Episode 46: Holy Saturday & The Feast of Saint Expedite
Dear Golgothians,
We welcome you to our forty-sixth episode, celebrated at this year’s crossroads of Holy Saturday and the Feast of Saint Expedite!
We are delighted for you to join us for discussion of this speedy saint’s folkloric origins and myriad contemporary cults, the corvid of tomorrow, and the mysteries of acting today.
Our counterparted Demon is Beelzebub, this prince of darkness through Scriptural references as well as grimoiric offices and beastly appearances, and prompting conversation about the Baphometic understandings of Exu Beelzebu in Afro-Brazilian Quimbanda.
Our Herb is Cinquefoil, which aids in the many things hands do: from empowerments of acquisition to its heraldic status as the little rose and the botanical expression of so many five-fold mysteries.
Our Mineral is Onyx, a stone of melancholic bane which may be tempered with the enlivening rednesses of sard and carnelian to allow us to work with our devils, both within and without the circles of our selves.
Our Geomantic Figure is Albus, Mercury-As-Librarian, illuminating discussion of Borges’ Library of Babel, the Elevated Dead, and the tranquility of wisdom; counterparting these with the mysteries of the Odu Meji Oturupon.
Our Style of Magic is the Faustian grimoire, The Black Raven: a translation and critical commentary of which (written by Brian Johnson and our Good Doctor) has just come out via Hadean Press.
Our Beast is the Raven itself: cunning corvid of oft-ominous divination, trickster deity who carries word and tool alike between the living and the dead as a larcenous battle-bird of mind and memory.
Our Daysign, Miquiztli (Death), affords discussion of Meso-American calendricals and spiritual understandings of moon, sun, and stars, and counsels us to reflect on life’s priorities and appreciate old endings and new beginnings.
Our Tarot time appraises the Ace of Wands as not only a Fiery seed of new creative energy but also a core expression of Earthy mysteries in Spanish cartomancy: considering the grounded meanings of everyday life, family, and fortunes of those who work the soil with sticks.
Our Dead Magician is Robert Lenkiewicz, painter, book collector, corpse-steward, and advocate of the unhoused; by whose example we consider what even makes a good folk necromancer and demonologist of societal ills.
We thank you as always for joining us on all our long walks on short tangents from this crossroads of this Holy Saturday shades of wisdom and mortality.