About Postmodern Witch

Knowledge and insight from the intersection of myth, history, and social justice—delivered to your inbox

Challenge conventional narratives and explore untold stories with each issue of Postmodern Witch. This newsletter delivers thought-provoking analysis and critical engagement with the forces that have shape our world—all through a spiritual lens.

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A Brief Introduction to Imbolc

In which we begin to dream of spring

Postmodern WitchJessica Jernigan

2025: The Year of the Hermit

In which we reflect on our time with Strength and prepare for what’s ahead

Postmodern WitchJessica Jernigan

Manifestation for Skeptics

In which I explain how to make magic while not believing in magic

Postmodern WitchJessica Jernigan

About the Creator

I bought my first copy of The Spiral Dance at the Walden Books in my local mall in 1986. This was about the same time I purchased the Aquarian Tarot and a mass market paperback of A.E. White’s The Pictorial Key to Tarot. I fell in love with Starhawk immediately and David Palladini’s artwork inspired a lot of High Fantasy daydreams. A.E. White was a real bummer and his approach to Tarot made me lose interest in learning more about it for decades. Anyway…

I have a degree in Religion from Bryn Mawr College. In the classroom, I learned a lot about women in the early church and noncanonical Gospels and Jewish mysticism and the nexus of beliefs we call Gnosticism. On my own time, I read a lot of books about goddess religion and matriarchal prehistory that I would later reject and then, later still, approach with a little more generosity and less of a need to be right.

I launched Postmodern Witch to share some of what I’ve learned and to create a community of teachers, makers, and learners who understand that the spiritual is political.