SaturnVox

This week, we are engaging in something a bit different. For those of you keeping up with me on the socials, you might be informed that I have survived something very intense and frightening lately. It caused me to realize a lot about how I was navigating the world versus how I imagined myself able to sail through. In the end, every part of me had to die. The person who moved from New Orleans to Houston sits on my ancestor altar now, a ghost of someone I had to sacrifice in order to still be here talking to you.  Such a big death means the death of SaturnVox, too, but I am not one for traditionality. If death must occur, as a witch and artist, I have the power to metamorphose what is happening into whatever shape I dream it to be.  Let SaturnVox now be known as the multimedia platform from which the artist and priestess who channels her generative creations be named. Metamorphosis means transformation, and SaturnVox, a mother, will now give birth to many children. Only one of which being a podcast. So this may be the last episode that bears the weight of Saturn's voice, but it is not the last podcast that carries the rumble of my own. Starting sometime around the winter solstice, a new podcast will be born. Chimera, her name.  But this happening in this moment is still the SaturnVox Podcast. That will be then, and this is now. Though this swan song is a bridge of sorts, as there is no cup of tea here. Instead, it's the coffee shared with comr//ades before a protest. It's the soup made to feed those displaced. Chimera will be that too—but only as one of its many parts. For now, in this moment, soup is all I have the energy to stew for you. Therefore, instead of one interview, I offer you four, followed by a final monologue by me, alone. Something different, yet similar, still somehow new.  Across these conversations, a central theme of otherness will emerge as each guest reflects on what it means to live at the edges of societal norms. Through their unique journeys—whether shaped by gender, race, sexuality, or spirituality—they confront what it means to be labeled as outcasts and the strength that comes with embracing that difference. We also explore transformation, the shifting of the self that happens when one becomes the monster. From Cody's deeply personal explorations to Miranda's intuitively artistic expressions, to David's insightful reflections on spirituality, we see how embracing the monstrous allows for profound metamorphosis—a path to a more authentic self. As the conversations unfold, there's a reflection on power—how the monstrous can offer a different perspective on empathy, not as a universal mandate, but as a choice we navigate in a world that often demands detachment. Ending on Vincent's insights, we are confronted with the challenge of traditional boundaries, and of what it means to care and connect, while still recognizing the humanity in those labeled monstrous, for whatever means. This episode ultimately reveals the generative power of monstrosity. In creating outside of the lines society draws, there is a deep well of potential. Whether through artistic practice, spiritual engagement, or simply existing as one's true self, these conversations remind us that to be monstrous is not only to be feared or cast out, but to harness the creative force that reshapes the world from the margins. So put on your cave-raiding gear, and let's dive inside together to explore this great abyss that separates us and gives us the ability to transform each moment beyond the limits of humans or monsters into the imaginative space of Chimera, where everything is old and yet somehow new. All this and more, on today's episode of SaturnVox. 

This 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-dwelling, of womb diving, of going into that dark space and emerging with images? What does it mean to view the stars through a lunar aperture, with the moon as music, the moon as letter, the moon as mouth? How does one practice becoming the image by becoming sound, which is a full-bodied experience, when the Lunar Stations are acknowledged, witnessed, and put into play? All this and more, on today's episode of SaturnVox. To find more on Jay and his podcast Starnightdwell, check out their website, where you can quick link to whatever your favorite podcast listening host client might be. If you want to support them and their show, you can also sub to their Patreon, or follow them on Instagram to see when new episodes and workshops are released. Last but not least, don't sleep on keeping an eye out on theirs and the @revelorepress page for announcements about Jay's forthcoming publication release, Procession of the Night Theatre: An Exposition on the Lunar Stations by J.M. Hamade To find more on SaturnVox, check out their ⁠instagram⁠ @saturnvox, or, visit their website ⁠saturnvox.com⁠. This podcast is brought in part by listeners like you. If you want to support the show and its humble host, hop on over to the Patreon at ⁠www.patreon.com/saturnvox⁠ where you can listen to extended episode content and join in on our community discord server.  Original music for the podcast performed by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @tornado_bedtime Fallen Angel graphic drawn by the incandescent tattooer and illustrator @floodtower SHOW NOTES: The Arts of the Artist - SaturnVox The Sun of Knowledge - Spirit BoxShams al-Ma'arif - Witchhassel Shams al-Ma'arif - What Magic is This? Shams al-Ma'arif - The Sun of Knowledge: An Arabic Grimoire: A selected Translation by Ahmad ibn ‘Ali al-Buni Translated from the Arabic by Amina Inloes, PhD with commentary and illustrations by J.M. Hamade Meta-Image, Divination, and Occult Podcasting - Starnightdwell Consecration of the Twenty-Eight Faces of Mēnē - Digital Ambler

This 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 who have been marked? How might we, as humans, best navigate the mercurial logic of the fae and their liminality? What is the importance of accepting we already live in an enchanted world? And, what does all of this have to do with Joan? All this and more, on today's episode of SaturnVox  To find more on Briar, check out their Instagram @greene_chapel, and don't forget to check out their website to shop spellwork and look into divination services.  To find more on SaturnVox, check out their ⁠instagram⁠ @saturnvox, or, visit their website ⁠saturnvox.com⁠. Don't forget to hop on to the Patreon at ⁠www.patreon.com/saturnvox⁠ where you can further support the show, listen to extended episode content, and join in on our community discord server.  Original music for the podcast performed by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @tornado_bedtime Fallen Angel graphic drawn by the incandescent tattooer and illustrator @floodtower SHOW NOTES: Lailoken, from Wending Wares Lee Morgan Joan of Arc as Fairy Saint (?)

