Returning guest, Dee Norman joined me this month to discuss The Book of Abramelin, her new book The Seeker’s Guide to Grimoire Magic, AI egregores, the cultural soup that is modern magic, and sussing out what is and is not for everyone. The Seeker’s Guide to Grimoire...
Author, concert violinist, and concertmaster JoAnna Farrer joined me to discuss her new book The Diviner’s Path, a walk through the many ways we seek knowledge and understanding through divination. We get back to writing, process and research in this episode and we...
I was so pleased to have folklorist, author, and playwright Tracey Norman join me this month to chat about Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. Carter’s twist on familiar tales dovetails nicely with Tracey’s work as a folklore researcher and author....
I do realize the last of these was in February, but I had a book to finish on deadline and, well, there just hasn’t been time. I have realized after completing the second very heavily researched, nonfiction book that when I come off the work bender that these two...
Poet and anarchist mk zariel (it/its) joined me to talk about the magically queer classic The F*ggots & Their Friends Between Revoltions. A fairy tale for adults that still rings true, fortunately and unfortunately, in our own time. mk and I discuss the politics of...
A huge thank you to Tamsin Davis-Langley for jumping in to save me from a last minute scheduling disaster (of my own doing). It was an enormous pleasure to talk with her about Jake Stratton-Kent’s Geosophia. The two-volume work spans a breadth of thought and practice...
Previous guest, Lisa McSherry, joined me to talk about the pagan classic, Ted Andrew’s Animal Speak. Despite a million copies being sold and Ted Andrews being on the wall of fame at Llewellyn, I had never read it. We talked about Andrews’s book in context of writing,...
HiC Luttmers joined me this month to talk about Eternal Egypt by Richard J. Reidy, a Bay Area local and founder of the Temple of Ra in San Francisco. We don’t get around to talking about writing but we do cover quite about Reidy, Kemetic practice and its adoption to...
I did these a while back and completely fell off the blogging horse. But it’s a new moon, a full moon eclipse in the productive sign of Virgo (or it was when I started this — Wordpress broke completely ate my first draft)* and the world is on fire (sadly, this is still true). So let’s read books and write them and maybe also watch a little television, listen to some podcasts, and music. And maybe we’ll throw some food in there too, because I am still a kitchen witch at heart.
Steampunk romance author (and writing friend) Anne Renwick joined me to talk about Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, how it relates to her work in progress, and what we did and didn’t remember about this book. We also...