SaturnVox
63 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsA bi-weekly interview style podcast on Occult education with an emphasis on philosophy, psychology, theology, and critical thinking. Join host McCalla Ann, theurgist and student of magic + mysticism, as they engage in discussions with other practitioners of the Occult which honor that harmonious and liminal space between theory and praxis.
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Pregnant Possibilities of the Night - On Image Magic and the Lunar Stations | J.M. Hamade
March 28, 2024 03:12 - 1 hour - 93.9 MBThis week, we welcome interdisciplinary artist, diviner, writer and educator J.M. Hamade of starnightdwell onto the pod to chat about their forthcoming publication with Revelore Press on the Lunar Stations! Jay takes us on a journey through the tapestry of night, shining a scholarly light, fused with a sense of artistic and praxis embodiment, onto a mystical lineage that envelops the imagination and produces the Divine Speech of the Birds. How does one envision their own art of cave-dwelli...
Being an Ambassador To Others - On Fairy Doctoring and Joan of Arc | Briar of the Greene Chapel
February 29, 2024 04:10 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBThis week, we welcome traditional witch, cunning woman, and fairy doctor, Briar of the Greene Chapel, onto the pod to talk about their practice within the context of French fairy seership, holding right relations with the good neighbors, and their work as a fairy doctor. We also explore their recently published research on the potential connections between the fairy faith and the story of Joan of Arc. What does hospitality mean to the fae? What are the burdens and responsibilities of those w...
Honoring the Dead - Medicine for the Living | Gary Noriyuki
January 24, 2024 17:37 - 59 minutes - 51.8 MBThis week, we welcome tattooist, conjurer, and practitioner of the occult arts, Gary Noriyui onto the pod to talk about their practice with Thai occult and tattooing. Gary shares with us stories about their journey as a practitioner, which speak on respect for one's ancestors, elders, and the traditions one is involved with. How can we grow as individuals by leaning into a more co-creative engagement with our communities, both living and dead? Why is it important to find and rely on elders? ...
I Am That Monster: On - Martial Mysticism and Revolutionary Politics | David Davis
December 09, 2023 19:27 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBThis week, we welcome mystic, sorcerer, artist, and writer David Davis onto the pod to chat about meeting and making sense of the martial mystery. The future is still being dreamed up by all of us. Are you honoring the revolutionary spark of madness that inspires someone to go out and do something? David and I chat about Mars as the moment of radicalization, the initiatory moment of the surgeon's knife as it cuts out what is making the self and society sick. We speak on donning the cloak of ...
Sharing in the Dance; On - Rejecting Binaries and Embracing the Imaginal | Genie Desert
October 14, 2023 19:27 - 1 hour - 57 MBThis week, we welcome artist, astrologer, gold and silversmith, and talisman maker extraordinaire Genie Desert onto the podcast to chat about the intersection between art and academia. Genie has been making incredibly breathtaking talismans for the fixed stars and planets, and when I received my own for Alcyone, I was struck by the incredible research and source materials Genie drew from to produce this potent piece of magic and art. This begins a discussion on the rejection of binaries, the...
The Undulating Power of the Dance Floor; On - Night Life, Eros, and Queer Community
September 30, 2023 18:53 - 57 minutes - 46 MBThis week we are welcoming witch, astrologer, artist, folk-psychopomp, and dear friend Jove Spucchi onto the cast to talk about nightlife, eros, and the magic woven in queer and liminal spaces. In this episode, we take a deep dive into the magical potency of nightlife by discussing Jove’s experiences weaving liminal magic within dance floors, through sound, and within communities that embrace the intersections between art, music, queerness, and the divine. Drawing their own experiences as nig...
The Undulating Power of the Dance Flood; On - Night Life, Eros, and Queer Community
September 30, 2023 18:53 - 57 minutes - 46 MBThis week we are welcoming witch, astrologer, artist, folk-psychopomp, and dear friend Jove Spucchi onto the cast to talk about nightlife, eros, and the magic woven in queer and liminal spaces. In this episode, we take a deep dive into the magical potency of nightlife by discussing Jove’s experiences weaving liminal magic within dance floors, through sound, and within communities that embrace the intersections between art, music, queerness, and the divine. Drawing their own experiences as ni...
