HOUSE OF SPIRITS: The Haunting of Virginia's Blue Ball Inn

Hey all! It's been a bit, and so I wanted to update you on some goings-on as Samhain approaches. (Bonus point for you if you clicked on this because of the Tori Amos reference.) For all of you that have been following our progress at the Blue Ball Inn, there's a new podcast episode all about my spiritual experiences with the Inn. Pop it on for your drive home! Find it at

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Check out the show notes for ways to get involved with saving the tavern, or to visit it yourself! And follow the Inn and all the paranormal investigations they are doing this month at https://www.tiktok.com/@blue.ball.inn.1747

The Blue Ball Inn, a haunted tavern in Virginia

UPCOMING EVENTS:

COLONIAL BOOKBINDING / BOOK OF SHADOWS WORKSHOP on Saturday, October 5, 10-1, inside the Blue Ball Inn!

For more info and to register, visit https://www.tavabaird.com/event-details/blue-ball-inn-benefit-class-colonial-bookbinding

SINGING TO THE BONES Bone-casting Class at Abija Blue in Winchester. October 11, 6-8 PM. For more info and to register, visit https://www.tavabaird.com/event-details/singing-to-the-bones-an-introduction-to-casting-bones-stones-shells-and-charms-4

MARKET: CRYPTID and CURIOSITY MARKET at UNIQUE CREATIONS IN BERRYVILLE, VA on OCTOBER 12

ARCHAEOLOGY DIG at the Blue Ball Inn, OCTOBER 12, 9-12:30. Nate will be running this one, as I will be at the market mentioned above. To volunteer, email Ashley at Volunteerforbbi@gmail.com

MARKET: HARVEST FESTIVAL at Breaux Vineyards on October 13. More info at https://www.breauxvineyards.com/events/

ARCHAEOLOGY DIG at the Blue Ball Inn, OCTOBER 14, 9-12:30. To volunteer, email Ashley at Volunteerforbbi@gmail.com

.....aaaaaaand RAVENWOOD FAIR!!! I will be vending at Ravenwood BOTH weekends! OCTOBER 18, 19, and 20 and 25th, 26th, and 27th. You gotta come hang out with us!! https://ravenwoodfaire.us/ It's in Clear Brook, right around the corner from the Inn!

The next full moon will be on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 7:26 a.m. EDT

October's full moon is known a supermoon. Supermoons occur when the full moon coincides with the moon being at the point in its orbit within 90% of its closest approach to Earth. October's supermoon will be the closest supermoon of the year. So get ready for a wild Samhain - and may many blessings flow to you as the Wheel of the Year turns!

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PAGAN PRIDE! The Witches are Back!

Ohh, it's Witches Pride in Fredericksburg this weekend! Idol Hands and Darkflower are hitting the road to vend in what is now a two-day event...and apparently there's a ball on Saturday night? I'll be sleeping through the dance...we have to get on the road for Saturday at 5 a.m.! Will you be in the Fredericksburg area this weekend? Here's more info: https://www.facebook.com/vawitchespride/

I'll be in the main building as soon as you walk in by the door! Come say hi if you are around!

OTHER NEWS.....

EPISODE 4 is now out! Jennifer Taylor and I will be putting out new episodes every Friday. We've been so excited about the response we've gotten...we can't thank you enough. Find it on your favorite platform or here: https://mysticalmusings.buzzsprout.com

Blue Ball Inn Paranormal Update!

We've hit artifacts from the 1700s, and I couldn't be more thrilled! And...there's an event at the Inn on September 28-29th! There will be vendors at a park right near the Inn (I'll be vending and teaching hand-broom making classes there to benefit the Inn on Saturday...sign up here: https://www.tavabaird.com/event-details/blue-ball-inn-benefit-at-paracon-introduction-to-appalachian-broom-tying) and there will be tours of the house and a nighttime paranormal investigation! Tickets for the investigation are here: https://bbi1747.com/

And from personal experience...this place is hella haunted, folks.

BOOK UPDATES:

Spooky Season is bouncing me all over from market to market and class to class...and I am already thinking of winter when several new books should be released, many of which are in their final editing stages!

Later this Fall will be The Angel and the Blackbird, the sequel to The Ballad of Birdie MacLeod. This is the prequel series to The Spiral Pathways and has lots of crossover characters. Medusa makes her series debut in this book....as does Lilith!

The Book of Samael: Dreams will also come out this winter. It is further conversations with Samael (the first book, The Book of Samael: Conversations, was released earlier this year, and is running neck-in-neck with Wyldwood as my best-selling book.) It is the book I thought I would never write: channeled conversations with a Seraphim. A Seraphim that often has a very, very unique world view (and may have recently expressed his interest in Lenny Kravitz's music among everything else.)

The Book of High Places: The Spiral Pathways Book Six. Alex and Saorsa are back....and so is Fia Grace Elliot. There are new players on the field now, and Alex and Saorsa must decide where their allegiances lie. Angels, Daemons, and Elementals are coming out of the woodwork in a tangled game of politics, war, and magick. Can Saorsa protect those she loves as they are forced to make choices that will determine the future of the known worlds?

If I don't see you in Fredericksburg this weekend, look for me at the Bluemont Fair in Bluemont, Virginia the following weekend...I'll have an author booth there!

Hope all of you are having a safe and happy September as we rocket towards Samhain!

A Reiki Master and a Witch Walk Into a Room....NEW PODCAST for Your Drive Home!

Or oh, what the heck, it's Friday afternoon before a long weekend. Put on your headphones and listen at work!

SURPRISE! There's a new podcast for your drive home today...the first three episodes have already arrived on your favorite podcast platform!

What would it be like to sit in on a conversation between a Reiki Master and a veteran Witch where they discuss healing, magick, history, empowerment, spirit guides, doubt, the afterlife, and more? Join hosts Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird for a personal look at their unique spiritual journeys as you navigate your own path forward. Each episode contains an inspired invocation and closing blessing in song from Jennifer and often also has channeled words from Tava's spirit guide, Samael.

Listen now HERE: https://mysticalmusings.buzzsprout.com

And get in touch with your hosts here:

Jennifer Taylor: https://www.willowridgereiki.com/

Tava Baird: https://www.tavabaird.com/

Hope to see you at the SILVER MOON EMPORIUM in Manassas at the Salisbury Center on Sunday! Darkflower Books and Folk Art will be there with new prints and poppets!

Cover art for The Angel and the Blackbird - the sequel to The Ballad of Birdie MacLeod, coming your way this fall!