This 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? And what does Baphomet have to do with this? All this and more on today's episode, of SaturnVox To find more on Gary, check out their instagram @garynori and make sure to check out the website for Manticore's Den to check out their shop and divination services.  To find more on SaturnVox, check out their ⁠instagram⁠ @saturnvox, or, visit their website ⁠saturnvox.com⁠. Don't forget to hop on to the Patreon at ⁠www.patreon.com/saturnvox⁠ where you can further support the show, listen to extended episode content, and join in on our community discord server.  Original music for the podcast performed by Jules M. Dooley, a traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @tornado_bedtime Fallen Angel graphic drawn by the incandescent tattooer and illustrator @floodtower

This 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 the monster, and the sensuality of mysticism as we navigate new ways to speak narratives which allow us to use Mars's power of hatred and discernment to bind the oppressor and reframe our stories towards that of liberation and compassion for all beings. How do we bind the beast of oppression? In what ways does shame protect us from our own tendencies towards violence? What does it mean to be in active service and communion with martial energy and why is it that the best weapon against mars is also mars? We touch on healing, revolution, and the power of anger to get shit done. Join us for this pertinent and important conversation towards allowing in a heated knife to cauterize wounds. All this and more poetry, on today's episode of SaturnVox  To find more on David, check out their instagram @porouspalms, and make sure to check out their website to check out their shop and divination services. You can also keep up with their writing and receive other goodies by subscribing to them on Patreon. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their ⁠instagram⁠ @saturnvox, or, visit their website ⁠saturnvox.com⁠. Don't forget to hop on to the Patreon at ⁠www.patreon.com/saturnvox⁠ where you can further support the show, listen to extended episode content, and join in on our community discord server.  Original music for the podcast performed by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @tornado_bedtime Fallen Angel graphic drawn by the incandescent tattooer and illustrator @floodtower SHOW NOTES:Sylvan-Sabbats & Night-Surgeons: Crossing a Hedge to Meet Planetary Witch Parents with Sasha Ravich Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire The Ceremony Found: Towards the Autopoetic Turn/Overturn, its Autonomy of Human Agency and Extraterritoriality of (Self-)Cognition by Sylvia Wynter There Is No Revolution without Madness by Ismatu Gwendolyn The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon Nat Turner

This 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 horrors of enlightenment, the necessity of Art as medicine, and the exaltation of dance among metaphors for weaving in and out of the tension of things. We chat identity, academia, and a little bit of philosophy, all with a focus on Art and Imagination as a practice in both the craft of life and the crooked path. I thoroughly enjoyed and was inspired by Genie's compassion of the heart and expansion of the mind and her attention to utilizing language metaphors that give space and healing for the Self's relationship with the body. I do not doubt you will find it inspiring, too.  To find more on Genie, check out their instagram @tides.of.tethys, and make sure to check out their website to sign up for their newsletter to be one of the first to lay claim to upcoming talismans they are making! Finally, don't sleep on their presentation at this year's Astro Magia conference, Nov 2023, where they will be presenting along with a bunch of other amazing speakers, former guests of this show, and friends of your humble host.  To find more on SaturnVox, check out their ⁠instagram⁠ @saturnvox, or, visit their website ⁠saturnvox.com⁠. Don't forget to hop on to the Patreon at ⁠www.patreon.com/saturnvox⁠ where you can further support the show, listen to extended episode content, and join in on our community discord server.  Original music for the podcast performed by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky Fallen Angel graphic drawn by the incandescent tattooist and illustrator @floodtower SHOW NOTES: Viridis Genii Series 6, Vol 1 Foucault, The History of Sexuality Volume 1 Bataille, The Solar Anus

This 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 nightlife builder, inspirited dancer, and magical practitioner, Jove shares with us the the power found on the dance floor to transcend the boundaries of self through intuitive self-expression and surrender to Desire.  How does dance help us feel safe in our bodies? What are the similarities of Otherness between those who identify as queer vs witch? How can we take the undulating energy of desire and use it to shape a world in which we all get to surrender to safety, intimacy, and vulnerability of heart through the ekstatis of the moon and the dionysian impulse to purge through the creation of feral artistic expression? All this and more on today's episode of SaturnVox To find more on Jove, you can check them out on instagram, twitter, or check out their website here. You can also take a class they will be teaching on Night Life Magic at this year's Occulture Conference 2023, so if you are going to the conference in Berlin this year don't forget to check Jove's talk out! To find more on SaturnVox, check out their ⁠instagram⁠ @saturnvox, or, visit their website ⁠saturnvox.com⁠. Don't forget to hop on to the Patreon at ⁠www.patreon.com/saturnvox⁠ where you can further support the show, listen to extended episode content, and join in on our community discord server.  Original music for the podcast performed by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky Fallen Angel graphic drawn by the incandescent tattooer and illustrator @floodtower

This 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 using such a tool in talismanic creation, Arturo's process in creating the book, and how other practitioners might find the book useful. This convo is an open dialog on embarking wild new technological frontiers, as well as, the ethics and ethos in the praxis of confronting the other and human's relationship to technological unknowns, as well as, one's ability to navigate capital and the need to access power and agency for one's self in the world. I quite enjoyed this conversation with a dear friend, and hope it opens up a dialog of critical questions and theories on the intersection between magic, technology, and art for you.  To support this project and get a copy of the book for yourself, head over to the Revelore Press website to purchase it here. Feel free to also contact Arturo via email at arturo.martinini@gmail.com To find more on SaturnVox, check out their ⁠instagram⁠ @saturnvox, or, visit their website ⁠saturnvox.com⁠. Don't forget to hop on to the Patreon at ⁠www.patreon.com/saturnvox⁠ where you can further support the show, listen to extended episode content, and join in on our community discord server.  Original music for the podcast performed by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky Fallen Angel graphic drawn by the incandescent tattooer and illustrator @floodtower SHOW NOTES: Christopher Warnock Shams al-Ma'arif: A selected Translation by Ahmad ibn ‘Ali al-Buni, Translated from the Arabic by Dr. Amina Inloes, with commentary and illustrations by J.M. Hamade Revelore Press Nina Gryphon Demetra George

This 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 understanding of the Ifa tradition in to help answer some pretty tough political, spiritual, and ethical questions.  How do we connect ourselves to the lifegiving blood-force of our own generative creativity, both through lineage and through the lens of our agency? How can we navigate healing our own wounds of oppression, as well as the wounds of others, within the capitalist paradigm we are trying to break? What types of healing can be cultivated societally when we stop viewing things through the lens of good/bad and instead focus on ease/disease? I was immensely moved and inspired by Ari's dedication to freedom and building a world in which we can all feel at home in our desires, our bodies, and our communities. I hope you will be too. All this and more on today's episode of SaturnVox  If you want to find more on Ari, make sure to check out their website, where you can book a session, sign up for mentorships, or read their newsletter!  To find more on SaturnVox, check out their ⁠instagram⁠ and ⁠twitter⁠ @saturnvox, or, visit their website ⁠saturnvox.com⁠. Don't forget to hop on to the Patreon at ⁠www.patreon.com/saturnvox⁠ where you can further support the show, listen to extended episode content, and join in on our community discord server.  Original music for the podcast performed by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky Fallen Angel graphic drawn by the incandescent tattooer and illustrator @floodtower SHOW NOTES: Grace Lee and James Boggs Pedagogy of the Oppressed Bayo Akomolafe Succession (TV series) Turtle Tank

