The Witching hour with Eron Mazza Taking it Slow with Anthony Rella!
May 19, 2025
Anthony Rella, author, practicing witch and licensed mental health therapist, shares a compact personal origin and craft. He explores witchcraft as relational power and how therapy and magic intersect through parts work. The Slow Magic idea—resisting speed for enduring change—shapes discussion. Everyday slowness, liminal rituals, and will as practice are highlighted.
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Starting In Reclaiming In Chicago
- Anthony Rella got involved with the Chicago reclaiming community in his early twenties.
- That beginning anchored his witchcraft practice for about 20 years.
Career Shift After The Recession
- A 2008–09 recession pushed Rella to retrain as a therapist after leaving an unsatisfying career.
- He has worked as a therapist since about 2013.
Therapy And Magic Share Psyche Work
- Witchcraft and psychotherapy overlap because both work with the psyche and how we experience reality.
- Rella recounts using internal family systems to separate parts of himself to better contact a deity.