The Oracle of DelphAI; On - The Ethics and Ethos of Talismans and Technology | Arturo Martinini
September 09, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBThis week we are welcoming author, artist, and student of astrology, Arturo Martinini to talk about Arturo's most recently published book through Revelore Press titled, The Oracle of DelphAI, an artistic rendition of the astrological image talismans representative of the seven traditional planets, the zodiacal signs, the decans, the fixed stars, and the lunar mansions co-created by Arturo with a little help from a non-human entity, that of AI. We discuss the ethical and ontological nature of...
Sovereignty of the Self; On - The Pedagogy of World Building - Ari Felix
August 26, 2023 19:06 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBThis week on SaturnVox we are welcoming astrologer, bruje, and world builder, Ari Felix, onto the pod for the season three premiere! I am thrilled to release this episode, which was a conversation filled with immense contemplative wisdom. We talk about Ari’s work in the art of worldbuilding, and its role as an anti-capitalist pedagogy for the liberation of self, an exercise in dreaming our reality as we, the sovereign of our own lives, will it to be. Ari graciously brings their knowledge and...
Finding the Sweet Spot Between Fast and Slow: On the History and Praxis of Hoodoo | Professor Charles Porterfield
July 22, 2023 19:19 - 2 hours - 99.2 MBThis week we are coming in with a bonus episode featuring the infamous, educational, and hilarious Professor Charles Porterfield! We chat about the history of hoodoo and conjure, with our discussion emphasizing the black origins of the practice and giving an effort to showcase the importance of the study of liberation politics and revolutionary history as an ethos foundation within this sorcerous craft. What makes Hoodoo a practice distinguishably different from African Traditional Religion...
Killing the Cop in your Head: On The Sacred Tension between Chaos and Order | Alexis Mincolla
May 20, 2023 19:06 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBThis week we welcome guest Alexis Mincolla, chaos magician and lead singer of the industrial metal band 3Teeth on to chat about all things magic, music, and how to dance your way towards self liberation. I ask Lex some questions sent in by other listeners of the pod, such as, how did he get into magic, what inspired him to weave it into his artistic creations, and why Chaos Magic? Mostly though, we spend the interview talking about one of my favorite things, the intersection between magic...
Sprouting the Second Head: On the Embodied Presence of Poetry and Divination | Òscar Díaz
April 29, 2023 19:04 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBThis week, we welcome guest Òscar Díaz, Poet, Medieval Islamicate Astrologer, and Specialist in Fixed Stars, to chat with us a bit about the intersection between poetry and divination. This conversation speaks like an epiphany of fire, with the spark of inspiration leaping from tongue to tongue. From getting the blood flowing through language, to the art of omen augury, I certainly enjoyed the liminal and whimsical wisdom Òscar was gracious enough to provide. In what ways are both poetry ...
The Safety to Surrender - On How to Study Magic and Revolutionary Witchcraft | Sarah Lyons
April 15, 2023 19:15 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBThis week, we welcome my new friend, writer, activist, filmmaker, and witch, Sarah Lyons, for a special in-person recording of the pod! I actually adored the background of city sounds you hear in this interview that I did with the @citymystic discussing her two books, which I personally think were well missing from occult literature until she wrote them, How to Study Magic and Revolutionary Witchcraft. We giggle, we joke, we contemplate horror, as we discuss some serious issues such as; Wh...
Sign My Death With Your Teeth: On - Monstrous Desire, Erogenous Shame, and the Hungers of the Witch | Sasha Ravich
April 01, 2023 19:07 - 1 hour - 92.9 MBThis week, we are welcoming another dear friend of mine, Sasha Ravich, stellar witch, visionary spirit worker, and astrolater extraordinaire, to chat with us about their work and research within the crossroads between psychoanalysis literature and the monstrous appetite of the witch. In this episode, Sasha weaves constellations that explore the cannibalizing and vampiric scaffolding of Desire, with specific emphasis on the Witch’s journey to remove the mask of shame in order to fully embrace...