This 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 Religions? How does conjure function as a sorcerous technique aimed at liberating the oppressed? What is the difference between pure and clean? Why is Hoodoo explicitly North American, and, how did the political landscape of the United States influence the addition of Indigenous, Jewish, and other ethnic minority's praxis in a tradition that finds its roots in Africa? All this and more on today's episode of SaturnVox. But wait, there's more! Check out the Patreon exclusive episode to hear more of my conversation with the good professor, as we transition from history into praxis, leaning more into a discussion on various uses and techniques for doing both magic and divination with playing cards! If you enjoy this episode and the witty way the Professor imparts his wisdom, I encourage you to check out the class he is teaching at the Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival. This conference is filled with a plethora of inspiring educators, many of whom have been on the podcast, and I can't express enough how much my own magic has grown in both personal praxis and community building through the experiences I have had at festivals past.  To find more on Professor Porterfield, you can check out his instagram @prof.porterfield, or head on over to his website, where you can purchase one of his many books or get yourself a divination reading. Also, don't forget to check out his SWFF class, Lilith & Chava: A Jewish Examination of the "Mother of Witchcraft"! Click Here to peek at the presenters of the Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival, occurring between August 3 and August 6th 2023.   To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com, or, hop on to the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox where you can further support the show, listen to extended episode content, and join in on our community discord server.  Original music for the podcast performed by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky Fallen Angel graphic drawn by the  incandescent tattooer and illustrator @floodtower

This 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 and politics. How does one remove themselves from the stranglehold of divine oppression? How does language use feed into false illusions of what is and what isn't? How do we cultivate agency and freedom while still maintaining order, without allowing that order to become oppressive? We even make some time to discuss what it's like for Lex living out in the desert and what he has learned from the local genius loci there. I was very humbled and graciously inclined for Lex's vulnerability and honesty, and I hope the rest of you find some moments of inspiration in this conversation as I did. All this and more, on today's episode of SaturnVox To find more on Alexis, you can check out their instagram @alexismincolla, or head on over to the 3Teeth official website to join Operation Mindfuck. Don't forget also, you can listen to the band on any platform music may be heard.  To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com, or, hop on to the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox where you can further support the show and join in on our community discord server.  Original music for the podcast performed by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky Fallen Angel graphic drawn by the  incandescent tattooer and illustrator @floodtower SHOW NOTES: Giordano Bruno Heraclitus of Ephesos Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary Edition E-Prime Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson The Illuminatus! Trilogy

This 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 and astrology embodied practices? What might djinns, daimons, or demons have to do with creativity and inspiration? Why is there a strong relationship between Venus and diviners? How can a surrender to eroticism and poetry allow us to better explore the risk and inherent fumbles of living an authentic life? In what ways are poetry and magic engaged in a similar process of reality shaping, and, what is the link between shame and interest? All this and more, on today's episode of SaturnVox To find more on Òscar, check out their website where you can book them for an astrological reading, and maybe also make some time to read some of their published poetry. Don't forget also to follow them on instagram or twitter to keep up with whatever workshops and classes they may be offering. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com.   This week's extended episode features Òscar's musings on the poetics of astrological talisman making, the magic and sound scaping of rhymes, the intimacy of singing one's prayers, the difference between prayers we write and prayers that have been intoned repeatedly by many over time, and advice on how to give generosity to the self in encouragement to write prayers of your own, so hop on to the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox where you can further support the show and join in on our community discord server.  Original music for the podcast performed by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky Fallen Angel graphic drawn by the  incandescent tattooer and illustrator @floodtower SHOW NOTES: Archilochus of Thasos Shams al-Ma'arif:  An Arabic Grimoire by Ahmad ibn ‘Ali al-Buni translated by Dr. Amina Inloes, with commentary and illustrations by J.M. Hamade Starnight Dwell, J.M. Hamade Holy Daimon by Frater Acher Dr. Ali A. OlomiI bn Ezra Planetary Perfumes by BanexBramble and Sphere and Sundry Henry Fool

This 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; Who gets to define who as “Othered”? Why is it so important to reclaim the term Wtich? How does the body act as an object held within the political dimension? What's the difference between calling yourself Witch vs Magician? Why might we need the discipline of a container to unleash ecstasy? And perhaps most importantly, how can we find safety as we stand at crossroads making deals with uncertainty? All this and more, on today's episode of SaturnVox. To find more on Sarah, check out their website where you can find access to their impressive portfolio of written articles, book them for consultation for your tv show or podcast, read their blog, or buy their books! To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com.  If you want to support the show towards goals of better equipment, merch, and bonus material, please check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox where one can join in on our book club where we are currently reading the Magic in History compilation on Conjuring Spirits compiled by Dr. Claire Fanger,  and discord community in which we are currently engaged in a decan walk complete with bouquet building and poetry forming.  Original music for the podcast performed by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky Fallen Angel graphic drawn by the effervescent tattooer and illustrator @floodtower SHOW NOTES: Revolutionary Witchcraft: A Guide to Magical Activism How to Study Magic: A Guide to History, Lore, and Building Your Own Practice The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

This 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 the spirits of both their psyche and their body.  Is there any true reason to be ashamed of the flesh? Are we already in a symbiotic relationship with our spirits, and, why might we be afraid to acknowledge this? What is hidden within the power of true nakedness, and why might we only be able to share with those select few who are brave enough to dance along with our monsters and theirs, beneath an oceanic moon? How do we navigate the urge to devour the Other within a dance that honors the boundaries of all Selves? What are the metaphysics of horror, and, is it actually correct to continually sanitize the Godhead? All this and more, in today's episode of SaturnVox To find more on Sasha, make sure to check her out on Instagram and Twitter @sasha.ravitch. You can also check out their website and linktree for more access to their readings, classes, and work in general. Don't forget to also check out her Patreon which includes a very lively community of stellar witches and astrologers via Sasha's very own discord server.  Original music for the podcast performed by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES: Clive Barker Hélène Cixous Haunted Houses: Ancestral Gifts & Curses in the Nativity Melanie Klein Jean Genet The Project Gutenberg EBook of Salomé, by Oscar Wilde Bones and All Per Aspera Ad Astra: Melancholy & the Stellar Path Lee Morgan

