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With Cunning & Command

Ever Winding Along the Crooked Road

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This much-requested episode is finally here! We were so inspired by how many of you reached out to say that our brief mentions of magics harnessed across nightlife really spoke to you more than almost anything else we've discussed, and we're elated to bring on one of our dearest friends to chat all about it in full! @spucchi gave a deeply inspiring and illuminating talk at Occulture Berlin in 2023 on trance and identity within queer nightlife especially, which lays much of the theoretical groundwork for our own explorations. We hope you enjoy! After her incredible episode on all things Chinese fox lore, @witchcraftinred returns to discuss the spells, techniques, and everyday tips and tricks for cultivating whatever your heart finds beautiful. I'm so grateful to everyone's support for this year's Đurđevdan charms. All packages have been mailed out as of today, with only two charms left in stock. These were some of my favourite charms of love drawing and love nourishing, fortifying, and strengthening I've made, sourced from my training in Serbian bajanje and folk magic. I'm thrilled to reveal a new set of charms made in compact with St. George, born on Đurđevdan, to celebrate the many powerful expressions of his current as divine horseman, solar prince, and warrior of the light half of the ritual year. This one's all @barnowl.key again, recorded right after we came home from a cupping at one of our favourite specialty coffee shops in the city. Come for the coffee lore, stay for the exposition on how learning how to taste flavour notes is just like learning how to scry spirits! On the May 14th Feast Day of Saint Cyprian of Antioch, as given in the pseudo-Baconian De Nigromancia, and in collaboration with the second iteration of the Vespera series with @darknessoftheninthhour and @grimoiresontape, I’m excited to reveal a new folk Orthodox charm made under the auspices of Saints Cyprian, Justina, and Theoctistus. @barnowl.key has been working on this episode for some time, being a love letter to his lifelong appreciation for folk magic in Illinois! He also highlights some of the African-American illustrators behind the iconic images and branding of the Valmor Products Co. Srećan Đurđevdan! Freshly baked slava bread, proja sa kajmakom, ajvar, and belmuž for the Holy Horseman clad in red and white. Happy Walpurgisnacht! As @barnowl.key and were recording tomorrow's Q&A episode we couldn't help but get all up in our feelings about how incredible these last three years have been. What a joy and a privilege it is to have such an incredible community of witty, intelligent, dedicated, heartfelt practitioners that keep us inspired, laughing, joyous, and motivated throughout the seasons. Magic is our life and our love, the very core and motivation of so much of what we do and express in this world, and to share its joy and mysteries with so many incredible people, to build community alongside them, to feature the voices and prespectives of dear friends we can confidently vouch for, and to learn from you and all the remarkable insights you share with us in turn is a privilege unlike any other. We do not wish to ever forgo our humour and our natural personalities in order to cultivate a glamour of sophistication and mystique, nor would we ever sacrifice our integrity for engagement and the "demiurge of the algorithm" as we've come to call it. In the spirit of our ancestors and the wisdom and levity they've brought us, we hope to always seek an agglutinating approach, in which all the facets of our work may have a seat at the table, and all of yours are welcome and cherished guests! What an incredible joy it is to have on not only @spiritus_arcanum once more, but also @heart_n_vine_apothecary, two of the most thoughtful and brilliant authors writing about the folk magic of effigies. This was such a fun episode to record, full of tips and tricks on this essential form of image magic and many reflections on the subtler forms of manipulating spirits using a crafted likeness. Come for the witchcraft, stay for the philosophical ruminations on the nature of witch-being!
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