Key leads an overview of some of the basic history behind druggist's catalogues, receipt books, formularies, and their jump to and impact on full-time spiritual supply stores. Focusing especially on the case of Chicago, he considers the impact of the Valmor Products Company, and explores the branding, packaging, and art of these supplies and their ingredients within folk magic. Finally, Key offers some glimpses into his "Saint of Many Colours" St. Expedite collection—and all the detail and care that went into its tender cultivation.

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Matthew Venus returns to the show, this time with friend, witch, and author Kamden Cornell, to chat all things dolls and effigies! Both have written some of the most pioneering texts on doll and effigy magic in recent memory and have so many excellent insights to share on their creation, use, and innovation. In addition to a lengthy exploration of these techniques, we also chat about magical ethics, spiritual integrity, and the nature of witchcraft and its consumptive hunger. 

You can find more of Matt's work at:

http://spiritusarcanum.com/spiritus-arcanum/

https://www.instagram.com/spiritus_arcanum 

And Kamden's here:

https://www.instagram.com/heart_n_vine_apothecary/ 

https://linktr.ee/HeartandVineApothecary 

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The team welcomes dear friend Rebecca Beyer, the brilliant mind behind Blood and Spicebush. Folk magician, herbalist, witch, and student of Appalachian Folk Magic and Pennsylvania Dutch Braucherei, Rebecca joins us for a heartfelt conversation on what it is like to learn within an established spiritual tradition. Bringing her deep knowledge of foraging, ethnobotany, and Appalachian folklore and folkways to the table, Rebecca contextualizes some of the key lessons she's learned through her life's work and helps us reflect on our own studies across traditions.

You can find more of Rebecca's work at:

https://www.instagram.com/bloodandspicebush/

https://www.bloodandspicebush.com/online-classes 

https://www.bloodandspicebush.com/books 

https://bloodandspicebush.substack.com/ 

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Sfinga and Key discuss an intriguing early modern vernacular grimoire first published and analyzed by Dr. Frank Klaassen. In reviewing its techniques, orations, and symbols (as well as its famous pentacle of the Apocalyptic Christ), the Dragon and Owl also consider the text's utility as a magical manual and its implied teachings from within its instructions.

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Traditionally trained conjurer, card reader, and herbalist Dr. Finch joins the show for a lush and evocative discussion on glamour, power, and sovereignty. Our conversation begins with her latest project, being an exploration of magical cosmetics born of her deep knowledge of rootwork. We quickly sprawl out to discuss the many facets of sorcerous agency in our lives, and consider some cornerstones of practice: from seducing Lady Luck to your side to radically embracing your power (and "cringe"!) to live authentically in line with your magic.

Check out Dr. Finch's work at:

https://www.drfinchconjure.com/ 

https://www.instagram.com/drfinchconjure 

https://drfinchconjure.substack.com/

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The gang workshops the practical steps and philosophies behind deriving rituals and recipes from a diagnostic divination. From narrowing the scope aggressively by means of self-imposed limitations to allowing different spirits to collaborate on co-creating a solution to a problem, the Dragon and Owl cover a medley of case studies and their mediating factors for success. 

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We bring on our dear friend Maria of Green Dragon Healer to give us a boot camp in all things relevant for the Lunar New Year. We hope that this will be a yearly tradition in February to give our listeners some insight as to the major trends, important shifts, and key spiritual timings for the lunar calendar. While this episode is exceptionally thorough, going over many layers of relevant details for each zodiacal sign, it's only a small glimpse into what goes in to a personalized Ba Zi reading from Maria!

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In this episode, Key and Sfinga consider different mundane and magical ways to support protests against ICE in the United States, as well as broader efforts in protests and community organizing in general. In addition to practical and magical safety for on the ground organization, video documentation, and courthouse observation, the Dragon and Owl go over a greater body of potential rituals and workings to adapt to your own spiritual courts for financially blessing bail funds, dominating adversaries, and providing invisibility and safety for those most vulnerable. 

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Sfinga considers some of the key trends and forms of sortilege in the late antique Mediterranean world. In addition to the Sortes Astrampsychi and Homeromanteion, she specifically goes into the curious, so-called "Gospel" of the Lots of Mary: a booklet containing no sayings of Jesus, no testimony if his life or that of any other Biblical figure, but rather 37 short oracles for divination. Easy to use and even easier to carry around, Sfinga and Key go over the magical uses of this curious text. 

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Key goes over some of the proposed origins, meanings, and uses of the most famous word square: the Sator-Rotas! In addition to considering possible Christian and pagan meanings alike, as well as the "Arepo problem", he considers the square's broader uses in magic and how its nature plays into its remarkable flexibility. 

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