This 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 pulling between not the two sides of the coin, but, the very spin of the coin itself.  In what ways are we haunted by both memory and possibility? How is performance directly informed by the praxis of ritual? How can we commit fully to the act of becoming within a ritual body that is constantly living and dying? Is your bookshelf implicitly haunted? It is my deepest pleasure and joy to plant the seed of Jacquelyn's work in the minds of all who choose to listen. May it spark creative impulses in your soul, to dance and move in co-creation with all Others, both seen and unseen. Don't forget to check out the Patreon Exclusive Episode which features Jacquelyn speaking on their experiences as an academic who is out of the broom closet, so to speak. As well as, additional poetics on the relationship between art and politics, and , the negation + subsequent recreation of self as praxis for allowing ourselves to truly live with both feet on each side of the river of Becoming. To find more on Jacquelyn, make sure to check her out on Instagram @ghostinglass. You can also check out their website for further information on their classes and research, as well as, book a hypnosis session here.  Original music for the podcast performed by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES: Catherine Bell Shakina Nayfack The Paradox of the Actor by Denis Diderot Georges Bataille The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine by Marvin Carlson Butoh The Solar Anus by Geroges Batallie

This 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 unity and frenzied sound, a co-creation with all around us. What are the Runes? Who is Odin? Why is it so hard to reconstruct a firm proof of praxis for a people whose histories and myth interpretations have been destroyed and forgotten? Why might it be better to engage in these myths as living narratives, instead of historiographical proof of such-and-such a thing? How can we stay tethered when traversing liminal spaces? What are some of the mysteries of enchantment and disenchantment? And most importantly, why is it so necessary to ground ourselves in the reality of histories of oppression as tactics to keep ourselves ethical and humble in our magic practice? All this and more, on today's episode of SaturnVox. Don't forget to check out the Patreon Exclusive Episode which features Phil telling his own mythopoetic understandings of a few runes, as well as, a bit more commentary on weaving narratives of poetry and power in our magic practice. To find more on Phillip, make sure to check him out on Instagram @vitkiarts. You can also book a reading and peep their other services over at their website, and remember to also keep an eye on both our stories and insta feeds for Phil's future class announcements. Original music for the podcast done by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES: Dr. Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen, Nordic Animism Youtube Maria Kvilhaug Dr. Mathias Nordvig Dr. Neil Price Snorri Sturluson Neil Price Lectures, Youtube

This 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 project @stargazingsidequest. On today's episode, they will graciously take the time to explain to me that there are some things we just may never know, with great patience despite my churning desire to uncover all mysteries, I might add. What can we learn about the Phenomena from looking at the event charts of weird encounters? How can we stay grounded when tracing the roots of weird experiences? What is so exciting about the current crossover between the paranormal and occult communities? All this and more, on today's episode of SaturnVox. Bear in mind when listening to today's episode that I actually had a weird encounter in the process of recording it. I did nothing different with my recording process and yet ended up with the most garbled sound file I'd ever experienced so far in my podcasting journey. Upon talking to Maighdlin about this, I discovered that it's apparently a very common occurrence when people are discussing the phenomenon on air. So much so that they have been named, the Technical Goblins! So, my apologies for the machine elf interference. Don't forget to check out the Patreon Exclusive Episode which features Maighdlin recounting some of their own weird encounters, how to surrender to the mystery, and lucid dreaming. To find more on Maighdlin, make sure to check them out on Instagram @stargazingsideques and @mmkelly.space. You can also check out their class Stargazing for Paranormal Investigators, and book an astrology reading with them on their website. Also, head over to their Patreon if you are interested in supporting their explorations further. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES: The Astrology of Paranormal Encounters: Annual Profections and First Experiences Demetra George: Dream Interpretation and the 9th House Hellier TV Series The Trickster and the Paranormal by George P Hansen The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story by John A. Keel WUFO WATCH - A Wednesday Night UFO Watch Club Patterson–Gimlin film Drew Levanti course on Electional Astrology Traveling Museum of Paranormal & Occult

This 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. Does Saturn enjoy our suffering? What does it mean to be in right relations with all conscious beings, and, how does this create a praxis of right action in turn? What can we learn about Saturn's role in the act of life's nourishment by contemplating the often forgotten association Saturn has with the element of Water? How can we use astrology to help determine which planets are best to start developing devotional relationships with? All this and more, in today's episode of SaturnVox Patreon Exclusive Episode includes; The difference between Mars and Saturn, Tips and Tricks on Planetary Remediation, and How to develop a practice which honors both Jupiter and Saturn. To find more on Diana, check out her website, find her writing on instagram or twitter, and, if you happen to desire to more deeply support her work, you can do so via Patreon. For more Saturn related wisdom from Diana, make sure to join her ongoing experiential workshop, Our Lady of Time, and, to gain deeper insight and illumination on other issues discussed on the cast, consider taking her lectures, Connecting Jupiter & Saturn and Re-Envisioning Juno. Diana has kindly offered a discount link to these lectures for Patreons as well, so head on over for access to this exclusive content. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES: Ali A Olomi Arc of a Scythe Series by Neal Shusterman Ana Forrest Captolia Eden Robin Wall Kimmerer Patty Krawec Jack D. Forbes Walking the Heartroad by Silence Maestas The Deepest Well by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

This 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, we decided to explore three different series and talk about how they are, or are not, related to the mysteries they are attempting to discuss. What makes the self? Why is it important to find the you inside the heart of others? How can we transcend our suffering? What does it mean to be interdependent with the Beloved? How does one find their own personal Gnosis? We discuss Ergo Proxy, NGE, and, if you hop on over to the extended episode found on Patreon, we talk Madoka Magica too! All this and more, on today's episode of SaturnVox. To find out more on Leeci, check out their instagram @luminousleeci To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com. If you want to support the show towards goals of better equipment, merch, and bonus material, please check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox where you can also find the extended version of this episode. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky TIMESTAMPS: Ergo Proxy 16:43 - 1:00:15 Neon Genesis Evangelion 1:00:15 - 1:42:01 Madoka Magica 1:42:01 - Fin SHOW NOTES: Pistis Sophia The Books of Jeu and the Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels Lectures on Gnosticism vis Esoterica's Dr. Justin Sledge Conceiving Spirits: The Mystery of Valentinian Sex by Dr. April DeConick The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts by Marvin W. Meyer Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

