Episode 48: The Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua

Merry Feast of Saint Anthony and indeed Happy Friday 13th, Golgothii!

This, our forty-eighth episode, sees us celebrating – amongst other things – Saint Anthony’s incorruptible tongue, his veneration across the world, and his patronage of finding lost things, along with his many syncretisations across Worlds both Old and New with powers of doorways and the streets.

Our Demon(ised) patron of this episode is Eshu/Exu, that deified crossroads power who finds expression as Legba, Eleggua, and as Exu of Quimbanda: the Owner of the Road, the divinely-restless and rebellious movement of vital virtue and axé, and demonized trickster-friend who accuses and upturns towards good character and ancestral harmony.

Our Herb this time is Belladonna aka Deadly Nightshade, prompting discussion of toxicity, the coolness of sleep and death, witches’ flying ointments, and the both Venusian and Saturnine qualities of Atropos and her fatal scissors.

Our Mineral is Yangi aka Laterite, a stone so intrinsically tied to Eshu veneration and practice, upon which we pour the palm oil of slickened communication and the lubrication of the frictions of the world.

Our Magic is Idols, inspiring conversation about accusations of idolatry, and weighing both metaphysical representation and spiritual ontology; as well as some post-colonial considerations of fetishes and fetishism.

Our Daysign is Tochtli (Rabbit), a day intimately tied into passages of the moon, service to things bigger than ourselves, and indeed with Mayahuel, goddess of both fertility and maguey.

Our Beast is the Rooster, hot-blooded courageous crier of the barnyard, whose crowing call wards off ghosts and night-wanderers, and whose meat empowers broths and baths of choleric boldness and healing.

Our Geomantic Figure is Airy Solary Fortuna Minor, the Lesser Fortune: a marker of choler, and swiftness, that loyal but distractable escapologist who turns bad fortunes into good and vice versa; comparing and contrasting the warnings and familial remediations of the Odu Irosun Meji of Ifa and Diloggun.

Our Tarot of the day is the Two of Cups, by which we consider divinatory markers of love, fulfilling and unfulfilling relationships, caduceuses, and domestic as well as interpersonal bonds and boundaries.

Our Dead Magician to play us out is Jubiabá, the infamous Candomble de Caboclo priest and macumbeiro who courted controversy with the religious purists and local authorities of his day, whose Chair was lost and restored, and who was fictionalized in the eponymous novel by Jorge Amado.

We thank you for joining us in this two-headed exploration of both crowing and minding tongues, of meaningful relationships and the arguments you survive, and the ever-unfolding creativities of the crossroads.

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Episode 22: The Feast of the Virgin of Regla

Merry Feast of the Virgin of Regla, dear Golgothans! From across the seas we cast this pod, to you and yours from us and ours.

This episode brought to you by the Virgin of the Rule and her oceanic reflection in the Mother of Fishes, Yemaya; and indeed the bathic depths of Leviathan; the soothing balms of Aloe; the mineral moonmetal of Silver; the magical mystifications of Demonization (for what could be more demonic than an American spelling?); the geomantic figure of Fortuna Minor and its counterparting Odu Irosun (so good we chatted it twice on the show now); the Tarot trump The High Priestess; and, for our not-alive magician, Prospero, you know, from off of The Tempest.

Once again, we're ever so grateful to Mark for his keen editor's ear and technical 'casting wizardry in making us sound like proper podpeople. And we are also incredibly grateful to you dear listener, for continuing to join us in unbottling our bobbing messages, conversation, and  tangents on tangents on rippling tangents.

Please to be enjoying dear friends, enemies, and those as yet undeclared - from heck's blue yonder we sashay at thee!

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Episode 10: The Feast of Saint Roch

Brought to you by the Feast of the Saint Roch; the Demon Frucissiere and the Spirit Exu do Cemitério; the Geomantic Figure Fortuna Minor (and the Odú Irosún); the mineral Carnelian; the herb Rue; the broad sweep of traditions and folklore of Plague Magic; the Tarot Trump of the Sun; and the Four Thieves (of Vinegar fame) for our Dead Magicians.

This is our first episode with a guest! The lovely Mallorie Vaudoise of Italian Folk Magic is with us for this episode- it was amazing to have her in the conversation and we hope to have her again. This now opens up the possibilities of more Golgoth-a-trois, which is very exciting for us. 

Please forgive our sound quality on this one- sitting around a table left the directional pick up on the mic just a little confused sometimes. You can hear Al loud and clear though (Fortuna Minor- small blessings!). 

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