Sfinga and Key tackle another hotly-requested topic: how to identify, divine on, and profile new spirits that may be approaching your court. In addition to considering temporary wanderers, distant allies of your spirits that may be stopping by to visit, and also those interested in coming by for only a season or a year, they consider some of the signs by which to recognize the activity of a new being that is staying around and how best to verify their presence and qualities through divination and the authority and protection of your existing spirits and ancestors. The Dragon and Owl also discuss some of the tools they bring to a spiritual court investigation and how folks can come to tease out and understand the qualities of new spirits from the background of ambient existing phenomena. 

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Erudite astrologer, cutting-edge tech-wizard, and dear friend Jove returns to the pod to discuss the potent sorceries and spirits encountered on the dance floor. We touch on how spirits pulse within the vast realm of nightlife, from popular clubs to illegal raves, and how to harness the high peaks and clandestine whispers of the energies within them. In addition to reflecting on our own experiences with the many powers present in these spaces, we discuss the freedom, shapeshifting, and playing with identity possible within them, as well as different tips and tricks for navigating them to one's sorcerous advantage. 

Jove's links:

https://spucchi.com/

https://www.hodiepartner.com/

https://www.astrotechne.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XYkETD3yFo& 

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Our good friend Red Hu, returning from her excellent episode on Daji and Chinese Fox Magic, joins us to chat all things beauty and glamour. This episode shaped up to be a longer, free-form discussion on how to incorporate small glamours into everyday life, from scrying the products you put on your skin to protecting yourself from too much attention. We discuss the importance of finding the beautiful in your magic, enchanting yourself and your life through beauty, and resisting rigid, supremacist ideals of aesthetics in favour of personal expression and creativity. Finally, we end off with some favourite charms and techniques.

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Key finally gets the chance to share all about one of his most enduring loves: specialty coffee. In addition to considering its magical virtues and uses in sorcery and divination, from grounds to beans and liquid altogether, he explores the notion of tasting notes as a microcosm into how we learn to scry, perceive spirits, and identify information via remote viewing. This is a real nerdy one!

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Key leads an overview of some of the basic history behind druggist's catalogues, receipt books, formularies, and their jump to and impact on full-time spiritual supply stores. Focusing especially on the case of Chicago, he considers the impact of the Valmor Products Company, and explores the branding, packaging, and art of these supplies and their ingredients within folk magic. Finally, Key offers some glimpses into his "Saint of Many Colours" St. Expedite collection—and all the detail and care that went into its tender cultivation.

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Matthew Venus returns to the show, this time with friend, witch, and author Kamden Cornell, to chat all things dolls and effigies! Both have written some of the most pioneering texts on doll and effigy magic in recent memory and have so many excellent insights to share on their creation, use, and innovation. In addition to a lengthy exploration of these techniques, we also chat about magical ethics, spiritual integrity, and the nature of witchcraft and its consumptive hunger. 

You can find more of Matt's work at:

http://spiritusarcanum.com/spiritus-arcanum/

https://www.instagram.com/spiritus_arcanum 

And Kamden's here:

https://www.instagram.com/heart_n_vine_apothecary/ 

https://linktr.ee/HeartandVineApothecary 

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The team welcomes dear friend Rebecca Beyer, the brilliant mind behind Blood and Spicebush. Folk magician, herbalist, witch, and student of Appalachian Folk Magic and Pennsylvania Dutch Braucherei, Rebecca joins us for a heartfelt conversation on what it is like to learn within an established spiritual tradition. Bringing her deep knowledge of foraging, ethnobotany, and Appalachian folklore and folkways to the table, Rebecca contextualizes some of the key lessons she's learned through her life's work and helps us reflect on our own studies across traditions.

You can find more of Rebecca's work at:

https://www.instagram.com/bloodandspicebush/

https://www.bloodandspicebush.com/online-classes 

https://www.bloodandspicebush.com/books 

https://bloodandspicebush.substack.com/ 

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Sfinga and Key discuss an intriguing early modern vernacular grimoire first published and analyzed by Dr. Frank Klaassen. In reviewing its techniques, orations, and symbols (as well as its famous pentacle of the Apocalyptic Christ), the Dragon and Owl also consider the text's utility as a magical manual and its implied teachings from within its instructions.

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Traditionally trained conjurer, card reader, and herbalist Dr. Finch joins the show for a lush and evocative discussion on glamour, power, and sovereignty. Our conversation begins with her latest project, being an exploration of magical cosmetics born of her deep knowledge of rootwork. We quickly sprawl out to discuss the many facets of sorcerous agency in our lives, and consider some cornerstones of practice: from seducing Lady Luck to your side to radically embracing your power (and "cringe"!) to live authentically in line with your magic.

Check out Dr. Finch's work at:

https://www.drfinchconjure.com/ 

https://www.instagram.com/drfinchconjure 

https://drfinchconjure.substack.com/

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The gang workshops the practical steps and philosophies behind deriving rituals and recipes from a diagnostic divination. From narrowing the scope aggressively by means of self-imposed limitations to allowing different spirits to collaborate on co-creating a solution to a problem, the Dragon and Owl cover a medley of case studies and their mediating factors for success. 

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We bring on our dear friend Maria of Green Dragon Healer to give us a boot camp in all things relevant for the Lunar New Year. We hope that this will be a yearly tradition in February to give our listeners some insight as to the major trends, important shifts, and key spiritual timings for the lunar calendar. While this episode is exceptionally thorough, going over many layers of relevant details for each zodiacal sign, it's only a small glimpse into what goes in to a personalized Ba Zi reading from Maria!

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