This 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 stationed retrograde no less. Truly, the sharp cutting tones of our laughter slice away at any attempt to avoid paradox. Jed kindly breaks down some confusion I have, as a person who is not a Thelemite, on what the heck Crowley and company was on about. What does it mean to be a Thelemite versus a member of the OTO? What must it have been like to be a magician in the early 20th century? In what ways might Thelema be a progenitor to what we call Chaos Magic in today's day and age? It's a history lesson with a little bit of philosophy packed in, and I for one certainly learned some things. I wept, I laughed. Others next wept, next Others laughed. The whole episode is a gas. So join us as we shoot the shit and maybe learn something as well, this week on Saturn Vox. To find out more on Jed, you will have to actually come to New Orleans and check out the Botanica Jed co-owns @realbotanicamacumba. Jed has no links to be perceived, but, to be fair, that's more of an occult lifestyle than I am leading. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com. If you want to support the show towards goals of better equipment, merch, and bonus material, please check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES: Liber LXV The Book of Lies The Book of the Law The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love) by Austin Osman Spare Liber III vel Jugorum Algernon Charles Swinburne Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic by Peter J. Carroll Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais The Law is For All

This 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 can we brainstorm ourselves into a good business practice while maintaining spiritual integrity in the wake of late stage capitalism? What lessons can we learn from our animal brother and sisters? What can we learn about the complexities of colonialism by studying the spiritual significance of ritual scarification in places like Benin? We also chat some about a ritual idea Kandace will be working on bringing into her tattoo practice over the next couple years! It's the holidays, so unlike most of my other episodes, I let this one unfold as a caress among sisters instead of my usual analytical style of interviewing. So cuddle up by the fire with some hot cider and tune into this beautiful artist and animist spin her stories of compassion for the spirits of the Earth. All this and more, on today's episode of SaturnVox. To find out more on Kandace, check out her website here, where you can check out her designs and book a tattoo session. Don't forget to find your way to her store where you can get prints and other items like seraphim tote bags! You can also find her on instagram via the link here. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com. If you want to support the show towards goals of better equipment, merch, and bonus material, please check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES: Magical History of Tattooing Scarification and Tattooing in Benin

This 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 culture which seeks only to consume. How might one use art as an antidote to a commodified world? What does it mean to be a Missionary for Nature? How does community storytelling re-enliven our engagement with the various ecologies of the world? What is there to gain through relinquishing control? All this and more, on today's episode of SaturnVox. To find out more on Nika, check out her bandcamp here, where you can listen to her albums as Zola Jesus and also purchase merch. You can also find her on twitter, instagram, and patreon. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com. If you want to support the show towards goals of better equipment, merch, and bonus material, please check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES: Theodor W. Adorno

This 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 deeply nourishing and co-creative relationship with the quiet rumbling of deep enchantment and living art of the more-than-human world. In what ways is our art our children? What does it mean to be dead while alive? How might we fully embody the nature of our own authentic vulnerabilities? What can go wrong when our art, as our children, begin to be perceived by others as a commodifiable object? What does it look like to speak to someone soul to soul and how might we cultivate thresholds of safety for ourselves and others? What does it mean to be in a state of flow? All this and more, on today's episode of SaturnVox. To find out more on Amaya, check out her instagram @empress_craft, as well as her twitter under the same name here. You can also book an astrology reading with her here on her website. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com. If you want to support the show towards goals of better equipment, merch, and bonus material, please check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES: Strology Podcast episode on the 3/9H Axis with Amaya Rouke and Zachary Powell Blog Post by Jake Green on the Lot of Eros Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon by Joe Dispenza

This 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 smells allow us to better take hold of the opaque translucent nature of Memory? Is there any difference in how one learns the Majors vs the Pips? How is the imaginal playground informed by the sea of Eros? Isn't all magic just chaos magic anyway? All this plus laughs and jokes abound, in today's episode of SaturnVox. You can find out more on Erik, check out his instagram here, as well as his twitter here. You can also book a tarot reading with him on his website here. Don't forget to check out his podcast as well, with special attention to the series he just finished on Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy. He also has a patreon, so if you liked what you heard don't hesitate to show your support! To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com. If you want to support the show towards goals of better equipment, merch, and bonus material, please check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES: Modern Magick: Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts by Donald Michael Kraig The Art of Memory by Frances Yates Eros and Magic in the Renaissance by Ioan P. Couliano Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream by Francesco Colonna Giordano Bruno Thirty Seals & The Seal Of Seals by Giordano Bruno Arnemancy Podcast, Introducing the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Arnemancy Podcast, Hypnerotomachia and Play with Ted Hand Alchemical Tarot by Robert M. Place

Being 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 mimics the alchemist's ability to dissolve and then combine to create a work of art. We chat about the project, what services it will ideally bring to the Occult community, and how we can provide service back into it so as to maintain a fluid recycling of energy and value. We also talk a bit about the benefits of de-textualization, and a community's ability to share stories in a way that allows the text to re-conceptualize itself as a living body of praxis. All this and more, in today's episode of SaturnVox! You can find out more on Moses, check out his linktree here, and check out the Kickstarter directly here To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com. If you want to support the show towards goals of better equipment, merch, and bonus material, please check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES: The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka Irami Osei-Frimpong

Today, 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 Connor studies. It is a great episode, filled with historical information and nuggets of wisdom alike. Listen all the way to the end to hear the outstanding love poem Connor wrote while on silent meditation retreat! We know you love a good poem about sex and God! All this and more, on today's episode of SaturnVox. You can find out more on Connor, check out his work here, or follow him on Instagram here. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com.  If you want to support the show towards goals of better equipment, merch, and bonus material, please check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES: La Quête du Graal by Chrétien de Troyes The Elucidation, translated from the Perceval B.N. 12576 Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory 

