We sat with celebrity tarot reader, psychic and author Sarah Potter to talk about sensitivity—not as weakness, but as a kind of instrument the world keeps trying to mute. “I just don’t think this world is really built for deeply sensitive people,” she says. So the work becomes learning how to listen without numbing out. Sober Magic is that practice: staying, feeling, building tools instead of reaching for escape.
Our conversation gets personal, because the book isn't just a magical toolkit, it's a very personal story of the way mindbodies can be overwhelmed by their own otherness, by the things they perceive that that the world of business-as-usual simply cannot allow.
For Potter, intuition is intertwined with her recovery journey. She shares, "There's tools to access, but I was really thinking about... writing this book for anyone who feels really sensitive, who feels really deeply." Her approach to Sober Magic carries the belief that crafting a magical life as a witch without dependence on substances involves unraveling the layers of one's sensitivity and learning to live with them, to accept our otherness and build practices with Tarot and ritual to be held in our power and otherness.
I tried to write a book that I wished was there for me when I was feeling so lonely and at the depths of the deepest, darkest hole and thinking, I don't know how I'm gonna get outta here, but I can't live at the bottom of this hole.
So. I'm gonna claw my way out. And I really feel like witchcraft and tarot were such allies to me at that time. And I tried to just think of who did I need at that time? And I'm going to embody that and put it into this book.
Her way in is gentle, even playful. Intuition isn’t a test you pass; it’s something you practise, like returning to a language you almost remember. Follow the flicker. Try it. Let it be ongoing. The point isn’t certainty—it’s relationship.
Her new book, Sober Magic, moves like an underworld map, threading Tarot through recovery, reworking the 12 steps into something witches can actually breathe inside. Not a cure, not a clean arc—more like companionship for the long middle, when you’re learning how to live with your own depth.
And always, we come back to each other. Sarah shows up for our reparations work - sponsoring an incredible prize, a one on one reading with Sarah AND a signed copy of Sober Magic! - because she believes in putting love where the wound is.
Watch for news of the our 2026 Reparations Fundraiser coming soon!
That’s the spell: community as repair, attention as offering, resources moving toward Indigenous-led care.
We don’t have to understand everything to trust that it’s real. We just have to keep listening—and keep each other close.
