Entry No. 8 — the Asheville file — filed under: witchy
Earth Magick
A Lexington Avenue boutique at 80 N. Lexington, Suite B, that defines the sacred-goods category broadly: handmade candles, bulk herbs and burning bundles, gemstones, tinctures, hemp clothing, and — this being Asheville — locally made ghee and chocolate shelved as spiritual supplies. The real draw is the reading room, where four house readers (Meredith Aphieme, Amber Moon, Joette Shaffer, Krysta Heidman) cover tarot, astrology, oracle and rune cards, Akashic records, and mediumship, with what the shop tallies as over 100 years of combined experience. Readings run $2.50 a minute with a 15-minute minimum, walk-in or by appointment, and they also do distance readings by phone or video.
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The story
Earth Magick occupies Suite B at 80 N. Lexington Avenue, on the downtown block where Asheville's independent, incense-adjacent retail has long clustered, and it defines 'spiritual supply' about as broadly as the category will bear. Handmade candles, bulk herbs and burning bundles, gemstones, and tinctures anchor the expected end of the inventory; from there it ranges through hemp clothing to locally made ghee and chocolate, shelved alongside the ritual goods as if to argue that anything made carefully enough counts as sacred. In this town, the argument mostly lands.
The reason to cross downtown, though, is the reading room. Four house readers work the shop — Meredith Aphieme, Amber Moon, Joette Shaffer, and Krysta Heidman — and between them they cover tarot, astrology, oracle and rune cards, the Akashic records, and mediumship, with what the shop tallies as more than 100 years of combined experience. The pricing is the most transparent thing in the building: $2.50 a minute with a 15-minute minimum, so a first taste costs $37.50 and the meter runs exactly as deep as your questions do.
Access is deliberately flexible — walk in when a reader is free, book ahead through the shop's online scheduler, or skip the trip entirely with a distance reading by phone or video. The one genuine eccentricity is logistical: the shop doesn't post its hours online, so calling 828-707-7802 before a special trip is part of the protocol. Treat it as a first small test of your faith in the unseen.
What it's like
You walk in off Lexington Avenue into close quarters of candles, herbs, gemstones, and the odd bar of locally made chocolate, and browsing is a legitimate way to work up to the main event. Ask at the counter who's reading today; if one of the four is free you can be at a table within minutes, and if not, you book a slot and go orbit the gemstone cases. Sessions bill at $2.50 a minute with a 15-minute minimum, cash or card, and fifteen minutes is a real reading rather than a teaser — though nobody objects if you settle in longer. Weekends are the crunch, so the online scheduler is the safer play. If your preferred reader isn't in, distance readings by phone or video are a standing offer. Street parking on Lexington is luck; the nearby garages are certainty.
The move: Walk in and each take a 15-minute reading ($37.50 a head) with a different reader — one tarot, one runes — then trade verdicts over the shop's own chocolate; book through their online scheduler if it's a weekend.
📍 Before you go 80 N. Lexington Ave, Suite B, downtown — street and nearby garage parking. Hours are not posted on the website, so call 828-707-7802 before making a special trip. Readings are $2.50/min with a 15-minute minimum, cash or card; walk-ins taken when a reader is free, appointments via Acuity online scheduling.
- 📍 Asheville
- 💸 $$
- ⚡ Up for anything
- 🌗 Indoors
Where: 80 N Lexington Ave, Suite B, Asheville, NC 28801
Hours: Added 2026-08-25 — confirm current hours before you go.
⚠ Seasonal or scheduled — always check before you go.
Pair it with
- The Crow & Quill — The lantern-marked door at 106 N. Lexington is a one-block walk — process your reading over one of 800-plus whiskeys in a candlelit, antique-stuffed parlor.
- Moogseum — Around the corner on Broadway, a hard pivot from divination to synthesis: theremins, patch cables, and Bob Moog's workbench as the rationalist chaser.
- Asheville Pagan Supply — The witch-owned supply shop up Merrimon Avenue makes a natural compare-and-contrast — a working practitioner's stockroom against Lexington's boutique take on the sacred.
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Good to know
Do I need an appointment for a reading?
Not necessarily — walk-ins are taken whenever a reader is free. Appointments run through the shop's online (Acuity) scheduler and are the smarter move on weekends, when the reading tables fill.
What does a reading cost?
$2.50 per minute with a 15-minute minimum, so $37.50 gets you in the door; cash or card. The session runs as long as you want to keep paying for.
What kinds of readings are on offer?
Tarot, astrology, oracle and rune cards, Akashic records, and mediumship, split across four house readers — Meredith Aphieme, Amber Moon, Joette Shaffer, and Krysta Heidman. They also do distance readings by phone or video.
What are the hours?
The shop doesn't post them on its website — call 828-707-7802 before making a special trip. It's a downtown storefront, so pairing it with other Lexington Avenue stops hedges your bet.
How do I get there and park?
80 N. Lexington Avenue, Suite B, in the middle of downtown. Metered street parking on Lexington when you're lucky, nearby garages when you're not.
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Further reading: Official site
last checked: 2026-08-25