Today 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 healing in the body affect emotional healing in the heart and mind? Where does the concept of Time fit into all this anyway? All these answers plus some laughs and poetry readings by Brian himself in today's episode of SaturnVox. You can find out more on Brian, check out his his work at www.wilkinsbrian.com or on Instagram @wilkinsbrian1 To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com. If you want to support the show towards goals of better equipment, merch, and bonus material, please check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES: A Wheel of Small Gods by Brian Wilkins, art by Brennen Reece The Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius Flatland by Edwin Abbot 36 Faces by Austin Coppock Moon Matters Podcast The Cancer Grimoire

Today 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 chat angels and demons with a bit of erotic mysticism on the side! What is sex magic really all about? Can we evoke archangels? Where does the Will fit into it all, and what's the deal with that John Dee guy anyway? All this and more, on today's episode of SaturnVox. To find more on Lon Milo, please check out his website http://www.londuquette.com/, or follow him on Facebook here. You can also check out all the various books he has authored and published here. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com. If you want to support the show towards goals of better equipment, merch, and bonus material, please check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox where one can join in on our book club and discord communities. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky

Today 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 Clarke. Al provides great insight and wisdom to the unpacking of this tale, by bringing his knowledge and understanding of the dead (folk necromancy), geomancy, and grimoire traditions to the table. This conversation does a lovely job on talking about so many things, like ravens, angelic language, melancholia, and doorways, but still centers on building an underlying awareness of respect, responsibility, and mutual understanding with ourselves and the world we all share. What can we learn about Kingship from the study of ravens? What does the history of treasure hunting teach us about magicians and cunning people of yore? How can a study of the four humors inform a more holistic approach to the care of self and others? All this and more, on today's episode of SaturnVox. To find more from Dr. Alexander Cummins, please check out and follow him on Instagram here. His published works and contributions to collections by Three Hands Press, Revelore Press, Hadean Press and Scarlet Imprint. He is a frequent speaker on the international circuit, co-hosts the podcast Radio Free Golgotha, and is a founding editor of Revelore Press' Folk Necromancy in Transmission series. Dr Cummins' work, classes, and services – such as divination, consultation, and coaching – can be found at www.alexandercummins.com. Folks can sign up for his Friends of English Magic mailinglist here: http://eepurl.com/dCQvOj. With respect to some of the things we discussed within the episode, Dr. Cummins also has a whole class-bundle (lecture recording + primary source scans and resources such as bibliography, etc) on necromantic dream incubation (including the onyx ring!): www.alexandercummins.com/talks/cousinofdeath To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com. If you want to support the show towards goals of better equipment, merch, and bonus material, please check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox. Original Music by Jules M Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky Show Notes Dr. Cummin's interlinked blog series on JS&MrN and historical magic: The Rain Shall Make A Door Liz Berry's poem, Birmingham Roller Salem Symposium

This 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 magician such similar company? What is significant about studying planetary myths where the traditional western style of mythos is challenged? In what ways might our ability as magicians to effect change in the world transform if we allow the imaginal to proceed and thereby inform the material? How does environment influence mythos and in what ways does it affect change onto our perspective of things otherwise assumed to maintain a fixed quality? All this and more, wordsmithed with intelligence and elegance by my new friend Jay, on this week's episode of SaturnVox. Once you have finished listening to the episode, don't forget to head over to Jay's podcast @starnightdwell for more conversations on star lore, divination, aesthetics, and much more from myself as well as Jay's other awe inspiring guests. To follow Jay and his work, please check out his podcast on any popular podcasting platforms. You can find the book they helped translate and illustrate with Dr. Amina Inloes, the Shams al-Ma'arif, through Revelore Press here. Finally, don't forget to check out all their class offerings and previous publications by visiting their website, here. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com. If you want to support the show towards goals of better equipment, merch, and bonus material, please check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES Stalker directed by Andrey Tarkovsky Weird Studies Podcast Episode 74 - A Luminous Parasite: Jung on Art, Part Two

This 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 Mercurial fashion, Cooper's work as a Jewish practitioner and as a Babalon devotee has given them a perspective concerning issues between Jewish Mysticism and Thelema which might bridge the gaps left to rot between the two, founded in a message on the importance of remembering the roots of the practices we have changed and carried forward into the New Age of Western Esotericism. This episode touched on so many things that are immensely dear to my heart, and Cooper has such a wealth of wisdom both lived and gathered. The content of this episode is so important for Occulture at large in my opinion, and I am beyond delighted to share it with you now. It is truly an episode not to be missed. To follow Cooper and their work, please check out their website www.cooperkaminsky.com, where you can book intuitive readings and find information on all of Cooper's other content. Please also check out their instagram @cooperkaminsky, and their December class on Jewish Folk Magic here. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com. If you want to support the show towards goals of better equipment, merch, and bonus material, please check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES The Eloquent Blood by Dr. Manon White Justin Sledge's Esoterica Youtube Channel and his series on Jewish Mysticism A Return to Eros: The Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive by Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid Song of Myself, 51 by Walt Whitman

This 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 horrors of embracing the unknown, the devilish, and the path of the Other. What does it mean to follow the Devil Current? Why is it important for magicians and witches of all types to begin accepting the existence of High Strangeness? How can working with demons actually be helpful? All this and more, in today's episode of SaturnVox. To follow Orlee and her work, please check out her youtube channel /orleestewart and her website motherofabominations.com, where you can hear more of Orlee's stories of strangeness and paranormal encounters, as well as check out all her etheric art. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox, or, visit their website saturnvox.com. If you want to support the show towards goals of better equipment, merch, and bonus material, please check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES The Typhonian Trilogies by Kenneth Grant Maat Magick: A Guide to Self-Initiation by Nema Jerusalem by Alan Moore Lesser Key of Solomon, Ars Goetia Hellier Documentary Pseudomonarchia Daemonum: The False Monarchy of Demons by Johan Weyer Secret Cipher of the Ufonauts by Dr. Allen Greenfield Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott Grimorium Verum

