminine spirituality.” After nearly 30 years of practicing, Elena has woven those experiences together to inform her priestess work as a ritualist and teacher. Her spiritual path is grounded in shamanism, animism, feminism, and magic, and the desire to serve the collective unfoldment as spiritually rooted, connected, and potent witches. “What brought me here is the alchemy of those [previous] careers, along with my own spiritual yearning for an expression that felt liberating and affirming,” she explains. “I couldn't find that in Christianity or Catholicism, which was what I was raised in.”
Elena has over 130K followers on Instagram, all hungry for daily doses of her witchy wisdom. Sarah feels a large sense of intention with Elena’s content––living with purpose, embodying awareness, and having the courage to create change. The word that’s on repeat during their conversation is sovereignty––the ability (and courage) to choose the direction of one’s life. Elena’s brand of witchcraft places that dominion at its center, prompting folks to interrogate and unravel the ties that bind them to outdated, oppressive modes of being. “I won't do spells for you, but I'll teach you how because your agency is important,” she says, adding, “The sovereignty that you get comfortable with holding is critical to your own empowerment and your own healing.”
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Elena Rego - A practicing Witch for nearly 30 years, has woven together experience as a Social Worker, Body Worker, and artist to inform her Priestess work as a ritualist and teacher. Her spiritual path has been rooted in deep shamanism, animism, feminism, and magic, with studies and initiations in Dianic Witchcraft, Sri Vidya Tantra, and Core Shamanism. The core of her work is to be in deep service to collective unfoldment as spiritually rooted, connected, and potent Witches.
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