Oracle of the Universe

'Witches are not evil. We have just had a bad PR day for the last 2000 years or so.'
Stacey Demarco is an internationally respected pagan practitioner, metaphysicist and witch whose passion is to make practical magic accessible to everyone. Her down-to-earth yet scholastic spiritual style and her skill at weaving ancient techniques to solve modern problems make her work unique and compelling.

Once described by the Australian mainstream financial press as the 'thinking woman's witch', she is the author of internationally successful books which include: Witch in the Boardroom (now in its 3rd edition), Witch in the Bedroom, The Coffee Oracle, "The No Excuses Guide to Soul Mates" (with Jade Sky) and 'Plants of Power' with Miranda Mueller. Please see Bibliography below for more.

She is also the author of the stunning annual Lunar & Seasonal Diary for both the northern and southern hemispheres, a sellout in stores each year since 2011. She is probably best known as the author of much loved and collected oracle decks, many of which are translated into French, Spanish and Japanese including the her latest the shimmering, "The Elemental Oracle' which is an exploration of alchemy, science and magic. Her latest album of guided meditations, "Tranquillitas" recorded with music by Cass Campbell was released mid 2020.

Stacey is a warm, intelligent and entertaining speaker and has appeared multiple times on major television shows such as Sunrise, The Morning Show, Sunday and The Project as well as national news programmes. She appeared on the hit TV series "THE ONE," as one of the two expert judges. and has been profiled in print media such as New Idea, Woman's Day, Boss, The Good Weekend, Nature & Health, Cleo, Madison, The Financial Review, The Age. Her current workshop schedule encompasses pagan education for beginners right through to advanced practitioners with topics ranging from lunar and seasonal witchcraft through to spiritual leadership.

She is the founder Natureluster, a programme to assist people to engage with nature for healing and health, and a past committee member of the educational body, the Pagan Awareness Network. Her website www.themodernwitch.com is one of the most popular websites in its genre and she is connected to a large community following on Facebook, Instagram and other social media outlets.

Stacey lives on Sydney's Northern beaches on a cliff by the sea, with her husband (a specialist doctor) and animal companions. She is an avid adventure traveler, horsewoman, beekeeper, gardener, environmental activist and although she loves the snow, she understands that her skiing is unlikely to improve- ever. 

Kinga Britschgi is an award winning Hungarian digital artist and illustrator who has lived with her American husband and son in the United States since August 1995. Apart from her wonderful family she has two big passions in life: art and linguistics (and teaching both). Although possessing a degree in fine art, she began her career as a language teacher and went on to gain a Masters in Bilingual Education.

Kinga has been involved with digital art for many years, working with Photoshop and other Adobe products since 2002. She creates commercial graphics for many clients, which she enjoys immensely. Her works are regularly published in industry standard and other magazines such as Advanced Photoshop, Photoshop Creative, Practical Photoshop and Digital Studio. One of her images, ‘Midsummer Night – Titania’, was chosen as part of Adobe’s official marketing campaign for their Creative Cloud project, appearing on Adobe’s website, posters and in magazine ads. She has also had her works published in digital art books.

Kinga loves surrealism, magical realism and dark whimsy, creating ‘story pictures’: figurative pictures with seemingly realistic elements that often result in surrealistic, mysterious images with lots of layers of meanings.