This 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, psychoanalytical, and astrological lens. From Jacques Lacan to Kenneth Grant. From Nico symbolically consuming Marc Almond's soul through song, to the groundbreaking work of Amodali. Above all, with a particular reverence for all of the publicly unknown priestesses and magicians on their own personal esoteric path toward embodiment of these currents that collectively act as the rising tide of a new aeon. What does it mean to follow one's True Will? How might we consume our demons to integrate shadow and flesh? How might we best become channels of communion between Heaven and Earth. I adored this conversation with a dear friend, and I hope you all find it as inspiring and enlightening as I did. As a bonus for this episode, and to support the show, Tamaryn personally created a mix of songs meant to carry the emotions of her message, complete with a discussion on why each song was chosen. To hear the mix, along with Tamaryn's commentary, please consider signing up for the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox, To follow Tamaryn and her work, please check out her instagram @tamarynmusic and her music page here. To view her store Major Arcana, and purchase her homemade magical wears, please visit the shop's website, www.shopmajorarcana.com To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox or visit their website www.saturnvox.com. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES When God Had a Wife by by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince Grant Morrison Disinfo Con Lecture The Typhonian Trilogies by Kenneth Grant Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams by Jill Hammer Amodali and Mother Destruction Seeing Symbols Tarot Class with McCalla Ann of SaturnVox through the Cauldron Black The Orphic Hymn to Hekatê, Annotated Translation by Adam Forrest Andrew Chumbley's Invocation of I, performed by Zane Lazos

Every 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 discuss the book he is currently writing, a memoir on magic and misadventure. Chris has been the Hollywood go to guy for production of esoteric and paranormal content, he is a seasoned and devoted magickal practitioner for over two decades with past affiliations and leadership roles in multiple occult orders and societies. Over the past decade, Chris has tracked patterns of progress and echoes of divine voices through various times and spaces. Now, in true Mercurial fashion, he is sharing his adventures and misadventures with us, demonstrating and imparting the wisdom of folly and the joy of Mercurial magic and bravery. To follow Chris and his work, please check out his instagram @misterxofer and his IMDB page here. Chris can also be contacted directly via instagram DMs for astrological and tarot readings. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox or visit their website www.saturnvox.com. To support the show, please consider signing up for the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox, where behind the scenes content and videos are posted monthly. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES Sphere & Sundry Austin Coppock

On 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 my standard interview style, but that seemed appropriate in the end considering our conversation. Join us as we discuss working and getting to know the Mother archetype, in all her paradoxical facets, from the perspective of two of the most well known spirits who claim that name. In what ways do Mary and Hekate differ? In what ways are they the same? How does the Mother present herself to us, in ways of both darkness and light? Both Ramona and I share a bit of our personal practice with these spirits, and talk a bit about channeling. There's even an appearance from Ramona's sphinx cat Cyclops. All this and more in today's episode of SaturnVox To follow Ramona and her work, please check out her instagram @by_ramona_martinez and the oracle deck @visionsofmary. Please also consider supporting the project by clicking here. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox or visit their website www.saturnvox.com. To support the show, please consider signing up for the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox, where behind the scenes content and videos are posted monthly. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES Jack Grayle's Hail Hekate: Walking the Forked Path

On 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 making represent a Saturnian process? How can one be in charge of their desires, as opposed to one's desires controlling you? Is there power in silence? Sarah brings an immense amount of joy and humor to complex issues of mysticism, navigating skill learning, and embracing one's Will despite the hardship of the path forward. This episode is filled with nuggets of wisdom and deep insights, certainly not one to be missed! To check out Sarah's candles for yourself, please check out their website at https://loviartes.com/. Sarah can also be found on Instagram @sarahjezebel To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox or visit their website www.saturnvox.com. To support the show, please consider signing up for the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox, where behind the scenes content and videos are posted monthly. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky

On 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 sight? Why is it so important to extend one's practice past the personal and into a more communal perspective? All this and more with one of my mentors and dear friends. To find out more about Sasha's various projects, please check out their website at https://www.sasharavitch.com. Sasha also has a great Patreon community you can check out, and you can find her on both Instagram and Twitter! To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox or visit their website www.saturnvox.com. To support the show, please consider signing up for the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox, where behind the scenes content and videos are posted monthly. Original music by Jules M. Dooley, traditional astrologer and sound artist. Follow his experiments with astrology + sound + ai visuals on IG: @glitches_in_the_night_sky SHOW NOTES Amaya Rourke Óscar Moisés Díaz Pallas Augustine

On 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 challenges one faces as a magic practitioner in the era of modernity. We chat skepticism, some common misconceptions about Aleister Crowley, and discuss an ontological theory based in High Strangeness called, The Phenomena. How can we prove anything exists? Does it matter? In what ways does clinging to Westernized ideas of religion stop us from approaching more insight into cognition and the state of our reality? Do aliens exist? All this and more in today's episode of SaturnVox. To find out more about Joshua's various projects, please check out their band Mehenet's bandcamp and instagram, the Botanica Macumba facebook page, and Algol Aluvaia on instagram and twitter. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox or visit their website www.saturnvox.com. To support the show, please consider signing up for the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox, where behind the scenes content and videos are posted monthly. Special thanks to Jules M. Dooley, multidisciplinary artist and traditional astrologer based in New Orleans, for creating the original music used on this podcast. You can find them on instagram @tornado_bedtime SHOW NOTES The Equinox by Aleister Crowley Liber 777 by Aleister Crowley Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna by China Galland The Holy Guardian Angel Anthology (in the episode I attribute this book to Scarlet Imprint but it is actually a Nephilim Press publication)

On 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 Cydney, please check out their website at https://www.ladymalandra.com/ where you can check out their animal spirits and shop! You can also keep up with their work on instagram @ladymalandra. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox or visit their website www.saturnvox.com. To support the show, please consider signing up for the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox, where behind the scenes content and videos are posted monthly. Special thanks to Jules M. Dooley, multidisciplinary artist and traditional astrologer based in New Orleans, for creating the original music used on this podcast. You can find them on instagram @tornado_bedtime

On 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 find it as interesting as I did, and feel free to message me with any poems or stories of necromantic workings that included poetry so we can chat about it! To find out more about Cooper, please check out their website at https://cooperwilhelm.com/ where you can check out their poetry, divination services, and podcast Witchhassle. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox or visit their website www.saturnvox.com. To support the show, please consider signing up for the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox, where behind the scenes content and videos are posted monthly. Special thanks to Jules M. Dooley, multidisciplinary artist and traditional astrologer based in New Orleans, for creating the original music used on this podcast. You can find them on instagram @tornado_bedtime SHOW NOTES The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill After Lorca by Jack Spicer The Fate Of The Dead: A Study In Folk Eschatology In The West Country After The Reformation The Devil's Bath by Dr. Al Cummins