This Episode is a Seed - On Ghostly Practice, the Ritual Body, and Performing the Chthonic Sun | Jacquelyn Marie Shannon
March 18, 2023 19:09 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBThis week, we are welcoming a person very dear to my heart, Jacquelyn Marie Shannon, ritualist, integrative hypnotist, ritual artist, Ph.D. candidate, and dancer, to chat about their research on a topic they have come to call Ghostly Practice. It's hard for me to concisely state in linear language what this episode is about. It's about poetry, it's about performance, it's about the haunting excess accrued by the churning movements and sacrifice of time. It's about dance as the tension and pu...
The Driving Ground of Poetic Ecstacy - On Runes and Nordic Paganism | Phillip English
March 04, 2023 19:10 - 1 hour - 83 MBThis week, we are welcoming guest Phil English, Galdramaður, Diviner, and Thelemite to come onto the podcast and chat about the poetic and primordial power of working and expressing the Runes. We chat poetry, singing, enchanting, and the importance of cultivating right relations with the mythopoetic narratives inside us. Certainly a treat for anyone interested in the history of ancient traditions, and more so in, the way we weave stories and songs of the dead and living in syncopations of un...
Aliens Ate My Audio: On - Astrology and the Paranormal | Maighdlin Kelly
February 18, 2023 19:10 - 1 hour - 54.3 MBThis week, we are welcoming guest Maighdlin Kelly, astrologer, astronomer, and weird scientist, to chat about a topic that tickles fantasy and stirs the curious and brave heart, that of the paranormal and the entity known as the Phenomena. Maighdlin has taken their skills as an astrologer and focused them on studying paranormal events. They also extend their roots in the weird science community by teaching fellow paranormal hunters how to view the sky through an astronomer’s lens via their p...
The Waters Above and Below the Firmament; On Saturn and The Arte of Relational Astrology | Diana Rose
February 04, 2023 19:08 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBThis week we are welcoming a very special guest, Diana Rose, writer and relational astrologer extraordinaire. Diana graciously agreed to come on the pod to share her life nourishing wisdom on that death bringer we all know so well, that most great of planets, Lord Saturn. Diana enlivens the conversation on Saturn with grace and wisdom well earned, through earnest experience and the allowance of devotional trust shared with this mighty sphere, he who rules bones, structures, and limitations. ...
Get in the Proxy, Shinji: On Anime and Gnosticism | Luminous Leeci
January 21, 2023 19:04 - 1 hour - 81.8 MBThis week, we are welcoming special guest Leeci, student of Gnosticism and devotee of St. Mary Magdalene, to talk about one of my favorite things in the whole world, Anime! Those of you who grew up with a little bit of weeb in you probably know that Anime has a history of bringing up occult and esoteric issues within the narrative. In fact, both Leeci and I probably wouldn't have picked paths that emphasized magic or mysticism without the introduction via anime as kids. So with this in mind,...
I Learned Something Today; On Aleister Crowley and the Practical Joke of the General | Jedidiah Gainey
January 07, 2023 18:57 - 1 hour - 111 MBThis week, we are welcoming guest Jedidiah Forrest Gainey, OTO initiate, Thelemite, co-owner of Botanica Macumba in New Orleans, and personal friend of mine. My original guest for this week had a family emergency and I was very blessed to have Jed agree to let me come record in his home so the pod could remain on schedule. Marvel in wonder as two malefic ruled people with strong Gemini placements attempt to talk about one of the most controversial occultists of all time, on a day Mercury sta...
I Learned Something Today; On Aleister Crowley and the Practical Joke of the General
January 07, 2023 18:57 - 1 hour - 111 MBThis week, we are welcoming guest Jedidiah Forrest Gainey, OTO initiate, Thelemite, co-owner of Botanica Macumba in New Orleans, and personal friend of mine. My original guest for this week had a family emergency and I was very blessed to have Jed agree to let me come record in his home so the pod could remain on schedule. Marvel in wonder as two malefic ruled people with strong Gemini placements attempt to talk about one of the most controversial occultists of all time, on a day Mercury sta...
