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Artists & Storytellers. Sharing Adventure and Inspiration to live a Magical Life. Founders of The Blue Bead, a chairity that educates and raises awareness of issues that affect our lives through art, storytelling, music and more. www.thebluebead.org
Ted Jauw is the author of the Surcadian Chronicles, a series of modern 'MythPunk' or 'NowPunk' thrillers including 'The Fourth Choice','The Fifth World' and his esoteric non-fiction companion book 'Rescension'. His Surcadian Odyssey Series includes the novels 'Teslation' & 'Teslation II'.
He has been enjoying the crafting of several poems for both children and children at heart. They include 'The Ballad of Arlo the Whale and 'The Ballad of Pete the Pangolin'. He is also a ritualist, drummer, lecturer, teacher and performer as well as the creator of HexenWeldt, a divinatory RPG.
Kate Jauw is an artist and author. Her Books include 'Absinthe, Alewives & Alchemy', co-written with her husband, Ted. She is also the Proprietress of 'Mere Henriot's Elixir', a brand of Absinthe produced using traditional methods and her family's original recipe. Her other works include 'Tea and Tasseomancy' and soon to be released 'TasseoMagick'. She is the creator of the 'Isis Oracle and Speaking Stones', an original divination method as well as illustrator of "The Ballad of Arlo the Whale', 'The Ballad of Pete the Pangolin', 'The Christmas Story', 'Justin the Frog', the award winning ', 'Energie Annie' series and her own 'Goddess Coloring Book'.
Introducing The Blue Bead! Some of you are already familiar with our non-profit but this is the year we have decided to fully immerse ourselves in it and in the business of "Teaching, Healing and Blessing". Please take a moment to find out how we use art to create positive change in the world at www.thebluebead.org
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Ted Jauw
Author Ted Jauw draws on his exciting and eclectic life amongst Native North and Central American medicine people, African and Diaspora priests, Buddhists, Jungians, scientists and the odd history and characters of his beloved Big Sur, CA. He blends his fascination with hidden histories and their effects on our real world with unrelenting action. His background in Paleontology, shamanism and ancient cultures inform his stories as much as the real people who become his characters who live in a world much like our own, only different. Very different.
As a speaker and ceremonialist, he carries on the work of his beloved teachers Babatunde Olatunji the famous drummer priest and the celebrated Jungian Mary E. Loomis, Ph.D, whose real and extraordinary lives and stories are somewhere intertwined and always underneath the world he creates from his own equally bizarre and fortunate life.
Kate Henriott-Jauw
Artist Kate Henriott Jauw completed her first mural at the tender age of 3, in pink crayon. Her parents were thrilled. In an attempt to direct her creative urges into something more constructive, she switched to working in oils at age 8. Since then life has twisted and turned multiple times yet she has never lost her passion for telling stories in pictures. She particularly enjoys creating magical art and her divination boards. And keeps busy with illustration work and book cover art.
Kate uses her experiences as an artist and a reclaiming witch to inspire others through storytelling, art and writing. Her other passions include making her family's Absinthe in the traditional manner, giving her the moniker, Wormwood Queen. She also produces other extracts whose histories and often recipes, have long since been forgotten.
Works by Surcadia
MetaMagica
coming 2021
