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Gemini Season Hellenismos Update!

Happy Summer Solstice witches! To cap off Gemini season, our hosts chat about Gemini's Hellenismos journey and how it's changed over the years. 

Jamie Waggoner, A Witch In Time

Happy New Moon New Book and Happy Gemini month! Our hosts discuss Jamie Waggoner's Hades: Myth, Magic and Devotion. It won't be the episode you expect, but it is the episode you need! 

Protection Two: Electric Boogaloo

What's up witches and happy Sagittarius Full Moon! Feels fitting to be talking about protection during a Sag moon, especially when our hosts chat about the intersection of protection and technology. We knew we had to revisit protection after reading The Evil Eye, so if you liked May's previous episode, you're primed and ready for this one!

Antonio Pagliarulo, A Witch In Time

Ever wondered about the Evil Eye? Did you grow up with a family superstition or feel like its a silly old wives tale? Gemini and Scorpio dive into The Evil Eye: The History, Mystery and Magic of the Quiet Curse by Antonio Pagliarulo, the Italian Witch, and learn a lot! 

The Awakening Tarot with Monica Bodirsky

You know her, you love her, welcome back Monica Bodirsky! Not only do our three hosts discuss Monica's new Awakening Tarot (tl;dl: buy it, we love it!), but she teases ANOTHER NEW DECK, as well as so many cool things you just have to tune in to hear them all. Come for the tarot, stay for spiritual therapy. 

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.