Beauty to Pacify a Restless Soul; On Animism and the History of Tattooing | Kandace Layne
December 24, 2022 18:51 - 56 minutes - 52.3 MBThis week, we are welcoming a truly special guest, one of my best friends, Kandace Layne. Kandace is a tattoo artist and tarot reader from my hometown of Atlanta Georgia, and she recently just reached her 10 year anniversary as a professional in her field! To celebrate, I invited Kandace onto the cast to discuss the magical history of tattooing and the process of spirit guided image magic she brings into her art. What can the history of tattooing teach us about image magic as medicine? How c...
Beauty to Pacify a Restless Soul; On Animism and the History of Tattooing
December 24, 2022 18:51 - 56 minutes - 52.3 MBThis week, we are welcoming a truly special guest, one of my best friends, Kandace Layne. Kandace is a tattoo artist and tarot reader from my hometown of Atlanta Georgia, and she recently just reached her 10 year anniversary as a professional in her field! To celebrate, I invited Kandace onto the cast to discuss the magical history of tattooing and the process of spirit guided image magic she brings into her art. What can the history of tattooing teach us about image magic as medicine? How c...
Ritual Resonance - On; Authenticity and Feral Expression | Nika Danilova
December 10, 2022 18:44 - 55 minutes - 62.8 MBThis week, we are welcoming guest Nika Danilova, the musician, artist, and magic practitioner otherwise known as Zola Jesus, onto the podcast. Throughout the course of this interview, Nika and I explore the cathartic process of ritual expression which extends itself synonymously through art, music, and magic. Due to our shared political standing and love of Adorno, we also find space to weave in conversations on the importance of such an expression to combat the ill effects of a Capitalist c...
Ritual Resonance; On Authenticity and Feral Expression | Nika Danilova
December 10, 2022 18:44 - 55 minutes - 62.8 MBThis week, we are welcoming guest Nika Danilova, the musician, artist, and magic practitioner otherwise known as Zola Jesus, onto the podcast. Throughout the course of this interview, Nika and I explore the cathartic process of ritual expression which extends itself synonymously through art, music, and magic. Due to our shared political standing and love of Adorno, we also find space to weave in conversations on the importance of such an expression to combat the ill effects of a Capitalist c...
The Liminal Cauldron of Creative Magic; On Astrology, Creativity, and the Praxis of Play | Amaya Rourke
November 26, 2022 19:20 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBThis week, we are welcoming guest Amaya Rourke, astrologer, ritualist, artist, teacher, and writer residing in the northwest of the Republic of Ireland. Her work is guided by her animistic land-based spiritual and magical practice, helping her to return to and reveal the wild and creative terrestrial origins of astrology and mythopoetics. In this episode, Amaya shares with us her theories on creativity and praxis in regards to her aspirations in guiding clients towards the cultivation of a d...
The Liminal Cauldron of Creative Magic; On - Astrology, Creativity, and the Praxis of Play | Amaya Rourke
November 26, 2022 19:20 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBThis week, we are welcoming guest Amaya Rourke, astrologer, ritualist, artist, teacher, and writer residing in the northwest of the Republic of Ireland. Her work is guided by her animistic land-based spiritual and magical practice, helping her to return to and reveal the wild and creative terrestrial origins of astrology and mythopoetics. In this episode, Amaya shares with us her theories on creativity and praxis in regards to her aspirations in guiding clients towards the cultivation of a d...
Tarot of Love in a Dream; On The Art of Memory and Divination | Reverend Erik
November 12, 2022 18:38 - 1 hour - 98.8 MBThis week, we are welcoming guest Reverend Erik of the Arnemancy podcast, on this the day of his solar return! Erik and I have recorded sister episodes on each other's respected podcasts on our thoughts surrounding the philosophy behind tarot reading. Get a behind the scenes peek at how your diviner friends learn to read and sus out meanings for the cards! Erik's method is a unique and innovative technique involving Renaissance philosophy, and the Art of Memory. How do stories, sounds, and s...