On this week's episode we have guest Mahigan of Kitchen Toad here to discuss a variety of things revolving around animism and sorcerous techniques involving spirit communications and relationships. Come join us as we discuss the various applications of the DCIS, how to use one's natal chart to find spirits that have a birthright relationship to us, and just enjoy the chaos driven passion of listening to two Gemini risings talk about their favorite things. This episode is jam packed with old grimoires, poison plants, and fixed stars! Definitely not one to miss . To find out more about Mahigan, please check out their website at https://www.kitchentoad.com where you can purchase their homemade magic materia and also book spells and read their blog. You can also check out Mahigan's work on both twitter and instagram @kitchentoad To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox or visit their website www.saturnvox.com. To support the show, please consider signing up for the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox, where behind the scenes content and videos are posted monthly. Special thanks to Jules M. Dooley, multidisciplinary artist and traditional astrologer based in New Orleans, for creating the original music used on this podcast. You can find them on instagram @tornado_bedtime SHOW NOTES Johannes Trithemius: The art of drawing spirits into crystals The Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet The Devil's Bath by Dr. Al Cummins Astrology and Elections by Nina Gryphon

This week we have a special episode for our listeners. Instead of focusing on some sort of philosophical topic, I want to tell you the story of my friend. Emmett Dwyer, fka Brother Mark, hammer of God and former member of the Process Church of the Final Judgment. Join us as we discuss some of the practices and theology behind the Process Church, and learn the wisdom of living in the moment to honor our authentic self. What is a gray force? How is Aikido similar to the tenets of the Process Church, and why is it so important for magic practitioners to stay grounded? All this and more in this week's episode of Saturnvox! So tune in, relax, and listen to the story our elder weaves. It's a good one, I promise. To find out more about the Process, please check out the documentary made by Neil Edwards entitled; Sympathy for the Devil. This can be found and purchased directly from the website at www.theprocessmovie.com To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox or visit their website www.saturnvox.com. To support the show, please consider signing up for the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox, where behind the scenes content and videos are posted monthly. Special thanks to Jules M. Dooley, multidisciplinary artist and traditional astrologer based in New Orleans, for creating the original music used on this podcast. You can find them on instagram @tornado_bedtime

Moses of the Holy Mountain Temple joins us this week to help explore what it means to reconcile our past with our future, how to move past monotheistic trauma to embrace the wisdom of our ancestors, as well as how intertwined magic is with religion, and we do it all through the lens of Jewish Mysticism! So join us as we discuss the Tribes of Israel, the heavy magic they were conducting at the altar, and alow Moses to offer you insight on how to blend occult studies with the religious contract your parent's signed. To find more on Moses, check out his instagram @holymountain.co, his website www.hoodoomoses.com and his various other links here; linktr.ee/hoodoomoses To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox or visit their website www.saturnvox.com. To support the show, please consider signing up for the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox, where behind the scenes content and videos are posted monthly. Special thanks to Jules M. Dooley, multidisciplinary artist and traditional astrologer based in New Orleans, for creating the original music used on this podcast. You can find them on instagram @tornado_bedtime

Dalanah of the Moon Matters podcast joins us this week to help explore what it means to be a stoic, how stoicism fits into astrology, and why allowing ourselves to view fate with a sense of awe may actually be the key to setting ourselves free. We know that taking on the hat of determinism can seem scary, especially to magicians who want to reshape the world according to their Will. I think this is a very fine aspiration, but as you listen to this episode I want magicians most of all to keep this quote by Arthur Schopenhauer in the back of your head; “A man can do as he wills, but not Will as he wills”. To find more on Dalanah, check out her instagram @moonmatters.astro and her website www.moonmattersastrology.com, where you can listen to her absolutely outstanding podcast on Hellenistic Astrology as well as her book suggestions for people interested in learning more about stoicism. To find more on SaturnVox, check out their instagram and twitter @saturnvox or visit their website www.saturnvox.com. To support the show, please consider signing up for the Patreon at www.patreon.com/saturnvox, where behind the scenes content and videos are posted monthly. Special thanks to Jules M. Dooley, multidisciplinary artists and traditional astrologer based in New Orleans, for creating the original music used on this podcast. You can find them on instagram @tornado_bedtime

Guest Austin of BanexBramble joins us this week to talk about plant spirits, earth based ritual, and dance as centered roles of his magic practice. In our exploration we touch on my favorite definition of witchcraft, that of Queer Liberation.  How can witchcraft be used as an embodied experience to bridge the gap between being Othered and Free? How can we explore the lines of madness in order to embody the other more fully? In what ways do song and dance allow us to more deeply connect with spirit? All these questions are explored, and we even found some time to talk about magic ritual and othering in the classic horror film Susperia. So join us as we move about the chthonic and wild spaces of the Other lands, and how they can be explored to liberate and exalt both the self and all lands here and in between.  To find more on Austin, check out his Instagram and Twitter @banexbramble. Check out his website www.banexbramble.com to find out more and maybe book a consultation, commission occult based art, or purchase magic materia. To find more on SaturnVox, check out the Instagram and Twitter, as well as out website www.Saturnvox.com where you can read our blog or book a divinatory reading.  Special thanks to Jules M. Dooley, multidisciplinary artists and traditional astrologer based in New Orleans, for creating the original music used on this podcast.  To support the show, please consider signing up for the Patreon, where blog content and behind the scenes videos are posted monthly. 

Guest Joshua Madara joins us this week to talk about his work in technomancy and his views on the application of robots in magic. In this very first episode of the SaturnVox podcast, we explore what it means to be human (and potentially more than human) and dance our way through conversations on the liminal dream of living and the constraints of language within the body and mind. So come join in, and allow yourself to play with thought experiments that question reality and produce only paradox. It's going to be a wild ride.  To find more on Joshua @eldritech on IG and eldri.tech online To find more about SaturnVox @saturnvox on IG and SaturnVox.com online Original music by Jules M. Dooley, multidisciplinary artist and traditional astrologer based in New Orleans. Follow him on IG @tornado_bedtime To support the show, please consider signing up for the Patreon, where blog content and behind the scenes videos are posted monthly.