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Sybil Leek, A Witch In Time

"Talk about a witch in time[!]" For this intense eclipse episode, Scorpio and Gemini talk about the power of personal narrative and the importance of self-confidence while discussing Sybil Leek's Diary of a Witch. If you want Scorpio to write a memoir and/or want to know Gemini's opinion on eclipses, this is episode for you!

The Divine Feminine

Happy Libra Full Moon (and start of eclipse season 2024)! Join our hosts as they discuss the Divine Feminine in their traditions, inspired by last episode's book, Orishas, Goddess and Voodoo Queens, by Lilith Dorsey.

Orishas, Goddesses and Voodoo Queens

For the Pisces New Moon, Scorpio and Gemini discuss Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens: The Divine Feminine in the African Religious Traditions by Lilith Dorsey. Full of stories and essential info about the feminine entities, spirits, deities and ancestors of African Traditional Religions, this book is an important read, prompting important conversations (and some Scorpio lore for the dedicated listener!)

Scorpio's Espiritismo

In the spirit of Marion Gibson's Witchcraft (our last episode, if you haven't heard it!), today our hosts talk about Scorpio's Espiritismo - what is it, what was it like to be raised in a spiritual practice and what Scorpio wants you to know about the Espiritismo that she grew up with. This episode isn't a How To Guide, but instead a journey through Scorpio's personal history, or at least as much as any scorpio is willing to share. 

An Interview with Marion Gibson

For February's New Moon, New Book, Scorpio and Gemini talk to Marion Gibson, professor, historian and author of the recently released Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials. One part delightful conversation, one part book-review-turned-existential-crisis, this is a must hear episode for the witches and witch-adjacent alike!

 

From the University of Exeter:

Marion is a Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Director of the Flexible Combined Honours degree programme. Her research is about witch trials in history from the Middle Ages to the present. 

Recent books: Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials (Simon and Schuster/Scribner, 2023) and The Witches of St Osyth (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

She's also the author of Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft (Routledge, 2017), Witchcraft: The Basics (Routledge, 2018), Imagining the Pagan Past: Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since the Dark Ages. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), Witchcraft Myths in American Culture (New York: Routledge, 2007). Possession, Puritanism and Print: Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006), Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches (London and New York: Routledge, 1999), with Garry Tregidga and Shelley Trower, Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity (London: and New York: Routledge, 2012) and with Jo Esra, The Arden Shakespeare Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Demonology (London: Arden/Bloomsbury, 2014). She is the editor of the Cambridge University Press series Elements in Magic.

Witch Table Talk - The Morrigan

What's up witches and happy Leo Full Moon! Join our hosts Gemini and Scorpio, as well as friends of the pod Cawnawyn Mor and Morgana of Modern Druid as they discuss their relationships with the Great Queen Herself, The Morrigan.

Stephanie Woodfield, A Witch In Time

Happy Capricorn New Moon and happy first New Moon, New Book of the new year! Today's pod is all about Stephanie Woodfield's Priestess of the Morrigan: Prayers, Rituals & Devotional Work to the Great Queen. In true NM, NB fashion, Gemini has an existential crisis, but we also get some new Scorpio lore at the end, as well as some intermittent discussion of New Year's Resolutions. Welcome back for Season 6 witches! 

YEAR 5 Wrap Up!

Happy Cancer Full Moon and happy year FIVE!!! wrap up! We love y'all so much and are so grateful that we got to do this for five years (and that we get to do it even bigger and better for who knows how many more?!) 

Karl Herr, A Hexenmeister in Time

For the last New Moon, New Book of 2023 (ohmygods!!!) Scorpio and Gemini read Karl Herr's Hex and Spellwork: The Magical Practices of the Pennsylvania Dutch, a book that wasn't what either expected! An interesting end to the 5th year of Witchspace Podcast to say the least. 

YULE I

Thank you to Moon Serpent and Bone Magical Night Market for sponsoring this "mini"-podcast! Amy welcomes us to the 5th Annual Yule Market, Scorpio and Gemini discuss Yule in the headspace of Year 1, and we hear a spotlight from one of the vendors in attendence!