About 3 Appalachian Witches

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BIO – PAT BUSSARD O’KEEFE

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Pat Bussard O’Keefe, M.S., is a trance medium and psychic who is led by an angelic presence. She is also an astral traveler, Tarot reader, Reiki Master, a Consulting Hypnotist, natural born Witch, author and photographer. She comes from a long line of psychically gifted women, known throughout the Appalachian Mountains as “Granny Women.” These women were the mystics of the mountains, the healers when there were no doctors available. 

 

One of Pat’s earliest memories is of her great-grandmother whispering secret, magickal words and then telling her that the wart on her hand would be gone in two weeks. It was. Her great-grandmother’s gifts were shared with others in her bloodline. Pat’s grandmother’s divination tool was the spirit board and her mother read palms. Both had incredibly strong gifts of discernment and intuition and both had the gift of precognition. Pat was raised by these amazing women to embrace her gifts, which include the “4 C’s”: claircognizance (clear knowing), clairvoyance (clear seeing), clairaudience (clear hearing), and clairsentience (clear feeling), as well as psychometry (object reading), dream interpretation, palmistry, and astral projection. As a trance medium, a type of mediumship common in the Victorian era, she connects on a deep level to those who have passed. In all her spiritual work, psychic and mediumship, she is led by an angelic presence. She also has the rare gift to see other people’s past lives.

 

To better connect clients with that gift she trained as a Consulting Hypnotist through the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH). Connecting with past lives to understand the present can be profoundly healing. In addition, she is a Reiki Master and uses this gift in all her works.

 

She is a sought-after public speaker on a wide range of paranormal topics. She has spoken at the prestigious Lily Dale summer program in New York State on Using Different Modalities in Mediumship for Deeper Connections. She also presented on the topic, The Cassandra Effect. She spoke recently in northern Virginia with her magickal sisters, Misty and Ashley Conner, with whom she co-conducted a spiritual healing session.

 

Pat is the author of nine books, which focus on the paranormal and psychic realms.  She recently co-wrote,Magick from the Mountains and Beyond: Moon Magick, Mirror Magick, and The Witches Ladder, with Misty and Ashley. She also wrote the Amazon best seller, Appalachian Granny Witch Magick. Her passion is photography and her work is featured in national and international paranormal-themed books and magazines, along with dozens of articles she has written on a variety of preternatural topics. She recently completed a deck of oracle cards, based on her photography, The Faerie World Oracle deck.

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In order to pay back Karama, when Pat accepts a current or cold missing person's case, she never accepts money beyond travel expenses, if needed. All three of them have worked on a variety of missing persons cases.

 

Pat earned a Master of Science degree through Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, Virginia, and has completed additional graduate and post-graduate studies through Virginia Tech, George Mason University, and Radford University. She spent her career as a journalist, journalism instructor, and director of marketing and public relations at a Virginia state college. Pat is a member of the International High IQ Society and is part of 3 Appalachian Witches, a powerhouse coven of psychics and mediums.

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BIO – MISTY CONNER

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Misty Conner breaks the mold of the traditional psychic by adding life to the dead when she deciphers your personal messages from your ancestors and spirit guides. Misty is a well-established psychic medium who presents her gifts in the manner of bold animated heartfelt life guidance and messages from beyond.

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A mystic of the mountains,  Misty has been featured across the United States at various conventions and workshops, as well as news articles, documentary films and other publications. Throughout her career, Misty, in various ways (but not limited to), has advised multiple successful and wealthy businesses, assisted in missing persons cases and comforted the distraught dealing with anything from relationship advice to revealing the last words of the dying. Misty's goal is to assist her clients in reaching their full potential. Through her bold personality, she gives her clients what they NEED to know to put the individual on the correct path of personal discovery.

 

When not experiencing the beautiful interactions with clients, colleagues, and friends, she resides on the Conner homestead, nestled on a backroad in Virginia nourishing her Appalachian farm raised roots.

