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This is the second of our Feminist History of Astrology with Niamh's bestie Megan. We recap the ancient astrology covered in Part 1 before getting into where it all went south, starting with the moral panic of the Witchcraft laws in Elizabethan England which led to the infamous Witch Trials, the discreditation of Astrology into a fringe pseudoscience practiced by the lower echelons of society, and right through to how it became reputedly the pasttime of bored houswives and gullible women and LGBTQIA+ people. We then navigate the sience behind both why people connect to astrology and the misconceptions held by the scientists who seek to discredit it.

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S O U R C E S:

• “New Age to Post Modern Age: the cultural location of metaphysical belief” - Fiona Smyth, Dublin City University, 2001
• https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/forget-economics-try-astrology-instead-fmf8dqxnrgx
• https://www.russh.com/feminism-and-astrology/
• https://blackthornandstone.com/2020/06/25/clockwork-sky-astrology-in-early-modern-victorian-england/
• https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/astrology-gen-z-star-signs-moon-b2683469.html
• Age of Aquarius
• The English Witchcraft Act of 1563 Revisited* Alexandra Gajda ,George Southcombe
• https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/divining-the-witch-of-york-propaganda-and-prophecy/
• https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-nancy-reagan-astrology-20160306-story.html
• https://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/law-witch/england

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The Brothers Grimm are household names: spoken with the same familiarity as Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, or Rapunzel. In German‑speaking Europe, their books were second only to the Bible in popularity, and by the twentieth century they had become the most famous collectors of folk and fairy tales in the western world...

S O U R C E S:

• https://explorethearchive.com/brothers-grimm-fairy-tales
• https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/marchapril/feature/how-the-grimm-brothers-saved-the-fairy-tale
• Two Hundred Years After Once Upon a Time: The Legacy of the Brothers Grimm and Their Tales in GermanyJack Zipes Marvels & Tales, Vol. 28, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: In Honor of Donald Haase (2014), pp. 54-74 (21 pages)
• Critical Observations on Recent Psychoanalytical Approaches to the Tales of the Brothers Grimm Jack Zipes Merveilles & contesVol. 1, No. 1 (May 1987), pp. 19-30 (12 pages)
• Silenced Women in the Grimms’ Tales: The “Fit” Between Fairy Tales and Society in Their Historical Context Chapter Author(s): RUTH B. BOTTIGHEIMER 
• Why Fairy Tales Matter: The Performative and the Transformative Maria Tatar Western Folklore , Vol. 69, No. 1 (Winter 2010), pp. 55-64 (10 pages)

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This is the second of our TWO PARTER with our white knights, Kelsey and Abbie from Fairy Tale Fix! We will continue to deconstruct the Damsels in Distress Archetype and how the influence of Christian and family values have sanitised some of the juciest tales of our youth. We rewind the clock to the Italian origin of Rapunzel - Petrosinella - before having some pop culture chats about our favourite badass women.

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S O U R C E S:

• https://owlcation.com/humanities/mythology-and-archetypes-a-damsel-in-distress
• Feminist Fairy-Tale Scholarship: A Critical Survey and Bibliography Donald Haase, Marvels & Tales, Vol. 14, No. 1, Fairy Tale Liberation—Thirty Years Later (2000), pp. 15-63 (49 pages)
• The Story of Petrosinella
• https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/andromeda-the-beauty-of-the-mediterranean
• Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm
• "Some Day My Prince Will Come": Female Acculturation through the Fairy Tale Marcia R. Lieberman College English, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Dec., 1972), pp. 383-395 (13 pages)
• MICHAEL A. SOLIS THE DAMSEL IN DISTRESS: RESCUING WOMEN FROM AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY 
• https://www.kevindincher.com/2024/08/fairy-tale-damsels-in-distress.html

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This month we have a TWO PARTER and Niamh has called in some white knights, Kelsey and Abbie from Fairy Tale Fix! We will get to know them and all about their fantastic "WTF fairytale podcast" before diving in to the Damsels in Distress Archetype and how it has grown and evolved with society. We pick out our bingo card of DID tropes before hearing the Irish myth, "Deirdre of the Sorrows" and her beautifully tragic ending.

Join us again next week for Part 2 because we just yapped that much!

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S O U R C E S

• https://owlcation.com/humanities/mythology-and-archetypes-a-damsel-in-distress
• Feminist Fairy-Tale Scholarship: A Critical Survey and Bibliography Donald Haase, Marvels & Tales, Vol. 14, No. 1, Fairy Tale Liberation—Thirty Years Later (2000), pp. 15-63 (49 pages)
• https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/andromeda-the-beauty-of-the-mediterranean
• "Some Day My Prince Will Come": Female Acculturation through the Fairy Tale Marcia R. Lieberman College English, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Dec., 1972), pp. 383-395 (13 pages)
• https://www.kevindincher.com/2024/08/fairy-tale-damsels-in-distress.html
• https://bardmythologies.com/deirdre-of-the-sorrows/

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There’s a particular joy in beach treasure: a rare shell, a shark’s egg sack, or an interesting rock - but what is extra special is finding a stone steeped in folk belief and holding it up to spy through it to the sea beyond. 

Witch stones, or, as they are commonly called, hag stones, have for centuries been believed to have magical uses. They have been called hex stones, lucky stones, pledge-stones or druid stones. In German, they are Hühnergötter, or "chicken gods,” but in Latin they were called silex pertussis, meaning "perforated flint. “ Some know them as Odin stones or eye stones, Cailleach stones, adder stones, or wish stones.

Names vary from place to place, but they all tie into folk superstitions and beliefs. People felt there was something divine or otherworldly about a stone with a naturally occurring hole, and so they became symbols and tools of magical prowess, protection or warding against witchcraft...

