Imagine a community on a mountain who built their lives around the Goddess and the seasons — what they made, what they wrote, and why they matter.
Founder · Host · Witch
Joel Austin.
Recording out of Salem, MA.
About Joel.
Joel Austin founded Stay Weird Witches in 2018 and has been making content about Salem, witchcraft, and the occult ever since. Two seasons of Salem’s Ghosts, seventy-seven YouTube videos, and a daily practice that’s three months and one borrowed candle deep.
This is the first in a series of personal essays about taking the practice seriously. The next one will be about the days he misses.
Stay weird, witches.
From the journal
From the dark.
Ostara Isn’t All Painted Eggs: Five Dark Tales of the Spring Equinox
Three months in, the morning practice has changed more than I thought it would. A first-person essay on what it actually feels like to take the work seriously every day, and what the body knows that the mind takes longer to catch up to.
Witch Hunts Did Not End in Salem
Three months in, the morning practice has changed more than I thought it would. A first-person essay on what it actually feels like to take the work seriously every day, and what the body knows that the mind takes longer to catch up to.
Hex Old World Witchery: Salem’s Largest Witch Shop
Three months in, the morning practice has changed more than I thought it would. A first-person essay on what it actually feels like to take the work seriously every day, and what the body knows that the mind takes longer to catch up to.
Letters from the studio.
New entries, new episodes, behind-the-scenes, the occasional invitation. Free. Not too often.