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IN THE BIZ
Accenting the spiritual
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Bloodmoon Goddesses offers handmade goods, meditation classes and more
Story Heath Harrison | Photography Jeremy Holtzapfel
Located behind a strip mall at 5405 Roberts Dr. in Ashland, Kentucky, a building hosts a business that offers something unique to the region.
Kasey Carroll and Stephanie Bentley had planned to open Bloodmoon Goddesses Apothecary in March 2019 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and all nonessential businesses in the state were ordered closed to the public.
“We were trying to stay afloat, doing curbside pickup and through Facebook,” Carroll said of those first months in operation. “We kept at it.”
It was in May when they were finally able to
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host a grand opening, allowing people to come in, masked and social distancing.
Carroll describes their business as offering “spiritual services and healing,” and the shop sells a range of books, candles, oils and other items for practitioners of witchcraft.
Carroll said she and Bentley started working together about four years ago on Facebook.
“We are a practicing coven,” she said. “We started when one of our friends got conned by an online witch.”
She said that she and Carroll would sell gift baskets filled with items before they started the brick and mortar store.
Most of the products in the shop are handmade, from spell oils to wreaths to candles.
“This one is topped with herbs and stones and different things,” Carroll says of one of the candles she has created.
She said the candles, along with statues, are some of their biggest sellers.
Other popular items for sale include yoga sets and hand made soaps and beauty products, which they said are made by a local artisan.
In addition to what is for sale, the shop also offers classes in things such as meditation and candlemaking and also hosts visits from a medium and a reiki practitioner.
In their first year of operation, Bloodmoon Goddesses has also partnered with another local business, Dragonfly Outdoor Adventures, located in Greenup, where they offered an outdoor yoga session in the fall.
Carroll and Bentley say their business has attracted people from “all walks of life.”
“People are curious,” Bentley said.
When asked about the reaction locally, they said it has been overwhelmingly positive.
“You’d be surprised,” Caroll said. “We’ve had very large, positive support and very little negativity.”
Bentley, who said she has been practicing for about 20 years, said she hopes to clear up the misconceptions about how people perceive witchcraft, assuring that “there’s nothing evil about it, in any way, shape or form.”
“Everything we do is about love and healing,” she said. “It’s about helping people and the planet.”
Bloodmoon Goddesses is open Tuesday through Thursday, from 2-8 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, from 2-10 p.m. For more information, visit the shop on Facebook at www.facebook.com/bloodmoongoddesses a
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