Christopher Orapello is an artist, witch, and animist with a background in western occultism, ceremonial magick, Freemasonry and has been on his journey for 30 years. He co-hosts the podcast Down at the Crossroads with his partner, Tara-Love Maguire, is a signature artist with Sacred Source (a leading producer and distributor of ancient deity images in North America), and an author with Red Wheel / Weiser Books. After a growing desire for a more locally-based form of witchcraft, he and Tara-Love Maguire founded Blacktree coven in 2014, where they set out to forge a modern approach to Traditional Witchcraft for a new era of praxis. He is the coauthor, with Tara-Love, of Besom, Stang, and Sword.