Tarot of Love in a Dream: On, The Art of Memory and Divination | Reverend Erik
November 12, 2022 18:38 - 1 hour - 98.8 MBThis week, we are welcoming guest Reverend Erik of the Arnemancy podcast, on this the day of his solar return! Erik and I have recorded sister episodes on each other's respected podcasts on our thoughts surrounding the philosophy behind tarot reading. Get a behind the scenes peek at how your diviner friends learn to read and sus out meanings for the cards! Erik's method is a unique and innovative technique involving Renaissance philosophy, and the Art of Memory. How do stories, sounds, and s...
Holy Mountain Temple: On Community and Value | Brother Moses
October 29, 2022 18:40 - 1 hour - 99.2 MBBeing the sign that occupies my 6h, Scorpio season tends to be a time in which I begin thinking about how we are of service, to our communities, to our spirits, and sometimes even to ourselves. With that in mind, today I am welcoming back to the podcast Brother Moses to chat about his new community space and the Kickstarter campaign for the Holy Mountain Temple. Moses' plan involves the combination of maker space ideology with a cunning man's sense of value, which creates a synthesis that mi...
Holy Mountain Temple; On Community and Value | Brother Moses
October 29, 2022 18:40 - 1 hour - 99.2 MBBeing the sign that occupies my 6h, Scorpio season tends to be a time in which I begin thinking about how we are of service, to our communities, to our spirits, and sometimes even to ourselves. With that in mind, today I am welcoming back to the podcast Brother Moses to chat about his new community space and the Kickstarter campaign for the Holy Mountain Temple. Moses' plan involves the combination of maker space ideology with a cunning man's sense of value, which creates a synthesis that mi...
The Chalice and the Lance - On Grail Mythology and Erotic Mysticism | Connor Marvin
October 15, 2022 18:54 - 1 hour - 73.6 MBToday, we are welcoming guest Connor Khalil Marvin, Sufi initiate and Ceremonial Magician, to talk about Grail mythology and the mystic perception of Love. What makes a lover? How might Occultists benefit from utilizing Esoteric Chivalry? What is so important about Martial energy? What elements might allow a story to stand the test of time? Connor and I explore all this and more, starting with the Grail and freely flowing into conversations of erotic mysticism from the Sufi perspective, which...
The Chalice and the Lance; On Grail Mythology and Erotic Mysticism | Connor Marvin
October 15, 2022 18:54 - 1 hour - 73.6 MBToday, we are welcoming guest Connor Khalil Marvin, Sufi initiate and Ceremonial Magician, to talk about Grail mythology and the mystic perception of Love. What makes a lover? How might Occultists benefit from utilizing Esoteric Chivalry? What is so important about Martial energy? What elements might allow a story to stand the test of time? Connor and I explore all this and more, starting with the Grail and freely flowing into conversations of erotic mysticism from the Sufi perspective, which...
A Wheel of Small Gods - On Healing and Poetic Ritual | Brian Wilkins
October 01, 2022 18:49 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBToday we are welcoming Brian Wilkins, magician, poet, and taijiquan teacher in the Hudson Valley, onto the podcast to chat about his recent poetry book, A Wheel of Small Gods, published through Revelore Press with art by Brennen Reece. This interview is chock full of praxis wisdom listeners won’t want to miss. How do we take our rituals and turn them into art? In what ways does inviting the spirits of the decans into our lives change the way we process pain and disease in the body? How does ...
A Wheel of Small Gods; On Healing and Poetic Ritual | Brian Wilkins
October 01, 2022 18:49 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBToday we are welcoming Brian Wilkins, magician, poet, and taijiquan teacher in the Hudson Valley, onto the podcast to chat about his recent poetry book, A Wheel of Small Gods, published through Revelore Press with art by Brennen Reece. This interview is chock full of praxis wisdom listeners won’t want to miss. How do we take our rituals and turn them into art? In what ways does inviting the spirits of the decans into our lives change the way we process pain and disease in the body? How does ...
