Irisanya Moon is the author of 10+ books on Greek mythology, ritual, environmental activism and personal empowerment, in addition to numerous contributions to anthologies, literary journals, magazines, and print/online publications.
Her work has been translated into Dutch, reviewed by Publishers Weekly (x2), and includes a bestseller (Aphrodite: Encountering the Goddess of Love & Beauty & Initiation).
Irisanya is completing a Master of Writing, Editing & Publishing at the University of Queensland and dreaming of ways to inspire love and creativity in an often heartbreaking world.
ONCE UPON A TIME…
Around 2012, Irisanya connected with Moon Books, an imprint at Collective Ink, and wrote pieces for numerous anthologies, including Naming the Goddess, Paganism 101, The Goddess in America, Seven Ages of the Goddess, Every Day Magic, Naming the God, Ancestral Healing, Pagan Planet, What is Modern Witchcraft?, Weathering the Storm, Divine Wounds, and more.
Soon after, they submitted proposals for standalone books.
Pagan Portals: Reclaiming Witchcraft, Aphrodite, Iris, Norns, Artemis, Circe, Hestia, The Muses, Hecate, Athena
Practically Pagan: An Alternative Guide to Health & Well-being
Earth Spirit: Honoring the Wild, Gaia
Coming in late 2026 and 2027:
Pagan Portals: Athena, Zeus
The Dance of Devotion: Creating & Sustaining Relationships with Deities & Divine Beings
In addition, she has written essays, articles, poems, and blogs for:
Witches & Pagans magazine: “Surrounded by Deity” and “Forged in Flame: Creating a Reclaiming Beltane Ritual”
Pagan Dawn: Practically Pagan columnist, essays on deities
Coreopsis, Journal of Myth & Theatre: “Traversing the Liminal in the Liminal”
Moon Books: An Introduction to Alternative Guides to Living essay and more
Llewellyn:
*co-authored book to be released in 2027
Epona Muse Publishing:
Patheos Pagan:
Charged by the Goddess blog and contributor to other blogs
“wrecked: the insistence of grief” - a self-published poetry book
Presentations & Events
Podcasts
Classes & Workshops
Self-Devotion
Divine Relationship
Community Building
Self-Devotion
As an antidote to the co-opting of self-care, Self-Devotion is remembering and returning to devotion to ourselves as Divine Ones. When we remember our divinity and magick, we can hold ourselves more fully as complex, nuanced human love spells. If we can learn to show up at our altars and offer ourselves prayers, we can rewrite stories that have limited our power and courage.
Divine Relationship
While my personal and professional work often focuses on relationships with deities, divine relationships expand beyond the godds to the ocean, the trees, the stars, and more. What is important is building practices that connect you to something with a wider perspective. When we can partner with the divine, these relationships teach us about building more authentic and sustainable connections, which helps us show up better for ourselves and our communities.
Community Building
Within the human heart are structures that allow for ongoing movement, enabling blood to carry oxygen and remove waste from the body. The heart alone can not do this work, nor can we do the work of this life on our own. Together, we will learn how to build effective, aware communities that can adapt and evolve.
The tools I turn to and teach include writing practices, altar building, storytelling and rewriting, spontaneous ritual and spellwork, sacred witnessing, trance dance and embodied movement, deity relationships, working with myths, and more.