Welcome to episode 98 and part two of The History of Divination! After leaving the Ancient Romans in part one, we fast forward to the Tudors and the Elizabethan Era. We'll meet Dr. John Dee, who was Queen Elizabeth I's trusted seer and learn about the attitudes around magic and divination before Elizabeth's successor begins his witch hunts. We'll also uncover the secrets of the tarot, and step into the shadowy parlors of the Victorians with their flickering candlelit séances and spirit (Ouija) boards.

After all the history, we spend time with our guest, Saundra, a psychic medium and intuitive tarot reader. She answers our burning questions about being a psychic medium and does a collective reading for the Smoke Circle which...whoo! gave us a whole lotta feels.

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Mentioned in the Episode:

Episode 91: A History of Witches

Episode 90: Werewolf Trials of Europe

Episode 45: The Satanic Panic

John Dee's Private Diary (free online)

John Dee's Spiritual Diaries (PDF)

John Dee's Five Books of Mystery

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Source Materials--

https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=history_honors

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/magic-mirror-used-by-queen-elizabeth-is-court-astrologer-has-aztec-origins-180978830/#:~:text=An%20obsidian%20%E2%80%9Cspirit%20mirror%E2%80%9D%20used,tells%20Ashley%20Strickland%20of%20CNN

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-magical-life-of-dr-dee-queen-elizabeth-i-s-royal-astrologer

https://www.britannica.com/story/nostradamus-and-his-prophecies#:~:text=Nostradamus%20was%20born%20in%20France,book%20entitled%20Centuries%20(1555)

https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/tarot-2

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/strange-history-tarot-cards

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/tarot-cards-history-fortune-telling?loggedin=true&rnd=1742065790733

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasseography

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/oujia-board-history

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/30/ouija-board-mystery-history#:~:text=The%20name%20Ouija%20comes%20from%20a%20rooming%20house%20in%20Baltimore&text=But%20the%20name%20was%20coined,her%20meant%20%E2%80%9Cgood%20luck%E2%80%9D

https://www.britannica.com/topic/New-Age-movement

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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (⁠incompetech.com⁠) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/