The Magician's Adventure | Lon Milo DuQuette
September 17, 2022 18:56 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBToday we are celebrating the season two premiere of SaturnVox with a very special guest, author, magician, simple country metaphysician, and the man who wrote the book I first started learning tarot from, Lon Milo DuQuette! Lon and I were introduced by my friend and former podcast guest, CR Sanders, and I was very lucky to get a chance to talk with him back in July. It's a cozy, comfortable episode, jam packed with lots of wisdom and metaphysical nuggets of insight. We laugh, we joke, we cha...
Ravens, and Kings, and the Other, Oh My! - On; a Cunning Approach to Ethics | Dr. Alexander Cummins
June 18, 2022 19:12 - 1 hour - 72.3 MBToday we are celebrating the Season One finale of the podcast with a special guest and a beautiful conversation weaving fiction, cunning, and ethics all into one pot and serving it up to you all as a hearty stew to warm the soul. This week I am welcoming Dr. Alexander Cummins, contemporary cunning man and historian, onto the podcast where we chat a bit about what one can learn about magic and ethics from reading the outstanding work of fiction Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clar...
The Artes of the Artist - On; The Philosophy of Aesthetics and Mythic Ontology | J M Hamade
June 04, 2022 19:09 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBThis week I am welcoming artist, diviner, and fellow podcast host, J M Hamade, on the air to do something new and fun, wherein we have recorded two interviews as offerings to the public by means of a little episode exchange. In this particular SaturnVox conversation, Jay and I discuss magic and astrology as seen through an aesthetic lens, as well as the ontological implications of mythos building and the ways in which we structure our Wellspring of Imagination. What makes the artist and the ...
As Above, So Below - On; Queerness and Kabbalah | Cooper Kaminsky
May 21, 2022 19:06 - 1 hour - 67 MBThis week I am welcoming folk witch and devotee to Babalon, Cooper Kaminsky. I have been dying to have a chat about Queerness in Kabbalah for some time now, and there really was no better person to ask than a non-binary Jewish witch if you ask me! Cooper gives us their insight into the intersection between the queer and Jewish experience, wisdom on both Babalon and the Shekinah, and we even find time to discuss what it means to embody the Middle Pillar along the Tree of Life. In true Mercuri...
I Want to Believe - On; High Strangeness and the Devil Current | Bishop Orlee Stewart
May 07, 2022 19:04 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBThis week I am welcoming Bishop Orlee Stewart, artist and witch, to talk about the magic of the internet, evoking sub-lunar spirits, and the benefits, as well as, dangers of using magic to embrace High Strangeness. Within this episode, we chat about other worlds, extra dimensions, and the joys of leaning into one’s True Will, along with the synchronicities that follow. We spend some time discussing the existence of aliens, the Ars Goetia, and Cthullian mythos, showcasing the wonders and horr...
Bad Priestess: Jouissance, Paradox, and Malefic Creativity in a New Aeon | Tamaryn
April 23, 2022 19:04 - 1 hour - 83.8 MBThis week, I have with me Tamaryn, musician, witch, perpetual student of the cosmos, and owner of the store 'Major Arcana' in Half Moon Bay, California. This episode is a powerful expression of creativity, passion, and shadow work. As Saturnine witches, we tackle these subjects as they must be truly seen, beyond masks of virtue and bound instead by an intentional acknowledgment of the All-Being as paradoxical in nature. Tamaryn and I discuss all of this and more through a Thelemic, psychoana...
Mercurial Magic, Misadventure, and the Media | CR Sanders
April 09, 2022 19:08 - 1 hour - 55 MBEvery DnD player knows that all parties are more fun when they include a good Bard. Mythos building and story-telling are one of the most basic skills that makes human consciousness so interesting. All social customs are built from myth, but as Mercury in their guise of Trickster will teach you, creating new myths is one of the best ways to subvert and redirect customs and social order. With that consideration in mind, I invited CR Sandars, otherwise known as Chris, onto the podcast to discu...
