Multimedia artist, candle-maker, dancer, and sorceress Sarah Jezebel Wood joins the pod for a special solstice episode on the yuletide season. Sarah beautifully outlines some of the key motifs of the death and rebirth of the sun's light and the spirits, oaths, and magical practices that accompany it. Drawing on her extensive knowledge of Finnish folklore, she introduces us to the mischievous world of the tonttu and nisse, as well as even more varied forms of ancestral spirits of house, home, hearth, and sauna, and opens the floor to a rich cross-cultural discussion of land pacts, ambient dead, and negotiations within multivalent spiritual communities. 

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https://sarahjezebelwood.com/

https://loviartes.com/

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https://www.instagram.com/loviartes

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Sfinga and Key are joined by author, witch, and dear friend Matthew Venus to discuss all the hard-won insights and incredible wisdom of his newest book, Ensouling the Effigy. Beginning with the exercises and foundational concepts of the book, the gang branch off to consider spirit trafficking more broadly, and go into key moments within their own practices and histories that taught them the most about how to form—and maintain—relationships with the unseen world. 

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• https://linktr.ee/SpiritusArcanum 
• http://spiritusarcanum.com/spiritus-arcanum/
• https://www.instagram.com/spiritus_arcanum 
• https://spiritusarcanum.com/en-ca/products/ensouling-the-effigy-paperback
• https://spiritusarcanum.com/collections/classes 

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Sfinga and Key strategize over the art of decoy magic - protection charms that send malefica and evil eye intended for you elsewhere. Whether as potent solitary wards, made in the Koschei the Deathless style layering of shells that hide and obscure, or as large, simple groups that disperse misfortune across a web, the Dragon and Owl cover various possibilities for their use, including for the protection of relationships and jobs. 

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The Dragon and Owl provide a rough sketch of how one can begin to cultivate the basics of a sorcerous practice. In addition to considering the most valuable skills to cultivate from the beginning, they also discuss how to refresh one's attitude towards disappointment and the inevatibilities of miscommunication with spirits, unsuccessful workings, and frustrations along the path.

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At long last, Key goes into one of our most hotly requested "sequel" episodes: a follow up on his exploration of the chaos magic of the DKMU. This time, he goes over one of its most notable offshoots and developments, being the Hexorian Movement. In covering the basics of its principles and appreciation for urban spirits, Key explores what it is to fall in love with the city you live in and how to establish a reciprocal relationship with its guardians and guides.

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Sfinga and Key are joined by beloved friend and erudite astrologer Jove Spucchi to traverse through some of the most fascinating intellectual landscapes of modern occultism. In this free-form conversation, the gang explores Freudian psychoanalysis, the planet Saturn, scrying natal charts, Hellenistic astrology, outer planets and asteroids, somatic and body-informed spirit work, and living in tune with the celestial spirits in one's everyday life. Jove brings their sharp wit and deep-cutting insights to the all-important question of how to integrate new scientific observations and concepts in astronomy to a traditionally-informed astrological practice.

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Key and Sfinga revisit one of our most loved episodes (14: Gathering Materia) to review further strategies for storing, collecting, using, and navigating materia. The Owl and Dragon cover a medley of locations to gather links beyond dirt as well as how to make them last across years of workings. 

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Key leads the charge in introducing one of his favourite German grimoires from Das Kloster: Die Rufung des heiligen Christoph oder Das sogenannte Christopheles-Gebet. Drawing on his extensive practice with this text, he delves into the lore behind German treasure hunting magic, the figure of St. Christopher as its patron, and the range of literal and metaphorical treasures this text facilitates plundering.

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This hotly-requested episode is at long last here! Salt and Key talk nigromancy and the conjuration of demons from the medieval and early modern ritual magic traditions of Western Europe. From protocols of purity, compulsion, and cooperation, to maintaining control when the physical manifestations begin to flicker beyond the circle, the karcists reveal their most important tips and tricks for keeping a cool head and a firm grasp on the tools of nigromantic art.

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Sfinga and Key explore a sample of folk magical traditions involving that ever-faithful ally: bread. In addition to revisiting old debates over the leavened or unleavened Eucharist, they go over different techniques of capturing timing, forces of nature, and even stars in bread, finding thieves and cleansing ills, and helping the dead pass on into the afterlife with just water, salt, yeast, and flour.

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