S O U R C E S:

• https://www.thesimplethings.com/blog/hag-stones
• https://www.horniman.ac.uk/story/hag-stones-and-lucky-charms/
• The Witching Stones: The Lore and Craft of the Essential Crystals, Gemstones … By Nicholas Pearson 
• A history of amulets in ten objects By Science Museum Group Journal and Annie Thwaite
• https://thetipperaryantiquarian.blogspot.com/2019/09/hag-stones-are-they-example-of.html
• https://museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/object/hagstone/
• https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-a-hagstone-2562519
• https://norse-mythology.org/tales/the-mead-of-poetry/

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This month we have the incomparable Heather, AKA heather.wildflower to talk to us about Megalithic Prehistoric Sites, Standing Stones & Circles, and Ringforts & Cashels. Dotted around the landscape of Ireland, Great Britain and Europe, these surviving remnants of our past have been the subject of folklore and reverence for generations. We get into their astronomical alignment as well as some of the magical experiences Heather has had while visiting them. We also discuss Ley Lines and their controversial reputation among the archeological and scientific community.

Find links to Heather's socials and other work here.

S O U R C E S

• STONE CIRCLES Muiris O'Sullivan, Liam Downey Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 17-20 (4 pages)
• https://theeverlivingones.blogspot.com/2015/11/shining-stones.html
• Clocha Geala/Clocha Uaisle: White Quartz in Irish Tradition Tok Thompson January 2005 Béaloideas 7 
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/ancient/features_ancient_stonecircles.shtml
• https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220914-carnac-alignments-brittanys-mysterious-standing-stones
• https://reppinnature.com/blog/f/carnac-the-world%E2%80%99s-largest-collection-of-megaliths-why
• https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/185805/folklore/clava-cairns
• https://aliisaac.substack.com/p/controversy-at-newgrange
• https://www.knowth.com/tara-earth-energies.htm
• https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spotlight-research/cult-dead-medieval-ireland

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It has finally arrived. The formal beginning of the lighter half of the year, Bealtaine 2026, heralded the rise of the Flower moon, This name was originally given by the Algonquin people to the full moon in May thanks to the abundance of blooming flowers. Other names include the hare moon, the corn planting moon, and the milk moon. But this month has another, more significant moon to watch out for - the Blue moon.

A Blue Moon is different from the monthly or seasonal moon names like the flower moon - it isn't restricted to a time of year. It is a movable feast. 

A full lunar cycle is a little over 28 days long. However, a calendar year is 365 days, which means that during some years, you may end up with thirteen full moons instead of twelve, depending on where in the month the lunar cycle falls. This is the Blue Moon.

S O U R C E S:

• https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-blue-moon-2561873
• https://vocal.media/history/myths-and-folklore-surrounding-the-blue-moon-yanq0729
• https://www.farmersalmanac.com/blue-moon
• https://www.ips-planetarium.org/page/a_hiscock1999
• https://www.patheos.com/blogs/witchonfire/2019/01/blue-moon-debate-astrological-april-2019/
• https://www.kasamba.com/lp/2015/07/article/

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Well, we made it to Episode 50! Emily gets one last episode in before she embarks on her new era of motherhood, and we are ANNOYED.

The Divine Feminine has been co-opted poorly by the Conservative Trad Wife movement, which is nefariously convincing young women to be complicit in their own loss of autonomy. We talk about what Divine Femininity REALLY means - the strength, nourishment and community that complement the structure of the Divine Masculine, which exists in all of us. We then talk about women's intuition and tap into some divination practices as a means of connecting with our inner selves. This one is more of a chat than a structured facts piece, but we hope you enjoy before it's back to mythology and folklore next month!

S O U R C E S/ C L I P S

• https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWSJJ9NgNPo/?igsh=MWIweXUyczQ4dTlwbg==
• https://youtube.com/shorts/fFOmb_H85rU?is=WBbRnd8gKVNtKTFn
• https://helenaaeberli.substack.com/p/the-modern-myth-of-the-divine-feminine
• https://digmedia.lucdh.nl/2023/12/11/divine-feminine-and-tradwives-the-rise-of-anti-feminist-female-influencers/
• Judy Tobler Goddesses and Women's Spirituality: Transformative Symbols of the Feminine in Hindu Religion
• Marsha Aileen Hewitt DO WOMEN REALLY NEED A "GOD/ESS" TO SAVE THEM? AN INQUIRY INTO NOTIONS OF THE DIVINE FEMININE Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1998), pp. 149-156 (8 pages)
• Robbie Davis-Floyd,Elizabeth Davis Intuition as Authoritative Knowledge in Midwifery and Homebirth Medical Anthropology Quarterly, New Series, Vol. 10, No. 2, The Social Production of Authoritative Knowledge in Pregnancy and Childbirth (Jun., 1996), pp. 237-269 (33 pages)
• https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/feeling-the-gendered-labor-of-fortunetelling/

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He walks through the fevered cities of medieval Europe - half man, half myth - healing the dying, blessing the dead. A saint, they said… though in the fields and forests, the old women knew better. They left bread for his dog and icons in the wells.

St Roch, or San Rocco, was a medieval nobleman who gave up his wealth and title to care for plague victims. After succumbing to pestilence, some time in exile, and help from a very special dog, his fame evolved into a distinctly witchy practice of iconography, offerings, and ritual not so different from its pagan predecessors...

S O U R C E S:

•  https://jothornely.medium.com/when-the-saints-go-arting-in-roch-1c402639bb0a
• https://reliquarian.com/2020/04/04/saint-roch-the-saint-par-excellence-against-disease/
• https://www.catholiccompany.com/blogs/magazine/st-roch-patron-of-dogs-6114
• https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/salvation-time-plague/2020-05
• "The Golden Legend ," by Jacobus de Voragine, A.D. 1275

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