The Many Faces of the Mother | Ramona Martinez
March 26, 2022 18:03 - 1 hour - 53 MBOn this week’s episode we have musician, print maker, liminal beauty and Marian devotee, Ramona Martinez, creator of the Visions of Mary oracle deck. Have you ever had one of those experiences where you meet a new friend and can’t help but become immediately comfortable? This was the experience Ramona and I had as we sat down with some tea to discuss the various faces of the Mothers Mary and Hekate. This episode unfolds more like sisters hiding under bed covers at night sharing secrets than ...
On the Art of Candle Crafting and the Ecstasy of Babalon | Sarah Jezebel Wood
March 12, 2022 19:09 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBOn this week’s episode we have candle maker, sorceress of ecstatic mysteries, and devotee of Babalon, Sarah Jezebel Wood joining us. Sarah and I spend some time waxing poetics, if you will, on the depth of spell crafting and discipline that goes into her talismanic candle line Lovi Artes, the hardships of marketing an occult business through social media, and the connection between candle making, dancing, and the Goddess Babalon. Why is tension necessary for ecstasy? In what ways does candle...
Scrying for Portals - On Folklore and Fairytales in the Nativity | Sasha Ravich
February 26, 2022 19:15 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBOn this week’s episode we have guest Sasha Ravich, professional Folk-Necromancer and Astrologer for Witches. Sasha joins us this week to discuss the importance of folklore and mythos as a foundational aspect of cognitive blending between birth chart and scrying mirror. How does one’s relationship with the dead affect the living? In what ways can we explore myth and fairy tale to inform our understanding of liminal relationships? Why should people cultivate caution when developing spirit sigh...
Dual Faith and Wrestling with Modernity | Joshua Adam Sharp
February 12, 2022 19:17 - 1 hour - 47.6 MBOn this week’s episode we have guest Joshua Adam Sharp, better known as Algol from the New Orleans based Black Metal project Mehenet. Joshua is the founding master of Alombrados Oasis, OTO and currently serves on the Electoral College of O.TO. For the U.S.A. He is a crowned Olorisha and a Macumbeiro as well as being one of the 4 owners of Botanica Macumba, which happens to be the onsite location this interview took place. Joshua shares with us his own wisdoms on dual-faith practice and the c...
Life, Death, and the Webs We Weave | Cydney of Rose da Rua
January 29, 2022 19:18 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBOn this week’s episode we have guest Cydney of Lady Malandra here to discuss the webs we weave, magic that pours from the fingertips, and the creation of the most adorable spirit homes I've ever seen. Being an episode about the magic we make with repetitive moments of the hand, we spend a lot of time talking about birthing art and giving form for spirits to take shape while also giving practical advice and hands on experience of what the process might look like. To find out more about Cydne...
Life, Death, and the Webs We Weave
January 29, 2022 19:18 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBOn this week’s episode we have guest Cydney of Lady Malandra here to discuss the webs we weave, magic that pours from the fingertips, and the creation of the most adorable spirit homes I've ever seen. Being an episode about the magic we make with repetitive moments of the hand, we spend a lot of time talking about birthing art and giving form for spirits to take shape while also giving practical advice and hands on experience of what the process might look like. To find out more about Cydne...
Life, Death, and the Webs We Weave | Cydney of Lady Malandra
January 29, 2022 19:18 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBOn this week’s episode we have guest Cydney of Lady Malandra here to discuss the webs we weave, magic that pours from the fingertips, and the creation of the most adorable spirit homes I've ever seen. Being an episode about the magic we make with repetitive moments of the hand, we spend a lot of time talking about birthing art and giving form for spirits to take shape while also giving practical advice and hands on experience of what the process might look like. To find out more about Cydne...
Necromancy, Poetry, and the Preservation of Emotions
January 15, 2022 19:02 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBOn this week’s episode we have guest Cooper of the Witchhassle podcast here to discuss the link between poetry and necromancy. We get into a bunch of other cool topics like language use, the intersection between the liminal, madness, and melancholy, as well as a bit of left politics on how one might create mutual aid through poetry. Is poetry ruled by the Moon, Mercury, Saturn, or maybe all three? This episode was a complete delight and filled with much laughter on both sides. I hope you all...