In this very special twenty-sixth episode of RFG we are delighted to welcome artist, teacher, podcaster, and stargazing sorcerer of celestial images and lettrism, J.M. Hamade, to join us in this discursive night journey across what goes bump in the sublunary. 

Trumpeting the reason for the season we bid you a wonderful Feast of the Archangel Saint Gabriel, as we explore the hagiography and arch angelology of Gabriel aka Jibrīl, the anunciating Strength of God and friend of the Prophet (PBUH); as well as the forked origins and heaped demonologies of Iblis, the Shaytan. We celebrate the verdant and ancestral greening of the mineral Jade and the luminous whiteness of the wort Lily, herald's wand of martyrs and bane of cats. 

And thus by the beams and benedictions of the Key of the Stars we discuss the forms of magic ascribed to the Lunar Mansions, from considerations of sidereal and tropical star-math(s), to cunningly enchanted rings for summoning illusory trees, birds, and castles in the air.  We tour the creative voids, teeming absences, and inertiatic habitats of the Lunary geomantic figure of Populus and its counterparted Odu, Oyeku Meji. 

And we count the rays and dewdrops of the Major Arcana of - of course - The Moon, and ponder its splendid adventures and phenomenal phantasmal phobias... Finally, we pay homage to the singularly prolific works and words of our dead magician Ibn Arabi; from his prayers to his illuminations and beyond. 

We were delighted and honoured to be joined on these rambles by our guest and dear friend, J.M. Hamade, and heartily recommend you check out and support his work over at his website, his Patreon, his Instagram, his Twitter, and his youtube channel and podcast, “House of Stars”.

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