Misty is part of a long line of generations that carry and pass on the innately intuitive gene. Her Appalachian witch pedigree dates back to the fearful times when witches in the Appalachian mountains were known as “healers”. The “healers” would pass on traditions down bloodlines under the blanket of healing rituals and a deep understanding of nature that some would dismiss as superstition.

 

Misty's featured tools of choice include tarot, runes, and to continue the family line of Appalachian healing, she performs the exquisite traditional folk magic cleanse, conjoining her certified mastery of Reiki, and traditional folk magic. she pulls negative unwanted energy from the individual whilst infusing Reiki when needed.

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Misty, alongside her biological sister, Ashley, had been drawn to the destined path of the occult and paranormal from a young age. Though resistant of the calling at first, due to the strict criticism of many of those in the southern Bible Belt,  they both eventually embraced their secret bloodline. In doing so The Conner Sisters joined the first paranormal research group in Virginia in 2009. They proceeded to investigate countless locations notoriously inhabited by the undead. They proudly assisted these locations in ghost hunts, historical tours, Halloween haunted houses and other events, doing so with great pride of being the first to investigate locations to deem them “active for public."

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Fortunately, Misty and Ashley, had undeniably quick wits, entertaining personalities, and such a lovable sister “chemistry” that a radio network recruited them for an educational paranormal comedy radio show. The show lasted successfully for years and touched numerous listeners, and the concept was eventually signed to a production company.

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But, still something was missing from their lives, and that was helping those who needed it. So fate has a fickle path, a person Misty considers a mother from another life, recruited both Misty and her sister, for their hidden witchy talents. They become members a band of traveling psychics who help those in need. They remind the world of the forgotten ways, and continue to shed light on the misconception of what an intuitive magical being is.

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BIO – ASHLEY CONNER

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Ashley Conner is a psychic medium with profound gifts who travels the United States enlightening those who question or are interested in the afterlife and occult matters. Known for her motivational speeches, seances, and one-on-one readings. Ashley has been featured in a multitude of media, from news articles, publications, and documentaries. She was also a radio show host who brought humor into the field of the paranormal.

 

Ashley has assisted in cold cases of missing persons, as well as, active criminal cases. Ashley’s ultimate goal in her psychic works is to shed light on the past and assist in helping her clients make informed  decisions that will impact their future. She strives to guide individuals through the spiritual realm, with the comforting feel of talking to an old loyal friend who listens.

 

Believing you're always a student as well as a teacher in life, Ashley is always adding certifications and degrees to her professional resume to better assist her clients; as well as, adapting her natural gifts to various outlets. Gaining knowledge and skills through workshops, experience, and scholastic endeavors, Ashley loves to incorporate unique out-of-the-box teaching to her own magic class tutoring. Ashley is from a long line of “healers” known to magically heal anyone in need, whether they are animals, friends or family. Ashley has continued the tradition naturally, and also acquired her master's in Reiki. From stealing her sister's tarot cards, to checking out voodoo books from the public libraries by using written checkout cards, it’s fair to say that Ashley was drawn to her magical heritage from a young age. Her fascination with the paranormal, occult (means "hidden knowledge"), cryptids and witchcraft came natural, as she was raised in the Bible Belt on a secluded farm nestled in a Appalachian mountains. Her empathic and healing skills developed as a second nature to Ashley. The seclusion of her farm gave sanctuary to her witchy odd interests for her sister and her to experiment, without judgement. Ashley’s tools of choice for divination began with tarot cards and these magical cards will forever be close to her heart and remain her first choice for divination.

 

Ashley loves all forms of divination and studies intensely to experience each tool and practice. She does believe that the divination tools meant for you, will call to you. Ashley has picked up bone readings known formally as, “throwing bones” through her journey of spiritual discovery. As a part of 3 Appalachian Witches, Ashley travels alongside two other magickal spiritual leaders to help make magick in a world that has forgotten how beautiful the experience truly is.